Bella is in her basinette at the start of the night now too. Unfortunately she refuses to go back to sleep after her 2am feed without loads of cuddles and I find that I do not have the energy to remove her from our bed because I am resigned to the fact that she will be wanting another feed at 3am (10mins comfort suck) and 4am (10 minutes on the other side) followed by a real feed at 6am before sleeping until 8am.
I was looking for info on sleeping patterns for babies and basically have come to the conclusion that until aprox 12wks this is just going to be how it is..... little sleep and demand feeding.
Bella is 2 weeks old today. It feels sureal. I wish that I could stop the clock and have a few extra moments to simply gaze at her, she is growing before my eyes.
Back to working a little during the day (I work from home) and Bella loves snuggling in the baby bjorn at the moment and listening to the keyboard chatter.... Just hope it lasts for a little while.
House work is not getting done - but i do not really care!
Hope everyone is well. I wonder when BellyBelly will close off our Belly Buddy groups... Figure we will have an influx of people posting once we are kicked out of our initial groups.
liam is 2 weeks today and how time is flying by. He is such a good baby, feeds, sleep, settles very well.
sweetpea678 I have been pretty lucky as Liam has been in his basinette since birth and in his own room. I have a angle monitor so that relaxes me and I can get a good night sleep.
Both my other 2 kids were windy babies but Liam is fab, ((((touch wood))))...lol
We are in a pattern already. I feed him about 10.30-11pm and then he will wake anywhere from 2-3 then again at 6-9. So really he is only waking once a night as im up for the 10.30-11 feed. Im pretty lucky with this one thank god.
Ok ladies take care
Oh can the babies see us yet. I cant remember. I know their eye colour doesnt change untill 6 weeks.
Just thought i would pop in introduce my self and say hi. DS - Cooper Miles was born on the 9th July (his EDD) 8lb 6oz, 56cm long and HC 37cm he was born via emergency C/S. At the moment he is BF on demand which can range from every 2hrs - a wonderful 4hrs. I honestly dont know how mothers survive on such little sleep, but i have learnt that we just do some how. Being our first child DH and i are definately learning alot.
hi all
good to hear that everyone is coping very well with the new little angels!
My little fellas Jackson is 4 weeks tomorrow! He is getting so big now and has a real great little personality coming out. hes very stubborn though!
He has had and ear infection so was not happy bubby but is better now.
Sleeping well - sometimes from 11pm - 5.15am like last night! Stoked and feeling happy about that!
must go hes awake for a cuddle.
I too started in the June thread, Lachlan was due the 29th of June, He decieded to make his arrival on the 6th July at 7:47pm after a 55 minute labour.
Lachlan came on his own, YEAH ( have been induced with my DD and DS1)
weighed 7lb 1 oz and was 50 cm long with a head full of long jet black hair.
he now weighs in at 4kg and is 53.5 cms long. A good baby, pretty placid and sleeping well.
Naomi, even the start makes a huge differeence hey, I am so much more relaxed in the day now that I can get some better sleep.
Missy that sounds pretty good with your bubs sleeping habits, I have my kids in my room till there between 18months and 2years. As this in number 3 for me and 7 intotal not in rush to put in another room as that would mean sharing with at least one other kid or 3 depending on the week etc.
Tan32 glad to hear all going well with Lachlan, he is growing well. I have not had reagan weighed since she was 2 1/2 weeks old and not going till untill she is 6 weeks.
Case your bub sounds settled already would love Reaghan to sleep that long but not to be yet.
Hello all thought I would come in and say Hi will go between here at other July group as most of my belly buddies are in there!!
Jacob Byron was born 8/7/08 at 2132 weight was 3995 grams, length 52 cm and head circumfrance 38 cm!!! EDD was 18/7/08 was induced for PE emerg cs after 14 hrs of labour as he was posterior and head was deflexed and labour obstructed at 9cm!!!
sweetpea678 jacob also does not sleep in basinet will sleep sometimes at night in pram otherwise with me on my chest and then when dh goes to work i put him down on his side!!
Alyssa Grace was born 1 day before EDD on the 14th july. pretty easy labour and delivery. got my wish of delayed cord clamping and delivering the placenta naturally did have the shot after that to shush the midwife up tho.. 8 mins pushing the bub outt, 15mins waiting for the placenta! happy happy!
Left the hospital after 24hrs... glad i left.. wish i had ear plugs for everytime the midwife told me 'the ones who go home early ALWAYS have feeding problems' (how they figure that when its early days, what bub n mum dont have feeding probs in those first few days anyways?! plus bub was tongue tied)
Alyssa was smaller than her big sister weighing 8lb 2oz, 50cm length, 35cm head circ. Was born tongue tied which gave my nipples absolute HELL!!! Had cracked and bleeding nipples by day 2! got some hero nipple shields and used them off/on till they both healed up. Got the tongue snipped a week ago and feeding has been bliss since. Feeding sometimes every hour or two or three or four or five(rare but at night its lovely) She seems to do a bit of a squirt of poo in each nappy i change.. she seems to like to save them up for a complete nappy and all job!!(even with huggies it goes everywhere)
With bub and i coming home early i opted to have 3 home visits by the visiting midwives and then had one with the MCHN. The visiting midwives were a bit nicer than my MCHN.. i think im fine on my own, went thru the GP with tia when she was little.. So wondering alot of whether its worth it.. (my GP is only a short walk away) hubby says shes just concerned bout Alyssa and i should go.. but if im fine with how Alyssa is going why do i have to go to convince someone else? MCHN has said shes fine if i want to go GP... i asked if i could do one of their come in and weigh days and apparently i have to go to one of their formal appts before that.. (sorry bout the rant) If its one thing i hate its inflexibilty and 'procedure'. whats everyone else opted to do?
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