Thought I should jump in here, Bethany was born on the 9th Oct...well nearly the 10th since it was 11:44pm. Finally after 2 days! talk about delaying your arrival. It was a c/s in the end. Not the greatest experiance. It was supposed to be a normal easy induction....Anyways I digress. We are bottle feeding since I never had any milk come in. Combination of reasons. She is pretty good at going 4 hours between feeds but at night she still wants play time after a feed! We have started a "night" routine with dimmed lights and the like to help her tell the difference, seems to be working although its only been a few days...
Well I can hear little feed me squeeks...
welcome amy!
your night routine sounds great . i hope your little one learns soon to sleep at night lol
Ethan doesnt want to play at night but doesnt settle as well as during the day go figure!!
Welcome Amy! I follow the same night routine as you.. dim lights, etc. And it seems to work on most occasions.
kuraiza - Good to hear you are feeling better. ohh.. and my DH decided to try giving Maya a dummy to help settle her.. and she won't take one. I dunno if we left it too late or she was never going to like a dummy. It's great that it works well for you!!
Georgi & PP - I'm also glad to read about all the crying. I feel like Maya cries so much when she's awake. I'm glad to know I'm not alone!
Tanstar - I've also got the tube thing and I also find it uncomfortable to wear.. So I must admit I think I've only worn it a couple of times! And thanks for your words of wisdom... I do need to grieve the labour I didn't have.
PP - Hope you are feeling better!
A newbie question: Does anyone have any good tips on breast feeding in public? I feel like I either have too much boob and/or tummy showing and feel self-conscious about that! I've tried using wraps but still feel really awkward with it all. Or maybe I'll just feel awkward until I've done it a few times?
Maya hasn't been putting on enough weight.. I think because I was terribly ill for the first couple of days of her life which meant that my milk took longer to come in. So I've been told I have to wake her and feed her. And it's getting really frustrating because it often takes me ages to get her to sleep and then once she's sleeping I have to wake her for a feed. During the day I feed every 2 to 3 hours. And at night I've been told I can let her sleep longer (up to 5 hours). Normally she has been waking after 3 or 4 hours sleep at night. But last night my DH woke me up because it had been 5 hours and she hadn't woken. I bit his head off because even though 5 hours was bliss and more sleep I've had in ages.. I just wanted to stay sleeping!! Then I felt guilty, so I got up and woke her for her feed and it took me a while to get her to go back to sleep. I just wish I could feed on demand!
itsme~~ I can understand the pain of feeding every 3 hours, Bethany was still pretty jaundice when we came home and the visiting midwife had us feed her every 3 hours and 75mls (which was a good 15mls more than she had been having) it was 2 days of hell! She hated it we hated it. thankfully she put on weight and the midwife signed her out of the home care program and we were about to go back to demand feeding.
Stick with it but remember noone knows your baby like you.
amy - welcome to BB - my fella was pretty jaundice too and we had to keep an eye on him cos I went home within 24 hours - he still has a bit of yellow in his eyes - breastmilk jaundice they call it apparently - but yeah a bit stressful making sure they feed regularly etc.
Itsme - re b/f in public - if uncomfortable I just used a muslin wrap to drape over my shoulder and it covers my side and his head - I don't like flashing my post-3-babies roll I have at the moment when I sit down ...... next week onto healthy eating plan again and losing the excess kgs.
Georgi - sounds like Byron is doing really well too - I can't believe you have that much EBM in your freezer! Hope the inlaws are being a great help
Tanstar - how is James going? Did he lose much weight to start with? If found with DS1 cos he was a bit bigger (but not that big LOL) that he didn't lose much weight at all - he actually put on 30g in the first week .
Just a quick reply to Itsme's question about public breastfeeding as Loralei has just stirred again. I had a friend who always wore a singlet underneath all her tops and would pull the top of the singlet down for feeding. I recommend this as a way to discretely feed bub as I took it on as my solution to the same problem when I go out. You don't have your tummy exposed and the boob is still covered too because you have 2 tops on. I know it can be a little hot in summer time though and this is where the thin wraps come into play as a shield for flashing in public instead of two layers of clothing. HTH in some way?
Oh my god, Jude kept me awake all night long. He just wants to eat, cry and not sleep.
Hi Amy and welcome.
I was going to respond to personals but lost my post and am like a zombie. Hope everyone is having fun with their newborns, I think they're a lot of work and I can't wait until Jude is older.
ohh.. and my DH decided to try giving Maya a dummy to help settle her.. and she won't take one. I dunno if we left it too late or she was never going to like a dummy. It's great that it works well for you!! 
During the day I feed every 2 to 3 hours. And at night I've been told I can let her sleep longer (up to 5 hours). Normally she has been waking after 3 or 4 hours sleep at night. But last night my DH woke me up because it had been 5 hours and she hadn't woken. I bit his head off because even though 5 hours was bliss and more sleep I've had in ages.. I just wanted to stay sleeping!! Then I felt guilty, so I got up and woke her for her feed and it took me a while to get her to go back to sleep. I just wish I could feed on demand!
Hope the inlaws are being a great help 
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