December 2017 babies club

I feel your pain .... you are bringing back memories :eek:

Go for it with the Infacol, it won't hurt anyway. Unfortunately.....it may just be a case of waiting for him to grow out of it after that. You'll learn a few little tricks as he gets bigger that work for him. And he starts to move more and kick his legs himself more, it will become easier for him to work it through.But time is one thing I have learned (the bitterly hard way!!) sorts almost all small baby problems out, you just have to repeat the mantra of "it doesn't last forever" in your head (no help at 4am when you are walking round trying to get wind out of an unsettled baby I know - but it really doesn't last forever).

Maybe have a bottle of Pharmony gripe water on standby too, in case you get very desperate. I used to have no.2 in a sling a lot during the day when I could - partly because I had a toddler but also because it helped with the wind.

Someone remind me why I am doing this again........

You have to sleep when the baby sleeps during the day.I didn't do it enough on my first, did it at every opportunity on the second (not too many of them!!)Half an hour even will get you very far.I absolutely hate sleeping during the day and I tend to wake up feeling so awful but it works, it allows you to cope at least.

If you are open to combined feeding also, let OH do a feed at 6/9/12, one of those, and you go to bed .So if baby feeds round 6/7, then you go to bed and OH does next feed giving you a stretch for sleep.You can gradually replace that with a bottle of expressed milk after the first six weeks if you want.

Just a word of slight warning.....six weeks means most babies will do a stretch of roughly 5 hours sleep most nights.Mine used to go 9pm to round 2am.....so if I wanted to sleep I was in bed at 9pm (last thing I wanted to do really).BF babies will generally wake every couple of hours then after for feeds, bottle fed, maybe 2-3 hours.I would not expect a baby to stretch to 7/8 hours til about 13 weeks or so, although some do it round 11 weeks, but will still wake for feeds on either end of that.

Really sorry, I don't want to be depressing you or anything but I guess just know that you need to sleep as much as you can whenever you can as you go along , because a lot does change at 6 weeks but it's still rough.Also (believe me on this) your body will adapt and you will be like a new woman after 5 hours or so of sleep within a few weeks.They break you :-)You are at the really bad point now, 3 weeks from the delivery excitement and 3 weeks from the six week mark.You are just about halfway, it will be four weeks before you know it. Just hang in there and get OH to help whenever possible.

Oh I know, I don't function without sleep.Affects my milk supply, I.end up sick, the works.Breastfed my second for about 7 weeks and I look in awe at friends who make it to 6/7/7 months and are still at it, waking every couple of hours.Two babies on I've concluded that combination feeding probably works best for me although I accept that I would limit it to just one formula feed a day in the first six weeks to allow my milk to get sorted (I think, this is a theory I hope to test on my third...).

I used to leak milk EVERYWHERE on my second specially at night.I drenched everything.A friend recently told me of a Hakaa breastpump that sounds worth investigating.I tried pumping the odd night at 2am when bursting but I got very little (and quickly realised the insanity of it, with a toddler whose wake up call was at 6am).But this one sounds like it could work, so maybe investigate.I think it's on Amazon.Can't remember quantities, sorry!!!!I'm sure if you google you will get the answer though-maybe 120ml at a time?

It's very hard and I vividly remember how endless those six weeks seemed on my first, I thought they would never end. I find week 3/4 the hardest.But don't worry it does improve (you will never sleep the same again though but you learn to live with it!!!!) And those first little smiles are just worth every bit of the effort :-)