Babies Born March 1st - 15th 2008

[india44]

teach I was increasing feeds and he was so hungry and I also expressed as much as I coudl but the milk just would not come that way and didnt with an electric pump in the hospital either. LC thought perhaps when I had the surgeries I had quite a bit of damage to the milk ducts.I would be happy if Will kept having a morning and night breastfeed as I to enjoy that feeling nad have never found it painfull at all althoughI dont find the bottle feeds much less closs to be hoenst. Prep of the bottles etc has never really worried me as I Have done it right from the start in hospital I was also preping it all when I as able to move around.I am going to have a blood count this week and ama fraid if things get any lower then I will end up back on drugs anyway and then it really will all be over.


Prama if I feed when I am out I always bottle feed and Wil gets boob when we get home I find it much easier. Hope things arent too ldifficult when you are travelling.

Go shell on the pole dancing I have heard its great excercise..I have hard enough time lifting my legs to put my stockigns on some days let alone wrapping it around a pole *L* bet it will be fun

I have just sat here in tears after watching 60 mins Lauren Huxley's mum and my dad are cousins and we were kept up to date on how things were going for her but to see the pics of her skull were truly shocking. To see her dad Pat so upset and all he and Chris have done for her makes you terrified that anything would ever happen to your own children. Lauren is a credit to herself and he parents as to how she has overcome what that animal did to her.

AM having an ovaltine and calming down a bit before off ot bed. Hubby got home t 2.15 am on Friday and then snored from 12 till 4am last night and I am shattered.
Hope your weekend was good and here is to a good week ahead.
Bron xx

[shell_120308]

Hey girls,

Just put DJ to bed and hoping he will sleep through til 3am (fingers crossed) kehehee I think tomorrow I will just start giving DJ expressed breast milk because he just doesn't stay on the boob long enough to get anything. The funny thing is, when I am out and about and feed him in a place other than home, he is really good on the boob, find it so strange.

Prama
oh wow that would have been nice for you when Steve took Poopy out and left you by yourself. You need to have some 'me' time. I would go stir crazy if I didn't have a bit of time by myself a week. On Saturday I went out at 3pm to have some me time and I got a flat tyre arghhhh so much for me time. Doni came down and tried to fix it but I have mag wheels which are hard to come off so had to renew my NRMA roadside assistance membership - so that was $255 arghhhhh so all in all my me time ended up being 30 mins of grocery shopping haha I wanted to look around at clothes shops and try stuff on, a bit hard with a pram.

Yeah I agree on the breastfeeding as well, if DJ was settled after a breastfeed then I would enjoy more as well, so I think expressing might be the way to go. I used to do it alot more at the beginning so Doni could help. I don't know just so hard.....

Can you take a can of formula with you? I am not sure how that goes with quarantine mind you...... probably not.... The brand your mum can get is still the same brand ie. Nestle so it has to be just as good

haha on tomorrow, eating so much this weekend, so need it haven't stopped eating all afternoon today. I think it is from being able to relax this afternoon.

Well done on seeing the counsellor, that is great news. I did a reiki course a few years ago, but forgotten how to do it. So happy it helped sweetie.

And yeah can't wait to get back into my pole dancing, it helped tone up my body and also great for the self-esteem.


BronI missed that interview but she is amazing especially what she has been through.


well girls, I am going to relax and watch some tv before heading to bed.

Hope you have a great night.

Sooooo hoping DJ sleeps well tonight for me

Shell xxx

[Sammiejane]

Hello girls,

just a quick one from me tonight, buggeed!

BRON - yes if your counts are dropping you milk possibly will be affected, if your body is having a difficult time fnctioning normally, it will sacrifice the milk after a while, as unlike when we are pg, your body wont keep just giving out - thats why when we excercise too much milk can dry out (good excuse in my books not to for a while )... but in saying that, my boobs are rarely hard anymore, only after a big overnight stint.
What Teach says is right, you need to offer more to increase your supply.
Im wondering, are you letting down properly? if you sit and are anxious maybe this is the prolem... i know this as when i express my let down is very very slow and bugger all comes out, them when i feel the tingle, whooosh its starts fowing like no tomorrow.
I cant really give you any advice, i seem to have loads of milk (but my boobs at times look smaller and are way softer), but will be keeping my fingers crossed for you

SHELL sorry that you dont enjoy feeding, do whats right for you, maybe expressing and bottle feeding will work out well for you... best of both worlds so to speak. hope you do OK with Doni away...
I find it really really hard o get back to sleep after a feed, sometimes i lay there thinking about ridiiculos stuff - maybe you should do your meditation CD again.

PRAMA - i love reiki - i did the reiki one course years ago and when i first got pg did it on my abdo every night!!! Glad you had a great session and have got a bit of a boost out of it. Its a funny way of putting it, but yeah thinking too much is exhausting!

Ania and Jess hope you had a great weekend
Teach has the nappy rash healed? got fluggy mail yesterday - some loulou aio - nonight naoppies atm - but mj is not a heavy wetter (yet)

Trina - cant wait to hear about your hols!

We had a ok weeken, Saturday got some family pics taken, nice dinner, then the bomb shell... DSS was on the toliet and this little voice cam out - 'um Sam..... i think a worm just came out of my bum' BUGGER - he pulled out out and squished it so i didnt see, but today has been washing, cleaning and scrubing the whole house and clothes and bedding AHHHHHH - poor little thing, had nightmares last night about the worms nibbling him and he was in tears before bed, no matter how much we told him that it was really common and that loads of kids had it, it really upset him - poor little thing, for a 10yr old he acts really really grown up most of the time and its times like this that just makes you realise how young and vunerable he is

Well thats it for me - he is staying tonight as his mum didnt think that she could be bothered cleaning today, and it was just too much for her... so we have him another night and i have to get him to school in the morning (45min drive - thats 1 and a half hour round trip in peak hour!!!) i dont mind though, he is so helpful and lovely to have around, besides its another evening of bonding with his little sister

Oh yeah - Teach, DSS asked if i could express some milk so he could feed her - i guess its helpful at times, but im greedy and want that time all to myslef!!! he got a kick out of feeding her thou!

Nighty night

[prama]

quickie. going to sleep now.
bron - hope you're ok. an lc i saw said she had very little when expressing but had plenty of milk. i dunno what else to do to increase milk. poopy doesnt always detach. he can go on and on so i can never tell if he's had enough and just sucking on. i watch the clock now, 20mins each side.

shell - steve was away for 45mins but it was nice nevetheless to have the house to myself.

sj - poor dss. how's his mother's finger? is it still infected. haha
thanks reiki is good, when they tell you to relax, i find it hard, and not to think so much i think more!

gotta go, here's to a good week!

[prama]

bron - i missed the interview too, but ive been following it and so glad justise has been served. big hugs to your family.

shell - hope dj slept well.

[shell_120308]

Morning girls,

DJ slept from 9 til 3 which was great so I got a good 4 hour sleep, but then after that he was restless and waking up every hour. Did that last week as well.... Feel very tired but not too bad. My mum is hoping to pop around later today so hopefully then I will get some rest while she looks after DJ for me.

Prama- 45 mins is still good especially just to have time to yourself and I shall see you at 10:30, not sure how I will go soooo tired haha I will need that coffee afterwards

SJ - yeah maybe I should do the meditation cd afterwards. didn't have any problems falling asleep after the 3am feed this morning.

I better get myself organised so I can head to class.

Chat soon
Shell xxx

[Sammiejane]

Wow what a morning! i did a load of washing and had it hung before taking DSS to school, then got the second load on! Its atually been good, i have 2 loads of washing and the house tidied and its not even 10am...
Prama - yeah her finger is better, but she is now dying of a 'virus' (AKA a cold!!!)

Shel - just a thought... Molly Jane makes a lot of noise in her sleep and loads of ehh ehh and grunting sounds... initially i would get up and feed her, then i figured that she was making these noises in her sleep, so i left her... she would self settle and sleep for another hour or so. Now i only get up if she actually cries or is awake... their sleep cycle is 45 mins so will wake and usually just need to get themselves back off to sleep.
I dont know if this applies to you at all... of course Molly Jane is not hungry at these times, just starting to wake (with what sounds like wind, but it is now just a noise that she makes all the time ) so leaving her actually is better for her sleep routine. My rule is if she is crying in need to get up, if not, it is probably just her making noises, she crys if she needs me. It is quite disturbing of sleep to start with, but i find that i get off to sleep really well if i wake for her nises and then she doesnt cry, i just go off quickly!
Sometimes she does a cry, i get up put the wheat bag on, go to the toilet and then get the wheat bag out of the mirowave (this takes 3 mins tops) and she is back to sleep already!!! so i just go back to bed.
The other thing is, the down side to her really long sleeps is that she needs about 2-3 feeds between 5 and 8.30pm... it doesnt bother me at all (i would rather the sleep), but this may not be something that you want to do... but it is the cluster feeding that gets her through..
HTH
BBL

[teachmum]

SJ Paddy does the same thing. He sleeps from about 9pm till 5.30 but will cluster feed in the morning and in the evening. I've been training everyone in the family not to go in on the first cry because often he's not awake and will sleep for another hour. The other morning I put him in his cot (he still sleeps in his hammock) to play safely while I got ready for basketball and he went off to sleep. Hopefully he'll start self settling during the day because atm I can't put him to bed unless he's asleep.