Ladies Thanks so much for all your support! Acacia, Marcellus, BG, Green and Neptune!
I feel soooo much better about how I am doing things. My instincts tell me that my LO needs this time with me and I am going to continue ignoring the HV (HVs are the health visitors who take over from the community midwives when your baby is 10 days old here in the UK. They are nurses who visit, weigh and check your baby over and distribute pamphlets telling you not to smoke or shake your baby etc!!! A bit of Nanny State Britain!!)
Green- My baby cluster feeds like that too. Nightime is hell here. He feeds from about 8pm till 2am most nights but then crashes and sleeps till 7am. I feed him on the couch until we go to bed at midnight and then feed him for the two hours in bed. Feeding lying down is getting better with us. He doesn't attach as well but we are getting there and the bed is usually a mess of milk stains by morning!! He tends to have tons of wind at night as well. I think it builds up in the day as he feeds really well (efficiently and quickly) in the morning feeds and is really chilled out and burps after a feed by himself mostly, but by night he screams on the boob, thrashes about tugging at the nipple and needs tons of patting and burping to get rid of the wind. I read somewhere that keeping them upright for at least ten minutes after every feed all day can help with stopping the build up of wind. I am trying it from now on.
poppy seams like our bubs are in tune with each other if not us! lol
Well day in bed didn't happen baby hasn't slept more than an hour since ummmm I think yesterday morning. I haven't slept more than 20mins since then either. I'm very teery today.
Wind is my baby's enemy too, he burbs but obviously not enough. So after a good feed at 9am and he fell asleep till 10.30 I decided it's going to be a sling day. He needs to sleep. I'm confident he's eating enough as his nappies are always heavy. Just need to get back on the sleep track.
It's funny how so many of my friends have had babies but they hid this from me! THey all say it's normal but I never sore it.
Kalan hope all is well in your house.
Kelly goodluck with needles today it's so hard to watch.
grub you're doing great one handed I can't but sling means both hands free.
Hi smithy hope you're going well and your buba is staying wind free.
Thanks Neptune. I think I've got caught up in what should happen, I like the day at a time motto.
Hmm little man is grunting away like a little piggy but his eyes are shut, so I'm hoping he's dreaming and not just playing possum, I figure he hurd me typing away when he was in my belly so on some level this may be soothing, anyways it's keeping mum sane.
Poppy - it's called witching hour....only it lasts half the night
Kahlan - do you have a vaporiser? sometimes they're helpful for congestion. I guess keep an eye on her and ask your nurse if it seems to be getting worse
Big hello to you Smithy, hope everything is going well with Charlie. All's good here, although big storm just hit in Sydney, so I'm going to shut down the lap top!!!!
I'm thinking of you all, especially green & poppy as these early weeks can take so much out of you and I 'm hoping you will get on top of the wind issue and before you know it it will all be a blur (although it probably is already if you are both sleep deprived)
Big hello to all my other lovely mummies, you all have so much going on I'm finding it hard to keep up with you all, but you are all in my thoughts always.
Anyway, my little princess was so good getting her needles. No screams, just a little whimper when the first one was done and then thought about it for the second needle but decided against it as it was over before she realised. She was such a brave soul and even smiled at the nurse straight after.
AFM, well that's another story. I've been getting some abdominal pain the past few days which was enough to wake me up during the night, so when at the Dr's today I got it checked out and also had a pelvic u/s as well. I am thinking it might be an ovarian cyst on my left side, and due to the past 2 years consisting of either being on medication or being pregnant I think my body has now decided to go back to it's old ways. From what I could see all the dormant follicles from my PCOS look like they have all come back as both my L & R ovaries where almost black with all the follicles I could see. The sonographer laugh and told me I could make heaps of money on the "black market" selling my eggs. Hopefully will get the results on Monday, fingers crossed it is nothing drastic as I don't know how either me or Tara would cope if I had to have surgery seeing she screamed the ultrasound joint down this afternoon when she was outside with DH, combination of being tired and I think also being away from me....
Twas a storm in a tea cup! Dropped the temp initially, but then it shot up again with double the humidity!!!!!!! Bring on Autumn I say. Adam all sweaty and hard to handle just in a nappy. I like to snuggle with him when it's a bit cooler!!!!
I'm very teery today.
it's so hard to watch.
BIG hellos today girls
neptune sweety thanks for asking all is going ok here ,how are you going ?and could you please send me that storm hun lol..
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