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Laura your poor little man and his chicken pox, hope it clears up soon. I just had our 6 week check up and all is good. The gp didnt weigh Rebecca though so will have to wait til next week for that. I doubt she'll be much over 4kgs yet...shes a little tacker. Shes settled down after a few days of 2 hourly feeds, last night I got 4 hours straight, then another 3 hours. Shes done a 4 hour feed today. Tomorrow we go for her ultrasound for her hip, then next week we see the specialist. Am hoping she wont have to wear a harness like her big sister, but if she does we will deal with it.
Olivia is at my mums for 2 nights...I miss her already and she only went this morning.
Better go and clean!!!
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Hello just popping in to see how everyone is. We are ok, just been through a growth spurt. Rebecca now smiles at us when we talk to her and shes had quite a few chuckles and noises while she hits out at her mobile. Shes in 000 clothes now, I cant believe how much she has grown. We have her 2 month needles next week...not looking forward to it, I always cry!!!! Oh and my whoopsie turned out to be negative...yay, so now I am back on the pill....eww...its making me feel fluey and a bit nauseous, which it hasnt done before, so if i still feel like this by next Tuesday (I'll have been on it for a week), then I will go back to the doctors for something else.
Take care
Melissa
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Hi, just wanted some feedback from others with bubs about the same age. As this is my first I have no idea what 'normal' is, not that all babies are the same but it might help my sanity a bit.
I was wanting an idea of how often your feeding and if you know how much that would help too. Lucus is on a 3 hrly cycle (his choice and his like clockwork) day and night and he seems happy on 80ml of EBM or formula in a feed so we assume that his eating that much when its direct breast feeding.
My worry is that his cycle should be starting to move to 4 hrs but there is no budging him and at that rate his getting about 640ml a day and his only 3.2kg. You'd think that he would have a full happy tummy and be content enough to sleep an extra hr or something. By the time we deal with the feed and changing etc his up 1 1/2 to 2 hrs out of the three which means were fairly exhausted by now.
Please either let me know that it ends soon or that I am not the only one in this boat????
I know littlelalla75 mentioned she's on a similar cycle and Melissa had it down to 2 for Rebecca's growth spurt. Lucus did have a 24hr period of 2hrly feeds at the begining of last week but it hasn't gone to 4hrs yet.
Ok thats enough from me hope your all happy and healthy, I love the facebook photos that get put up. I can't wait till my little runt starts getting that chubby baby look cause I'll know where through the worst of it then.
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Hi girls! Thought I'd say g'day and post a quick update...
All is going well here...our little princess is such a calm baby compared to DS...it's amazing how different they are! She is feeding every 2-4 hours depending on if I can get her to sleep between feeds or not (which is very uncommon - she has a lot of wind problems and rarely sleeps during the day) but at night she is going 3-6 hours between feeds. She's BF but hubby has also given her some FFs when I've been too buggered or sick...and because we want her to take a bottle later on.
We're having a huge problem with her wind though...she can't seem to get the burps up... I've tried Infacol (and Infants Friend) but she still has so much trouble...she falls asleep, we lay her down and within minutes she wakes up crying in need of a burp...sometimes we get a little burp up but generally not enough...even after trying for half an hour or more. Any suggestions?? DS had the same problem but his turned out to be reflux as well...
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mit - hey hon great to hear from you - lucus sounds like he is doing well. ochre also feeds every 3 hourly around the clock and we sometimes (if we are lucky!) get a 4 hour sleep block in the night. in the other thread (Dec 1st -) i asked the same question and it seems like the EBM and FF babies are drinking around 80 to 120 on average. but every baby is different and i was only just reading the other day that some babies have smaller bellies and therefore need feeding more frequently than others. i know what it's like - you feed burp feed burp change and then before u know it you are back doing it again. ;)
ssmiles - we are having lots of wind issues too. it's becoming annoying when his farts wake him up and it takes a lot of time to re-settle him. not sure how well infacol, infants friend or the colic relief are working either. im wondering if it's something im eating - chocolate probably!! ive also noticed he is taking sooo long to bring up a burp. and he is also not pooing every day either so when he's due for one he gets very upset before the big event happens!! today he has been rather grumpy and im putting it down to the 'wonder week'. :doh:
mini - contraception is the pits isn't it!! the pill makes u sick, condoms are annoying - ahh there is never an easy solution. ochre is a real smiler too. his smiles are gorgeous and i love the little 'coos' he does. :)
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MIT- Olivia, my first dd, was feeding 2 hourly up until around 14 weeks and I was buggered, then she decided she could sleep a whole 8 hours....I was at my wits end by then. Rebecca cluster feeds in the morning and night, so that means 2 hourly feeds during those times and at other times she can last 4 hours or so. Shes taking between 80 to 140mls of ff. It does end.....
ssmiles good luck with the reflux...sorry cant help much.
littlelala-i am going to come off this pill and see how i go. i feel terrible on it. i hate condoms too...oh well no sex!!!
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hey ladies hope everyones bubs are doing well....Tallon is a farter not a burper....and man do they stink. asked the doc about it and he said thats just huis way of dealing with gas.....
how much weight has everyones bubs gained from coming home from the hosp or from birth???
does anyone know wat te 'normal' weight gain should be?
BF'ing going well here still fussy attacher on the right side but not every feed now so thats great and i have learnt how to breastfeed lying side by side on the bed so can now nap whilst feeding :D
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I'm not sure what a 'normal' weight gain is (I have 100-150g a week in my head for some reason) but my little princess is now 6 kgs so she's put on 1.1 kg since birth (almost 7 weeks old).
Interesting to hear that other bubs are having wind problems too...I'm glad it's not just us. I wish there was an easy way to burp them...I'm sure Kaitlyn would be a great sleeper if she could get the burps up.
Guess what? Kaitlyn did actually sleep for 7 hours last night...oh my gawd!!! She hadn't slept since 11 am (12 hours with nothing more than 10 minute cat naps) so she was buggered but oh wow, it was so nice that she slept so long... I hope she sleeeps long stints more often, but it would be nice if she'd also sleep during the day...hehe...never happy. ;)
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oh thats good to hear....tallon has put on 120g a week since coming home from hosp. but only 800g i 800g total i think since coming home and he's 7wks....have only been using my home scales so only appx...going to the child health nurse today so will find out for sure then but its always a worry when bf'ing
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MIT it does get better so hang in there :hug: You could try feeding him a bit more frequently. Maybe 2 hourly for a couple of feeds during the day to get a bit extra into him.
SSmiles that rings a bell in my head for weight gain too.
Melissa I was wondering about your oopsie! Hope you feel better soon and it's just your body adjusting to the hormones.
Ruby has a lot of wind too. I have a good burping solution that I found by accident. I carry her with her back against my tummy. One hand supporting her bum and the other under her chin and walk around the house. As long as I keep her back straight it comes up.
She had health centre on Thursday and is now 4.5 kilos, so that makes a smidge under 1 kilo weight gain since birth (800ish grams in 3 weeks though). She has also grown from 50.5cm to 56cm in length.
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I think I must have a gutz, Elise put on 1 kg almost exactly from week 1-3, her birth weight was 3.295 and when I took her it was 4.27kg,
I am taking her tomorrow to see how much weight she has put on from week 3-4.
She had a third chin now and leg rolls and wrist rolls, turning into a nice little chubba :)
Nice sleep SSmiles I hope she keeps it up for you and has a nap through the day.
MIT hang in there like Raven said it does get better, he's probably just catching up from not eating properly early on.
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hey ladies,
the head midwife who did home visits said they like babies to put on 100gms to 150gms a week so you are right. but i was also told that the graphs that come with the blue book have all been based on formula fed babies so if you are breastfeeding you shouldn't worry too much about where your bubs sits. ochre was last weighed at 6 weeks and he was 5.5 kg so from his birth weight he has put on 1.5 kgs. :)
ssmiles - awesome hon!! u must feel a million dollars today! how were the boobs? massive?
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oh thats good to hear....i just worry cuz both my babies have long skinny legs and arms and everyone is always laughing at them and the you have the ignorant person who asks if he is getting enough milk....uuugghhh it does my head in. he ishealthy he is gaining weight and his has fat onhis arms and legs its just that they are long thst that look skinny
ps sorry for the typos...am NAK and trying to type fast
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Littlelalla - hehe, yep the boobs were like rocks...ouch! ;) I didn't care though...just nice to have a big break. :) nHow's your mastisis and O's chicken pox?
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Smoz- we are all different...even as adults, so dont listen to peoples stupid comments.
rebecca just squealed at us....oh its so cute. We are off to the MCHN tomorrow so will let you know how much shes put on. When she was first born we took a photo of her next to one of Olivias dolls and she was the same size...now shes doubled it!!! i cant believe how quickly they grow!
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Hello to you lovely ladies and kisses to your bubs. I've finally found my way over to this thread! Hi, I'm Rachel with my DD Harriet. I know some of you from my BellyBuddies group, hello to those of you I haven't met before.
Things have been crazy busy for us since Harriet arrived (hence why it's taken me so long to come on over into this thread). My sister arrived from the UK with her DF just after Harriet was born. They got married on 29th December, so with that and Christmas it's been non-stop partying with friends and relos for weeks now. DH and I (mostly me) made their wedding cake, a two tier traditional fruitcake (my own recipe) with fondant icing. It was massive, the bottom layer took 6 hours to cook! And the three of us were in the wedding party too (Harri just slept in her capsule).
Harriet is great, we love her more every day. DS is just delightful with her, lots of kisses and cuddles and he really makes sure she's part of the family. She's a bad feeder and sleeper. I've had a cracked nipple and mastitis and she's just hopeless at attaching, coming on and off, twanging my nipple, sucking it back in, argh!!!!. So different to DS! She's getting plenty though, I have a huge supply and she's over 5kg now. Yeah, and she usually wakes 3 hourly at night (sometimes more often, sometimes less), I guess that's not too bad (it could be worse).
Anyway, I'm enjoying the sunny weather for washing now that I've got two in cloth nappies (I wouldn't have it any other way though).
I put a couple of family snaps in the gallery the other day.
Looking forward to getting to know you and your bubs!
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well went to the CHN yesterday and got a lot of Q's answered....bubs has overextension in his muscle wich was because of the fast labour his neck and shoulders were impacted....basically he is very tense and stiff so i have to massage him twice a day. He also has a very high Pallette in the roof of his mouth and his tongues not comming forward due to the tight muscel thing and again with the muscles he's not openning his mouth properly so i have to massage his face and tongue
great to get some answers about why he is a fussy attacher, was also told because my boobs were so perky and firm (great complimant) that i really have to lift bubs high to get the right angle...will give it another week and then i might as her about using a nipple sheild to help give him something to latch onto better because as you can see in my ticker he takes the entire nipple and areola in his mouth but its not enough for him to latch onto cuz they are so little :( (not so much a compliment) aarghh
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Good you got some answers smoz...hope it works out for you.
Rach- welcome back, sounds like a busy time.
Went to the MCHN today and Rebecca is now 4.5kgs...she has put on 875gms in a month. Shes now 55.5cms. Shes doing all the right things so am happy at that.
Have a happy day
