Babies Born May 1-15 2008

[Visitor7]

Welcome lulu and congrats on the arrival of DD2!

Well tomorrow is D day for me, DH goes back to work tomorrow. He needs to go in just for the day, then he'll have Tues & Wed off, then back to work Thurs & Fri. I'm soooooo scared. Having a 21month old and a newborn. I feel I haven't really found my feet yet. So if anyone can give me tips, I'd love them.
We've started getting Emily into a bath/feed/bed routine. We did the same with Nina and it seemed to work. I've also started feeding her more during the day in the hope she'll stretch out the feeds during the night. She's been feeding every 2.5-3 hours during the night, but going 4-5 hourly during the day. So today I've been feeding her every 3 hours. My milk came in last night, so Emily should have had some pretty good feeds today.
Fingers crossed tonight is a better night than last night.

[LuluHB]

Jodi - not sure I have any advice for you that's helpful. I'm still struggling to work out juggling tips mself, but the one thing that has helped is keeping Izzy in her routine and trying to get Elena to work around her (easier said than done!). Izzy seems to be less grizzly though if I keep things as normal as I can for her, whereas El is still making things up as she goes along. Elena is feeding 3 hourly at the absolutely most - sometimes its only an hour - and she doesn't seem to be a baby that you can distract if she's hungry so I'm just feeding her a little early if I think her feed will conflict with something I have to do with Iz.

Good luck. I hope you have a day with few tears.

[Laranna]

Hello...at last I can join a baby buddies thread My little man Joshua arrived 3 weeks early on Mothers Day 11th May. I was booked for a c-section on the 23rd due to placenta praevia but on Sunday, my waters broke naturally and contractions started straight away. I still had to have the c-section but am happy that I went into labour naturally as I know that Josh was ready to come out.

We have been home a couple of days now and trying to settle into a routine, if there is such a thing but he has been doing great and feeding every 3 hours. There have been a couple of times during the night where he hasn't settled easily but so far it is all good. The local health nurse is coming to visit us on Wednesday.

I look forward to chatting with all you new mummies

[beckstar]

Ok, so now that we have passed the 15th of the month, lets see who we have in our baby buddy group;

Name baby born other siblings
beckstar: girl Macey DS -15mo
laranna boy Joshua -
luluHB girl Elena DD - 12mo
jodi girl Emily DD - 21mo
chrissy boy Liam DD 15,DS 12,DS 11,DD 10,DD 19mo, DSS 12, DSD 10
Shezabelle girl Ava DD16mo
Beth girl Sophia -

gee hope I haven't missed anyone. Good see to see we have plenty of ther close siblings too. Will be coming to you girls looking for tips on managing 2+littlies.

Hope your all getting a little bit of sleep. Things are going ok here so far. Macey has last feed at 10:30pm and has been going thru till around 3am before needing next feed and then not again till 7am. Started having some grief with wind & hiccups though.

Can feel boobs let-down kicking in now that I'm talking about her so need to go and feed my little girl.

[Visitor7]

beck - I'm starting to have some issues with wind as well. It's not too bad ATM, but it's there, and it's a PITA! Emily was really unsettled this afternoon. Took about 1.5 hours to settle her. I just had to sit there with her, while she sucked on my little finger (she loves that). Thank goodness Nina was at daycare today.
Emily is feeding roughly at those times during the night as well. It's great as I'm getting plenty of rest still at night.
Our biggest problem at night though is that Nina hears when Emily is crying, and she gets really concerned about Emily, and starts crying too! So it's tag team. DH is on Nina duty at night now, while I'm on Emily duty. We've found the last 2 nights have been better with Nina, she hasn't been waking up as much. Hopefully she gets use to the cries and starts sleeping through again. At least it's been relatively easy to get her back to sleep.

[beckstar]

Morning Mumma's,

Hope you managed to get some sleep last night. We had a pretty good night- actually the best we've had since we bought our little poppet home from hospital.

Last feed was at 11pm last night and then only got up to her once for a dummy fix. Didn't hear peep from here again until I woke her at 7am for a feed. Is that normal for 2wo babies to not need a feed durng the night yet?? Should I be waking her for one?? Bear in mind that she fed for most of the evening last night from 7:30-11pm so she would have had to of been full.

Just seems to be a bit too easy this tiem round. When DS was this age, he was always hungry and still doesn't sleep that well at night. Was up to him twice last night and little Macey only once.

I'm sure there is still time for the bubble to burst but fingers crossed, I may have got a good sleeper this time round.

We welcome your thoughts of the night feeding issue. FYI- Macey has already passed her birth weight so doesn't seem to be any signs of not getting enough milk if that makes any difference.

[beckstar]

hi me back again.

Question for the mods please...
I am having trouble accessng one of your links (Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information) from your post at the top of tis tread. It says that I don;t have the right permissions to access it. Can you tell me why this is pls.

Many thanks.

[Shezabelle]

Hi everyone...
sounds like we have a mixture of smoother and rougher rides at the moment..anyone would think we are talking about newborns!!!
My days are ok, DH went back to work this week so the juggling is interesting though i think it's easier with less cooks you know?
Nights are very ordinary with Ava not liking her co t for some reason so I am up most nights for most of the night.. any suggestions?
Sorry for the me post will try and catch up mor later.
Lotsa love oxox

[Visitor7]

shaza - you've had a rough start with Tyler. I really hope things start going smoothly from now on. How is the whooping cough going?

shezabelle - What do you think she doesn't like about it? Is she wrapped? Is she a back or side sleeper? Does she need to be rocked or patted to sleep? Or does she just like mummy's cuddles When I'm not sure of something, I go through the list, and tick off one by one when it does/doesn't work. If I think of more things, I'll suggest them. It's hard trying to remember what to do with a newborn isn't it. I'm used to a toddler now, so whenever Emily is unsettled, or crying, I'm like 'well, what do you want'. At least with Nina, she can tell me what she wants.