Babies Born May 1-15 2008

[Visitor7]

lulu - definitely suggest the vapouriser! It's helped with Emily, and always helps whenever Nina starts coming down with something as well.
Our night last night was alright. Except we went to mum's for dinner, and Emily was really unsettled afterwards. I ended up having to leave the room and getting DH to settle her, as she just wanted to suck, not really feed, and after 2 hours of that, it was driving me insane. It only took DH 10 min to settle her though! gggrrrrr! She's not a fan of going out in the late afternoon/night ATM.

[Laranna]

It has been great to read through all your experiences and suggestions in this thread.

Still having unsettled nights this week and Joshua is back sleeping in the pram. He doesn't seem to want to settle after feeds and especially won't settle in his cot. He's feeding every 2-3 hours and occassionally he will go for 4 hours without a feed or sometimes even just 1.5 hours which can be really hard at night by the time I change him, feed him and settle him, he wants another feed. A few times I have just let him fall asleep on my chest while I am propped up myself in bed or on the couch, it's the only way we both get some sleep at times but I don't really like doing this for the safety reasons. DP has been great and will get up and try to settle him so I can get some sleep between feeds.

[Kristale]

I find it amazing you all can sleep with bubs in your room I find I constantly have one eye open and I hear every movement I had to move Amelie to her room which I hadnt planned to do until later on. But I just wasnt getting any sleep. She is happy with the move to so I guess I am lucky.
Does anyone elses bub struggle to stay awake? Amelie seems to be extra sleepy she only wakes twice during the night and during the day struggles to stay awake after a feed.
I have been told she will wake up in the next or so she is only 15 days old. But she is being so contented I am waiting for it to all fall apart.

[Laranna]

Kristale - my little man was a sleepy head for the first 2 weeks. I had to constantly wake him up when he was feeding as he'd fall asleep on the boob after a few minutes. Then it seems smack bang on the 2 week mark he "woke up" and it's hard to settle to him especially at night. He just wants to cry and be held. Fingers crossed for you that your little one remains contented!

[Kristale]

ooh hope i havnt spoken to soon then!

[LuluHB]

Kristale - I have a very content little baby too. My first one was terrible but Elena seems to spend her days feeding, sleeping and gazing around with very little fuss. Hopefully, we're both just lucky and our little princesses will stay happy and content. I couldn't sleep with Izzy in our bedroom long either but I don't seem to have the same problem with Elena. Maybe its the second baby thing when you're not so stressed about every noise, or maybe its just that I'm so exhausted I sleep through it, or maybe its because my DH's snoring drowns out any noises she makes!!

Hi to everyone else. Sorry, no personals today. I've now had three nights with almost no sleep and am so whacked. I went to an LC yesterday about the attachment issues I'm having with Elena and while I was holding her wrong (with the new hold its much better), I have Raynards (sp?) in my nipples, which is what is giving me so much pain. I have it in my hands too, but never knew it could be a breast thing. The great news is that my little princess has put on a whopping 480grams in 2 weeks and 2 days!!! There has to be some pay off for so many feeds. This breastfeeding caper is obviously working much better for Elena that it ever did for poor little Iz. Just call me Buttercup the Cow from now on!

Will try to get back later for personals but am off for a shower now while my girls are sleeping peacefully - getting them to sleep at the same seems to be a bit of a minor miracle at the moment. Have a lovely weekend everyone - sleepy baby vibes to all bubs.

[Katstribe]

Ok i think its time i joined this group.

Like Lulu & Beth i went through in the april belly group and also like Lulu my little girl was very stubborn and decided to not come on her due date of 28th april and she waited until the 12th May just to frustrate her mummy i am sure!

So my Little Molly was born on the 12th May and was 14dys overdue. She was my successful VBA2C (vaginal birth after two c-secs). I was very happy with our achievements. Molly is my 7th bub, i have a DS17, DD14, DD10 (almost 11), DD8, DD6, DS 17mths and now Molly.

I know a couple of you and i look forward to geting to know the rest of you as we go along. I have been in the april babies group as thats where most of the ladies are that i went through PG with but it is a huge group and obviously with Molly taking so long to make her appearance everyone else is kind of not where we are at! So as much as its gret to chat with them all they are all at different points with their bubbas.

So here i am and for those who dont know me you will learn that i like to have a chat!

So far Molly has had good and bad nights. It seems she will have a good night which is usually 9pm feed, 1am feed and 8ish am feed. Or it could be 10pm 2am 8or 9am these are her good nights. Then we have her bad nights which are still 4hrly but they knock me fora six! Last night was a 4hrly so hopefully tonight is 6 or 7hrs. Other than that she is a good bub, she was 3670gms born (8lb 1 & 1/2oz) then we left hospital day 2 and she was 3412gms which they say is not the average 10%weight loss as it was a day 2 and not day 3weight, anyway took her to CH on the 21st and she weighed in at 3750gms so that was a total weight gain of 338gms in 7dys.

Lulu it sounds like Elena is truly thriving on BF, well done hun thats awesome.

Kristale I find it easy having bub in my room too, i am the opposite to you i wouldnt sleep if they weren't in the room. So i say which ever way works for you thats the way to go!

Laranna Molly can be unsettled after feeds too, mainly the 1 or 2am feed though! Thats the one feed i wish she would just go straight back to sleep, but sometimes it takes me about an hour to get her settled after that feed

My DH started back at work today, so far all is good, i even managed to go to town and get some groceries!!!
Hi to everyone else i look forward to catching up.