Babyluv ive been wondering if im going to get AF back and if thats why i have it, TMI but i went to the toilet last night before bed and OMG i had like a 50cent piece worth maybe even more it is CRAZY!
Congrats on getting RAK'd so did i, it is exciting something i was never exspecting thats for sure!
Mrs Bexie- i just realised your from toowoomba, its quite a small town isnt it?? do you know a chick named Lauren Guymer????
i went and seen my pharmacist and she said the mucus could just be a post partum thing my body is doing OR i could be pregnant again AAAARRGGGHHH i hope not lol but if its meant to be then its meant to be!
On the note of screaming babies, K just screams all the time too basically i have found "infants friend" to be fantastic with K it helps settle him but sometimes he has his off days
Renee DO NOT think you are a bad mother, it doesnt matter how many children you have hunni you will always find new things that you just dont know about but you learn to deal with things the best way you can and you are doing a wonderful job with your daughter....We arent given handbooks/textbooks on how to raise children
Please just stay calm and strong and YOU WILL GET THROUGH THIS I PROMISE!!!
On the milk supply the midwifes are right, if you go through a terrible trauma birth it can delay your milk (i thought it wouldnt have delayed this long but maybe it can) all i can say is keep trying and maybe do the FF just to give yourself a break from all the crying/screaming
Renee: don't feel bad, like I said to others no-one can look around at the people they know and tell the difference between who was BF and who was ff, coz most often there isn't any difference! Were actually giving Georgia a bottle of formula every few nights to let me relax and recoup and to make sure she will drink it when I can't or don't want to BF anymore. I know too many bubs who've been only BF for months and then when they start teething they wont take formula or a bottle and the poor mum is stuck never being able to go out or with a bub with teeth chewing on her nipple! Not my idea of fun, so I personally (although don't get me wrong, I still BF while I can) think formula is by no means a bad thing! Chin up girl, hope things get better for you, the happier and more relaxed you are the happier Ava will be.
Will catch up on everyone elses persies later, sorry, I have read everything tho! To those who are sad or struggling I hope it's just a short hormonal phase that buggers off real soon, if I wasn't so far away I'd buy you all a drumstick and make you all watch robin Williams stand up comedy so you feel better xx
Bex, yup I'm seriously over taking it TBH. I feel like I've been living on the stuff for forever and I'm well over being semi constipated all the time now that prunes don't seem to be cutting it. Yeah still tired, not as dizzy as I was but still having at least 1 spell a day where I almost pass out. As for Miss X's attachment issues, she does suck and is doing well she just won't always open her mouth wide enough and I end up with lipstick shape nipples that are sometimes quite painful!
Renee, aww darling You are so not a bad Mother!! HAve they tried drugs to stimulate your milk production?? Maxlon is sometimes useful for boosting supply, I'm not sure if it works to get milk to come in though. Don't feel bad if you have to formula feed though hun, there is far too much pressure on women to breastfeed and not enough support for those who can't.
Kirsten, more hope you're feeling better.
Babyluv, results will hopefully be back Monday afternoon. Yeah still dizzy unfortunately it's pretty crappy especially since I shouldn't have been sent home from hospital without a substantial increase but they were desperate for the bed Wow what an awesome walk, go you!!! Xani hates her capsule and her pram so any walking we do she has to be in hr carrier. Let us know how the Aldi nappies go I need to get some more for Xani since she's too big for our newborn huggies but we get leaks from her MCN's so I figure she's not quite big enough for them yet. Congrats on your RAK!!
Mizqtie, wowsa preggers again already?! There's no way I could deal with that lol. Yay to getting RAK'd!
little_mrs, thanks for the virtual drumstick & Robin Williams stand up Hope miss Georgia is well
Well we were at the end of our tether so went and bought a "wrap me up Swaddle" like MrsBexie mentioned and we actually have sleep and she's stayed sleeping for more than 30mins! FX it's not just a fluke!!
Hi ladies, I've just had a roller coaster of a day! Had bleeding yesterday (4 wks post natal) that started mid arvo and thought hmm maybe AF is back?! But so unusual coz I'm BF exclusively and it didn't feel like a period. Then the bleeding got worse last night, was changing a full soaked maternity pad every 2 hrs. So I decided to call my hospital. The MW on duty wasn't sure if I would be having my period or whether it was haemorrhage but thought it was my period initially coz 4 wks post partum is a bit late for PPH. Luckily she spoke to someone else who said I should go in just to make sure. So bundled up bubs and myself, DH drove us to the hospital at 2am. Got checked and all my vitals were fine but they still wasn't sure coz I was having so much bleeding for a period so they kept me in for obs. Had an u/s in the morning and it turns out that I had some retained placental products that was causing the bleeding!
So in one hour I was off to the OT, put under general and had a D&C. The placenta was really stuck and I had a lot of bleeding during the op. My scar from the stitches also broke down so I got re-stitched again. Woke up worse for the wear, all sore in the undercarriage again and broke down crying once I saw bub for some reason and couldn't stop crying. Luckily my Hb levels were fine and was able to get discharged that same night. Been sleeping most of the night and MIL has been looking after bubs for me, bringing her up when she needed to be BF. Thank god for my MIL still being here, don't know how I would manage being woozy from the GA and taking care of bub. So now I'm back to square one with my tear healing and on ABs but I'm glad it's all sorted and hopefully it doesn't affect my BF.
Hope you ladies have had a better day than me.
Oh my Gosh Caixin that's terrible, I hope you're feeling better this morning!
Glad you've got some help!
Hope you get plenty
Of rest & that you heal quickly hun xox
Aww caixin!!!! God I hope youre ok! Will be praying for you and soo glad your fam are still here to look After you!! Boo to re-stitching the tear! that must hurt!!
Xx
Caixin thats terrible honey, i hope you recover quickly! I can realte to coming out of GA and trying to look after bubs it is not nice. Thats great your MIL is still here and can help out.
Oh Caixin: that's horrible, so sorry that had to happen to you. How awful. Sounds like it's good that some of the gang are still there to care for you and Claire. hope you heal quickly. How annoying to have to be restitched in the undercarriage!
Thanks ladies for all the kind words, really needed them. I had already forgotten how sore my undercarriage was after the birth now it's all coming back to be. So uncomfortable to even be sitting down and I'm scared of doing my number 2s again Been having cramps on my little thighs, not sure if it's from the GA or from the stirrups that they put me in. At least the bleeding has eased off.
Renee: It's certainly so hard to try to look after bub after a GA. I just feel that I want to do it so much but don't have the energy to do it and keep dozing off to sleep.
For those with cracked nipples (esp Kirsten, yours sound terrible!), do try Multi mum compresses. I got given some samples at lactation clinic and they worked so well! My nipples have now healed and are not sore anymore. I think you can get from just from a chemist. They feel so good too on sore nipples and it's safe for bubs to nurse too.
We got some ALdi nappies and I think they work really well. The newborn ones are bigger than the Huggies newborn ones. They are not as absorbant for overnight use as Huggies but still work pretty well.
Claire's going to have to start on Vit D supplements coz I was Vit D deficient pre-preg. They come in pineapple flavours, not sure if she will like it. :P Hope all the crying babies are giving everyone a break here and there.
I don't know if anyone cares or wants to look but I posted a photo of my post baby belly in my pregnancy album on FB but didn't publish it so you have to go look for it.
I am curious to see other post baby bellies!! There is this website theshapeofamother.com that I was looking at, it's been posted on here a while ago. But I sent in my story and some photos so can't wait for that to be added. I love the idea of the website!!! Has anyone else ever seen it?
Last edited by MrsBexie; January 23rd, 2011 at 04:56 PM.
MrsBexie: I've seen that site before, it's great! Your belly looks fantastic, mine is similar but I have a bit more pudding than you hehe! I've got the hip stretchies & stretchies on my lower tummy. You look great!!!
I've got HEAPS of bum stretchies and round the back of my hips, my thighs luckily escaped stretchies but I have plenty of cellulite!!! I am doing plank for 30secs in the morning n night cause not allowed to do sit ups yet. LOL...
My legs are covered in cellulite now I used to wear denim shorts before I got Preg and I think I'll forever be in knee length skirts now. I think that's the biggest change in my body is cellulite and it goes to my knees, I hate it!
I have stretchies on my boobs as well.
I think I might start doing the plank! I walked 7ks this morning, I want to walk every day & need to do lots of squats, not sure if they will help I've been told you can't get rid of cellulite!
The site is great
Oh god my boobies are covered in stretchies!! HAHA.. that's what you get when you go from a 10A to a 12DD-E!!! stretchies are all over my boobs, and they are in the itchy stage!! yuck.
Hear ya on the cellulite! I am wearing shorts but I have it on the front of my thighs. Been doing squats too! I wish I could walk! Might start this week anyways, it's still painful with my hip but at least I am not limping anymore!
7kms is AWESOME!!! Good job sweets!! And you can get rid of cellulite!!! Drink lots of water and do stuff like the walking and squats and slowly it will go!
Caixin all that trauma sounds horrible! I couldn't imagine going back to square one with the undercarriage, really feel for you. Glad you still have helping hands at home.
Bex, Babyluv: I've been easing back into the fitness to, especially now that the kgs have stopped falling off by themselves I have to start working them off or it'll come back on! Started out with 20 reps at 10kg twice a day, now I'm up to 75 reps twice a day and one lap of the block and bridge at night. I've always had to work hard to keep weight off so that even with BF is only just enough to keep stable but not actually lose any extra! My stretches are actually not bad and only on the front of my lower belly, but I've been using bio oil at least once daily (even still now) since 12 weeks pg.
Had more to say but g wants my attention again... Hope all mums and bubs (and dads!) are doing well x
Wow little_mrs that's alot of reps well done
I'm not sure how much I weigh, I was a size 8, my pre Preg jeans now go up but I can't button them up yet. I think I've got maybe 5-10kgs to lose. I need to start doing more. All I've done is walking, no exercises yet. Tomorrow will be the day I'm a bridesmaid in April & I don't want to be the fatty out of the three! My arms even have cellulite, it's on the front of my legs too Bex & it's really bad
I used bio oil & coconut oil every day, twice a day too from when I found out I was Preg but I think it's in the genes for me, mum n sis have them bad!
I was a size 8 too.. I have lost half of the pg weight, so like 8kgs, only 9 more to go!! I want to get down to 60kgs for me which is a size 10.
My actual pre-pg weight is less than that but I only counted from 60kgs because that is where I normally sit if I actually eat.. lol. so I will be happy with that (if it is possible to be happy with your body, I am yet to experience this....)
Obesity runs in my family genes... everyone apart from me and one set of cousins, are over size 16 but most are approx size 20 or above... on both sides of my family. YAY. Not, I have to work my arse off to stay thin.
Wow what an awesome walk, go you!!! Xani hates her capsule and her pram so any walking we do she has to be in hr carrier. Let us know how the Aldi nappies go I need to get some more for Xani since she's too big for our newborn huggies but we get leaks from her MCN's so I figure she's not quite big enough for them yet. Congrats on your RAK!!
Hope miss Georgia is well 
that must hurt!!
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