Firstly a HUGE congrats to Amy, Shell and Mel for being clever mums and producing gorgeous bubbies! Amy, am looking forward to reading your birth story!
And LVs to Sushee and Shazz, wow it's amazing how time flies. Trish, congrats on finding out you are baking two boys, that is just so exciting!
Sounds like this forum is chugging along nicely, can't wait for more grads from LTTTC to join you.
Well, I’ve been away a long time. I moved to Canberra with my DH in late Feb/early March, then I had to get a new PC as my old one had died.
Well, to update on me and Miles. I got him weighed today and he’s 7kg. I haven’t had his length measured or head circ lately, but he’s at the 90th percentile for all these. He was out of 000 clothes when he was 6w old as he was too long for the suits. Gee I’m glad I didn’t fork out too much for 000 stuff. Oh, and he was too long for 0000 stuff right from the get-go. Lucky I only bought him two suits that size.
He’s a lovely, happy baby, is happy to sit back and watch me and listen to me, not too attention-grabbing at all. He doesn’t cry much, either, a bit if he’s tired, more if he’s hungry or has wind. I’ve been very lucky. His quirk is that he loves to look at lights/light bulbs etc basically anything that will burn out his retinas LOL. Oh, and he watches TV, which I don’t allow, but sometimes he’s in my arms and he goes real quiet and lo and behold he’s found an angle to watch some TV. He loves being in the carseat and pram, in the car he just falls asleep straight away and in the pram he likes being sat up so that he can watch the world. I have a baby Bjorn carrier and he likes that too, actually I can’t wait for him to have total head control (he’s close now) so that he can face away from me and see a bit more. He hates tummy time and frankly I don’t push it as he’s always been an unusually strong bub.
As for me, well I was really upset about not being able to BF. Miles just would not take to the nipple, never did and even after seeing a speech pathologist, lactation consultant(s), day-stay at a family centre etc etc he just was never going to do it. I tried expressing every two hours (yep, you read that right, every 2 hours around the clock, in addition to having to feed Miles from the bottle and also make up and give him formula to supplement) but it was killing me and making me not enjoy being a mum. It didn’t help that I could never meet Miles’ feeding demands and am not sure that I would have been able to get my supply up enough, given I was never getting the BF experience, just having my nipples wrenched off by the expressing machine instead. So I stopped expressing and put Miles fully on formula. Even though I had a horror birth experience, my only real regret is that Miles is having to settle for second-best when it comes to food.
Ah, the other thing is that I had several 2nd degree tears during labour and the stitching up job that the Obs did was…well…how to put it…the terrain ‘down there’ is not the same as it used to be, plus it’s making youknowwhat quite difficult. I am seeing an Obs that specialises in surgery, next week to get an assessment about a repair job. *gulp*
Psst guess what? I’m TTCing again?!?! Yep, I’m serious. It took me over 3yrs to conceive Miles, so I’m starting again early just in case it takes that long again. Have seen a specialist Obs who’s put me on a diabetic drug that might help me conceive (I have polycystic ovarian syndrome) so I really am actively TTC. Mad? Likely!
Bookmarks