tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1371634004403238318.post2270102215252706172..comments2023-11-02T06:42:58.850-07:00Comments on Are We There Yet?: Quick Catch Up- and sick babies :(One Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415121157634103240noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1371634004403238318.post-86381140566934279012011-12-16T10:51:52.840-07:002011-12-16T10:51:52.840-07:00Just realised you said Caleb WASN'T wheezing.....Just realised you said Caleb WASN'T wheezing... sorry, my bad! xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1371634004403238318.post-91278090463375775172011-12-16T10:49:22.428-07:002011-12-16T10:49:22.428-07:00Ok, I shall try and catch up and not miss anything...Ok, I shall try and catch up and not miss anything!<br /><br />First off, how cute are your two? Swoon indeed!! Aren't the smiles the best? Oscar is trying his hardest to giggle right now and it is adorable. <br /><br />Sorry to hear they are sick. Hope the doctor was helpful? Can't advise much, Oscar is still congested and wakes himself up because he can't breathe and needs to be sucked and squirted with saline drops, poor darling. He's been like it since birth and the doctors just keep saying he'll grow out of it. So I guess it could be "one of those things", but with Caleb wheezing I would really push for a more helpful answer if you can! Isn't it heartbreaking when they struggle like that?<br /><br />Oh, one thing we do find helps a bit is a humidifier in our room at night but that is because our house is quite dry, so I don't know if that would help you.<br /><br />Sorry the counselling was so pointless :( But good to know you have ruled out PND. Mummy guilt is a MASSIVE deal. I've worked with tons of babies and yet I find I feel guilty whenever Oscar so much as squeaks whereas with the babies I looked after before I was much better at waiting to see if it was going to turn into proper cries or just a complaint because they were bored or something. Guess that's good old Mother Nature at work, hey?<br /><br />As for the feeds, you're using breastmilk, right? I'm having to switch over to formula because of terrible issues with oversupply but Oscar takes a good 6 oz every time of the hungry baby milk (so he would take much more of the normal first milk) and he is 12 weeks and has been doing this for a good couple of weeks. He is just a BIG boy (as big as my friend's 6 month old. Not fat, just large build!) so he has a good appetite. He knows when he has had enough and will start playing with the bottle instead of sucking and refuse any more milk. Babies generally know when they have had enough and it is quite rare for them to overfeed on breastmilk anyway. I think you're fine just letting him take what he wants. The only time you need to reassess it is if a baby starts to gain so much weight they go up through the percentiles rapidly. I have worked in nurseries and I saw an overfed baby and I can tell you that Caleb looks perfectly fine and like he is thriving, no need to worry he is overfeeding xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1371634004403238318.post-59151969505094178022011-12-12T15:58:31.109-07:002011-12-12T15:58:31.109-07:00Oh my goodness!! How adorable!
Hope that everyon...Oh my goodness!! How adorable!<br /><br />Hope that everyone is feeling better soon!Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08507118457609696378noreply@blogger.com