Babies Born ~ June 1st - 15th 2011 #1

[Kaydee]

Do either of u have a routine that you are going to follow or letting bubs work out their own? I'm such an organiser and person that always has my set routine, haha. Bit difficult with a newborn. A few friends are the same as me and are surprised I havent started him on a set feeding and sleeping routine yet. I still think he is too young and small to start any routine yet. Any thoughts would be great!

I was thinking about this the other day, but I'm finding amelie is slowly slipping into her own routine. It would be nice if I could influence this as I like routine also. I do think they are too young now to have set times, maybe in a couple of weeks?

As for expressing, I feel like I only have enough milk for the baby and not enough left over to express! I suppose the more I try, the more milk I'll produce.

Emzi, my DS is 5. It's going great with 2 kids, but I do have to watch when DS is around her, I'm still not sure if i can trust them alone. I've caught him holding her nose shut a couple of times (!) when I asked him why he did it he just says she was going to start crying and he wanted to stop her. Hmmm. In general he is great with her. He even loves having a cuddle before bed, telling her about his day and reading a book together. He even asked us if we could "make" another one, so he can have 2 sisters. lol.

[Mum2twoBoys]

kaydee - i still have sore bb, especially if william is being silly and wont attach properly, it especially frustrating at 9pm. my right was cracked from early on and is still trying to heal. congrats on giving it a second go after having trouble your first time around. just ignore others opinions, everyone has their own ideas of whats best.

i think breast is best but if you cant do it, it is better the child has a mother who is calm feeding them than one who is struggling with bf.

emzi - no routine here, figure he is still basically a newborn. maybe after 6 weeks i will start to try a routine, and get him to sleep in bassinette.

i have now expressed twice to try to lower the pressure, otherwise it chokes him. so will probably do it once a day, in the morning. and slowly get a freezer stock so if i am really tired dh can feed him and i can rest.

afm - so nervous about next week, will be all on my own as dh goes back to work. will see how sleep goes.

[Kaydee]

afm - so nervous about next week, will be all on my own as dh goes back to work. will see how sleep goes.

Don't think about it too much! I actually have a theory that when I'm really nervous about something it all goes well, but when I'm not, something goes wrong! I'm sure you'll be just fine. I am also really nervous, my Dh is already back at work but he travels a lot for his job and will be going to China in a couple of weeks (we live in Germany) for over a week. It will be my first time really alone with 2 kids. We have no family around to help out. All my family are in Australia and the inlaws live 500kms away! I might have to ask a couple of friends to keep me company every now and again so I don't go crazy!!

[Mum2twoBoys]

thats what i have done, busied myself with friends. my mother is unwell and cant drive, and both of my inlaws have passed away. and we only moved to kilmore 2 years ago and i dont know many people. looking forward to joining the local mothers group.

[Mum2twoBoys]

not much routine, as it changes depending on his mood. but have a rhythm with hiscrying, and knowing whats wrong. he normally feeds 2 hourly during day 3 horly at night. has awake times at 7-9am, 12-1pm, 3-4pm then anywhere between 6-10pm which makes dinner difficult.

have learnt that he starts getting over tired at 6pm, so have to darken the room and keep things quiet, and give him plenty of cuddles. he also gets wind pain at this time.

he has definately started to interact more, with smiles and coos. along with watching me pull faces etc.

now dh is back at work i feel as though william and my relationship has gotten stronger, spending lots of time together and getting to know one another, which i think dh misses. but he likes to give him cuddles and kisses as soon as he gets home.

went into work on monday and all the ladies thought william was gorgeous, of course. and going in tonight to show him off to the night shift workers, my co-workers whilst pg.

gosh its hard to type when you have a baby in your arms lol.

[Mum2twoBoys]

william was 57.5cm and 5.37kg on monday at his appt, he is in the 90th percentile, so he is a big boy.

had issues last week with bf, william startled and pulled my nipple with him which reopened the crack that had almost healed. which led me to have a teary breakdown. so stopped feeding on affected side for couple of days and feeling better now. went to bf day stay on wednesday as it has still been hurting when feeding, and it turns out i wasnt attaching properly. he wasnt getting enough breast tissue, and was mainly sucking on nipple, which is why ive been having so much pain. so now i have to point my nipple into his soft palate which is helping tremendously.

he has been really unsettled this week, so i though id try starting him on a sleeping routine. and so far so good, started yesterday afternoon. just by how things are going today, i might have been keeping him up too long, missing all his tired cues, making him overtired and not easy to settle. and i might have been interrupting his sleep, as apparently sometimes because of their sleep cycles they just need to be resettled, not gotten up when they wake up. so today i have been maintaining 3 hourly feeds instead of 1.5-2hourly, and if he wakes between i settle him back to sleep. following the eat, play, sleep method. and have changed my feeding routine, to feed on one side, when he falls asleep, burp him and change his nappy then try him on other side.

[berrme]

Hi ladies, I am going to join in here if that is ok, though it seems pretty quiet in this group too. Looks like most people had their babies either in early May or late June.

Alice is my 3rd bub, 1st DD. She was born on the 30th May, 8 days early. She was 2.9kg and 50cm at birth. Everything is going fine, she is growing rapidly. We had our 6 week check on Wednesday and she is now 4.8kg and 55 cm long. That is a jump from the 10th percentile to the 75th. My boys grew really fast so I was hoping Alice would be a little slower to stop being a little bub, but it looks like I am going to lose on that one.

BSK, glad you have sorted out the BFing problems. Because I have large breasts I have always had to grab my whole areola and shove it into the baby's mouth to get the attachment right. It is easier once bub gets bigger and they can get their mouth open more.
I have also had to be stricter with Alice and her feeding. She would happlily feed every 1 1/2 hours, but I am trying to resettle instead of feed each time. It is really hard because the boys think she needs to be picked up every time she cries so they rush into the room when they here her and she doesn't even get a chance to settle herself again.

Hi Kaydee and Emzi82. How are things going for you guys?