Babies Born February 2008 #2

[Roquen]

Congrats Danda! I have 20 stitches from a big episiotomy and forceps so I feel your pain sweety xxxox

thanks for the feeding times, i feel better as we seem to be doing similar!

[katkins]

hey girls,
if I remember correctly, they are meant to put on anything from 150gms a week.
I know everything is so confusing. For me even.
Had the midwife come see me again today cause Bry had only put on 60gms in a week (before his feed, after his feed was 160). Anyway, we re-weighed him and in 3 days, he'd put on 120gms so he's doing well.
I'm sorry to hear about the unsettled nights. I've had the same problems. Last night it was every 2 hrs he fed. I'm buggered and Dh goes away tmw to UK for a week so I'm a single mum for a week. Not sure how I will cope, but I am sure I will.
Love to all......kisses to all the bubbas

[prama]

The LC told us they are supposed to put on 20g a day.

Lakshman sometimes feeds every 3 hrs, and sometimes falls so fast asleep during his feed, he wont wake up for me. Then wakes up in an hr hungry again....
Sometimes he's good and other times it's all over the place, and then my anticipated 30min stolen sleep time vanishes into thin air..

[all girls]

Prama, summer does that too at the mo, she fed so often yesterday and then today she has been asleep most of the day and bb's are so full. Every time i have fed her today she falls into such a deep sleep and nothing wakes her up. I'm probably due for a night time full of snacking now!!! With DH away i had her in bed with me this morning.

DD1 got christened tonight, Summer had a nice chuck all over her, was quite funny.

Congratulations Danda, i have a leap baby too, apparently at my hossy the labour rooms were full during the day (9 rooms!) so luckily Summer came late that night or i would have had her in the hallway hehe.

My goodness Jacki very good weight gain, he must love his bb.

Hope we all get some sleep tonight xoxox

[prama]

sorry that was 28g a day not 20.

Trina - bub seems to only fall asleep when we lie him on the bed next to us. He cries for ages in his bassinet otherwise. It's like a switch when we take him to bed, then we put him back in the bassinet.
Some ppl say you should make them sleep in their bassinet only and not take them to bed, not just beccause of SIDs but because it becomes a habit. I dont know, at this stage we just want him and us to be asleep.

Wonderful weight gains girls! wow, they grow so fast. I wish I could give Lakshman some of my preggy weight!

Kirsten - thanks, hun xoxox. DH manages to sleep thru his cries sometimes and I wake up at the slightest whimper.. that's mothers, eh? It's so hard to hear them crying and crying..Bub does that now, put him down and he cries and cries, and as soon as we pick him up, butter wouldnt melt in his mouth.

Here's hoping bubs' sleep at least for 4hrs tonight.
It's the weekend and means nothing to me, LOL

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Was it someone in here that said the vibrating rockers were good for wind???
Bit too good IMO, LOL, Alexander had a spew everywhere after i put him in it tonight. And then three huge burps. Maybe the spew was just because he's a guts (is 120ml normal for his age??? and he feeds in like ten mins too) & might do the trick for his burping, who knows

[prama]

Ash - amount per feed, there's a formula: xkg X 150/no of feeds per day.
I hope he's ok! he was shaken not stirred!

[kirsten74]

I hear all of you guys on the sleep thing. Last night was particularly shocking as bubs is still all over the place regards feeds and sleep. It got to a point where I fed him from 2:30-3:30am and put him down and he didn't want to sleep. I had had 2 hours and was exhausted. DH suggested we let him scream a bit to wear himself out and hopefully settle to sleep. After 10 minutes I couldn't stand the crying anymore and screamed at DH that I couldn't listen anymore and that he must be a heartless b@stard to be able to lie there and snooze with that going on (still a bit hormonal I think!). I got up and fed him for a further 30 minutes and he slept until 8:30 when DH gave him a bottle of EBM. He downed 80ml and slept until 12:30! Any one have any idea of how to reset their clock (without letting them scream?)

Prama - try not to get too stressed out with the whole BF thing. You need to do what is best for bubs AND you! No point having a BF baby and having a mum that is tearing her hair out and stressing. You have to enjoy this time with them while they are so small, cause they don't stay that way for long. I admire you for trying so hard, and even a little bit of BM is better than nothing.

Anyway, might try and get to bed early tonight. With the little man not keeping to a strict timetable yet, it is hard to say when he will wake up!

Good luck to everyone and may our babies have a better nights sleep than they did last night!