Just want to say a quick HI and big welcome to Heavenly and KellyD...
Hope you're all having as restful day as possible today and your bubs are going easy on you.
DD allowed me 9 hours of sleep between 930 last night and 830 this ! Of course I was up twice during that span but 9 hours is 9 hours and I'm feeling GREAT
V did she sleep for 9 hours????? OMG what am I doing wrong I cant even get 3...well done hon xxx
Welcome Kelly and congrats on the safe arrival of Tara....I had a c/s too and am finally starting to feel like my old self again...now if I can just get Laicee sorted out lol
hi girls!
welcome to our 2 new mummies!
Heavenly how'd u go getting serenity home? i bet the other kidlets love her to bits!
V-WTF 9 hours?!?!!?!?!? PLLLEEEAAASSSEEE share ur secret!
Nina-maybe i should come up there so we can keep each other company every hour when our girls are up! lmao
Not much going on here, just start TT DD1, we're 1 for 3 ATM, potty being the one accidents being 3, we'll get there though, good thing its a nice day for washing down here!!
Well Evangeline is already 3wks old. Wow that flew!!! We had her weighed and checked today. All going good, she is now 3300gm and 50cm long Booby milk is making her thrive. I really can't complain, she is a pretty good baby, and im soooo in love with her. Oh she also won the newborn catergory in the SIDS calender competion. She reminds some days so much of my other daughter, though lucky enough ive only called her Lilli once
V - Im with the other girls, 9hrs, pleaseeeee tell me how.
Nina - Ahh another dummy bubby Evangeline is a big sucker to, and yep loves being over my shoulder to
Skybie - Goodluck on TT, i remeber those days with Ethan
Just to clarify...she fed at 830 last night and went down at 930 and we went to bed aswell. Woke at 1230, up for an hour feed then woke again at 430 for another hour. Woke up again at 830 this morning. So it was interrupted...def not 9 hours straight lol!!!
When I was discharged from hospital my iron levels were at 75 (pre delivery they were 86) which is very low and classified as Microcytic anemia. I'm on supplements for at least the next 4 months to try and get my levels back to normal range ie: over 100. When you are pregnant and/or b/fing your body uses up a lot of iron to grow the baby and to then produce milk. As my iron levels are so low, once my body uses up the iron stores I need to function everyday there is not much left to help with my milk production, hence the low amount of milk expressed. I was told that until my iron levels increase, my milk won't come in fully and this could take at least 6-8 weeks. The only problem with waiting that long is that Tara is now so used to having a bottle that even if I try to put her on the breast she flat out refuses as there is just not enough supply to satisfy her.
I am using the philosophy that she is thriving on the bottle and even if she only gets 1 expressed milk feed per day then that is better than nothing at all and I'll keep perservering with the expressing until it becomes evident that there is no more to give her. Something is better than nothing at all...
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Evangeline is a big sucker to, and yep loves being over my shoulder to
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