PH parents of 2014
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lol I remember mourning the loss of our afternoon nap with our first. On a weekend we'd all join in and have a 2 hour kip in the afternoon. Those were the days!
Now we have the 4 year old and the baby twins our weekend naps are back. I think because the 4 year old is at school and had all the activity of that during the week she can get a nap in on the weekend like us old folk. Its lovely!
Now we have the 4 year old and the baby twins our weekend naps are back. I think because the 4 year old is at school and had all the activity of that during the week she can get a nap in on the weekend like us old folk. Its lovely!
Took Eric until 7 weeks old to get past that weight.
He initially didn't gain weight and fell of the centile chart, but with a combination of sorting his tongue tie and breast and bottle he's piling on the pounds. He was only in the 9th centile at birth, fell off the chart, but now is in the 25th centile (75th for head size, but that's a different story).
Now at 9 weeks he's absolutely brilliant and slept for five hours in the car up to Scotland (though he can't seem to do it at night)
Not happy at his Dad's lack of mammary glands:
He initially didn't gain weight and fell of the centile chart, but with a combination of sorting his tongue tie and breast and bottle he's piling on the pounds. He was only in the 9th centile at birth, fell off the chart, but now is in the 25th centile (75th for head size, but that's a different story).
Now at 9 weeks he's absolutely brilliant and slept for five hours in the car up to Scotland (though he can't seem to do it at night)
Not happy at his Dad's lack of mammary glands:
Highway Star said:
Took Eric until 7 weeks old to get past that weight.
He initially didn't gain weight and fell of the centile chart, but with a combination of sorting his tongue tie and breast and bottle he's piling on the pounds. He was only in the 9th centile at birth, fell off the chart, but now is in the 25th centile (75th for head size, but that's a different story).
Now at 9 weeks he's absolutely brilliant and slept for five hours in the car up to Scotland (though he can't seem to do it at night)
Not happy at his Dad's lack of mammary glands:
Love the pic He initially didn't gain weight and fell of the centile chart, but with a combination of sorting his tongue tie and breast and bottle he's piling on the pounds. He was only in the 9th centile at birth, fell off the chart, but now is in the 25th centile (75th for head size, but that's a different story).
Now at 9 weeks he's absolutely brilliant and slept for five hours in the car up to Scotland (though he can't seem to do it at night)
Not happy at his Dad's lack of mammary glands:
. Eric's story could be my son's. No weight gain 2 weeks, barely 9th centile, tongue tie, finally gained wt (after being classed as Failure to Thrive) once top up feeds started then tongue tie sorted! Stressful days.kapiteinlangzaam said:
bexVN said:
We used Dr Brown, they seemed good. Check you've got the right teat flow speed aswell. Infacol can work well aswell.
Weve got a bottle of infacol too, but (we) prefer the Simplex stuff as you can mix it direct with the milk.I think we had the right teat for the Avent, reading around on Google it seems there are a lot of complaints about ther 'gassiness' - I suppose its a voyage of discovery for every set of parents, finding what works best etc.
Engineer1 said:
I mean formula we used to sterilise a batch of bottles then fill them with boiled water then fridge them adding the powder when we needed the milk, but being cold it needed warming and shaking.
Apparently shaking it adds air bubbles - you should swirl it instead. No idea if it's BS but swirling seems to mix it just as well so not taking the risk.We do the same process with formula because the official recommendation isn't very workable.. Something like:
1) Baby starts making signs of being hungry
2) Boil kettle, pour into container
3) Wait for 30 minutes for water to cool
4) Put cooled water in sterilised bottle, add formula, mix
5) feed baby who has been delighted to wait 30 minutes for food
Probably works fine if your baby is like clockwork but I don't think many are!!
Just under 3 years ago I was sterile due to the side effects of a brain tumour. The endocrinologists changed my medication to kickstart the old sperm factories and things looked up as gradually sperm started to appear (although it was still borderline until fairly recently). Then the other half go told she had Graves disease, with her medication massively increasing the risk of miscarriage. We lost one at three months last January which was absolutely heart-breaking (especially as it occurred on the day of my birthday).
However.
On Friday we had a scan at 21 weeks (we previously had one at 7 and 13 weeks, but have been really worrying about reaching this one) and I'm over the moon to say that in March I'm going to be the proud father of a baby girl
So here is little Sophia, who wouldn't stop moving to get the profile picture taken
I really cannot thank the staff at Charing Cross Hospital more for 1) saving my life 2) giving me the chance to create one.
However.
On Friday we had a scan at 21 weeks (we previously had one at 7 and 13 weeks, but have been really worrying about reaching this one) and I'm over the moon to say that in March I'm going to be the proud father of a baby girl
So here is little Sophia, who wouldn't stop moving to get the profile picture taken
I really cannot thank the staff at Charing Cross Hospital more for 1) saving my life 2) giving me the chance to create one.
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