Babies Born April 2008 #3

[Nettie]

Belle - it vaties a lot, but I usually express anywhere from 50 mls to 150 mls each time (both breasts). I was on meds to help supply, but have finished them and found my supply has dropped dramatically May have to ask the Dr for an ongoing supply... I'm now trying some herbal tea called 'Fenugreek Flow' which has fenugreek, fennel & anise in it. We'll see if it helps! Liam has around 80 mls each feed and I express every time he eats and sometimes I don't get as much as he's used that feed which gets me down a bit. Thanks for the congrats though... At least I've managed to freeze a few batches from when I was on the meds.

I realised yesterday that the reason Liam might be waking up so often is that he might be cold. So we've begun wrapping him warmly and he's sleeping a lot longer! It worries me that he's too hot though and I have no idea how to judge this - does anyone have any suggestions? He's like both me and DH and sweats when he sleeps so it's hard to tell if he's overly warm or if it's just the sleep-sweats (does that make any sense???).

Here's wishing everyone a good restful night.

[Fire]

Nettie, that pic is SO cute, of jungle boy. Cracked me up. About temperature, you can get sleeping bags (grobag) that come with a temp thingy on them, to check the temp of the room. You get grobags of 0.5, 1 or 2.5 TOG. 2.5 would be for winter, and I think it's for room temps of 16 - 20. 20 - 24 is the 1 TOG. Ebay sells them cheaply, otherwise they can fetch $70. I want one, all I know who use them say their babies love them. You can also get a grobag egg, which is a room temp thingy. I had read that babies like the air temp to be 25 degrees, or wrapped to that temp. Others say sleeping in 16 degrees is ideal. Maybe it's both. I keep Ci pretty warm anyway.

We had a routine, we didn't make it, Ci did, but now not so much. Because I'm feeding him on waking and then again on sleep, he has two feeds in one hour sometimes because of it. This has thrown me all out of whack. Also trying to get him to nap in the cot means he keeps waking, and has about six naps a day cos we can't get him to settle until the next half hour. It sucks. I like routine, I like knowing what's coming next. Not before I had kids, but since kids, definitely.

Steph, I'm really over slinging, not slinging so much as him napping in the sling. I've found a few threads on BB with women desperate to get the kid out of the sling for naps, so it's common. I try and comfort myself with the good bits, like I did when starting out with all those probs bfing. Unlike Bfing which got better, sling naps are wearing thin!

It's suddenly really cold these days and our heater is broken. Yay.

[Beatrix]

Hmmm I think i am the only who is is not getting huge amounts of sleep!!!

We have had a few nights of 6hrs but she does that from like 6-12 so doesnt really help with sleep. Other then that of late she has been feeding every 3- 4 hrs.

I felt so drained the other night i tired to give her some forumla caus ei was sure she was hungry and she wouldnt take it at all. But she ended up going to sleep fine so mustnt have been hungry

I am so so disappointed in my weight atm though. Im not losing anything (if anything am gaining) I try so hard to eat healthy but i get so so starving and sometimes with all 3 kids i just dont have the time to make something so i snack

Ok now they are fighting again better be off

[mgm]

beatrix i sympathise on all counts. let me assure you that there's at least one other person not getting much sleep! plus dd has the most awful cold and is now waking more than ever, even in the sling. every little cough and sneeze wakes her up and it's so sad to hear her trying to cry when she's just about lost her voice. as for losing weight - i really need to do something about this, but it's hard to exercise when you have little ones, isn't it! i could do postnatal classes and take the kids but they're so expensive. let me know if you find any magical weight-loss solutions! i guess with snacks the thing to do is try to keep healthy ones on hand (carrots, fruit etc). not that i'm much good at that...

nettie brillliant work with your expressing. i've had to express a bit with both kids (a month with ds, a few days with dd) and can imagine what an effort your two months represents. well done.

fire there's not long to go til the 'magical' three-month mark - maybe things will start to fall into a better routine then. how long have you been putting ci in the cot? they say to allow a couple of weeks when introducing changes; i hope he'll soon start to sleep longer in there. unfortunately dd's cold has made me put my attempts to settle her out of the sling on hold. she did fall asleep in her swing once, but that was only because she was exhausted after a horrendous night of coughing.

today's whinge: i am SO tired. when dh woke up i asked him to take dd so i could have a sleep but it turned out he'd been woken up at 5 by ds and wasn't in any mood to take the baby for me. i'm not too impressed since i have so far done all the nighttime parenting of this baby and have never once woken him up to help. he's been great in other ways but doesn't seem to realise how sleep-deprived i am.

[MistyFying]

Time for a new thread everyone. Here you go