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:leap: the 3 older kids slept! ALL NIGHT OMG :leap:
What a lucky mumma i am, DH will be so happy to hear when i get the chance to call him.
KIT: Co sleeping is the only why i have gotten thru all 4 of my kids, it does feel weird to start with. But we are one of the only cultures that dont sleep with our babies and if you read the SIDS guidelines its regarded as safe IF you and DH DONT have and effects of alcohol, smoke or have any drugs... personal choice hun and its all yours.
Tegam - woohoo :) hopefully they will replicate that for many more nights to come :)
Kit - that's very often for feeding - no wonder you're tired! Does he feed for very long each time or just fall asleep?
lilias - my bub fed every 4 hours at first, then switched to more of a 3 -hr schedule after a couple of weeks - I was worried at first because the midwives kept saying he should feed every 3 hours, but trying to wake him for feeds made us both tired and cranky, so in the end I let him do his own thing and we were much happier (he was gaining weight and giving me plenty of wet/dirty nappies).
DH is off canoeing with BIL this morning - BIL and SIL (DH's younger sister) just found out they're having another boy (they have 2 already - the ones I babysat the other day) - a bit disappointing for them, I think they were hoping for a girl this time, but they do make gorgeous boys, so I'm sure they'll adjust :) Talk about a boy-dominated family! On DH's side we already have 6 nephews and just 2 nieces, so with David and the new bub for SIL, that's 8 boys now! No wonder the family gatherings on that side of the family are so noisy!!
We're going to my brother's place for a BBQ lunch today - David will get a lot of cuddles there - fortunately he seems to have got over his windy couple of days and had a great night and has gone down beautifully for a morning nap (yesterday's arvo nap turned into nearly 3 hours too). It must be the food I'm eating, because I've been using the Infant's Friend in exactly the same way the whole time. How will I give up my chocolate fix!!! Well, the upside is that I should be able to get these last few kilos off more easily now!!
Have a great Aussie Day everyone :partysmiley:
Kit: we co-sleep here to, DH won't sleep with us though cos he's scared of squishing her. I was at first (and trust me usually I am a crazy sleeper!) but now I can not have her not sleep with me, and she's slept with me since birth. Sometimes I wake up and find that I have been trying to settle her in my sleep and I wake up with my finger in her mouth lol- then I realise the poor thing is due to wake up for a feed. And have also started sleeping her on her tummy not right over we roll up a towel and put it under her. Before we were doing it this way she was waking up every hour to feed or not sleeping at all! But now she sleeps all the time, well not all the time but a heck of a lot better.
Tegam: yay to the 3 big kids sleeping all night, bet that gave you a bit more rest! Yay to the inlaws going bad :( to your DH gone too.
Jen: I was addicted to chocolate before DD was born, but since I've had her I haven't had any or felt like it.
Lilias: yay to your big nanna nap
Cumpet: hehe at changing your mind about number 2
hi to everyone else.
Happy Australia Day everybody! I hope you're all keeping cool whatever you're doing. They're expecting it to hit 39 here today so we're staying inside watching the cricket :)
Em, DS2 slept on his tummy from 8 weeks old because he wouldn't sleep any other way. When he got admitted to hospital at 3 months I thought I'd cop it from the nurses when I put him on his tummy to sleep, but they actually said it was better for his breathing while he was so sick - phew! I wish I could co-sleep, but it makes me too anxious so I settle for a bassinette beside the bed.
Jen, yay for your BIL and SIL! Three boys are great - although I might be slightly biased ;) I think I am a little sad for some girly things I will miss out on - mostly for a grown up daughter, but I am very happy with my three boys and wouldn't change it for the world.... or go back for #4 either for that matter!
Tegam, yay for your big kids!!!! Must've been something in the air - DS2 even slept until 5am last night/this morning. It makes like so much easier doesn't it?
Kel, Liam sounds a lot like DS2 and Caelen sounds a lot like Josh! He's the most placid, settled baby. We are getting five hour blocks of sleep each night!!!! I almost don't know what to do with him :lol: I SO hear you on the comparing them! I'm always saying "DS1 use to do that" or "DS2 use to pull that face".... grrrr, I make myself mad :lol:
Kit, DS2 use to wake up every hour and then stretched it out to every two hours. If co-sleeping works for you both, DO IT. DS2 is still a terrible sleeper so if you can get Sammy to sleep longer now, hopefully it will help him (and you) further down the track and you won't end up like us!
Keep an eye on that shivery feeling, it doesn't sound good at all, although my mw told me that some women get flu-like symptoms when their milk comes in. Hopefully it's just that.
Glenny and Crumpet, happy late 6 week birthday to your bubbas! Far out that's gone fast!!!!
Us: Well another brilliant night from Mr Joshua (hehe, sounds like the bad guy in Lethal Weapon!). He slept two blocks of five hours last night and was only up for 45 minutes of feeding and changing in between! DH got up to DS2 when he woke up at 5am so I got a LOT of sleep. I'm still tired though, I think I need to get my aneamia checked, it was supposed to disappear once I gave birth, but I've always been borderline anyway. I can't take any iron at all at the moment because I have a hemarrhoid from hell that is literally the biggest pain in the backside ever! It's only tiny, but boy does it hurt. I'm trying the creams, but nothing is working except warm baths. BUT, that's my only complaint at the moment. I'm incredibly happy with my life right now :D
8 boys thats amazing, your family sure knows how to make a good boy! You will have to have a girl next to help even things up (like we get a choice of sex :rofl:):
Hope you have a nice time at the BBQ. Glad to heat David is getting over his wind. I think Miss Molly has turned the corner too! YAY
I feel the same, it would be a bit better to have her sleep in the cot now that i have to get up to the other kids (when they wake cause i know this sleeping thing wont last) but they grow up so quickly! Im sure your DH will get over not wanting to sleep with you guys! My DH was the same and now he can co sleep with a new born!:
39 yuck!:
Hope that something in the air stays around!
SO nice to hear how happy you are!
AFM: Well the weirdness continues in my house. Miss Molly seems to be over her wind issues and has been a perfect baby today! Also managed to get DS and Molly down at the same time so i had 2.5hrs in bed, it was a bit interupted but the older two did try to be quiet. I am feeling like i am in an ultered universe... DH cant believe it, and the funniest thing is he had a terrible nights sleep last night and hhe was alone :rofl:
Oh and my Miss Molly is 4 weeks old tonight :( Lucky she still seems so small, will have to weigh her soon and burst my bubble that she isnt really growing!
wow everyone is hiding in here, Tegam i was starting to wonder where ou had dissapeared too cause u wasnt posting in the december thread!
Evern people in here who had their bubs in december maybe i should join this group :) i know most of you all in here
Tegam- wow to miss molly being 4wks old already!
Kaidyn is 6wks almost :( its going too fast!
Happy Birthday Miss Molly!!! I know what you mean about not wanting them to grow. DH keeps telling me that it is good that he is growing so much in case he gets sick and needs something to fall back on (DS2 at 3 months still haunts us!) but being my last..... I want him little for longer! I know you know exactly how I feel :D:
So, for girls who co-sleep: How do you do it??? Do you get rid of pillows and doona's and stuff? Does bubs sleep between you and the wall or in between you and DH? With naps DH and I are both on top of the doona and SB is lying on the doona in between us, but at night we need blankets!
HI Kit: I have two pillows under my head or one big fat one. I also have a pillow under my right shoulder and arm, then the baby is wrapped normally and lays in the crook of my arm, i am slightly turned on my right side and i stick a pillow under my left hip so im comfy on my side. I sleep on the side of the bed that means that the baby is on the out side not in the middle if you get what i mean. This way DH has whatever pillows he needs and i can pull the sheet/blanket up over my legs and hips from the middle, when its cold i put a top on so my shoulders dont get cold. This is hard to explain....i could get DH to take a photo if that would help, hehe. I also do it this way so when older kids are in bed with us too i know they cant get to the baby.
Miz: Remember we all agreed to come into this thread to stay together. The december girls were lovely but its so nice to already know everyone here. I told Csab to come on over too!!!
AFM: Another good night, day started a little early at 4.48am but that was Miss mollys fault, i had almost gotten DS back to sleep and she decided she needed a feed too.. ahhh well :) I was in bed at 8.30 so feel good!
Tegam, that's a pretty good sleep! DS2 had another great sleep, didn't wake up until 7:30 - woohoo!
We're off to the shops today. All five of us. DS1 needs new shoes for school and the two older boys need haircuts. We have to go to two different shopping centres so we might do one job today and one tomorrow. First of all I have to figure out how to re-arrange the pram so Joshy can go in it with one of the older boys rather than have it set up for two toddlers.
i do remember that now :) silly me!
Has anyone else started bleeding again?? i started bleeding again the other day :(
OMG im still BFing almost 6wks later woohoo :)
good boy DS2! take your HAB and let both boys be in the pram, even tho its hot here today it worked so well for school drop off and the shopping and a baby posh coffee :):
i have some spotting ever few days???:
BFeeding woohoo, give yourself a pat on the back!
AFM: miss molly has put on 1kg in 4 weeks... but she still looks so little!
Mitzie - how long since you stopped bleeding the first time? Could it be your first period? All the experienced mummies, what is the go with that and bf? Did you stop having periods while you were exclusively bfing? And did you use contraception right away, or consider yourself safe while bfing?
Tegam - she probably just looks little in comparison with the other kids! I always think of David as getting quite big, but next to the nieces and nephews he looks small again :)
Had a lovely, lovely Australia Day - David obliged with a 2-hour nap in the morning, happy chappy through til lunch, then a feed and another nap for nearly 3 hours at my brother's place (while we had a bbq, then waterfights in the backyard and twister in the house). Went down well for another good night - last feed at 7, then asleep until 1am, another feed at 3:30, then awake at 6:30 for the day. Morning feed, and has gone down again now too. Even though I'm getting up twice each night, he doesn't feed for long (30mins including burping and nappy change) and goes straight back to sleep. I've made a habit of going to bed by 9-9:30, so I end up getting 7ish hours sleep each night. Decided not to dreamfeed at this stage - have tried it on 2 different occasions, but he was so sleepy that he didn't take in much, and still woke up 2 more times in the night, so it really defeated the purpose for me. Might try again when he's older and sleeping longer at night.
Today I'm leaving him at mum's for his arvo sleep and going to a scrapbooking shop to spend heaps of money - ready to start his album :)
Tegam- this is like a period but i thought BFing stopped them :( i know everyones different but i thought i would be a lucky one and not get them
Im so proud of my bfing this time, ive done really well even after wanting to give up
about 2-3wks ago Kaidyn weighed 2.6kgs now just on monday he weighed in at 3.5kgs go my little man, he is now the size Zak was when he was born :)
Kit- i co-sleep with Kaidyn sometimes and i always put him on the outside of me so DF doesnt squash him and i wrap my arm around him so he cant fall off
Jen- i think it is a period and obviously everybody is different ive been excliseivly bfing and still got a period, i dont have contraception as it reacts with my body in a way i dont like so we are using condoms ...How David feeds through the night is Kaidyn too doesnt eat for very long at all and is asleep again
Oh does anyone elses bub not like the heat?? i think Kaidyn hates it
i got my period back with DD1 before the 6 week check, even tho i was EBFeeding. It was later with DD2 and almost 9 months with DS.
Jen i have a super cycle so i know why i O so have never worried about protection.....in saying that i have to figure something out soon as i dont want an oopsy baby!
Phew, it's hot here again today!
Kel, I saw it was going to be 42 out your way! Stay in the air con!!!
Tegam, I probably will use the HAB and put the two bigger boys in the pram more often than not. I had DH with me today though and we wanted to try the newborn/toddler combo on the pram.
Yay for Miss Molly's weight gain!
Miz, I haven't stopped bleeding yet. I usually bleed for 5 weeks and 5 days, I have no reason to think this time will be any different. :( Sounds like you might have your period though.
Jen, I don't ovulate and/or get my period until I completely stop breastfeeding. BUT, having said that, we will be taking no chances and will use condoms as soon as we start DTD again. I'm extremely fertile when not bfing and don't want to risk a surprise baby #4. With DS1 and DS2, I stopped bfing them and was pregnant a month later!!!! With DS2 I cut him off sooner than I wanted because I wanted to have #3 close to the others and it was the only way :( On the upside, I have only had two periods in the past four and a half years! :lol: I guess it's compensation for my extended lochia.
Us; We survived the shoe shopping expedition. It was musical chairs with the boys and the pram though, I think we tried just about every combination! Josh is such a cruisey baby! If he was a first baby, you'd want a million of him. Having had DS2 though, I know they aren't all that good :lol:
Summah is a lot more sleepy in the heat, tends to wake for a feed and straight back to sleep. mind u our last really hot day like 35 or over was around new years so a lot has changed since then, we are supposed to hit 34 on sunday so ill see how she manages that and let u know...:
not yet....:
ive still be spotting on and off. mind u im about 4 days "spot" free sorry TMI so im hoping thats the end of it.
great work on the BF!!:clap:
:hello: everyone!!!
im a bit lost, feels like ive missed heaps but i havnt there just isnt much for me to comment on that i can relate to or help with, which should make for a shorter post than usual from me! :lol:
all is good here, nothing to exciting to report.
am off to the OB in a hr or so for my 6week check up so that will be fun!
have a few things i need to talk to him about so it could be a long appt! poor guy will want to retire once i leave the office....
summah is doing really well, sleeping well still. we got a 10pm-5am stint last night so that was amazing plus i was asleep by 930 so i felt pretty good! :dance:
Disgirl ouch ive bled for about 3 weeks with both my boys and Kaidyn is 6wks on sat and i started bleeding the day after he turned 5wks :( im thinking it is a period but its bright red and my midwife siad to keep an eye on it as i could be heamoraghing (sp?) cause i am known for it OR im hoping not but it could also be that i have an infection in my uterus
Zak was a pretty good baby, Kaidyn is abit more of a screamer, but we are coping pretty good!
Crumpet- i spotted for the whole 3wks really cause when you get given syntocin it plays with your blood loss after bubs it makes you start/stop all the time...You had that to be induced didnt you?? i had it after i had Kaidyn to stop me from heamoraghing again
Goodluck at the OB today, hope he answers all your Questions, i need to book or my 6wk check up and Kaidyns needles
Tegam- your lucky for not getting your periods, i really was hoping BFing all the time i would be a lucky one not to get them im guessing im wrong although it seems a little heavier then a period so we shall wait and see
Well Kaidyn is doing well Bfing im so excited we have lasted 6wks this time and hopefully alot longer to come, my big goal is 6 months :)
I dont think he likes the heat he screams and screams, i have the aircon on and hes sleeping peacefully :) (i dont blame him for this heat its terrible)
Other then the bleeding im feeling pretty good, LOVE my 2 days a week just Kaidyn and i when Zaks at daycare!
Goodness I am lost again, I have to get on here more so I stop just doing "Me" post coz too much has happened and said...
Someone asked how to co-sleep, with PK I have one of those in the bed 1st years things, so he is wrapped in a blanket in his "bed " and I have my blanket on me I dont have a DH so dont have to worry about that part...
I slepted with DD2 on a change mat in the bed so I could feel the sides...
I do from about 5am onwards sleep with PK the same way that tegam said as I give this fed while half asleep on my side...
very jelous of all your sleeping babies... PK will go 5 hrs in the day between feeds but night likes boob every 2 hrs or so, he feeds really quick so its not so bad... I think my milk must be a little less or not as filling in the night...
AS for AF, I dont normally get her back until about 3mths after I stop BF so I am hoping not to see her for some time... I am so happy that I am still about to feed PK and feel I still have milk, I fed DS1 really well for 9mths but couldnt feed the girls for very long and felt I had no milk... The health nurse I am seeing is really good, she told me that if I ever think I am running out of milk to go to here ASAP so she can do something to help, as with everything that has been happening she doesnt want me to run out of milk, I think she is hoping it will keep PND away...
I have writen in our FB thread about wanting a catch up so if anyone is up to it once school is back next week let me know, You can all come to my place if you like, it just wont be spotless lol...
oh i see that took me a few minutes 'new dawn' :hello:
Wow, you girls are chatty!! Chattier than my belly buds! I will try to keep up, but if I miss stuff, forgive me!
Kitfaerie, I sleep with just DS and I in the spare bed. DH refuses to sleep with a tiny baby and DS1 needs one of us with him anyway, so DH sleeps with him in our bed, and DD jumps in there some days too. Sadly we haven't slept together alone in our bed for years! But such is life with young children. I sleep with DS2, he is put into his snuggle bed which is in the bed, though he usually ends up next to me after a feed and we have both drifted back to sleep. I have one pillow for my head and one to keep DS in the bed when he's on the side that isn't against the wall. I only have a sheet to cover me at the moment tho rarely use it, but have a single sized blanket if I need it, but it's just sooo hot at the mo! I wrap DS2 in a muslin wrap and have a blanket for him too if he feel cool to touch, tho he's usually fine in his onsie and muslin. I am a very light sleeper and I love co sleeping. I find it such an important way to bond with my babes. Plus I have been lucky that they love it too and my DH is understanding of it too.
Tegam, hope you made it through the day, 5am wake ups suck! Even when you go to bed early! We have been getting fairly good sleeps here too. Caelan will usually feed 4ish hourly all day. It's just up to me to get to bed at a decent hour now! I have to get used to going to bed before 11pm again!
1kg in a month!! Wooohooo! Go Miss Molly and go you! You have some super boobies there mumma! I'm hoping my little man has a good gain too, considering he lost so much after birth.
Gosh thinking of protection already....lol, my stitches and grazes still hurt, I couldn't think of anything worse right now! But for us, DH is getting a vasectomy, and condoms til then. It's his turn now! Really, really don't want an oopsie bub! DH would leave me I think, lol!!
Dis, 7.30 is great! I wish my big ones would sleep til then...we are still 6am early birds here. Thankfully DH has been getting up with them, and DS2 is waking between about 7-9am depending on the day! I'm hoping he likes his sleep and the 9am wake ups stay!
Yep a glorious 42 out here today (not!) and 40+ temps for the next week apparently! Yucko! Luckily it's really rather cool in our house, plus we have the evaporative cooling through out the house and air con in the loungeroom. But outside, you could cook a steak on the footpath!
Misqtie, I can't comment on the bleeding, I'm only up to day 13 so I think I will be going for a while yet (yay...not!). Though with DD and DS I don't think I started bleeding again. But there are so many types of normal when it comes to birth and afterwards. And as for my period, I got mine back at about 3mths with DD and about 5mths with DS1 (who was fully bf, I was looking forwards to not having it for months too, but was disappointed, lol!) But yours sounds like your period to me, though just keep an eye on it, unfortunately I know the stress of haemorraging after birth, I have done so to some extent with all of my bubs, angels included. With my first angel, I ended up haemmoraging very badly almost 4 weeks after giving birth. Very scary when you're young and have no idea what's going on!
And 6wks bfing!! Woooooohoooo, well done!!!! It is not as easy as many people think it is!
Jen10, wow, 30mins for a full feed! My little man is taking up to an hour for feeds. I think I have a slow flow and let down, DS1 used totake ages to feed too, even when he was bigger. Or they just love being attached to me, lol!
New Dawn, I hope PK turns his sleeping around and you get the 5hr blocks at night!! Have you tried maybe waking him 3hrly in the day to feed, and then maybe he won't want so much at night?? DS2 had his sleep around the worng way for a few days and it sucks! I know the feeling of slepless nights and 2hrly feeds, DD and DS1 were both like that for a long time.
Your health nurse sounds great! It's wonderful she sounds so helpful. All of the ones I have seen with my kids have been little more than useless. With DS1 I think I stopped going at about 5ish mths. It was useless except for the weigh ins! After that I just weighed him on my own scales at home (not baby scales, but the weights were close enough!) Hopefully this time we get a nice nurse who knows what s/he's on about and hears what I am saying.
AFU, well I think I have been blessed with nipple thrush (yay, not!) and I'm pretty sure DS has it in his mouth too. I had it when I had DD and it is horrible! I will have to get some oral thrush treatment tomorrow. I had thought it was just the way DS was attaching for a while, but today it is stinging like no tomorrow and DS's tongue is abnormally white....all signs unfortunately!
We went to the pools today. We have a gorgeous little public pool here and the big kids had a ball. DS2 was a bit unsettled when we got home because it was soooo hot outside and we didn't go for a swim (he's too little and I'm still bleeding!) but it was lovely to watch DD and DS1 have a ball with their Daddy. And it was our first officialy 'outing'! I really need to get out walking to try to strengthen my muscles. I still feel really weak in my core muscles and my back is still killing me (I had sciatica and SPD through my pgcy). The SPD is still there and I think the sciatica might be too a little. But it is going bit by bit. Still hurts though!!
To those of you with other children (especially two and a half-ish year olds) how are they coping? My DS1 is having a tough time coping with bub. Though not acting out towards Caelan, he says he likes his baby! But thing slike he's being really naughty, not listening, throwing toys, hitting DD, (doing lots of normal 2yr old stuff that he didn't do before!) but also not eating very well, being REALLY difficult to get to bed, waking in hysterics.....he's always been tought to get to sleep and not been a great eater, but he's even worse these past few weeks. Anyone got any tips? I know it's likely all normal and I will jsut have to ride it out, but still, thoguht I'd ask!
Ok this has taken me hours to write out (coming and going and tending to the kids) and reply to everyone! Hope I didn't miss anything!
yep had the syntocin when i was induced....:
wow i didnt know that, explains a lot!
love the new username hun!:
oh that sux, Summah has had oral thrush for about 4 weeks on and off, BUT i think we have finally kicked it!! im keeping a close eye on her though just incase it flares up again...:
AFU:
had my check up at the OB and all went well.
mind u i didnt get away without a touchy feel mind u! :rofl:
had my pap smear done while i was there, would rather my OB do it than my GP, and he checked out all my stitches and they were fine.
he had issues finding my cervix ( who would have thought) and the way it felt i think it was hiding up with my tonsils!
went through a few things with him and the good news is there is no damage done to my cervix and i dont have to wait a certain amount of time in between pregnancies, not that im planning on getting preg again this week but was handy to know!
we will have to follow the same process as this time, progesterone pessaries from 8 weeks till the stitch is in at 14 weeks bed rest on and off take it was easy as possible, all the same stuff as i did with summah.
so overall a good appt really, was kinda sad that i wont see him now unless we have another baby but im pretty sure we will, DH has admitted he is coming round to the idea of another one, he said he is far from totally convinced but is slowly warming to the idea so i figure by around july next year ill have him well and turely talked into it! :rofl:
New dawn - good to see you in here :)
Tegam - thanks for the link to the article - an interesting read, although not identifying with some of it (plenty of motivation to get frisky atm - hence the qu about protection). Bleeding stopped a couple of wks ago now - ob appt next Wed, but we didn't end up waiting for it to have a go, then the next day I was thinking, hang on, I could be fertile again - oops. Thinking I probably will be ok this early on - we weren't planning to have a second one quite this soon!!
lilias - hot here too - unfortunately a string of humid days - my evap air-con isn't so effective in the humidity, so things are a bit sticky. It was 35 degrees by 9am this morning - getting to 37-38 for a few days ina row -yuck! Not going out today, thank goodness - we'll sit under a fan.
Btw, those short night feeds I wouldn't consider a full feed - if I could make him go longer I would, then he might sleep longer too! he's just too sleepy and refuses to latch on after a while.
Boo to the thrush - hope it clears quickly for you both.
crumpet - glad your appt went well :)
Btw, I don't know how you girls get any sleep when co-sleeping! I have D in with me for an hour or so occasionally in the morning, and all his grunts and movements keep me wide awake :) I guess it's something you get used to after a while :)
Have a great day everyone! Someone's cranky and hungry here, by the sounds . . hmm, wouldn't mind some morning tea myself!
And this is when we are being super quiet Kel, we went thru 20 threads when pregnant, it was maily Crumpets fault, she has MAJOR issues :rofl::
DS1 sounds totally normal huni, so many people go on about siblings getting upset when a baby comes along, sounds like he is just being 2! A little advice, and i know its easy to say when you are not so tired but, go back to the basics, distract him when he is being naughty rather then give him negitive attention. And with dinners, give small amounts and try three nights of dinners he really likes, cut avo tea down so he is hungry and get super excited when he does well! All my 2 year olds go thru this stage :) I know its hard but the last bit of advice was, make sure you dont blame the baby for anything like 'shhhh - be quiet the baby is sleeping" and try to use the time that the baby is crying (like a nappy change time) to show and say to DS1 'see baby wants mummy but its L's turn. So when you have to do something for the baby and DS1 wants you you can say "its babies turn, it will be L's turn soon" Does that make sense??
Make sure you get something for that thrush!
hey it wouldnt have felt right if he hadnt had a feel right :rofl::
Glad you dont have to wait and can try when you are both ready, it would have played on your mind so much more if you had had to think of dates!
I have had friends that have kids 10 months apart!!! Scary huh?:
I love the ABA website, i always throw a search in there when it comes to a breast fed baby before i google!
I can sleep thru all the noise molly makes cause i am totally and utterly tired from getting up sometimes 8 times a night and im lucky on a good night to get 5 hrs sleep. Thank god i dont need a lot more but i think i could sleep thru anything!
AFM: Miss Moo had a poo to work out from 3am! Naughty girl. I think if i had just let her have a whine and stretch and she would have done it, but i settled her every 5-15mins cause i was so worried she would wake the others up and they are all being so good for me at the moment that i dont want to wake them! Which meant that i started the day at 3am.... going to have to sort that out me thinks....
tried to have a day sleep but miss DD2 woke me after 17mins....ah well she is only 4 and that must have seemed like a huge time being quiet for mummy.
DH home tomorrow night at 9pm so ill get a sleep in on sunday YAY.
Miss Moo is so cute tho and starting to have longer wake times, she is also coping with the school drop off really well!
Oh anyone else seem super busy? I dont even get the time to talk on the phone anymore and i only get this time on the computer caus ei have the laptop in the kitchen while i cook.....??
Ok DS awake and time to turn the meat, chicken wraps for dinner anyone?
Lilias: I have been blessed with nipple thrush also, oh the joy!
crumpet: glad your appt went well.
Tegam: 3am start gosh you must be tired! And yes I hear you on the super busyness, but I only have a baby not a baby and 3 kids. And yay for your DH being home tomorrow night!!!!
Jen: I can sleep through the noises, but guess i'm just used to it. And if she wakes up sometimes I settle her in my sleep. Í've woken up numerous times to find my finger in her mouth lol.
AFm, Had Malaila weighed yesterday- she's up to 3.95kg! slow down little girl, your growing to fast for mummy!
Had an emotional day yesterday, but not going to get into it on here. But I should be fine. Malaila thought she'd reward Mummy's bad day with sleeping from midnight to 6.15am! I was in shock I woke up searching the bed for her, freaking out that she was gone lol. Am treating nipples for thrush at the moment and hopefully that settles down this pain, not that the pain would make me give up breastfeeding but it would be nice to have no pain. Ok better go get some housework done while she is sleeping!
:hello: Em, poo on the thrush, how are you all getting this?? You need to get a new avvy? I have just seen my proof, its so cute, i just lose the belly and gain a baby in a pink sling, so cute!
Tegam: who'd you get to do your avvy? How do I get mine done? Oh and ya get thrush from the thrush monster who seeks you out when you are sleeping.
Hey everyone
Em: Oh no for thrush! Hope you get it sorted out super quick, glad malaila gave you a good sleep! The thrush monster can stay away from my house! Just don't give him your address :P
Tegam: I'm not doing any cleaning or cooking and I still feel super busy. Really REALLY not looking forward to DH going back to work, and we've just got the one bub!
Lilias: Pool sounds lovely! We are very chatty normally, things have slowed down a lot! I need to get out walking too, but can't leave SB alone yet, I can't even be in a different room. I'm assuming that will change eventually!
Crumpet: LOL at baby number 2. I can't even contemplate it at the moment!
Jen: Hooray for friskiness :)
AFM: Just falling through the days at the moment. SB is healthy and generally happy (I hope!). Lots of poo and wee nappies and gaining weight well, 3.9 kg today, so 200g to get back up to birth weight. We seem to have sorted the wind thing, and we co-slept last night and it went super well. Now it's just getting him to sleep when he's settled, he settles well, but then doesn't drift off to sleep, the boob is the only sure fire way to get him to sleep, and it can take an hour or so, even then moving him into the basinette or putting him down beside us can wake him up again. Any tips? I feel so lucky to have him and guilty that I can't settle him, we've been really busy since he was born so I'm thinking over stimulation has a lot to do with not sleeping - he's woken up in a different environment a lot. Does it get easier as you go along?
Kit: it does get easier give yourself time Sammy is only just over a week old. Heck Malaila is 3 weeks old and i'm still learning. I don't think you stop learning. I have found Malaila settles way easier on her side/tummy (just prop her up with a towel so she doesn't roll fully onto her belly) and now she sleeps for hours rather then 10mins at a time. Also when I lay her down I pat her on the bum until she settles again or give her my finger to suck or both, it works for us. Obviously if she's really unsettled I pick her back up, but if I settle her while she is already in the spot I want her to sleep I don't have the issue of waking her when I transfer her. Last night this didn't work so I lay down with her in my arms and sang to her and that's how we slept, but she was having an unsettled night. It's all learning, take each day as it comes and what works one day might not work another. And don't feel bad if you can't settle her at times, I've found that it's been easier to settle other babies then my own and this really upset me cos I thought I should be able to settle my own baby!
Tegam, dont think I could cope with a 3 am start, my kids go back to school next week, still dont know if this will make things easier or harder, I am hoping easier... Dinner time is always hard PK has so far been good but tonight has gotten the witching hr happening, I will have to start cooking with him in the hug a bub me thinks...
Kit settling babies is our hardest jobs right now, what works for my child might not work for yours, and sometimes what worked one day might not work the next... I have a bad habit if I cant settle PK at night of sleeping with him chest on chest which means I dont really sleep...
Sorry girls have to come back later PK is cranky
WOW well well said! New Dawn and em have got it spot on Kit. It came across to me while i read your post - that you really are doing a fantastic job!:
All i can add is that this mothering isnt the hardest job in the world for no reason! There is guilt on top of guilt, what we did wrong and what we should have done. And see here is me 4th time mum offering miss molly the 100th boob for the hour cause she is $hitty and new dawn 4th tim mum having to put pk in a hab to get dinner cooked, if there was an answer we'd know it by now!
i think you are all seriously awsome! pats on the back all round!
I agree :) Guilt is our biggest enemy - I will choose not to feel guilty 'cause I'm doing my best (easier said than done!)
Yep. Mummy guilt sucks big time.
on a small note just to lighten things up a little - thats why everyone should have a 3rd, the first you have all these expectations of what you are going to do and be like, the 2nd you think 'wow now i know what i did wrong and how i can do it right, the 3rd lets you truely say 'hey this is as good as it gets'...then theres the 4th.....bliss
I am soooo relaxed about it all this time around. When I had DS1 everybody from midwives to child and maternal nurses to the mum's in my mother's group to family members commented on how chilled out I was as a mum. I wonder what they'd say about me now - I'm so chilled out I'm almost comatose!:
I don't have time for personals, i've just woken up from a two and a half hour nap and really need to do some ironing. Things here are still going completely cruisey. DS1 had swimming today and DH took him to get his hair cut. DS2, DS3 and I stayed here and did some tidying up before playing chasings through the house :D I'm using the HAB a lot now just so I have DS3 with me but don't have to stop doing what I'm doing. Had a terribly, terribly upset tummy last night and this morning - I'm hoping I don't pass it on to the boys, it would make them very unwell. I think it's dehydrated me so I'm guzzling water now that it seems to have passed. Even water was making me cramp up last night :( With bfing I have to really make sure I'm taking enough in, as I'm sure you all know.
:rofl: im already trying to convince DF for a 3rd i really want a girl :D and of course your right i was more tensed with Z not as tensed this time around 3rd (if it happens) ill be better again:
Plus i must say being a mum is the MOST hardest job even my DF is recognising this now
grrrr K just wont stop eating but good thing is hes now 3.5kgs!!!
and :( he is now 6wks old
:rofl: soooooo true! i prob would have been disappointed if he didnt have a touchy feel! LMAO!!!!:
yeah good to know there is no issues with the datsun incase we decide to get jiggy with it earlier than next year.
god 10 months?!?!? oh well ive missed that boat S is already 6 weeks so i would have needed to get my groove on last week at least!!
YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! for DH coming home!! and for a sleep in!!! :dance:
yep im hearing u on the busy! mind u i think im making up for lost time! i seem to need to go out EVERY day its driving me crazy!
THANKS HUN!:
wow go malaila!! thats a awsome effort!
:hug:
oh dont worry im in no hurry, wont be till mid next year at the earliest let me tell you!:
hmmmmm not sure on the settling, i feel horrid saying this but Summah tends to settle herself most of the time, if she is unsettled we have a cuddle and she has a dummy we use as well, and she goes in her swing as well and that settles her....
we pat her on the bum and lay her on our chest as well
jen im a bit the same, i know im doing the best job i can and i just hope that thats enough!:
AFU: all going well here, we are getting from 10pm - 4am for feeding and sleeping now so thats nice, occasionally she throws in a 5am too!
Hello ladies!
Tegam, I figured that with DS's behaviour. I will just have to ride it out. It makes me upset to think it is probably because he's not getting so much time and lovin' from me which he's used to. I try to give him attention when I can, get him to help me and things like that, but he's pushing me away alot of the time and just refusing to be with me. Especially if I have Caelan.
Kit, it definately does get easier! All of us mummies with more than one would be advocates of that! I wouldn't have any more than one if it stayed as hard as it is in the early days. It's kind of a fog in the early days, especially getting used to the sleepless nights/ broken sleep. It's a shock to the system! But it gets easier, you're still figuring bub out. Once you get to know each other properly, things will be fine!
AFU, well we just went through a few days of horrific nights! I'm hoping he sorts it out, I so don't think I can do this with another terrible sleeper. Surely I deserve one kid who is like me and loves their sleep?? Last night we wer up until 2am, then a feed again at 4 and up at 6. Night before we were up til 4am, and up for the day at 9am. At least we got that bit of sleep, but I felt like I missed half the day! So over it already. Pray for a better night for us!! Ok gotta go the boy is calling me and my boobies!