Babies Born November 16th ~ 30th 2008

[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

[Skyeblue]

MIT- Lol my boobs are massive too.

It is so hard to resettle M now. She doesnt cry or anything, she just lies there and makes noises, grunting etc. Then she will evenutally start crying. I dont know how we will go tonight, I cant say Im looking forward to it. And DH isnt very goodat resettling, i dont think he has the patience!

Hope everyone has a good (sleep filled?) night ...

[minimatron]

Hugs MIT- Olivia had bad nappy rash too which bled and the sigmacourt cleared it up quick. glad b/f is going well. i am pumping now....one handed typing! I just wish Rebecca would stay on the boob, she fusses then sleeps....but takes the bottle`well...mmm.

Skye- Olivia was in the pavlick harness from 5 weeks til 8 months. initially it was hard but it didnt take long to get used to. i think it was harder for us to adjust. theres loads of things to re learn, but i wont tell you about that just in case you dont have to know. But if you do, I am more than happy to help you out in any way.

Ok- got to keep milking!!!

Night

[littlelalla75]

Skye - i'm finding Ochre is doing the same thing - grunts, squirms, makes little noises if i put him in bed awake. luckily, most of the time he is asleep by the time he has been wrapped after a feed so he goes into his snuggle bed already dreaming. if i have to get him to sleep i usually make sure he's wrapped and then it's just a bit of time spent rocking and patting his bum - maybe some dummy action. but yeah patience is the thing - pity we have little of it in the middle of the night hope you got some rest last night hon

mini - thanks for the tip for sigmacourt - will look into that as Ochre's bum is getting redder by the day. does Rebecca fuss at the start of the feed? I'm finding Ochre carries on for a good 5mins sometimes when I try to latch him on - he gets on then off, on then off etc....then finally starts sucking and is away.

mit - lol at the playboy bunny after my engorgement went down i almost freaked out that all the milk had gone...but they are back to being full and hard after only a few hours. and i know it's all working cos when Ochre pulls off out comes a heavy stream of milk!! with the wind we had a great night sleep after giving Ochre Brauers Colic Relief. I mentioned it in the Nov thread. Maybe give that a try? hope Lucus's bottom gets better poor love xx

[Smoz]

Hi ladies thought i'd better get my but in here!

Im Simone, Mum to Theo 2yo and had Tallon on 23rd Nov 3:52am weighing 7lb2 and 52cm long (with less than 2hrs active labour!)

And i dont mean to brag but things are going BRILLIANTLY here!!!! he is feeding great and slipped into the routine naturally....yes i routine feed but its not the old 4hrs one....i Follow Gina Fords CLB routines...and they work a treat for me (for both boys so far)

No nappy rash, no wind, barely any spewy after feeds....only a bit of diahoerea as he's a guzzler (have to lie down to feed him otherwise he's done in 5mins....)

Sorry to report that sleep is great i wake him up myself once through the night otherwise he'd sleep right through i reckon.

Hope everyone gets some good sleep soon xoxo

How is everyone else feeding? Breast/formula? Routine/demand? And how is it working for you all?

[Skyeblue]

Well last night was great. Fed her at 10, 12, 3, 6,9. I can deal with that! And after her feeds she went straight back to sleep, even DH did the 3am feed and got her to sleep.

Mini - thanks for the info. I do hope we dont need to use the harness, but if we do it would be great to have someone who can give some advice. We will see what happens.
I hear ya with the fussing during a feed. M always does that! I sometimes (umm ok usually) end up giving her a bottle. She loves the bottle!

littlelalla- sounds like we are doing similar things. I give M the dummy if she doesnt settle, sometimes she loves it, other times she doesnt really like it. Anything to help settle I think. lol @ the engorgement, I only had one night, when my boobs were hot and I felt like I had a fever, but then my boobs were fine, just bigger. I also had the heavy stream of milk...I was getting into the shower and felt my boobs flowing everywhere...TMI lol!

smoz- sounds awesome! What is the Gina fords routines? Im doing breast feeding and EBM in a bottle, whnever she gets hungry which is usually every 2-3 hours!