Babies Born in June 2006 #4

[enigma]

Dee - im sorry to hear your having problems I can only imagine how frustrating it must be , but he is beautiful.... and im sure it will pass... dont forget that when your up trying to calm him down , half of us are probably doing the same with our babies - that thought always helps me...good luck!!... we are here to vent to

[Smoke Jaguar]

500!!! yay! But I'm still a Kidlet...I tells ya what, I feel like I've posted 5000 times, not a mere 500...
All is well as far as the maternal nurse is concerned, with Oscar.
Got to visit my pony today - he's got a really, really raw wither rub (bad mummy!) but it's not as bad as one I saw a few years ago that got really feral. For the non-horsey, the wither is the point where the neck meets the back and shoulders, or the bottom of the mane - if it gets a little bony then a heavy duty rug can lay too heavily on it and rub the skin off...ouch! DP was wondering why he was so antsy walking down the hill, but that would be why. Anyway, I fed Oscar in the sunshine there and did something really clever - I walked and fed at the same time! My horse looks like a bag of bones for being so out of work, so I'll need to get some weight on him and his muscles a bit more toned before I get on him - just as well he's out of shape or I'd be doing something silly like hopping on this week...
My cold has gone away - I told it to and it listened! However, DP has got one now,and he sounds sick, too.
Back to getting a frozen dinner unfrozen...

[Dee78]

Thanks for your advice lovely ladies, i really dont know what else to do, i am going to try to get a referall to tresillian and see if they can help me, if i thought he was just unsettled and whingy then it wouldnt bother me so much , i know that he is getting terrible wind pains cause he will be ok one minute and then break out into a scream the next and curl his little legs up into his chest, it breaks my heart.

i posted in the breastfeeding section and got a reply to say that maybe i have a quick letdown and because im persisting and keeping him on the breast he is getting too much and getting wind hence the pains! it does make sense, when i was in the hospital the midwives told me that a feed should last one hour. does this seem right?

Everyone is telling me to 'just put him on the bottle' but if i do that and i find out that its not really a feeding issue i will be devastated, i feel that when im feeding him its 'our' time, breastfeeding is the one thing that only i can do for my child and no one can take that away from me, i feel like if i put him on a bottle we wont bond. i know its silly and most of my friends bottle feed their kids and believe me they have all bonded with their children. I really dont know why i feel this way.

IK- what you said about your friends breastmilk sounds interesting, do you know how they discovered this? how do you test your breastmilk to find out if its an allergy? it would make sense though.

Bath - i know, my ticker picture says it all doesnt it? we hardly have any photos of him because whenever he is awake he is crying and they arent nice piccies to have. Most of our pictures are of him sleeping!!

[*Ali*]

Cee-Cee: I am still spotting and Tori is over 4 weeks old now, I think the bleeding can last up to 6 weeks

Bath- We paid $50 for Tori's Birth certificate, and that included a standard certificate and a cememorative one as well. To just get the normal one was going to be $40 so we decided for the extra $10 we would get both.

Dee- Glad to hear that Lochie has been doing slightly better- good on you for perservering with the breast feeding, hopefully things will sort themselves out really quickly.

Neeny- I hear ya on the haemorroids, I have gotten some cream for mine but am a bit slack putting it on. I cant believe how painful they are.

Tanya- Maybe just get some new clothes from somewhere like Crossroads or Supre where they are not so exspensive and hopefully they will tie you over for a few months. I had to get a couple pairs of pants and a couple of tops because I had NOTHING at all to wear, and the clothes I wore during pregnancy were just old clothes I had from before I lost weight. I will hopefully be in better shape by summer so I can get some new clothes then.

Well we have had a really unsettled baby for the last 24 hours, we took her up to the country to a family 21st on Saturday and since then I have had a really hard time settling her and putting her down. Last night she only slept in 2.5 hour stints, and today she will go to sleep while i am cuddling her but she will not let me put her down. I am seriously thinking of investing in a sling so that Ican still do stuff at home when she wont let me put her down. I have a baby carrier like the baby bjorn, but I think a sling would be more appropriate for promoting sleep. Does anyone else use a sling and what type would you recommend?

Anyway Munchkin awake again after 10 mins sleep, I might take her in the shower and get her to relax.

[Smoke Jaguar]

Clothes - If you really need to get a couple of items to spruce up a temporary wardrobe, get thee to Kmart and Myer. Cheap clothes that will tide you over till the next season when you're smaller again I have a small supply now of crossover tops that serve well during the day...and I keep them on to wear with my PJ pants at night for quick night access! Myer has some basics tops for $10, so I have some of them, too.
Ali - can personally recommend the Hug a Bub - don't know of any sling that will hold your baby closer to you, and Oscar knocks off to sleep SO quickly in it. You can tuck them right in so that when you move or bend over you don't have to have a free hand to keep hold of them.
Cee Cee - my linea nigra is still there
Milk spurting - I let this go and don't reattach Oscar till it has stopped pouring either into an Avent storage cup or onto a towel! There's no point trying to get him back on cos it's too slippery, and too voluminous for him to cope with. And I know there's plenty more milk where that came from, too.
Oscar is crying now and DP is trying to comfort him - I'll see if I can be of any assistance, without stepping on any toes