Sorry I have been MIA (haha... didn't realise the play on words there!!) as Mia has been really unsettled in the last few days and it's been hard trying to put her to sleep. She's normally quite good but of late, she's either refusing to be put down (she'll be asleep after feeding or burping etc and and as soon as we put her down to sleep she screams) or if she goes go down, she'll wake after 45 mins/1hr and refuse to settle herself to sleep again!! Very tired, but I know it's all a learning experience for her to get used to the world, and she'll be ok. It's me that has the hard time!! LOL
The BEST part is Mia has started smiling about half a week ago. It's this gorgeous full open mouth smile and at first I wasn't sure if it was wind or not but it's definitely smiling. She's doing it more and more each day and today she was sitting there smiling with me for about 5 mins straight... HEAVEN!! I was laughing so much I starting crying - SO ADORABLE!!!
Tan - yay for Isabelle being such a good night baby!! You're very lucky to have her be so good during the hours you need sleep! I suppose that's the positive... so you can at least have a decent rest while she does decide to sleep! Who is the person that your friend recommended re: sleeping/feeding? Can you email me the details? As for settling, we try the patting, shhhh, then dummy and then finally pick-up (unless her cries indicate she has wind, then we pick her up straight away to burp her... we're using the Dunstan Baby language DVD).
Lulu - 6-8 hours??? OMG!!! What an absolute little angel - pass the tips over here!! What is the secret?!
Kelly - you poor thing! My nipples are still super sensitive at the moment but thank GOD they have stopped cracking and bleeding. Now they just hurt like hell all the time (I actually feel like I'm back in puberty again when my boobs and nipples were sore!!) so you have my sympathy! As for EBM, my MCHN said it was 150ml x their body weight / number of feeds per day. So, for example a 4kg baby would be 600ml per day / 6 feeds = 100ml per feed (as an example).
Sarah - Glad to hear that the DVDs arrived all safe and sound for you hon! Are they good? Worth the buy? So sorry to hear about Justin's friend though... that's so sad.
Heather - So sorry to hear about the mastitis. I hear it is absolutely horrid. Good luck with the LC - let us know how you go.
Sez - How did your appointment go with Nicholas?
Lis - How did your appointment go as well? So lucky that you have heaps of milk - I am still having issues with this. I barely get anything when I express after a feed, and if I express instead of feeding I only ever get about 80/90ml MAX!
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