Babies Born October 1st ~ 15th 2008

[PinkPalace]

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?

[Trillian]

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

[SunnyRain]

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.

[Moi]

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.

[PinkPalace]

itsme - i find most of DS crying is wind pain. ONce he farts or poos he is all good lol!!!
SOmetimes even if not after a feed you need to pick them up and burp them. They need to be burped anytime.

Kurz- I hear you! unfortunately i have no choice but to get things done with DS as i have a 16 month old too lol... who wants 110% of my attention. It means that DS sometimes has to be on his own for 10-15 even if crying so i can get something to occupy DD so she isnt climbing or pulling at my during feeds!

[SunnyRain]

Itsme: There's some consolation knowing we're not alone. I'll think of you tonight, knowing you're probably awake at the same time. That sounds just like my schedule.

Pinkpalace: Ugh, that sounds so tough.

[fussyB00ts]

just standing in while Hollye is taking care of the lovely Mia.

BIRTHS

Georgi - 28/08/08 - Byron John - 4lb 15oz - 7:14am

curl - 23/09/08 - Loralei Grace - 8lb 4oz

Belfie - 25/09/08 - Xander Jordan - 7lb 7oz - 1:35am

Didispunk - 25/09/08 - Jorda May - 6lb 14oz - 12:46pm

SamiH - 25/09/08 - Zander ******* - 8lb 1oz - 8:58pm

cocopop - 29/09/08 - Josef Justice Bernard - 7lb - 9:57pm

CathieW - 30/09/08 - 9.00pm
^^^- Sam - 7lb 3oz -Hana - 5lb 10oz^^^- born 12 minutes apart

Helly - 02/10/08 - Ewan Shaun - 8lb 9oz - 3:08pm

PinkPalace - 07/10/08 - Ethan Cruz - 7lb 7oz

Kuraiza - 07/10/08 - Jude Hugo Thomas - 5lb 10.3oz - 6:39am

Itsme - 10/10/08 - Maya Katherine - 8lb 13oz - 9:28am

Katones - 12/10/08 - Jack Anthony- 9lb 4oz - 10am

Csab - 14/10/08 - Olivia - 5lb 2oz - 2:35pm

AmandaJ - 15/10/08 - Julian Jesse - 7lb 11oz - 4:12pm

Sweetpea - 16/10/08 - tba - 8lb 12oz

Hippiemummy - 17/10/08 - Banjo

Tanstar - 18/10/08 - James Benjamin George - 10lb 0.84oz

Hollye - 22/10/08 - Mia - 7lb 12oz - 8:08

SneakySparkle - 24/10/08 - Evangeline Ruby Hope - 7lb 5oz - 2:00pm

hj1981 - 28/10/08 - Bianca Jane - 7lb 5oz - 12:20pm

[SamiH]

Hiya Mummies!!!

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 ....