Babies Born January 2008 #8

[QueenMab]

NikW, She is so smart, that's all - your right, only a silly baby would want to roll onto their tummy!!! lol Punky doesn't mind being on her tummy now though, used to hate it, depends on her mood how long she likes it for though.

Medelon - It is a lovely time now isn't it? I have just spent the whole day playing with Punky, I can't get enough of her at the moment! DP comes home & I bombard him with "...look what she's doing now!" "...isn't she cute?" "...no, NOW look at her!" "How cute is she...??!!"

[s361768]

Hi Everyone,

Loren thanks for the advice I may give blessed thistle a try.

I don't seem to be able to keep up with Francis and feeding. I think I am just really tired as well. At night time I sometimes ask Brett to take him out of the room when I am trying to fall asleep. I feel bad because I know he wants his booby on tap but I can't go to sleep when he is lying next to me and I know he is about to start wriggling around and making noise for a feed, I get anxious about it and it generally happens that way, when I am about to close my eyes he wants another feed. Throughout the rest of the night I am fine waking for feeds.

Thanks everyone for your advice on BF, even though I have done this 3 times before each bub is unique and while posting and reading posts I am learning new things about mothering and how others cope with parenting. I guess that is what I like most about BellyBelly, and I like taking to new people too

Karen xx

[lunesoleil]

Hello everyone

I've been reading the updates via email on my phone but it's been a while since I posted!
Hope everyone had a good long weekend!

Amelie has been pretty good...just over 6kg now (which is still pretty light but growing on the 25th percentile)...
She was fully breastfed until yesterday... Over the past few evenings she has been little unsettled and I got a feeling that my milk wasn't enough for her towards the end of the day... so after much deliberation we gave her about 125ml of formula (S-26) as a top up. She took it well but wanted another feed before sleeping and woke up once to have a short feed... so..hmm.. dunno what's going on there.. I think we'll try giving her the same again tonight.

Yeah so like Karen I'm keen to increase my milk production...My mum says drinking soy milk helps so she bought me heaps of dry soy beans for me to soak, then boil then blend to eat/drink... been too lazy to do it but I think I should start eating it more regularly..only problem is.. it makes me very flatulent and I think makes bub the same too haha...

Otherwise...still getting stressed here and there by people's comment saying she's light blah blah So those of you who have bubs over 7 kgs just on breastmilk - you are so blessed!!!
On the positive side.. she doesn't hurt my back and is developing well otherwise...I know a mum who gave birth to a girl 10 days before me and she's already 10kg w/ teeth just on breastmilk!!! All bub's diff eh?

Oh I have to join the what was it?.. the 'not rolling yet' club?? She loves tummy time and have rolled onto her side.. but haven't officially rolled onto her tum or other way yet.

Have any of you done a long drive w/ your bubs yet?
We are planning to drive Syd-Mel next week.. some people think we're crazy but we're gonna give it a go!

I better go and do some tidy up.. dear Am's sleeping hihi yayayayayayaya!!

Love to all mums & bubs!

Moonsun

[LorenP]

we are having a grizzly day here. i wonder if my mood is affecting bryce, as i am really ticked off with our builder, and the tiler. he used the wrong colour grout, and the wrong tiles in some places - argh. get over it loren.

karen - i found that when i co-sleep with Bryce he always wriggles around hunting for boobs, and wakes for a 2.30 feed. i now have him in his hammock beside me and he sleeps from 7.30 - 6 almost every day. it is really lovely to have him in bed with us, but he i can just reach out and give him a swing if he wakes up - which is usually only if he has to fart.

madelon - i am also getting kiss/eaten here. my brother has nicknamed bryce the 'snapping turtle'. he has also started pinching, and grabbed my [rather glamorous] sister on the face and wouldn't let go. she was mortified. not sure she'll ever hold him again.... at least it wasn't the hair he grabbed. he he.

[s361768]

Hi Everyone,

Francis saw the Health Nurse on Tuesday and he has moved down two percentiles since birth. However she doesn't think he is starving, she has told me to persist, take the meds for 4 weeks this time and keep going with BF in the meantime. She does want me to do a day stay at the clinic though. Huge drive for me...

I took him with me to the GP yesterday because my 7 year old had an ear infection upon picking him up from school (he didn't tell his teacher that his eat hurt), after she checked out my eldest I told her that Francis needed his immunistions next week and I had booked him in, yet she said that he can't have his injections next week because he hasn't been gaining sufficiently. So same thing as last...comp feed him. Which I did last night.

I am a little more than frustrated about it because I am told different things. I know I should know what to do myself and do it, however that would be continuing with BFing and I am put off sticking with it now on the off chance that I am starving him, DP's mum has already said that I am putting my needs above Frankie's and I am beng a selfish mother who is going to cause her baby neurological damage.

DP thinks he is fine and not hungry for more than what he gets from me, because he won't take more than 50ml of formula in a day. So I am boggled why he is not gaining more that 100 odd grams a week (av).

Francis is now 6.15kg 2-3 weeks ago he was 5.85kg, I would have to go back through and read my posts. I know that isn't good enough but I feed him all the time. He is happy and smilely. He is not week or lethargic and his frontonelles are not sunken, so I don't know why the doctor thinks that he is starving.

It is really annoying and I am pretty upset about it because I want to do the right thing by my son and I have always thought that breast feeding was the best thing and that it was easy (at least it had been for me and I took that for granted). Now I feel like I have to change my way of thinking because I am now one of those that can't do it because my milk supply was not good enough.

I still want to be a part of growing my baby I don't want to lose that connection, I feel heart broken at the thought that I am not able to do it anymore because of my milk or lack there of, it just feels so unfair.


Hi Loren - I am going to put him in his rocker next to the bed after feeds from now on as I gave him to my partner last night after a feed and he put him on his chest and fell asleep himself, the next minute Francis was on the floor crying...he is ok though. It does help if they are not constantly lying next to you because they do smell the milk.

Karen

[QueenMab]

Oh Karen, hugs for you hon, you sound like you need some!!

He certainly doesn't sound like he's starving, what with the happy & the smiley & all, & if he's got plenty of wet nappies too... I know it's easy for me to say but if I were you I'd be quite happy to go with what the Health Nurse recommended - did the doctor say why he thought he was 'starving'?! That is a pretty big statement to make without any explanation & the MCHN wouldn't gamble with your sons health if she had any doubt that he was getting enough nourishment.

Have you posted in the bf problems & support section? Barb would have some proper advice for you - as opposed to my general well wishes! Good luck, whatever you decide to do will be for the best, I'm sure.

I don't think I posted about this here, but Punky sat up by herself for the first time on Sunday! I was so proud, you'd think nobody had ever sat up in the history of the world lol. I'd had her propped in the corner of the couch when she leant forward & stayed there!! Then yesterday I had her on the floor & I let the dog in & Punky rolled over twice to get a better look at the dog... she hasn't done it again though... perhaps I'll let the dog in again tomorrow lol.

Gross moment today though - heard a huge bang outside this morning & left Punky in her room on a towel where she was having nappy free time while I went out to investigate... when I came back in there was poop on the towel & she'd managed to 360 in it & it was all over her babylegs....!! Eeewwww... I think she did it on purpose 'cause she loves baths so much hehehe.

Hope everyone & there bubbas are all woo-hoo & yee-haw! (aka, going along smoothly... )

[believer]

Hehe QueenMab, pmsl! I know it's not funny if you have to clean her up with all that poo everywhere, but it certainly made my day start with a smile! Sorry!
Fingers crossed she won't do it again tho.

Have a gr8 weekend everyone!