Green poo

No baby blog is complete without discussion of baby’s poo. I bet you were all waiting with baited breath for an update on Baby’s bowel movements. I’m right, aren’t I?

Anyway we’ve had a bit of a switch from mustardy colour to green these last few days. Not particularly pretty.

I remember this with Bub. I think it’s down to him having a bit too much foremilk. At the moment I have quite a strong milk supply and he’s often gulping and rather gassy. If things are anything like last time, sadly, this won’t last. By four months I was struggling with low supply despite exclusively feeding. But at this early stage I remember having a strong, almost too strong, flow. Time to instigate some single sided feeds. Plus Baby drifts off mid-feed at the moment. Once this ceases I’m sure things will get back to normal.

At least there are some benefits to being a second time mum – some stuff you’ve already been through before and it’s therefore not as worrying.

Baby ‘routine’ at two weeks

Following on from yesterday’s post about patterns and routines I thought I’d write about Baby’s current day. Not because this is his ‘routine’ or even because I think this will last more than a few days, but because I want to capture how things are right now.

Baby has been a real cluster feeder since birth. He has periods of super feeding where he seems insatiable and can feed for hours, quite literally. But increasingly these are becoming less frequent and he’s having more ‘normal’ feeds.

Last few days the pattern has been:

Morning (8-11.30 ish) – Cluster feeding, interspersed with little alert times and micro naps

Lunchtime (12-2 ish) – Sleep

Afternoon (2-5 ish) – Cluster feeding, alert times and micro naps

Tea time (5-7 ish) – Sleep

Evening (7-9 ish) – Cluster feeding, alert time and micro naps

Night (9-8 ish) – Around 2 to 2 and a half hour sleeps interspersed by ‘normal’ feeds. Then back to sleep, usually pretty quickly. Sadly whilst he gets lots of sleep I don’t – been averaging a broken six hours a night which is not enough…

Now I have written it out it’s clear there is still quite a lot of cluster feeding going on! This can be a bit challenging as it’s hard to do much when he’s so keen to feed. Though fortunately I’m tending to get a bit of a break around meal times!

His nighttime sleep has shifted from that wonderful eight hours he miraculously did the other night. No nighttime cluster feeds is good. But I don’t think he’s as full (or tired) from the normal feeds as he’s only going a couple of hours or so between feeds. Much more standard newborn behaviour but having seen that he can do the odd long stretch of sleep I’d love to get a little more!!