Gaily04:
Good morning lovely mamas. How are you and your little ones? Please I need help, I will be going to Lagos for a training, Magodo GRA. Please how do I find my way there? I will need assistance on an affordable hotel around.

babythug:


Damiso it's like we have a willing and interested participant/ customer here oh!

Her own uterus too is barely used

Ovems:
Thanks Onegai, Soonest, AlphaHandMaiden and Zaynie. I will try to give him water instead at night. When I tried it sometime ago, he refused to take it and woke up fully instead. I have also tried ignoring or cuddling him instead of feeding him and he just cried and became fully awake. I feed him well at night, but no matter how much he eats at night, he still wakes up. Will try with the water again and see how it goes. Thanks once again.

helovesme:
Zaynie. Welcome back

Ovems. Pele. I can completely relate.

All the suggestions and much more given by all the mums here, I tried them all and my son didnt budge. There is nothing you will offer my son at night that he will take apart from breast milk - even formula. I introduced milo when he clocked one, introduced heavier meals but he would still wake up at night to suck (not once, not twice). At the height of desperation, I bought robinson's fruity shoot, caprisonne but he would refuse them all.

At a stage he would pull my top up and be dragging my boobs from my bra. Once he's back from nursery, he won't even wait for me to take off my coat before he starts crying to be breastfed.

I finally had to take the bull by the horn and adopt a 'gangster' technique last week Saturday and today is the 9th day and we are breastmilk free.

For the first time in monthssssssss, he slept all through the night on Friday.

Phew !!!

Now when he wakes up at night, he eats any snack I offer - sandwich, oats, plantain, etc, he drinks water, we watch "wheels on the bus" for 5-10mins, and he sleeps off. Tonight, I will be reintroducing him back to his cot. No more co-sleeping as he enjoys placing his head on my chest.

I will suggest you endure till he's 12 months old. If at 12months, he fails to self wean or you are still adamant on stopping him from breastfeeding, mention my username and I will share my 'gangster' technique.

eolowu1:
gud evening mummies, pls help out, my baby (3months 9days pops watery and greenish yellow poop, my mum says its teething process isn't it too early pls wot cud be goin on

babythug:


What's the previous question?

Maybe you can try the food thread for this beans flour meme oh!

eolowu1:
mothers pls help me chuk mouth nah, d mummy dat complained abt d same issue is abt her 9month old baby and mine jst clocked 3months. am taking him to d hospital wen am done

sayoddy:
No answer to my previous question. Issokay. I'm here again.
Pls someone should throw more light on bean flour. What type of beans to use, how to use it and store.

Thanks

comtem2011:
We are in the same shoe o my sister, I have tried all the triable, this boy refused o, except BM at night. Planning to wean him this Dec, but how to go about it is my daily thought now.

Midasnaturals:


Please don't cut down on carbohydrates for a baby, that's where they get most of their energy from. Their ability to digest protein from animal sources is very limited.

MizMyColi:


I followed your post from my TL

Please ma'ams

What is your recommended breast feeding schedule for a less than 3 weeks old.

cc: Alphandmaiden rofemiguwa Onegai coldfeet

Onegai:
Damiso, babythug and Alphahandmaiden, assume a fight position!!


Woooo Cha!!!! (in Jackie Chan's voice).

PresVA:
Thanks fedd..y27 . I got rota for my baby at prime hospital

babythug:


I think I'm not sure cmd- center for management development has a guest house. The compound next to them has a hotel too not sure the name or what the costs are like though. Your best bet for transport will be cabs. uber is functional here in Lagos.

Good luck

rofemiguwa:


Breastfeed on demand.or 2 to 3hrly

Godmother:
All mamas in the house; new mamas, senior mamas and grand senior mamas good morning. Being a mom aint easy. The experience is quite an experience. My dd is 5 weeks plus yet she holds the entire house to ransom. She loves being carried and cries when you put her down. She has to be rocked to sleep or you carry her and dance round the house, even in the middle of the night.

Mamas I want to find out if its too early to introduce a pacifier. Also, how do I break this her love for being carried? I'm always alone at home from7 am to 4pm and I'm desperate as its quite tasking. I can't do anything else and I'm slowly going out of my mind.

Godmother:
All mamas in the house; new mamas, senior mamas and grand senior mamas good morning. Being a mom aint easy. The experience is quite an experience. My dd is 5 weeks plus yet she holds the entire house to ransom. She loves being carried and cries when you put her down. She has to be rocked to sleep or you carry her and dance round the house, even in the middle of the night.

Mamas I want to find out if its too early to introduce a pacifier. Also, how do I break this her love for being carried? I'm always alone at home from 7 am to 4pm and I'm desperate as its quite tasking. I can't do anything else and I'm slowly going out of my mind.

DANZAK:
Good morning, wonderful mamas in the house. I have been so upset this past few days.
Some weeks back my DS started reducing the number of times he sucks, ie, he cries if I put him to breast sometimes. At times he sucks one side of the breast and rejects d other side out rightly.
Later, he refused to suck any time I come back from work which is usually BTW 5:30 to 6:00pm but takes the expressed bm with bottle during the day, only to suck all thru the nite.
Now, since Saturday night, he has refused to suck at all both in the day and at note but takes the bm from feeding bottle.
The problem now is that my bm production has reduced drastically. In fact I can't even get up to 50ml when I come back from work.
The baby is my first after several years of TTC and it breaks my heart that I can't even breast feed him to my satisfaction.
I really need mamas that has had such experience to tell me how they handled the situation and all mamas that have any ideas should pls help me out hear.

sayoddy:
Sorry dear. Maybe the nipples are sore/bitter. Try washing it gently with water and clean with coconut oil.
Well, DS rejected nipple at 6weeks and I was advised to co sleep with him at night in bare chest so the smell of the milk would appeal him to suck in his unconscious state of mind. Alas, it worked for me and we dropped bottle.

Peradventure he's still rejecting after you've tried to lure him, pls let him have the bottle. Either through bottle or direct, what's important is the feeding of the breast milk while you bond with, him through caring and playing with him.

DANZAK:
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You are right, dear. The areola of the right breast just suddenly became dry and scaly sometime back. I have been cleaning with water and applying blueseal vaseline.
I will try the coconut oil and the sleeping pattern.
Thank you ma, I appreciate.

AlphaHandMaiden:



DANZAK has said it all

one of the best advise i got from my MIL....."cry no dey kill pikin! you cant carry the baby all the time, put her down or you will run mad"

she is just 5 weeks it should be relatively easy to break ( as opposed to waiting till she is 6 months) . when she gets bigger..... your back, hands and shoulders go hear am.


with the pacifyer, i was told wait 6 weeks till breastfeeding is already established. so i guess you can if you want to.
I
Pele.

As in ehn I like dt phrase "running mad". I almost ran mad too from my baby's whala. But now am getting use to it. E no easy o. Especially if u don't have an helping hand to eat sometimes na war.

vivigurl:
Pls any Warri Mum intrested in getting books from kidco?

rofemiguwa:
Onegai,alphahandmaiden and all mama dt use cloth diaper
Pls come to my aid o.

I tried cloth diapering. But dropped it cos baby poop was still very watery.now she has started solid i started again.

I now used d cloth diaper overnight.we woke up by 5.30am to a wet bed. She was last changed by 10pm.


What happen.is d soaker not very absorbent or wat.
Knowing my daughter she wont have urinated more than 3rice..
Am worried.also she pooped twice. I had to change everything cos it reached everywhere.
Thought i jus had to change the soakers.

Pls help o.
What r we doing wrong.
This is us dis morning.when i changed.what did i fix wrongly

AlphaHandMaiden:


you can try lanolin to help with the dryness, it is safe for babies to ingest and you dont need to clean / wash off before you breast feed. lansinoh is a popular brand for ni.pple cream and though it may be expensive...... a little goes a loooooooong way. i only used 1 and about a quarter of a tube during my 10 months of breast feeding and in the early days i used it at least twice a day.

it also works well as a good hydrating lip balm.... both for you and baby(my baby had serious lip cracking and peeling at a few weeks old and it helped massively.

another thing is: do not beat yourself up on the breast feeding issue, how old is your baby?
some babies self wean, and they just refuse breast for whatever reason. as he is taking bottle, keep expressing and bottle feeding.
if at any time you feel you need to supplement with formular, then so be it.
the long and short is that baby is eating.

if he wins a nobel prize in future nobody will ask how he was fed as a baby.

e-hugs

rofemiguwa:
Onegai,alphahandmaiden and all mama dt use cloth diaper
Pls come to my aid o.

I tried cloth diapering. But dropped it cos baby poop was still very watery.now she has started solid i started again.

I now used d cloth diaper overnight.we woke up by 5.30am to a wet bed. She was last changed by 10pm.


What happen.is d soaker not very absorbent or wat.
Knowing my daughter she wont have urinated more than 3rice..
Am worried.also she pooped twice. I had to change everything cos it reached everywhere.
Thought i jus had to change the soakers.

Pls help o.
What r we doing wrong.
This is us dis morning.when i changed.what did i fix wrongly