Woot! Sharon, welcome!
Yay on the arrival of Oliver, he looks adorable!
Not much to report from my end, Baxter feeding well and I resisted the urge to get him weighed today, will save it for Monday.
Time for bed for me as my darling is asleep.
SG
xo
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Woot! Sharon, welcome!
Yay on the arrival of Oliver, he looks adorable!
Not much to report from my end, Baxter feeding well and I resisted the urge to get him weighed today, will save it for Monday.
Time for bed for me as my darling is asleep.
SG
xo
Hey Sharon!! Congrats on your beautiful baby boy :) and welcome hehe.
I just uploaded one of DP's photo's he took of DD today. Its such a wonderful photo :)
Hi there
Just introducing myself to this thread..
Liam's doing brilliantly and we're starting to learn to go to bed when he does!! Got the community midwife coming Monday morning and then we're off to see the Dr (condition of his discharge from hossy) - but other than that, we're just living life!
Liam sleeps in a bassinette at the end of our bed. We have a 'safe and secure' sleeper thingy for the bed, but it doesn't give us much room, so we're reserving it for when he's particularly restless.
He usually sleeps around 3 hrs at a time and is taking anywhere from 50 - 80 mls per feed. I'm expressing BM as he has a cleft palate and hasn't been able to attach to the breast. My supply is going well - got in excess of 150 mls this morning (from both) - which is probably enough for 2 feeds!
We're off for a walk in a minute to the shops as the cats are out of food and we need supplies for us!
Don't you just love how your baby smells?? ;)
Evening everyone
Good to finally take a mo to catch up.
Well ... Russell is doing well, his jaundice is almost gone and hes an absolute pleasure.
As for me i am recovering from C-Sect , Dressings came off today and my scar is healing well. still have limited feeling in the general area and my stretch maks hurt the most but otherwise ok
As for BF - my tits have never been so huge and hard. how long do the tender nipples last???
What, like spew? :P:
Starting to get my head around Silas and his spewing, River was a two bosom boy, would feed one side and then the other, but I think Silas might be a one side at a time kind of kid. I feel like he's not getting enough, but I've got friends who've fed their kids one side per feed, so I'll just have to get used to the idea. But yeah, the spewing seeeems to have lessened since feeding him from one side at a time. Probably too early to tell for sure though.
Just come back from the inlaws and I'm exhausted. Might do the last feed of the night and head to bed.
Big welcome to the girls who've introduced themselves!
Nettie, that's great that expressing's going so well, when do cleft palates get fixed?
Zennie, how old's your bub now? (you need to update your ticker!) I think my milk settled around 1-2 weeks. Can't remember...but we're almost at week 4 and it's been settled for awhile.
Hey Zennie, congrats on the arrival of Russell, hope things are going well.:
My nipples have really only become a lot less tender in the last day or so, and Baxter is just over 2 weeks old. I am vigilant with the Lansinoh which makes a HUGE difference for me.
Nettie - well done on the expressing. I think there is another BB member call PurpleMama (?) whose little boy had a cleft palate and she exclusively BF'd (I think?!) for at least 6 months.
SG
xo
:lol: Nelle! My little Liam has a full head of hair (will post pics soon, I promise) and I just love smelling it! Maybe I'm just strange :p
It depends on the surgeon, but most cleft palates are operated on between 9-12 months of age. I haven't attended my first appointment yet with the 'cleft clinic' so I'm still a bit 'green' at this stuff yet!
Shoegal - I've already found PurpleMama and have begun chatting with her about our clefty babies! But thanks for the info!
I must say, expressing mustn't be as hard on your boobies because I've had no trouble at all! Sometimes I get *****ling feelings in my nipples when it's time to express, but other than that, no trouble at all! Having said that, I've only been at this around a week! ;)
Can babies get hayfever? My little Liam sneezes a lot... but that might be to do with the cleft palate too - dunno!
You might be right Nettie, because I know what really screws my boobs is when bub has poor attachment and I don't notice - and you can't get poor attachment with a pump can you!
As for the sneezing, I know Silas sneezes when he's got milk up his nose. Pretty common for babies to get milk up their noses while feeding. In fact, Silas has a cold at the moment, and I think the milk up his nose is a good thing, helps clear him out. On the down side, it means sometimes he's feeding on a tummy full of mucous...ideal spewing conditions. :doh:
I was going to bed wasn't I...:redface:
Nelle I weighed myself when I got home with Oliver when he was 2 days old, and I had lost 9kg, but because my tummy was (and still is) bloated I still can't get into any of my 'normal' clothes, I am so over my maternity clothes. Jordan was a spewie baby, had really bad reflux till he was about 9 months old, he had to have prescription medication to help with his.
Shoegal I am sure that Baxter will catch up to his original birth weight, he isn't too far off it.
MummyMeg that pic is adorable of Isabelle
Nettie glad to hear that your expressing is going so well.
Zennie even though I am bottle feeding, my milk came in yesterday and it looked like I had two huge soccer balls stuck to the front of my chest, and they where rock hard and sore, the are a little better today.
Had visitors since 9am today and they only left an hour ago and I am completely exhausted. Oliver has been doing fantastic, he was really restless after his 11pm feed last night and didn't settle until I fed him again at 1.30am, I put him in his bassinette after his feed and I went back to bed, I heard him get the hiccups and thought he would start grizzling, but he managed to settle himself and slept through till 5.30am.
So am I the only one formula feeding? There where a couple of nurses at the hospital who made my choice a difficult one, one of them even said that my nipples didn't look that bad, in other words, she thought I was just complaining, I think that after pushing out a 10lb 10oz baby with no drugs I would know if I was in pain or not. I FF Jordan from about 8 weeks and there is absolutely nothing wrong with him.
Aha!! Finally found where I should be. Wasn't sure where to go after DD was born - here looks like the place though.
Charlotte Anne was born on April 16 after being induced for Pregnancy Induced Hypertension. She weighed 7lb 14.5oz. I was really lucky and had a 'dream' induction and it was only 5.5 hours from breaking my waters to her arrival.
We have been home for a week now and are settling in nicely. She is quite colicky (when she is awake - she sleeps for about 4 - 5 hours at a time and has about 3 periods a day of wakefulness of about an hour). Am using Grip Water fairly regularly with her and have just introduced a dummy for when she won't settle after a night feed - but have not found a magic cure for her to be able to get rid of the wind - have tried everything - massage, burping, baths, gravity feeding - all with no luck.
I am BF and have a s**tload of milk which makes my boobs very hard particularly when it is so long between feeds and still have quite tender nipples (have to hold my breathe for the first 4-5 sucks) but otherwise she attaches fine (unless she has wind) and usually has a good feed (also drinks 100mls if given expressed milk in a bottle - but will pay for it later with wind!)
She is my little koala cause she loves sleeping on my (or DH) chest - and is currently snuggled up there as I type this!!
Anyway, it is nice to have found a new 'home'. Talk to you all soon.
Lol Tarnee, they call those first few seconds the toe curling moments or something I think! Silas is windy too, and we're finding Brauer's Colic Relief is working okay, others have recommended Infacol's Infant's Friend. I started a post in the Colic section called Baby Farts where I got some good advice! Apparently the foremilk makes bub a bit more windy than the hindmilk (because of foremilk's higher sugar content), so make sure bub is draining a side really well before offering the next...tis making a bit of a difference for us. Also we've had some success popping Si on his tummy at times.
Sharon I can't believe you had visitors that stayed that long! Did they do anything helpful, like cooking or your dishes?
Think Silas might be having some sort of growth spurt, they say there's one at 6 weeks, but he's definitely wanting to feed a smidge sooner than the 3 hours that he used to. Ah well. He's gotta grow I guess! :D
Tarnee hi, nice to see you here, Jordan used to love sleeping on mine or DH's chest too, it is because they can feel the heartbeat (well, that's what we reckon).
Nelle the only reason my visitors stayed that long is because they are relo's and they had to drive 1.5 hours to get here, so I really didn't mind, just found it terribly exhausting.
I went and did a bit of shopping yesterday so that I could cater for my relo's, DH did offer to go but I really needed to get out of the house, well, I think I over done it, I ended up with an extremely sore back by the time I got home, so I won't be doing that again in a hurry, if I feel the need to shop, it won't be for groceries next time :lol:
Well, nighty night, Oliver seems to have settled straight back to sleep after his 11pm feed, so I will make the most of it and toddle off to bedfordshire.
Hey there all! Had a full on week or so as DS has some kind of sinus issue no one seems to have heard of before. It's like reflux, only it isn't in his nose, it goes to his sinuses and he finds it hard to breathe through the serious snuffling. So I can't cosleep in bed with him, I'm on the recliner couch in the lounge room until he grows out of it. I'm going to try the bed again tonight but I don't think he's ready. Cosleeping means we both have to be on an incline. Bollocks.
Otherwise my marsupial is great. Asleep in his sling as I type. Although last night I got engorged again. Went through the usual newborn feeding in the first couple of weeks, which was non stop to bring my milk in strong. Then he started feeding every three hours or so, and I thought YAY. In recent couple of days he fed full on again (about the point a mama starts to wonder about her supply cos he wanted to feed so much) however I learned he knows exactly what he's doing - bringing in more milk for a growth spurt! Clever, these kids, eh? So I got engorged from the 1.5 - 2 hourly feeds and BOY did it hurt. I could barely walk - sore boobs make you barely able to walk, whoda thunk it. But he drained them both!
As for growth spurt, geez, Ci gained over 600grams his second week (on top of his birth weight)! He's a big boy now, and gaining fast. I must have cadbury's full cream dairy milk, I tell ya. So I guess I have to look out for the occasional feeding frenzy from him, followed by engorgement, followed by Sir Gainsalot.
So if any of you can resonate with this, take heart, frequent feedings are just perfect, babe knows what s/he's doing, bringing in more milk! And nothing does it faster or better than just putting the baby on the boob more often. If you wonder about your milk, the best test is weight gain. If you still aren't confident, just feed on demand and then a few extra; best way is to take to bed with them for a day or so, and let them stay on the boob as long as they want, they may fall asleep with the nipple in their mouth (and probably so will you) and this is very normal. That's why night feedings are more likely to keep ovulation at bay, they are the most productive, mostly because we are less likely to allow unlimited time at the boob as we sleep through it. The feedback loop of the breast glands and hormones isn't just how much milk is taken, it is also how much areola/nipple stimulation you get that brings it in (remember trying to bring on labour via nipples? kinda like that :lol) You'll get so much milk you'll have to sell some :lol:. Newbies should feed b/w 8 and 12 feeds a day if on the boob, or supply can go down. Not a good idea to try to follow a formula fed baby's schedule (4 to 6 feeds a day) or you will lose your milk. They'll cut out one of those night feeds soon. :D
HTH
I love reading about all the newbies in this thread, helps me feel less alone.
Hey Kira! Welcome to c-section land. My belly from the bellybutton down still hurts to touch. Not badly, but is tender. My left side of the incision area took almost three weeks to stop hurting enough so I could walk! Unlike my section with DD, I was walking well within days. I still think there is something wrong in there, I may get it checked out.
As for tender nipples, they shouldn't last long at all. If they are still sore, get your latch checked. Russell must have all or almost all of your areola in his mouth (depending on the size of yours). If he just takes in nipple, he won't stimulate your milk supply or letdown, won't get enough milk, and you will be sore, and may even crack or bleed. Latch and position is the main reason for quitting, so hang in there and get GOOD advice (an ABA meeting, or a lactation consultant would even be worth it in the long run, about 60 bucks and they spend hours with you). Position is making sure his chest and stomach is facing you completely. If he looks like he is turning his head toward you - sore nipple land. Also remember "flange lips" or "special K lips": check his mouth as he is attached to you, his lips should "flange" out, looking like the special K symbol. If he looks like he is pursing his lips, or if he sucks your nipple in instead of opening wide to latch onto the areola - sore nipple land. I have a little trick, when he sucks my nipple in (we're working on it :rollseyes:), I pull his lip down while he's attached :lol:. When he comes off, he will probably have marks around his mouth where he was totally stretched open while feeding.
eek gotta run...
Thanks Janine for the info.
Russell is attachment is good most of the time and my milk has come in. though it appears to have dropped offa bit today. I find that he dosnt get it all the way to the back of his mouth, however that i think has something to do with my nipples. when i express first his attachment is much better. its all trial and error and for the most part feeding dosnt hurt its when i touch them that they are tender. might just express for a day or 2 if dont settle soon.Russell is also impatient.
C-section land- have some internal swelling on one side of my scar which is almost completely healed, but not sure if i should be worried. i think its the muscle healing. apart from that its not to bad. have dissolvable stitches which have made things easier.
Zennie- hope the scar doent hurt to much.
I must be pretty lucky with our feeding, Mallana hasnt given me a single graze or crack.
(now no one take offense to this)
I must admit I am very very proud and happy of how my breast feeding is going. As most of you know i was unable to feed my older two girls but this time everything is just so so good. I feel like screaming from the roof tops how proud of myself i am. I mean i know i havent had any real problems with it which is mostly the reason i am still going. Its the weirdest feeling. soetimes i am so scared to say how good it all is in case i curse myself. But we are at a month now so i think (hope) nothing can really go wrong.
ok sorry to brag.
HI everyone,
JUst thought I'd pop in and make myself known, I'll be back to actually read everyone's posts at a later date, but will need to go and get ready for Benjamin to wake up in a little while I'm sure!!
Breast feeding has been going well for me also, except that of late, my supply seems to have dropped off.
I'm currently expressing every 3 hours and bottle feeding as Benjamin is very hungry at the moment and will put away 100ml every 2-3 hours during the day, and every 4 hours at night!!
Hopefully my milk supply will build up again and I can go back to feeding him directly rather than expressing first!
fak (feeding at keyboard, so forgive if I'm blunt or have no punctuation)
BW, welcome! Milo or aktivite is good for supply, just drinking lots actually, I found Fenugreek tablets great with my first, I have them ready for te 6 week growth spurt if needed, and of course bub will want to feed more frequently to build up supply. Sorry if you already know all that.
That could be true in many cases, but just to give a different experience, Si only asks for 6ish feeds a day, and my supply's good. River was similar, and I had heaps of milk for him. I definitely agree that putting your feet up if you can, drinking lots, and getting bub to hang out at the boob for a day or so is great for supply though.:
Newbies should feed b/w 8 and 12 feeds a day if on the boob, or supply can go down. Not a good idea to try to follow a formula fed baby's schedule (4 to 6 feeds a day) or you will lose your milk.
Huge congrats on the feeding Bea!
Hope your scar settles down Zennie.
Hi to everone else!
yeah, i got my info from people that help you keep ovulation away, which means night feeds and frequent day ones - no doubt there is lots of wriggle room there and different baby needs. as long as frequent feeds aren't seen as supply issues though, cos that would be unnecessary stress. i know a few gals who quit cos their baby fed often, they thought their milk was low.
btw, i'm jealous of your six feeds a day!
gads, gotta go again, he won't let me sit today.
Hi Girls
Been reading this thread with interest! Good to see other people going through the same things!
Isabelle is two weeks old now and doing well - Putting on weight, even has a double chin now. Feeding really well, although her attachment isn't great and I have to open her bottom lip most times to get her to feed properly - But I know she's getting enough milk, cause she's got soooo many dirty and wet nappies!
Appears she has a touch of colic though - Gets very windy and it gets much worse in the afternoons, I think after the wind has been collecting in her stomach throughout the day. Might try and get some infants friend today and see if that helps.
Having ups and downs at night, sleeps for some and doesn't for others! Oh well, thats babies for you!
The thing I have the most trouble with, is when to move her around during the day - If we want to go out and do something, do I do it after she's had a feed? If she's in the middle of her sleep, do I move her? Its such a hard thing! I want her to get sleep but still need to get out to the shops occasionally! When do you guys time your outings for?
Ok, thats my essay for the day! Better go and give Isabelle the other side!
Jane- i normally do things start after a feed, so that i know i have a certain amount of time before MJ is hungry.
Last night we got a 5hr stretch again- woohoo!!!
We've got a windy baby here to Jane, popping Si across my lap can work, and Brauer's Colic relief seems to help too. We feed before an outing too. :) With sleeping babies, if they're in a deep sleep, I find I can move them gently without waking them. If Si's been unsettled though, I won't risk it, I let sleeping babies lie. :P
Well, I went shopping yesterday and had one of those japanese vegetable pancakes...don't know for the life of me how to spell the real name, starts with O. Anyway, we get towards the end of our pancakes and my sister goes, 'gee they're quite cabbagey aren't they!' I just went 'what'.
Was so annoyed with myself, so we had a bit of an unsettled baby last night again. Will have to keep my brain switched on a bit more.
Argh, River crying, about lots of little nothings, so methinks it's naptime. ;)
Joining in with the April Babies..... My little "too posh to be pushed" DS was born on April 19th at 4.21pm Perth time by emergency c-section.
I see that there are a few emergency c-section's happening of late. Still doesn't make it any easier to cope with the restrictions it places on caring for your newborn.
DS has tongue-tie and despite the hospital paed saying that it doesn't need attending to because she is feeding well, I am like MummyMeg - resting my nipples. I have tried to keep going but have had to comp feed with EBM and formula due to nipples cracking right around the base as well as abrasions, compression and blistering at the top. This makes expressing hard too as I have to do it by hand, the pump just rips it to shreds even more than DS. I have been told that there is a paed in Joondalup that does the cutting of the tongue-tie via laser, but they weren't sure of his/her name - anyone know at all?
Besides the BF issues - and yes I know it is only week one and all could change.....- DS sleeps in 3 to 5 hour blocks and only cries for the usual hunger, pain, poo issues. Hopefully she remains a good baby.
Jane - I'd be happy to be able to get out fullstop - but the c-section means no driving and I hate being stuck at home. I'd try to put her into her capsule after a feed and then take her to the shops then, but there is never a perfect time. Personally I would go when you need to.
Zennie I was told by the home care midwife that it hads been a long time since she had seen such a clean c-section wound. I have no issues at all with my external wound, but the pain internally is horrific - possibly because they had to cauterise my blood vessels on the uterus and their was a lot of tensioning with 3 minutes from incision to birth.
Got to go EBM, the let down is happening....
Grubi, what kind of pump do you have? If it's an electric one, maybe see if you can use a manual one for the start, electrics can be a bit rough on untoughened nipples.
Just a question for all you first time breastfeeders - were you told that it would/might hurt?
I remember the blistering I had with River and was really discouraged, but everything was fine, my nipples just needed to toughen up. I mean, it doesn't hurt for everyone - because babies can differ in their sucking - for example I'm finding Silas has a much stronger suck than River ever did, and that might account for the people who find that it doesn't hurt them much, and don't get much damage.
But just wanted to encourage those who were discouraged, once your nipples toughen up and you and bub sort out your attachment, things get better. With River it took us 3 or so weeks to get sorted, and about 2 with Silas.
And I am curious to know if you were told that it might hurt for awhile.
Hey there!
I've got a windy baby here too. Have bought some gripe water for him but wanted the all clear from the Dr before giving him anything. Saw Dr this morning and he said "it can't hurt. It might not help either, but it certainly won't do any harm!" I'm hoping it's all Liam needs...
Geez it's hard to type one handed!!! :lol: He's asleep in my arms at the moment... do all of your babies dream a lot???
Must get the birth story done soon too... Will aim for sometime this week!! ;) and get some pics.... *sigh*
Hope you're all getting adequate sleep... HA! :cryinglaugh:
Hiya Grubi!! Welcome! Good to see you from the buddies group!
Nelle, thanks for the Milo info, I LOVE milo so I'll get onto that!
Went to MCHN today (extra visit cause she was worried about his weight gain, apparently 110g in a week wasn't enough in week 2), so, today Benjamin decided that he'd show us all, and has put on 330g this week (hence the extra feeding).
We were pretty sure he was having a growth spurt, then someone on here mentioned it (I'm sorry I don't remember who!), adnd his measurements today prove it.
A little gripe water before his 2 feeds so far today has resulted in him being much more settled too which is great!
does milo have choc in it? i'm on strict-ish diet for first 6 weeks.
Nelle, i wasn't told it would hurt so with my first i was shell shocked. my let down is pretty painful and my nipples really hurt that first week or two. at least this time i was ready for it. were you told?
Wow, seems like everyone's babies are putting on weight...except for mine. :(
Had Baxter weighed today and he only put on 75gms for the week, still 5gms off his birth weight.
I called an ABA counsellor and she told me to fit in another 2 feeds per day, hopefully this will pay off.
He is so very settled and doesn't suffer from wind so she thought perhaps he was just a placid baby.
Have already had 2 cries about this today, sorry to whinge, but I feel like I'm failing him...
SG
xo
Shoegal- Mj didnt get up to birth weight til her 3rd week so please dont strees. then in her third week she gained 240g!! I did the extra feeds for that week and it worked a charm. As bax is content i wouldnt stress. BF dont follow the norm!!!
Nessa, thankyou. :hug:
I am in tears writing a reply, you have given me hope.
How many extra feeds in a day were you doing? And did you continue or drop them off?
SG
xo
I upped Mjs feeds to evey 3 hrs if i could. sometimes she wouldnt feed.
now we feed every 3-4hrs. i just go with her demand. if it has been over two hrs since her last feed and she wakes and its hard to settle i feed. basically try when he is awake offer him the boob.
if i remember correctly MJ only gained 60g on 5 days
please dont stress, cause it can effect your milk. i suggest you and bax go have a bath together. and feed him in there.
Aww Shoe, please don't worry, if he's wetting nappies still then I wouldn't worry. I know how stressful it is, River was a chunky newborn, but for awhile there as he got older he was soooo skinny (because he was long/tall) and people would make comments about him being unwell. Even if you 'know' in your head that everything's okay it's hard not to worry. :hug:
Janine, I think I picked up from Bellybelly (Belly buddies who'd had their babies first) that it would be uncomfortable, but gee the cracks and blisters took me by surprise! And I remember having a small panic at those milk blisters babies get on their lips! I thought they might be hurting him, was so relieved to hear that it was all okay. :D
I think it might be because once feeding is established, the pain goes away and you kind of forget it, you know? So people don't think to remember - oh yeah, it can really hurt at first!
Milo have chocolate? No idea. Probably though. I mean...it tastes chocolatey...That's not very helpful is it. :P I'd guess it has cocoa in it.
Milo really is a product that has me torn, I love the stuff, grew up on it, but I'm so not a fan of Nestle, they've got some really unethical practices in terms of promoting formula in less developed countries...grrr....I am desperate to find something I like better than Milo! Honestly, sometimes I wish I wasn't so into human rights, ignorance is bliss, I'll never enjoy most chocolate the same way again since I found out about child slavery on the Ivory Coast...although at least World Vision doesn't advocate boycotting at the moment.
Ooer, sorry. *nelle steps off soapbox*
Had a moment of 'do-I-have-enough-milkness' yesterday and had a fenugreek tablet. Si's still weeing and pooing though, so I haven't taken any more.
alittlegrubi - My DD has been said to be tongue-tied too..but the MW wasnt positive on it..so im getting a second opinion. The MW did give me two people to be reffered to to get it cut..but im not sire if its via laser or what..
Ive been coping really well! DD seems to have gotten herself into a routine, which is really good for me coz i dont stress so much. She is starting to look at DP and I more often now, and follows us with her eyes too. Im really proud about that!
I thought my bleeding had stopped, i was almost jumping for joy, but it went MIA for a day and decided to come back :( but my tear hasnt been stinging lately, and a bit itchy at times..which is good coz that means its healing, yay :)
Im sorry, i havent really read much of the replies since i last came in, too much to catch up on, but i hope everyone is going okay and coping okay!
I'm with you on the Nestles, Nelle. I only boycott one place (KFC) but I have seriously considered it with Nestle. I also had a stressful EAster trying to find ethical chocolate. Coles only had one eithical brand and I ended up buying from various health food shops and paying a ridiculous amount of money for the day.
BFing still canes me when he first gets on and the let down comes and he sucks harder. OUCHYwawa. Like a bunch of needles in my breast for a good 20 seconds. I had nipple bruising but no blisters; he does have a feed blister though, which fell off yesterday so he grew a new one :lol:.
I have really considered a dummy for Cian because he is such a sucky baby but I don't want to mess with my supply or his latch. When is the safest time to introduce dummies? I know some of you already have, how is the milk supply? Apparently their urge to suck is directly related to how much milk they are trying to bring in (ie, constant feeding in these first two months), so I do worry. But at the same time, when he is trying to get to sleep, he gets frantic to suck and I put him on and then all is well - until I get a let down, which he doesn't want. He seems to just want the sucking comfort. He then gets all upset because he has to swallow more milk (even though it's on the "empty" breast) and gets bloated, etc yahda yahda yahda. Anyone have this problem? I have taken a friend's advice and I bounce on the fitball with him and he eventually falls asleep but it can take a while sometimes, esp when he would prefer to suck.
To think I was "anti-dummy"! But like you all say, babies take the lead and the best laid plans go awol...
janine- MJ will *sometimes* take a dummy. not often. i have a great supply though but i do take fenugreek everyday. my midwife recomended it cause it also help give bubs something that prevents with the sniffles. foe thefirst 3 weeks i ddnt use the dummy at all cause i was worried about attachment but as i havent had any bf prob at all i figured why not. plus i lie the fact that it can reduce the risk of sids
Tell me about the sniffles, Bea. Is it the fenugreek that helps or the dummy (brain death, I can't understand simple sentences at the moment)? Ci has a problem that neither my doc nor the ABA woman had heard of. Milk shoots back up into his sinuses, which is different to the newborn "snuffles", this is really bad, making it hard for him to breathe. Sometimes he has to take a big mouth breath and it freaks the poor sod out. It wakes him at night, so not only am I waking for feeds but to sit him up to attempt to get the milk back down again. I was sleeping on the recliner in the lounge for ages but my back nearly left home so I've taken him back to bed and we both incline on some pillows. It is as good as the recliner and better than a baby bed inclined (tried that). He seems to need to be totally upright to clear it, unlike the reflux DD had, which a cot slightly inclined seemed to fix.
It's a type of reflux, I'm assuming. I know he'll grow out of it but it's driving me bonkers at the moment. It's the only thing that upsets him so I'm really annoyed about it. But no one can help me, they don't know what it is. The aba woman told me to see an ear/nose/throat specialist, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. Dealing with reflux is usually stopping the burn or the vomiting, he has no vomiting at all. Whether or not he has burning is unknown, I think he does though because he will cry before I hear the milk in his sinuses. At first I thought it was a cold as it sounds so much like one and it shot out of his nose but it's gone on long enough now that I don't think it's a cold.
Anyone with a previous child used a dummy, how was the long term effect on supply? I know there can be other problems but I'm hoping by just using it in the wee psychotic hours it might help him get to sleep when he just wants to sleep and my let down keeps waking him with milk - without making it a daytime or cure-all thing.
I'm wondering if his reflux issue is why he freaks out on the breast. Can anyone relate to the baby crying and pulling off and going back on and off and on and off and seeming to want to feed or suck and then getting frantic and then getting angry with the breast? That's also happening, it happened with DD, too.
Sorry for all the probing, and thanks for any help.
The fenugreek helps with the sniffles.
sorry wasnt really clear in my last message was typing one handed.
Not sure about long term use with a dummie as i didnt bf my other two so they had dummies
EarthenMy DS had silent reflux, no vomiting, I took him to a naturopath and oestopath. Gave him Lifestart - acidopholus(probably spelt wrong) and had his back manipulated and he was much better by 4mths it was completely gone and we only had to have 3 visits to the oestopath 4 to 6 weeks apart.
The lactation consultant told me DS was using me as a dummy - on, off BF.... use your little finger in the roof of his mouth, if he pulls away crying he wants a feed if not he is after comfort.
Nelle & Janine - I'm with you two on the Nestle thing. We even bought different formula (backup only) because we didn't want to buy the Nestle one - even though that's what he had in Neo-Natal...
Liam has a lot of snuffles with his cleft palate.. I'm wondering if the fenugreek will help him too? Worth a shot!
:hug: to everyone.. must dash. Lots to do today!
Hi everyone
Thanks to Nessa and Nelle, I'm trying to relax and offer the breast when Baxter is awake, 4 big feeds so far today so I am feeling much more confident about his weight gain this week by increasing his feeds.
Janine - Baxter takes a dummy to settle but then spits it out.
BTW, do you Milo lovers like Aktavite? I drink a cup everyday and quite like it!
SG
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