Cassie – we start our talks/Mother’s Group next Monday. Our first one is on settling too. I hope it’s as good as yours was.
Roya – Danielle does this to me too. On Saturday she had about 3 catnaps for about 20 minutes for the whole day from about 7am to 9pm. She was grizzly the whole day but yesterday all she wanted to do was eat and then go to sleep. We have those long sleepy feeds about 8pm every night. She wants something before she goes to bed but it takes forever so I take it from her and she grizzles and then goes to sleep. They are so annoying! The other night I did hear her do a few noises that woke me up about 11pm and 12am but she didn’t cry out for a feed until 1.30am.
Fee – I’m not sure if Danielle’s a laugh either. She does this weird sound with a sort of a smile. I’m not sure what she’s doing or thinking. Danielle has had those days too and those blue murder screams are horrible and make me want to cry. Cooper must have been drained. How was he the next day?
Kylie – you are so lucky that they found out about Emma not fitting through your pelvis. I apparently have the same problem but I went through with a vaginal birth but had complications at the end with Danielle being stuck and being twisted and pulled from me. She ended up with a broken shoulder bone but she’s fine now and been given the all clear.
Kel – yay for your milk supply!! I’m thinking about giving up as I love going out with her and we have such hectic lives even before then. I think that’s probably why it’s really dropped off for me and I always hated the thought of Bfing in public. Charlotte’s doing very well!!
Cle – don’t you love your hormones!! I try now to bite my lip now but it’s so hard at times. Sorry no pain in my tailbone. Sounds like Ben’s going thru a growing stage!!
Tanya – we’ve decided for condoms for now too. I didn’t want the hormones that are in the pills to go into the breast milk which does happen but there is no research that shows it’s harmful but I don’t want to risk it. I had a bit of a lecture at the doctors the other day about using just condoms about then not being 100% safe but is anything?? I wanted to have a go at him but decided to just sit there and nod. With the mini pill you only have a 3 hour span to remember to take it compared to the pill which has a 12 hour span. Too risky for me too!! Lucas is just beautiful!!
We had a good day on Saturday. The Baby Expo was great!! Got heaps of freebies!! I’ve learnt from a MW at the expo that I need to have pelvic xrays before I have our next one to see if my pelvis is big enough or if Danielle was just presenting funny and that’s why we have troubles. At least someone explained things to me and not just saying I need a Caesar. But I did get some sad news. I found out that my SIL had a miscarriage between last Christmas and New Year. She told me and our other friend that went with us over a coffee while I fed Danielle. She didn’t tell me she was pregnant but for some reason on New Year’s Eve I got the feeling she was but she was actually loosing right then. She found out Christmas Eve on a home test but a few days later she started to bleed and lost it. She said she didn’t want to tell me as I was only 11 weeks at Christmas and 12 weeks at New Year and she didn’t want to upset me as I lost one before Danielle. I don’t know if I should feel upset or angry that she tiptoed around me. But I’m glad she has told me now. She would’ve been due about now if she carried. It’s so sad that I couldn’t been there for her the way she was with me.
Ken and I had a massive fight again on Friday. He started at me about not cleaning the house and that the house looks like a pigsty. I lashed back and told him it quit his job and look after Danielle fulltime and you see what it’s like. I cried and cried and cried. After I washed Danielle and started to serve dinner he came in with her and gave me a massive hug and said he was sorry with tears running down his face. He felt so guilty that he has helped me clean up the house over the weekend and helped with night nappy changes while I’ve been getting her bottle ready. I think he realised over the weekend when I’ve left him to look after her for a while while I did something else that it’s not that easy. Yesterday we went out for breakfast with just the 3 of us (Danielle sleeping luckily) to a place just up the road which was lovely.
Enough bad news – I got good news from my brother – he’s off his charges!! Apparently there’s not enough evidence that he did it and the girl’s story keeps changing so they’ve dropped the charges!! It becomes official this Thursday. He’s back to himself again!! So so happy!!
Danielle’s checkup went OK with the Health Nurse. She came up with the same as the doctor:
Weight – 4.74 kilos or 10lbs 7oz
Height – 54cm
Head – 37cm
She thinks they measured her wrong at birth but that’s definitely the measurements. She doesn’t smile that much if any at all which the nurse was concerned about but she does things that a 3 month old would do like suck her hand and reconise her hand which she did infront of the nurse. I hope there’s nothing wrong with her. She’s made me all concerned now. When did your babies start smiling heaps? She also seems to think that she’s got a lazy eye. Her eyes aren’t central if that makes sense and it could be a lazy eye. If it’s not normal by 3 months she’s being shipped off to a specialist. She’s made me so worried things aren’t right. I’ve been trying to notice things more but her smiling doesn’t happen – she just stares at me and her eyes are off center.
At least she sleeps well at night and even puts herself to sleep. I feed her and burp her, put her in her cradle awake and she puts herself to sleep after about 15 minutes! She’s lovely in that way I don’t really settle her too much at all!! That’s one thing I’ve learnt over the last few expos – that they need to learn to put themselves to sleep. Danielle does it perfectly!!
I better go. Sorry it’s so long – so much to say! Off to physio today to see if I'm going back into shape the right way!!
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