Babies Born July 2007 #19

[~*Niadalla*~]

Sacha - I feel just about out of milk too.... and Lach still wakes a bit at night. I had 24 hours of not feeding him, and I filled up heaps in that time, having to express every 5 hours cos I was in pain. I really thought I didn't have that much milk. Then when I got home, He has been a bit fussy at the boob, I would say because my supply has altered a little. Last night I did have to resort to giving him a bottle of formula. It's all good now though, because I still have some motillium left, and have been taking it, and this morning I was leaking, so supply is getting good again
I comp fed for a few months a while back, and while most of the time, that doesn't help your supply, it did end up helping me to continue.
If you really want to keep going, you can get fenugreek tablets from a health food store. They are my backup for when I run out of motillium. I haven't used them yet, but apparently they work a charm.

I have used 2 different formulas. Heinz nurture is a fantastic formula to start off with. I have heard nothing but fantastic reveiws about it, and Lach loved it. There were no probs swapping between that and breastmilk. We ended up having to switch (which really probably wasn't the formula, but we changed anyway), as Lach was having a few constipation issues. We went to NAN Gold, with bifidus. Lach had no trouble changing, and this has helped a bit with his poo issues, but much the same as before. The prce differences are amazing between the 2. NAN is around $24 a tin, where as Heinz is around $10 - $13, but I got 3 tins on special for $6 from coles
I think the heinz is a better formula, and we should have stayed on it, because it's not the formula that's the issue, it's my child. lol

Either way, you have done a fantastic job bfing this far!!! WELL DONE! If you can keep going, awesome. If you can't, that's cool too! Autie has had a fantastic start and you should be very proud of the both of you

Emma - The words here are a plenty. Lachlan is avery talkative boy. He says 'mum' 'dad' 'bub' and we get some other noises... 'gah' 'yea''raa'. He just says whatever he feels like and is very unpredictable. He went off saying dad for about a month. When he wants my attention, he will just call out 'aaaaaaaaaa' very directly.
I am a very talkative person, and I talk and sing to him alot. I have started reading books etc, but I think he has just got the noisyness from his mum

Well, sippy cups are going really well here, and last night Lach had plain water and gulped it all down. He liked it! He usually cracks it, 'gag's coughs and spits it out. So was pretty happy with that.
He has been having some thickened food, and last night, he got a jar of vegies (store bought) and was having a bit of trouble swallowing it. He didn't like the chunks of vegies. Lucky he doesn't normally eat them, but it makes me wrry a little that he will be a baby that's stuck on mashed foods for a while...
HOw has everyone progressed from puree to mash to chunky?? We haven't started toast yet, as I haven't done my shopping for the week. That will be on friday morning. Did everyone elses bubs take to toast straight away, or did they not really enjoy the texture?
I really need to stop reading. LOL I keep reading the things that could go wrong, and worrying that that is what will happen. SIlly brain.

ANyway, best be off. Lots of dishes to do as I got lazy last night.

Have a good day all.
xxoo

[July Mum]

Jess- Take care of yourself, sending you :hugs:

Sacha- Tayah has been on the Karicare Gold formula since 2 months old. She has a tongue tie and lip tie so she was never able to attach properly, I expressed every feed for her for the first 2 months but it all got a bit much and I wasnt enjoying being a mummy so I put her onto formula. We have never had a problem with constipation on Karicare gold but I have heard of other bubs having trouble with it. Tayah is having 4 bottles a day with 200mls in each. Congrats on been able to breastfeed for 9mths.

Sarah and Nicky- wow at all the words your bubs are saying already, thats awesom. We do lots of singing and reading too, and she's always chatting but is still only saying mum and random sounds. Im just wondering because of the tongue tie, the lady that done Tayahs hearing test when she was first born said that we will
know whether the tongue tie will cause speech problems by whether she can say dad or not (you use your tongue to say dad but not really for saying mum), and she said she should be saying it by about 8 months old.

We havnt started toast yet, im still trying to get Tahah use to lumps, she just wants everything pureed and spits any lumps she gets out. I have been giving her some finger food lately hoping that it might help with getting use to lumps and she has been going ok with them, just cooked pears, watermelon, banana and her rusks. So I might try some toast too.