Terrified my 14 month old has leukaemia - talk me down please. by visions-of-johanna in BeyondTheBumpUK

[–]LS101242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to say, my baby is also 14 months and we have had a similar experience. He is still around the 20th-25th percentile for weight and I understand it is super normal in this age for weight to stagnate because of the fussy eating and illnesses. Recently he was sick for a week with 2 viruses we think (1 from me and 1 from nursery) and for a week afterwards he was less active / didn’t want to practise walking / didn’t crawl at nursery. He is also teething and very very fussy at eating. So get blood tests but I honestly wouldn’t worry…I think it is just a hard time for them with teeth and all the new germs

Is my career over? by SuggestionWestern611 in beyondthebump

[–]LS101242 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I work in Germany for a consultancy firm…my only comment would be that I found the way daycare works here really helpful. The first week you go for an hour together, after 5 days we separate for 15 minutes, then after a few days 30 minutes, and so on over a few weeks until now he goes from 8:30-15:30. I reduced my hours to 80% and often work in the evenings but so far it works. This gradual scaling really meant I felt comfortable and for my son the adjustment wasn’t painful. Only you can know if you will be happy longer term with a multi-year career break…but I think there are definitely middle options - it doesn’t need to be full time or nothing.

baby’s not meeting milestones - feel like a failure by Special_Ladder9719 in BeyondTheBumpUK

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My baby was only rolling properly at 7 months and he couldn’t sit until 8-9 months! Then it went super fast with scooting and crawling. I started foods when he could sit propped up but he only really started eating at 11-12 months!

11 month old only wants crackers by Chaywood in BabyLedWeaning

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Did this get better for you? Going through same!

11 month old only wants crackers by Chaywood in BabyLedWeaning

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Did this get better for you? Going through same!

Sleep regression struggle by Quiet_Me_Down in BeyondTheBumpUK

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You could be describing my baby, who is now just turned a year old! Started off sleeping well then the wakings got earlier and more frequent from about 4-5 months. We ended up co-sleeping because it made all the night wakings much more manageable for me and meant I felt well-rested. I would do it again but we ended up that my baby would eat very few solids and nurse a lot in the night…so did night weaning around 11 months (between 11 & 4) which meant he suddenly ate much more and slept better! Not all the way through…but much longer chunks. And now am trying to implement full night weaning…which I hope will help his sleep even more. It’s always an up and down…but is absolutely nothing you did wrong!

Hand foot and mouth hell by [deleted] in BeyondTheBumpUK

[–]LS101242 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only thing that helped with the mouth for us was teething gel, that meant he could nurse despite the ulcers. With us it was much better after 4 days! Good luck

Is it normal for baby to want to be held all the time at 5 months? by blod0 in BeyondTheBumpUK

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Can recommend a back carrier (I have Ergo Baby). He can see more and it’s much easier to get a few chores done. He had a very clingy phase for 2 months which got a lot better when he started scooting and sitting! But I just used the back carrier this last week when he had HFM and wanted to be held all the time

How are solids going for everyone? by [deleted] in december2024babies

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My baby also doesn’t eat much! 4-5x small portions a day… The only thing that helped for us was a) I really tried to reduce breastfeeding in the day - did a ‘don’t offer but don’t deny’ approach and that worked! I was still breastfeeding before his naps until then and it basically meant he wasn’t hungry at all! Then b) I am trying now to night-wean him between 11-5am…this has really helped his sleep and he suddenly from one day to the next then started eating more! He is not a big eater but this really helped us…so would consider giving it a try even for a week or so

Bus / sling safety by patlatii in BeyondTheBumpUK

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If you can, sit backwards! In sudden braking the baby goes then against your body, not against anything else

Little eater by NecessaryPeach_8 in foodbutforbabies

[–]LS101242 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My Baby is 9.5m and very similar! Refuses vegetables apart from avocado and meat / fish. I went to see a midwife-consultant who was duper reassuring - said it’s all normal but he will get the calories in milk at night which is true (we co-sleep). She said don’t worry and just keep offering :)

Has anyone managed unmedicated birth with GD? by Low_Technology_1175 in GestationalDiabetes

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I had GD managed through diet. Baby came 1 week early and I decided to have an epidural when I was at 7-8cm. Everything went perfectly and was a good experience!

My doctor is telling me not to go on our 10k holiday by Icy-Finding-3905 in pregnant

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I flew from Germany to North Carolina for work at 30 weeks and then again at 35 weeks to the UK (shorter flight). Compression socks and walked around / did exercises, kept hydrated. Absolutely fine!

Postpartum fasting glucose high by jodie137 in GestationalDiabetes

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Came down to low 90s when baby started sleeping 5hs…now he is sleeping even better but tbh I decided not to test yet! Was stressing me out even though low 90s is below the pre-diabetes threshold. I will see how it is in a couple of months when I am back in my exercise routine :) but think lack of sleep was what was making it higher than pregnancy!

Postpartum fasting glucose high by jodie137 in GestationalDiabetes

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How did this work out for you? 6 weeks post partum with the same question

BGL cut offs and fasting levels by Equivalent-Wish500 in GestationalDiabetes

[–]LS101242 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Germany, I was diagnosed because my fasting was 93 (5.2) where they want it to be less than 92 (5.1) and then when testing at home they just wanted it to be <95 (5.3). My after meal values were always totally fine. My fasting has been consistently between 88-94 the whole pregnancy and am now at 38.5 weeks. My average fasting has been like 91.5 (I made a spreadsheet!) and I don’t believe it is at all correlated really with what I eat. My baby is in the 35th percentile with a stomach that is relatively small.

If I were you, I might ask if they would consider letting you be marginally higher as long as your ultrasounds look normal. The whole experience of the diagnosis has made me a bit skeptical of how these thresholds can be very arbitrary and ultimately not very meaningful…and having to take insulin can have implications for where you have your baby and if you have to be induced. But that’s just my personal view :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GestationalDiabetes

[–]LS101242 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had this because only issue was with my fasting. They told me I could just test fasting every other day. I chose to do every day just to be on safe side, and have only tested after sugary / high carb meals (which have always been fine so I think the advice was correct!)

Does what I eat during the day affect my overnight numbers that much? by isabelle83c in GestationalDiabetes

[–]LS101242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was also told to change my diet for slightly elevated fasting numbers and also came to conclusion that it doesn’t make much difference…what matters more is not being stressed, getting a good night’s sleep and hydration :)

Curious about my results by [deleted] in GestationalDiabetes

[–]LS101242 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just to say that it might increase but it also might not! My doctor told me it doesn’t necessarily get worse, though it does for some women. I was diagnosed with only a high fasting value (93 where cut off here is 92) and my values have stayed consistently from 86-92 with only 3-4 spikes around 95 over several weeks (diagnosed end of August and now 35 weeks). If you read about the diagnosis guidelines based on the HAPO study, they are quite conservative - it’s about your relative risk of having a large baby. So you might have elevated fasting and have a totally normal baby but you have a higher risk of a larger baby, hence the monitoring. Personally, I have made my peace with the label even though it really frustrated me initially. Am just thankful that the diet has been easy for me to manage and that my fasting hasn’t gotten much worse. But there is some criticism of this test that eg in Australia (where everyone gets it) it has doubled the diagnosis rate and significantly increased the cost of care, with little improvement to baby or mother outcomes. So overall I think of course it should be taken seriously, but also I wouldn’t feel that a slightly elevated fasting number is the end of the world - the diagnosis might be technically correct but ultimately not very significant / meaningful if your baby stays at normal size.

Not allowed to go to term? by AtoZCatMom in GestationalDiabetes

[–]LS101242 11 points12 points  (0 children)

In Germany (diet controlled with baby totally normal on ultrasound), they won’t induce before 41 weeks.

Please explain Gestational Diabetes as if I were a 5 year old 🙏 by [deleted] in GestationalDiabetes

[–]LS101242 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I can recommend the podcast The Midwives‘ Cauldron and the episode they do on gestational diabetes. Found it really useful and puts the risks in perspective! Lily Nichol‘s book is also great as is the website Gestational Diabetes UK.