heres a question for ya

OK this may sound dumb as I have 2 kids but..........

When is a baby not classed as a newborn anymore??

when they are a month old???

I have a lot of time on my hands ( hmmmm ok maybe not with 2 kids but i would like to think i do),and was pondering this question today.

I thought 12 weeks too Maria. Then they become an infant.

hmmm thats tricky. My mum still calls me her baby

I agree 3 months and then they are an infant.   It all goes too quickly I know that- or is that when I look back it seems to go quickly , I'm sure I remember thinking that those first few weeks are never going to end.

Cheers

how bout the old "chicken or the egg" debate.. lol

yep milkfountain..what you said is so true right now i feel like these first weeks have gone so fast, yet sooo slow. I am back to having only 45 mins of unbroken sleep at a stretch during the night. and ayja has decided that instead of feeding at 12am, 3 am and 5 am.. she'll just stay awake from 11pm till 3 am, snooze 45 mins, feed at 4 am. then wake at 6am till 10am.... and sleep the day away after that.

sorry, just my vent for the day. it sucks.

Edited by mum2paris

I can soooo relate. Im still feeding Jayde as you would a newborn at nearly 6 months old grrrrrr. Yesterday was a hell day, for one of her feeds that took an hour she only drank 20mls. Poor wee girl. You would have thought they would have her sorted by now. But no.

Jake has developed a "I only love YOU!" look and a "You're the meanest mum in the world. Don't you love me anymore?" look. Very fun!!!

Wait till they can tell you - Maya has started telling me "Mama I'm getting cross with you!" - wonder where she heard that!

I was lucky with her as a baby, she slept thru from 7 weeks, and never had any probs with wind etc. But I did my time's worth of sleepless nights when she was 7-11 mths when she was sick and in hospital which I think was actually worse because I would get so angry with her. I mean, I expected my newborn to cry and wake during the night, but I was spoilt with such a good newborn that when she regressed and had to be fed hourly during the night I would get angry and resent her because I knew that she knew how to sleep thru. I feel so guilty about it looking back, some nights I would just sit there and grind my teeth while she breastfed and pray and pray that she would hurry up before I got too stressed and hurt her.

Whew, that vent must have been building up for a while!

I know exactly how you feel. My daughter is 4 weeks old, and we're going through a growth spurt at the moment. Talk about exhausted! She's fine during the day, but come evening when the milk isn't as good, she's a feeding monster... last night I was feeding every hour up until 3am... and in the gaps between I was trying to settle her. Very tired household today. Up until then she'd been a very regular feeder... every 3-4 hours. Hoping it is just a growth spurt and a passing phase!

Josiah had just started to get into a routine, then Kiya got a vomiting bug, and I got a cold, Nathaniel got sick and someone gave something to him! 2 weeks later, he's just getting better now... at least he's started sleeping for a 5 hour stretch - during the night! Definitly beats him waking every 2 hours!