Hi girls! It's been ages since I've been able to get in here, but Jensen seems to be awake more during the day and demanding my attention. I do manage to read my emails, which has any new posts from this thread. So, Ive been reading up !
Jensen has put himself into a routine... He'll feed at 6ish (conveniently - dinner time and the time his daddy gets home from work), then again between 7:30 and 8:30 and he'll sleep thru til round 11:30-12. If I'm lucky he'll go back to sleep til 2 and be up 2hourly for a feed. But either at the 12 or 2 o'clock feed, he can wake up and just decide he's not going back to sleep for an hour or so (funnily enough - always longer, never less than an hour). That gets hard. I just want to sleep and he wants to be wide awake. (I'm so lucky that right now, he's asleep behind me in his swingamajig. Fingers crossed it'll stay that way til I'm finished in here)
We have been having a few problems tho. Jensen, for the past few nights, has been screaming uncontrollably for hours. It seems to start about 5-5:30. It can start out that he's hungry, but when i put him to the breast, he takes a few sucks and starts screaming into it. At first, I thought it could be that he wasn't hungry like I thought he was, or that that breast just wasn't good enough and he wanted the other. Nope, not there either. God forbid - breast refusal. Quick nappy change - coz he hates nappy change time, or any time his body is exposed to the air - and that doesn't help. He's not too hot or cold. He wants cuddles. But still, thats not enough. It's exhausting for all of us. It gets to me that I can't comfort him, I just dont' know what it is. Eventually he settles down.
Sometimes, he's just over-tired/over-stimulated or over-hungry.
He hates the bath with a passion - even more so than being undressed or nappy-changed.
Another thing is, he's taken to favouring the right breast. I have to feed out of that one til the left one is massive and then, maybe, he'll take it. I'm going to have to start expressing that one - I don't want any problems.
He also doesn't like being on his back. Sometimes all he wants is to be sitting or standing up looking about at the world. He'll cry incessantly til you change him to that position. Doesn't help if your out and about.
He sometimes fights sleep. You can see the lil eyes blink really slowly. We have a snuggli (a baby pouch)and the other day he wouldn't settle either by walking round with him or cuddling which normally send him to the land of nod, I stuck him in that and *snap!* he was out. Go figure.
On the bright side tho, he's started feeding -at times - for longer! Previously, it's only been 5mins, but we're getting up to 10 now! Can't be too bad for him - yesterday (3wks 4d) he was 4.82kg and I have 1kg to be back at my pre-Jensen weight - tho you can't tell by looking at my mummytummy!
Jensen also has v. strong legs and neck - he's had since birth - and hold his head up best he can when he can. Doesn't much care for tummy time, but we'll work on that. He's started coo-ing and even smiling - tho the smiles could just be co-incidences.
(omg this is long!) Just before I hit submit, on the subject on AF. I don't have mine back yet, and not looking forward to her appearance, but I hear the first one back is worse than the norm. My loss seemed to end at about a week and a half, with just now what seems to be blood from my stitches. I was told they take the full 6wks to heal. Great.
Sorry, I seemed to have harped on about my problems... I wont be so long between posts now, and will have less negative things to say!
Last edited by sconeonamission; September 13th, 2007 at 06:14 PM.
: I forgot something!
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