Babies Born August 2007 #3

[mistyeiz]

Wow!! I havent been in here for ages but am so glad to see you ladies doing fine albeit some hiccups here n there. To be totally honest, I havent finished reading all your posts so no personals for now. Just an update on Ella....

I've been waiting for Ella to sleep for 8 straight hours but when she hits the 6 hour marks I start getting fidgetty! Lol....but the minute that happens, she wakes up. I have this fear that if I let her sleep on longer than 6 hours, she might get a tummy ache coz there's just so much BM that she takes in at every feed. I'm glad that I dont have many issues with her sleeping patterns. Seems like she fell into her own routine....she feeds quite fast though - we're done feeding on both sides and a nappy change in 30mins to 45min max. Is that normal?? Sometimes I feel that her fast feeds may be the cause she cant sleep longer during the day BUT I'm not complaining coz she has at least one long sleep that so far that's the 8pm to 2am or 3am stretch so I get enough sleep per se.

But the bit I'm struggling a little is that once she wakes up for that say 2am feed then she wakes up again at 5am for the next feed and after abt 1 hr she wakes up n cries....thing is she takes only 1 side during that 5am feed and she's out like a light at the boob and even changing her nappy doesnt wake her up. So after an hour or so, she up and I give her the other side...but once that happens the whole routine is shaken up. Meaning to say that after the 5am feed, then it's down for 1.5hrs then feed again then down again for maybe 1hour then I keep her up for awhile since she doesnt whine or anything like that and only after that does she return to her 3hourly feeds.

Anyone experiencing this? As for the dribble...nothing too bad at the moment but I'm keeping the bibs at hand. And for the vaccinations, poor thing got her jabs at about 6 weeks and omg, she was a champion!!! She took the meds given by the doc [I forget what it was but it was in liquid form and doc squirted it into her mouth and she swallowed all of it] then one jab on the left thigh which she screamed....and immediately the second jab on the right leg which she screamed even louder. She turned so red and eyes watered that I nearly cried myself!!!! (((( DH couldn't even look, he had his eyes closed all the time - literally. After that, we gave her lots of cuddles but the day was hard. She was cranky n all but a bit of baby panadol helped settle her. I was so afraid of holding her wrongly coz I knew she was sore so bf that day was really tough but she's doing very good and doc said she dealt with it really well so I'm very proud of her.

I think I've just written a novel!!!!

[kungfubecca]

Hi all,

early huh? I wasn't allowed to sleep in this morning.

Misty, Glad to hear your still around, and that ella is doing well. feeding in just 30 mins is perfectly normal. the older bubs gets, the more efficient they get, and some older bubs manage to get down to 15 mins. but they all have their own pace.

Xavier is now up to 9 hour sleeps at night, so don't stress too much if ella decides she wants to sleep longer, it's fantastic. I now put Xave to bed about 8ish, and check on him before I go to bed and sleep soundly until around 5 - 5.30 when he wakes me up. once or twice he has slept past and I have woken up, checked on him only to then have to sneak out of his room so i don't accidentally wake him. After that feed sometimes he will sleep for a few more hours, and like today, sometimes not. Apart from that we don't get a huge amount of sleep during the day, and the later the day progresses the closer together the feeds become, and sometimes too close together.