Babies Born June 16th - 30th 2008

[Trillian]

This thread is for parents who's baby was born June 16th - 30th 2008

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum

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[jma]

Hi!

I guess I will be the first to post!!

Our son Flynn was born on the 17th June, 3 1/2 weeks early, via an emergency c-section.

So far he is doing really well. Feeding like a champion, sleeping really well and starting to have more awake periods.

He is a fantastice baby all round. Fingers crossed he stays like this!!

Jean

[EJM]

Hi,

Byron was born at home on 21st June.

He is gorgeous, a good feeder and sleeper, and a happy baby!

Mummy and Daddy are are settling in to parenthood really well...

the only issues we've had is that his little shooter likes to get mummy and daddy during a nappy change, which is just great at 2am cheeky little thing!

[Peach]

Hello!
Just wanted to pop in quickly and congratulate all the June 2008 Babies and their Families! My little Mackenzie was born in June 2007 and time fly's sooo quickly I can't believe she is 1, enjoy each precious moment they grow before you can even blink.

Congratulations and wishing you a full night sleep soon!!

[Serendypyty]

Hello,

I thought I would join this little club too!!

Josie Amelia Lily was born Monday 23 June 2008...she seems to be good at keeping up a routine and at the moment sleeps through for a good six hours at least during the night. I'm doing a lot better at parenting so far than I thought I would, and my hubby has been fantastic too

[satya]

Hi ladies,

Brock was born Monday 23rd June 2.11pm. 1 week 3 days early. 7 pound 13 ounces 49cm. Was a long labour with shoulder distocia and prolonged 2nd stage that resulted in a ventouse delivery so it was all a bit traumatic for bubs, mum and dad alike.

He ended up in the special care nursery due to an infection and jaundice and we finally got home on Saturday night. We had a lot of trouble getting him to attach to the breast after he got sick as he was so drowsy from the antibiotics and had to be woken for feeds. I have not been able to get him to attach to the breast since leaving hospital so am pumping (supposed to do it 4 hourly but am struggling with that) and topping him up with formula.

He's sleeping well but is waking at 3 or 4 hour intervals. He's a really quiet baby and mostly easy to work out what's wrong with him. Have had him in the bed in the middle of the night a couple of times when he just wouldn't settle.

He had a chucky day yesterday. Had to change him 3 times before DF had even woken up, but he managed to keep his food down for the rest of the day.

He seems quite alert today, just lying in his cradle with his eyes open and not crying. Hope he stays that way.

[Tan2705]

Hi Mummies

Cooper Axl was born on the 20 June! A big bubba boy weighing in at 4.356kg, 53cm long and one gorgeous 37cm head full of brown hair! Considering he was 10 days overbaked he came out perfect! He is a hell of a feeder (my nipples paid for it in the first few days when he was only get col) and sleeps like a champ!

Bit funny how much time before birth was spent online and now i can barely find 10 minutes to type an annoucement.. birth story will have to wait! Congrats on a successful homebirth Eustacia! Byron is such a beautiful big bubba!

Hugs, Kisses and Dribbles to all new mummies!

[satya]

I love the name you picked out Tan. It's so true about struggling to find time to post on here now. Think things will be pretty quiet in here for a while yet.

[Serendypyty]

Congratulations Tan, glad to hear everything went well.

[MummyDuck]

Eustacia: what a gorgeous pic!!!!!!!

Tan: Good to see a familiar name in here.

Everyone else HI!!

Taylor Elise was born on 22 June (one day before a scheduled Induction phew) at 8.51am after a 10 and a half hour labour. Unfortunately I dont think the labour needed to be that long and was very disappointed in my midwife giving me an epi at 9cm (I wasnt even screaming I was so politely asking to please make the pain go away - she could have told me to push or something rather then give an epi) and then leave me 2.5 hours at 10 cm without breaking my water or encouraging me to push when I felt pressure resulting in a last minute forcep delivery. My window of opportunity past me by without me even knowing there was such a thing.

Taylor sleeps through the night but at the moment is grizzly during the day and not sleeping at all unless I hold her. I found a white noise track on the internet that I might try tomorrow so i can get her to have a snooze while I do some cleaning.

We have had our ups and downs with bfing and due to forceps/epi she wasnt swollowing effectively and I ended up with bruised blistered nasty looking nipples but we are settling now and getting much more efficient. Although I couldnt help myself and we give her one formula feed at night. I intend to swap that for ebm but getting the time to express and expressing more then 30 mls at a time are proving to be a task.

Anyway before I write an epic I better go and start dinner with my wriggly bum baby in sling.

Hope everyone is well and busy I am sure!!!

[*Beema*]

Hi mums and bubs

My beautiful little girl Nakita Lily Robyn was born on th 30th June at 10:37pm, so we just sneak into this group! She was 6 weeks 4 days early, I was expecting to be in the August bubs!!

We are still in hospital, I am a border, I transferred from the Women's and Children's on Saturday with Nakita, omg she looks so tiny in the car seat, we went by cab with a MW and DH. We are now at the Private hospital where I had hoped to deliver, but she was too early.

Waters broke at 8:00pm driving home from yoga - how convenient, contractions started 40 min later, after numberous phone calls between me, obs and hospitals, we went to WCH, got there at 9:30, sent straight to delivery, she was born 1 hour later. Total 2.5 hour labour. Am planning to write a birth story, while I am in here!

She was 2.35kg, down to 2.17 atm, 45.5cm, 34.5 head circ.

Am pumping every 3 hours, last expression 90ml, but it varies, and it is hard work!! A constant 3 hour cycle of feeding, expressing (both bbs at once), eating, sleeping, I express extra so I can take the 3 am feed off, and she still gets EBM. She is now up to 50ml every 3 hours. She sleeps very well, v limited awake time each day, gets tired very easily, but she is learning to BF, using a nipple shield, last night a good 20 min latch and this morning 40 min!! It will be a lot easier when she is bfing more than once a day.

Most feeds are through a gavage tube and take about 40min atm.

We hope to be on 4 hourly feeds in few days, then she needs to be sucking well before we can go home.

Hope to get to know you all!!

Will do some personals later!!

[satya]

Smudgies mum - Congrats. At least you got an epi. I forgot to ask for one even though it was my intention to have one all though my pregnancy. Sounds silly but it's what happened. I did it on gas & peth (17 hours) and plan never to go through that again. It's a shame you ended up with a forceps delivery. We were headed there if the ventouse didn't work but thankfully it did. It's not nice when things don't exactly go to plan is it?

Beema - It's really hard doing 3 hourly feeds & expressing in hossy - that's what I was doing as well. Since coming home though we've been feeding on demand. You are doing really well managing to express 90mls. The best I think I've done is about 50ml. I have a pump I hired from hossy for another 4 weeks as Brock is no longer fond of breast feeding. He was using the nipple shield at hossy but pretty much stopped the minute we got home. I'm trying to express every 4 hours but haven't been managing to do it in the middle of the night, just too tired. I use whatever EBM I have then top up with formula after he finishes the EBM.

I feel like I've had a couple of decent nights sleep now. Mostly 3 hour sleeps but I got one 3 and a half hour sleep which was great. This morning started badly, going through 3 outfits for bubs as he kept chucking his milk up all over himself. He eventually kept some down him and we went for a visit in to my work where we got lots more pressies - all clothing, thankfully in bigger sizes as some of his 0000 stuff is already too tight. I guess that's a good thing.

The above post was last night.

Update: couldn't settle Brock last night so DF & I took him for a drive on Eastlink at 1.30 this morning. This then resulted in us all getting 5 straight hours of sleep. Yay.

[Serendypyty]

Smudgies Mum - congratulations on your little bubba!!

Beema - Wow, six weeks premature! Bet your bubba is tiny. Expressing is a bit annoying but I hvae been doing it after each feed for a few days now because of my poor nipples! I have a manual Avent pump and it has made things so much easier and quicker than hand expressing.

Satya - Sorry to hear that Brock was unsettled last night, hopefully it will pass for you..

[shereejoy]

Congrats to all the miracle arrivals and hope your bubbas are being good for you. Look forward to getting to know you all, some of which I already know Serendipity, Jean and Satya (I think that is all). Congrats on your arrivals

Just thought I would touch base with you seeing as I was a due in July, but we had our baby boy in June.

Been so busy with our business and end of financial year stuff, so I apologise for not getting on here sooner.

Just an overview of our situation: My first I had a c-section as he was breach, but this time I was hoping my bundle would come early so I could try VBAC, but it wasn't to be and we made it to our C-section date of the 27th June. We have a business (newsagency) this time round, and I live 3 hours away from the hospital, so regardless of my terrible recovery last time, our lifestyle now ensured we had a date picked for reasons of organising staff for our shop. So I guess the VBAC was not meant to be, but it leaves me wondering what it would have been like. If I go for a 3rd child there is no way they will let me try a VBAC, ohhh well!! I have a safe bundle of joy in my arms.

Riley Lynwall's details were:
Born at 8.08am, 3.475kgs / 7lb 10oz, 53cm long and HC of 35cm

He has a slight tongue tie, and a hernia under his belly button. He also has fluid in his right testie (hydraseal) which they expect to dissapear by the time he is 1, otherwise a minor operation will be required. Otherwise he is full of health and just beautiful. As a newborn he is so similar to Lachlan it is like dayjaveu (sp?)

He is such a good baby, just feeds and sleeps. So different to my first son who fed for 5 mins and had 20min cat naps right from birth (I guess this was all related to his servere reflux issues though). I didn't know babies could be this good! Although we have had a few wind issues the last couple of nights and he does have his days and nights mixed up too! Until these wind issues he would sleep 22 hours a day and go 5-7 hours between feeds, which the CHN has recently told me to wake him 3 hourly thru the day (which is a challenge) But we will get there! Hardly know I have a baby thru the day. Getting use to nightly feeds again is a challenge esp with the wind pain lately. He is so content on his belly, so out of dire desperation he slept on his tummy beside us last night. Only seems to be nights he is upset. I guess that is always the way though! So I am in a dilema of what to do about this tummy situation and SIDS. I guess that is why I only want him in bed with us if he is on his tummy atm, but what to do on a more permanent basis, atm I am not sure! Might have to look into some wind drops, something I will start to investigate soon. Anyone got any advice at all please let me know.

Lachlan (DS#1) is adapting well. Too busy most of the time, but doesn't appear jealous or ratty like he was prior to us coming home. So just hope that continues.

As for my caesar wound, all appears to be going well this time (ie: no bleeding from the wound so far so good), so the gyno did a fab job of which I am so grateful (after my drama recovery last time of having a haematomma and an absys). I nearly pulled out of my caesar due to sheer nervousness of the last recovery being so bad. I was shaking like u have never seen anyone shake before. Just so glad it is all over really.

Anyway back to the paperwork, hope you are all well xoxo I should go and see if we have a baby group set up yet. Talk to you all soon.

[jma]

Hi everyone!

Hope you and your bubs are well!

Flynn is doing great. We've had a few rough nights (well, not overly rough but still...). ATM he seems to have 2 or 3 good nights then 2 or 3 not so good nights. I've started giving him Infants friend (Sheree, this is great for wind but also does teething, bowel problems etc) which seems to be really helping him.

Last night had a really good nights sleep with him, our other son though......well that's a different story and totally different group

Congrats to all the new mums, I look foward to sharing our ups and downs! Hopefully we have more ups than downs though

Have posted some photos of Flynn in my gallery, don't know how to put a link to them, sorry I'm a bit hopeless!

Take care
Jean

[Tan2705]

Hi All!

Finally have a chance to post ! Cooper and I have made a temp move to North Queensland as my DPs bosses have no hearts, souls or compassion! For those of you who don't know my DP works a 28 day cycle with 9 off... was really hard during the last stages of preg not knowing if he was going to be here for the birth. He made it with plently of time to spare and we were looking forward to some much deserved time off to enjoy our new family member together! We had been home from hospital for 3 days and recieved flowers from the his work crew, when he called to thank them they basically said the guy replacing him was causing all sorts of drama and they needed him back ASAP. He is earmarked for a Foremen's postition which means an extra $1400 a week (makes the working away from home thing bareable! sp?) and didnt want to jepordise anything so with a 10 day old bub my poor DP flew back out to work

And bubba wakes up wanting boob.. finish this later i suppose.. LOL perhaps in three weeks time! Congrats to all the new mums and bubs!

[shereejoy]

OMG Riley just put on 510grams in 1 week. So in 2 weeks 4 days he has gained 900 grams. Omg so different to my first child who barely put on every week, maybe averged about 60-80 grams a week!

[*Beema*]

Hey Mums and Bubs

Wow Shereejoy!!! I hope Nakita puts on weight, we have the big weigh in tomorrow, it will be our real test to see if I am giving her enough, as I have no formula to fall back on!!! She seems pretty content though! She was very up and down, with biggest gain or loss of 40gms, mostly 10-20gms, but that was daily weigh-ins.

I am now feeding more often during the day, folloing the Save Our Sleep routine, too see if it works out. I am giving her a bottle of EBM at 9:30pm, so that I can be assured she is getting a big feed before bedtime, we will switch it to the 6pm feed in the future, tonight DH will give her the 9:30pm feed so I can get a bit more sleep.

Glad your wounds are healing well!

Yeah for the pay rise Tan, but Boo for DH having to go away

Jean, a friend gave me some infants friend the other day, she swears by it, I haven't tried it yet, we haven't had a lot of wind though.

Serendipity - yeah she is little, when we last weighed her she was 2190grams, a bit anxious about tomorrow, I jsut hope she has gone past her birth weight of 2350grams!! I don't want to have to give her formula to supplement!!

Satya - I hear you with the struggle to express in the middle of the night, I am not at them moment, but my left BB is killing me today, so might have to change that!! Hot showers, heat pack and a massage has helped!! Yay for the 5 hours - feels amazing hey!!

Smudgiesmum, how is Taylor going? Did the soundtrack work? I think Nakita being in SCBU was actually handy as it is basically daytime 24/7 there, lots of noise, people, machines, babies etc. Nakita is sleeping quit well, she wakes up at 6am, but a hand on her belly and two pushes in the pram (she sleeps in tha bassinet of our pram atm, and she is out!! During the day we have it in the living room, with the windows/curtins open etc, then at night in our bedroom.

EJM - lol at the "shooter", Nakita has got us three times already when changing her nappy, doesn't it always happen when you have just recently changed their clothes/wrap?!

My stiches are still a bit sore, well that area as they should have disolved by now (wow thinking about it, best invention!!), but I haven't had any Panadol today, so must be getting better!!

I have posted my birth story if you are interested

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...obyn-long.html

I am hoping to get piccies up on my Blog soon, gee don't know where the days are going atm!!!

Well gotta get dinner ready!! Mwah!!!