Babies Born November 2006

Funny you should say that girls with the easier birth and blues relation. I never really had the blues this time either and Ashton's birth was alot better than both kameron and Lachlan's

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Hmmm... very unsettled baby again. Yesterday I was given some pain killers which put her to sleep for hours & then she was up most of the arvo, then every 3 hours she woke last night & this morning is unsettled again... I "think" its that 10-14 day growth spurt. She only wants the boob. Where as when she was windy she was happy with having a dummy through the rough patches and then would spit it out now she only wants boob... nothing else & no one else will do. Hard when Pete is back to normal work hours so this morning getting Matilda ready for day care & Jovie crying in Mum's arms it was so hard to concentrate and get anything done... I was frazzled. Ah well... will get there ;) At least the first 2 days are day care days and then we just have to get through Wed-Friday. Thursday we have a playdate here in the morning so that should help heaps, and Wednesday we may venture out somewhere fun with Grandma... maybe to the park or something not too big. I just figure if Jovies going to be unsettle I may as well be out of the house than trying to get things done here with a crying baby. She seems to fall asleep as soon as we leave the house & then wake up as soon as we get home, so if I think she needs a sleep we'll leave LOL...

Awww Christy. It is hard to find that balance with 2 isn't it. It will get better though ;) I had to smile at the sleep while out and awake as soon as she is home line though. Typical kid LOL.

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Christy: Just had to say ouch to the shoulder! hope you are feeling better now

And i never got the blues with the last two either, did with first one due to traumatic birth experience, i think that birth experience has a lot to do with how it works with the blues afterwards, i know with Mason i was on a high and had so much energy but i think it was because i was just so happy that everything went well, not as much energy this time lol, the novelty wore off quicker :)

Rofl @ the novelty wearing off Belinda

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Christy - i hope that it gets easier for you, i've got dh around for 2 more weeks then i am on my own with the two kids, so i'm hoping it won't be that difficult... A 19 month old doesn't really have any patience yet..

Yeah having DH back at work is hard. I thought having Mum around would make it easier but not really... its handy when Matilda wants something & I am feeding or when I need to be with Matilda & Jovie is unsettled. But its not the same as having DH here. Ah well... We get him for almost 2 weeks over Christmas so that will be wonderful. We are actually planning a trip with the 2 girls, Mum & I up the coast for 2 nights, bit scary... but Mum comes to Australia to help out & I feel like I should go somewhere with her. & it give DH a break from all the hormonal women in his house ;)

I am sure your 2 nights away will be lovely Christy.

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Hi Ladies, thought I should introduce myself, seeing as how I have been lurking around for a couple of weeks now. I will just manage to slip into this forum with the arrival of my little boy next Wednesday.

It has been a refreshing reminder of what to expect with a new born reading your posts, simply because it has been over 8 years since I had one!I am going out of my mind with boredom at the moment, but know that will all rapidly change very soon. It some ways in feels like I'm doing it again all for the first time, because my other children are so big, and are at school. I'm more then a little nervous about it all, and worry about whether I will remember how to "do" it all.

I'm looking forward to getting to know you all.

Goodluck with next week Vicky and I am sure you will be fine with remembering it all. My SIL had a baby back in May and that was her first in about 8 years as well. She said it all came flooding back ;)

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Yes it sure does come flooding back, you will be fine and the older kids will be great, i enjoyed the big gap myself :) best of luck that all goes great for you

Thanks girls....I hope your right about it all coming flooding back. I so looking forward to meeting this little man.

Belinda I noticed that your eldest is 8 like my son, and shares his birthday with my daughter. just trivia I know - told you I'm bored lol

LOL its interesting though :)

LOL @ the trivia. BB has lots of intersting little trivia bits like that :)

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I just realised you live in the same area too

Thats spooky, are you stalking me lol, you did say you were bored haha

LOL Belinda I hadn't even noticed that one! Did you have Cooper at Nambour? Wow what a small world!

yes it is lol

And yes i did have him there, i am actually from the october parents group but was due in november with him so kinda float between them like i did with due in groups

Hi Ladies,

Just found this thread! Ella was born on the 5th of Nov at a chubby 3.9kg.

I'm still recovering from the forceps delivery and the dislocated tailbone but all seems good down there. I've been having nightly salt baths for the stitches and that helps provide some pain relief for the tailbone too.

Ella is doing well. She's put on lots of weight since coming home. On the boob shes become a little expert at emptying them in 10mins! But then it takes us a hour to settle her back to sleep.

Christy - great to hear Jovie is a sleep champion. Ella is still not sure what to do with sleep despite the constant rocking/singing/patting.

Ann

Welcome to the thread Ann !! and congratulations on the birth of Ella

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Its quiet in here!! Welcome Ann great to see you on this side!!

We are going well, Jovie still sleeps well at night which is great, she wakes twice most nights. Unfortunately when I am putting her down to sleep in the early morning, Matilda tends to wake up 30 minutes later which is exhausting. Matilda's sleep is a lot worse since Jovie's come home but we expected that. Hopefully another week & she will settle down.

Jovie will have 1-2 big sleeps a day but the rest of the time is very windy & going through that first growth spurt of feeding on/off for hours then sleeping for a few hours & then feeding for a few hours. I'm okay with that because at least I can feel that I have enough milk for her. Last time I had no idea with breastfeeding and couldn't tell if my bb's had anything in them. I never had firm breasts until Matilda was around 6 weeks and it only lasted 2 weeks... so this time it all makes heaps more sense ;)

How is everyone else going??

Belinda - I had to laugh - yesterday DD and DS were lurking over my shoulder, and they both noticed different things about your signature. DD honed right in on the DOB, and DS on the names of your sons, he has Cooper, Luke and Mason in his class at school. I had to explain to him that they weren't all 8 like him, just Luke was. lol. I had to also explain that the Sunshine Coast was a very BIG area. Oh they're funny aren't they?

have a good day ladies, hope you all had good nights - well as good as it can get with a new born. Off to the hospital today for the last check up and pre-admission appointment - by this time next week he will be in my arms not my belly!

Well I have a spewer! Isla is a pig, who can't handle her boob juice! Most of feeds she is ok with, BUT if she has the hiccups she wants to comfort suck. When she does I usually know what is coming but I don't have the heart to take her off. With in minutes of me thinking I should take you off, she turns into a fountain of milk! It just spews out all over me, boobs, clothes, arms, legs & what ever I am sitting on! The other day it was even in my shoes!

I am sure the thread will pick up soon enough for you Christy. Great to hear that Jovie is still sleeping well for you. Got to love those growth spurt times don't you. I think we are currently going through the 6wk one with Ashton, all he wants to do is feed again at the moment and is waking 3 times a night instead of the usual 2 or even 1

Hope Matilda settles down again for you soon.

ETA - Ewww at all the spew fiona !! I complain enough when Ashton does a tiny bit LOL. Could not imagine that much coming out of him LOL

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you made me laugh Fiona!!! in the shoes!!!,
well i think Sophie is in her 3 week growth spurt more unsettled as i was anticipating, ok still at night feeding then straight back to sleep it's during the day she's hard to settle and she's more fussy at the boob, roots around even though my nipple is in her mouth and gets fustrated dont know whats happening there,
Went to the U2 concert on sunday and it was fantastic though i left home in a flood of tears, didnt think it would be that hard to leave her.
does weight loss impact breast milk production? i have this constant fear that my milk will dry up!
hope everyones bubs are good and growing big!

hey

Christy: Hope that Matilda fixes up them day sleeps for you, i was doing the tag team thing myself, but seem to of got them close to going to sleep together for now, but we shall see

Vicky: Yes they are funny lol, and so glad i dont have three 8 year olds like your son thought lol, that would of meant i had triplets at some point in life, no thanks :)
So have to ask what area you are on the coast to see if it gets any more spooky lol
Best of luck with your apointment today, not long at all now to have that baby in your arms :)

Fiona: Cant relate to the spewing, Cooper was laying across me last night and done a fountain that completely missed his whole body but got all of me

ALP: Glad the concert went good for you :) and hope Sophie settles back down during the day for you soon

All is good here, Cooper slept from 10pm till 4am overnight so that was good, he is doing well with the day sleeps getting settled in bed, took awhile just before though but nothing dramatic, he settles straight away once you go in there and pat him for a minute

Parents are back today so Mason is all over them, even Luke was all over them lol, he has been housebound with the Chicken pox so i think he was craving company other than me too lol

AJP - Ella is the same. She'll do 2/3 nightly feeds, which i have no problems settling her. But during the day she struggles to sleep. Yesterday it took us 4 hours to get her off to sleep. But she will sleep for a lot longer. (usually 4hrs)

Belinda - What's the secret to settling them so quickly. Ella wants the works - rocking, walking, singing etc..

Fiona - LOL at the milk fountain. We had that the other day as she was sucking on a dummy. afterwards she looked at us so innocently... ;)

Ann: You just have to be strong and put her into bed and be prepared to go in there over and over to resettle her but its still better than rocking them in your arms for hours and hours, well i think. At this age though i will only let him cry for less than a minute before i go in and resettle him with a rub on the back, trick is dont let them get eye contact with you at any costs, thats when you start to feel sorry for them lol
I went in today over 5 times but he is still sound asleep now, probally took half an hour in there before he settled down, anyhow its working for me so far, still have some times when he is unsettled and have to hold him of course, its not all perfect going :)

ETA: Thought about what i put here last night and thought i would add that with Luke the above never really worked for us and we did try earlier, but i dont know if that was because we were first time parents or he was just a high maitenence baby? Anyhow just thought i guess the babies nature has to be taken into account as well

On a good note though Cooper slept most of the night last night and only had to go in and pat him once today for his nap, so getting there

have a school disco on tonight, so not looking forward to it at all

I think the overtired thing comes to play as well. I've noticed with Jovie is that I see she's tired & put her down where as with Matilda I would try to figure out what was wrong for a while & wind up stimulating her more... and then she would be overtired & its so much harder putting a baby to sleep who has gotten overtired.

*hugs* Ann its really hard. Yesterday it took us 2 hours to get Jovie to sleep in the arvo because she had gotten overtired & worked up & its really stressful trying to help them out & get them to sleep. Matilda never just "went to sleep" she would scream for hours and hours. She had reflux & no methods worked except wearing her in the Hug-a-bub sling. I tried everything & we went to sleep school...and in the end I think like Belinda said you find what works for your baby. Matilda loved the bum patting thing... she loved having us in the room with her as she was falling asleep & we couldn't look at her while settling her either.

Belinda - I'm in the Noosa Hinterland in a little town called Pomona. Beautiful place, and about half an hour away from everywhere - from Nambour to Maroochydore to Noosa. Thanks to the good old Bruce Highway.

Reading your posts girls reminds me so much of what I'm in for.... eh gad - but then on the other hand, at least I'll be doing something! At the moment I'm going spare with boredom. As my other two are at school, and everything else is done, just waiting waiting waiting - which I am sure you all remember! only five more sleeps...:)

Ah my sister and her kids lived out there for a few years, well Cooran but i am sure its near there

I am on the coast in sippy downs, so at least we arent nieghbours as such lol, that would of been too much spookyness for me lol

Hope your appointment went well yesterday and i do remember before Mason that wait was long with Luke at school

Although must say even with having Mason running around here the wait was long in the end with Cooper too, i think that last month is long regardless

Belinda - yes Cooran is the next suburb from me. my appointment involved lots of waiting for various people yesterday, and I had a hypo while I was at the hospital (I have Gestational Diabetes) which wasn't very nice, knocks me around for a bit for the rest of the day,, so I was cranky and tired when I finally got home. but at least I am officially booked in and come next Wednesday, mid morning hopefully I will be holding my little man. It was good to find out that now they send Bub with you to recovery, unless there is something wrong, so that was nice to hear. Hope the Disco is fun...lol. I have that one to look forward to in a couple of weeks.
have a good weekend all.

Well i hope wednsday comes around quickly for you :)

And disco was ok, Mason had a great time, besides trying to go through handbags and steal cans of drink lol

well our magic 2 weeks are over(i think) i wasnt expecting it to last but...we hit 3 weeks and things are a changing, i know she;s probably having a growth spurt but i also really underestimated how alert she would be so young, being a first time mum i dont really know what i'm doing, so just fumbling our way through.

DD sleeps pretty well still at night as in easy to resettle after feeding during the night, i just put her back down, but during the day she is very hard to settle takes well over an hour, i sometimes need to top her up if it takes more than a hour or so, i know this is normal but i guess i had it easy during those first few weeks. so i have some ?'s for you guys-
after a feed should i keep her up for play time? if so for how long i dont want to over stimulate her or do this for every second feed?
her poos the pastfew days have gone form mustard colour to green is that normal?

thanks heaps guys any help is great!!

Some say that Green froffy poo indicates that they have had a bit of wind.
but It could also be something you have eaten coming through your milk.

mmmm Play time, I would play it more by ear. She isn't goin gto want to play after every feed. Isla likes to sleep in in the morning so when she wakes for the day so to speak at 11am ish, she has a feed & then will be up for an hour or so & then is ready to go back down. She will also have a period of awake time after about 4 or 5 pm.
Just watch for your tired signs. If Sophie is a wake & alert after a feed then she will probably be happy for a bit of play time. When she starts to grizzle & throwing her fists about (jerky movemnts) its a good sign she has had enough. HTH's

Ditto to what Fiona said :) I know that Jovie seems heaps alert but she gets tired very quickly & is easily overstimulated. ATM we're passing her around the house because she's heaps unsettled and had 2 HUGE feeds and just can't get to sleep so everyone gets her in 15 minute turns to try & settle her & give each other breaks.

thanks for your advise Fiona, i just fed again, seems to be 2 hourly today and she was sleepy so i put her down and she's asleep for now anyway!!! hope it stays that way for a few hours, how is Isla going?

we must have been posting at the same time christy!!! it's such a fine line with play time and overstimulation!!finding the balance and doing what i thinks right at the time, though i dont always get it right. she slept for 7.5 hours last night!! couldnt beleive it so hopefully her night routine will stay the same.
i hope you get Jovie settled soon lucky you've got some extra hands today!

Isla has her moments. She is getting harder to settle during the day but I think she is becoming more alert to the boys etc.
Its funny how I am having to re train DH into realising she is still a new born. he worries that if she sleeps all day she will party all night. So he is forever saying, don't you think you should wake her up?

LOL Fiona both Mum & DH keep saying that same thing!! Wake her up... ah well.. the other thing is they talk to her & hold her up to look at her & I keep saying "She's tired, please settle her..."

sounds like good advice given, and i think your doing a great job for a first time mum, i still get confused by it all with the third time, so you should feel good about how you are going with it all :)

Cooper is back to his old ways now thanks to DH, he didnt want to go to sleep is all i hear, what he means is he couldnt be bothered going in and out over and over to settle him so doesnt bother worrying about it, so Monday i will be back to square one again with him, but not much i can do i guess