Juniper76 - not sure if you can, but we hired a pump from our pharmacy, you can also hire them from ABA if you don't want to buy a pump! Great news that all is well with latching. Don't fret too much about her weight. It takes a lot of energy to at home for a little person
Chody47 - How did the Dr's go? You do get used to being tired. Enjoy having your partner home, and use him heaps, it's much more different on your own most of the time.
Alimoy - Oscar has been getting nappy rash - sudocream has worked for us - do you get bounty bags? If so there is a sample in there you can try. I'm sorry your partner can sleep through Lewis' wake ups.
RDO was pretty good, DH came home early which was a bonus so I handed him our little fusspot and got some stuff done!! Oscar has decided not to sleep mornings which is fun, except when he's upset for the whole time We have some diarrhoea too which makes the nappy rash a bit worse. On the upside, 4am colic time seems to have settled finally. We're mostly only doing 1 night feed now which is exciting. We got weighed yesterday and my chubby boy gained - we're now 4.1kg.. I can't believe how fast he grows!!
AliMoy - I hope the nappy rash has decided to go away! I too have some sudocream and pop it on Amelia whenever I think she is looking a little red down there.....not sure if she actually has a rash or not, but I figure it can't hurt either way...
Juniper - Sorry to hear about the slow weight gain. I have brought a pump (a tommee tippee one as I was told their bottles were good as they are closest in shape to BB's, making it more likely bubs will be happy with them) and started using it a couple of days ago. I got it mainly so that DH can feed Amelia occasionally so I can have a break and he can have that special time with her too. Try not to worry about the weight thing too much (although I know that's hard as I have been stressed about it myself). I've been taking Amelia to be weighed a couple of times a week as I have been so stressed about it. I was told by a friend our local chemist (a national pharmacy) has scales you can weigh babies on if you don't want to go to the hospital to do it....
S'Rose - Wow! Oscar seems as if he is gaining weight really well!
AFM - The doc appointment went ok. He wasn't too fussed as Amelia is still putting on weight (around 25g a day at the moment). He did suggest that if the vomiting continued maybe we could try infant gaviscon, which apparently thickens the milk in their stomach a bit. Luckily for us the vomiting has decreased over the past few days. DH had done a bit of 'research' on the internet and reckons that Amelia has a bit of 'silent reflux' (nothing like self diagnosis ). Apparently it means that stomach acid and stuff comes up and down a bit. When this had been happening we had incorrectly assumed she needed to burp, and the patting her back had been making her spew. We have been trying to follow the 'tips' for silent reflux (sitting them upright and offering a dummy after it appears to have gone away to help neutralise the acid) and it seems to be working really well, so even if that is not it the tactics seem to be helping!
Well DH goes back to work on Monday.....I think I will be ok with looking after Amelia but I'm not sure that I will manage to get anything 'done' around the house. Don't get me wrong, DH doesn't expect it (that's been a good thing about him being home the past couple of weeks, he has seen how much time Amelia is demanding), but it's more me wanting to keep things tidy and 'up-to-date'. I guess I will just have to try to modify my own expectations or I will burn myself out!
... okay just really quickly - i have a small window where both boys are actually asleep! i wonder if i can actually eat lucnh with two hands or (shock horror) drink a whole, hot cuppa tea!
Lewis' nappy rash is all cleared up - turns out it was a bit of thrush, so lots of open air time and some anti-fungle cream did the trick super-fast.
interestingly though, we didn't get a bounty bag this time - the hospital i went to are very pro-natural and anti chemicals etc so they asked the companies to stop sending them samples 'coz they wouldn't hand them out or promote them at the hospital lol... one of the midwives did mention though that "sudo cream was the only good thing in there"!
anyway i just wanted to quickly pop in and see if anyone else has a tummy-sleeper?
it's just Lewis' comfy position, he sleeps so well on his tummy, up until now i've been reluctant to put him on his tummy at night, but since we're 100% BF and co-sleeeping, SIDS risks are minimal... so i'm thinking about putting him on his tummy tonight - anyone have any thoughts/experience? i'm just nervous 'coz all the mainstream stuff essentially stops just short of telling you that sleeping on the tummy is going to kill your baby... i'd obviously like to keep him for a while yet and instincts and nature seem to be telling me that that's what he wants to do... especially since he's a bit of a windy baby so being on his front obviously helps with that.
DH went back to work this week and it's friday and we all seem to have survived with most of our marbles... but there will be wine tonight.
Edward is constantly surprising me with how he is taking it all in his stride, with only a few challenging moments. We've kept very busy this week though and only really had one day at home - just seems much easier if we're out and have things to do!
Actually i did cheat one day, my mum took Edward for a sleepover and so i got to spend a whole day with just me and Lewis looking at each other and getting to know one another - fallin' in love and stuff... it was really nice to have that 1:1 time where i could sit down for a whole bf and carry him everywhere without feeling like i was constantly putting him down to look after Eddie (or constantly telling Eddie that i needed to look after Lewis)...
oh that was the other thing had a middie visit last week - weighed Lewis just outta interest - he's put on a kilo since birth (that was a week ago when he was 2weeks old and he's definitely fattened up since then too!)... haha crazy kid.
Having said that i seriously urge you all not to worry too much about statistics (i'm sure there'd be some 'experts' out there who would say i'm feeding Lewis too much or some rubbish like that, i feed him when he wants it - you can't force a baby to suck!).... you know if you're babies are healthy so the idea of putting on 'too much' weight or 'not enough' weight really should bare little relevance to what you're doing as long as it's working.
Okay, longer than i thought - boys still asleep... spoke too soon, Lewis is awake... back to the nappies and boobies
Hi all - I am so sorry for not being able to get here earlier to say hi and catch up on what's been going on, time to get anywhere near a computer is seriously limited by a newborn! DH is attempting to settle Arabella which gives me a couple of minutes to see what's been going on with all these new mums and babies Unfortunately I don't have time for personals but I am so glad to see all these healthy babies, and that they're all feeding and stacking on the weight! I hope to get back on here more regularly, and if I could figure out how to use Tapatalk properly on my iPhone I could even do updates whilst feeding!
Arabella is almost 5 weeks old and is doing so very well. We had some problems with feeding - she couldn't latch on, so I was using a nipple shield and supplementing with formula as she wasn't getting much milk via the shield. It was just awful to have to mix up the stinky formula and feed it to her - I'd often be feeding her a bottle and sobbing as I did it - but we had to do what we had to do, and I'm thrilled to say that we've now been feeding without the nipple shield for a whole day now, and haven't used any formula since last Wednesday - so nearly a week. Finally it's working! She is getting on and feeding without any help from anything - it's just me and her and it's beautiful. I do get a bit teary now when I feed, not for the same reasons that I cried when I was formula feeding, but because I am so relieved that I can breastfeed and that Arabella is healthy and chubby and churning through those nappies. Seriously, this kid is a poop machine!
Unfortunately she's not too keen on the sleeping business! For a few days there she wouldn't sleep at all during the day, but we've now realised that she actually was getting tired but moved very quickly to overtired and thus wouldn't settle. We're now trying to get her to sleep between feeds; sometimes she will, sometimes she won't. She was sleeping 7 or 8 hours of a night-time which was amazing, but that lasted about a week-and-a-half and she's now waking once during the night for a feed (which is still pretty good!). However, she won't settle after the night feed - and Arabella's way of letting us know is to cry and cry and cry! She'll also cry for hours of an evening (I think it's the dreaded arsenic hour - it really does exist) which is just heartbreaking. And I can't seem to settle her as I smell like milk. Do any of you have any hints for settling in the evenings? We walk a lot up and down the hallway, bounce on the fitball whilst patting her bottom, walk in the pram (yeah, walking a screaming baby is heaps of fun!), feeding more often, try her in the sling, a bath either in the baby bath or in with me... And she will cry her way through all of these until she's worn herself out. DH struggles with it more than I do - he just wants to fix it, but there's nothing actually wrong - but if any of you have other ideas I am keen to hear them!
Hope you are all doing well, I will hopefully be able to log in more often to catch up on everyone's news and milestones as Arabella gets a bit older and into more of a predictable pattern (wishful thinking on my part???)
We have some diarrhoea too which makes the nappy rash a bit worse. On the upside, 4am colic time seems to have settled finally. We're mostly only doing 1 night feed now which is exciting. We got weighed yesterday and my chubby boy gained - we're now 4.1kg.. I can't believe how fast he grows!!
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). Apparently it means that stomach acid and stuff comes up and down a bit. When this had been happening we had incorrectly assumed she needed to burp, and the patting her back had been making her spew. We have been trying to follow the 'tips' for silent reflux (sitting them upright and offering a dummy after it appears to have gone away to help neutralise the acid) and it seems to be working really well, so even if that is not it the tactics seem to be helping!
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