Csab: Good to see you made it here. I'm breastfeeding and it's been far from smmooth. The only issue I don't have is attachment, Jude's a natural but after mastitis in week dot I'm now trying to cope with a baby who vomits up the vast majority of what he eats and I'm so worried about him. He was weighed the other day and he gained 400gs, which I'm pleased with since he only weighs a total of 2.8kgs so 400 is significant, but everyday I feel at my wits end with worry. I'm now living on Rescue Remedy.
Hippie: Awesome that you're enjoying the challenge. It's hugely life altering, isn't it? You seem to have taken to it brilliantly.
Tanstar: In what way is James sensitive to what you eat? How can you tell? I don't know if it's screamingly obvious, but I've had serious baby blues. A couple of doctors have suggested I am at risk of PND. Every time my ob visited in hospital I would break down and cry. Every day I have a little cry, I find it all a bit overwhelming because I really don't have a clue what I'm doing and all my family lives in Sydney. I really need my mummy at the moment. But most of the day I'm ok.
SamiH: What babymoon? The inlaws finally left. They would come by every day, move my furniture around and use up all my dishes and glasses and they never once offered to help and do anything productive except P me off completely. I was so glad to see their backs walking out the door last night. Go back to America and stay there!
AmandaJ: Julian sounds like an angel!
The baby bonus finally came but it's been such a big hassle. My husband is American and we applied for a permanent visa 3 years ago but it's taken the govt too long to process, so we had some hassles with the paper work. Finally the govt saw that we were submitting forms for our baby so 7 days after Jude was born guess what, we got the permanent visa granted. Lazy good for nothings. Anyway, I have to chase up the rent assistance because I think it got lost in the heap of paperwork somewhere at centrelink.
Also, on top of everything I have a lump in my boob that developed when I was pregnant and I've been ignoring it until now. The GP said it didn't feel like cancer, maybe a cyst but she's sending me for an ultrasound (not sure why not a mammogram) and so that's just the icing on the cake, isn't it? Bleh. If only I could have a full night's sleep.
Kur - are you breastfeeding? could it be a blocked duct?
I had a 3 cm lump in my breast a few years back. It turned out to be a hormonal lump. They changed my pill and it went away.. hopefully it is the same!
Amanda - can you get julian to have a man to man to ethan re: sleeping over night lol!
PP: I'm hoping it's something like that. it is a 3cm lump like you described. It just appeared overnight a few months back, it didn't grow from a little spot. Also, I did have the GP check my boobs before I got pregnant and she didn't find anything so I'm optimistic, but there's going to be a nagging doubt in the back of my mind until my ultrasound next week.
csab - I am breastfeeding. I had very sore nipples with some grazes when I first started, but since then I haven't been sore. My problem has been that I often have to wake Maya for a feed! Then once she's awake I can't get her to go back to sleep and I have to constantly feed every couple of hours. I've worried about whether she's getting enough to eat actually, because when she's awake for a long time she'll often suck her hands or me, but maybe that's comfort sucking?! I just find it hard to know if I'm doing things right or not. Also I find it takes me about an hour to feed with my routine of feed, change and feed. How long do other people spend breastfeeding?
hippiemummy - Good to hear you are doing so well.
SamiH - I keep not napping during the day.. and every night think 'tomorrow I should have a nap' and then never do! I do need to take your advice to rest up!
Tanstar - I've been going through the same type of thoughts of 'things didn't go to plan'.. I cried for a couple of days when I got home about my c/s experience. I feel like I didn't get to birth my baby, someone else did it! I don't even know what it feels like to start labour - waters breaking, contractions, etc and I feel like I missed out on something. Plus the c/s was so quick and I wasn't even told that they had started. So I was still waiting for them to start, when I heard a baby cry and they showed me a baby saying it was mine. It took me a while to connect that the baby they were showing me was mine, which I find so sad that I didn't know she was mine to begin with. And then I was extremely sick for two days and missed out on the first two days of her life. I have since moved on and know that what matters is that I have my daughter and she is safe and well. But it still upsets me to think I didn't get to experience the labour I wanted.
AmandaJ - Sounds like you are managing well with 5 kids!
kuraiza - I'm finding it really overwhelming too. I have no idea what I'm doing either!! And even though I have family around in Melbourne, they aren't helpful at all (they sound like your in-laws). So I feel like I'm on my own. I found out a mother's group starts here on the 12th November, so I'm really looking forward to that!! I think getting out and meeting other women in the area will be very helpful.
It's Me I'm also feeding Julian for about an hour, and he is sleeping really well, so I wouldn't be worried with that length at this point.
Kuraiza wow that's a bit scary about the lump, hopefully it's nothing to worry about :fingerscross:
Tan I'm also wearing one of the sexy body stockings, but my separation was only 4cms so not as big as yours, did you also get told about wearing those undies that have the higher waist and pull you in like the stockings?
I've been going through the same type of thoughts of 'things didn't go to plan'.. I cried for a couple of days when I got home about my c/s experience. I feel like I didn't get to birth my baby, someone else did it! I don't even know what it feels like to start labour - waters breaking, contractions, etc and I feel like I missed out on something. Plus the c/s was so quick and I wasn't even told that they had started. So I was still waiting for them to start, when I heard a baby cry and they showed me a baby saying it was mine. It took me a while to connect that the baby they were showing me was mine, which I find so sad that I didn't know she was mine to begin with. 
And then I was extremely sick for two days and missed out on the first two days of her life. I have since moved on and know that what matters is that I have my daughter and she is safe and well. But it still upsets me to think I didn't get to experience the labour I wanted.
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