Kirst - Thats cool that you are going back to uni too! I hear you on the ME time! That's mainly why i want to go back. And for something to fall back on when the girls are in school.
We will have to support each other if i decided to go ahead with it. It will be good to have someone in the same boat as i. Are you planning on doing midwifery or just nursing??? Your right re: age and sleeping. I'm sure Bailey will do the same when you reach 5-6 weeks. Fingers crossed anyways!
Bec - You can buy the gripe water for the supermarket. The Infants Friend i am not sure about. Probably have to pick that one up at the chemist. Looks as though your little man has def put himself in a routine. After lastnight i think we are almost there too!
Alison - We are'nt having any issues here with Briley being jelous or sooky when i hold Colby. She is a month or so younger than Sarah though. That might make a difference. I have noticed though that when she gets into trouble she takes it out on Colby. Not all the time but. She does things like pulls the blanket off her or smacks her head or something like that. Lastnight she tried to pull Colby clean out of the rocker! Briley is still a little young to understand how fragile Colby is i think.
Misty - I find that when Colby feeds more often the next couple of days i tend to make heaps more milk. So i think that if you completely empty your boobs your body will think that bubs needs more and you will end up making more milk. Have you spoken to a lactaction consultant about this?? You have been having over-production all along have'nt you?? I would speak to a LC if it gets too stressful and painful. Like Alison said, i would be just expressing enough to make yourself comfortable. Good luck! Oh and we are sleeping up 7 hours a night and i don't have any problems with my milk either. I think your just a milk machine!!!
Well we had another lovely nights sleep here. Colby slept from 9pm till 4.15am again. That must be our routine i think. Then Briley woke up at 5.00am and decided she wanted to stay awake!! So i put her in our bed as i usually do but she kept crying here and there. When she did Colby would stir straight away!! I kept just shoving the dummy back in Briley's mouth trying to keep her quiet so she would'nt wake Colby! Lovely are'nt i!
Not much planned for the day. Might go into town later when Brent gets home. Its easier to drag him along. Not that he likes it one bit!!!
Rhinanon - Great to hear from you hun. Good to see that Jensen has put himself into a routine this early. Don't be shocked if it changes though!
What your describing abour Jensen's crying habits sounds like evening colic. Briley used to have the same thing. She would start at about the same time and scream unconsolably till about 9pm. You might like to try some sort of relief for him. I just used Gripe Water added to Briley's bottles and that seemed to help. Their is also other things like Infants Friend which Kirst has said is good.
I hope something helps for him soon.
Well i better go and try and get my little girl ready for bed. She is calling out for mummy for some dinner now.
Sara I think we're working on a spurt too, either that or he was just really unsettled today. Xavier wanted to eat hourly, yes hourly!! although it was quite warm here today also, so that may have had something to do with it. Although even when he has crazy days at night when he goes down anytime from 6pm onwards he goes for the manditory 5 hours and then we are back to max 3 hours and once 7 am has arrived we get down to 2 hours. I think he worked out his days and nights, I just wish he knew nights went for at least 8 hours.
RE the midwifery, I think you sound like you have given it a lot of thought. Just go with your gut. You may be able to defer for another year, you might get special consideration being a country girl, 'cause your pretty much a gurantee to stick around in a rural area iykwim. But you could do the dola bit and return to mw in a few years???
Krist it sounds like you guys are becoming quite a well oiled machine. I hope everything continues to go so well for you.
Rhiannon, Jensen sounds like he is doing similar things to what xavier was doing a few weeks ago. I think if you hang in there his sleeps will graduly increase in length. We too had a really screamy baby the other night, I could do nothing for him, he actually tried to keep eating, but chucked (little piggy wasn't even hungry) the only thing I had left was that he was tired, so I had to just put him to bed with a dummy, and a few sooks later he was asleep. We got 7 hours that night, poor little thing was really tired.
RE the infants friend and gripe water etc. do you just go and ask at a chemist for them?? I wouldn't mind having some on hand as there are some times of the day Xavier just doesn't want to burp.
Thanks
I understand the wind issue, I burp Emma 1/2 way between each bb and when i swap bbs and after the feed. she burps @ least 4 times per feed. if i don't do this i also get an arsenic hour or four. Infant's friend is good for almost anything. I hve used it on sarah 4 constipation. U may also find th@ burping regularly during the feed means less vomits as putting more milk on top of the wind just forces the milk up with it iykwim.
Emma is over bw and we are trimming a bit off the nipple shields every day, soon they will b nonexistant. Sarah is also getting more upset @ me 4 feeding emma n not cuddling her. do u have the same problem sara? I'm just glad i'm not my Nanna. she had 5 under 2 @ 1 point. (2 sets of twins 11 mnths apart n the oldest single 16 mnths older than 1st set!)
Must go 2 bed now, hope I get sum sleep n wen Emma wants food she doesnt muck around 4 45 minutes! Night all!
hhmm.....i've just finished my feed with ella. i personally dont think it's totally drained so i should pump it all out? i'm just afraid that if i drain it all, my body might think that ella wants more n hence, the extra milk which means MORE engorging....? or am i just paranoid??? :P
From personal experiene with both girls, expressing till u r empty will jst make more, expressing till u r comfortable will not. all my mw's agreed with this. I will go check in the platinum section with Barb tho. brb
I am too paranoid to have xavier in bed with us, but sometimes have him sleep on hubby's side (when he's left for work) so i can get a few more minutes shut eye in the morning. I have fed while lying down, and if you get in the right position it can be good. Good for your nipples too, to change positions
Sometimes I have felt a little engorged after he has had a long sleep, and often I start leaking too. It is, you will be happy to know becoming less and less though, 'cause yay we are at 6 weeks today. What I did was "favor" to a certain extent the engorged one. like every second time if that makes sense, but not for ever, just to help settle it down. I've also expressed just enough to get rid of that tight feeling eg 20ml. And massage is sometimes helpful, or just letting them drip on a towel sounds grose I know but can just give you that little relief.
If you do finish a feed and you don't think it's totally drained, make sure you start on that side next time and your body will start working it out.
Happy six weeks old to colby sara. and was there some one else born on the 3rd, I can't remember
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Oh and i forgot to add in my previous post that i sometimes lie and feed Colby in bed. Sometimes its the only was i can settle her. Works a treat for us!
Bec - So they are 6 weeks today??? I was trying to work it out on the calandar today. Why do the tickers say a different thing i wonder? Oh and
HAPPY 6 WEEKS XAVIER!!!
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Re expressing, I emptied myself on the advice from my doc, and that worked for me.
Sara - MSN, did you add me? I haven't received the notification that someone had added me. Feel free to add me if you want though (and anyone else) The address I use is kirsten_deforest@hotmail.com
Hi All. Like Ali, I've been in Apr06 thread & lately in Aug07 thread. Although dont get much time on net lately.
Lanah Merilee was born on 14Aug07 at 2:12pm (as in siggie).
Ok looks like others have already suggested some of my responses, I started reading thread from beginning & typing responses as I go. Oh well, hehe.
Neuri, have u tried putting a little breast milk in the sticky eye? MW & CHN said it does wonders for eye problems & for ur nipples.
I bought a Medela Mini Electric Double breast pump from ebay, got it for a bargain, paid $80 ish, it had cost the seller $260 new + cost of accessories.
Hehe funny on the hipsters.
For stuffy noses we bought Fess Lil Noses from a chemist, it has saline drops to loosen the mucus & a short time later u suck it out with the little snott sucker.
For wind with Holly, I'd burp her twice per boob & even try putting her over my shoulder or over my arm, we ended up buying Infants Friend wind drops from the chemist, only needed it for a few wks.
Sehra, I found between 2-3wks old that Lanah need a 50ml top up of formula at night coz i just didnt seem to have enuf for her. I persisted with the freq BF & with hot showers on my BB's & back to stimulate more supply. I dont need the extra formula now. To prevent mastitis I use the trick the MW tought us at hossie, massaging the sore lumps (blocked ducts) in ur BB's whilst either in shower or whilst feeding bub, they break up while ur doing it & it prevents it becoming mastitis. Oh & also make sure u empty the boob like Ali said. From my understanding, mastitis is caused by blocked ducts & the milk sitting in the BB for too long then becomes infected. MW said the best thing to do with mastitis is to feed regularly, easier said than done though I would think. With bottle feeding whilst BF, I only use the pigeon peristaltic nipples as they act like a mother's nipple.
Self-Settling, I used the controlled crying method with Holly & it worked fine with us, she started to sleep through just b4 4wks old & still does. Use ur judgement on the sound of the cries like the others have said, but the CHN said leave bub for up to 20mins, u should hear crying & break from crying & the crying will get shorter as the breaks get longer, it is a process they go through. I'm doing it with Lanah now too & she has already started to sleep through occasionally.
Erkk Rhiannon, hope the chucking has stopped. Holly & Lanah slept in a cot from day 1 in their own room. Holly moved to a big bed at about 14mths old b4 Lanah arrived.
As for favouring sides, have u tried moving things around to encourage him to look to the other side, eg: if theres an interesting painting on the favoured side of the room, move it to the opposite side. Also the tummy time helps to keep a rounded head.
When Lanah (Holly did same) seems to want to feed, getting frustrated opening her mouth & shaking her head but wont take either boob, I find I sit her up for several minutes & burp her some more & out comes a burp, then she happily goes back to feeding.
Wow at only having 1kg to go for ur pre-preg weight, I'm envious. It took me 7mths to loose 18/20kg from Holly (then fell preggas) & 4wks to loose 9/17kg from Lanah.
Ooh, good pick up Sara, hope that uve found the problem, except for u loving potato. As for AF, with Holly, I had postnatal bleeding up to 7wks & AF started at 8wks. With Lanah, postnatal bleeding slowed right down & changed colour at 2wks but then became heavier & red again, but seems to have stopped now at 4wks. It's not unheard of to get AF whilst BF. I BF Holly for 6mths & am planning the same for Lanah.
Ali, I find Holly gets sooky about once per day at me getting Lanah up for a feed, but about 15mins later she's off playing.
hey shell, just looked @ ur siggie - Lanah n Emma look very much the same! Wot do u do wen Holly sooks? I just let Sarah have her tanty then give her a cuddle wen she has calmed down.
Sarah has a viral infection n we have 2 keep her away from Emma 4 3-4 days. Thankfully DH doesn't have 2 work this weekend.
Mite have 2 put infant's friend into Emma b4 her feeds, as we r still having sum probs with wind. she only cries the wind cry (priscilla dunstan) so it get's annoying wen I'm trying 2 feed her n she is constantly arching. Speaking of which, gtg burp her more.
Briley is still a little young to understand how fragile Colby is i think.
sounds grose I know but can just give you that little relief. 
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