Hi everyone. I just wanted to wish you all a big congratulations on the births of your new babies. It seems like just yesterday I was in the same boat as you all and now my baby is one.
Enjoy getting to know your princes and princesses. I hope you get some rest and have a good recovery.
Hi Im Meg and my son Jasper was born on 3.3.09. Like his two older sisters he is not a sleeper, and even his day sleeps have gone out the window. So we're lucky to be getting half an hour of peace day or night. To be honest I don't like this part AT ALL. I have to just let him cry as Im exhausted. So different doing this with a toddler. At least last time DD1 was 7, so it was easier to bargain with her!!
Love my little man and want to appreciate every moment but to be honest I can't wait till he's older!
Congrats to everyone else!!
Meg - is Jasper still hungry? I know that i am new to all of this but if he is not settling for you could that be a reason and not sleeping for very long? I find with Ruby, now that she is BF, that my milk is just not enough and that she is still hungry - no matter how long she feeds and is easily settled with a top up of around 30 ml of formula. I know this may not to be everyones taste given the whole BF ideal but it may help and it may let you get some rest
Didn't end up going to the paed. Had a chiro appointment and Leon got adjusted and massaged. He LOVED it! He just zonked out with his arms above his head. My chiro convinced me to cancel the paed appointment and see how I go with him being adjusted and showed me how to massage his belly to help relieve the wind. Hope I'm doing the right thing
He actually had a good night last night once he settled! Settled finally at around midnight, and then fed at 2:15am, 5:15am and 7:30am, settled fairly easily between feeds. Hope he continues this as I'm so over feeding every 2 hours and less.
Thought I should pop my head in here and introduce myself. I'm Kaz and my partner and I just had our first baby, Jacob Hunter on the 11.03.09. I am also posting in the Feb thread because he was due on the 28.02.09 and I got to know those girls really well but am keen to get to know as many people with babies this age as possible! Hopefully I can keep up with both threads!!
Although Jacob's birth didn't go to plan, he is absolutely perfect and things have been pretty good so far. He is generally settled between the over night feeds (since leaving hossy and so far at any rate) and is more unsettled in the evenings. My mum is staying at the moment and her advice around feeding, burping and settling has been awesome. We've had a good day today and he has fed and slept well so I feel like a million bucks and anything is possible! I can continue it all after she goes home tomorrow but I know that's wishful thinking!
Hope you're all having settled evenings with your bubbas.
Thanks Samm, I did try that with DD2 but it didnt' work for her and she's ended up with all sorts of allergies, so Im trying to steer clear of anything but breastmilk with J as it must be a family thing (mum has asthma, I have hayfever, both girls eczema etc). I think it's just my genes, I have not been able to sleep well since I was 16! Crazy. Pity they don't take after their dad!
Jasper was fine until 2am this morn , then he grunted the rest of the night. I feel worse for him, I just want him to get some sleep! I think also the prob is that I don't want to wake the girls. I would normally let him cry a bit and grunt and let the wind out, but at 2am the girls will wake up as they are in the next room, so it makes it a bit harder. That's why the days have been better.
We'll get there! At least it's the same as the last two times, guess I can deal with what I know. And thankful it's not reflux or anything like that.
We get our jaundice results today, hoping he's ok, but have a feeling we're going to need further tests. DD2 had hers for 5 months.. it's called breastmilk jaundice, no idea why it exists! CAn't be fixed by sunlight....
Hope everyone doing well. Just got the girls off to school, going to have a cuppa now and watch tv!!!! (J having sleep, hoping it will last, i let him cry and get worn out, then rocked him for 2 mins and he was asleep)! x
PS Holly, we have a chiro that swears he can fix anything!! I hope it works for you, it is meant to work so well for reflux. Unfortunately he never helped coco, but at least her spine was straight. She didn't have reflux though. Im booked in with J for next week. xo
We're slowing starting to build up a bit of a group here, it takes time to even feel like you can sit at a computer i think. Hi to all the girls from my belly buddies group and to the new ladies also. I hope you are enjoying your babies and things are progressing nicely.
The last few days for me have been difficult, I was having some good nights and then not so good nights with Charlie and i could handle that because i was getting sleep but the last few nights haven't been very good ones. Charlie's feeding is ALL OVER THE PLACE and i know he's a newborn so i can't expect too much routine to it all but he's wanting to feed pretty much every hour and a half!! His feeds are really quick and most of the time i struggle to get him to have more than one side. For how long do i just go with that or should i try and influance when he feeds a bit more? I think i'm going to call the lactation nurse at the hospital and have a chat, i just feel silly sometimes.
THe real restlessness is at night and like you M23 i just can't let him make too much noise because he wakes his brother up, so i give in and just feed him to make him happy. Last night he wouldn't settle after his 2am feed so after an hour i just laid him down next to me and he was there until 4am this morning. He fed at 4am and then at 6am because i couldn't not and then woke up an hour after i'd gotten him to sleep, i managed to resettle him and he's just waking now so we managed to make it to 3 hours!!! I forgot how hard it is to have a newborn.
My name is Jen and my son Ryder was born on 4th March. Would be really great to keep in contact with people who are going through the same things as me. I'm the only one of my friends who has a baby although many are preggo.
Thanks
Not much to report, basically said everything on the other forum Dayl set up, and wouldn't want to bore you all with the same old!
Had mothers group today and took L in the HAB as it's one of few ways he will remain settled. Went well! All the other babies were grizzling and crying and he stayed asleep! THey all reckon I'm lying when I tell them about how he is at home! LOL so typical. Lets hope he is like that tonight!
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I can continue it all after she goes home tomorrow but I know that's wishful thinking!
LOL so typical. Lets hope he is like that tonight!
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