Babies Born November 16th ~ 30th 2008

[minimatron]

Hey All....well when you get here!!! I had Rebecca Vicki born on Monday 17th November at 12.01pm in the bath. She was 3324gms and 48.5cms long with a head c of 34cms. Will update when I have time Oh and I have a 19 month old dd named Olivia

[mumintraining]

Hi just introducing myself, I suspect that 1/2 of our 1-15th Dec belly buddies group are soon to join as we've been a busy bunch (will mention it on our other board).

My name is Diana and DH is Justin. Our first child was born on the 21/11/2008 at 0022, a soon to be named little boy. I am still debating spelling at this point.

We are in Canberra but spend a lot of time in Sydney as I have lots of family there. Other than bub and DH I also share my home with two very funny dogs.

What else?

I am now offically a WAHM who is currently more mum than worker. I have an online business with my Mother as well as doing website design and IT freelance work to make ends meet.

Our little man is a champion sleeper and really enjoying his food (a little so enthusiatically as mums boobs are sore now - but we're still trying. Thank goodness for nipple shields and expressing).

Well thats a good starting point. I really have found the support on the Belly Budies group fantastic and hope it continues here. If anything it is great to be able to find out what others are going through at the same stages as it helps me put things back in perspective so I can normalise a very new situation.

MIT - Diana

[Skyeblue]

hi guys

My bub was born on November the 15th, but I hope it is ok if I join this group?? I already know MIT and mini- hi guys!

mini- did you have a home birth?

My waters broke at 37 weeks and went in the next day to be induced. Mia got stuck at 5cm, so had an emergency c sec.
All is going well apart from an infected C sec scar, which I am on antibiotics for.

Looking forward to chatting with other Nov Mummies soon!

[littlelalla75]

Hello girls....good to see some familiar faces in here!! I'm also a member of the 1-15th Dec belly buddies group. My third son was born on the 19th of November at 1.54 pm by c-section. He weighed 9 pounds, was 51.5 cm long and 2 weeks early. His name is Ochre Jhuna (pronounced Oh-kah Jew-nah). He has two big older brothers. We've been home for 4 days now and loving it. Ochre has been a great little baby so far...sleeping and breastfeeding well. I look forward to chatting with the Nov babies mummies too

[minimatron]

Hi girls, great to see some people in here. I was 38 +3, basically I was in the hospitla for less than 2 hours and out came Rebecca. I had her in the bath, which was different...in a good way. It did help me relax a lot more. My dd1, Olivia, was born in the same hospital but I had her laying on my back. Olivia was birthed over 15hours, rebecca totalled 6hours. Rebeccas was very intense.

About me, I am a sahm, usually I work in mental health...dont hold that against me!!! I am married to Adam whos an electrician and has his own business and at the moment I am doing his books, so that keeps me busy. Olivia is 19months old...born on April fools day last year. Shes a fantastic kid whos been through a bit. She had hip dysplasia and was in a harness for 6.5 months, now her feet turn in, but other than that shes well.

Rebecca will have to have follow up to make sure her hips are ok. She was born with positional tallipies, basically her foot was twisted from sticking in my ribs for so long. It has got better with massage, however will need to keep at it for a while. Shes not a great feeder and we have been to the lactation day stay today for some help. Am really keen on b/f this time around as it didnt work for Olivia. She sleeps reasonably well.

Ok...better go, bed time for my big girl,

Love melissa

[Skyeblue]

Melissa, Mia was born with a clicky hip, we have an ultrasound next month. The paed said she may need a harness also. How old was Olivia when she had the harness and was it hard to adapt to?

Had a bad night last night, Mia was up every 1-2 hours, and today she has been awake most of the day. So very tired. An so sick of visitors, I need a break from them!!

Hope everyone else is well xx

[mumintraining]

Well what a night, poor little Lucus was in tears from 10pm till about 4am when he finally got to sleep. I mentioned this on the Dec belly budies group so I'll cut and paste (very tired and any easy option is good).

As for Lucus the poor little guy had a sudden flare up of nappy rash and the zinc creams just made it worse. Was on the phone in the early hours after non-stop crying since 10pm to Health First exhausting every option only to find out we'd tried it.

Luckily I'd been using Bicarb baths for myself and tried that on him which worked and I found a tiny sample tube of Bepanthen ointment in the final Bounty Bag given in hospital. That got us through to seeing the DR and now with the sigmacourt cream it is on the mend.

All I can say is I have never been so happy for a sample product in my life. That and I have never felt so useless as last night being unable to help make lucus feel better.

Breast feeding is going well I think, there is a lot of milk there and I am using a Medela swing pump to help keep the engourgment down. Lucus ends up soaking wet if he waits too long to feed as I just leak all over the place. So I am now using a combination of breast (with or without shield depending on how sore I am) and expressed bottle feeding (love the Nuk teat as its reduced his wind).

I feel a little like a cow and a lot like a playboy bunny - no idea what size i am up to now but it looks pretty impressive.

Ok thats it for now, I'm about to pass out and I think I might need dinner first.

Good luck tonight - I hope we all can get a little sleep.

Diana