Em Sorry to hear about your friend, that makes me feel sick too.
Bubs Hope Danielles check up goes well.
Fee Dylan's been smiling too but have yet to quite capture it on camera. He especially smiles with his mouth full of nipple or when I call him cheeky cheeky and stroke his little chubby cheek, so cute!
Shellbabe and Fee I have been using a nipple shield since coming home from hospital and try to latch Dylan on without it and it works for a bit and then he will slip off and get too frustrtaed to get back on withiout it. I think I am going to keep using it as long as my baby is being fed I can't see the harm. I too have flat and very senstivie nipples so I think it is the only way I can do it. Is there any harm in using them does anyone know????
Went to a settling talk put on by the local Maternal Child Health centre on Tuesday which was pretty good and gave a few good tips that I didn't know already like stroking the babies forehead down to the tip of the nose helps them to relax and close their eyes, and it works! Also I have been wrapping Dylan wrong apparantly and now have two different ways of swaddling to use, one with hands in and one with hands out. The MCHN that ran the talk also talked about looking after yourself and taking time out when your are feeding to look at your baby and talk to your baby which I hadn't been doing always, I had been doing it with the TV on or during a phone call and now I am really trying to just concetrate on my baby and look at him heaps and now I realise that if his eyes are open he looks at me a lot which I had been missing out on.
I have had a bit of nappy brain I put my nipple shields and some of Dylans dummies on the stove to boil the other night and forgot them and only when I could hear some crackling noises coming from the kitchen did i run down to find the water all gone and the shields and dummies melted into the pot. So that all went in the bin and then started the water works as all of my nipple shields were in the pot so I was then saying to DH that I couldn't feed my baby waaaaaa. DH wanted to go out and buy some more (9pm at night) but I calmed down and fed him a bit on the nipple and expressed some milk and fed him with the bottle as well. I also made thew house stink of nelkted latex plus I nearly set the house on fire. What a drama!
Does anyone elses babies spew after every feed, I am wondering if this is reflux?
It's amazing how tuned in to new things you become after having a baby. I was in our local shopping centre yesterday and saw a mother with a pram panicking that she'd lost her toddler. I nearly cried there and then with her (thinking what if it happened to me) and couldn't relax until her little boy was found several minutes later.
Sarina is now 6 weeks old and has had a strange week this week. She's had a couple of really unsettled days where she couldn't sleep from 10am until around 8pm - no naps at all - alternating with a really good textbook baby day - sleep for at least an hour, feed happily and play for a while....and then dropping off to sleep easily.
It's was so hard when she didn't sleep at all. Last evening she slept on my chest for a couple of hours and made some really painful screaming cries but in her sleep.
Does anyone else's little one scream out in their sleep?
She also was a really 'efficient' feeder (quick to jump on, feed well then jump off) until about 4 days ago and has started to get really sleepy at each feed and taking twice as long. Not sure why she's changed - has anyone else had that experience?
Has anyone's baby laughed yet? Cooper does this sound exactly like a laugh but it's usually when he's drifting off to sleep in my lap after a feed (when he's dozy). It's very weird but it sounds so much like a real laugh. I can see the smile on his face too.
Bubseykel – How did Danielle's 6 week check up go?
Cassie – Cooper smiles during feeds too! It is a very cheeky smile!
Yay for another nipple shield user! You have made me feel a lot better. The only harm I have been told about using a nipple shield is that it can decrease your milk supply as the baby is not directly stimulating the breast. I have a lot of milk though so there shouldn't be a problem for me yet.
The midwives at the hospital who gave me the nipple shield said I do not need to sterilise it. Just to wash it in hot water with detergent and then store it in a container in the fridge. I only have the one shield and often wonder what would happen if it broke or something. DH would have to run out and get me another!
Wow that's cool about the tip to stroke baby from forehead to nose because my DH has been doing that! I don't know where he picked it up from! But it works most of the time on Cooper.
No Cooper doesn't spew that much so I can't help you out with that question.
RoyaUK – I have noticed that Cooper's "routine" has changed that many times it's not funny. I think it's pretty normal. For a while he was doing 40 minute feeds and now he's doing 10 minute feeds. Then one week he was great at sleeping during the day and now he's usually unsettled in the mornings. I'm just getting used to it!
good morning ladies and bubs ... hope we all have a good weekend.
Cassie - I bought a steriliser because I knew that would be me or if we got a microwave one I would cook it (as we use our m'wave as convection oven all the time too and I turn it on to preheat without looking).At least you could express - so frustrating though to 'cook' them.
Joel - has a little chuck(or big) every feed and sometimes a bit more later. Taking him to chiropractor Monday to see if helps - sure he has reflux.I have tried the nipple shield with him but he still isn't that interested.So it is still EBM for him. One bonus is that DH feeds him overnight.I stay in bed and feed Sammy.
We have no routine - go with the flow or whoever is crying loudest goes first,a bath whenever I fit it in or when DH comes home.They are fairly settled and I haven't had many hair pulling moments yet.
FeeI had no idea that a shield can decrease your supply. I am having supply issues at the 6ish and 9ish feed of a night and sometimes have to top him up with formula. I am going to call ABA for some advice. I thought Dylan laughed the other day but DH said it wasn't a laugh.
Roya Sarina could be going through her 6 week growth spurt.
Babyamore It was very frustrating to cook all of them oh well. We went and looked at sterilizers but DH thought they were too expensive, though cheaper than replacing our flat if I burn it down!
Cassie, do a Google search on "nipple shield". There is lots of information.
Although one website says "Milk supply may slowly decline over time if the baby is not well attached." So I guess if attachment is good then there should be no problems?
Most things I've read say you should wean off the shield in just one or two weeks. Hmmm well that hasn't happened with me!
I bought a steriliser because I knew that would be me or if we got a microwave one I would cook it (as we use our m'wave as convection oven all the time too and I turn it on to preheat without looking).At least you could express - so frustrating though to 'cook' them.
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