Babies born February 16th-28th 2009 #2

[Nai]

Hi All - I just got home from the BB meet where I got to hang with Det and Melly and the gorgeous Levi & Lachlan J behaved herself pretty well although she is super chucky today.

Laura, I hope you are better for your party

SJ, gorgeous pics!!

Hmmm as for DTD, definitely not until the 6w check or until 2w after discharge stops (whichever is later). We will be using condoms until DP gets the snip - he is looking into it now. I have had 2 pregnancies, 2 labours and 2 emergency c/s - I've done my bit so now he can go under the knife. As we found in the research no man has ever died from having a vasectomy. 5 women die each year getting their tubes tied....

[Olive]

I've done my bit so now he can go under the knife. As we found in the research no man has ever died from having a vasectomy. 5 women die each year getting their tubes tied....

ohhh handy piece of info to lob at DH thanks nai!!!

glad you had a great day!!!!! footscray was a little too far for me!!

millie has literally slept all day today, been up for a grand total of two hours today, ithink shes having a growth spurt as this is what sophie did!

[Kailani]

Can't really keep up with all this chatter!

Pap smears - not looking forward to this! I was actually due for one in May last year, so well overdue...I think I'll wait a bit, 6 week check up is too soon!

Sex - same deal, will wait. We only dtd 3 times during pregnancy...I'm sure another month or 3 or 10 won't make much difference! (sorry DP!)

Birth control - ummm probably abstinance! I don't want to fall pregnant again for a while and I don't want hormones messing with my body and I hate condoms! In all honesty, I have no idea, will have to think about it

Ali, yeah bm is meant to be the way to go with sticky eye.

Laura, I really really hope you're feeling better.

Didn't end up going to the paed. Had a chiro appointment and Leon got adjusted and massaged. He LOVED it! He just zonked out with his arms above his head. My chiro convinced me to cancel the paed appointment and see how I go with him being adjusted and showed me how to massage his belly to help relieve the wind. Hope I'm doing the right thing

He actually had a good night last night once he settled! Settled finally at around midnight, and then fed at 2:15am, 5:15am and 7:30am, settled fairly easily between feeds. Hope he continues this as I'm so over feeding every 2 hours and less.

[shellbell3]

Holly- How often do you need to take him to the chiro? How cute him just loving it like that. Hopefully it does the trick. I have heard it can help with settling bubs.

Ali- I have a friend whos bub is 6 weeks older than Emily and I'm always saying how just that short time the difference between them is amazing. I think with the mini pill you have to really watch about taking it at the same time every day for it to work.

Nai- Thanks for that info, used that on Df not much response from him tho, think he'll actually be happy with the abstinence idea!

Emily is actually asleep right now which is quite unusual considering its her unsettled time normally. Hope it means a good night.

[Malyna]

trying to catch up with you all, but your all very chatty and my brain is mush.

AJP - how do you put bubs into your Ergo? I know there are a couple of different ways of doing it?

re Contraception - not an issue in our house, but my hearts go out to you girls. I hate the pill.

I do have a sling - Ergo but have tried to get bubs into it twice and he didn't like it and kicked up a storm - will watch the video again and see what I'm doing wrong. I don't mind just sitting with him on my boob all day, but just get restless and need to pee, although I do have a few books I want to read, so I read them aloud to him. I'm really sure he's interested in learning about the Dalai Lama and how to meditate . I have DH at home with me, so I do have some support (we won't talk about yesterday though - DH has a nasty habit of being awake for 2 days straight then bombing out which happened yesterday so I had monster boy all day with no break).

Bragging about my first MCHN visit today - the nurse nearly fell off her chair when we told her his birthdate - 4 week old having his first visit! Porker boy is 4.72kg and is longer and his head is bigger, but all within the 50 percentile (unlike SIL whos baby was off the growth charts at his first MCHN visit). We are booked in to get Whooping cough vaccine due to the outbreak.

Sorry gotta go.. natives are restless and want more booby time.

[~Kaz~]

Hi girls,

SJ - gorgeous pics darl! Grace is beautiful. Great that feeding and weight gain are going well.
Shell - sorry to hear you're having a rough time with the feeding. it's so hard to work out what's going on with them!
Nai - glad you had a good day at the meet up!
Tarkine - oh you're so good to have Alex in your arms or on the bbie most of the time. This stage will pass.
Ali - sounds like you're having a mixed time of it - sleeping well and then not.
OP - sounds like Isabel has long periods of being unsettled as well.
Laura - Hope you feel better soon darl. You can't not party on your 21st! How's your milk supply going?
AJP - That's amazing that you could bleed that much from a tear. Was it a big tear? My iron levels dropped to 65 after birth but found out today that they are back to 113. Still needing my nana naps of an arvo - not sure how you keep going through that wall. Have you checked out Floradix yet?

Sorry to anyone I've forgotten!

Gotta go - Mr. J is stirring for the next feed!!

[Nai]

Arrrgh DD1 came into our bed this morning at 5am with a sore tummy. She now just spewed everywhere! I hope it's not gastro and I hope J doesn't get it - also hope DP and I don't get it!!