haven't been around much because DH has switched our internet from ISDN to ADSL and by mistake, instead of being on an unlimited download, we are on a limited one and after just 4 days into the month, we had already used 45% of our monthly limit!!! ATM we are up to 83% and we still have 2 weeks to go. Sheesh. So we are limiting our time on the internet and unfortunately my time on BB counts as recreation, not business and business has to come first [sigh].
Anyway, some personals first;
Kate, I don't know what EASY is, but as to your query about feeding and resettling, I had a bit of an issue with this as well a few weeks back and the midwife told me not to feed Pup more frequently than a 2 hour gap. So if he is fed at 2pm and then is unsettled and grumpy/grizzly soon afterwards, still not feed him until at least 4pm. She said that the grizzliness (?) most probably is not hunger related but more likely tiredness or boredom or something else. From the word go, I have mainly followed the advice of this one midwife 'cause I think a lot of what she says is common sense. Hence, I delay feeding again until the 2 hour period clicks over. In the meantime, to settle Pup, I try to distract him by taking him outside to look at the garden/dogs/chooks/cows etc, play games with him (well, shake rattle toys at him!), put him in the pram and go for a walk, if it is coming up to his last feed for the night (about 7pm) I give him a bath to waste time etc etc.. I have found that largely, this sort of stuff works and I can get through usually 2.5hours even when he is REALLY unsettled.
As for the sweating, I used to get this early on - wake up bathed in sweat like you - but now I don't get it. Yeah, I think it is a hormonal thing (???)
Kate and Fletch, I was the same weight as both of you just before birth 95kg. Unfortunately, I am only down to about 85kg, so BFing has not stripped weight off me as I would have liked. I have to do something ewxtra. However, to be fair to myself, I haven't had a really good time of it since Pup was born insofar as trying to reduce weight. Because he was a c-section, I was restricted for 6 weeks afterwards for surgery healing, then I got mastitis and was laid up for a week, and recently I have broken my ankle and have been inactive for 6 weeks. So thats.....13 weeks out of about 18 weeks of sitting on my bum feeding my face!!! And probably for the other 5 weeks, I was too tired to do anything anyway!!
Shannon, great to see you back!! Sorry to hear that Jess has not been well again. Pup is the opposite to Jess tho in the poo department. He does 1 poo every 7 - 10 days. And a MIGHTY poo it is too. He did one today, so I'm clear until at least sometime next week!
Storm, I have missed the fact that you are pg again!! Congrats. So Zac was .... what, about 3 months old when you conceived again? Are you BFing or using formula? Did you have a period? I am hoping to get pg agian in a couple of months (hopefully in Jan) but I have no indication of AF returing and I am solely BFing.
Jo, I am hanging out for the kiddy b'day parties!!
Hi to everyone else.
Well, Pup sicked up again on me, which made it 3 days in a row, and I was contemplating taking him to the dr, but it has stopped now, so I have no idea what that was all about. He is furiously chewing on anything that remotely gets mear his mouth (usually his owns hands) but I can't feel any teeth emerging. Maybe the gums are starting to tingle??? Drool and dribble all over the place tho. At least 3 - 4 bibs a day. Bibs are nearly more important than nappies ATM!!! LOL
One of our ducks has been sitting on some eggs for the past month or so and on Saturday, 3 of them hatched (1 didn't make it). Yesterday, DH put a bowl of water in the pen with them and when I checked on them later, 2 were in the water....drowned!! OMG!! I scooped them out and one was definately dead, but one slightly moved. I shook it and rubbed it and gave it mouth to beak resucitation (!) and got it moving, although it loked very sick. I was considering donging it on the head when I decided to take it inside and dry it off as it was VERY cold. Anyway, to cut a long story short, it survived!!!! YAY. So we have 2 ducklings now. And I gave them some duckling feed tonight and the mother duck attacked me!! Sheesh. Thanks I get! We've called it "Miracle". And yes, there were lots of tears from me!!!
Well, not much else has gone on. Pup nearly rolled over the other day, so I'm thinking that he might just do it in a few days. The video camera is ready everytime I put him on the floor.
My cousin had a baby boy the other day (have I already posted this?? Mummy brain!). The baby was 11lb 7oz. What a whopper! The baby was breech so they did a ceaser. Just as well. It had a head circumf of 42cm. That is the size of Pup's head now (his is 42.5cm at 4months old).
Well, best push off. I'll hopefully sneak on before our limit dries up!
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