Hope your fever settles Jellyfish, I had mastitis frequently with DD1, but this time around I don't seem to have quite so much of an oversupply problem. Or this baby is just a bigger guts! Lol
Oh jelly, I hope it isn't mastitis! I had that with dd1 at 5 weeks and I was sooo sick!
Dd1 is sick and has been for 3 days. Temps of 39-40degrees. She has been ok tho. Just quiet and cuddly. It is actually a little nice when she is sick cos she slows down heaps and is very cute actually. I think that makes me a bad mum lol! Anyway we give her all the cuddles she wants and just enjoy the change of pace.
Dd2 settles quite easily here. Her favorite place is on my chest, but she also settles well on her side in bed next to me. We're co sleeping here too. Really enjoying it too.
This thread needs some bumping! We still don't have internet at our new place so that is coming up to a month without. Apparently, should be fixed by the 22nd but we know better than to expect anything by now.
DD1 is at the beach for a couple of nights with my parents, wondering what affect this will have on breastfeeding. I think my mum is half hoping it will spark weaning, I don't think it will really as she has gone that long before (when I had DD2 for example she didn't feed as she usually only feeds to sleep and she decided to stay with my parents more than neccesary so it ended up being a few days without) but I'm comfortable either way! I miss her but seeing the photos of her enjoying the water and sand is wonderful plus just having some one on one time to get to know and connect with DD2, feels kind of like you miss that a bit when having a toddler too... life seems to need to resume so quickly post birth!
DD2 is quite a fussy baby and I'm finding her to be a bit challenging. She doesn't comfort suck and I never thought I'd say this after DD1 but sometimes I wish she would!!! She is beautiful though and growing so fast, she is now the size DD1 was at 4 months which is a little crazy. She's very strong too. She is quite different to DD1, she seems to prefer just being plonked down once she is asleep and gets restless if I try to continue holding her or try to put her down super slow/gently so that is handy... getting her to sleep though is another thing as she does not fall asleep on the breast and doesn't even seem to like being rocked so a bit stumped!
Jellyfish - I know what you mean about the non-comfort sucking being an issue! DD1 bf to sleep for years and it was so easy. This one won't do that at all during the day, finishes a feed very quickly and then wants to look around and engage for about half an hour before she's ready to sleep. She likes to be held (upright) until she falls asleep and patted, so doing lots of babywearing during the day (which I have to anyway, because any running around or picking up DD1 from school means transferring poor DD2 in and out of the car constantly).
At night time I am trying to develop a rhythm, bath, feed and sleep. It worked beautifully on Tuesday night but she was overtired last night and took longer. Trouble is that she guzzles a bf and usually needs to burp (unless she's super relaxed, like during the night), so lying down to feed her in bed before bedtime can backfire. Thankfully, once she's asleep, I get a lovely long stretch overnight. She generally wakes up at least once and ends up in bed with us for the rest of the night, but I'm barely noticing and certainly not getting out of bed. So I'm feeling fine in the sleep dept.
My last m/w visit was on Monday and we had lunch. DD2 weighs a bit over 4.5 kg and is now 55 cm long - which means she's grown 8 cm in 6 weeks and put on almost 2 kgs. Not that I'm following them, but by the charts she's moved right up to the 50th percentile, so that should satisfy any health professionals who are interested. She's smiling at me properly now and trying to 'talk' to me, gooing and gaaing. It's very cute! She's wearing outfits that I know didn't fit DD1 until about three mths and she's almost done with the newborn MCNs. At least there's lots of pretty ones in my stash the next size up.
DD2 is getting used to the car but still spends many a car trip complaining the entire time. If I feed her immediately beforehand and she's settled she will fall asleep, or if she's had a chance to fall asleep but been fed soon before. But it's a bit of a lottery. And she has a LOUD cry! It seems to especially bother DD1 if she's in the car.
We had a family photo shoot on Sunday and we go in tomorrow so they can try to get us to spend a small fortune on pictures for the walls. We get one for free, it was a special offer when I bought my car last year. Just as well too, the prices were unbelievable! I think DP will want the photo book if the photos are particularly cute. Which of course they will be.
Things are going so well here. Maybe I should whisper this, but DD2 is a fantastic night time sleeper. Refuses to be put down to sleep during the day and has a lot of awake time (all the interruptions with DD1 and school, for starters), but come 7pm she is ready for final cuddles and then into her hammock. She does wake up at some point after I go to bed, but it's a quick feed and snuggle in with me to cosleep until after 7am.
So I'm getting very into babywearing during the day and sending prayers of thanks for my evenings and nights!
She is growing so much - out of all the 0000 stuff which is all ready to be passed on to her little cousins when they arrive. And the newborn MCNs are fast approaching their last adjustable phase. I have lots of pretty nappies next size up to look forward to now.
DD1 and I watched some video footage of her at this age and the girls really do look so alike. Except DD1 was much smaller (DD2 is in outfits she wore at three months already).
I'm getting lots of cooing and smiles and she's also smiled at DP, DD and a friend too. She studies everything so intently I wonder what she's thinking! She's happy to have some time on the floor when she's awake, just needs to be picked up for cuddles when she's tired
Be back soon to post properly, but lets just say we have hit and miss days and nights. DD still wakes up at least 2 or 3 times a night but it's getting better.
DD is smitten with DS but the feelings arent mutual, just yet!
DD looks like DS, its unbelieveable - and DS looks like DH so I'm sad I don't have a bubba that looks like me, but it's probably a good thing
Anyways, shes screaming at me for a feed so I'll be back later, much later
Our issue is with the car. Especially after an hour's drive up the freeway and then an hour back on Sunday, 40 mins each way of screaming, even though I pulled over and tried to feed her. Nope, not hungry, just hates the car. We can get a trip here and there where I've managed to fluke wakefulness and not at all hungry or sleepy and we get there ears unmolested. Very occasionally. DD1 adores DD2, except when she's in the car next to her!
DD2 is such a happy, smiley bub! Here is a picture, such a cute little chubby... if I don't say so myself haha.
DD2 and one of the proud big sister too! DD1 is very, very into DD2... a little too smothering which has led to her newest word as I've said it sooooo often; "space" haha. Everything she does she always says "both" too because she always wants Bree RIGHT there. "Bree is just having a little rest but you can play with me..." "BREEEEEEEEEEE, BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, both, Breeeeeeeeeee" which is another word she has come out with in the last little bit.
DD1 had her first session back at speech therapy after a break from Christmas and having Bree. She has improved so much in the last two months and has over 50 words which is amazing considering she had only 3 when we began at 2.5 (she is a month from 3 now). DD1 loved showing off DD2 and the other really noticable thing is how much her concentration has improved, she was staying with activities a lot longer than she had been previously. We learnt some new signs too which was also fun. Still no mmm sound ability so I'm still being called 'Jess' by my daughter lol but small steps! She even did some unprompted counting in the session which impressed her speechie and left me feeling pretty proud haha. She is such a clever little thing... too clever but it can be frustrating for all of us when she lacks the means to express it.
Still no luck with a dummy here, think we will probably just give it a miss since things seem to have settled down with my milk supply. DD2 even slept 5hrs in a row last night, longest ever! She then had 3 feeds in the next 3hrs but I was fine with that, barely notice since we co-sleep after her first waking.
Unlike DD1 as a baby, DD2 seems to love the car and I am enjoying having DD1 who I can ask things like "is Bree sleeping or awake?" haha. DD1 gets pretty upset when DD2 is, she rushes over and starts patting her and 'shoo shoo shoo'ing which is very cute. No real jealousy yet although sometimes when DD2 is feeding, DD1 will start doing the sign for finished in her face hehe.
Last night DD1 slept over at her bio-dad's place so DP and I decided to have an icecream in the car date since DD2 always falls asleep in the car and then we just drove around singing to bad music and talking which was fun. Today we are going over to my parents for lunch once we pick up DD1 and then we will probably laze around their pool for the afternoon, weather permitting!
We're at the beach for the afternoon. They have free wifi. DD1 is having a lovely time building sandcastles and DD2 is sound asleep in the sling. DP is home studying.
Just wondering if anybody has got their baby bonus through yet, and how long it took. Also, if it takes longer do they backpay from when baby was born or do they extend it further at the end of the period that they pay?
DS is doing it tough with reflux. Getting help, or someone to discuss the options is difficult. i am reading "colic solved" and realised that DD also had silent reflux. we thought it was colic, and just had to live without it. i don't know if we would have medicated, but i also wonder how much her sleep disturbance and frequent feedings until 12 months plus were caused by reflux too. i don't know if i want DS medicated but what we are doing now isn't really working either.
i am finally feeling physically energised. have had a few sciknesses that have made recovering from the birth harder, but they seem to have finally gone.
DS is slowly putting on weight, i don't think the puking helps, but he was a good weight to start with so slow growth is fine. he is not a chubby baby, just long and in proportion for his length. he looks huge next to an averaged sized baby of same age though.
Just really quickly. Got DD 6 week appt with the GP today looking forward to seeing how much she's gained Will update tonight (and hopefully finish the birth story too!!)
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Hot1, my payments started coming through a couple of weeks ago and I was a bit slow putting the forms in. Hope you can find something that works for the reflux. That must be tough to deal with.
DD hope the appt goes well.
I had the NHCN around yesterday. DD2 has put on about 2kgs since birth (I wouldn't let her do a bare weigh, DD hates being undressed and I know she's growing well). She's nearly caught up to your DS's birth weight, Hot1! (she's just under 4.9 kg)
She's getting better in the car. Classical music seems to help. Especially violins! Night times she is so ready for sleep that it can be hard to get her down due to over tiredness. But it's def all done before 8pm and last night she only woke once between then and 7am. Now I just need to go to bed earlier!
Last edited by Jennifer13; February 28th, 2012 at 01:33 PM.
Thankfully DS is pretty good in the car, especially because most of our trips are 40 mins plus. DD went through a period when she hated the car, so i know a heap of places i can pull over safely between home and Melbourne. They both seem to only like going fast, so driving in traffic can be not so fun.
My let down on the opposite breast to the one i am feeding from hurts alot more than i remember from the first time. It doesn't last long though. Anybody else found this too?
Well, the dr appt was good (shame I had a 2 hour wait!)
Birth weight : 3030g
Length : 50cm
HC : 35cm
At 6 weeks....
Weight : 4370g
Length : 62 cm (!) (DH doesn't think that's right but I saw the dr do it with my own eyes!)
HC : 38cm
Very proud of my chubby princess Smiling up a storm too since she was 5 weeks old Couldn't be prouder of my two beautiful little ones
DS has improved in leaps and bounds at day care. It's only taken 6 or so weeks, but he's finally playing with the other kids (well, one kid, but one is a start!) and hes FINALLY eaten something the daycare provided (icecream - typical!) - because he wasn't eating, I was making sandwiches for him for lunch for the two days he's gone in.
He's still not talking, though he's regularly saying 'mumum' and 'yeah' but that's it. I'm starting to worry bout him, but that'll be going in another thread once he's gone to bed.
HotI my let down is pretty intense too. I remember it being toe curling ly intense for about three weeks with dd, but this time it is way more intense. Not sure why, I have wondered if I am having vaso spasm. My other theory is just that my nipples are way more erect this time, when I let down. Seriously they are impressive lol! I wonder if it is just that they are getting much more full this time? Maybe that is why u arnt noticing it as much on the side that is having the pressure released on via DS? I dunno. Just a thought.
DD, good work on the weight gain and the length! I haven't seen my Gp yet at all. I also haven't put in for the baby bonus yet either. I was employed before I was pregnant (on mat leave tho) and had to resign, but had another job in the wings. It took them ages to get me started off and I was pretty sick with ms at the time so didn't stress cos I could barely have worked anyway. When I looked at the parental leave I am disqualified because I had more than 8 weeks off work between the two jobs . The guy at centerline says that if my Gp gives me a medical cert for the time difference I may be eligible, so I will ask him. I am not sure I saw him about it tho, as I was miserable but not working at the time so didn't need a certificate..... What do u girls reckon? Am I crazy for tryin to get the parental leave? It is about 4-5k difference in payments.
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DD, great length gain! My little bundle grew 11 cm in six weeks, not quite as much as you, but it explained why the clothes were shrinking! A 2 hr wait - oh dear!
Our 2 mth vax are next week, can you believe it?
DD2 is such a smiley, chatty thing now. Even bbs got a big smile today! I just adore her. She's also discovered her hands and finds them quite fascinating. She is touching things when she reaches out, so I've started giving her some floor time to play. She lets me know when she's had enough.
Last edited by Jennifer13; February 29th, 2012 at 12:06 PM.
Hi, I am joining even though J was born aaaaages ago, we are going by his adjusted age, plus we only just got home so I feel like I am a new Mum adjusting to home life..
J is 8 weeks adjusted. He has not long started smiling and I love it.. He is a velcro baby, but I don't mind. I am loving being a Mummy
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so slow growth is fine. he is not a chubby baby, just long and in proportion for his length. he looks huge next to an averaged sized baby of same age though.
looking forward to seeing how much she's gained 
Couldn't be prouder of my two beautiful little ones 
. The guy at centerline says that if my Gp gives me a medical cert for the time difference I may be eligible, so I will ask him. I am not sure I saw him about it tho, as I was miserable but not working at the time so didn't need a certificate..... What do u girls reckon? Am I crazy for tryin to get the parental leave? It is about 4-5k difference in payments. 
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