Tan - glad to hear someone is getting sleep! hahahaha!
DH has night shift at work on tuesday and wednesday so ive got my first nights without him comming up - im still dreading it!
Allie - i know how u feel about DH going back to work - mine went back yesterday!
and we went for a drive to visist him today - hahaha he enjoyed it tho! got to show of his baby daughter which i think he loved!
Bec - Hope everything is okay and you get those "issues" sorted out soon!
im lazy so im just gonna paste this from the other thread.
Doc appotointment today went well. Im now on the mini pill.. yay for me. lol. He had a look in her mouth and said that she could have thrush and to keep her on the drops but also to try and get my finger in there to clean it a little as it could just be milk residue. Tried that.. didnt seem to work. He said that it is very common for babies to get some sort of thrush in their mouth and nearly every baby gets it. So im to keep her on the drops and keep cleaning it, if it doesnt work or gets worse to bring her back and he will suggest something else.
Re the rash.. he also said this is ok and he isnt too worried about it but once again, if it gets worse to bring her back in. I forgot what he said it was but one way to fix it, i think he said steriods? He also said not to apply any creams to it. So is all good.
I have my 6 week checkup next wednesday, with my midwife i seen right through the pregnancy. Im glad its with her. Pap smear booked for the 15th december... ho hum and Mia's needles are pretty much organised for the 17th december.. poor little munchkin.
Had a BF today.. went pretty well, it was just to stop her screaming while her bottle cooled down. But seemed to do the trick and she attached pretty well. Still pulled off a couple of times but not too bad.
anyway, its been a loooooong day with her today so going to try and get some housework done so after her 8pm feed i can go straight to bed! im absalutly buggered. Oh bubbi please let mummy get just a little sleep tonight..
Hi Everyone,
I just thought I would say "hello". Olive is getting huge, I think having to give her the extra formula combined with breast milk hasn't helped (see BF thread), she is already 58cms and weighs 5kgs. People ask me if she's 4-5 mths and i'm like no she is 5weeks. I am also still a bit sad about not being pregnant, I had a great pregnancy with no sickness at all and it feels as though you've lost a part of yourself even though i've finally got my precious girl. Does anyone else have seriously bad baby brain? I can't believe how forgetful I have become! i'm booked in for my 6 wk check next week as well and will also talk to dr a bit more about immunisation. I had decided not to then now i'm not sure. Olive is just so perfect I don't want to give her something that could potentially do long term damage but also don't want her to get sick, it's really hard. I always wanted to be able to pick and choose what she would and wouldn't have but apparently thats really hard now as they are all just bunged in together. Am interested in everyone's opinion, both for and against.
Hi ladies, hope you don't mind if i join in here. Some of you will know that I had Meara a month early due to pre eclampsia so now am not in the November group lol. Miss Meara was born on the 26th October at 36+3 weeks.
Is there anyone here from the Newcastle area?? Seems to be lots from Vic but not many from where I am.
Yes Olive'smummy I have terrible baby brain lol. Can't remember anything and forget my other kids names even..... oops. I have to write everything down on the calendar so I don't forget. If it doesn't get written down then I might as well not have been told about it lol.
will check in regularly from now on (hopefully) and look forward to seeing what everyone else is going through
Bianca is a 1 month old today! my gosh has it gone fast! i hope now that she is a "big" girl she will sleep through tonight or only get up once - as im all alone tonight! and im freaking a little - i will have no one to hand her over to when her screaming gets too much!
Olive'smummy - your not the only one feeling sad about not being pregnant no more! i feel exactly the same!
also i have an extreme bad case of baby brain too!
was an ok night and morning. Been quite a difficult arvo, but hay, take the good with the bad. Still Bfing here, usually for one full feed a day. the rest is formula. I think its time to bump up the amount to 150mls too as 100mls doesnt seem to be sustaining her for very long. I think about 120mls will do her but its just not possible to do that so we will be wasting abit for a while.
HJ - i dont know if i could handle a night all alone, tho DP doesnt help me at all during the night so i guess it wouldnt be any different. If anything i guess i would like having the bed to myself as Mia doesnt take up that much room
KimB - howdy fellow pre elampsian (is that even a word?). Love the name btw
re needles - im totoally for them. As far as i see it there is a reason they are given and if she fell ill with something i didnt immunise against i would feel awful. Im going to go get some baby panadol before then just incase she screams when she gets home coz it hurts. Better to be prepared i say.
I survived my first night alone with Bianca without DH!!!! and........... it wasnt that bad!
For once she didnt scream and cry for hours on end! she was actually quite good! and i didnt have too much of a problem putting her down in her cot - she went too bed at 2230, woke up at 0115, back to sleep at 0200 and back up again at 0600! now i was kinda hoping she would sleep in until at least 0700 but hey, she didnt scream and carry on so im not complaining!
If felt weird being home of a night time with B and no DH - sounds funny but for the first time i actually felt like a mum!
Hopefully tonight will be just as good if not better! i am tired today so hopefully i get a bit more sleep - but we will see -
Hollye - I have to give Bianca 150mls also cause 100mls wasnt cutting it - she will drink about 110-120mls and occassionally will go thru the whole 150mls - so we are wasting a bit of formula as well - but oh well just part and parcel of it all i guess!
Why dosent your DP help u during the night?
I think u would handle being alone during the night just fine - ur a pretty tuff cookie - look at everything u have gone thru already and not once have u given up!
Also i have already popped into the chemist to get some Childrens Panadol - thought now that she is 1mth old we better have that on hand since we have already made a few trips to the chemist!
I have noticed our thread has been a bit quiet lately! we must be all busy with our little bundle of joys!
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and Mia's needles are pretty much organised for the 17th december.. poor little munchkin.
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