Our third DD Helena Kate arrived on the 17th, our own little St Patricks Day Miracle. We had a wonderful water birth and got home the next day. She is gorgeous, 3.81kg and 55cm at birth. Her birth story is linked to the 'my boo' in my signature. She was due the 3rd of April and is my first bubba to make it to term
She has taken to the boob like a champ the little piggy! My milk is in and my poor bb's are soo engorged, lots of feeds, expressing and cold packs are helping. Helena is looking a bit like a pumpkin but all my girls did,they had breastmilk jaundice and it eventually went away. Poor Helena has had a bit of wind from the over flow of milk but I'm hoping feeding from one side each feed for a four hour block will help
Looking forward to meeting some more mummies and babies
Our son Ryker Thomas was born via ceasarian on sat 24th March weighing 3800grams and 52.5cm
He is our 3rd son, ds1 is almost 6 and ds2 4 1/2. They are so in love with their baby brother
I am still in hospital, going home tomorrow, dressing came off my scar this morning, it's feeling good, neat and clean and dissolvable stitches so no need to have any stitches out.
I struggled the first few nights with ryker being ver unsettled and not bf well. He had lots of mucous on is lungs he was bringing up, and tongue tie, both affecting his feeding, he had the tongue tie snipped, brought up all the gunk, the milk truck has arrived and he is feeding really well now ( I also need to use a nipple shield for my flat nipples)
Alicia Cate was also born on 17th March. She was too impatient to be born and was delivered by Daddy on the bathroom floor. She weighed 3.97kg and was 49cm long.
We are absolutely smitten with her and so are her two older sisters who are 3years and 21 months. She has settled into our family well and is a massive sleepy head. I have to wake her for almost every feed during the day (I don't wake her at night).
Looking forward to seeing this group growing with mums and bubs
Hi ladies!
nickers sounds like you had a few challenges getting started breast feeding, well done on persevering. Enjoy being home with all your boys tomorrow.
Me lisa sounds like you have a cruisey little girl there, I'm a little jealous of the night sleeps but I know it'll seem like no time at all before they all start growing up
Helena is doing well and now weighed 3.920kg at 10 days so she is up 110g from her birth weight after losing only 250g. She is obviously feeding well. I can't get over how long she is. Most of the newborn clothes don't fit and all the premmy clothes from my other dd's went straight back in the storage box! I'm feeling more energetic daily which is nice . Child and youth health are visiting tomorrow and she will have her hearing test done then too
Looking forward to seeing a few more mum as in here soon too
we got through our first night at home alright!
Ryker fed at 5pm, i went to bed early and he woke at 1045pm, then at 230am. but after the feed he didnt settle and end up feeding him again at 530am so was up from 230-630am then slept for another hour before getting up with the big boys getting ready for school etc.
i did manage a 1hr nanna nap this arvo before dh picked the boys up from school.
so we will see how tonight goes.
he is such a slow feeder, i look forward to when he gets a bit quicker. (feed time is 50-60min atm)
its funny so far the 3 of us in here all have 3 and all of the same gender
i rang the early childhood place yesterday to organise a visit, missed their return call, i rang again today, left a msg but no one called back.
now i cant try again until Monday which will prob mean they wont come until tuesday, i really want to get him weighed again as he had dropped below the 10% bw was 3800g and yesterday coming home he was 3390grams
Hope you can get someone to weigh your little man soon. Is there a local chemist with baby scales you could use over the weekend if you're worried. Im sure he will be fine as long as he is feeding often enough and weeing and pooing lots! I think they say 8-12 feeds in 24hrs and no longer than 4hrs between feeds if they are sleepy heads! Its so hard when they take that long to settle overnight. Helena got hiccups twice between feeds last night so she needed to be settled.
Well we have thrush now so on to treating that. Hopefully it will clear up quickly, Im not bothering with nystatin this time as it never worked for the girls so we are on to daktarin. Helena has had a sleepy day today so Im hoping that doesnt mean an awake night! She has gotten in to the habit of cluster feeding in the evenings so once Dh is back at work Im going to have to prepare dinner in the mornings as much as possible
Child and youth health visited and our little fatty had put 60 grams on in two days. Her length was a bit shorter than at birth by a cm the nurse said it could have been from her head moulding and going back to normal or a dodgy first measurement. Either way she is really long compared to my others.
Family photos were taken monday so Im hoping that they will be online sometime next week. I can't wait to see them.
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