Babies Born April 1st-15th 2009 #1

[Celsie]

We officially have our first smiles!!!! Yay!!!!!!! Hope you are all going well. Skye actually lost weight this week after gaining 230g last week. My milk has just decided not to work. I've upped my Fenugreek dose. we'll see if that helps. That's so great to those ladies who are bf and getting such wonderful weight gains. I so wish I could do that. Looks like my body just has trouble with bf as I tried EVERYTHING with Amy and just couldn't last time. Yet again we've tried this time and we almost made it. All is not lost yet though. Am crossing fingers xx Hope you are all well and your little babies are content xx

Have you tried the breastfeeding tea? A friend of mine swears by it. I bought some, had one cup and couldn't stomach it. If you'd like some, I have the entire packet left which I'd gladly post to you.

[Mad Scientist]

Have you tried the breastfeeding tea? A friend of mine swears by it. I bought some, had one cup and couldn't stomach it. If you'd like some, I have the entire packet left which I'd gladly post to you.

That would be fantastic Celsie! Another thing that is worth a go :-) I will pm you my address. How much would postage be? Is there any way that I can reimburse you?
x Nik

[Celsie]

Oh, don't worry about the postage. If it helps, then it's well worth sending it to you. Us b/f Mums have to stick together.

I bought it from a health food store. It was really expensive... about $18 and it only has 20 teabags (well, 19 now... ) in it! I think it tastes like boiled thistles or something similar, but you might like the taste!

Will post it off to you tomorrow.

[cocobambino]

Hi guys,
All is going well here, recovered from my ceaser %100 have been since about a week post C/S even DTD at 10 days post C/S
Had to stop BF at 4 weeks, I just struggled too much with my supply, Harrison is on S26 soy formula.
He still feeds 2 hourly, all day,all night, im so exausted im doing silly things and forgettiing stuff ALL the time.

[Megan]

Coco, I feel for you on the 2 hourly feeds. DS did that for a couple of days and I was beside myself. Falling asleep in all strange places. Thankfully he is now at 3-4 hourly feeds and it's much better.

How is everyone going with their bubs sleeps during the day? When do they usually start to stay awake a lot longer? DS refuses to sleep during the day if I put him in his cot, but will sleep for an hour, sometimes two if I put him in his pram bassinette in the lounge with me. After I feed him, we have a play on the floor and some tummy time and I put him down once he is showing signs of being tired. I was hoping some kind of routine like that would help, but it hasn't. Night time is better. It takes a while to get him to sleep when he goes down after his 6-7pm feed, but every feed after that he goes straight back to sleep in his cot until it's daylight again.

[Ozziehoffy]

Just wanted to say hi... I am borderline on this buddy group and the late April one... so I thought that maybe I'd hang around both as my belly buddies are in both... is that ok with you guys? I have been meaning to pop in a say hi but every time I try well let's just say that one of the kiddies wants me..lol. Elijah was born 15th - came 3 days early so really wasn't expecting him and didn't know if it was really labour starting up. However, it was and I have my little man. Will get around to finishing my birth story soon hopefully. There's so much in my head that I want to make sure I'm not just prattling on with it when it's written down. I have written part of it.

Will try to read up a bit if I get a chance. Otherwise I'll just slowly intergrate and try to catch up

[Megan]

Very quiet in here!
How is everyone going with their bubs?