Babies Born February 2008 #3

[Sueby]

Hi Roya,
My first two are 22months apart and from what I can remember I used to set the oldest one up with a little tray of snacks and a drink during the day while I was feeding, and had DVD's close at hand. Sometimes I read him a book while I was feeding. At night I was lucky enough to either have my DH or my Mum around so my oldest was occupied. It does get easier its just an asjustment. Hang in there
Sue

[Ambah]

I am still reading girls, but am finding it impossible to find the time to post!!

just quickly -

Roya - I find it difficult with two as well, especially around the evening. Although my first is older than yours (which makes it easier for me), it still helps if I try to start on everything as early as I can, so I am not left with everything such as bathing, feeding, bed, all at once. I try to bath earlier, and cook earlier, which helps a bit some nights... although it still usually is always an ordeal!

Kerrie - OMG at the pg scare!!! Your experience is hitting home with me, because we DTD right on 6 weeks last weekend, and the thought of using protection didn't occur to either of us until afterwards... oooops. Ummm... does anyone know what day after O implantation occurs?

Carly - you poor things, I am so sorry you and Lysander are going through such a rough time. I hope you are able to find a method that brings both of you relief and comfort, and if you are required to FF, then you are able to shake the guilt, hold your head high, and know that you have done/are doing the best possible for your little guy. Thinking of you guys, hope you are doing better....

My little Eva is such a dear little thing. She's very good natured, doesn't cry much, although does get a bit whingey if we can't pick her up when she wants. She seems to be in a night time sleep routine atm which is great. She goes down at about 10pm, then will wake between 3.30 and 4.30am for a feed, then back to sleep until 7am or so... which I am finding quite easy to cope with, although I am still getting tired in the afternoons.
BF is 100% now, no more need to express at all, and I am confident in bringing only my bb's along to feed her! I have really conquered my bf in public fear... did it in the middle of Target on a seat in the shoe section last week LOL!
She is now 5.3kg at 7 weeks, which is exactly 1.5kg gain since birth.
I just can't believe how fast she is growing... everyone says she is so small, but to me she is huge now compared to 6 weeks ago!

Gonna go and lie down for 5 mins now before she wakes up...

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Totally jibbed... AF has arrived and i say it's not fair (least i think it's AF, kerrie's got me worried now!!).
Ack, oh well.
Hope everyone is well - wishing you all sleepy baby vibes...

Alexander has been quite grizzly today - i think i ate too much garlic last night. That or he's just getting started on this six weeks terror i hear of!!

Not much else to report. We had our first trip to melbourne with him today which was two hours of p/t there and back so woo go us. And yesterday we got him to start playing the tongue poking game with us - he gets so excited by it!!

[katkins]

well my bleeding became very very very heavy and clotty (sorry tmi) and my midwife was worried about PPH. After 4 days of bleeding so heavy I flooded tampons and pads, it settled and now on day 6 is very light again. It seems my period has returned with a vengance. I did go to Dr to get the new Nova ring and about the bleeding but she forgot to give me the script as I almost passed out getting up after she examined me. I think my iron must be very low after all the bleeding etc. I was very tired and felt horrible for days. Not nice.
Ash, yeah some people (like me) don't get much of a break from AF. I think it used to be our bodies way of ensuring we could survive and care for ourselves and the new baby (that food and nutition went far enough). But with today's society of plenty of good food etc, our bodies can cope with BF'ing and being pg again so there is no need for our bodies to stop AF. Well that's the way I think of it anyway....
Amber, implantation is generally 5-10 days after O. Hope that helps. I hope u get the result u want honey *hugs*. I know part of me wanted to be pg, but I also could see how impossibly hard it would be...... But u never know how strong u are untill you are tested, right?!

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Seems to make sense that with all that good nourshment etc that it wouldnt be a problem. Funny though as two days beforehand i was talking to mum & she was complaining, but she made it to three months at least! Well i am now not sure, it's very light, barely enough for a liner *confused*. Ive had cramps last night so i thought it would have come on already, but seeing as i thought there was no way i would have O'd we werent careful & im a bit worried, aaargh .
Im sure its af, i even have ridiculous mood swings... lol. but i cant help but worry none the less.

Amber - well done on the BFing in public!!! Im still taking baby steps and always have ebm on hand, lol.

[katkins]

have to admitt, I have been bf'ing in public since Bry was 2 wks old. I don't give a hoot. I cover myself with a muslin wrap and just do it. I did it in a chinese restaraunt, in the dr's and in the front seat of the car when Dh was away and I'd driven to pick up something for Dh, bry screamed the whole way, picked up the item and jumped into passenger seat and fed him. Thought stuff others, if they don't like it, they'd like a screaming baby even less.... Popped him back into his capsule and he slept the whole drive home. hehehe I even BFed on my front patio the other day. Had the girls out at their craft table painting and he wanted a feed so popped him on and watched the girls painting.... Had people across the road in the park (kids having sports day and teachers etc) looking then looking away, but it's my home and I think it's natural so....

[Esme]

Nothing wrong with Bf in public! Just that other people can make you so uncomfortable... Haven't done it yet, apart from at the doctor's today, but that was in a nursing mothers area. Jasper had his 2 month needles today, he didn't cry too much and is asleap now. Hopefully he will have no nasty side effects. Bought some panadol just in case..

Haven't posted for a while, so will skip personals for now... Jasper sleeps really well at night; he goes to bed at 19.30 then sleeps till 1.30, feeds and then sleeps till 7.00!!!! This happened the last couple of nights, so hopefully it is his new routine. On the downside of that he doesn't sleep much during the day anymore; one, maybe two sleeps of a couple of hours but is awake for the rest of it. Lucky he is an easy going bub and is happy to spend some of his awake time on a blanket on the floor looking outside. On the downside; he has two hourly clusterfeeds in the afternoon and a full hour to two hours of crying in between 5 and 7. But we won't complain.

Just back from town; booked flights to the Netherlands! We are going to visit my parents in July; they haven't seen him yet, so that will be great! Today we had to try hard to get him a passport photo; this is nearly impossible with a baby; facing forward, eyes open, mouth closed, neutral expression, etc.! Lucky we had taken some photo's ourselves at the weekend just in case DS didn't want to cooperate at the post office and guess what? Lucky we did, because he had wind and didn't want to stop crying. At least we have a photo and hopefully they won't reject it...

[Roquen]

Hi ladies,

hope you are all doing well and getting some sort of routine going!

Jordan his the 5 week mark tomorrow, haven't had him weighed since he was 2 weeks but he is definitely growing well! We seemed to have finally gotten somewhere with the feeds, we were stuck on 2 hourly day and night for the first 3 weeks, now he has just started going to bed at either 8 or 10, then sleeping till either 1 or 3, then wakes at 5. Big improvement for us! At 5am he is SO awake and wants to play so we tend to sit in bed with him for an hour or two, then I give him a quick feed again and he usually sleeps till 10. Is awake a lot more in the day now too. We are going so much better now getting that extra sleep.

He still gets a lot of wind but has started to burp a bit better.

I too have been BF in public since early on. I have done it in waiting room at chiro, at the royal easter show, food court, wherever. We are off the nipple shield and he latches on really well so I have a lot more confidence with BF now and I don't cover up with a wrap, but always have one ready to offer any bystander who doesn't want to see my baby eat :-)

We are using MCNs - baby beehinds mostly, I love them they are going really well, no leaking, easy to wash etc. Saving so much money by not buying disposables!

How is everyone feeling physcially? Remember I am a personal trainer so if anyone wants any tips let me know!

Ness