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Danni - Mason looks so much like you, so cute!
Sarah - cool, let us know your schedule - hopefully we can all work something out :)
Alex - Great news on the sleeping!! Go Toby!
Mel - Glad to hear you're feeling refreshed. Have fun at the party tonight - hope the weather clears up for you!
hehe does that mean you think im cute? :p
A quick selfish one from me.
I'm feeling very down because I have mastitis and I really hoped that wouldn't happen this time. With my last two kids I had it over and over. The reason I have developed it again is because now the doctor is sure I have a uterus infection and that there is some retained products still in my uterus, I'm all of a sudden losing large clots again. I had to have D&C's after my last two births and it's looking like the same will happen again. When my body gets even slightly run down after I've had a baby, I develop mastitis and it turns into a bloody vicious circle as I have to take antibiotic after antibiotic as I become immune to them very quickly and masitis just reoccurs over and over. I've got to go on these AB's fora week and then if the bleeding and clots are still there, it's a trip to get a D&C.
It all feels like deja vu and it's depressed me. I really was hoping I could get away without post partum complications this time. I feel like crap. My whole body aches, it hurts to even talk or swallow and I can't bear to brush my hair. And I've still got to look after a baby that's dependant on me and feed off this absolutely horribly painful breast (the infected lump is under my nipple). I don't have time for this with three kids, I certainly don't have time to go back to hospital for day surgery either. Because I'm feeling so sick, Leo has been very unsettled and won't let me put him down. DP is doing his best, but LEo just wants mum.
I'm feeling sorry for myself today :(
Alright lets see how I go with the personals. I don't think I have long before Noah wakes up though :(
Tara - That is terrible that you are not feeling well. I really hope that it is not the same thing again for you. I hope everything clears up quickly for you.
Kristen - I will do. It will be fantastic to meet everyone :dance: My mothers group has not started yet and it doesn't until July so on my 2nd to last MCHN visit I mentioned that is a really long gap and could something be arranged for sooner and she sprung one on me last week at Noah's last visit. I didn't have time to get nervous about meeting new people because I didn't know it was going to happen :rolleyes:
Alex - Great to hear about the sleep, Toby is a very good boy!! I was able to get a sleep in today, Juz got up with Noah and looked after him for a few hours.
Mel - Wow on Isobella eating every 4 hours, I hope she kept it up for you. It is a nice break on the nipples. Is your back better now? Make sure to get lots of rest if it isn't, well even if it is the rest is good anyway ;)
Danni - WooHoo!! A girls weekend in Horsham!! Warning, there is not much shopping here but Juz said we should go up to Halls Gap for one of the days, not sure what he would have in mind considering it would be so cold... We will come up with something I am sure.
Tan - The pics of Izzy and Mason look adorable!
Dan - I will do my best to be in Melb when you are down. I think it will work out but won't know for sure until my next appt. Noah has 3 more plasters once a week and then I think the following week is the cutting of the achillies tendon followed by a plaster that stays on for 2 or 3 weeks. So if I am correct I will be in Melbs for the next 4 Thursdays. I hope you are having an easier time getting Olivia settled.
Well that is as far as I can go back for the moment. Surprisingly Noah is still asleep. Last night was difficult with Noah getting up every hour but Juz was really helpful this morning and took Noah out of bed and kept him occupied for a few hours so I could get some more sleep. To top that off, Noah and I had a nap on the sofa for 2 hours in the afternoon and again tonight for another hour, and here I am up at 2 waiting for Juz to come home when he said he would be home by 1...I am very relieved that we got to see the specialist and he was keen to get treatment started. I really hope that it is corrected quickly and that there won't be a huge difference between Noah's 2 feet and calves although it is inevitable there will be a noticeable difference.
At Noah's appt last Wed Noah weighed 4850 grams so 11lb 2oz, height is 55cm, and head circ is 38.4. His weight gain is an average of 360 grams a week and now with a plaster on he weighs a ton :lol:
I am getting sick of waiting for this boy to come home, he is so in trouble now and he is going to stink like ciggies too. I hate that he is still smoking even if occasionally because of us co sleeping with Noah. He doesn't seem to worry about the risk of Sids. Is this irrational of me?
awww sarah: smoking bothers me too. Luckily dale quit while i was pregannt.
tara: hope its not as serious as before :hug:
we are off to get professional photos done of the 3 of us today! i pray there are some nice ones. :pray: i am really self conscious since not being pregannt anymore. for those 9 months i always felt beautiful and unfortnately I cannot say the same anymore...even though I am thinner than before :(
Awww Danni, of course you are beautiful, don't be silly. The pictures will turn out great! Remember that there is nothing sexier in the world than being a mother.
Apologies for the mammoth post.............
Danni - girl you are gorgeous and your family shots are going to be sooo special and beautiful with your two boys!! Good luck hun! By the way you are a life saver - Isabelle LOVES her floor gym!!! Forgot all about it!!!
Sarah - glad Juz gave you a break for a bit - poor Noah with his plaster -does it bother him?? And I hear you on the smoking too hun - Al gave up the day before she was born and he has had one cigar and one cigarette since, when he and the boys went out the other week to "wet the babies head ":doh: We dont co-sleep though so I would definately be more upset if we did.
I love Halls Gap we stayed at the eco hostel there a few years ago and did heaps of walks - it was great - not sure if Id be up to hiking with Izzy though!! Although Al could back pack her i guess!!!
Tara - big hugs babe - hope the mastitis clears up quickly for you:hug: Hope you are feeling better today!
Alex - yay for Toby! What a champ!! Feels great hey!!
Mel - 4 hours - thats great - its so good when you get some rest and actually feel human with these little monkeys isnt it!!!How did the 21st go??? Hope it wasnt too cold for you all..
Kristen - glad your MCHN app went well- its such a relief to find out these babies are actually getting enough milk and growing!! I think with the mothers group- they are at the centre for a few weeks and then its up to the mums to organise it at each others houses etc?? Does that make sense? Mine havent started either and they havent told me when they will- need to find out this week because Im really keen to get out and have some adult interaction during the week!
Huge :hello: to all the othe mums and bubs - hope you are all keeping well and bubs are being angels!!!
Well we had a HUGE day yesterday - at the Queen Vic market = and then dropped dad off a soccer - went shopping and were out form 930-4 basically!! She was sooo good - either in her carrier or pram and just fed watched or slept! A bit grizzly when we got home though- am using the Brauer colic relief to see if it helps her wind that I find impossible to get up with burping etc...
??So a question for you all......for the last 3 nights she has gone down at between 6-7 and slept for - wait for it .....anywhere from 6-8 HOURS - OMG... I woke up at 3am the other night (morning)and realised she was still asleep and my boobs were KILLING me - I had to get up and express and while i was she finally woke up after 8 hours for a feed...after that she goes back for another 4 hours.
So question - should I be setting an alarm to express during this time so that Im not going longer than 4-5 hours between a feed or expressing - I have lots of milk right now but am scared that these big gaps (providing they keep up) will affect my milk supply???? Really not sure as have read that you shouldnt go longer than 3-4 hours?
At home we still have the same dilemma of not sleeping for more than 45mins -1 hour - but its so much easier to deal with when i get such a great rest at night.
Anyway like I said before - Danni reminded me that I have a floor activity mat:cryinglaugh: forgot all about it - and she is LOVING it! She doesnt seem to like her bouncer much, only for short periods but she has been happily gurgling and kicking away on the play mat the whole time ive been typing......wouldnt you know it - shes grizzling now so better go!
Have a great Sunday ladies and bubs!!
yay tanya!! you sound so much happier than last week :D
I am so glad she was an angel when you went out. It makes it so much easier!
And I am so glad she loves her play gym! whoo hooooo :confetti:
Re: the expressing. I would express during the night atleast once just in case. You dont want to decrease or lose your supply. And that is AWESOME she is sleeping like that already. well done to izzy :D
p.s the photographer just called and cancelled due to gastro :( although we could reschedule to next sunday. Mason will be HUGE by then
Tan - I would set the alarm if you are concerned but maybe call the aba and ask them for certain. I can't be bothered to get up to express myself though. My sleep is way too precious. Noah's plaster did bother him the same day. He was sleeping then waking up crying every hour all night and had a 2 hour wakeful period that night where he was hard to keep calm. He seems to have adjusted now though. I have pics on my page under Noah - Week 5 before plaster and after plaster.
Danni - That is rotten that the photographer got gastro. Mason will still be adorable next week and for the rest of his life, just a little bigger ;)
Well I set up the new pages for my webpage, I just need to organize the pictures and add a heap more. Is everyone else as snap happy as me? I take 10 of the same picture either so I am certain it has turned out or because he has made an ever so slight movement. At least Juz is certain the money on the camera was not wasted...
Hello!!!
Once again, I'm struggling to keep up!! We had a very busy day yesterday - I went for my first little outing without Luke!! It was a friends birthday lunch and Ryann had an exam, so I had to go alone. It was all just too hard to try and take Luke with us, as I'm still having trouble driving after the c/section, so there's no chance I'd be able to get the big pram in and out of the car!! So, I took him to Mums and then headed out for a couple of hours. It was so great to catch up with everyone and feel slightly human again!! BUT I missed my little boy like crazy! He was sooo good for Nana and Grandad though!!
Anyway, have just caught up on everything but I'm not going to do many personals, sorry guys, it's just so hard and Luke is due to wake up any minute - we've been out and about today, Ryann left his car out last night as he had a few drinks after his exam, so we've just been out to pick it up and dropped in at the supermarket on the way home!!
Tara - I'm so sorry to hear you're not well, mastitis is the worst, not to mention having to go for a D&C. I really hope it doesn't come to that for you this time. Please take care and try and get lots of people over to help you out so you can rest!! Big hugs to you!
Tan - Let me know what you end up doing in regards to expressing. I'm the same, I've got a huge milk supply and as much as I can't wait for Luke to string a good 6-8 hours of sleep together, I'm sooo worried about my boobs and how they'll cope. Sometimes they feel like they're about to explode and I'm so scared of the mastitis coming back.
Sarah - I'm photo crazy too - we've got hundreds of photos of Luke already (literally hundreds)!!! I updated my website the other day too!!
Danni - What a bugger that the photographer cancelled on you! I hope it all goes well next weekend for you!
Mel - How did the 21st go??
Well, as for me, the feeding is going pretty well for once. I've been expressing from the problem right boob and feeding Luke the bottle every second feed. Luckily I have enough milk to just feed from the left boob, then the next feed is the bottle (ebm from the right boob), so hopefully I'm not messing with my supply too much. I've noticed the right boob doesn't have anywhere near as much milk as the left now though!! I'm so scared about feeding from the right again, although the nipple is looking so much better, most of the cuts have healed and the mastitis is completely gone!! I'm just so scared of it hurting again and the cuts coming back. I might try a feed from it tonight and see how it goes. Expressing is getting rather annoying. I'm also getting really bad 'let down' pains in my boobs all the time, and of course with that they leak!! It's sooo uncomfortable and annoying. I'm praying its all going to settle down soon??? I expected feeding to be difficult but this has been way beyond anything I imagined. I don't know how I'll get through!
Anyway, Luke is still eating and sleeping really well. We're getting about 3-4 hours between feeds and at night he settles really well. During the day though, he desperately wants to be awake and ends up getting overtired. We try so hard to put him down but there's too much to look at and take in, he just won't have a bar of it. He's still good though, after a bit of a scream, he'll fall straight to sleep, it's hilarious. Screaming one second, sound asleep the next!!
Must go - I hope everyone is well.
Kelly xxx
Kelly, the pics of Luke are great, I love the one of him in the sink. I have the same ducky thermometer as well. :) Good luck with feeding from the other boob. I hope it goes well. And yes let-down sucks!!
Kelly - I agree with Sarah - all the photos are gorgeous but that sink shot is soooo cute!!! Im still not sure what to do about expressing - am going to call my MCHN and the ABA tomorrow to get some advice.
I agree with breastfeeding too - I have 6 friends who are pregnant - 3 who are really close and Im pumping them with sooo much bf info - i want them to be prepared for whats ahead even though everyone is different. I think they are pretty aware having seen what Ive gone through and the fact that Im not one of these lucky mums who raves about how great breastfeeding is...I think its great for Izzy and I love that she is growing so well and i love the convenience...but the physical and mental aspect can be so awful - not sure how we have stuck it out to be honest.
Sorry babbling on....Izzy is on her play mat again - content for now, Al has been helping friends renovate their new house, she is due in 3 weeks and the house as of today hasnt even got carpet, a kitchen and had big holes in the floor - OMG - hopefully she wont go early..
Anyway this grizzle bum is at it again - better go.
Talk soon ladies...
Hi everyone. We've had a big day out today for DH's birthday so I'm really whacked. I've been reading what everyone's up to but will catch up as best I can.
Tara - so sorry to hear you've got mastitis and are down in the dumps. It must be so much harder with your other kiddies. I hope the ab's help give you some relief very soon so you can start feeling on top of things again.
Tan - I have the same "problem" with my Izzy - she feeds about 6-7pm and then not again for at least 6 hours. I wake up drenched with milk. I haven't been expressing - to be honest I'd rather get the sleep while its going because I'm not sure how long this blissful sleep pattern of hers will keep up. I haven't had any issues with my milk supply suffering - I can express anywhere from 60mls to up to 140 mls after I've fed her throughout the day. The only down side is that my boobs hurt like hell until she's had a feed!
Kelly - glad to hear you're managing feeding a bit better. I wouldn't worry about your supply being uneven though - I've been really blessed with not having had a single feeding problem and yet I have heaps more milk in my left than my right breast. Nice to get out on your own for a little while isn't it - I did that yesterday for a gf's birthday and it was lovely to be just me again, instead of with Izzy, but I missed her so much and was very glad to get home to her.
Danni - I hope you get your photos done next Sunday - and I'm sure Mason will still be small and cute by then!!
Sarah - yay for the Mother's group surprise. How was it? I hope you gave Juz the rounds of the kitchen when he came home - naughty boy. At least he did the right thing and took Noah this morning so you could relax and get some more sleep.
Ash - how are you going?? I hope things are looking a little brighter for you.
I've had a good few days with Isabelle. She has been feeding, sleeping and settling really well and her colic and reflux really seem to have settled down a bit (hope I don't jinx myself here!), so life seems a bit easier all of a sudden. Hopefully it will continue cos I seem to be sooooo tired all of a sudden.
I'm off to my OB on Tuesday for my 6 week post check up (actually 7 weeks). Really weird but I think I'm actually ovulating!!! After so long checking CM etc I'm an expert now and I swear I am. Really really really hope I'm not because we're going to let nature take its course conceiving No. 2 but a few months off at least would be nice before being pregnant again. Just as well I haven't got the all clear year for BD from my OB - although poor hubby is missing out on his birthday bonk :p
Lulu, I did give the poor boy a little bit of a cold shoulder when he got home, he really didn't understand why until I explained to him that he told me one thing and did another and I was waiting up for him when I could have slept (even though I couldn't sleep ;) ) The mothers group thing was great, only 2 other mothers showed but it was good anyway. Fantastic news about Isabelle being so good for you. Wow on ovulating already too! I will be doing the same thing in regards to birth control although I guess I need to be a little more careful about conceiving so soon because of the c/s...
We just had a 5 hour stretch of sleep!!!!! But now it looks like he wants to stay up :( I might try to lay on the sofa with Noah on my chest. Fingers crossed I can get a few more hours. A question for you all... How do you get blood out of clothing? My dog went into heat and there is blood all over my new sheets, the poor girl, as soon as I noticed she got banished to the cold outdoors. I made her a little nappy the last time but I think she has out grown it already.
Sarah, Big Yay for Noah on his 5 hour stretch of sleep!! What a champ!!:clap::clap:
Toby went 12-7am between feeds last night, I woke up in shock!!
And my dog was on heat recently and she too got blood all over the sheets.. I think I just sprayed what I could see with pre-wash stain remover and I also used Napisan in the wash too... And someone correct me if i'm wrong, but I think cold water is good for blood stains??
I have that joy to look forward to again soon Sarah, as we want to breed with Lara, our french bulldog when she is next on heat... Cause everyone wants a puppy off her!! I can't wait...:lol:
Danni, hope the photographer is ok this weekend and u guys get some lovely photo's.. And I think you will look just beautiful in them babe.. Don't worry, even though u are not preg, you are now a beautiful glowing mummy!!!
Tara, hope you are feeling better and the mastitis has gone... It's so awful isn't it, especially when you have other kids to worry about... Big hugs luv...xoxoxoxo
Ash, how u and Blake going?? Hope u 2 are both alot better too..xoxoxoxoxo
Lulu, so glad that Izzy's colic and reflux seems to be settling down and you've had a great couple of days..And sounds like you'll have to give your hubby and IOU on the b'day bonk!!!hehehe My DH says I owe him a whole week of BDing!!! Not likely atm!!
Tan, so glad Izzy enjoys her playmat.. Toby likes his too..I just have to watch that Jack doesn't try to play too and squash him!!
Well better go and get some brekky before Toby wakes up.. After his feed at 7, he fell asleep again, so I'd better take advantage now, cause he's prob gonna be awake most of the day now!!LOL..
Another question - this is horrible but I dread being at home with Izzy all day at the moment coz I just know she wont sleep - whereas if we are out she is fine... As I said to DH this morning I cant spend my life at the shopping centre(mmm although it would be nice!) so is it reasonable to expect her to be up for 1.5 hours from the start of a feed and then to put her down??? I think Ive been keeping her up too long, and she gets really unsettled - not sure....
Tan - I always try and keep Mia up for 1.5 hours from waking until I put her down. She gets so sleepy though so we don't usually manage it, but at this age, it's plenty. I really wouldn't go more than 2 hours, and if you can manage 2, try and do it before they night sleep where you want them to sleep longer. It's helping with Mia's sleeping enormously (but this is all in the SOS book anyway, so I'm sure you've heard it all already!! :lol:)
Sarah - glad to hear you enjoyed mothers group, though shame only 2 people showed. How many were supposed to turn up? What did you do?
Alex - 12 -7am?? Lucky thing!! Let's hope he continues with it - go Toby!
Lulu - so glad to hear the colic and reflux has settled, that's great news. Good luck with your checkup as well!
Kelly - yay on the feeding routine, sounds like you're going really well. Keep up with the expressing and hopefully it will help in keeping your supply up in your right BB. Glad to hear everything is healing really well too.
Danni - bummer about the photographer. Hopefully the Sunday appointment will stick and we can get a glimpse of some more photies of Mason!
Tara - You poor thing chicky - sounds like you're absolutely in the wars right now. I hope everything turns out ok, but how unlucky for you to have to go through this every time :(
Things are going well here - we've been on a semi-roll for the last few days and Mia has been sleeping ok. A bit grizzly here and there, and won't settle but on the whole I think she's slowly starting to get the hang of it. I still get really teary and easily impatient which is my own issue I have to deal with, but she's doing well I think.
Mia's also got this horrible hormone/milk rash at the moment which she's had for the past couple of weeks now which doesn't seem to be going away. Just when I think it is, it flares up in a new area again - always on her face/neck but never below there. Anyone else have this?
tan: remmeber i told you the same thing? Mason REFUSES to sleep at home, so yes I go out every single day. Even if I just go and sit in the shopping centre and read a magazine or something.Atleast it gives me 30 mins of silence :)
alex: yay for the sleeping! hows jack doing? I miss you guys!
Last night Mason fed at 8pm, and went to bed at 9pm. He woke at 4:30am!! that is 8.5 hours i couldnt believe it! Then he fed and went straight back to sleep, and woke at 10am for his feed. I overslept and feel crap, but what a champ
hopefully everyones bubs start sleeping like this very soon.