Hiya Katti, its nice to meet you!!! I had a c-section too, plus I have pelvic instability so on very light duties in my house. DH goes back to work next week - scary!!!! Have to handle my terrors by myself - I may just go insane.... lol
Oh and I never rest during the day - but am used to waking up cos DS still doesn't sleep through the night anyway!!!
Oh and I'm no expert (BFing doesn't work for me) but I think if you express after a feed, your supply should be fine
MM - I do not envy your hectic city - I live in tantrum town myself..lol
Can you send your 7 year old around here for chores too? hehe
Thanks mel.. i thought thats the best way re the expressing.. then it should really INcrease the supply rather than drain it. Not sure exactly what happened with my friend- we just heard it from her partner- he said she got stressed out and then stopped making milk- i am pretty confident we will be ok.
I've expressed milk in the past and have had no problems with supply drying up - my first 3 breastfed over 12 months (my third to about 16-17 months!) so lets hope this little one goes the distance! Breast milk is a "supply and demand" kind of thing - the higher the demand, the greater the supply (or so a community childhood nurse once told me!) Personally, I haven't found anything to the contrary, so I'm guessing that it's right!!
Mel - lol @ your tantrum town!! If I sent my 7yo your way, I reckon he'd think he was on holidays!! The weather would be too nice for him to think about doing chores! (I think the cold weather keeps him motivated and thus warm!!)
hi everyone, my first time typing while feeding so apologies for no capitals and any mistakes lol.
well jazz was born on the 5th. c/s as well, though the recovery is going good, not too painful now just sore/tender, the bruise around the c/s hurts more than the c/s wound now. exclusively bfing which is going great, though shes only feeding one side at a time so i get lopsided between feeds. we got our first mega spew today and woah i tell ya i was surprised at how much and how far one tiny baby can spew. ditto for poos lol she'd be winning gold if they had an olympic event for that.
her sleeping is great, though shes a bit confused and sleeps all day and wants to party all night. we are cosleeping so its not too bad, dont have to get out of bed everytime she wakes.
had a touch of jaundice in the hospital, but she is going pink again now. born at 3790g, at day 3 she had lost about 300g, and she has gained back half of that at day 6 so yay very happy for my chubba bubba lol
hey vic i hear you on the taking blood, a paed doing jazz's discharge did a jaundice blood test, used her heel and it took about 5 minutes to get the blood out she was squeezing her foot and jazz was screaming. i had tears, the dr made me hold her legs down cos she was squirming, and shel looked like she was about to deck the dr hahahaha she doesnt remember now of course - jazz that is - but still!
kiwigirl - i hear you on the crying, i've been pretty good and thought i was going to bypass the 3 day blues but i crashed on my first night home bawling poor shel lol it only happens during dinner time, right when shes cooking,
Whoops cut of midsentence. Shel needed help with dinner lol. Well Jazz is down, bugger, hoped she might stay awake and sleep tonight, but i doubt it!
Bugger thought i might have been able to write some more, no such luck now the princess is squarking, needs me (and obviously not shel ) for some reason... shes clean, fed and burped! Just being a little velcro baby probably Back later
Last edited by Indadhanu; August 13th, 2008 at 06:34 PM.
So Nakita is "Due" tomorrow I can't believe it!! It is very weird Kiwigirl, she has really started to fill out now and has cute cheeks, her bum is even starting to fill out - it was just a mass of creased skin!!
Welcome Katti How big was Shane when he was born? I will have to try the 0000 wondersuits they might fit her, but yeah will be in the 00000 for a while yet, some are still too big!
I hear you with the happy baby = happy mummy!!
I have been expressing the whole time, my electric pump is my second best friend!! I would be lost without it. I usually just pump what is "left" if I and feeling engorged or sore
Mel, I have no idea on how Nakita is going to go with the Pea Pods we have when she actually gets up to weight, we have some others that might be better... will just have to wait and see!
Messy house here too, but we are home tomorrow and if Nakita actually sleeps and doesn't want to be a velcro baby the I might get it cleaned!!
Mountain Mummy I have to say I don't envy your hectic household, I am just keeping up - sort of with Nakita!! I couldn't imagine adding more to that at the moment!!
Sounds like you are recovering really well Leasha! I hope Jazz starts to party during the day time really soon! The BT's suck, I would have been much if she did just the heel *****! She had a lot of BT's in hospital, and we found the best there was a BF then the pathologist would do the heel ***** as she fed - she didn't even notice when we did that, the other times it was terrible, but not as bad as last week!
Eli has done fantastic on a nice small weight loss Kiwigirl, you must have great boobie milk!!
I have lasagne in the freezer but DH can't eat it cos it has tomato in it, I would so just love to heat it up for dinner!!!
You have to have a cry.... Day 9 for me was the day I crashed - big time!! My midwife walked in as I was pumping - which was what I spent most of my time doing - and looked at me and said I needed to cry, and I fell to pieces, she said to me as she was leaving have a good cry in the shower. I was washing all my pump stuff and bawling my eyes out and my OB came in, so she copped it too, but a lot of it was me stressing about having enough milk as I was struggling to keep up with what Nakita needed, so she organised Motilium for me which she had mentioned earlier but I must not have heard her properly!! The after she left Nakita's paediatrician came in and said we could go home.... NO!!!!! I cracked it again!!
But it was the best for me, my MW came back that night to check on me, she and my OB were worried and had caught up during the day, but I was much better that night! The first time I left the hospital and went home for 1/2 hour without Nakita was terrible I just wandered our house aimlessly collecting random items with tears pouring down my face - poor DH didn't know what to do as I didn't want help!
We get there in the end and it is worth it all!
So I started typing this post early evening Wednesday, now finishing it early morning Thursday, had 3 hours sleep so far, will see what I get after this feed!! Last night was a shocker, I don't think I really slept after her early morning feed, and Nakita wouldn't go down, became over tired would eat properly, at lunch I topped her up with EBM to fill her belly, then she actually went back to her normal feeding pattern, I think she was too exhausted to feed properly earlier. so that when I put her down she will sleep!
I am expressing what is left in my big boob as it is sore and it seems to have a better supply than the right and has been getting sore and lumpy - I think I have a blocked milk duct and if I leave it to the next feed it is gonna hurt like crazy!!
Now that I have finished this post Nakita's Due date is today, so her corrected age will be one day!!
Happy due date Nakita!!! Vic, you are doing so well with the expressing. I did think about expressing but with a toddler running around, thought it may have been biting off more than I could chew!!!! You'll have to post a pic of her in her first cloth!!! I don't have any pea pods, am getting success with fitted and covers at the moment for her, which I am most pleased about.
No tears here, but lots of yelling at my DH because we are both so tired!!! Luckily we have the kind of relationship where we can tell each other to "get f'd" and ten minutes later everything is all good again.
Leasha - hello!! Jazz is gorgeous. I suspected that we would be in the same buddies thread!!! Gotta love those velcro babies!!!!!
MM - Its cold here in the early hours.. I don't mind chores being completed at 3am...hehe
Well little miss still doesn't want to sleep after her 2.30am feed.... DH took her into the hallway last night away from the little light in the bedroom and she fell asleep pretty quickly, so thinking about taking my bubba moe into the bedroom, whack her in that and maybe she will take a little less than 1.5 hours to get back to sleep. DS has been waking at 6am too, so we are getting a little tired!!!!
Going to show her off at work today, so that should be fun. Also going shopping for a new lounge cos ours is really bad and not helping my pelvis!!!!
Which reminds me, better have breakfast and my daily dose of codeine!!!
Morning! Yay for Nakita's EDD finally arriving I can't imagine how much more emotional I'd have been in your shoes Vic, especially leaving her would have been heart breaking.
Had a great night last night so hopefully I won't get too grumpy with DH today like the last 2 days (glad I'm not the only one Mel!!!)
Eli seems to want to feed for 2 hours from 10pm - 12pm which is a bit exhausting, I think my midwife said they like to stock up then for later when they will sleep through the night. I fed him 3 times in the night but since we are co-sleeping, I barely woke up for two of the feeds, yay!
Leasha, how's your co-sleeping going? What positions do you lie in? I have been having him lying on top of me, stomach to stomach with his head on the side when I go to sleep but in the night have him lying in the middle of the bed facing me.
MM - I hear you on the dishes piling up!! I'm going to try and get a few things done today but two days ago I made the bed and picked up something and pulled something in my back like a pinched nerve feeling. OUch!
Hi Katti, nice to meet you! So glad Shane is doing well.
If I sent my 7yo your way, I reckon he'd think he was on holidays!! The weather would be too nice for him to think about doing chores! (I think the cold weather keeps him motivated and thus warm!!) 
very happy for my chubba bubba lol
) for some reason... shes clean, fed and burped! Just being a little velcro baby probably 
Back later 
that when I put her down she will sleep!
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