Any other expectant Dads?
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tsplosions can happen at any time. It gets less likely once they start eating solids but that's when they really start to stink and take on the appearance of adult sthebraketester said:
Hahaha
.*checks time stamp.
We have just accepted that our little princess is going to be aknob 'somewhat challenging' at night. So the past 3 nights have involved 2 shifts. Wife does the first leg and I take over about 5.
The thing we find weird about this is that during the day she feeds and instantly falls asleep, yet like yours dan... feeding her at night it like stoking the fire of awake-ness
We reluctantly tried a dummy last night which worked for a bit but was far from the 'game changer' that people had spoken of.
Yours tiredly.....
Missus and me are working a "system" I think she's coming to terms with the fact she is Now a full time mum so when im back to work I won't be up unless necessary for the feeds. I do the mornings as im not too bad with these, I can probably stretch to early morns when back to work. .*checks time stamp.
We have just accepted that our little princess is going to be a
The thing we find weird about this is that during the day she feeds and instantly falls asleep, yet like yours dan... feeding her at night it like stoking the fire of awake-ness
We reluctantly tried a dummy last night which worked for a bit but was far from the 'game changer' that people had spoken of.
Yours tiredly.....
Edited by thebraketester on Wednesday 28th October 07:03
Night before last night he slept really well and last night wouldn't settle, he's inconsistent lol.
We are determined to avoid dummies.
He's been healthy as for the first week of his life, although he had a bit of diarrhoea yesterday which she was a bit worried about. It was mixed with wee so probably made worse, he does seem to be pissing a lot as well.
Milk machine arrived yesterday after a week when eventually using a manual pump, she bought a automatic one that didn't seem to have any suction.
Mr Whippy said:
JackCT said:
I feel this is important, if nothing else for awareness:
The weekend, I rushed my 3.5 month old son to hospital being rather quite ill.
He had his 2nd round of vaccines a few days earlier and 111, the GP etc. had all said the same thing, his fever etc. were due to this and would subside. Even had this line recited to be at 11am Sunday morning.
By 14:30 the same day, I had rushed him to A&E with a raging fever, mottled blue/purple skin and hyperventilating.
It turns out he had sepsis, well, urosepsis caused by a completely undetected urinary tract infection, which, in babies has almost no symptoms (the UTI).
A few of the scariest days of my life followed, dropping everything to do whatever I needed to be with him, but I can thankfully report that after a few days of intravenous antibiotics, more tests than you can shake a stick at and the most amazing doctors/nurses I've ever encountered, he's back home and well.
His fever had increased over a degree in the 15min car journey and i've been told that any higher, risked seizures and irreparable damage. Given the rate of increase, another hour or so could have been, well, you get the picture.
If nothing else, I hope this post makes people think twice when their kids are sick: "could it be sepsis?".
Not to scare the life out of people, but it wasn't even something that crossed my mind at the time.
Our boy had elevated temp after first lot of combined vaccines and they got him in ‘just in case’The weekend, I rushed my 3.5 month old son to hospital being rather quite ill.
He had his 2nd round of vaccines a few days earlier and 111, the GP etc. had all said the same thing, his fever etc. were due to this and would subside. Even had this line recited to be at 11am Sunday morning.
By 14:30 the same day, I had rushed him to A&E with a raging fever, mottled blue/purple skin and hyperventilating.
It turns out he had sepsis, well, urosepsis caused by a completely undetected urinary tract infection, which, in babies has almost no symptoms (the UTI).
A few of the scariest days of my life followed, dropping everything to do whatever I needed to be with him, but I can thankfully report that after a few days of intravenous antibiotics, more tests than you can shake a stick at and the most amazing doctors/nurses I've ever encountered, he's back home and well.
His fever had increased over a degree in the 15min car journey and i've been told that any higher, risked seizures and irreparable damage. Given the rate of increase, another hour or so could have been, well, you get the picture.
If nothing else, I hope this post makes people think twice when their kids are sick: "could it be sepsis?".
Not to scare the life out of people, but it wasn't even something that crossed my mind at the time.
Took it very seriously. Checked lots of stuff just in case.
Little girl had bad cold at 6 days, in she went, spinal tap, blah blah, all just in case.
Clearly times have changed due to the covid19 restrictions.
I’d be kicking up a big fuss with anyone who advised it’d subside, and not to get to hospital!
The hospital staff could not have done more for him/us - the primary care services, the opposite sadly.
The world truly has gone mad - I'm intrigued to see the stats on non-covid related deaths once all this has blown over, I think a few people will be being strung up over it.
ChocolateFrog said:
The measurements they make are laughably unreliable. We went from top 20% to be so underweight they threatened to induce, the measurements were a week apart and they didn't question them as suspect. The competence of the nurses varies a lot.
In other news, my last 10 minutes.
Pffft. You just wait until one of them decides to let rip in the bath and the first you know of it is a floater appearing a few minutes later....In other news, my last 10 minutes.
eltawater said:
ChocolateFrog said:
The measurements they make are laughably unreliable. We went from top 20% to be so underweight they threatened to induce, the measurements were a week apart and they didn't question them as suspect. The competence of the nurses varies a lot.
In other news, my last 10 minutes.
Pffft. You just wait until one of them decides to let rip in the bath and the first you know of it is a floater appearing a few minutes later....In other news, my last 10 minutes.
@braketester were getting into the 3 hourly schedule now (fingers crossed it continues). Bit of milk and then settle him and he's down. Plus he's now getting on the booby juice so hopefully also helping out. Can I go and play golf now????
And yes belly button clamp fell off and scared the living daylights out of me as it had fallen down his back and I couldn't find it.
And yes belly button clamp fell off and scared the living daylights out of me as it had fallen down his back and I couldn't find it.
Whats peoples thoughts on dummies?
Little man has just discovered his thumb and im concerned it will be harder to ween off of this than a dummy.
Dummies feel defeatist though which we don't like either.
It's also possibly going to help settling as he really isn't settling well at night, its strange as he settles well in the day.
Little man has just discovered his thumb and im concerned it will be harder to ween off of this than a dummy.
Dummies feel defeatist though which we don't like either.
It's also possibly going to help settling as he really isn't settling well at night, its strange as he settles well in the day.
fourstardan said:
Whats peoples thoughts on dummies?
Little man has just discovered his thumb and im concerned it will be harder to ween off of this than a dummy.
Dummies feel defeatist though which we don't like either.
It's also possibly going to help settling as he really isn't settling well at night, its strange as he settles well in the day.
i don’t have a problem with them. I will be acquiring a new dummy armoury in the new year of various types and sizes. I will be fully equipped for arrival. My first used dummies for the first two years and then i traded all the dummies for a new ipad. The trade was negotiated and agreed with the child. Little man has just discovered his thumb and im concerned it will be harder to ween off of this than a dummy.
Dummies feel defeatist though which we don't like either.
It's also possibly going to help settling as he really isn't settling well at night, its strange as he settles well in the day.
fourstardan said:
Whats peoples thoughts on dummies?
Little man has just discovered his thumb and im concerned it will be harder to ween off of this than a dummy.
Dummies feel defeatist though which we don't like either.
It's also possibly going to help settling as he really isn't settling well at night, its strange as he settles well in the day.
There is so much parity....Little man has just discovered his thumb and im concerned it will be harder to ween off of this than a dummy.
Dummies feel defeatist though which we don't like either.
It's also possibly going to help settling as he really isn't settling well at night, its strange as he settles well in the day.
We have used a dummy a few times, sometimes it works sometimes it gets spat straight out.
Nights are one of two things at the moment. Easy with feeds at 3 and 6.... or a total refusal to settle, up until 2am, finally asleep then up at 3 5 7 you name it.
Frustrating isn’t it?
I've been wanting to join this thread for a long time...after years of trying, one very traumatic unsuccessful pregnancy - I can finally say that Yes, I am an expectant Dad 
It's been a tough road to get here as alluded to, and was about to start treatment in March, which was pushed back until September due to the pandemic and it happened naturally. We are both absolutely over the moon.
It's hard to express unless you have been in this situation, but the journey to get here has pretty much consumed our lives in one or another. My wife basically cut herself off from everyone who had children - including all of her friends. She'd occasionally have panic attacks when spending time with our friends children, and felt worthless - it was heartbreaking. She's a teacher in a particularly rough area, and more than once came home from work crying as a student would confide in her they were pregnant and didn't want it.
We went for our 20 week scan two weeks ago, and discovered Baby CardinalBlue (we purposefully didn't want to know the gender) has Bilateral Talipes. This came as a bit of shock - and lets just say the way we were told wasn't the best. They are fairly confident it is in isolation, and have ruled out Spina Bifida which it is sometimes associated with, but there are a few other things that it could be, but I'm trying not to think about that.
I'd be massively grateful if anyone has been in a similar position and can share their first hand experience with a child with Bilateral Talipes.
It's been a tough road to get here as alluded to, and was about to start treatment in March, which was pushed back until September due to the pandemic and it happened naturally. We are both absolutely over the moon.
It's hard to express unless you have been in this situation, but the journey to get here has pretty much consumed our lives in one or another. My wife basically cut herself off from everyone who had children - including all of her friends. She'd occasionally have panic attacks when spending time with our friends children, and felt worthless - it was heartbreaking. She's a teacher in a particularly rough area, and more than once came home from work crying as a student would confide in her they were pregnant and didn't want it.
We went for our 20 week scan two weeks ago, and discovered Baby CardinalBlue (we purposefully didn't want to know the gender) has Bilateral Talipes. This came as a bit of shock - and lets just say the way we were told wasn't the best. They are fairly confident it is in isolation, and have ruled out Spina Bifida which it is sometimes associated with, but there are a few other things that it could be, but I'm trying not to think about that.
I'd be massively grateful if anyone has been in a similar position and can share their first hand experience with a child with Bilateral Talipes.
fourstardan said:
Whats peoples thoughts on dummies?
Little man has just discovered his thumb and im concerned it will be harder to ween off of this than a dummy.
Dummies feel defeatist though which we don't like either.
It's also possibly going to help settling as he really isn't settling well at night, its strange as he settles well in the day.
Noah (now 11 months old) has had a dummy since day 1. He's not dependent on it at all though and will quite happily bop around throughout the day without it in his mouth. It's always attached to him via a clip on his bib though and now he just pops it in and out as he pleases. But for the most part he's gobbing off whilst whizzing round in his walker.Little man has just discovered his thumb and im concerned it will be harder to ween off of this than a dummy.
Dummies feel defeatist though which we don't like either.
It's also possibly going to help settling as he really isn't settling well at night, its strange as he settles well in the day.
He always goes to bed with several of them in his bed (nightime MAM dummies that glow in the dark) and just uses them to self soothe when (if) he wakes. He's slept through from 7pm to 6am from 5 months.
CardinalBlue said:
I've been wanting to join this thread for a long time...after years of trying, one very traumatic unsuccessful pregnancy - I can finally say that Yes, I am an expectant Dad
It's been a tough road to get here as alluded to, and was about to start treatment in March, which was pushed back until September due to the pandemic and it happened naturally. We are both absolutely over the moon.
It's hard to express unless you have been in this situation, but the journey to get here has pretty much consumed our lives in one or another. My wife basically cut herself off from everyone who had children - including all of her friends. She'd occasionally have panic attacks when spending time with our friends children, and felt worthless - it was heartbreaking. She's a teacher in a particularly rough area, and more than once came home from work crying as a student would confide in her they were pregnant and didn't want it.
We went for our 20 week scan two weeks ago, and discovered Baby CardinalBlue (we purposefully didn't want to know the gender) has Bilateral Talipes. This came as a bit of shock - and lets just say the way we were told wasn't the best. They are fairly confident it is in isolation, and have ruled out Spina Bifida which it is sometimes associated with, but there are a few other things that it could be, but I'm trying not to think about that.
I'd be massively grateful if anyone has been in a similar position and can share their first hand experience with a child with Bilateral Talipes.
Is this club foot? I've seen they can correct this at birth without too much issue.It's been a tough road to get here as alluded to, and was about to start treatment in March, which was pushed back until September due to the pandemic and it happened naturally. We are both absolutely over the moon.
It's hard to express unless you have been in this situation, but the journey to get here has pretty much consumed our lives in one or another. My wife basically cut herself off from everyone who had children - including all of her friends. She'd occasionally have panic attacks when spending time with our friends children, and felt worthless - it was heartbreaking. She's a teacher in a particularly rough area, and more than once came home from work crying as a student would confide in her they were pregnant and didn't want it.
We went for our 20 week scan two weeks ago, and discovered Baby CardinalBlue (we purposefully didn't want to know the gender) has Bilateral Talipes. This came as a bit of shock - and lets just say the way we were told wasn't the best. They are fairly confident it is in isolation, and have ruled out Spina Bifida which it is sometimes associated with, but there are a few other things that it could be, but I'm trying not to think about that.
I'd be massively grateful if anyone has been in a similar position and can share their first hand experience with a child with Bilateral Talipes.
At the end of the day I'm sure the docs will have the answers as they are amazing, and its quite unbeleiveable they know a lot about this now.
filthypig said:
Noah (now 11 months old) has had a dummy since day 1. He's not dependent on it at all though and will quite happily bop around throughout the day without it in his mouth. It's always attached to him via a clip on his bib though and now he just pops it in and out as he pleases. But for the most part he's gobbing off whilst whizzing round in his walker.
He always goes to bed with several of them in his bed (nightime MAM dummies that glow in the dark) and just uses them to self soothe when (if) he wakes. He's slept through from 7pm to 6am from 5 months.
Its the fact he's finding his thumb now, my thinking is we can take the dummy away but not the thumb He always goes to bed with several of them in his bed (nightime MAM dummies that glow in the dark) and just uses them to self soothe when (if) he wakes. He's slept through from 7pm to 6am from 5 months.
Tried it last night on George and he was out like a light on it lol.
fourstardan said:
CardinalBlue said:
I've been wanting to join this thread for a long time...after years of trying, one very traumatic unsuccessful pregnancy - I can finally say that Yes, I am an expectant Dad
It's been a tough road to get here as alluded to, and was about to start treatment in March, which was pushed back until September due to the pandemic and it happened naturally. We are both absolutely over the moon.
It's hard to express unless you have been in this situation, but the journey to get here has pretty much consumed our lives in one or another. My wife basically cut herself off from everyone who had children - including all of her friends. She'd occasionally have panic attacks when spending time with our friends children, and felt worthless - it was heartbreaking. She's a teacher in a particularly rough area, and more than once came home from work crying as a student would confide in her they were pregnant and didn't want it.
We went for our 20 week scan two weeks ago, and discovered Baby CardinalBlue (we purposefully didn't want to know the gender) has Bilateral Talipes. This came as a bit of shock - and lets just say the way we were told wasn't the best. They are fairly confident it is in isolation, and have ruled out Spina Bifida which it is sometimes associated with, but there are a few other things that it could be, but I'm trying not to think about that.
I'd be massively grateful if anyone has been in a similar position and can share their first hand experience with a child with Bilateral Talipes.
Is this club foot? I've seen they can correct this at birth without too much issue.It's been a tough road to get here as alluded to, and was about to start treatment in March, which was pushed back until September due to the pandemic and it happened naturally. We are both absolutely over the moon.
It's hard to express unless you have been in this situation, but the journey to get here has pretty much consumed our lives in one or another. My wife basically cut herself off from everyone who had children - including all of her friends. She'd occasionally have panic attacks when spending time with our friends children, and felt worthless - it was heartbreaking. She's a teacher in a particularly rough area, and more than once came home from work crying as a student would confide in her they were pregnant and didn't want it.
We went for our 20 week scan two weeks ago, and discovered Baby CardinalBlue (we purposefully didn't want to know the gender) has Bilateral Talipes. This came as a bit of shock - and lets just say the way we were told wasn't the best. They are fairly confident it is in isolation, and have ruled out Spina Bifida which it is sometimes associated with, but there are a few other things that it could be, but I'm trying not to think about that.
I'd be massively grateful if anyone has been in a similar position and can share their first hand experience with a child with Bilateral Talipes.
At the end of the day I'm sure the docs will have the answers as they are amazing, and its quite unbeleiveable they know a lot about this now.
Spoiler to save people scrolling on mobile who may not be interested.
From https://www.hss.edu/conditions_the-ponseti-method-...
The Ponseti Technique
The corrective process utilizing the Ponseti technique can be divided into two phases:
- The Treatment Phase - during which time the deformity is corrected completely
- The Maintenance Phase - during which time a brace is utilized to prevent recurrence
During each of these phases, attention to the details of the technique is essential to minimize the possibility of incomplete correction and recurrences.
The Treatment Phase
The treatment phase should begin as early as possible, optimally within the first week of life. Gentle manipulation and casting are performed on a weekly basis. Each cast holds the foot in the corrected position, allowing it to gradually re-shape. Generally, five to six casts are required to fully correct the alignment of the foot and ankle. At the time of the final cast, the majority of infants (70% or higher) will require a percutaneous surgical procedure (with a small incision through the skin) to gain adequate length of their Achilles tendon.
The Maintenance Phase
The final cast remains in place for three weeks, after which the infant's foot is placed into a removable orthotic device. The orthosis is worn 23 hours per day for three months and then during the night-time until 5 years of age. Failure to use the orthosis correctly may result in recurrence of the clubfoot deformity. Good results have been demonstrated at multiple centers, and long-term results indicate that foot function is comparable with that of normal feet.
I guess I'm looking to speak to people who have been through it 'first hand'.
My parents have a Mothercare Havana car seat for doing grandparent duties. It was fine in their previous XC40 but in their Outlander it can't be reclined enough and as a result the baby's head slumps.
Problem is the inclined angle from the ISOFIX point to the front of seat base which tilts the whole seat up and forwards.
Did a bit of googling but doesn't seem a common problem.
Going to try our Joie to see if it's a specific issue with the mothercare seat. Failing that I might take the whole seat base out.
Problem is the inclined angle from the ISOFIX point to the front of seat base which tilts the whole seat up and forwards.
Did a bit of googling but doesn't seem a common problem.
Going to try our Joie to see if it's a specific issue with the mothercare seat. Failing that I might take the whole seat base out.
Edited by ChocolateFrog on Wednesday 4th November 15:41
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