Kim - I didn't know you were diagnosed with PND. I reackon I came close, but now Lachie is a little better my spirits are higher. There were many a day I would be very very down and upset but I think with a supportive partner I pulled through it, thank god. I have been depressed before and didn't want to go back there. Hugs and kisses for you, sorry I have not been there for you. I just really don't find time these days, don't know how all you girls do it really! I am the same with Lachie today tested his temp and he is fine, just a bit out of sorts today maybe constipation I think??? Who did you meet up with the other day?
Beck - Jovi, sorry must have missed something what is going on with her hips. Lachie was thought to have had hip displacement when he was born due to being breach. He only got 9 out of 10 for his AGPAR because of this. The next day the paed thought his left hip was a little better but he sent us for a scan just to be sure, and yep he was fine thank god!
Nat - that seems so nice re: the poem, would like to see a copy of the lyrics if you have it? I had such a hard time trying to buy a fathers day gift. When I was in Mackay we bought him a heap of darrell lea choccies, he loves choccies and a key ring with Lachie's name and meaning of his name on it and a magnetic photo frame for fridge saying "My boy". Not sure about the formula question or coloxyl drops. Have you tried brown sugar and water instead. I am tempted to use that soon, he hasn't gone for 2 1/2 days now and that is unusual for him and he seems a bit grumpy, but boy is he farting alot!!!!
Tania - appears we both have partial non thriving babies. What to do hey!!!! It is so bloody confusing. But in saying that I know Lachie is just going to be tiny, but I still wish he would beef up a little! He still hasn't reached the 5kg mark. Hey I am so keen to catch up with you guys, but won't be in town for a while, would you like to come for a visit out here???? Just a thought. Wow you are so strong with this egg donation thing, I admire you. Pink shirt sounds great, Wade and I are a bit partial to pink too! Wade has always like to wear alot of colourful shirts. I am so lucky Lachie has had any cradle cap, that is one thing we have missed out on thank god.
Sara - good on you for spending some money on yourself, feels good hey. Me, well I am continually buying myself stuff as I have not lost alot of weight and I am having trouble fitting into anything comfortably, a real pain in the but, yep my but is HUGE!!!! The house sounds great too.
Leanne - have you thought about the medication Losec instead of Zantac? We had alot of problems with how the chemist was making this up intially which we didn't know any differently. They make it up in a mixture called Omeprazole Suspension. They were mixing it with Baking Soda initally and we were having to give him 5ml, then I asked them to concentrate it and the best they could do was 2.5ml. It was around this time that he started to refuse my breast!!!! It tasted terrible and when I spoke to paed he said no no no you should have gone to such and such a chemist and since then we haven't looked back they make it up like a mylanta syrup and it is almost bubblegummy tasting and smelling and we only have to give 1ml, Pheww... finally! He loves it. Apparently Losec is more effective then Zantac after asking my paed. You should mention it. We have more good then bad feeds at present, but the spewing has gotten worse since being on the bottle, if it's not one thing it is another. Oh and when he is symptomatic we give him 1ml of mylanta, just soothes the burning throat. So sorry about your PND, glad you are getting ontop of it now. Oh and also like Kim said syringe into the side of bubs mouth, works a treat for us.
Jodie - I am the same as Kim with Lachie and his nails, he wakes up! I did them the other day - chewed them - whilst Wade was holding him, can't use those god dam clippers. We keep mittens on his hands the poor mite, he gouges his eyes and rubs his face so much we just find this is the safest way.
Angelique - Where do you live? It is so hot here it is not funny, almost like summer, poor Lachie feels the heat like me, boy we are in for a summer. He hangs out in singy's all the time it is so hot! Hope the tresillian nurse helps you out?
Shazz - yes makes sense good tip re: the solids, we might be there before we know it, not looking forward to it, hopefully we can hold out a bit longer yet.
Kellee - I just have to say it again, you are a super mum, how the hell do you do it, would like to know the tip for the next baby for us. Sounds like you have a busy weekend planned hopefully it all works out super for you.
How did I go, sorry if I missed anyone. I really neglect everyone these days and I am so sorry!!!!!
NOW ME AND LACHIE -
I have noticed every now and again he won't feed, actually most feeds are like this but he eventually keeps going but then there are feeds that he uses his hand to push the bottle away and turns his head and sometimes cries. Its almost like what he was doing to my boob. He is sooo hard to feed it is ridiculous! This morning I fed him at 4am, then tried to give him a bottle at 7:30am (and he only had 20ml). I tried to feed him since 10am seeing as he has not fed well since 4am and he wouldn't have a bar of it, crying his lungs out. I calmed him and put him in his cradle swing and fed him rather then cradle hold him to feed him and this kinda worked, not well but much better. He just doesn't seem hungry??? I am so confused and sick of the feeding dilemas we have, any suggestions?
He seems happy but gee we are not reaching the 700-800mls he should be having every day. Will he dehydrate. I guess I really worry because he is still so small at 4.88kgs and I want to beef him up as he is falling way behind even before these current feeding dilemas. I have noticed this since strengthening his feeds, wonder if that is why and he is more content earlier????? Any suggestions.
Also he is a real hands man lately no sooner have I pulled the bottle out of his mouth or his dummy his hands are in there!
After saying all that with his feeds, he slept with me from 12:30pm to 4pm, what tha.... never heard of, but YEAH, I feel so rested hopefully I can now sleep tonight. How can my baby be so content, it just doesn't make sense at all.
Just a quick update his feed before the 4am one was at 10pm - so yes he gave us 6 hours sleep, well kinda with me continually popping the dummy back in. I have been trying to get into a bit of a routine with feeds at 7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm and then last feed at 9:30pm ready for bed then he will wake around 3 or 4am. Just when I wanted to start to routinely feed he is refusing it! I mean I am happy with 4 hourly too if that is what he wants to do, but he is pushing it out even further then that! So I guess the 4am to 10am is another 6 hours but even then he was hard to feed the only feed that was ok was at 12;30pm (lunch time), so that is 8ish hours. I just fed him again at 7:30pm adding to the list previously and he fed reasonably ok but probably only drank 100ml which is better then most of his other feeds today and he did that without hesitation but then tried to give him the other 20ml and that is when he started refusing it. Guess I just have to go with him at the moment and stuff the routine.
So from 7.30am this morning to 7.30pm tonight he has had 360ml, his next bottle at roughly 9.30pm just before bed will be another 180ml (which he won't drink all of but I try to give him a little more before bed which he doesn't seem to refuse too much) and then another 120ml at around 4am in the morning, so that is in total approx 660mls. On the ratio of 150mls per kg, he should be having 732ml, do you think 660mls is ok???? Guess if he appears to be content I shouldn't worry.....................
Vic: So glad you had a great day and I hope you have a great child-free night tomorrow night . The past 2 days I have only managed 7 feeds (close enough) Poor you though 10 feeds. Maybe its just his time to move on to formula?? I'm lucky with Jayden that he took to formula straight away and he will take breast as well. Your tip is a great one too...But I always forget LOL We went out for dinner tonight and I didn't even take the nappy bag, not even a nappy and of course we dropped into MIL's house on the way home and Jayden had a pooey nappy!!
Sheree: I'll chat with you on MSN or email you, I have heaps to say LOL. Sounds like our boys have been going through similar problems (except the reflux) Jayden has just reached 5kgs on Tuesday. I should be able to go up your way...never been there before though :eek: You will need to come shopping with us, we know were to get pink shirts LOL or there is alway Ebay haha. I spoke to the Dr about donating my eggs but I'll wrie about that at the end. With Lache's feeds, I'd try switching formula's and see how you go. Did you put more formula in with the same water? That could be why he is constipated?? I know a friend of mine did that thinking her bub will sleep longer when they were going on a long trip and the poor baby ended up doing a hard poo after crying the entire 5hr trip she was only a few months old at the time. Hey is Lachie's Paed Dr Ben? Have I asked you that before? And were you at Child Health on Tuesday too? There was something you said in a previous post that made me think you were there.
Kellee: I got Jayden's shirts from BigW and they went up to a size 2 otherwise as I said to Sheree...there is alway Ebay LOL. Jayden has a heap of clothes (I think most of you have worked that out hehe) and he suits nearly every colour I think....Blue, red, pink, orange.....maybe not some greens....anything really vibrant suits him I think. Good luck with SIL's kitchen tea, I guess you got it all organised ok? Well done for getting all those things done....where were the kids? Surely you couldn't have done that and had them there LOL. Jayden is starting to like just laying on the bed too and me talking or singing to him...he cracks up when I sing "There were 10 in the bed".
Kim: I went back and checked the times, LOL I didn't realise.
The Bicarb tip: SIL #4 is a hairdresser and she said she did this to her daughter (3yrs old now) and it cleared up in no time. I had been using olive oil but was told to leave it on for approx 1hr before his bath, I could never manage leaving it on for an hour so it was for about 5 mins and it would dissappear for about 24hrs then come back. The bicarb does eat away at the cradle cap but doesn't cause any irritation to the skin (depending on your babies skin too) Jayden's skin is reasonably sensitive and he had no reaction to it other than it dissappeared. I put it on him 5 mins before his bath and only did it about 3 times....and his was pretty bad. I noticed today he had a tiny amount again but it has been over a month since he has had it bad. If it gets on clothing it isn't hard to wash out like oil is too. Bi carb should be in every household as it can be used for everything LOL.....from pots n pans to bubby's scalp...hmm good advertising?? hehe
Anyway think I'm going delerioius, its 12.30am, Jayden has been asleep and I need to sleep too.....Oh one mor thing...my Dr's appt
I got a prescription for Domperidone which is meant to boost my milk supply, I haven't taken it yet as I'm still trying the Fenugreek. If the fenugreek and Domperidone doesn't work then it will be formula...I think I have given it a fair go with the BF'ing and enough is enough I can say that I have tried everything. The other reason I'm not going to push the BF'ing too far (if its not working) is because I can't really donate eggs until I am getting AF and know when I am ovulating. Jayden will come first and foremost so I'm not giving up the BF'ing for SIL#5 but if the meds don't work then I can look further into donating. Dr said that there should be no risk to me or having children in the future. I will certainly think about it a lot longer before I make final desicion tho.
OMG We have all done long posts!! There will be a million typos I'm sure but I'm nut fixing them now LOL
. The past 2 days I have only managed 7 feeds (close enough) Poor you though 10 feeds. Maybe its just his time to move on to formula?? I'm lucky with Jayden that he took to formula straight away and he will take breast as well. Your tip is a great one too...But I always forget LOL We went out for dinner tonight and I didn't even take the nappy bag, not even a nappy and of course we dropped into MIL's house on the way home and Jayden had a pooey nappy!!
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