The Official New Mom Thread

[vald1977]

Have a good trip Copper and Alice28!

Happy Birthday to Lily !

Welcome KaterBell !

We had a really tough night here with Katrina. She was super fussy for about six hours and nothing I was doing was helping her. She has never done this before. Usually if she is fussing she stops right away once you find what the problem is. She just couldn't get comfortable at all and kept tensing up her belly and crying intermittantly . It made mommy's heart break. She finally settled down around midnight and has been okay since. Any ideas on what could be going on? I gave her the gas drops a couple of times throughout the six hours and she was burping and passing gas a lot but she was still acting like she does when she's gassy. She was eating fine.

 

[Sandy22]

LILY IS ONE YEAR OLD TODAY!!!!!

Happy Birthday Lily!

 

[Strawberry Lemonade]

KaterBell - Congratulations!

DisneyPhD - Happy birthday to Lily!

Ugh. Lucas still won't sleep longer than 2-2 1/2 at a stretch, day or night. Poor DH has decided to take over the night shift even though he works full time. I can't wait until he starts sleeping at night.

 

[KristiKelly]

We had a really tough night here with Katrina. She was super fussy for about six hours and nothing I was doing was helping her. She has never done this before. Usually if she is fussing she stops right away once you find what the problem is. She just couldn't get comfortable at all and kept tensing up her belly and crying intermittantly . It made mommy's heart break. She finally settled down around midnight and has been okay since. Any ideas on what could be going on? I gave her the gas drops a couple of times throughout the six hours and she was burping and passing gas a lot but she was still acting like she does when she's gassy. She was eating fine.

Valerie, that sounds like my DS when he was a baby. I called the nursery at the hospital and was told "Sounds like you have a colicy baby." I hope that is not the case for you but it's possible. DS started around 2 weeks though. Are you breastfeeding? If so, maybe it was just something you ate. I was told with DS to give Mylicon before feeding, when switching breasts and after I fed. I went through that stuff like it was water - buy generic!!!

Another thing that would help DS, we would wrap him in a warm blanket and give him Mylicon or we would give him Mylicon, place him on his back and move his legs gently in a bicycling type motion then lift them both up and press them gently toward his belly - usually this would get the bubbles moving and he would pass gas. A walk outside or a warm bath would also help sometimes.

I don't know why but colic usually hits in the evening hours. DS would be so happy and content during the day but then would cry & scream for several hours at night. I hope that's not it - Best of luck!!!

 

[KaterBell]

OMG StrawberryLemonade, congrats on Lucas!

He'll start sleeping more, trust me - At 1.5 months, Michael was only sleeping 2-3 hours at night and I thought I was going to DIE of exhaustion. It really gets better. Only a month later for us and he's starting to sleep through the night. Miracles do happen. I didn't think it'd happen either.

Valerie - I'm going to guess you may have eaten something that bothered her - usually that's the case if you're breastfeeding... some foods are pretty gassy to the babies (but not to us)... Keep a food log and try to figure out the offending ingredient. Good luck!

 

[vald1977]

Thanks for the advice KaterBall and Kristikelly. I'm formula feeding and I was afraid of the dreaded "C" word (colic). That's what I was thinking it may be too. I hope we don't have to go through this every night. At least now that she's done it once I won't be so worried something is terribly wrong with her. Last night we were thinking of calling the on-call doctor but I didn't know what to tell them. After all, she is a baby and babies get fussy.

 

[tkyes]

Congratulations Katerbell!!

Happy Birthday Lily!!


tamie

 

[DisneyPhD]

Thanks everyone, Lily had a nice Brithday. We just had some family over and a few friends. You can tell she is a 2nd child, a very laid back affair. She got 3 small gifts total. Big sister and I picked out 2 small ones and my friend brought one too, that was it. However she has so many of big sisters old toys.

I was nervous about the cake, butercream frosting with a dairy allgery baby. Lately it seems she gets a face rash from the strangest things. Even times we just can't figure out what she ate. I am cutting out dairy too, but that is not an easy task, it is in everything. This whole dairy thing is starting to stress me out. I am hopeing after I get dairy out of my system she might start sleeping better, or at least that is my motovation when I pass on pizza. (and everything else.)

As nervous as I was, she didn't get a bad rash from the frosting. She didn't make too big of a mess of it either, but of course she rubbed it in her hair! I will post pictures later.

 

[DisKim]

Happy birthday to Lily!

I took all 3 kids to JC Penny for a picture yesterday. What a nightmare! My DS5 hates getting his picture taken and would not cooperate. After I pleaded, I guess he felt bad and gave it. Aidan wanted to have nothing to do with it. He screamed his head off, so I rescheduled for a half hour later. I fed him and walked him around the mall a little (he loves the mall b/c of the lights). When I took him back, my normally smiley little guy was stoneyfaced. He would not smiled. It actually made me laugh to see him looking all cute in his little Hawaiian outfit and floppy hat with that miserable look on his face. We did get a few decent shots. I'll post them when I get them back in a few weeks.

 

[justhat]

Happy belated birthday to Lily!

Congrats on even getting 3 kids to sit still for a photo, DisKim! We took Madison for photos yesterday too. I can't imagine having to take 2 others, plus I ever waited till my husband got home so I didn't have to force her to smile on my own. We went to Target cause I had a good coupon for $4.99 sheets, no sitting fee, and a free sheet. We have only ever been to Sears or Picture People, but I was hoping Target would be okay cause I really didn't want to pay anymore than I had to. They actually turned out really cute and we got her to smile in many of the shots, and the photographer took 11 photos for us, instead of the normal 6. When we get them back in a couple of weeks I'll post some-they're not online like at Sears which is the only thing I was a little disappointed about.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Oh, I hate professional pictures. I just get so nervous wanting them to be right and my oldest never cooperates. That is way Lily was 11 months old before I got some of her.

Can't wait to see them when you get them back. I really liked BRU that way for the pictures, but it was a lot more then 4.99 a sheet, more like 14.99 I think.

I just got back from the Dr office. I was concerned about her dairy rash recations that were coming more and more for even trace amounts of dairy or sometimes even after I nursed her. I was very happy that the Dr. agreed we needed tests done and also said I could continue a normal diet (and to nurse her.) So I went to the lab to get the tests done and should find out the results soon. They did tests for cows milk, sow, eggs and wheat. Lily was so good, her sister would of been spitting nails! (who by way has an ear infection, was up moaning and crying all last night, so she was at the Dr. this am with her daddy.) Oh when it rains it poors.

 

[joats]

There are so many pages for me to catch up on...geeze - I need to get on the computer more often.

Quick question though: At what age did you/will you put your baby in their own room/crib? Right now Jace is still in our room in a bassinet and I'm not sure when we should consider putting him in on his own.
TIA!

 

[Strawberry Lemonade]

There are so many pages for me to catch up on...geeze - I need to get on the computer more often.

Quick question though: At what age did you/will you put your baby in their own room/crib? Right now Jace is still in our room in a bassinet and I'm not sure when we should consider putting him in on his own.
TIA!

Lucas has been in his own room at night since the day we brought him home. We just moved him from the bassinet to his crib at 6 weeks. We decided that since he moves in his sleep a lot he'd be more comfortable in a bigger space. Plus, the bassinet is an old-fashioned one and it shakes whenever he moves, waking him up. We might be right - he's had a few nights sleeping about 3 hours at a time since we started putting him in the crib instead of the usual 1 1/2.

 

[KristiKelly]

There are so many pages for me to catch up on...geeze - I need to get on the computer more often.

Quick question though: At what age did you/will you put your baby in their own room/crib? Right now Jace is still in our room in a bassinet and I'm not sure when we should consider putting him in on his own.
TIA!

Mary Grace has been in her room since we came home from the hospital. I keep the monitor right beside her bed and I can here her every move.

 

[DisneyPhD]

We brought Anna home from the hospital, put her in her crib in her own room and SHUT THE DOOR. (mostly to keep the cat out.) We didn't use a monitor until she was older. Our house was small enough, if she needed us I could hear here (and our rooms were close enough.) She is a great sleeper and if she gets up during the night, something is up with her.

Now Lily being a second was a different story. We didn't have a room for her to put her in, or even room for her crib. So she was in a basenet in our room right next to our bed. She sometimes sleep in her boucny chair if she was fussy. We actually waited until she was 6 months old to put her in the crib in her sisters room (there was no room in there, we had to move things out.) She was big, but under 13lbs and didn't roll over much (there wasn't any room in there for her.) She couldn't sit up so she was safe. However she HATED the bassenet and always did. She much prefered our bed (we didn't like that much, it was a full size bed.) She would put her hands and legs on the side and push and yell. It was time to move her. She still sleeps bad and thank God her sister sleeps like a log. Currently they are both in a much bigger room upstairs next to our new room. Their old room is now an office.

 

[justhat]

Well, with Madison we have no choice but to have her in our room cause we currently live in a 1 bedroom condo (we'll be moving soon, but it doesn't feel soon enough). With the next baby though, our plan is to keep it in a cosleeper in our room till the feedings space out a bit more than every 2 hours. That's just for my convenience, not really that I'm afraid of having the baby further away. Madison was in a cosleepr for 4 months and it was so nice-I could just pull her into our bed, nurse her, change her (the cosleeper had pockets to store diapers/wipes), and then put her back in the cosleeper. Not having to get out of bed was so nice and much easier for me to go right back to sleep. So Madison was around 4 weeks old when she'd go 3-4 hours at night so if the next one is the same we'll move him/her to their own room around 1 month.

 

[vald1977]

With Ds we kept him in our room in the bassinet until he was sleeping pretty much through the night (for him it was around two months). I'll probably do the same with DD. It's just easier for me to have her close by while she is eating so frequently.

Well, I think I solved the fussy baby mystery. She has had some white stuff on her tongue for awhile but the dr. said it was from her formula and to scrape it with a tongue depresser to remove it. Thursday night when I was getting DD ready for bed I noticed the white stuff in her mouth looked worse. By Friday morning it had spread all over her tongue the roof of her mouth and her cheeks. A quick trip to the doc and it was confirmed that she has thrush. Poor thing has been pretty miserable. It is looking better already however from the medicine so I hope it will clear up soon.

She also has a couple of red spots in her diaper area but I couldn't get the dr. to even look at it (this wasn't our dr. because he doesn't work on Fridays - it's the other dr. in the practice and I'm not fond of him). He just said it was diaper rash not yeast rash. I've been putting diaper rash cream on it but it's not going away which is why I think it may be yeast related. Does anyone know what I can use on it if it yeast (over the counter)?

 

[DisneyPhD]

Just what ever you would use for a yeast infection for yourself (my Dr used nystatin cream on both the dipear and had me use it on my nipples for thrush.) I think that is Rx, but the over the counter kind works too. It really hurts, feels like pins and needles when they nurse, but it clears up fast.

Good luck.

 

[joats]

Thanks for your replies. I've decided that when Jace turns 8 weeks this friday - he will go into his own room. I'm not sure why I waited so long. He's sleeping really well. 7+ hours the last 3 nights so I think he's good to go.
Thanks for your input!
Hope everyone is having a good Monday.

 

[Strawberry Lemonade]

He's sleeping really well. 7+ hours the last 3 nights

I'm jealous.

P.S. I love the new pics. Jace is quite the cutie!