Babies Born ~ June 2012 #1

[~Trish~]

This thread is for parents who's baby was born June 1st - 30th 2012

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Helpful Articles
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?

Helpful Forums
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids


Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids.

Sleeping Support:

Helpful Articles
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Helpful Forums
Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum


Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Helpful Articles
Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Recommended Reading List

Helpful Forums
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Slings and Baby Wearing


Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Gentle Parenting Forum

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[dantri]

Yay! Our thread is here, how exciting. It's just like the nursery furniture all set up with freshly washed linen and stacked with lovely baby smelling baby goods.....just waiting for the baby to come and live in it!

Come on June babies, your mummies (and BB thread) are waiting for you!


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[BlackRose]

Hello June Mummies!!

I'm on my phone so if someone could post up the babies list so we can keep track of the babies and mummies that would be great!

Liam and I are still in hospital, checking out tomorrow. It's been a wonderful hospital stay. Ive had such an amazing experience with his birth and recovery. I'm truly blessed

He's sleeping a lot during the day at the moment and has been quite unsettled at night. I've been getting blocks of around 45 mins sleep and nursing every 2 hours or so but hoping now that my milk is in that he sleeps for longer periods.

Anyway, hope to see some more June Mummies in here soon!

xoxox

[LuluHB]

Hi gorgeous. I'm so glad to hear that Liam is doing so well.

I'm truly lucky this time. Lexie is so incredibly easy going so I'm feeling fantastic. She is sleeping beautifully and for nights I'm giving her a feed around 10pm, then getting 4 odd hours between feeds so its great. Having attachment issues but going to see the LC today so hopefully can make some improvements.

Now that my little girl is here I can't believe I had so many doubts about having a third child.

I'll be back in a bit to do a list

[LuluHB]

Will add to this as more gorgeous squishies are born. Please let me know if you want your bub's name removed, just initials used etc.

Little_o - Chloe Luise 31/05/2012
LuluHB - Alexandra Charlotte 05/06/2012
Em - Ethan William 07/06/2012
BubbaT - Xavier 07/06/2012
Blackrose - William Michael 12/06/2012
Dory - Gemma Niamh 12/06/2012
mc_hope - Xavier John 14/06/2012
Hotaru - Jesse Peter 14/06/2012
Naomi54 - Alana 27/06/2012
Geeky - Alice Ann 27/06/2012

[BlackRose]

Thanks lulu for posting the list! Cant wait to see it grow!!

Liam's full name is William Michael

[BlackRose]

Morning mamas!

Home from hospital today!! Sooooo looking forward to sleeping in my own bed. Milk has well and truly come in now. DS2 is nursing A LOT overnight building my supply. I can't wait til the night feeds stretch out a bit. I am dog tired!

How is everyone else coping with their first few days at home?

[Mumma T]

Thanks for doing a list Lulu

Enjoy going home BR!

Just touching base, I am still about! We are doing better now, long story but we have switched to formula as of today and I am finally noticing my inflamation/infection in the c/s wound is finally clearing. Feeling semi human now so am sure we will be great in no time.

Still find it surreal that DS is here and he is already 8 days old!! He is currently asleep on my chest

Have a lovely day ladies

[BinxiBoo]

Woo hoo we have our babies here and a new forum thread!!

Am up nice and early on a sunday for X-man's morning feed! blah. Haven't been up this early on a sunday morning in a very looong time hehe. My little man is currently having snuggles on my chest too, its the best feeling!!

PS: altho my posting time says 7am, I was up ay 530am!

[Mumma T]

How good are those chest snuggles mc hope.

[little_O]

Hey mammas!

I am just coming in to see if I can be a "supposed to be June baby" because I've just missed out with the 31st may!
May thread doesn't have much action and I don't know anyone!

Miss C is very windy the last few days, does anyone know if my diet affects this? I don't know what to do for the poor little egg. She feeds every 3 hours, but when she is in pain she'll try and latch on and then come off squealing from the tummy pain

Recovered from the mastitis now, still using the nipple shields though. See the LC on Monday gain so hopefully I an start ditching them.

Yay for you mammas that can finally come home. BubbaT I know what you mean about being able to sleep next to dh again. So nice!

Xx

[BinxiBoo]

Yeah they are the best Bubba!

Yeah of course Little_O!! Oh bugger about the mastitis hun! Thats good you've recovered I have heard that our diets can affect the bub when you BF. My girlfriend found she couldn't eat cabbage and another veggie (which I can't remember at the minute) because it reacted on her bub through the milk.

I too hear Bubba on the sleeping next to your partner, I miss it to! You get so used to having that person next to you...

[LuluHB]

Hi everyone. Nice to see more June bubbies - and a gorgeous sneaky May bubby ;-).

Little O - definitely what you eat can affect your little one. Cabbage, tomato, onion, spicy things like curry etc, chocolate, dairy and coffee are all things I can remember off the top of my head that can go through your milk and give your LO a tummy ache. I find the easiest thing to do is keep your diet really bland (oh yay!) and slowly introduce the things that may cause trouble one at a time and see if you notice any change in behaviour. Good luck with the LC tomorrow.

BubbaT - good to hear you're starting to feel better.

BR - yay for being home. Nothing like it, however nice your hospital is! I hope Liam's night feeds start stretching out a bit for you so you can catch up on some sleep

MC hope - boo to early morning feeds.

Things are going really well here. A is still really relaxed, although she is feeding soooooooo much during the day. Its DH's birthday tomorrow so this morning we went out for breakfast and then went to play mini golf with the "big" girls. I didn't end up playing because A was in a sling almost the whole time attached to a boob after being on a boob for most of breakfast, and then while we went and did a quick shop after as well. Fortunately she seems to have a crazy feeding session until 2pm ish, but then she has a really good long sleep. She's also great overnight - usually feeding around 9.30 pm, and then again around 2am and then not until about 6am so I really can't complain. Just hoping it lasts and she doesn't reverse everything and sleep through the day and feed through the night! Her attachment is still crap most of the time so I'm struggling with really sore, mashed nipples. Hopefully she'll improve when she gets a bit bigger.

[little_O]

Thanks mc_hope for the pointers on cabbage. How long before you get to sleep next to dp again?

Lulu: your poor nipples. I know the pain, mine are finally recovering with the shields, not fun at all. How is she attaching wrong? We're your other girls the same? My dd is a super strong sucker, so with the colostrum she just over sucked and gave my blisters. Then last week I had a bad night of attachment where she wouldn't open up enough and latch on properly and boy did I pay for it. Super cracked!! Don't you wish there was an anesthetic we could apply until they healed!! Thanks also for the food pointers. Tomato, tick. Chocolate, tick. Chilli, tick. No wonder the poor monkey thinks her tummy is exploding! I will have to try cutting them all out.

Afm: shocking night last night, really hoping for a Better one tonight. Dh goes back to work tomorrow after 2 weeks, really worried how I will go by myself he's been my rock for 2 weeks.
What do you other mums do for settling? Dh was saying maybe we need to teach her a bit of self settling, but I think she is too little. Is that right?

[Mumma T]

I feel for you lulu with the 3 hours, X was doing 2-3 hours after every night/evening feed expressed or straight from the breast before we swapped to formula. My mental health was dwindling.

Hi to all, just quickly posting from MY BED!! Yay it's been 13 days since I got to sleep in here!! Nighty night allxx

[LuluHB]

Thanks BubbaT. We had a better night last night so I think it was definitely the tomato.

I'm glad the switch to formula has improved things for you and X. Nothing is more important than your mental health IMO. I went through PND with DD2 and I wouldn't wish it on anyone so take care of yourself and get as much rest as you can, as well as a bit of exercise outside whenever the sun is shining. Yay for sleeping in your own bed. I hope you had a good night.

mc_hope - what MCN's are you using? I have the itti bittis and last week they were hopeless on A - the wee and poo just ran straight down her legs because she's long and scrawny. She has one on again now for the first time in a few days and it seems to fit her a little better so maybe it was just a small increase in size? Proof will be in another hour or so when I have to change either just her bum or all of her ;-) I've got a couple of totbots that seem to be pretty good on her, as well as a kissaluvs newborn which is good. I've tried flats but they're just enormous on her now so will have to wait for another few weeks I think for them.

little_o - how did you go with the LC?

[Mumma T]

I can't wait to get the mcns out but I am going to use up all the newborn sposies we were given first seeing I am still not 100%. Hurry up body I wanna use the cute nappies

[little_O]

Yay bubbaT for having a sleep in your bed! Did your little x-man let you sleep much? That's good he's more settled on formula, I agree with lulu, there is no point stressin your mental health. It's a big enough change as it is! How were his sugar levels when he was born? Enjoying being diabetes free now?

Lulu: glad to hear dd slept better last night!

Afm: LC appointment went well, I will start trying her occasionally on skin again. She put on 210g in 5 days! Bad news is I have mastitis again, but on the right side now. Last night was bad, sore red swollen breast, fever, chills. Been on nurofen 4 hourly and just got back from the gp who has given me antibiotics again. Hate that this cycle has started again just when I was getting better miss c is getting a bit fussy on the infected side too which doesn't help drainage. Guess I'll just have to keep persevering! No one said being a mum would be easy!

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