Hi girls.. I'm thinking I should join this group. My baby buddies group is hard to compare with. All their babies are smiling and doing all the typical things a 8week old babies does, though Byron is really only 1 week, he is 7 weeks behind. All his milestones will be compared to with his corrected date, which would be the same as your babies. Do you's think that it's a better idea for me to hang here?
Georgi! jump on in! it is nice to have someone from our due group in with me
Well last night was a semi better night. DS fed 3hrly overnight which is a vast improvement!
I encouraged him to cluster feed every hour from 5pm-8pm... so he had a full belly... Before hand he was cluster feeding at 2-5am!! my supply must have been low!
Ethan is looking around more now - wide eyes! i think they are brown... hard to tell but they are def not blue like DD's were!
kurazia - we were public (although i had a home birth lol) so no bills.. but i feel for you. Has your baby bonus come in?
Itsme - We did the same with DD - had to hold realy tight for about 10 mintues until she would settle. - are you swaddling bub?
I noticed a few of you were thinking that there would be only 1 October group, but they will stay as they are in BellyBuddies, with a 1st-15th group and a 16th-31st group
Pinkpalace: I'm struggling with lack of sleep. Jude might go for 3 or 4 hours from start of one feed to start of the next, but each feed takes an hour or more. He almost always poops either while I'm feeding him or after I finish feeding him, so I have to change his nappy at the end of a feed which completely wakes him up and makes him scream-cry so then I have to resettle on the boob and sometimes he'll poop again ... it's awful. I wish there was some way I could stop him from pooping during feeds because it's a logistical nightmare.
When I wake up to feed him, I can't open my eyes or find the strength to sit up. Sometimes it takes me 1/2 an hour to wake up properly, so add that to the time I'm not actually sleeping between feeds and I'm very lucky if I get an hour and a half sleep between feeds.
I really don't know how anyone gets anything done while feeding a newborn baby. I haven't even made it to get Jude weighed since we left hospital. I just got out of bed and it's already midday.
PinkPalace - We do swaddle DD. Sometimes it works really well and other times she can start crying when we do it. I don't know why she cries sometimes and likes it other times?
kuraiza - I'm going through the exact same thing with feeds as you are!! It takes me a while to wake up for night feeds.. and then I struggle to stay awake.. and it takes an hour to feed.. plus she'll poo in the middle or end of a feed or soon after a feed which wakes her up again! Last night I was up at 3.30am for a feed.. finished feed at 4.30am.. tried to put her to bed but she wasn't happy.. so tried to settle.. then finally realised she'd pooped. So I had to change her nappy and re-feed her at 5.30am till 6.30am! So I was up for a total of 3 hours in a row, plus the half hour it takes me to wake properly and the extra half hour to go back to sleep. I read somewhere that babies can poop anywhere from 10 times a day to every 10 days. We got a 10 times a day bub! I don't know how anyone gets anything done either. I've tried venturing out a couple of times and end up having to feed and change nappy as soon as I get out (even though I feed her just before leaving) and she spent the entire times out unsettled.
Our thread is soooooo quiet so thought I would pop into all my ole due BB lovelies.
Hope you are all enjoying your babymoon - slowly my brain is coming back and I can get a shopping list organised again But hubby away rest of week so I am sure I will be back in zombie land by the end of the week.
Get some rest when you can (of course I ignore my own advice though )
I WILL get a proper ticker with a pic, sometime before the end of the year ....
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But hubby away rest of week so I am sure I will be back in zombie land by the end of the week.
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