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Shellybean: Sienna had the gunky eye, very common in newborns, persevere with the EBM it will clear up, Siennas took about 2 weeks. I hope she has settled now so that you can get some sleep!
Thinking of you Hun
Mizqtie: your boys look identical :)
MrsBexie: So glad you made it to Brissy safe n sound. Hope Charlottes feeding has settled so you can have a good night.
Did you get one of those green tea thingys? I'm yet to try one :)
wow i think Kaidyn gets little bits of like white stuff in the corner of his eyes i thought it was just sleep but maybe he has blocked tear ducts too
The blocked tear duct Sienna had was yellow and goopy.
i cant remember with DS1, but when Sienna crys does she have tear's??
i think they look identical too, just the older boy has abit chubbier face!
No she doesn't have tears yet, her eyes get watery at times but no actual tears yet, I wonder when they have tears.
It's amazing how alike they look :) so cute!
My sisters boys were the same but now look nothing alike.
phew see even though i have a 3yr old, its still easy to forget what they are like/what happens when they are babies!
Wow, it'll be interesting if these two grow up and look alike!
Babyluv/Csab: hope you guys are feeling better today!
Mizqtie: your boys are gorgeous, they look so alike! My Georgia has tears already, i didnt think they were supposed to have them straight away?
Shelly: Georgia gets a greeny yellow gunky eye after a sleep, i didnt even think of blocked tear duct, but if her tear duct was blocked would that mean she wouldnt get tears from that eye? Coz she does, bah so much of this baby stuff just makes me confused! I've just been wiping it with a cotton ball or tissue with some EBM (if i can get some out!) on it. Hope Xani is just having a grumpy few days or a growth spurt and it doesnt last too long :hug:
Bex: glad your drive to brissie went smoothly, sounds like Charlotte is great in the car! Havnt had a chance to look at your pics yet but looking forward to seeing them! I think i must be the only one not getting a newborn photo shoot :shakehead: but i'm planning on getting one at 2-3 months old when she's smiling and showing more personality.
Caixin: Lol to Claire just wanting someone to talk to her, sounds like she's very alert and showing great development! Are you dying to get out of the house yet? I think i may go mad if i couldnt get out and about and do stuff!
Kirsten: aw sounds like you had a nice break with your walk :) i braved my first walk around the block yesterday (was nice to have 5 mins to myself!) but came back pretty sore :( how did you feel after your walk? No hurty undercarraige?
Kaylee: Hope your healing well, and good luck for your photo shoot!
I must say, fenugreek is a funny funny word!! Love it! As for us, Georgia eats and eats and eats and sleeps and looks around and eats... oh and does lots of number 3's... lol. I'm having trouble getting her to take EBM from the bottle tho, she had 2 bottles last week and loved them, now today and yesterday i've had to tip them out coz she just wont have a bar of it! Might try get some different bottles with slower flowing teats and different shapes and sizes to see how she goes, i really want her to take a bottle from DH. Gonna go along to a nurserytime thing at our local library on monday morning for newborn-2yr olds, looking forward to that coz ive heard it's really good and i'll be able to meet other mums in the area, and i'll already know someone there so i wont be all on my own (dh will be sleeping from nightshift). Exciting, scary and confusing times!
little-Mrs- im not getting newborn shoots either, i did with my first son and look back now and wish i had waited till he was around 6 months so that way he could smile and sit on his own!
This time im going to wait till around 6 months so i can get some good photos of kaidyn and zak together :)
Little Mrs: I got a newborn shoot done because I wanted to get the photos when she is squishy and small, my sister will do another on at around 6mths old when we go to Perth for my cousins wedding.. and I wn't have to pay her! LOL.
I can't walk yet... my undercarriage is still aching heaps but not stinging anymore... and my left hip/bum is stuffed so I am limping like crazy and it hurts soo bad to walk! Definitely not going to make it worse! Yay to the nursery thingy! It'll be great to meet some other mums!!! C eats, sleeps, screams and sometimes has awake time.. but usually if she is awake she is screaming for boobies! LOL. So your having fennugreek? Is that to increase your supply? With bottles, I have heard the Avent newborn teats are the best... they are slow flow (one hole) and are most like the nipple... I wouldn't know personally because when I express I use a medicine syringe and put it on the inside of her cheek instead of using a bottle.
We went out for dinner tonight and gt amazing pizza! Charlotte slept the whole way through dinner so has had a pretty god day except the little tanty around 6-7pm. LOL.. hopefully she is going to be good overnight too!!!! She is in our bed tonight cause we are in a hotel and she usualy sleeps well with us.
Does anyone feel bad now for eating junk food?? Eating pizza tonight made me feel guilty because now I am not pg and trying to lose baby weight I feel like I shouldn't be eating pizza, choc, ice cream etc... Pretty much anything but salad /fruit/veg makes me feel guilty, no excuse now I am not pg. I really should be eating healthy stuff now and exercising if my stupid hip/leg would actually work!!! I don't fit ANY of my pre pg clothes... not even close to it!! And I am self concious of my belly... it's not even a pg belly anymore, just a little pot belly but I never had one before and it's annoying me now. Trying to not get to down on myself for my body but it's hard. And mum goes home tomorrow, DH goes back to work on monday and I am scared of being alone!!! What am I going to do without them?! What am I going to do all day?? What if C just screams all day?? I have no one to call or to come round... I am starting to freak now :(
Little_mrs: Sienna does lots of number 3's too hehe, they're really loud and she does heaps of loud farts too :)
We are using the tommee tippee close to nature bottles, the teat circumference is bigger to resemble a normal breast, give them a go, Sienna didn't like the smaller teats.
Nurserytime will be fun, enjoy :) Hope you meet some nice ppl.
We got the newborn shots because the lady who does them through the hospy takes great shots & is fairly priced. I also wanted photos of her nudey & sleepy which can only really be done before 2 weeks old.
MrsBexie: I feel really guilty everytime I eat something naughty.
I've cut out chocolate completely & dairy too in case they make Sienna's reflux or colic worse, so I'm hoping I lose some weight. I'm trying really hard not to eat junk but I had maccas yesterday :(
I'm a fatty pertatty!
My belly is jelly & do is everything else, I feel like it's going to take alot of work to get back into shape. I'm my friends bridesmaid in April & I want to look good for that, it's a strapless dress, right now my arms are gross, gosh I hope they slim down.
You're aloud to have a treat Hun.
You just had a baby so give yourself time! The BF will help to move the extra kilos.
You're gorgeous, just remember that.
I'm scared about Dave going back to work too, we still have 2 weeks though but I'm wondering what I'll do without him and its scary being at home all day on my own. You're a great mum, you'll be fine, and we are all here too if you need us :)
AFM: we went to the pub for dinner with my family tonight, got nearly all the way through dinner, fed the little chicken & then she started screaming from reflux so we had to go home. But it was a good night and we had A few hrs to just enjoy ourselves before she got upset.
I fed her again at 9:45, she cried and was unsettled for about an hr & then fell asleep. She just woke me now at 3:45, I can't believe it, that's 6hrs between feeds and she only had booby, no top up :) woohoo!!
I've been expressing after every feed to try & build my supply, let's hope it works. I haven't got the fenugreek yet, does anyone know if it makes you gain weight?
Bex: I'm not taking fenugreek, i just think it's a ridiculous word! I'm bigger than I was pre prey but I've found most days I can look in the mirror and think " I look damn good for someone that had a baby just 2 weeks ago!" I feel guilty eating junk too specially since I'm still not up for excersize but I don't have any of the sweet cravings I was having while pg. Helps too that Dave keeps telling me I look amazing and tapping me on the shoulder every night (yeah right, as if that's gonna happen lol) so I'm feeling pretty good about it all even with 15kg still to lose.
Babyluv: thats a fantastic sleep! And yay for not needing a ff topup before it, that's awesome news! Maybe the expressing is working for you, it worked for me too and now I can get 100ml out of 1 boob if G sleeps for a few hrs to let it build up a bit.
Mizqtie: aw pics of your boys together will be awesome!
G's just finished a feed and now were doing the waiting sleeping thing, she looks so cute all asleep with my boob as a pillow! Dh goes back to work tomorrow night so will be first time over 4 hrs on my own with G, I'm not so worried about the nights it's the day shifts I think I'll struggle, but I've gov til wed to figure that one out. Hope anyone else up at this hour feeding like me has a relaxed sleepy bub soon!
Little mrs: I was awake!! But I forgot my phone charger so was trying to preserve battery! Lol... I've got 12% left. And Charlotte is doing the asleep thing using my boob as her pillow. She is much more settled if I just leave her there instead of moving her back into bed. Fennugreek is a funny name hey?? Lol.
Babyluv: you're not a fatty and I know that from photos of you!!! Just like little mrs said, we should be proud considering we only just had babies! Easy to say, ridiculously hard to follow tho. I have to keep reminding myself, it took 9 months to put it on so I shouldn't expect it to come off in 13 days.... Sucks tho!
Yay for 6hrs!!!! That is awesome!!!!! Hopefully it keeps up!
babyluv - your not fat, you just had a baby give it time!
Ive never tried even heard of fenugreek till now i swear by that Aktavite from the supermarket its like $4.99 or something close to that for the tin and im tellin ya ive noticed a difference in milk supply
Mizqtie: I'm going to buy some activite today :) do you drink it hot or cold?
Mrs Bexie: You shouldn't beat urself about ur body just yet. It's only been less than 2 wks since u gave birth. You're right about the weight taking 9 months to put on so you've really got 9 months to try to lose it. I've still got 12 kg to lose but at the moment I'm just trying to focus on eating well and enough so I can make enough milk for bubs. I use a belly band for my tummy to try to help it get back to shape faster, it's something that a lot of Chinese women use.
Mizqtie: I think ur 2 boys look really alike! Would think they are the same baby if you didn't say so. Claire just started getting tears yesterday, before that she would cry but no tears.
Shellybean: Claire gets the gunky eye sometimes and I just keep up with washing it with EBM. Should be nothing to worry about unless the eye gets red or looks irritated. Hopefully the unsettledness is gone today. Can't wait to see the photos!
Babyluv: I don't know what I'll do without you guys too. It's just so nice to know that my baby is not the only one crying all night or I'm not the only one in tears coz I don't know what to do. Yay for 6 hours between feeds! You must be having more milk to keep her satisfied. :)
Little mrs: I was really keen to go out initially but now that I haven't gone to the shops for 3 weeks, I'm really scared abut going out for some reason. Might continue to be my hermit crab for a while. Nurserytime sounds great! I'll have to remember to try to give Claire the bottle again so she doesn't forget. We've got the Avent bottles but the MW at the lactation clinic recommended I try Tommee Tippee ones for newborns. I'm not getting newborn shots either, will prob get some done when she can sit up.
I worry about what happens when the gang leaves too. SO used to having my meals done for me, laundry washed and folded, and someone to take over crying bubs when I'm tired. I'm not sure when I'll be game enough to bring bubs out on my own either. Will be looking fwd to meeting other mums at mother's group though coz otherwise there won't be any grown up talk for me till DH gets back from work.
DH has come down with a cold so he's quarantined from Claire for now. Made him wear a mask around the house and sleep downstairs. Had a great sleep yesterday afternoon when I had Claire sleeping on my chest. Loved it, might have to do it more often. :)
you can drink it either way :) which ever you prefer:
Hey ladies,
Quick qs, Sienna hasn't done a poo since yest 6pm, I'm a little worried she may be constipated. What do you think? I've been cycling her legs, massaging her tummy & about to give her a warm bath to see if that help, any suggestions? She usually does lots of poos.
babyluv- Kaidyn hasnt poo'd since sometime last night either, ive been doing the same things im just going to wait a lil longer and see if he does anything