Babies Born August 16th - 31st 2008

[Niamh75]

Oops just re read my post so many typing mistakes sorry hope you can understand me

[snowchickie79]

Belinda, I hope Chloe will get back into the sucking so you can bf her. Have you tried not giving her the bottle? Or someone suggested before a supply line where you put the little tube on your boob and she sucks like normal, but is still getting formula and bm? It's certainly not the end of the journey if you still have lots of milk. She just needs to get back into thinking that her food only comes from you, not a bottle. It probably would be a bit stressful if she won't suck for long, but maybe you could put her on more often? Just until she realises that the milk is coming from you now, no more bottles? This breast feeding thing can be so stressful huh? You want the best and its so hard to figure out what that is!

As for us, we had a loverly day at the party. It was at a big regional park, with heaps of play equipmant and stuff. Lily had a ball and Liam was good for me. Though it was 34 degrees! And blowing a gale! Lil fell asleep in the car and is still sleeping!! And Liam is snoozing too, yay!!! Ok gonna go and enjoy the silence of having both babies asleep!

lilias - At the moment I don't really want to try not giving her a comp because she didn't gain much weight at her last weigh in and i don't want to risk doing that again. I have another weight check at the clinic tomorrow so will see how she goes. Her birth weight was 3.2kg and she was only 3.4kg at 5 weeks so that is not a huge weight gain in the scheme of things. By not comping her I think I'd be doing more damage than good and I don't want her to start associating me with a bad experience in that she gets so worked up when she wants to feed but cannot for some reason. Issue really isn't supply now but getting her to attach for longer than 2-3 minutes. I have had some immediate success using nipple shields, she is happy to feed using those. I didn't comp her for 3 of her 4 feeds today. I'm not sure why the shields are making a difference but they are.

Belinda Tobias isn't interested in sucking/attatching to my breast at all anymore. I've tried to keep the milk in my left breast so I can continue to try but after getting a bad infection in my right nipple (which I am now taking anti-biotics for) I dont know if it will work out. I feel for you. I must say though that DD was formula fed from day one due to me not being able to get any milk out of my breasts in the first days after having her & she is perfectly happy & healthy, of course you agree that is the main thing I know things will all work out for you soon.

Me Tobias still hasn't smiled. he may have done one today but I'm not convinced so not counting it as "first smile". It did look different to his wind smiles though but maybe I wanted it to look different so I convinced myself it looked different IYKWIM. He;s filling out really well & most nights he's sleeping about 10 hours straight for his first sleep, but thats from about 6 or 7pm so I still have to get up at about 4 or 5, thats on a really good night but other nights its about 7 hours for first sleep then every 3 hours after that. So I really cant complain.
I'm feeling like I'm putting on weight, I weighed myself about 2 days ago & I still weighed the same as just after I had Tobias which is about 9 kilos heavier than where I want to be but its also 5 kilos lighter than i was pre-pregnancy so not too bad atm.
Tobias has his circumcision tomorrow at 11:30am. I'm really nervous, I dont want him to scream I just cant wait for it to be over with & healed up. A quick $500......
Re-arranged DD's toys today, got them all out of the lounge room & put them in her bedroom. I have alot I'm getting rid of, I put them on free-cycle but no-one responded so I'll take them to vinnies/salvos now. I will also be selling all my maternity clothes on Ebay as I've decided no more babies! Pregnancy was just too harsh on my body & I'm still sleeping elevated as my pelvis still isn't back to normal! Just trying to clear alot of the "clutter" out of the house... I HATE it!

I hope you're all well & once again sorry it's taken so long for me to catch up....

Danielle_M - Sounds like you've not had a great run in the BF department either. BF is hard and such a complex thing in reality. I've been happy to get this far with it but obviously if I can keep it up would like to but ultimately if not then so be it and I've at least given her 5 good weeks of it.
I'm sure you will see some smiles soon. Chloe is now smiling and i can get her laughing but without the noise yet. It happened just out of the blue last week when i sat and played with her and some toys. I was tickling her bottom lip with the toy and out it came and happily I had the video running at the same time so I captured it.

US - Today we had some inkyfeet items done (foot prints on ceramic tiles and coffee mugs) and then picked up her hospital pics on CD. Happily that is the last of the "newborn" stuff I want to get done while she is still this age. So she has now had; hospital photos at 5 days old; twinkle toes; inkyfeet and photos at studio at 5 weeks old..
Had some minor wins today with BF'ing. Chloe seems happy to feed with nipple shields but not so happy without them. not sure if she just doesn't like my nipple anymore, it tastes weird or her mouth is sore but we have our weight check tomorrow so will have the clinic nurse check her over and also will find out if efforts this week have helped with her weight. I had an apt with my LC from hosi on Friday so hopefully she will be able to help me sort out the issue of her attachment. Just have to struggle through till then.
I have my 6 week checkup on Wednesday which should be interesting and must say not looking forward to it as it also means i have to go for another 2hr GTT (I had GD).. that is all comes back fine....
Anyway I best go have a shower before the little one wakes for a feed..

Night all and take care.

[Melsta]

Hi Everyone ....

Wow so much has happened and I have been slack in posting I honestly have no idea where time has gone ...

Sorry to hear some not so pleasant days and BF issues ... hope that things get better for you all and I promise to catch up on personals .. I have no chance tonight need some sleep and little miss ready for night time bedtime ...

We are going well and Ali has her 2 month injections next week ... the doc asked me to come in on the 9th and get them done which would be fine except thats my 30th - aaargh welcome to motherhood and selflessness ! She is growing so much and now weighs 4.8kg and our 6 week checks were all fine ...

I did find out that my haemorraging was the placenta tearing away from the wall and next pg I am more than likely to have the pre eclampsia again and all associated problems ... so they will keep a close eye on me next time from the beginning esp making sure they catch it early should the onset be earlier ....

Other than that I am doing work from home for my old company and have mothers group every week too which I am enjoying ... just the days all blend into one - thank goodness for a long weekend this weekend !

Anyways off to finish up the kitchen and get little miss to bed ....

Take care all

xo

[Party-of-five]

hello everyone
we had a check up with the child health nurse today and lucy is now 4.7kgs, she has reflux and is on a thickened formula and that makes her badly constipated...its terrible watching her have a poo, we have tried prune juice but that gives her tummy ache, coloxl works but the nurse said she shouldnt be on it all the time.
i try to only go out in the arvo now because that is lucys most awake time and it doesnt seem to upset her so much
hope everyone had a great week end
my DH is a mad hawks fan so he had a great time on saturday!
bye for now
Tasha

[*charmalea*]

tasha, you can out food thickener in normal formula, but it may bung her up too, mix up brown sugar with boiled water, let it cool then give her a teaspoon or 2.. it will work !!

[Party-of-five]

thanks for the advice lea ill give it a shot
lucy had her biggest sleep ever last nite 6 and a half hours...so today i feel slightly human i even brushed my hair!!
tasha

[MrsFabuloso]

Hi Girls,

Well this is my second day on my own and to be honest I'm struggling a bit. Lily is sick again for the millionth time in 6weeks or so, so is a clingon and just whinging all day, and Liam is being a bit difficult today. I have all of about 6hrs sleep in the past two days and I'm soo buggered. When one's asleep the other is awake, so I'm not getting anything done. Ugh this sucks.....and I don't want to go out because Lil's sick. I was supposed to have a friend over yesterday and go to playgroup today, but I can't cause of her. I've been cooped up in this place for too long!

Anyway enough whining, sotta go Lil's whinging at the fridge for no good reason.

[Niamh75]

wow we are a quite bunch

lucylu your poor little girl Ive heard of the sugar and water I used it on my fist DS we put a little bit of fresh orange jusce in it and it worked a treat

*charmalea* how are you doing


us well Eireann has finally worked out night time is for sleeping have had a great night the last two feel like im getting more sleep I have cut down on dairy in my diet and no choclate or diet coke not that I was eating much but thought it was better safe than sorry only having one cup of tea as well and it does seem to have helped with pucking she only does a little bit now all normal and i know that will go soon as well as she gets older
ive notied my nipple is a little ithy at times thats not trush is it if it is what do i get for it i havent notied any little spots in Eireann mouth but was just wondering

oh and this is a really dumb question but the 6 week check up how does that go i had GD so when i make an appointment should i book the gtt and how much do the dotors normally charge for the check up

hope every one is busy and happy