danielle i hope your nipple gets better soon .. it sounds sooo painful ..
I have to see a specialist in toowong sometime this week or soon , both for me and Gabriella ..
I saw a clinc nurse monday and G was 4 kgs .. so 500grams since birth .. its not heaps but not too little kwim .. so i got sent to a LC as i said i am thinking of weaning from my left boob , i just cant stand the pain it brings , and we went over the symptoms ive been having and have ruled out mastits, thrush , vasospam and poor attachment ...
she believes i have poor protractility of the nipple , meaning it doesnt stretch as much as it should , each feed G makes clicking sounds and is fussy the milk dibbles out her mouth and she swallows heaps of air ... but on the right side i could feed upsidedown in water while doing backstroke if i felt like it and not have any problems ...
and seeing as i had the same problem feeding nix i better get it checked .. and she still feed every 30mins when she is awake , her longest sleep being the night time one and early morning
Gabriella is still really spewy and often projectile vomits .. and it always happens after feeding from the left side and it seems to always be around 3am and when there are clean sheets on the bed ..so i am geting her checked for reflux ..
nixon is ****inf me off sooooooo bad right now , he isnext to me chucking the biggest tanty because i wouldnt let him spray powder all over the room, so now he is hitting me and pulling the cord on my hoody from my jumper , which he has pulled all the way out .. grr his tantys are soo often these days .. i try to play with him , but hes always played by himself and quite happy to do so .. he never really wants my attention when i want to give it to him , but when i cant really give my attention to him is when he wants it .. he wont take a day nap in a big bed , only when we are out in the car he will sleep in the day .. so by the time i have to pick dh up he is feral .. its only a short drive to the station and usually he is asleep by the time we get there , so is asleep in the car at about 5.30-6ish then have to wake him and is cranky all through dinner , then after his bath doenst want to go to bed and chucks tanties ...
its sooo draining and im over it , i just dont know what to do ..
Milly : i use Baby BeeHinds ...and they are great , i dont like using pockets or nappies with microfleece in them as nix gets rashy and can smell a bit after heaps of use ... I have gone through my nappy stash and thrown out all the magic alls that are old and not as good as they used to be .. imo the nappies with the man made materials dont last as long as fitteds.... the fitteds are too big for gabriella right now , probably when she gains another kilo or so she eill fit them but right now she is in bambino mio and fitteds from pookey pockets and ones that my friend has made ...
she is still in 0000 but her feet are long so dont really fit the all in one suits , but ive been buying heaps in 000 as she will be that size before i know it and the summer is long out in ipswich so she should be able to wear it all by the way shes growing , i dont think she will be a heffer just yet ...
Im still using huggies newborn here and there , mostly at night and she still fits them perfectly but when i finish the pack i will get the aldi ones as back up .. we use a sposie on nix if its been raining or ive run out of nappies .. or when hes has a shuge drinkl of milk before bed .. other wise its a bbh with a booster and a fleece cover ... i do have wool ones but they are pretty bulky on an already bulky kid ...
poor gab , she is asleep next to me and has wind , she is pulling faces like shes about to cry then it looks like she is smiling and her eyes flicker open ..
we whent and brought heaps of play things for nix , like thouse plastic slides and cubby houses , and a picnic table .. but ever since we brought them its rained so i cant take him out side to play because everythign is wet ...
its overcast today and i have plonked nix infront of the telly ... i feel bad (well i feel judged ) if i admit to how often i put the tv on for him ...
seeing as hes up early each morning , i put the cartoons on on my room so he can be in bed with me while i snooze usually a few hours a day he watches tv while playing ... is that bad .. i am forever wondering if it is as damaging as the experts say it is ...
why do"child health experts" like to make mums feel guilty ...
Lea, re: tv, don't feel guilty hun, I know easier said than done. I have been doing the same sometimes. When DH is out, I get overwhelmed sometimes. Lily is so full on and will just whinge and whinge if she doesn't get what she wants, so I put on hi 5 or In the night garden and she'll be good for half an hour. Sometimes that's all she needs to become a different little girl. I think the pro's outweigh the cons (for us at the moment anyway). Cons being a very stressed mummy who screams and ends up in tears from guilt for screaming at DD. I wouldn't worry surely it's not going to damage them in the long term, or in any time for that matter. When we're sorted with our new bubs we will get into a new routine and there will be less tv. And besides it's not as if they're watching horror movies or anything. It's hi 5 for goodness sake. Yes I would love to be a fully functioning enthusiastic full of energy mum, but at the moment I'm not, so tv it is.
hi everyone
Im so glad to hear of other babies growing out of 0000's i was beginning to think Lucy was a sumo...everyone keeps saying how big shes getting but she still looks tiny to me, except when i squeezed her into her wondersuit last nite
I used to worry about my now 8 year old watching too much tv but it hasnt affected him at all socialy or mentaly.
bye for now
Tasha
Dont feel judged Lea....just lie when people ask how much TV your kids watch its none of the "experts" business what you do
Sadly tv has never worked for Grace and eve shows no sign of being interested in it... It sometimes buys me 10mins in the morning to have a shower but im normally still in there when i get grace saying "i turned the tv off mum. What you doing?" And normally she will just end up more upset if there is an ad or something on that has any emotion she doesnt understand on, or the news preview !nightmare
I say be happy that buys you some time and be proud that thats all you need to be happier and calmer mum
Trust me with three on my own most of the time id love a little tv time, oh i did forget "the fairies" buys me a little longer but only if not over used
well i went and saw the LC, to try and find out whats worng with my left side , but i got advice that just didnt feel right .. she watched me feed g lying down and she said that the clicking sounds that she makes were her way of coping with my flow ...
and she also said that the pain and trouble i have with my nipple is just "something i have " and told me to take nurofen !!!!
AND that i should not co sleep , and that if g is fed and clean i should let her cry for 20mins minimum , so she can learn to fall asleep on her own , and that i should feed every 2 hrs ...she did see the taurma on my nipple but never really did anything about it , i mentioned the pain factor soo many times , in the end she made me feel like i was making a big deal out of nothing and definatley made it clear i was wasting her time ...
i felt like crap when i left .. i thought i was doing fine as a mum , i thought co sleeping was natural and so was attending to your baby when she cries ..
i admit that she needs to feed less often to give me a break , but why did the advice feel wrong to me .. i think that i will find another LC who has the same beliefs as me ...
but as for g's colic (which is pretty bad) im going to try cutting out things of my diet .. dairy should be the 1st to go , but its a big part of my diet ... (but i reckon its a big part of her colic too )
im just babbling on here , im a bit confused about the breastfeeding advice ...
anyway its dinnertime , and nixon has a fever .. its going to be an interesting night ..
Lea, hun if the advice the LC gave you feels wrong, don't listen to it. Simple as that. You are a great mum and you are doing the right thing for you and Gabriella. If co sleeping is what you need to do, do it, if you feel there is something wrong with how she is feeding then there is. And a newborn left screaming for 20mins???? WTF!!!!! That is the most rediculous thing I have heard. You need to find someone out there to support you not put you down.
I have cut out alot in my diet- chocolate, dairy, onions, garlic, spicy foods, anything that might make him windy (like vegie soup, baked beans...). And Liam seems to be alot more settled. I have tried reintroducing chocolate and dairy (they are killing me not to eat!!) and boy did I know it the night I did it! He screamed bloody murder the nights I tried it. So soy milk and no yummy foods for me .
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I havent been able to log on here for four days!! Not cos of my net connection, cos i cant get my bum into gear.
I had my endoscopy on monday, they took 4 biopsies and let me tell you i swear i can feel where they took them from. My stomach is so sore. It feels like i have open wounds in there, which i guess i do. I dont really know what the results are yet until i see my GP but the report says i have thickened mucous and an inflamed oesophegus/gullet which is consistent with reflux. I dont know what they will do about that. It should have corrected itself when i gave birth but it hasnt. I still get heartburn and reflux almost every day. So that whacked me out and i slept all day monday.
Tuesday DH went back to work and ever since i just dont seem to have enough hours in the day to get everything that i want to get done, done. It doesnt help that my stomach hurts so much though, which is making me more slow.
On top of all that Chardonnay has been terrible. Sunday night she kept us up all night, we barely slept.
I still have insomnia where im doing these 20 min power naps and i just feel so teary all the time. I dont think i have PND though, i think its just the insomnia which means sleep deprivation, and an unsettled baby that upsets me cos i cant fix her.
On a brighter note though, Chardonnay started smiling at me this morning. She has been smiling for awhile, but not actually directly at anyone. This morning she looked at me and smiled. Best feeling in the world. Makes it all worth it.
I cant beleive all your babies are going into 000 already. We are still fitting 0000 nicely here. She weighed 3.3kg last week.
kell- Serenitee had chronic ear infections, including several eardrum perforations, from the age of 4 mths. We were lucky to have one full week off a course of antibiotics before she got another infection. She had at least 2 courses of ab a month and in the end became immune to main ab she was always on and they had to change it. In the end she wasnt allowed off ab, she had a continual prescription until she got grommets. She got her grommets at 11mths old and has been fantastic ever since. She has had a few infections since having her grommets but the fluid just drains out now and we can usually just leave it to drain. So if you need someone to talk to about it, i have been through it and am more than happy to help out if i can.
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