Babies Born April 1st - 15th 2008 #1

[jenh30]

Hello Ladies

I've been following this group since we were all pregnant, but was to shy to say hello. I thought it was time to join in, since i feel like i know you all anyway My daughter Isabelle was born on the 11th April and due to complications ended up being a planned ceasar. I have an older boy, James who just turned 5. He was an emergency ceasar and it was horrible, Isabelle's was a much nicer, calmer experience.
We had a lot of feeding issues early on, big boobs, flat nipples, tongue ties. I expressed each feed until about 6 weeks, when due to the stress of expressing and a very cranky baby, she went onto formula full time.
When she was about 6 weeks old, i got her up for a feed in the night and when i laid her down she started to choke and seemed to stop breathing for a minute, very scary. i rang the MCH line and explained all the symptoms she'd been experiencing and they suggested she may have silent reflux. i was a little skeptical, but after reading a bit, all her symptoms...the crying, back arching, gagging, generally very cranky and upset, seemed to point towards that. So we raised all her bedding, made sure she was always elevated and out her onto anti-reflux formula and we've never looked back.
She is now 15 weeks and last night she went down after a feed at 6 pm and woke up at 8 am the next morning....she's been doing that for about a month now. I have no idea how this happened!
my son still wakes up during the night at 5 and joins us in bed!
During the day she only seems to catnap for about 40 mins, but im guessing that it's a trade off with the 12+ hours at night.
I cant believe how much they've all changed in the last few months. My girlfriend had a baby last tuesday and she looks like the tiniest little thing next to my puffball
Hope everyone is doing well and i may come out of hiding another day to say hi

Jen