Was wondering when AF would return. I have been getting the usual mid cycle pains on and off which is quiet strange after all this time. I am back on the normal pill now so I guess they wont come till I am at the end of that packet now... maybe... not sure how that all works actually.
I miss DH so much he is in Perth till Thursday on a business trip. He usually does the mid night feeds so I can sleep, but now I have to do them. I just put JD down at 1.30am after waking him for his midnight dream feed. I pray he stays down, he didn't really wake up even after changing him so that was good. I am just hanging around to make sure he is out to it before I attempt to return to bed. I have my mum staying with me anyway, just for moral support. She will do some of the feeds tomorrow so perhaps I might be able to get a nap in at some point. I am thinking if JD is being good tomorrow (opps its already tomorrow, I mean today) we might try and take him shopping.
Was just up feeding DS when I remembered I was meant to send my friend some info 2 days ago and I completely forgot !! Hence my late night computer visit!
I think AF came for me last week? Was very light, but I had the usual cramps. I agree Amanda, very strange after so long!
Kirsten, glad the Fess drops worked for Ryley - they are great aren't they!
Jo - good idea about the portacot. I have one that is packed away doing nothing. At this stage, I think I would prefer to have him close by still
Craig was saying last night....this this AF is really only the 5th AF in 3 years!!!!!
Ive been pregnant since March 2006 pretty much non stop..other then the few short breaks in between babies (not that there was one between Chelsea and Jasmine).
Well JD woke up at 5.45am for a feed and so he was feed 1 hour earlier than his usual time, still at least he did not get up at 4ish for his dummy which he usually does. I had a visit from the sleep and settling nurse this afternoon. She gave me some good pointers and I was able to feel confident enough to get JD down without the sling tonight. Although she said that we should not wrap him too tight as we have been. So I didn't and he keeps waking himself up with his hands hitting is face or knocking the dummy out. So not sure about that one. I am hoping he will make it till 8pm before his next feed then I will re-wrap him cause after about hours sleep last night I can't afford to be up all night again tonight. I tell you I appreciate my DH doing the night feeds. I can't wait till he comes home.
My mum and I took him shopping today and he cried the entire way there, then I put him in the sling and walked around with him and he settled pretty quick. Then I put hi in his pram and he slept until he got hungry. It was my first time in the parents room, it was ok not that great though. I thought it was so hot! But it was great to get him out and about finally. He was happy all the way home and settled nicely in the pram in the lounge room till his next feed. My mum and I watched baby muma on DVD actually we haven't finished it yet. Its a rare thing to watch a movie from start to finish these days. But its pretty funny.
JD is smiling and laughing a lot more now. Its so wonderful. I just can't get enough of it. He stared into my eyes this afternoon smiling and I was so in love! I can't bare to be too far away from him now. Wow how the tides have turned!
Ohh my hair do is HOT!!! Pics on FB.
I feel great now..I enjoyed time away from both DH and Zach for 6 hours. Zach slept the whole time i was gone even....Craig got it lucky
The sleep and settling nurse came around yesterday and offered a few suggestions. One of which is that we should start learning to put JD to bed when he is awake so he can learn to get himself off to sleep. So far we have been rocking him in our arms or in the sling till he is fully asleep then putting him down, but that is both time consuming and it will make life hard for us when he is bigger and when I have to go back to work. So I tried it yesterday and it worked and I am trying it again now. I can hear him grunting, then coooing and gaaaing. So cross fingers he will soon drop off. Wish me luck.
hi everyone - so sorry for being rubbish these days, I just don't really get a chance to get on here anymore. Larissa is sleeping so well over night! We got until 8.30 the other night! Yesterday she had her immunisation so has been a bit off since then. Today we had our first mothers group - it was good but there was 11 mothers so was a bit to busy to make any fast friends. All the people are really friendly so that was good.
I've got a new job - working as a supervisor at Gloria Jeans 2 minutes from the house! My dps sister works there so I just went and spoke to the franchisee yesterday and said I'd be interested in any work he can offer and he said he'd make me a supervisor. I think its because a little older than most of the girls that work there but its good news. I start in 2 weeks time. DP got offered a new job yesterday too, working for centrelink, He had applied for a similar job just after we had Larissa but didn't get it due to them cutting the number of positions available but they called him back when they had some more available. He's over the moon - he really hated working for BigPond! He called to resign and they said not to go in unless he wants to work for them in the future so means he's home for the next week and a half.
I still don't think I've had my AF. I stopped bleeding for a little while, maybe about 3-4 weeks after the birth but it came back and hasnt stopped now for maybe 3 weeks. I had the mirena inserted last week and since then I have had awful stomach cramps, not sure if theyre period pain or just my bodys reaction to the UID. The bleeding is pretty nasty at the moment, so heavy and thick, similar to how it was after the birth just without the big clots. My Doc is giving me until early next week to stop bleeding and then she's going to try and work out whats going on.
Kim- did you not have AF at all between your girls? We were having unprotected sex when my bleeding had slowed right down, the last time was when larissa was about 6 weeks!
Amanda, when we put Larissa to bed asleep she usually wakes up and just puts her self back to sleep, sometimes she self settles when shes awake but not all the time. She's still in the habit of falling asleep while im bfing her so shes usually asleep when she does into bed. I'm looking forward to mothers group next week and learning some more settling techniques!
Hope everyone is well, and I apologise in advance if its another month before I get on!
Steph i had 1 AF after Chelsea (then i fell pg with Jasmine). I had 3 AF's after Jasmine (went on the pill 3 months to regulate cycles so i could gender sway for a boy, stopped the pill, then fell pg with Zachery first cycle). Now first AF after having Zachery!
5 Af's in 3 years...LOL.....its horrible when i have it...cos ive got so used to not having it.
I'll be quick cos my internet has just kicked me off before.
Puppies, I suggested the Dunstan baby language dvd a while ago. Don?t know if you remember. It's great. I've found that you can't really tell their cries until they are about 6 weeks plus, so you've gotten it at the right time.
I can really tell Judd's now, and have been really strict (on me) and him this week with his crying and self settling. He's been doing really well and getting off to sleep most of the time by himself. But the late afternoon one is a fizzer, but that's pretty normal from memory with the other 2 as well.
I've also found that they get comfortable being in their room if you pop them in the cot, just to do the vacuuming or go to the loo quickly. That way they just lay there for a bit and coo and be happy in that environment. You come back take them out, have a play then they go back in when the yawning starts.
Another thing that I've found really helps Judd is the double swaddle. He can't get his hands out to wake himself up as I was finding that he was startling awake a lot more recently.
As for AF, I haven't got it yet! He is 9 weeks on Monday and still no sign. BUT my right boob is STILL leaking!! It was nearly dried up the other week, and I had some minor colour in some discharge, and I thought, cool, here we go. But now I?m leaking quite a bit again, and the minor colour didn't seem to bring anything on and just cleared up very quickly. Normally I have a period really early after bubs is born, around 6 weeks after, but not this time.
I forgot to ask the Dr about this yesterday when I went to see her about my hands. Am on diuretics for a few weeks and if that doesn't fix things, might need some injections! Ouch!!!
Gotta go to bed. Sorry no more personals. Take care, love to your babies
AF ugh..one good thing with breastfeeding for me is that i dont see it return til bubs is almost one..yay!
Brunette lovely to hear everything is going so well for you. Goodluck with the new job..sounds ideal for you!
Hi Tash nice to hear from you..sounds like little Judd is doing really well. We havent swaddled for a while now...just too hot here!
Glad you are getting some helpful tips Amanda.
Hiya Kim and Kirsten!
Well darling miss Ruby has slept for 5 hours straight for the last three nights...clever little poppet. Its been lovely to get that bit of extra sleep and would be lovely if she continues it! Been great settling back into uni..am finding the nights hard to study as the days are a complete right off with us out and about and juggling Ruby's sleeping, changing feeding with Sammys needs as well, though I just have to stay motivated. Am looking forward to daylight saving finishing so that we can start getting ready for the night earlier..kids are still outside at 7 tonight as its so light and hot!
I forgot to mention that I've taken Judd off Zantac and put him onto Gaviscon Infant. You get it from the Chemist. I spoke to the GP about his issues, and said that I find that he really hates the taste of the Zantac and you can only give it to him twice a day and he seems to froth at the mouth and want to bring it up so I don't think it's really agreeing with him. She suggested the Gaviscon Infant as it's for babies and toddlers and Zantac is for anyone.
You can give them up to 6 doses a day, which I did on day one but only did 4 today as it's really filling and a bit much for him still. Will try 3 doses tomorrow and see if that's a good amount for him as he has been much more settled since I've been giving it to him in the last 2 days. The immunisation didn't seem to give him any side effects at all, so I'm happy with that too.
Hi girls,
Well JD is wonderful. He now has playtime after each feed during the day and I love it. I read to him and he sits there laughing and staring at me while he smiles. I cant get enough of him. Such a huge difference from the way I felt in the first month. I think it has helped that the reflux is settling down all thanks to the Zantac. I just put it in his bottles 3 times a day so its much easier. I read that you could do that, so its much easier than fussy with him which he hates.
He had his needles on Friday and after waiting for over 2 hours to see the Dr he was very brave and only cried for about 10 minutes before falling back asleep. He now weighs 5.5kg. I thought he weighed more but I was wrong. Last night he slept from 1.30am till I had to wake him up at 8am this morning. I think he could have stayed in bed longer but I didn't want him getting to grumpy. So he is impressing us thats for sure.
I went to the craft fair today and got some lovely scrapbooking material so I can start making some nice pages of him. Might get time tomorrow if he has a nice nap after Mothers Group. I am so excited that this year will be my first Mothers Day although I doubt we will do anything special but it would be nice to go for a picnic somewhere just the three of us. Will see how we go.
Things are going really nicely with Harley, lately he has been sleeping about 6-7 hours, then wakes for bottle, and goes back down for 4 hours, so normally I wake either 2am or 3am and then he goes to either 6.30 or 8am! Pretty happy bout that.
I've had my first AF as well and boy its not been nice, cos I've had breakthrough bleeding due to missing the pill a couple of days when we went camping, so since having Harley i've only prob had a week and half break of no bleeding at all!! Its had me down in the dumps and my anxiety has started up again, having all these attacks, and the other night we went to get dinner, got home and once I was out of the car and had Harley, I felt like I was going to tip over, Rob had to take Harley and I just had to sit down, think it was cos my blood level was low and due to not having enough water, but yeh it bought on another attack...so I went to bed after Harley had his bottle at 8pm and we both got 6 hours sleep!
I just don't know wat to do about this anxiety, I feel like i'll be better going back on the medication... even though I don't want to rely on it, but I know I relaxed alot better with it... I just have this one huge fear, ever since I had a horse fall that caused my anxiety, and since having children, this fear is stronger, and thats of death...so everytime something is going wrong with me, I think the worst... I know I should speak to someone, but I just don't know if its going to cost me alot... I have so many issues that have happened thru my life, I'm finally so happy but this anxiety is driving me crazy!!!
Sorry to ramble on... but I needed to get it off my chest...
Hope u girls are all well and Amanda I'm so happy for u and JD!! Really makes me smile to hear u guys going well
All good here. I had my MIL arrive on Thursday night. She was ment to fly home last night but Jetstar screwed up her ticket so she had to fly home on a 7am flight today with Virgin...was great to have her an extra night though!
Sickness....Chelsea vomited all over her bed and carpet last night.....now today Jasmine is sick with a cold... that Zachery doesnt get it now.
He was soooo wingey last night i had ti give his last feed at 930pm....i knew he'd wake early...i was thinking maybe 5/6am instead of the usual 7am...but nope...345am!!!!
Craig had to get up at 430 to take his mum to the airport but he got an earlier wake up!
Anyhow, Zach was back to sleep by 5am and only just woke again at 11am
I feel horrible and feel im getting sick now too
Deb thats not good about the anxiety, maybe some meds or even talking to some one will help you deal with it a bit?
Deb I posted a big post last night but I lost it, bummer! You can get your GP to put you on the same program I am on. Its through Medicare and they pay for I think 12 visits to a physcologist (sp?). Anyway there is no harm in asking. You usually have to fill out a few questions to see if you qualify or not but its easy. Well worth a try, what have you got to loose. I am actually starting to feel a lot more in control more than I ever have. Which makes me wonder if I should have been on these meds a while back. I haven't had a panic attack in a few weeks now and that seems to be making JD happier also as they can pick up on our moods.
Anyway, I am off to the gym soon so better get ready. Take care girls.
Sorry ladies that i have not been posting - so busy as you can understand - at the end of the day I look around the house and it looks like I have not done a thing and yet have been flat out. April doing well - for the 3 nights before last she slept 6 hrs straight, then 6 hrs and then 8 hrs. Last night she woke up at 1.30am tho so Im not getting too excited just yet. But I think last night I should have gotten her up at 10.30pm just for a feed to get her thru the night - work in progress anyway. It's DS that's pretty much driving me around the bend at the moment - boy I hope this stage passes quickly. I read your posts when I can. Love to you all and to your beautiful babies. Would love to have a catch-up if you guys were planning one.
Paula I know how u feel with ur DS, its Charlotte that drives me crazy here! Harley is a pretty good baby, just like his sister was, but now shes 2.5 and boy its just nuts!! But still I love her heaps!
Amanda: thanks for that info, will bring it up to the doctor when I see him hopefully this Sunday! I just wanna feel sane again lol! But I guess it comes with the job lol
I'll keep u posted to how I go... I've felt a bit better the past couple of days, but yeh anything seems to set me off!!!
I've got my sister, her hubby and kids staying with me till Saturday so hopefully it goes well...will be interesting seeing how my niece and Charlotte go!
I had Harley sleeping 6 hours last night, been giving him dreamfeeds at night cos he seems to be out to it by 6pm and I just dont think he would sleep thru as good, so dream fed him around 10.30 and he went thru till 5am! Couldn't be happier atm!
!! Hence my late night computer visit!
that Zachery doesnt get it now.
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