Babies Born June 2007

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't been around. Having a terrible time settling this baby of mine. He is thankfully ok at night time. Feeds about 11pm, 2am, 5am but goes back to sleep ok. Through the day it is a different story. He can be up from 7am to 9pm with one sleep on a bad day. And that sleep is generally in the baby bjorn only. He doesn't seem to have wind and pretty sure he isn't hungry. He just refuses to sleep no matter what I try. He is so so alert and even if he falls asleep wakes 10 mintes later. He tends to go to sleep much better for people other than me though. He seems to smell the milk or something and keeps trying to feed. I have tried constantly feeding him and that doesn't help either. He is also putting on 350g a week and I know he isn't actually hungry - he acts differently when he is.

My 3 yo is also being very demanding so I am mentally and physically exhausted at the moment. I am going to borrow a friends rocking swing and see if that helps. Hopefully this will pass as he gets older. I don't remember it being this bad first time round.

Sorry no personals. I thought he had gone to sleep but - nope awake already.

bye...

ps. my birth story is in birth stories if anyone is interested. It already seems so long ago.

Hey Ladies,
Just a quick one, have been reading but havnt actually posted in here....still seems sureal that im finally a mother.

I had a long and very exhausting labour, but dont regret one minute of it, Lachlan is worth every bit of it, we are even planning on TTC#2 in a yrs time!!

Just reading others birth stories, i want to write mine, but am scared for some reason, scared that i'll forget somethin important or exagerate on things, plus i dont remember it all, some i only know b/c of what others have told me.
I guess i can write it on paper first and then type it out, that makes more sense lol

I was in hospital for 5 days, as i had 3rd degree tears and wasnt allowed out until i did no 2's, which i ended up having 2 suppositories for.
a day after being home my wound reopened and had to go back to hospital and get it checked out, to find i have to have a nurse come out everyday and repack it!
Not only that have had real drama's with breast feeding, now Lachlan is completely bottle fed, the anxiety and guilt i had over that was crazy.
Plus 2 1/2 days after getting home Rick went back to work full-time, i had major major panic/anxiety attacks with that, so much so, mum had to take 2 days off work to come be with me. I have calmed down and seem to cope quite well now, thing is though, have only just magaed to cope during the day by myself, now Rick is going to work nights starting wed finishing fri, im fearful about this, i dont know if i can cope, i cant just call on my mum either as she has my younger brother and sisters to care for. Rick has said if i get that bad to call him and he'll come straight home, but we really need the money (hence why he went back to work so soon). i just hope that the 3days ( thur and fri last week and today) and then tomorrow on my own during the day, will have prepared me enough to survive the nights he wont be here. (he starts at around 6pm finishing at 3 am, wont be home til around 4am!)
I shouldnt worry until it happens but i cant help thinking about it now!
I struggle on bad nights with Lachlan with Rick here, dont quite know how i'll cope if he has bad nights without Rick here!

Anyway enough of my whinging, im sure i'll be fine, i have to be dont i??

Sorry for no personals, just had to get that off my chest.
Will pop on tomorrow for personals.

Sorry Mel, i dont really know what advice to give you, hope someone can help, i know how exhausting a non settled baby can be, hope he settles for you soon. Take Care sweetie

Oh Mel, I hope your little man gets the idea that he needs to sleep and give him mummy a well earned rest. It's really hard to function when you're running on low batteries huh? :hug:

Debbie - Thank you for sharing your birth story. You're a very brave girl. I don't think I would have coped as well as you did. Well done! :)

Caeleb's birth was quite straight forward I guess. My water broke at 5:15pm the day before. DH was out shopping (so glad I decided not to go with that day). He'd forgotten his mobile phone, so after an hour, I was on the phone to Coles asking them to do a call out. He turned up about five minutes later thank goodness. As soon as he got out the car, I told him that my waters had broke. He had the cutest grin on his face. I rang the hospital and told them my waters had broke and that I'd call when contractions started. They said they wanted to do an internal and wanted me to come in. Okay, fair enough.

On the way to the hospital, I started to get a sore back. I didn't even realise that it was the beginning of labour (how bad is that?!?). The hospital is only five minutes away from our house. As soon as I arrived, they did an internal and hooked up the ECG. The ECG showed that I was having regular contractions, so they wouldn't let me go home.

DH and I were settled into our room and since I wasn't into "established labour", we were left for about four hours on our own, so we walked up and down the halls to bring on labour. At about 12pm, I decided the pain was getting stronger and I went into the labour ward and had a shower. That did nothing, so the midwife gave me some capadex.

A few hours later, when the pain was getting too much, they offered me a shot of pethadine, which was very welcome. This went on for about six hours, but they could only offer me pethadine every four hours. So, after the second shot, they said that all they could offer was gas.

It was about 8am. I sucked on that stuff for three hours straight, as I was having contractions every minute. DH was rubbing my back and my Mum was rubbing my hands and talking me through the contractions. Another contraction would come on and I'd say "RUB MY BACK!!!" DH would reply "But, you've got blisters...". My reply... "I DON'T CARE!!! RUB HARDER!!!" :lol:

After 18 hours, they did an internal examination and said... "Congratulations... you've dialated 2cm". WTF?!? "You're joking!!!" DH and I couldn't believe it. They explained that since it had almost been 24 hours since my waters broke, they wanted to give me anti-biotics and they didn't think my contractions were strong enough, so they were going to give me an epi and bring the baby on.

A lovely doctor (who happened to look like my GP) turned up to do the epi. I was off with the fairies, and thought it was my GP. I was SO happy that he'd come to visit me during my labour. DH had to explain to me very quickly that it wasn't Dr Brown. DH and my parents said I was absolutely hilarious, offering everyone who came into the room a suck on the gas. LOL

Anyway, the doctor did the epi, but I didn't have to roll up into a ball. He just said to relax and lean forward onto my Mum. Other than a slight sting from the local, I didn't feel a thing.

Three hours later, I still hadn't had Caeleb. They asked me to push, which I did, but as I did, I could feel him dragging across my pelvic bone. They didn't tell me at the time, but he was stuck. They called in an Ob. She said she'd have to use a ventouse, which was fine. I was cut, but didn't feel it. She asked me to push again, but he was still stuck. She managed (with great force) to get his head out, but had to manually turn his body. They asked me to push again, but wanted me to stop shortly after. I didn't hear that bit, so I tore. But, I didn't care, I had my baby looking down at me from my belly.

The past 21 hours had all become a blur as I bawled and bawled, as this precious little boy just stared down at me, so calm and peaceful.

It's been 3 weeks since he was born and I really struggle to remember what life was like without him... although I do recall I had a lot more sleep! :lol:

Celsie. xoxox

Hey Naomi - you posted as I was typing. Try and stay calm. The more stressed out you are, the more stressed out Lachlan would be. Try not to worry about things until it happens. Maybe give your community midwives a call, see if they can help?!?

You know I'm always here if you need to talk, as is Natalea. Vent here as much as you need to, that's what we're here for. To support and help each other through the good times AND the bad. :hug:

Celsie. xoxox

p.s. OMG OMG OMG! I almost forgot!!! Caeleb was 6 pounds 14 ounces when he was born. He lost about 10% of his body weight. I went and weighed him today and now he's 8 POUNDS!!! So, a little woo hoo for Caeleb, my clever little man!!! :happyforyou:

Congrats on the weight gain Sarah.
Thankyou heaps, i know i'll be fine and i have you guys to fall on when i need to.
Lachlan got weighed today, in 1 wk 4 days he has put on 440grams, so doing extremly well. He lost approx 270grams off his birth weight!
I just have moments where i freak out, and normally after getting it off my chest im back to being me again. Sometimes it takes longer, but generally not to long.

So expect me on here quite a bit wed, thur and fri night!! lol

Thankyou for sharing your birth story! very interesting, i felt the same when they gave me Lachlan, i didnt care what they did to me down there, i now had my son and thats all that mattered.
Well better go and get ready for feed time.

i might pop on later if not will be on tomorrow,
take care, and thankyou again sarah

i just realised too Sarah, there is exactly 7days between our little boys birthdays!! How cool is that!

Naomi - i am on mostly at nights as well, so will be here to talk to :) I would hate it if Darren was away, he is my rock, but, i am sure it will get easier for you as time goes on, and we will all support you as much as we can. :hug: Darren helped me write my birth story, and that was also a nice special moment for us, sorta like a walk down memory lane. I have heard bits and peices about yours, so, when you are ready, i look forward to reading it.

Celsie - thanks, but, reading your story, you did it much tougher then me. (oh, i assume you meant 8cm dilated, not 18cm.....:)) It seems that i have had one of the easist births really, compared to yours, Sarahs, Naomi's, Tinas. Mine was hard, and fast, but, reasonably straight forward, no complications barr the inital scare.

By gosh, i though Aiden was tiny, but Caleb - Wow, i look at clothes for Aiden and think no point, he's to little for cute stuff. Its bonds wondersuits for him for alittle bit longer yet. Thankfully, they all seem to be a small fit. I brought him home in 0000 suit from Best & Less, i had brought a few cheapies, thinking i probably wouldnt need them anyway, given Darren and i are tall. But, they are to big still! The bonds suits 000 are smaller. Go figure

Having my first weigh in with Aiden tomorrow. Am excited to see how much he has put on. Will let you know!

Sweet dreams girls and your darling babies.

Hi girls, I popped in July aswell but on the 1st so I nearly had a June bubba! (She was due on the 22nd) I had a realtively easy labour. Actually, no, I had a great (but painful) labour. All day Saurday June 30th I was getting contractions but they wernt unbearable just more niggly and annoying. By 9.30pm that night I was really annoyed with them I wanted them to become more painful so I knew that I'd be on my way. But no.
Anyway, I was booked in the next morning to go on the ctg machine to check bubs heartrate at 8am (being so overdue) so I phoned them up at 10pm and asked that since I was coming in the morning could they just do it that night and would I have to come back the next morning so they said to come in.
When I got there they did a stretch and sweep and I was still only 3cms (been that way for a week) so the midwife spoke to the doc and fibbed and said that bubs heartrate was a bit down so the doc said to break my waters. When I heard this I nearly jumped fr joy.
So at 12.25am they broke my waters, and after several hours of contractions with a bit of gas and a shot of pethidine, little Aliyah came into the world at 6.31am July 1st 2007 weighing 8p 9oz
Anyway she's waking up now so I better go feed her
love Stacey xxx

Debbie - Typos are what happens when you're feeding your baby and trying to post of BB at the same time! LOL - That was supposed to say 2cm, so don't ask me how the hell I managed to type 18! ROFL

Naomi - I know our boys are a week apart. It's funny considering that you were due weeks before me!!! :)

Celsie. xoxox

p.s. I'm just adding some more photos to Caeleb's website, so feel free to have a look. :)

Hi girls. Just a quick one as Oscar has been a *little* unsettled for the past few days. Poor little love has a hoarse voice from all the screaming he has been doing. No real reason - occasionally tummy pain, occasionally a refluxy puke which must hurt him too. No idea :dunno:

For those with the nappers - I empathise. I am soooooo tired after an unsettled night last night and I was hoping for a nap after his feed at 1130hrs but no such luck. He is yet to sleep and is really only napping for about 10 minutes at a time before waking and having a little cry. Can't get the washing done, can't get the cooking done. One of those days ...... and he's off again.

BBL

Oh Michelle - you poor sausage. Have you got someone who can come over and take Oscar for an hour or two so you can have a sleep? Does Oscar suffer from wind? Is that possibly what could be making him upsettled?

Celsie. xoxox

Celsie - he occasionally gets wind but there is no predictable pattern unfortunately. As for someone to come over - no, not today. DH is on nights and currently asleep (4 down, 3 more to go) and my best friend is working today too. Both families are between 3-6 hours away and the siblings are all at work. So I think we will try a co-sleep on the lounge. He is settled in my arms at the moment and the next feed is an hour away. Here's hoping anyway. He doesn't scream all day but the past few it has been an hour or two a couple of times a day so his throat is sore :(

Caeleb certainly had a good weight gain!!! We are off for a weigh tomorrow so we will see how much he has grown.

Hi girls,

Well first of all A HUGE BIG CONGRATS TO EVERYONE WE ALL MADE IT IN THE END!

Since everyone has told there birth story i might as well give a brief version to you all of mine:

It was about 1.30am on Thurs morning and i woke my Dh up to say i think we need to call the hospital as my contractions are getting closer and closer. I went to the loo while he called and my show had started. Since it was my 2nd child the midwife told DH to come in to the hospital but don't break the speed limit.

I arrived at the hospital and my contractions were so painful and close it was shocking. I couldn't remember it being this bad for my first DD. The wheelchair came out and up i went into the birthing suite. I was told to do a urine sample and then to get comfy and all of that. The contractions were strong and close now so i asked for gas. On went the gas and i sucked away at that.

The next thing i knew the gas just wasn't working so the midwife turned it up for me. After about another 1/2hr i said this gas is not doing anything at all can i have a shot of pethadine. Off she went to check with the Ob as he was not in yet. I had one jab and it didn't kick in for a while at all. I was nearly breaking DH hand when the contractions came.

I then felt as if i had done a pee in the bed so i got DH to get the midwife and she said it was my waters breaking. Oh thankgod for that i thought not long to go now! Then i wanted to push the midwife tiold me to hang on she didn't realise i had already had one baby and i didn't need to hang on. I screamed at her and said "HANG ON I CAN'T HANG ON" so i just pushed and something just went POP and it was the rest of my waters the next minute i knew i was pushing again and i felt a slight stinging sensation and i knew Shayla's head had come out, i looked down and i couldn't believe it. Then another push and out she came my beautiful daughter number two. I had a 4 hour labour all up and my ob missed the whole thing Pam my midwife delivered Shayla for me. The next minute my Ob turned up and i remember i said to him " Your a bit late your wages should go to Pam" the Pethadine had kicked in too late thats for sure, we all thought it would take alot longer than 4 hours.

Shayla weighed a Wopping 10pound 6 (4.555 kg) she was born at 5.30am Thursday the 28th June 2007. I couldn't be happier.

Thats my brief story of labour for you all to read. :)

Anyway i have been out of hospital for 9 days today and things are going good. I had a few days were i was so sore from having a few stitches internally but it was all bruising in the lower area for me mainly. I then got internal hemerroids from the pressure which really was a PAIN IN THE B****t!:p

In the last couple of days i have felt alot better but i am ver sore and bruised still so hopefully this will all go soon.

I am not sure how many of youhave other kids but i have another DD who is coming up 16mths on the 22nd. This has been another life changing experience and i must say i am extremely busy with a toddler and new born. I knew i would be but gosh it is full on! I think the hardest part is that i am so sore i am finding it hard to play with DD#1 so i am just reading to her, she seems to be ok with that though thankgod. Fortuneatly she is not jealous at all of Shayla and kisses and cuddles her all the time as well as trys to pick her up it is very cute really. :lol:

Well must be off but thats my long post for the week i will try and keep up with you all but please forgive me if i don't. I hope all of you are doing well and that your bubbas do give you some sleep and rest soon.

Jen

Hey i wasnt sure how much weight DD had put on (not weighed since birth) - so funny you watch them 24hrs a day and dont notice them growing,,,,

anyhow
birth 2660gm 47cm
1 month 3820gm 52cm

wow.. i guess those bbs are working overtime! lol

how is everyone elses bub growing?

Hi everyone,

We had a very bad night last night. Mackenzie would not settle from 9pm till 12.30 am then she was up agian to feed at 2.30 and didn't go back to sleep unitl 4.00 then yes you guessed it up again at 5.30. I was so tied today. Fingers crossed we have a good night tonight.

Naomi my DH does night shift every 3 weeks and I found the first time he went hard but after that fine. DH doesn't get up to her during the night so really there was no differance. I promise you you will be fine:)

Thats great news Celsie how much Aiden has gained. Mackenzie was born 6lb 11oz and is now 8lb 13oz. It makes it all worth while those middle of the night feeds when you know how much weight the littles ones are gaining.

Hi everyone

I just thought I'd post in this thread and introduce myself. My name is Zofia and I am from Sydney. I have been posting in the July belly buddies thread, but my baby decided to come one month early and was born on 19 June (exactly one month before EDD). She is three weeks old now and all is going well, but I really miss talking to people who are at the same stage as me. Not many people from the July thread have had their babies yet...

Anyway, I look forward to talking to you in this thread. Congratulations on your June babies!

hi starfish and welcome to you and diana!
how are things going for you....

last night was an interesting night!!!
i put ashley to bed at 8.30pm and she didnt wake until 1.30am! of course i would wake every now and then wondering why she wasnt... lol but got a good few hours sleep...

i think because she was so well slept she was ready to play because she woke again at 3am - wouldnt settl till 5am then awake at 6am! lol oh well

Ashley gets to meet her grandparents for the first time tomorrow! Her first visit from family.. how exciting

Hi Zofia! Welcome to both you and little Diana! You're both more than welcome to join this friendly bunch of girls and gorgeous bubbas.

A big woo hoo for PrincessMya and Ashley for her big sleep! I'm really happy for you both.

Caeleb had his first professional photo shoot today. A friend of Lea_13's does it as a hobby, so was kind enough to offer to take shots of my little man. She's emailing the proofs to me soon, so when I get them, I'll post some on his website!

Celsie. xoxox

Oh celsie!
Ill be interested to see how they turn out!
Very exciting

ooo Sarah, cant wait to see them!

Well Rick isnt working nights anymore, the shopping center which he was painting has refused them to work at night, so woohoo for me lol

Monday night was a exhausting night, Lachlan played up! I ended up only having 3 hrs sleep (a bit here and a bit there), last night was a better, even though i got sleep between his feeds it still felt like i handt slept at all.
Today, i was just so exhausted that i ended up having a sleep after the nurse came to repack my wound until his next feed, so had a 2hrs sleep, although i did keep waking up to check on him lol.
Hopefully tonight is better!
We have half planned our first night out without him, this friday mum and the kids are coming up, and if we feel like it we will go out, prob to movies or just out for tea. Shall be interesting.

Hi Zofia and Diana, you are more then welcome to stay with us!

Princessmya: congrats on the long sleep, Lachlan normally has a longer sleep at night but the last few he has only slept what he has to bascially waking every 3-4hrs for his feed.

Danielle: i hope mackenzie slept better for you last night and again tonight. I know i would have copped with rick doing nights, i wouldnt of really had a choice but the thought of it just made we worry. iykwim

My little man hardly fits into any of his 0000 clothes anymore, have had to start putting him in 000 clothes, i cant believe how much he has grown so quickly.

We had our first proper smile to the other night, I was holding him and rick blew a raspberry on his hand and his whole face lit up and stayed like it for a while, we've gotten him to smile twice since then, the rest have been wind related smiles.
He has the biggest smile, and looks so gorgoeus when he does it, it makes my heart melt. I love my little man!!

Well take care and talk to you all soon, hoe you all get a good nights rest and your little bubbas dont play up to much!

Good morning everyone.

I have great news Mackenzie slept throug the night last night for the 1st time. I did her last feed at 9.30pm and she didn't wake till 5.30am. I however woke 3 times and each time I was a nervous reck. I feel great today. I dont know what I did but god I hope this is a sign of things to come. Adam was on night shift last night so he missed the sleep LOL. I rang him at 3.30am and said she is still asleep do you think I should wake her to feed. He said dont you dare just leave her. When she woke this morning I was so happy to see her.

Princessmya I think Mackenzie has taken a leaf out of Ashley's book.

I hope you all had good sleeps as well.

Oh Danielle, that's such fantastic news!!! Congratulations!!! :confetti:

Celsie. xoxox

Hi everyone

Thanks for welcoming me. I have briefly skimmed through this thread, trying to catch up on all your news. I saw that many of you posted your birth stories. Here is mine.

On Monday 18 June I went to bed thinking - wow - tomorrow it will be one month until my baby is due (her EDD was 19the July). SuperBub had other ideas though.

At 1:30am on Tuesday morning (19 June) I woke up with a cramp and a need to go to the toilet. I barely made it to the bathroom before a whole lot of liquid gushed out of me. I thought nothing of this at first, but it just wouldn't stop. I started to panic and quickly read all my labour info to see if I could find out what was going on. It seemed that perhaps my membranes had ruptured, so I rang the hospital, described my symptoms and asked what to do. The midwife I spoke said that it was possible that I had ruptured my membranes and to call her back in twenty minutes. If I was still "leaking" I would have to come in to the hospital.

I got off the phone and quickly started to pack my bag, thinking that even if I didn't have to go in today, I would be going in some time soon, so I should be prepared (I hadn't packed anything before then as I thought I'd have plenty of time later... :doh:). Twenty minutes later I was all packed - dressing gown, nightie, slippers, underpants, maternity bra, as well as a water bottle, book, etc. I also packed all my paperwork, some nappies and the baby clothes. I was still leaking so I rang the hospital and they told me to come in straight away. I woke up poor DF, who had gone to bed early the previous evening with a horrible flu and fever, saying that I needed to go to the hospital NOW and was he able to take me. He got up, we got dressed and were on our way.

On arrival at the labour ward, I was ushered into an examination room. DF dropped off my bags and told me to ring him when I was ready to be picked up. We both thought that they would observe me for an hour or so, then let me go home. But it turned out that my membranes had indeed ruptured, but because I was under 36 weeks (35 weeks, 4 days), they were going to admit me and I would have to stay in hospital until the baby was born! What's more, I had been getting more cramps and it turned out that they were contractions. I was in labour! Eeek!

I was asked if I wanted to take part in a trial for women whose membranes rupture early. They would assign me randomly to either a) wait and see what happens, or b) to induce labour. As I had no birth plan, other than trying to do it as naturally as possible, but going with the flow if need be, I agreed to take part, and was assigned to be induced.

I was having contractions about 5 mins apart at this stage. They were uncomfortable, but I was breathing through them. At about 5:30am, they then put in an oxytocin drip to induce the labour further and left me to it. I called DF and told him that we were having a baby today and to come back now. By the time he arrived, the contractions were getting really painful. I tried to breathe through them with gas, but it wasn’t really working. Still, I didn’t want either pethidine or an epidural, so I persevered. By about 9:00am or so, I couldn’t handle it anymore. I was 3-4cm dilated and they estimated that it would take another 4 hours or so for me to dilate fully. So asked for an epidural. It didn’t hurt going in at all and the relief was fantastic. I could still feel the peaks of the contractions, but they didn’t hurt. I could also still move and feel my legs, which was something that I had been afraid I wouldn’t be able to do, so that was good. (I later found out that oxytocin is known to make contractions more severe and more painful – if I had known that earlier I wouldn’t have waited so long for the epidural.)

By 10:00am, I was fully dilated. They turned the epidural off and I started to push. This was the most difficult part so far, as even though I felt the urge, because of the epidural I felt that I couldn’t do it. Gradually the feeling started coming back, but despite the midwives telling me that I was doing well, I still felt that I wasn’t able to push hard enough. On inspection, it turned out that SuperBub’s head was turned the wrong way, which is what was making it so difficult. By 11:30am, I was still pushing but getting tired. SuperBub was getting tired too so I was asked if I wanted some help getting the baby out (meaning suction or forceps). I agreed and they decided to pull her out with forceps. I needed an episiotomy (one of the things I had really been hoping to avoid), but by this point I didn’t care. After some more pushing from me and some serious pulling from two doctors, SuperBub (aka Diana Lidia) was born at 11:49am on June 19, exactly one month before her estimated due date.

They let me hold her and have some skin to skin to contact while DF cut the cord. It was the most unreal moment of my life. After a while they weighed and measured her (2485g, 47.5cm), then gave her back to me. I was then told to put her on the breast. I was a bit worried that she wouldn’t suck, as she was premature and apparently some premmies find this difficult. I needn’t have worried, as she latched on almost straight away. I couldn’t get over how beautiful she was (I mean I knew she’d be cute, but she is so much prettier that even I imagined).

I spent the next 6 days in hospital as they wanted to keep an extra eye on Diana as she was premature and a bit jaundiced. The stay was a bit of a nightmare as I found that the different midwives would give me conflicting advice and that no one would tell me from day to day what was going on. Also, the hospital has a policy that the babies can’t sleep in bed with you, but have to sleep in their bassinets and you’re not supposed to carry them around the ward, but to wheel them around in their bassinets. This was a bit annoying as I just wanted to hold her all the time.

We have been home for almost three weeks now and are settling into a routine. I have learnt to express breast milk and have gone back to work part time this week. DF works part time too, different hours to me, so we share care of Diana.

I look forward to sharing our journey with you. Will post more later. Take care and hope you all have a good night and that you and your babies get some sleep. Diana is somewhat nocturnal and sleeps for a decent length of time about once a week. Hoping tonight will be one of those nights and that we both manage to get some rest as we are helping my sister move in the weekend. :)

P.S. Sorry for the long post. :redface:

just quickly to let you know i have put most of Lachlans birth pics up (the ones am game enough to share lol). Click on his name to visit his page, if you would like to see them, now im working on the birthing story...

Early morning ladies,

well the pics went well, didnt stress out at all, was just hoping that Lachlan didnt play up for mum, which he didnt. We both enjoyed our night out. Transformers goes for 2hrs 33mins!! What a long movie!! It wasnt to bad a movie, better than what i thought.

Well just fed the little munchkin, lets hope he has a long sleep now, and doesnt play up like he did last night!! think last night was pay back for going out lol

Debbie, just added you to msn hope you dont mind..

well gotta go he is crying

cya

We got kicked out of our thread lol, i went to go post and it said this post is closed, went to go find the new one to find they wont give us a new one and are telling us to come post here!! how dare they make us come post in babies born june and not babies due in june LMAO
so i have just copied and pasted what i was in the other thread

even though its written in my signature, i thought i would announce it here (and only here)
We are officially TTC#2 next year, hopefully Lachlan will be around a year old before we start trying and be close to 2 before we have it, only my mum knows and you lovely ladies. If we told anyone else they would think we are crazy, planning so soon after having Lachlan.
We want our bubs to be close in age, and who is to say it takes us a while to concieve anyway, it took a while to concieve Lachlan so who knows he could be 3 by the time we hav our next bub, so we thought we would start trying basically asap and hope for the best.

We arnt crazy for planning so soon are we??

Naomi - very quickly, cause i have to go feed Aiden.
Yes - very rude beingkicked out of our other thread :) but, it was bound to happen sooner or later.

We are going to start TTC at christmas! Well, technically, i/we will not be using any form of contraception, but about xmas time will start thinking more seriously about it, it took 14months of ttc for Aiden

be back soon he getting very frustrated!!

ooooo thats cool Deb, im glad we arnt alone with ttc#2 so quickly.
With everything we have been through, im willing to go through it all again.
What a journey it was with a little miracle at the end!!
Lachie not due for another hr to be fed!!
Have fun

Hi Girls,

Yes I know Lewis is a July baby but I didnt want to leave you all so I'm sticking in the June babies thread! (Hi to those I haven't met before:D)

Lewis slept much better last night, he went until 4am, fed and back down at 5am until 8am and fed and asleep again at 10am. So hopefully his unsettled few days were a growth spurt and not a sign of things to come!:pray:

Today is the first day that DH is back at work. I'm quite enjoying pottering around doing my own thing. I'm sure I'll miss him by tonight though, he won't get home until 10pm as he's a chef.

Anyway must go and try and express some milk for greedy guts before he wakes up!!

well, he wasnt due for a feed for another hr at least either. Hasnt been asleep yet this morning, and still not looking like he will yet.
We did have a pretty good night last night thou. He feed at 5pm, and then slept till 9.30, then feed again, back to sleep at 10.30, awake at 2, back to sleep by 3, and awake at 5.30. Been awake pretty much since then. Had a 5.30 feed, a 7.30 feed, and just had a 10.30feed. Fingers crossed, he gets some sleep.
After his 7.30feed thou, i put him back down, and left him. He gurgled for about an 30min, not unhappy thou, so i left him, but when i went it to check on him, he had done big milk spews. Had to do a complete change of clothes and bedding. I felt so bad that i had left him like that, but, i didnt know, and he didnt sound like he was sick or anthing.

I think his big prob at the moment, is us having the 1 car. Having to wake him when he is not ready etc, to go pick up Darren from work is throwing any sorta of routine out the window. But, thankfully, today is the last day.

Naomi - i never got back to you re: msn. I havent been on it for ages. But, will get back on board soon.

And yeah, i dont like to tell people that we are TTC so soon. I remember Darren saying to someone that we would be wanting another baby nearly straight away. The other person said "oh no, you cant do that to her!" like, it was none of my decision, and Darren was going to just 'do it' while i was asleep or something. So, i figure, like alot of other things we have decided to do with pregnancy, if its going to be controvisal (sp??) just either dont tell anyone, or be choosy on who you tell.

Sarah - :happyforyou: yes, you have to stay with us.
You girls that hung on till July was part of the reason why i kept posting in the belly buddy section, instead of here...
Please stay!!
Thats a pretty good eat sleep pattern that lewis was in last night. Aiden maybe today has gone back to his awake all day, feed every 2 hour pattern. Hope it doesnt last.
It is nice when DH's are at home, but, its also nice to be on your own, and do you own thing during the day. Darren went back to work on Monday, and i just loved having the place to myself again. I appreciate him abit more now as well when he is home, which is good for all of us.

Anyone DTD yet?

yes Sarah pls stay........

Deb: we havnt dtd yet, only b/c of a wound breakdown i have, but like my last post in the belly buddies due thread, its healing really fast. I asked my RDNS nurse if it ok if we dtd before my 6wk check up, she said b/c of having an open wound (only a couple of mm deep and wide now, was 1cm deep and 2cm wide) we would be bringing bacteria there and suggested we wait, but if we "cant" wait to have a long cleansing shower after and not to dtd all the time prehaps only try once maybe twice before my 6wk check up.
I posted in the AO section about it, i really want to dtd, even been dreaming about it, but am way to scared b/c of pain and the wound, atleast Ricks taken care of, i think i can wait to fill my obsession atm lol
I know what you mean about having one car, we have had that too, only just getting the 2nd car fixed today (our other car is a ute so cant put Lachlan in it either) so have been stuck at home, only when we borrow his mums car can we go anywhere.
Dont worry about him having a spew in bed and not knowing, the same thing has happened to us, and i felt really guilty. We have a baby monitor, one of those sids ones that detect the breathing and after 20sec of it not detecting breathing it sends off a alarm. And i still didnt know he had spewed, but then again he was fine just sleeping in it lol, im sure if anything was wrong you would here/know it. Dont feel bad we cant watch them 24/7 iykwim

Well better go he starting to get restless for his feed, i cant believe he is even asleep, normally after his morning feed he stays awake most of it having his tummy time. i guess he needed sleep.
Although he has had 2 nights of skipping his early morning feed. Give him 180ml bottle at his 12am feed (normally has 120mls), only b/c he wants the extra and he'll sleep through his 4am feed and wake around between 6-8am! I love the extra sleep if i wasnt so panicky about him skipping a feed so young, but figure if he was hungry he would wake up and demand a feed.

really gotta go, he awake now

Hi Girls,

sorry i haven't posted for a while. It sounds like you are all doing well and baboes are also doing fine. :)

Naomi - No you are not stupid in trying to conceive again, my two are exactly 15mths apart. To be honest it is full on and you MUST be organised. I am coping just fine. I have no family support as we are interstate so it is me the kids and DH but DH works all the time as we have our own business so mainly me and the kids and i love it. I do have my days were i think oh my this is just crazy but i just think it isn't for life and it will get better. So good on you for wanting another baby close and don't listen to any remarks from others as it just gets you down, i know it did with me.

Anyway all well at my end the only problem i have is Shayla is one fussy boobie eater. She fusses like crazy. Some times she latches on fine others it is a food fight in a way! Anyway i am getting there. I think the problem is my 15mth old is so into all of this that it distracts her and she feels not at ease i don't know? Anyway she isn't fading away to a shadow thats for sure. She did though sleep last night from 10pm till 7am this morning..... What is with that?

Well must fly as 15mth old needs to have a sleep.

BBL

Jen
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Hi all

Sarah you'd better be staying - I definitely am!! I'll check into the July thread from time to time but my home is where my friends are so this thread is the one for me!!!!

Celsie the photos of Caeleb are absolutely adorable!! They really look awesome - I'd have them all over the house if I were you :D

We've decided that we're going to TTC right away as it took us almost 2 years with Mikayla - so I wont be taking contraception at all and we'll see how it goes. Will go back to see our fertility specialist in january if nothing has happened by then.

Well Mikayla is still pretty unsettled - had a bad night and she pretty much brought up everything she ate today which was mostly breast milk. I'm just so frustrated with it all I'm thinking of giving her FF's tonight because BF's are taking over an hour (cause she falls asleep in between) and I fall asleep feeding her during the night.

Speaking of which.. its dinner time for her so id better go. Will be back later if i can. Take care xx

Lee has a dummy and i agree its you can take away the duumy.. Lee was sucking his fingers and hands heaps and a dummy works well for him if he dosnt want it anymore he just spits it out....
And same here my brother sucked his thumb until he was 10 or so.

Hi everyone

Hope you and your babies are doing well.

Lots of things happening at my end. Not sure what is worth mentioning. :) Diana occasionally sleeps through most of the night and I think that her average length of sleep is increasing (knock on wood). Last night she slept from about 12 to 3:30. Then DF fed her EBM from a bottle and she slept until 6:45.

Diana has become a feeding machine over the past few days. I feel like I am constantly feeding her! This evening I have given up and just taken off my bra as it seems that every time I put her down she wakes up and wants to feed again... Then again, it might be what they call the arsenic hour or something... Have any of you ladies had similar experiences?

Oh well, better go, the feeding machine is calling. Take care and have a good night. :)

Morning all...
:clap: Tina - thanks for staying as well :) I feel like we are all back together again!
Well, Aiden was awake yesterday from 5.30am, till 1pm, then woke again at 2.30, and was awake till about 10ish. Wow. What a day. Thankfully thou, he's not upset, and is mostly happy to just lay around and stare at stuff. So, out came baby gym etc, which he didnt go to much on, maybe cause it was all new, but, he does like his bouncer, which also has a toy bar on it. Maybe the toys on the baby gym are to far away still for him to focus on.
Last night, slept from 9.30 till 1.30, then 2.30 till 6ish, and back to sleep at 7, and still sorta asleep now at 9.30. But, he is making lots of little noises, so, perhaps not in a deep sleep. Might wake him, feed him, and go to shops.

I feed Aiden at night, laying down on the floor in the loungroom. I put a rug under him, so its softer. Darren says i should feed him on the spare bed, but, the beds really soft, and he sorta rolls into me, and i fear that, if i fall asleep on it, he will roll into me, and suffocate. So, i feed him on the floor, figuring that is so uncomfortbale, i couldnt fall asleep if i tried, and, if i did happen to, at least Aiden wont roll into me. I doze abit thou. IT takes about 30min to feed him, but, he generally starts to drop back off to sleep after about 20min, and so, i will change sides, give him another 5 or 10min of easy feed, and then, back to sleep.

Funny, but, he doesnt need his dummy all that much anymore. I use it during the day when he is awake, or just dozing, and we did need to use it last night while we where holding him to get him to sleep, but, mostly, he falls asleep without it, and only really wants it when he's awake. If i try and give it to him at night, he wont take it. So, i guess thats a good thing.

Zofia - Diana might be having a growth spurt? Aiden had 3 days straight when he was pretty much awake all the time, really only slept soundly between midnight and 4am. Poor mummy. But, he was feeding like every 2 hours. The good new is, the next 2 days after that, he pretty much slept, woke up, feed, and back to sleep before i could finish changing his bum. Did that for 2 days straight.

A question - do you guys change bums before or after a feed? I go after, but, its such a shame to have to wake him up again. Although, if he is tired, does tend to go back to sleep easily.

wow Deb, what a sleep routine he had lol glad he wasnt upset and was content just laying there.
Lachlan the same with the dummy, which i think is good too.

in regards to nappy changing, i find it easier to put up with a bit more screaming and change him before a feed, so that i can put him down after without waking him up.

im about to jump into the shower so we can go to the shops too lol

Hi,

Well Lewis was pretty unsettled again last night only sleeping for 1 or 2 hours at a time. I'm actually finding it harder to settle him to sleep. I think I try and rush him sometimes because I get anxious about it. He has a dummy for sleeping only, and if he could keep it in it would work everytime, but it constantly falls out and then he whinges again.

I change his nappy after a feed if its daytime and I'm keeping him up to play, but during the nigth feeds I change it first so that he will hopefully fall asleep while feeding and I can put him straight down.

Wow am I the only one who doesn't want to fall pregnant again so soon?!! My body couldn't take another pregnancy and birth just yet!! I must be getting old. I am actually thinking about waiting 3 years before I try again, although this may have to be revised as Lewis was conceived through IVF so it may take a while, if at all next time.

Anyway I have visitors tonight and tomorrow so am off to get some sleep while Lewis is finally sleeping.

Hi girls!!!

I'm so happy to have everyone from our Belly Buddies in this thread. :happyforyou:

Tate and I watched a video about setting babies when we came home from hospital. They said that babies have "restless sleep" 50% of the time. Where they're asleep, but they groan and wriggle and fuss. Doesn't seem like a good way of sleeping to me, but that's what they do.

I change Caeleb's nappy in the middle of the feed. I find if I change it before he starts feeding, he wets it again by the time we've finished. If I change it at the end, it wakes him up too much. Plus, it gives me time to wake him back up so he's feeding well and I also get wind up during that time too.

I went to Child and Youth yesterday and they told me about "Wonder Weeks". Saying that not only are they having a growth spurt, but they're also having a development spurt. So, during these times, they grow, but they may also start smiling or crawling (obviously when they are older). And of course, are increasing our milk supply (for bf babies).

Caeleb was 3.190 kilos (6 pounds 14 ounces) when he was born. He was 3.070 kilos when he left hospital. He was weighed yesterday for the first time since he left hospital and is now, 3.930 kilos (8 pounds 6 ounces). I'm so pleased. :)

Anyway, time to go play with my gorgeous boy!

Celsie. xoxox