oh very crap!!! soooo tired its not funny, i never needed a nana nap when sophie was born, but this time i feel like i could sleep all day,
op lost 1.5 litres, transfused 2 units of blood the next day, found out that 1.5 litres is around 25% of my blood volume scary!!
sounds like our girls are on a par!! must be something about the 18th
shell i had the girls wednesday to myself and had the same issues at lunch time!! thinking i will get sophies lunch ready early in the day.
nai DH is off for another week too!!!
meg i hope you get some rest with your mum around
millie went 7 hours last night pity it was 7-2 and i went to bed at 10.30 thinking she would wake any minute bet it was a once off too!!
Thanks Rainforest, I'm starting the nipple shields tomorrow. The mchn came around yesterday and told me to give my nipples a rest, they are in a very bad condition - cracked, chunks missing. So I had to express yesterday and all day today and give him ebm and tomorrow start bf using nipple shields until they heal. I'm sad about using a bottle and missing skin contact but it's nice to give my nipples a rest and he doesn't seem to mind Hope yours are on the mend!
Nai, I hardly get any awake time at all from Leon that isn't feeding or settling time. He has about 10 mins of awake time when changing nappy where he's really content and just stares at us and makes cute baby sounds!
OceanPrincess, that's great about the weight gain! Is everyone bfing here? Since using the bottle I've noticed Leon has about 80mls each feed and could often have more but we don't offer him more than 80, as the mchn said not to overfeed him and 80ml is quite a bit feed. He doesn't mind once it's all gone and goes off to sleep happily but I'd kinda like to let him finish feeding when he's ready and full, not when the bottle is empty
Megie & Shellbell, hope you have a better night tonight. Megie, it's good that your mum is there to help so you can have some rest. I don't know how you guys do it with toddlers as well. Like OceanPrincess, I only have the one and don't know how I'd cope without my mum's help right now!
AJP - wow at 7 hours! Must have had a nice feed before!
Well Leon is asleep in my arms, it's taken me ages to do this post, kept having to come back to it Off to get the nachos from the oven, have a good night all xox
No fair AJP! 7 hours! I have bought some wind drops to try with E. I will see if that helps tonight. Sooooo tired. Went to my Grandma's today. It was good to get out, but really wiped me out. Lying on the couch now while E is asleep. Gee I wish she would sleep like this during the night!
E slept much better last night. Fed at 11, settled by 12 (including feed time) Slept till 3:30, back in cradle by 4:30, then asleep till 6:30. Then she slept in with us till 9:30 when we all got up. Mum is still here so she was up with J. He got up at 8. Hoping for the same tonight. I bought the wind drops, and they are getting her to do much bigger burps. So maybe they have helped.
Hello all!! Can I join in here?
Grace was born on 1/3/09 at 2.38am so I just missed out on this thread but I wanna stick with all my Belly Buddies!! If I can keep up that is.
Still recovering from c-section.
Learning to breastfeed and OUCH!! Some of you probably read my thread on it before. Anyways, this new mummy stuff is a lot harder than I expected. It seems like nothing went according to plan! Was in labour for 33hrs, never got to fully dialated, she was too big for me to come down far enough into my pelvis they think. Had an epidural, didn't work, so they took it out and put it in a different place. Then when they went to top it up for the cesar it didn't work, i wasn't getting numb. So they took that out and I had a spinal which went wrong and i was numb up to my neck and felt like I couldn't breathe. So not exactly the natural birth I had planned And now with the breastfeeding I just feel sore everywhere.
Tell me it gets better!!
Shell, no indication how long it will take...all I keep hearing is how they will be better in no time and it gets easier etc...I can't wait for the magic day when feeding doesn't hurt!
Megie, glad you had a decent night and sleep in!
Hi Heaven Wow your labour sounds extreme, so sorry you had to go through all that. I'm with you on the bfing! I am finding it such a depressing and painful task at the moment and I think I get more worked up than Leon when he's hungry coz I know how much it's going to hurt! I'm using nipple shields now and they have made it a lot less painful, still painful but I can at least feed him. Just waiting for my stupid nipples to heal
Anyway, I have some time to myself as Mum's taken Leon asleep in the HAB to show off to our neighbours. Might have a bath...
Meg, we had better night too last night, just hoping tonight is similar. Glad the wind drops working, might have to get some cause Em been bit unsettled today always looking like she trying to push something out and drawing her legs up.
Heaven- yes it gets better! Altho at this stage its sometimes hard to believe, sounds like quite a long, traumatic labour for you, have you got your partner or anyine around to help you out so you can recover?
Holly- Glad the nipple sheilds are helping somewhat. My nipples are no where near yours from the sounds of things and I'm finding feeding painful so I do feel for you. Hope you got that bath in.
I'm just feeling bit blue today, exhausted even tho we had a better night, just Em been unsettled alot of the day and I get sore and tired having her on and off the boob constantly. I give her a dummy sometimes just to give my breasts a break but as soon as it falls out she starts screaming.
scary!!
7 hours last night
bet it was a once off too!!
Hope yours are on the mend!
And now with the breastfeeding I just feel sore everywhere.
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