LADIES DUE SEPTEMBER 2015 :-)

Hi ladies, did anyone have Mastitis before or having it now? I think I have it. My one breast was so engorged yesterday and last night I woke up with severe ache. Had to pump. I have a slight fever and body ache. My breasts are super sore!! I was freezing last night. Winter pj's and socks.. 3 blankets! And I live in Durban!!! So had the chills pretty badly... I've taken 2 panado and I'm expressing and feeding him a lot this morning ...


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Hi ladies !

Thank you for all the advice...
Hope everyone is doing well?
Astubchen well done on getting the routine right!! That's amazing...

DieSwartKat I bought the sleep sense book. Started reading it. Hard to get much reading in during the day but I want to finish asap so I can out into practice what it says. I am still feeding him a full bottle of breastmilk at night and I put him down after about 5 mins of keeping him upright to burp. He falls asleep pretty easy... I also bought the white noise CD you recommended and I started playing it in the background. I still have him sleeping in the cot in my room. Does anyone else find that the white noise makes you sleepy too!!? Lol quite funny...
Since I've started doing the bottle at night , I've noticed that he has grown quite a lot and if much heavier. So I think that it has helped a lot...

How many naps do your little ones take during the day? Yesterday mikado only slept at 4pm and at 9pm he was still asleep so I woke him up..
Today he slept once for just over 3 hours. Around 4-5pm he was sleepy and falling asleep but when I put him down he would wake up :/

Well hope everyone is well...



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Hello mommies, hope all is well.

Thought I d just check in and share our progress.

Well we finally have our own little routine, yay! I wish I could take all the credit but ladies you must try the Baby Sense Babytime Bracelet its helped me so much in terms of tracking when her next feed and next sleep is due literally making it easier for me to put her down and she will sleep on her own.

How it works is by knowing your baby’s age appropriate ‘awake times’ (recorded on the inside of the bracelet), you will be able to gauge when the next sleep is due. Move one of the sliders to the time of waking and add on the ‘awake time’ to know when to settle your little one to sleep again. In this way, the baby will be calmer and fall asleep with greater ease. Move the slider to the time your baby woke up.Works the same for feeding aswell.
Its such a small thing but its really made a difference, that at night she is waking up only once at around 2 then in the morning.

DieSwartKat I went to buy the womb to world disc ,thank you so much! She's sleeping for longer and isnt waking up inbetween naps.I think she is in a deeper sleep now because of the background music.

Anyway I hope all is well with everyone else!#hugs

Hi,

My first one was a horrible sleeper, whatever I tried didn't work! So although I'm a 2nd time mom, I really sucked badly the 1st time and not exactly an expert.

Best advice I can give you is to buy the BabySense book called "Sleep Sense" (available at any baby shop). It explains a lot of stuff, I wish I bought it earlier and not when my 1st was already a few months old. It's easy to read and follow. About R150.

In essence, your baby can only be awake for a certain amount of time according to age. At 6 - 12 weeks a baby should be awake for 60 - 80 minutes before going back to sleep again. The trick is to get them to sleep at the end of 80min!

The book explains the signals babies give us when they are getting tired, you need to learn to recognise your baby's signals and put him down to sleep immediately. Like Vendah says, drowsy but not asleep.

What you can do right now (before reading the book), is to play some white noise in the background (I'm using the BabySense "womb to world" cd and seems to be working). Wrap him snugly so that he's arms are under a blanket (Dehan doesn't like to be swaddled, but I still cover him with a blanket). If he likes a dummy, give it to him (mine doesn't like the dummy!). I know you are breastfeeding exclusively, but be careful that you don't fall into the trap of becoming a human dummy. So, he gives you a sign that he's getting tired, feed him (if needed), you put him in his bed and play the background white noise. Stroke him on his nose and brush your thumbs lightly over his eyes, babies respond well to that. They also like being massaged lightly at their temples. You can buy some "cradle cap" cream and lightly massage his head. Cradle cap cream is designed for their heads, not oily like normal massage oil and absorbed well by the scalp.

If he happens to fall asleep before you put him down, when you take him to his bed, make sure you don't put him down head first. Meaning, when you hold his little body to put him down on his bed, make sure his head never dips lower than the rest of this body. His bum and back must always touch the mattress first. Otherwise it disturbs the fluid in his middle ear and he will wake up immediately.

I'm not a fan of letting a baby cry, if you've read the book and tried everything but he still cries, then you pick him up and give him a cuddle. Sometimes it's all they want. It might be frustrating for you but they are little for only a short period of time. That said, I also believe that you should start immediately and not when you go back to work.

And even if you've done all that, learned his "tired" signals, succeed in putting him down and letting him fall asleep by himself...even then you'll have days when it doesn't work. I had a whole week (2 weeks ago) where he barely slept the whole week, and yesterday was another one of those days. But I also realised that you have to start the day right, Dehan's first nap of the day is anytime between 07:00 and 08:00 for about 60 minutes, if he misses that one the whole day becomes a mess.

Get the book, it's so worth it!

Hi ladies

I am glad u all doing well

@astubchen glad to see ur little one is doing better

@TCS84 your baby will develop a routine, babies differ some develop it quicker than others. as for the sleeping I know the feeling mine doesnt cry she simply just wakes up when u put her down, so the advice that I got was put her down when she is sleepy not when she is already sleeping as the change from ur arms to the cot or bed will wake her up. They gave an example saying it's like when an adult sleeps on the couch nd when they go to bed their sleep sometimes goes away. It takes time and patients bt it's worth it nd I finds she sleeps better nd longer when she puts herself to sleep. Start practicing during the day it makes it easier.

PS remember there is a reason we get 4 months leave M, babies take time to adjust don't be too hard on urself

Hi ladies,

So I need help from second time mummy's or anyone who has knowledge of this actually:

I'm trying to get my son into the habit of feeding and being put down and falling asleep on his own. He is 7 weeks now: he will not sleep unless he is nursing and falls asleep on the breast. I've put him down sometimes and he wakes up crying and I gotta nurse again for him to sleep.
Question: shud I leave him to cry himself to sleep? He throws an absolute fit to the extent that it's that silent mouth wide open cry... Then screams his guys out and it goes on and on. Sometimes he forcefully does this cos he knows I'll pick him up immediately...

Secondly , is he too young to start the routine of being put down and sleeping? U think I'm expecting to much to soon?

I started expressing milk during the day and for the past 3 nights I feed on the breast for a while then I feed him a full bottle and he stops when he's full and falls straight asleep whilst I'm burping him.
Do U think previously he was not getting enough to drink before falling asleep on the breast and then wakes up and is still hungry?

I just want a good routine/habit especially for when I get back to work. Not sure if it's to early or if the bad habits actually start from now...

Any advice would be appreciated!!

Thanks


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DieSwartKat thank you so much for the help yesterday we managed to break the fever after a sponge bath and the panado.She is fast asleep however she did wake up with a mucousy cough today with no other symptoms so I dont if it's part of the side effects of the vaccine?

NozN I went to Westville clinic they are a government clinic was in and out in less than an hour and a half and I must say was quite surprised they were very efficient. The guy who was assisting was very thorough explained everything and it was just an all around good experience for us plus we didn't have to pay a cent .
(Just a tip if you go there you will need to provide an address from Westville I don't live in that area so I just used my friends you can also use any ,she is the one who recommended it )

Just a quick question since I can't give her anything for ger cough can I rub a bit of vicks on her chest to loosen the phlem?