Babies born December 1st-15th 2010 #1

[crumpet]

Crumpet - I hear you on the time! By the time we BF, then express & FF top-up, there's an hour passed, then a half hour for cleaning & sterilising, that then leaves us about an hour and a half to do everthing else before the next feed. And that's not even including the time for supervised tummy time & chest bonding time and I just want to have a bath!!!!!! BUT! I did have a shower & wash my hair today!!!

oh god i dunno how id get anything done with all of that!!
the longest Summah takes to feed is about 45 mins and then i do a bottle rinse and im a good to get going on whatever else needs doing...
it feels like such a acheivement to wash your hair atm doesnt it!
pity mine takes a hour and a half to wash, dry and straighten it! such a waste of precious time!

They are very time consuming, aren't they? Still easier than almost-3-year-olds though

Saw our child health nurse today. DD is now 250g above birth weight and almost at DS' birth weight (he was 4290g) (up 280g in 6 days). So despite the squashed nipples (which don't really hurt now, so strange) she's getting heaps of milk. Mind you, she hasn't pooed for a coupel of days so half that weight could be accounted for by the coming squelcher. ew.
But anyway, she's a roly poly. Maybe this time I'll have a fat baby

oh god im dreading her being that age already!!

nice weight gain!! dont worry hun i think im going to have a porker as well, ill post below about Summah's weigh in.....

Welcome Crumpet! Summah is a cutie, well done

In the hospital they said not to change at night but I really hate the idea of leaving her in a poopy nappy. Apparently I hated being dirty as a bub, perhaps the start of my OCD!!!!!

thanks!!

we used to change her bum every feed no matter what, then our MCHN said to only change her at night if she has poo'd and leave her if its wet, seems to work well. i dont think id leave her with a poopie bum, id hate it so i can only imagine a bub hating it too.

IT'S WORKING IT'S WORKING IT'S WORKING!Not sure if it's a placebo effect or what, but I definately have more milk today

for more milk!

Crumpet – Definately much to learn!! Smiles are the best!! I’m getting a few each day now, very random..but it all started when he was beginning to really listen when I spoke/sung to him and he’s getting a lot easier to distract. Hope Summah starts smiling for you soon look forward to hearing all about it when she does! Definately agree with you about how fast time goes..

well we got our first smile yesterday morning!!!!
i got her up and dressed and then was talking to her getting her bottle and she grinned!!! loved it!!!

DH is shattered he hasnt seen it!

Jules/crumpet - Totally agree with time, the older you get the quicker it goes. I'm 39 this year, I still feel like I'm 30 just a few more wrinkles and some extra flab around the belly and bum. I can't believe my eldest is 15 this year now that has gone by so fast.

its true when they say time flies from when ur 18, i cant believe im 26, feels like yesterday i was 21!!


AFU: so yesterday we got Summahs first smile!!! was so excited!!! poor Dh missed it coz he was at work so he talks to her 24/7 when she is awake trying to get her to do it for him! poor kid, anyone would think she was a circus act the way he wants her to perform on cue!!

we also had her check up with the MCHN.
so in a week she has gained 350g! apparently they are happy with 180g so she out did herself there!!
and in the 3 weeks since she was born she has grown 5cm in length- which explains why her 0000 long sleeved and jumpsuits dont fit length wise anymore! pity 000 are still a bit big!!

and all her developmental stuff is right on track so the nurse was very happy with her wich = a very happy mummy and daddy!!

is anyone else formula feeding??
great topic but how often is ur FF bub pooping??

im just wanting to see if Summahs the same as other FF bubs.
usually its once a day, she did a massive one yesterday morning but we havnt had anything since?

[onthefly]

What a chubba!
I'm not sure, I think it can vary a fair bit but once a day is probably normal.

[crumpet]

yeah i rekon!! she is going to be massive the rate she is going!!!

ok cool.... might do some googling on the subject, who would have thought id be googling pooh?!?!

dam she is awake! there goes my puter time!

[cathie5]

Hi
crumpet I'm FF, Charlie poops once a day.

Cathie

[Jules84]

Kaz – any luck with the breast pump? What a pain! Go Will with the weeing, you little beauty!

Myboys – how did you go getting Harper’s hand and feet impressions done? How precious.. Good luck with the birthday party preparation, I totally agree to having it at a play centre, time is precious enough at the moment!!

Crumpet - Great news on the weight gain!! AND THE SMILES!! Yay!! How exciting!! I hope your DH gets to see it soon. Shaun hasn’t seen Jacob’s smile yet either!! (not from lack of trying either I might add!! )

AFU – Well, got a phone call late yesterday that the health nurse got back into town (YAY!) went and saw her today – mum hung around cause she had been waiting for around for yesterday to come to the appointment I had in the first place.. (she’s leaving tomorrow now). Speaking of chubba bubba’s… in 17 days, my not so little Jacob has put on 1045 grams!!! He’s now 3985 grams. On the crappy side… we are still fighting oral thrush…I’m so upset, I just want it gone I want my little boy to be comfortable and I don’t want to have to use bicarb, gel etc on my breasts and have four times a day of having to syringe drops into his mouth…surely we’re going to catch a break soon! It’s just so painful to feed right now!

Hope everyone is doing well today and has a great night tonight xoxo

[Kazbah]

I found a pump! The ABA finally got back to me and I've picked up the pump! I even got a double kit so it should only take me 10 mins to pump, not 20!

crumpet - we're doing half/half BF/FF and he's pooing twice a day.

Jules - YAY on the weight gain!!!!!

congrats everyone on the smiles.
time for me to cook tea, cya

[onthefly]

Woah Jules! You are a milk MACHINE!

That's great Kaz

[crumpet]

Hi
crumpet I'm FF, Charlie poops once a day.

Cathie

ok cool thanks hun!

Crumpet - Great news on the weight gain!! AND THE SMILES!! Yay!! How exciting!! I hope your DH gets to see it soon. Shaun hasn’t seen Jacob’s smile yet either!! (not from lack of trying either I might add!! )

AFU – Speaking of chubba bubba’s… in 17 days, my not so little Jacob has put on 1045 grams!!! He’s now 3985 grams. On the crappy side… we are still fighting oral thrush…I’m so upset, I just want it gone I want my little boy to be comfortable and I don’t want to have to use bicarb, gel etc on my breasts and have four times a day of having to syringe drops into his mouth…surely we’re going to catch a break soon! It’s just so painful to feed right now!

Hope everyone is doing well today and has a great night tonight xoxo

thanks!! it was very exciting, mind u i havnt been able to get her to do it again since!

thats a awsome weight gain!!!

oh i hear ur pain on the oral thrush thing......
Summah was on antibiotics from when she got the bacterial infection in hospital so when we bought her home the anti b's came home with her and she ended up with thrush on her bum and in her mouth..... she is on 1ml of nilstat 4 times a day, but today i the last day seriously i dont know why they make all thses medications in such bright colours, i mean really fluro yellow?!?!?!
her anti b's were bright pink and then fluro yellow mouth drops! needless to say the stain remover has had a decent work out for the last 2 and half weeks!

I found a pump!

crumpet - we're doing half/half BF/FF and he's pooing twice a day.

great news on the pump hun, should make ur life a lot easier!! might get that hair washed more often now!

ok cool thanks!


AFU: all going along well here......

i was worried about Summah getting constipated, when she hadnt pooed yesterday.
at 11 last night she did what resembled a mc chicken chicken nugget and my heart dropped coz i was sure it was the start of her being blocked and us needing to go to the chemist to get more stuff to shoot into her mouth...

but then DH got up to feed her at 6 when he was getting ready for work and she had let loose!! bordering on a poo-explosion he said, it was seeping out the legs!! AND she had wet through!!

sucked in to DH, he has been bragging about no pooh nappies since we came home with her and he copped the worst one!!

so im happy about her bowels again now...till tomorrow if she does the same thing!

we have a friend coming over this morning so i better get my butt into gear and make up her bottles, so we can raid the bakery for some yummy morning tea!

[Tegam]

******SNEAKS IN********

Oh crumpet you said you would wait to join the jan baby buddies

I feel so used


**********SNEAKS OUT***************

[Jules84]

Kaz - Yay on the breast pump!! Yay for some extra spare time!!! Gosh, two poos a day, I am SUPER jealous....Jacob does about 10-15!!

MadB - Moooooooooo, yep that's me, bit of a moo cow over here

Crumpet - I didn't realise Summah had thrush too! Gosh it's a bugger isn't it...did she grunt and groan a lot while she had it? I'm so happy for you that you're finished her treatment today...we thought we were improving but no such luck I'm having to be extra cautious with my nipples and with his dummies etc (more so than I already was!!), so that is taking up soooo much of my day! I know what you mean by the colour!! As if there isn't enough washing to do already without having to fuss over extra clothes/wraps/wipes that get yellow on them!! Jacob HATES it and cries and tries to stick his hand in his mouth and it is such a challenge, I hate doing it sooo much! Hahahahaha on the poo!! Sucked in DH My DH works shift work so I'm stuck with everything lately, the explosions and all!!

[onthefly]

Well, DH is at work today. I picked up DS early and we went out for ice cream. Now he's watching tv - I need to ease into single parent to 2!
I feel soooo awful. yesterday he cried a lot at daycare and said "I lost my mummy. Miriam has my mummy now" Broke my heart. So I know I need to try harder to do things with him. I think we may have made things worse with DH doing things alone with him lots and leaving me with DD. I know he'll adjust with time, but it's just so awful to think how hurt he is. He keeps askign if I'm his mummy as well (as DD's), too.
The good news is that he doesn't seem to have any ill feeling toward his sister (that'll come later when she starts stealing his toys I guess )

Just finished my antibiotics for he mastitis - I hope we don't get thrush.

[Kazbah]

Oh I hear you on that MadB - we did similar here with my DH - I made a comment to DS1 that maybe we'd do craft this afternoon and soon as I got home from ABA meeting he was "mummy craft" solidly for an hour while I was feeding / expressing! So we did craft Had a "serious" talk with him (well, as "serious" as a talk with a 3.5yr-old can be!) that mummy had to do some things for baby, but that I was still here for him, and if he needed me to come and let me know. And that I loved him ... poor little men ...

Crumpet - yay on finishing the oral thrush treatment!!!! woohoo! hehehe, good on ya DH for copping it - DS1 would poop every day around 5pm and DH would change his nappy when he got home from work .. I managed to miss almost 6 months of poopy afternoon nappies with DS1!!!!!

I'm just waiting for Quoll to decide if he's going to wake now or later for a feed - it's about the right time for a feed ... ahhh there we go, the first squawk

[crumpet]

Crumpet - I didn't realise Summah had thrush too! Gosh it's a bugger isn't it...did she grunt and groan a lot while she had it? I'm so happy for you that you're finished her treatment today...we thought we were improving but no such luck I'm having to be extra cautious with my nipples and with his dummies etc (more so than I already was!!), so that is taking up soooo much of my day! I know what you mean by the colour!! As if there isn't enough washing to do already without having to fuss over extra clothes/wraps/wipes that get yellow on them!! Jacob HATES it and cries and tries to stick his hand in his mouth and it is such a challenge, I hate doing it sooo much! Hahahahaha on the poo!! Sucked in DH My DH works shift work so I'm stuck with everything lately, the explosions and all!!

yeah she had a decent dose of it, bum and mouth.
coz she got a bacterial infection in hospital she had 3 jabs a day of antib's and then 10days worth when we got home. our MCHN said it was quite normal and told us how to treat it, lucky for us it cleared up ok and when the antib's stopped it cleared up quicker again!!

Summah used to screw her face and clamp her jaw closed!! the middies showed us how to get medications into her, slowly squirting it in but with this stuff i had to get it all in at once otherwise she wouldnt take it all!

he scored the pooh again this morning!!!

Well, DH is at work today. I picked up DS early and we went out for ice cream. Now he's watching tv - I need to ease into single parent to 2!
I feel soooo awful. yesterday he cried a lot at daycare and said "I lost my mummy. Miriam has my mummy now" Broke my heart. So I know I need to try harder to do things with him. I think we may have made things worse with DH doing things alone with him lots and leaving me with DD. I know he'll adjust with time, but it's just so awful to think how hurt he is. He keeps askign if I'm his mummy as well (as DD's), too.
The good news is that he doesn't seem to have any ill feeling toward his sister (that'll come later when she starts stealing his toys I guess )

Just finished my antibiotics for he mastitis - I hope we don't get thrush.

thats cute going out for icecream!!!

oh hun it would have broken my heart hearing that too, but im sure intime he will adjust to having to share u

Crumpet - yay on finishing the oral thrush treatment!!!! woohoo! hehehe, good on ya DH for copping it - DS1 would poop every day around 5pm and DH would change his nappy when he got home from work .. I managed to miss almost 6 months of poopy afternoon nappies with DS1!!!!!

thanks! i was pretty happy, for the the first time since coming home from hospital she doesnt have to have anything stuffed down her mouth either before or after her feed!

oh how perfect is that?!?!?! i still scored another nugget at 3 this morning but DH copped the full force again at 6!!

AFU: good night here, same sort of wake ups as usual, i think she is getting herself into a routine which is good coz i want her in one, im a bit anal like that.....

DH scored last night!!
was playing with Summah on the floor on her play mat and she got a bit narky so he picked her up and she was drenched!!!

the twit forgot to change her bum before her feed and coz she has increased her feeds she is peeing a lot more and well the nappy was clearly overfull!!

so then he freaked out coz he hates to think of her uncomfy like that so into the bath she went!!

i was hysterical laughing cooking dinner at the time...... till i realised i didnt have bread and we were having bacon and eggs on toast, so then it was DH's turn to laugh!

[crumpet]

hey girls....

just need some expert adivce!!

Summah is 4 weeks on tuesday and we are still using the NB teats in her bottles- Avent if that helps.

anyway she is taking 30mins plus to finish 100-130ml every feed.

and she was screaming before for her feed so i put my finger in her gob and she sucked so hard i think i lost circulation!!

so does this mean its time to go up to the next size teat??

what happens if i go up a teat size to quickly?

[*EJ*]

Crumpet i've never formula fed so i really won't be much help...

I'm not sure if her having such good suction means time to move up a teat or not but i would say if you do the flow will be quicker and the only thing you would want to be carefull of would be if it's too quick she may be gulping too quickly to keep up with it therefore take on a bit of air at the same time.

That's just my uninformed/inexeprienced thoughts on it. Hopefully someone who is more in the know can help you soon

[Kazbah]

Crumpet - Taking a while to finish a feed is usual, so don't stress about that. I wouldn't be going up a teat size just yet, she still has a small tummy and you don't want her to fill it too quickly, cause then she'll vomit.

[onthefly]

I've not used bottles much, but what Kaz says makes sense. 30 minutes is probably quite normal at this age, she'll get quicker within the next couple of months. I think it's best to let her set the pace - once she gets faster with this teat perhaps the right time to switch will become obvious (?)

[crumpet]

Crumpet i've never formula fed so i really won't be much help...

I'm not sure if her having such good suction means time to move up a teat or not but i would say if you do the flow will be quicker and the only thing you would want to be carefull of would be if it's too quick she may be gulping too quickly to keep up with it therefore take on a bit of air at the same time.

That's just my uninformed/inexeprienced thoughts on it. Hopefully someone who is more in the know can help you soon

Crumpet - Taking a while to finish a feed is usual, so don't stress about that. I wouldn't be going up a teat size just yet, she still has a small tummy and you don't want her to fill it too quickly, cause then she'll vomit.

I've not used bottles much, but what Kaz says makes sense. 30 minutes is probably quite normal at this age, she'll get quicker within the next couple of months. I think it's best to let her set the pace - once she gets faster with this teat perhaps the right time to switch will become obvious (?)

thank you all for ur tips, wish i had have read them earlier

we have done 2 feeds with the new teats and she has been fine, still taking the sametime to feed, not quite sure how that works LOL, she has actually bought her wind up better as well.

no more vomitting than usual.....

will see how she goes next feed and might change her back depending on how she goes.