Welcome, Kells Geez, you'd sort of only just scrape in for the stocktake sales for birthday presents, huh? Makes organising parties larger scale, but less frequent...!
Kristee-Lea - is there a shortened version of your name we can use? Not a problem today, but I'm usually typing one handed nowadays, and likely not the only one! Anyway, sorry your births were not what you wanted. My appointment with the birth centre midwives yesterday was a bit boring for them cos I had no issues, no questions, required no debriefing after Oscar's birth. And I think I annoyed a member of my riding club committee last night after she asked how it was, "apart from dreadful"...and I had to say "actually, it was really lovely". Oh, well, it's one or the other, isn't it? I did work for my outcome, and I worked for it with the understanding that I was having a very normal pregnancy and expecting a normal birthing outcome. I did a HypnoBirthing course and I had a waterbirth. That reminds me, I should really finish my birth story! Some of us here had CS's, there were some inductions, another HypnoBirther and some other natural births, and three early arrivals The first of these was Ronan, who was born in March (17th) and he's going great guns now - he's Racoon's boy, she drops in from time to time cos she's one of us even though she's a March baby buddy.
Oscar is sleeping in the bed beside me. Tempted to stay in bed this morning, even though it's nice and mild outside and I should tend to more laundry. All in good time!
I had some issues with feeding yesterday - Oscar was weird on the breast, sucking then letting go and crying, but not in pain, more like in frustration. It was only at the tail end of the day that it occurred to me that this behaviour coincides with the introduction of the dummy. So, back to the 'charm hold' to get him sucking nicely again...voila! he stayed on the boob for a lengthy feed before dropping off to sleep. So, I'll be limiting dummy use even more today. I'm using the Happy Baby dummy and I don't think farting around with brands will make too much of a difference - they're all not my boob, so I think it's a matter of time and charm holds! We may go through this soon again when I get some Nuk bottles, so that DP can feed when he gets to mind Oscar (I'll have to purposely do this, cos I have no problem taking Oscar everywhere with me, but DP doesn't go to my everywhere's and sometimes doesn't see Oscar all day!).
Anyway, back to that FBC appt yesterday. Oscar's a favourite from the birth group I was in - his lovely birth made him a bit of a birth centre celebrity when he was born, so they remember him well. Last week's postnatal class was cool - however, some of those babies were worse for wear on their way out to the world! I'll have to send an email out to the girls, cos we swapped info.
back to trying to catch up on some sleep...