Great birth story Fussyboots. Fantastic effort. I will have to write mine up soon, we were in labour at the same time, but my bubba was just too happy to come out sooner LOL.
Hi all - was going to say stay away from KMART - but i see some of u have already been!
i got conned by Pixie Photo's and a couple hundred dollars later!!!!!!! now i have too wait until the 27th too pick up my gorgouse photo's of Bianca!
Has anyone else got them done aswell?
Hollye - im soooo proud of u - u are doing soooo well bfing! good on ya for perservering!
Didi- I am breastfeeding hun and it does get easier although at the time I know from experience it doesn't feel like it will.... I had pain in one nipple for no known reason until 4 mths with Izzy and nearly chucked it in but we worked through it and it all got better and I fed her until she was 11 mths old and would have kept going if I wasn't back at work and pregnant!
Allie - I hope you got all your mat leave stuff sorted hun and bummer about the mastitis I hope it clears up fast for you.
HJ -Im glad things are better hun and keep your chin up and do whatever you can to get through the witching hour = try bathing her at the time she's screaming etc.... to you.
Kylie - Yay for the cloth nappies and weight gain! I have a little giggle at times at how HUGE my little man was when I hear you ladies telling us what weight you are up to! Such a boof man! No wonder I was HUGE at 2 weeks overdue! I am wrapping out wee man in a muslin wrap at night with just a nappy and singlet on and he was ok. I think I will put a fan in there over summer to circulate the air but not on him. It's so hard to know what to do - I had the opposite with Izzy because she was born in May!
Hollye - Hang in there with the feeding hun you are doing a brilliant job! I need to get some photos developed too! I got them done monthly with Izzy and but I am waaay behind on hers and need to get them done from around Feb I think - eeeek! Hot here too! I am hoping the change will come through soon! We have the a/c on but it doesn't reach the bedrooms at night!
Fussyboots - Great story hun! Well done!
Well Im off to do some housework while I can! Izzy is eating "tanas" and James is asleep in his bouncer (of course). We had another good night last night - he slept from 730 tl 230 but MAN my boobies were sooo sore. I know I shouldn't complain and Im not but whoa mama!
Hugs to you all and your gorgeous little ones!
Didi yep still b/fing here as well, I think I've got better with each bub, Cody I b/fed until 17 and half mths, but I stopped so that I could TTC again as I'm one of the lucky ones that can't get pg until I've fully stopped. I think my hardest bub to feed was Lockie(DS2) I only fed him 15 weeks as he was feeding every hour and I was exhausted and was at my wits end so comp fed with one bottle of formula and he wouldn't take the boob again I was devasted but obviously he was starving and the bottle was better for him.
Tan things are going great for me and Julian, he seems to be doing the sleeping from 6:30-7pm til 1:30-2:30am and then sleeping until about 6am again which I'm finding great. I totally understand the sore boobies after such a long break.
I got Julian weighted yesterday and he's now 3820g, he was last weighted on discharge on the 19th of Oct and he was 3310g so in just over 3 weeks he has put on 510g. His little head is only up 1cm at 34cm and he has grown 4cm since birth and is now 54cm. All is going well and I've noticed that he's starting to have more awake time which is nice as he's always smiling and yesterday he's started to make gooing noises, which is always cute
Its not that I dont want to B-feed.. I dont have much milk.. i SOOO belive in supply and demand but its not happening.. I have tried
Drugs from Doc..
Drinking beer
Eating Lots of oatmeal
TRIED to relax
express like crazy
massage
accupuncture
drinking TONES of water
feeding every 2 hours for a week... DID NOTHING and i was soooo TIRED
natural herbs...
So any other ideas??
She latches on great.. just dont have enough for her...
Canada is brilliant.. having a fab time.. Jorda and Ben in the snow, is so fun.. getting professional pics taken soon.
PS.... for those of you who havent tried... The Body Shop has the NICEST baby stuff.. called Buriti... smells great sooo super nice.. go in and try it on yourself.. the body butter is beautiful!!!!
I am also struggling with the BFing. In the past 4 weeks my boobs have been sore every single day. I've had cracked nipples the whole time and mastitis twice and now my midwife has confirmed that I have either thrush on my nipples or maybe a staph infection so I am in agony. Although all this has happened I still really want to BF however today I have given Olive formula which i'm going to alternate with breast milk until my boobs heal. I really hope that I can feed her after this as I had planned to feed her for at least 18mths. I am also wondering if my pain is affecting my milk and that is why she has been so unsettled, who knows. Oh and I took bub to an osteopath today who said that she has a compressed neck due to stressful labour so did some massage and stretches with Olive. I think i'll give it another go. I am already seeing that with the bottles it is very annoying boiling water, cooling it, sterilising etc. you have to be very organised which i'm finding pretty difficult with a new bub. Is anyone else noticing that time goes crazy fast when you have a baby, I know everyone says that but I just didn't realise how much time you spend on the lounge BF.
Didi - dont worry atm i think BFing is so overrated. It ****s me how it just doesnt happen like i thought it would and yeh i have a dodgy supply too. Mia had a full 100mls of formula about 4:30pm and she finally stopped screaming and has been asleep since. Mind u she fed of me for 1.5 hours before this.. hmmmm how the hell does that work???????
Morning everyone,
Hmmm we've been flat out here and we're back into town with the little man today!
We had a check up yesterday and Haydens lost another 100gms instead of putting weight on so now we're being monitored!!! Hopefully he puts on some weight soon he's down to 3.7kgs now 400gms below birth weight, I was told as long as he doesn't lose anymore he'll be fine! I'm trying to work out why he losing, I have heaps of milk and he attached more than my other 2 ever were!!! Guess you just can't win!!!!
I'll try to get back on over the weekend, but with christmas coming so fast we seem to be out more than home!!! Luckily we got milk on tap so it's easy to take Hayden with us!!
Takecare all and have a fantatsic weekend!!!!
Luv Snoopea
(I'll catch up on the posts when I have some more time!)
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I hope it clears up fast for you.
to you.
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