Babies Born September 1st - 15th 2008

Hey girls, I have found you.... I stumbled across this thread the other day.. I had been wondering where you all were and how you were going :clap:

Sorry I can't manage personals, but just a quickie on how we are. Arabella was doing just perfect until just over a week ago when she starting just screaming one afternoon and throwing up something severe. I hadn't really heard her cry since she was born so it was a bit of a shock to hear her. I took her to the dr's and he told me to get up to the hospital with her asap as she was still way too jaundiced for her age. We are home with Losec for her "reflux" and she has settled back down heaps now.
She pretty much only gets up once at night and has a quick feed and goes back to sleep. We are co sleeping still, was just so much easier after the cs and the second op for my wound infection.
I am umming and ahhing so much over getting immunisations. I know that I should and it's such a touchy topic, but after hearing so many awful stories from immunisations I am just so scared. DF is so adamant that it has to be done, :rolleyes:, so I prolly won't have a say.
Is anyone else finding it hard to get any housework done, or even cook a meal? Even though Arabella is pretty good, I just can't get anything done. Being practically a single parent doesn't help, meaning I am lumped with all the housework, the yard, the groceries, paying bills and then looking after all the kids. Even though I get a decent sleep at night I get so tired and grumpy just looking at all there is to be done.
Well, enough of me crappin on. So good to read how you all are. Off to bed now after doing 5 loads of damned washing.

Hey Sue & All You Lovelies!

Sue, I hear you on so many of the things you just said!
I don't want to get Seven immunised just yet, instead I want to wait until she is 2yrs old and then give her a 'revised' immunisation schedule, and only 1 at a time etc etc. DF here is adamant as well that she be immunised, so we will see what happens.
We were up until 2.15am last night with Seven, she was wide awake and nothing we were doing was getting her off to sleep! Her reflux issues have improved with Zantac but she just has this terrible habit of waking up around 11pm and staying that way!
I have tried to keep her awake more during the day, but, being only 8 weeks old, if Seven needs to sleep she needs to sleep, and she gets so upset if I don't let her!
Seven is also still co-sleeping and DF wants her in her bassinet. He seems to think that she and I will sleep better if she is in her own bed! I disagree however. Seven still feeds about 3-4 times a night and atm all we do is roll over, feed and go back to sleep.
I know I won't sleep better if she is in her bassinet and I know for a fact that she won't sleep for more than about 30 mins at a time if she is in there. I am kind of feeling a bit pressured by him to put her in her bassinet and let her 'cry it out' but I can't do that. So it's kind of upsetting me.
I am supposed to be doing housework today, to get organised for the Wedding, and guests and simultaneously trying to keep Seven awake. I just don't have the energy. All I want to do is go back to bed!

I think Im a little stressed and exhausted atm so I will go.

So sorry for the "me" post.

I hope everyone is well and your babies are behaving!

Love & Hugs

Hi girls,
Sue glad you found us I wondered where you were??? I worry about immunisation as well, but after talking to the docs and her saying definately go ahead I think we will... as she said we have all these people coming from 3rd world contries and when they get here they jump at the chance to get them done, they see first hand the damage done from a lot of these diseases. I also think I had the other kids done with no side effects, and just hope Poppy will be the same.:pray: It is such an effort to get on here, we go out most morning with th kids activities, then by the afternoon I crash and burn, I think the key is planning the meals, washing gets put on every morning and evening, big DD helps occasionly with folding off the clothes horse:rolleyes: housework has gone to the pack a bit but oh well!!!! To both you and Kell we have co-slept with all the kids and started to with Poppy until I seen the report on sids the other night, now the cot is beside our bed (touching in actual fact) we start together then she gets moved to the cot in her Tetra bed and moved back when need be, when she is old enough to make her own way into our bed she can come and go as she wishes.

Poppy is going to bed somewhere between 9-10.30pm wakes between 2-3.30am then anywhere from 6-9am so we are doing really well in that dept......

Kerry, do what you have got to do as far a BF and bottle, if it means you get more rest give Matthew a comp when it gets to much, says she who still feels guilty every time!!!!!:wall: I was reading the other day about a girl who had gone through IVF to concieve and she was saying how cheated she felt about not concieveing naturally, I thought to myself, how we all feel like we have missed something at some point, for me it is being unsuccessful at BF, feeling a failure that I could'nt birth my baby myself and so on and onnnn and ooonnnnnn......

Anyway, will catch up later..... off to see what some other buddies are doing while I have the chance!!!!!:D

Kell - Mmm, DF is pressuring me to put Bella in her cot - she hasn't slept in it once yet. The stupid thing is, DF works nights so is never there, dunno why he has the beef with it. For me, the reflux vomitting scares me cause Bella sometimes really chokes while she is asleep so I want her there. She does have a tetra bed in my bed and then we have a sleep and cuddle for the 5am feed. Regarding the imm's, my DD had an awful reaction to her first one and ended so ill, I never got the rest of hers. :rolleyes: dunno what I will do in this situation. Wow, you will be married soon. Hope all the prep is going well, can't wait to see yr pic's.

Pam - Oh my DD13 and DS14 are just heaven sent. DS always tells me to go have a swim or a relaxing bath while he looks after her. I just feel so bad that I am relying too much on them for help. I am going to try and get my mum round so that I can cook up some meals to freeze ( should have done this before bubs but the move stuffed me around ), or even buy frozen meals for crazy days. Washing, aaaggghh, where do I start, the kids go through so many sets of clothes and use a new towel with each swim and shower so I will have to kick their butts and get them to be more reasonable.

Oooh what a morning. I have been trying to get DS to catch the bus to and from school so that I don't have to wake Arabella up. Nope, he's too fringgin lazy. This morning on the way home from dropping him off A screamed so much I couldn't stand it and ther was no where for me to stop and calm her. The mum bus ends here now, he can catch the bus now.
I'm not sure what's happening but my bra's are giving me mastitis. They are properly fitted one's but it just canes to wear them and I end up getting lumps under the nipple or along the top of the band wher the bra is - make sense. I was in agony last night getting A to suck while I massaged. I haven't really had any other probs with the feeding than that.
Betta run and have a quick bite to eat. xx

Hi ladies

I think I'm joining the group of exhausted mums. Ashlyn goes to bed at about 7.30 and then wakes at 10.30, 1am and 4am at which point she stays unsettled until I give up and start our day at 6am. Not helped having to get up for Danielle cause she's had a bad dream or dropped her teddy bear. I'm so tired that I'm starting to get really flaky and can't concentrate on anything. DH had to go to work yesterday and I hadn't washed or ironed any of his clothes:(. The hardest thing is I can't tell DH I'm struggling a bit because I really want a 3rd child (I know, strange time to be thinking about that) and he's not sure so I don't want him to be put off by a grumpy and teary wife. Was feeling even worse after I pulled out a pair of shorts to wear because it's such a beautiful day and I couldn't even get close to doing the buttons up and these were the shorts I was wearing at the same time after Danielle's birth!

Sorry about the me post but I really needed to get that out.

I'll try to be a bit more positive next time

It sounds like we all need some hugs...and sleep. We didn't have a very successful day. We were meant to go to the clinic and to my 6 week post natal check, but it wasn't meant to be. It was pouring today and would have been hard to get emily there without getting drenched. I figured she will prob get weighed at the pead tomorrow and that was all I wanted to go for.
Then, when trying to get ready for my ob appoint, I hear this dripping and find our ceiling is leaking through one of the light fittings! Luckily defence housing have a 24 hour maintenance line and they sent someone out to fix a slipped tile on the roof pretty quickly. But we didn't make it to the doc.
Also I was trying to cook frozen dumplings and nearly set them on fire so didn't get any food til 4pm, when DH came home.

And I'm worried pumping is damaging my nipples. I found a black mark on one today, i'll have to go to the doc i think.
I am exhausted!

Sorry about the me post.
hugs to everyone

Aaawwww, I think a group hug is in order girls.

Captain - I am the same as you matey, I try not to let onto DF if I am having a shyte day, not because I want more kids, but more cause I know that he doesn't have the time to help me out. As for the clothes, eeeekkkk, I had to buy a pair of elastic waist shorts the other day cause nothing fits. My tummy has a little bit of a tyre happening PML, funny though, I only have about 3kg to get to my pre preg weight but I was a little chubby before that. Hope you have a better night.

eej - Ouch luv, sorry if you've mentioned anything before, but have you also been rubbing anything on your nipples.
I feel for your leaky roof, we are still yet to get our dodgy roof fixed that leaked all over our stuff just after we bought the house, damned PITA.

Wishing you all a long sleep tonight ;)

Eej, I've had "the black spot" too. It goes away. I thought it was the result of a bruising encounter with Matthew not latching properly. I didn't think of the pump. Hmmm. hugs for missing your appointments today, but very glad you were able to sort out the water leaking problem so swiftly. Wish Teacher Housing was as quick to fix things!

Sue, well done to you for only having 3kg to go. I still have 10kg to lose! Mind you, I did put on a lot of weight and I have lost 14kg already. I really need to exercise. Only a couple of weeks to go, before I can. :)

Captain, your night sounds like my night with Matthew but without the extra wake up to settle Danielle! Hope we have better nights tonight.

Pam, sounds like we need to make a pact not to feel guilty! I'm still finding that a bottle of breast milk makes Matthew sleep longer and then worry that doing that will affect my supply! lol. I think I was born to worry.

Eej, that sounds like a bad day. Good thing you were able to get the roof fixed so quick though.

Sue, well done on only having 3kg to go. I have about 8kg, but my aim at the moment is to lose 3kg by Christmas. I'll probably get there if I stop eating Timtams, lol.

Kerry, I'm the same, cant wait till I get the all clear to do some exercise. I've been trying to do a little bit of walking and I did some light weights the other day, but it's so hard to find the time. Didn't have any pain in the scar though, so that's a good sign.

Well, I dont know how my night will be tonight. Ashlyn did a massive projectile vomit earlier and now she is starting to get a temp. She's been feeding so much my bbs are empty and I had to settle her with a dummy because she was getting angry at the lack of milk. She's finally fallen asleep so hopefully my body will be able to catch up with the supply. Hope she doesn't get too sick, poor little bubby.

Morning all. Yay, DS has finally caught the bus to school today so I didn't have to wake Arabella up. She is still asleep and I have already hung a load of washing out and put another on, had a shower and had breaky. Geez, that usually takes me a whole day. :dance: I don't smell of vomit, well until she wakes up that is LOL.

Captain - My boobs were so empty last night I reached for the formula :redface: for the first time. My pg weight seemed to just peel off, I didn't mention that I still need to loose about 15kg's of my own doing :shhh:

Kerry - I have been going on short walks and exercising a bit in the pool. I never though I would be able to cause the c/s really took the wind out of me. Has yr mum gone home yet?

Ok, off to hang out another load :dance:

Hi Ladies,

An early day for me today....going shopping for Wedding Jewellery with my Mum. She's already rung me at 8.30! Lucky for her I was up!

Captain ~ I hope you had a reasonable night with Ashlyn.

Sue ~ Well done on getting so much done already! I am only on my first cup of tea! Argh I had better get my a** in gear!

Well, I thought Seven was going to have a good start to the night last night. She was awake for all but 2hrs from midday yesterday and fell asleep around 10-10.30. That was good. But, come 11.30, she was awake and that was it. No screaming or crying, just awake and didn't want to be put down. This continued until 1.15am. Ok, so no biggy, but, when you have done this every single night for 2-3 weeks, it becomes a bit ridiculous. I have NO idea why she wakes then and what she wants.
Hopefully the early start today will make her even MORE tired and she will sleep tonight.

Argh, babies!

On the up side, we have found an absolutely stunning gown for Seven to wear to our Wedding!

Better run and get ready to go pick Mum up!

Have a wonderful day ladies!

Oh, NaeNae says Hi and sends all her love. She's sorry she doesn't get on here much anymore but she thinks of us all the time. Isn't she just precious?

Love & Hugs

Just got back from the MCHN & Madeleine has gained weight again ... she's now 10pd 12oz so above average now. We are happy with that as we've managed to get the supply up & stop using formula.

We have started using Karicare Thickener in her EBM to help with her reflux, I think it's working a lot as just after that bottle she went straight down & hasn't spit up at all... which is unusual. I'm hoping this means that Madeleine will sleep better, she's a bigger baby & usually they sleep better than what she has been. Last night she zonked out after we kept her awake between 5-9pm she screamed so badly at 9 that she slept 6 hours straight, hoping I can repeat that but I doubt it.

Are you noticing your babies are more alert? She has noticed her toys on her change table & stares at them whilst being changed. She also likes to be sitting up right so she can look at everything, my sling has been a godsend for that reason.

Oh on the BF issues, my lactation consultants have officially given up, there is no way she can latch on. I just hope I can keep expressing fulltime, I know it's helpful for her but I just don't know how long I can keep it up.

Sorry to hear of all the sleep troubles, hope you can all get some sleep soon.

Calebsmum, congrats on finding an outfit for seven.

Captain, I feel your pain on the clothes issue, it was so beautiful here on sunday & we went to an outdoor event... needless to say that I couldn't fit anything but my yoga pants so I just had to cook for the day.

eej, are you using a manual pump? I've stopped using my electric hired one because I found it was getting to painful. my avent has a let down feature & i'm noticing im getting more milk (enough for all feeds) for a lot less pain.

Gee time flies, gotta pick up DD & get to tennis, take care

Kell - that is so funny about the explosive poos. Can't imagine how massive it must be after 4 days!!

CandyJay - the first day we gave Liberty zantac she slept heaps too. I think she was catching up!!

kbowman - Hubby's main boss is back from overseas this week so we find out more soon about when his job is being made redundant but his office has already closed, he was buddies with the next boss down so at the moment he's been working up in their Brisbane office to buy some time financially but its just over an hour away from where we live (lucky my parents live there so we're staying up with them for now) - long term though it's not going to work him working up there as we're going home from my parents this weekend. It's something though for now!! PS. If it's night time I wouldn't wake up matthew. I used to wake up liberty at night but all I did was make her cranky and she wouldn't feed anyway because she was usually too cranky. When she's hungry she lets me know!!

Mummatotwo - WOW what a weight gain for your baby. What you're doing is obviously working!!

Pam - poppy is such a beautiful name!! I'm the same as you. I've lost my bubby weight but now it's time to lose the weight I already had on me before I was pregnant. The problem is I eat because I am tired!! I ate a tub of soy-icecream in two days because everytime I felt tired, I went to the freezer and ate icecream. Oh dear... I don't think the other weight is going any time soon!!

Nicambhar - Liberty does the same thing, she chokes sometimes and I have to put her over my knee to help her. That's why I like her in the same room as me (or the same bed depending on how tired I am - if I'm too tired, I won't co-sleep)

EEJ and Tenille - lots of hugs to you!!

Only elastic waisted pants fit me too and I'm back to my pre-pregnancy weight. Not sure what happened there!! Speaking of weight, Liberty put on 200g in one week (after only putting on 200g in 4 weeks) so now we're up to 8 pounds - it seems that demand feeding works a lot better. I'm so pleased!! :)

Just a quickie ~ Just weighed the Muffin ~ She is now 5.43kg! What a porker! I think thats about 12 pounds! Little piglet!

Oh, and she slept ALL day while shopping for Wedding Jewellery so I just know that tonight is going to suck!

Ah well! Its the price we pay!


Lol & Candy ~ Congratulations on the good weight gains!


Hope all is well.

Hi girls,

First of all I wanted to give you all a hug :hug: It sounds like I am not the only one having a rough time. It feels like I never have time to do anything properly including trying to get on here to update :lol:.

On the sleep front things are going well here and Molly continues to sleep through the night. We just have heaps of problems getting her to sleep. She seems to be unsettled between 8.30 - 1am. Sometimes it is wind other times just unsettled.

Breastfeeding is becoming such a problem for us. We are still having attachment issues and are off to see the Lactation Consultant tomorrow. My nipples are so sore. A couple of days ago they were that sore I cried the whole time Molly fed and I ended up taking her off as I couldn't stand it any more. Cody ended up going to the supermarket and buying some formula. I haven't given any to Molly but I don't know how much longer I can stand the pain. It has gotten better but it just feels like I have been in some sort of pain for so long. We had great attachment until Molly developed thrush. It gets me down but I really want to try and keep breastfeeding. My mini goal is to make it to 2 months which is 2 weeks away. At this stage I have been BF for 6 weeks longer than I thought I would. :dance:

Sorry I haven't done any personals but I have been reading everyones posts. My 6 week check up is next week and except for my breasts I feel great.

We didn't make it to mothers group today as poor Molly has been very unsettled. She seems to have a pain in the belly and keeps waking screaming. Very unusual for my Molly-cat.

Anyway I here her stirring again so I will leave my update there. Hope everyone has a great day today and will talk soon.

Kell - :dance: for finding a nice gown for Seven to wear to the wedding. I can't keep anything on Arabella for more than 10 minutes, she always manages to chuck on it all including me. Sounds like Seven is in a routine of having her midnight shenanigans, cheeky little monkey. I am wondering when babies begin to sleep through the night - oh will that be bliss.

CJ - Arabella is very alert. Her eyes really light up when she sees this colourful moose that we have hanging above her car seat. Clothes, hmmm, even though I have only 3 kg's to go to get to pre pg weight, I have really changed shape and have been wearing yoga pants as well :redface:

Aaahe Bella is yelling for me, BBL to finish off my personals.

Sue ~ I am not holding out much hope of The Seven Muffin keeping her gown nice and clean...hence she will be wearing it for the ceremony and formal photos then off it comes! LOL

Donna ~ You are invited over to my place for a baby party at 1am any night! I am so sorry you are having troubles with feeding, I hope the LC can help you tomorrow! :hug:

Ok, I made it back, 12hrs later LOL...
We had a good night, even though Arabella slept on my chest all night because she has a stuffy nose. I am going to go out and buy one of those ear thermometers today. I thought she had a bit of a temp yesterday. So much for me not giving her any formula or medicines. I have given her two bottles and have been ramming down losec, nilstat and infants friends like there's no tomorrow PML.

Kell - Let's just hope that Seven keeps you clean as well.

Donna - wow, sleeping through the night, that's great. I have trouble keeping bella asleep cause she always wakes herself by flinging her arms around, the little poop always manages to get them free from my tight wrap. She sometimes reselttles herself though, so hopefully she gets better. Hope you get the BF sorted mate.

iserveanawesomeGod - Pg must change our body shape, Id say the hips had spread :o. You should have seen the look on my DF's face when I bought elastic waist pants - priceless.