Babies Born April 2008

[Leyla]

Shoegal - I hear you on the pouch thing! Can't wait to get out and start walking. Am taking it easy at the moment but feel like such a bogan as I am living in trackies - and that is on the days when I actually make it out of my pj's! I know how stressful the supply issues can be, and hope that you are feeling more on top of it now. Your little man is such a cutie by the way! What was his birth weight again?

Nelle - You cracked me up about my illegal lactation cookies! They do sound naughty dont they. DH won't have them cause he thinks they might mess with his man-boobs! They are really just an excuse to have chocolate chip oat cookies. More of a placebo than anything I suspect!

Janine - love the new profile name. I'm keen to know how the SE powder goes. Jack has not been too bad at all but does occasionally have a few issues. Have not been able to narrow down when it occurs to see if it is related to something I am eating. Well done on Ci's weight gain - chubby bubs are so cute to cuddle!

Zennie - Sorry to hear about your scar problems! Sounds really painful. Hope things get sorted for you soon.

Ness - thanks for the reassurance on the weight gain. He had gained 160 over the last week which is right on the target given to me by the pead, so feeling a bit happier about it now. Sounds like your little princess is doing well!

Big hello to everyone else. Anyone else still have DH at home? I have mine for another week... don't know how I am going to cope without him - he's been a god-send.

love

[alittlegrubi]

Leyla my Dh has the rest of this week off work and whilst it has been great having him here to help, I'm trying to stop him helping too much as next week I'll be alone.

For some reason today has been a really bad day for us. After a night of 2 to 2.5 hour feeds I managed to get an hour and a half of sleep in from 8.30 to 10am, then it went down hill from there. DH went into town to buy a birthdy present and got stuck in roadworks. In the 3 hours he was gone I had 3 pooey nappies, three feeds and no sleeping - just lots of crying. Finally managed to get her settled and the minute I put her down in her bed.... screaming lahs. Put her in the Baby Bjorn and went for a drive, gave her a dummy - something I was avoiding and she fell asleep on my chest. Came home put her down and was just about asleep myself when the phone rang and then it was time to go to our doctor's appointment to get a referral for her tongue tie. She slept for the hour that I sat at the doctor's surgery and woke shortly after we got home.
We had dinner, I fed her again at around 7pm and since then she settled briefly at around 8.45pm until just before 9.30pm and since then DH and I have been playing tag in trying to keep her quiet I've fed her, but they seem to make it worse. She doesn't have any acid smell that would suggest reflux, though she vomitted at her 7pm feed. She is currently sucking at her hands as I sit with her in the Baby Bjorn carrier. Every now and then she whimpers I wish I knew what was wrong so I could do something about it as I am desperate for some sleep. Thankfully DS is staying at Nana's tonight, I am sure I would be a very grumpy mummy due to the lack of sleep if he was here.
I'm going to go read the colic forums see if this might be colic - but I don't think so. She was so good for the first 10 days of her life, why does it have to change??? I want my 3 to 5 hour sleeper back!!

[Beatrix]

alittlegrubi- we are having the same pro atm yest i wasnt able to put MJ down at all or she would scream. i am racking my brain trying o work out how to settle her cause i so need to do thngs

maybe its a wonder week?

[Nelle]

I put our regular feeding yesterday down to perhaps a little growth spurt, and also the cold - since he has mucous in his tummy, he'll bring up feeds if he drinks too much. And I'm making sure he gets the thicker hindmilk. Better night for us last night though.

[Fire]

Sometimes they need to suck more, so more bfing can help, esp if they have an instinct to bring in more milk, and it can feel really uncomfortable to them to not suck during this urge. If constant feeding makes them restless, they just want to suck without getting milk (esp if they fall asleep with a dummy). Currently I have been dealing with this problem, and if you need assistance, let me know and I'll pm you the info I recently got. Can't post it here, unfortunately.

We have problems if Ci is overtired. It can take ages to settle him if he goes beyond that point of no return, when all you do to settle him only stimulates him more. But as long as I'm walking with him in the sling, he is content, so I go for walks around the streets or backyard or even just get on with things in the kitchen or bath my older DD, and just leave him in the sling to fall sleep - DH even sleeps with him in the sling, just lays back the recliner with the sling on. I can't put Ci down, but I had no intention to anyway until he is six months, but I would be going crazy if I wanted to. He literally doesn't last five minutes off a human body, I'm not kidding at all. But I bathe with him, sleep with him and do all my daily life with him on me in a sling.

If you have DH at home at night, you could try what we do. Between feeds, (which are 2 to 3 hours apart) DH takes him, I stick in ear plugs and sleep for two hours from 7pm until 9pm. Next feed Ci is brought to me which goes until 9.30-10pm, I do the sleep cycle again from 10 until midnight. Whenever Ci next wakes, DH then hands him to me for the night (usually midnight) and he goes to our room (cosleeping with older DD) and sleeps I sleep in the spare bedroom on a mattress on the floor with Ci.

So DH gets solid sleep after midnight, I get broken but much needed sleep before midnight that keeps me going through the wee lonely hours. Honestly, it is a system I would die without. What DH does with him while I'm sleeping is, well, Ci is usually asleep from his last feed, but if he isn't, DH bounces on the fitball holding him or some other way gets him to sleep and then lays him on his chest and watches tv. He does it bare chested where possible for good skin on skin contact which keeps him calm and well attached throughout most of his waking hours.

[Sequoia]

Baxter looks no fatter to me today, we are having him weighed tomorrow so I can't say I am feeling very positive.

I've been expressing after every day feed and he took a bottle of EBM last night, he drank 70mls in 10 minutes, is this good or bad? He was really going to town on the bottle!

Sorry if this has been asked but has anyone had any success with fenugreek? If so, how many tablets a day did you take? I really wonder if it's my milk or what's going on. He only has one dirty nappy a day but seems rather content, plus the most I can get him to feed at the most is 20 minutes on one boob, then about 10 minutes on the other. He simply falls asleep and is not interested.

Will report back tomorrow after weigh in.

SG
xo

PS - went for a walk to a friend's place yesterday and negated all my good work by eating homemade vanilla slice, *sigh*. In saying that, Baxter loves his pram and was asleep the whole time.

[sarah_dobbo2]

Hi all,

Just thought I would drop in and say hi to all the new mums.

I finally found the right place to go to after the birht on my son. Wyatt was born on the 23rd April. Was not to bad a labour. DS birth weight was 4.500kg, and he is now 4.770kg, which the MW was really pleased at.

Anyway everything is going great, BF really well, boobie are sore/hugh/bit lumpy (when full). No problems yet, (fingers crossed) except lask of sleep. Wyatt is sleeping anywhere from 2-4hrs at a time. And he is only awake for feed at night which normal last about 10-15 minutes, which is great cos I haven't fully woken up by then either, so me back off to sleep fast.

Anyway I have started reading all post, will catch up one day.

Cheers
Sarah

[Beatrix]

shoe- i started Fenugreek when i was told to feed more. i take it 3 times a day and seems to work for me. remember Bax may not look any bigger to you cause you see him all the time!