Babies Born June 1st - 15th 2008

[rufalina]

Hi girls...

Sorry I have taken a few days to reply... between the forum issues and mummy-hood get a bit hard to post!!!

Rochelle - Congrats on avoiding that induction. What a good bubs!!! How are you coping alone this week? My DH is still off this week and I would be going insane without having him around.

Sammy - Hi there. Congrats to you too. Have to love mums. Mine is due to visit next week and I am looking forward to being spoiled! Great news re your feeding.

cj and I are doing well. He is feeding like a trooper and is now back to above his birth weight!! but we are now battling with wind.. poor little guy, hopefully we can get past this soon.

xo

[RochelleW]

YAY!!! DP went to work on Monday and discovered that everything's been going really well without him so he organised some more work for his crew and came home for the rest of this week!!!

Cooper had his first check up with the early childhood nurse... omg he's put on a phenomenal amount of weight! birth weight last monday was 3.8kg, last thursdaywhen we came home he was 3.5kg and yesterday he weighed in at a whopping 4.06kg!!! lol I knew we weren't having any dramas with the breastfeeding but I wasn't expecting that!!!

Sammy, lucky you having your mum around, mine is soooo far away

Ruf, how's cj going with the wind?

Quick question, how long are you guys getting between feeds? Cooper's really strange, he feeds every 2hrs in the morning and gradually it stretches out through the day to about every 4 hrs overnight then back to 2hrs every morning!!!

[rach2281]

hi everyone, my little girl, Lilli Eileen, arrived on the 15th June. She was 2 1/2 wks early, ive still got to post my birt story up.

[RochelleW]

Hi Rach, Congrats on the arrival of Lilli! I haven't done my birth story either, lol i guess i should cos it's all becoming a bit of a blur already!

[Missy]

Hi ladies

First off congrat to you all.

Ruf hun just wanted to come and see how little Callum is doing. Poor little man and his wind. That is the worst big as we cant really do anything to help them. Im so happy your little man is here and your a mummy now....wooohoo. I wont be long now. 2 weeks and 6 days to go before my c-section.

Ok take care all.

xx

[SammyRo]

Hiya Rach - congrats on your little one! how are things going?

Rochelle - its excellent that hubby got more time off! mine went back ft this wk, and so far so good. today is the test though - he had a full day at work then he was home for an hour and has since rushed off for hockey practice, and won't be back till 9, so i'm on my own all evening. can't complain too much as he's should train twice a week but has dropped it back to just 1, and also he's no longer umpiring at the weekend so he's got more time at home (I used to be a hockey widow!)
with the feeding, Alyssa is feeding 3-4 hours in the morning, and they then get closer in the afternoon, so by the evening she's feeding every 1-2 hours until about 10pm, then she goes anyway from 5-8 hours, depending on how frequent she feed in the evening (the closer together the feeds, the longer she then goes over night).
Its great that Cooper and CJ are up to birth weight - Alyssa's not quite there yet, but the first weekend we were home, she did lose more than the 10% that they like them to, due to the jaundice and feeding difficulties, so the midwife said not to worry and that she would prob be back up next week - she's bright and alert, and is weeing and pooing lots so the mw said she's getting plenty of milk.
Ruf: hows the wind going? Alyssa begun to be a bit refluxy after some feeds - it tends to be when she feeds first off the left and i notice that she tends to gulp more on that side so I don't know if maybe my flow is faster so this might be causing it. Its really hard because I can see she is quite uncomfortable and agitated with it but i can't do anything about it. Have you found a way to deal with CJ's wind?

[RochelleW]

Hey guys, how's everyone going? This week's been a bit of a reality check for me. DP went back to work and I've been pretty isolated out here on the farm, we've had miserably cold weather so I've been a bit hesitant about taking Cooper anywhere (although I went to town twice this week) and we're so far out of town that nobody's come to see me. DP and I also had THAT argument... you know, he got home from work and the house was a mess and I basically handed him Cooper who'd been crying all day and said here, you deal with him, I need some time out.
He got kinda cranky cos he leaves home at 5.15am and gets back at 7pm and we just blued cause I was saying I was tired and he was telling me to toughen up, he's tired too. it's funny how childish an argument can get when you're tired, I ended up in tears cause he doesn't even stir during the night while I'm up, but honestly, why should he? He can't feed him for me, and he does have business as usual all day, lol international mining companies don't really care about how much sleep one man is getting!

Anyway, we're over it now (hehe he did the washing up...) and everything's back to ok. It's funny how even though you know nobody's expecting you to be wonderwoman you still feel guilty when you're not!

Sorry about the big whinge, hope everyone's doing ok and Alyssa, Lilli and CJ are feeding well!