Babies Born July 2007 #3

Nicki, you do sound like you guys are cruising along. good job, does this mean you forgive him for keeping you waiting for so long to meet him.

Veronica, how do you go lying down and feeding? Late at night, I've considered giving it a bash, just 'cause my head is tired and wants to plop down, but I would have no idea how to go about it.

Jemima, I hope I never have to meet your friend, if she's in intensive care. iykwim. and yeah i think 2 is about my limit atm, 'cause I've found that if he's really struggling, like we have been in the car going home, and he'll be starving, the crying really starts to get to me, and I start feeling sad, 'cause I can't fix the problem. must be hormones.

How is everyone else going? I must have no life, 'cause I seem to have more time to get on here now, than I did before xaviers arrival

Rebecca - I love lying down and feeding - it is so much more relaxing so I try and do it whenever I can. I just lie on my side and charlotte lies on her side and latches on. I also found that feeding Jesse like this (who was a nightmare feeder) was a lot easier - he seemed to find it easier to cope with the fast milk supply I had going on.

Hi everyone.
Yeah for netball- twilight starts here in a month or two, so am playing that. Missed out on this years winter comp :( casue by 6 weeks post pg the comp will have finished.

I really want to frrd laying down on my side to, but have tried it a couple of times and found it uncofortable, will keep trying though- I cant seem to find anywhere to put my arm that I am laying on.

Sporty chick- welcome- I saw that you were going to go to the meet up at fairfield as well. soory you cant make it- would have been good to meet with someone with the same age bubba.

Today is Kaetlyns 1 month birthday- and I have spent it...... in my pj's:cry: We had such a busy weekend that I had really bad headaches from lack of sleep- so said to aaron today- today is my rest day- hes made me breakky, lunch and prob dinner. I went to watch a movie on foxtel, but fell alseep, and had another big nap while kaetlyn was asleep in her rocker beside me. Ohhh i am really going to miss him when he goes back to work next week :doh: not sure what I will do- will be good to get myself into a little bit of a routine though.

Rebecca-maybe we should organise a chat catchup -like the good old times just before the bubbas all arrived!!! woould be fun.

Have to go- someone is stirring for a feed....

Oh and to rub things in Kaetlyn sleept from 10.30 until 4 am this morning and her last feed beofre that was 8.30!!! I was impressed, but had to wake her up cause I thought my boobies were going to explode!!!! TMI of spilt milk everywhere!!!

Well, so far today, I have been logged onto the live chat for most of the arvo, since my mum left at 2 and nathan went back to work at 2.30.

I even fed xavier while chatting, one handed of course.

Rebecca - Pretty much I just layed on my back and put Avaleigh's tummy against my tummy. Latching on was a little more difficult but I just lifted Avaleigh's body up and then back down to get her to latch on - she is pretty good at latching on by herself!! I first had her body in a straight line with mine but found I was supporting her tummy and probably squashing the lil thing! So I moved her so she was kinda diagonal across my body, this way I just had to support her head cause as she got sleepy, her head was pulling my nipple down!

I got some really good burps out of Avaleigh feeding her that way, but they were followed by her milk!! So it was kinda messy and she still came off screaming but she has been asleep now for 2 hrs! Not to most settled sleep as she keeps on stirring but she is getting some rest.

Jem - yeh I found myself a bit down yesterday and was nearly in tears but I called my mum up and spoke to her and felt better. I jsut got to remember that if I am down then I have to talk to someone or even just leave Avaleigh with my mum so I can have a bit of time to myself. And yes, we have been using the magic juice. She's been on it for 2 weeks I think and it has helped with the burping and I hope that the nice peppermint flavour hopes settle her tummy too.

Sportychick - Welcome to the thread!!

Well I have gotten my dinner ready for tonight. We are having chicken with chese and ham in the middle with potato bake. I've decided that it would be best for us if I made dinner that could be prepared earlier and then just thrown in the oven when we were ready to eat cause I got no idea how the evenings are going to be.

How's everyone's tummy going??? I was laying on the floor yesterday and poking my tummy and it is soooo flabby! And then Jason came over and starting poking me and making my belly wobble and I laughed sooo hard!! And the fact that my bely was wobbling made me laugh even more!!

Jason is feeling pretty sorry for himself because he is sick and he doesnt want to go any where near Avaleigh. He was watching me earlier while I was holding Avaleigh after a feed and he said he wishes he could hold her!! I said, YES I wish you could too!

Sorry for the selfish post, but we've had a terrible day. Alessia has refused my breasts...I'm devastated :(

Well finally i have found you all here !! its been a full on couple of weeks !
So glad to read that most of you are going well... and our babies are all thriving

Fran ... *hugs* i saw your other post and didnt really have anything to add to the advise you have been given but i can only imagine how awful that must be for you . I hope that Alessia starts attaching again soon for you. BTW your princess is gorgeous.

things are going really well with Kai . to be honest i am having more probs with luke being out of sorts and now sick ! he has a temp and cold and is miserable.
I have the sore throat too so am just hoping that Kai avoids it all !!
He is waking 1 or 2 times during the night for feeds and settles ok usually ... wth a bit of effort.
During the day he is a feeding machine and is putting on weight like you wouldnt believe. Shane called him Kai the Pork Pie before LOL
But after the feeding issues i had with luke i am feeling so happy with the way its going with him.

Not sure if i actually belong in this thread being that Kai was born in August but i am sure i can still post here ?

Hope you are all well and will have to find time to read back and see how everyone is going.

Oh Fran HUGS!!!! sorry ur having probs... hopefully everything settels down adn she jumps back on in no time!!

HI to everyone else!!!

My little boy has been sooooo good today, so I'll probably have a bad night tonight! lol

Here's to lots of sleep for you all!

Hugs

*hugs* Fran - I hope Alessia is just having ann off day and will soon go back to breastfeeding.

Jane - you sure do belong here so dont go any where!! We spent the last 9 months together so we are now going to spend our babies lives together! :)

Well Avaleigh has just spent the last few hours crying and screaming and has just settled and gone to sleep on my chest. I probably caused her her pain tho cause she wanted a feed when dinner was ready, so I fed her but didnt do our usual sit still in one place for 30 mins. Wont be doing that again!

Hugs, fran, I know everything will be alright. good luck and we are always here there is no such thing as a selfish post

varonica, it's great that the feeding laying down is working for you. hmm, might have to try that. I tried the other way on our sides last night, 'cause i was so tired i just needed to lay down. semi successful.

jane, i am sticking around in here. but i do also drop into the august thread

nicki, xavier was really good yesterday, last night was hard, i hope you had a better one.

i hope everyone else is hanging in there.

well happy birthday to me i have a fidgety baby!
I was kind of hoping that he might give me a smile for my birthday, but all I'm getting is pooey nappies
might head off for a walk, as it's a nice day!

Happy Birthday Rebecca!!!! Hope you're having a great day and that Xavier gives you a little smile, even if it's because he has wind! *hehe*

Veronica, sounds like you're having a tough time of it, but you're being the best mummy to Avaleigh that you can. That is what I have to keep telling myself with Alessia. It's just tough when our bubs can't speak to us huh? *hugs*

Nicky, lucky you for Lachlan behaving like a little prince! I know that if Alessia sleeps well during the day, we're in for a shocker at night!

Jane, you definitely belong here!!!! *lol* Cos if you don't, neither do I!!! I hope Luke gets better soon!

Well, my breastfeeding journey with Alessia is all over the place. She took a boob at her last feed which is great, but I know it's just the beginning. Hopefully she'll continue to feed like she has been doing previously. Pumping every 3 hours, then taking 1 hour to feed via syringe is tiring :(

thanks fran. your right that one boobie feed is just the beginning, it's the beginning of heaps more!! your doing a great job!!

i get heaps of the windy smiles I want a real one :lol:

well our walk took us all the way to the shops, where we stoped at pumpkin patch, and i bought him a present. tell you what i'm buggered after the walk

Fran- can you express and use a bottle rather than a syringe? My DH gave Sebastian a bottle of expressed milk when he was 1 week old because I had some evening work for a couple of hours. He fed really happily from the bottle. It may help you with top ups etc to give it from a bottle until she will take the breast again?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REBECCA!


Sorry you had a bad night last night. OUrs was pretty good here. He's getting to be such a good little boy now.

Fran, you are doing such a good job! If I had have encountered problems, I don't know what I would have done. Good luck and I hope Alessia gets booby hungry big time again soon!!

Well, tomorrow is d day! We see the pead at the hospital for the final results of the scanLach had last week... scary. I know all will be fine, but its still a bit freaky. Oh and more portraits getting done tomorrow. This poor child is going to be all photoed out very very soon. This is aour 4th lot of professional photos!! hehe

Another good day today. Little man is starting to get the hang of going to sleep on his own. Only getting one little grizzle out of him, I replace his dummy, then he's out like a light. Hopefully this keeps up. Bet it doesnt.

I have noticed that my milk has setteled alot! Still a little squirty but nothing compared to what it has been. Hopefully it has all sorted out very very soon.
Have 4 week appt with MCHN this Friday! OMG my boy will be one month old on Saturday!!!!! There's my first big mile stone down! woohoo!!

Anyway, enough dribble from me. Hope you have all had a great day, adn heres some sleep vibes for tonight!!!!

Hugs

Hi girls

Just a quick one from me.

Happy birthday Rebecca. Hope you had a lovely day!

Fran - thinking of you and I hope Alessia is back on the boob. Hang in there sounds like things re on the improve.

Me - not much to report. Oliver and Jesse were in child care today so it was a lovely, quiet day. I finally got all the photos printed off from when Charlotte was born which was an achievement!! Now I just have to put them in an album - who knows how long it will be until I get around to that LOL!!!

I had best run as all saints in on and I need to vege out for a while. BTW I weighed myself this morning and gee wizz I have to get into gear and do some exercise. I dont have heaps to lose but I definitely weighed more than I thought I would, so hopefully the weigh in was enough to give me a bit of motivation. I wont hold my breath though LOL!!

Best run. Take care everyone
Jem

Hi everyone

Happy Birthday Rebecca! I hope you're having a good one.

Fran - I hope that you and Alessia get the breastfeeding happening again. :)

Jane - I am sticking around here and Diana is a June bub, so you should definitely stay too.

Hi to everyone else. Hope you are having a good evening.

I sometimes feed lying down on my side as well. I put the arm that I am resting on under a pillow and put my head on the pillow. I doesn't usually get too uncomfortable.

Diana was a bit challenging this evening. She has been quite unsettled. It seemed that she wanted to feed, but wasn't too interested in the breast and would just play with it. Every time I put her down she would start squirming and crying within a few minutes. I finally put her in the Baby Bjorn carrier and proceeded to heat up some EBM, so that she could drink from the bottle as my breasts had had it... But when the milk was heated and I gave it to her she didn't want it! :wall: I put her back in the carrier and did some housework and finally she fell asleep. She awoke just recently and thankfully wanted the bottle. She's crying again now, so I am off to change her nappy. She is still weeing in the potty and getting better at it, e.g. she often cries when I hold her over it, until she starts weeing, then calms down. Amazing. She's so clever.

Good night everyone. :)

OK, I am back now after a pretty hard core week woth sickies in the house & Zyons screaming non stop for 5 days...
Seems we got into a bad cycle of feeding him on top of painful wind causing more pain etc, etc & so the rollercoaster just continued! As he was getting so much Foremilk it was passing through his system too fast & causing acidic reaction in his gut & therefore acid poo which in turn blistered his butt!
I had his MCHN check up yesterday & in 11 days he gained 540g, so he is getting plenty of the good stuff, as my supply was so strong & fast it also caused him to take in air which made for painful tummy!
So I have stopped feeding every time he screamed & proceeded to burp him or bike pedal his little legs & the last 3 nights he has slept 5ish hours & then 4hours between feeds, but last night he slept in his hammock, rather than in with me!
I had really become quite down as Indah & hubby were really ill too, so I was just a sooking, blubbering exhausted mess. So Veronica I am on my 3rd & it's still all an emotional time, I thought i knew how to look after my babies, but he was/is different to the girls..
It's all trial & error, but if I dont get a good burp outta him, he simply will not settle for long!!!
On Sunday an elderly Balinese lady dropped in some Balinese oil for helping stomach wind & we massage this into his tummy after a bath & at every second nappy change & it has helped he farts heaps more!
I am just glad we seem to be getting through that bit & now I can deal with 4-5 hourly feeds at night, not up every 25mins jiggling him to get wind out for hours on end around the clock!!!

Jane you know you need to stay here hun, we want you too!

Sorry everyone else i gotta get brekky for the kids & Maddy ready for school!!!!

hi all

nicki your a very lucky mummy!! I hope the appt goes well.

jemima, the weight there is no hurry. that's what I'm telling myself. But I walk everywhere so I'm hoping it will just melt off me.

Thanks for the happy birthdays ladies

Tracey, your a star!! I don't know how you managed to get through your week!! A sick man, a sick toddler and a windy little man. Yay, Zyon is gaining weight really well, and 5 hours and fours hours. I'm usually pretty happy if we get that, and sleeping by himself even better. I know how much you getting sleep will help sooo very much.

Well us, last night was a 100% improvement on the previous night. Mum suggested going for a walk as the fresh air during the day might help him to sleep at night. So we were going for a short walk and ended up at the shops (which is not a short walk) bought my man a present on my birthday (with money I'd been given to spend on myself lol) at pumpkin patch. It just meant he had an outfit to wear when we went to grans for my birthday tea. he was so cute. Nathan was laughing at me 'cause he thought I was dressing him up like he was a doll! but my mum and my sis thought he was just gorgeous and my sis was doing the same faces I had made lol.
Anyway he went to sleep at 9pm, and didn't wake till 3am, 6 hours!! even then he was still really sleepy when I fed and changed him, and he fell back to sleep no worries, and slept until 7.30, when daddy got him up. I didn't even hear him then, 'cause nathan was already up for work.

Consequently, after me getting a total of 8 hours sleep, I'm a new women. I didn't even get teary when nathan left for work this morning, like I have the last 2 days.

Everyone take care. we are going shopping today!! spend my birthday $$