Parenting after Long Term TTC #6

How old will X be by then? If he's eating and drinking other things and able to make up the breastfeeds when you're around it may work out fine.
Will he take a sippy/straw cup at all?

He will be about 8.5 months then. I am only avaliable to do it one day a week as the rest of the week I am driving C here there and everywhere. He will drink water from his sippy cup but not formula or EBM. By this stage he should only be having 3 feeds a day. We are trying to cut as many as reasonable out because of my pelvis. The doc have wanted me to wean him since well forever but I wasn't willing to do it. But now that he is a bit older and I am ready to really have a good go at my rehab I need to cut the feeds out or down if I cant stop them all together.

only three!? wow, DS didn't get to 3 till he was 18 months or so :rofl:
What's the go with your pelvix? Is it a hormonal thing?
Anyway, just one day a week should be ok, I'd say.

Yeah its a hormonal thing. When you feed you release oxytocin which helps keep all your joints loose. Not a good thing for me. When you are not having a baby your pelvis is relatively solid. It doesnt move very much. Mine moves so much that When I was preg I couldnt even walk. It is beginning to stiffen up but still gives me grief. I am having prolotherapy which is injections into my pelvis and they are starting to work but I need to give myself the best chance of recovery I can. I would say that my pelvis is the only reason that I wont consider having anymore babies. We mix formula into Xaviers food to ensure he is getting enough milk. I try and get in at least 100ml in his food then make the other 400-500mls easier to get through limited feeds. He is a very good eater so that helps.

Wow, I didn't know oxytocin did that! (well, I knew it was involved in triggering letdown, but not the pelvis bit). Is that like the relaxin that's released during pregnancy, or does it have a different effect? (sorry for the questions, just curious)
I've only experienced very mild pelvic discomfort in pregnancy - well, it bloody hurts but nothing like SPD or more serious conditions like that - but I can imagine that would be a deterrent to future pregnancies :hug:

Yeah that is what they tell me. I dont know exactly how it works but I guess it just keeps you in that pregnant hormone state to some extent and that is how the
SPD happens. I am also hypermobile so my joints are naturally loose. But I cant complain to much I have 2 wonderful boys and are otherwise healthy and I really am on the mend. Thankfully My DH is also one in a million and does all the housework without any complaint.

oh saph that sounds just so difficult esp with a baby and antoher child! good luck with it. Ash is only having 3 bottles a day too... and also a very good eater. ox

Yayy, Yayy, Yayy for Kelly!!!!!!

Yayy, Yayy, Yayy for Jazzy - we have a date!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8th November for operation in Melbourne. Thanks for all your well wishes, we are super stoked.:dance::dance:

YYYYIIIIIPPPPPEEEEE!!!! that's the best news ever murph!!! oh my, that's very soon too!!! big big big big hugs!!

oxoxx
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Oh Murph that is such fantastic news, I can't wait until you get to experience Jazzy hearing those first "I Love You's" from mummy and daddy.

Yay Murph! :leap:

Murph that is wonderful news.

Oh forgot to tell you Xavier got 2 teeth this weekend. Yay lets hope he will start sleeping now. We are having his Naming day next weekend so busy busy with all our interstate guests arriving. Oh yeah and cleaning the house and garden from top to bottom as we are having it at home.

Hope everyone is doing well and all the bubbas are well.

thanks for your replies girls. I just had to get on and tell you and you gave me goosies at your responses. Not as big as the goosies I got for hearing your news kelly but it was a pretty big hug I felt from you all anyway:)

Oh Murph you are so sweet...

I just had to let you all know that the BT results are in and my HCG is 351 and P4 is 95. With Tara my HCG was 305 so even better than last time, so now a 7 week scan on the 11/10 - the day before Tara's birthday - to find out if it is 1 more or 2 more.

:hooray:
That's great Kelly :D

Oh I will find any excuse not to clean the house. X is asleep and C is at kindy should be making the most of the time but just cant be bothered. I have decided that it is nuts having a cleaner. We run around like mad cleaning before she comes.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Ha, Saph, that's so true. My sister pays her mother-in-law to clean and then tries to make it look like she doesn't need a cleaner. good incentive to do it yourself is the shame factor.

I am running around after jasmine today. She is into everything. I try not to take too much away and just move the things it's not safe to explore but it's getting tiring. Her favourite thing in the world is opening and closing doors and cupboards (and yes, there have been some ouchy fingers, including mine!). she loves to lock me in the pantry and then I can't get out without much difficulty trying not to get her fingers under the door. I lost her this morning and found her under my bed sitting up with the dog's toy in her mouth. What do you do? She just loves all their chew toys and she is very good, gives them back to the dogs or to me when asked but they are just the best thing for her and I hate taking everything away. I try to just not make too much fuss and get her more into throwing their balls to the poor pups, who are very confused by this game little creature crawling straight up to them and taking it out of their mouths. I'm so surprised that the dogs are so good because George (cattle dog) is a bit boisterous.

Charlie (spoodle) keeps traipsing all the burrs throught the house that jazz then eats and gags on so I am getting my lunges and squats done by forever stooping to pick up burrs (mongrel things). Apart from that, life for jazz is all about the dogs, getting into their beds, pulling herself up on them and always heading straight for the water bowls...or out the door...arghghghh.

so I did something a bit drastic after returning home from a big day in adelaide yesterday. I put my long hair up in a ponytail and got DH to chop it off!!! I thought I knew what the result would be but I was really surprised....it's so short and a bit funky (if that's what you call the chunky, uneven, just cut by your husband with the dog's scissors look!). I love the idea of it, but I'm sure that after a trip to the hairdresser's I might be a bit happier with a bit of a style. I kept my 50cm long ponytail in my draw until I'm ready to let it go. I've still got some wispy length and can still manage a very very small piggy tail:)

Better go, got the rels coming over tomorrow and I gotta get things sorted. Seeya.xox