Hey all!
Jacob is nearly 2 months now, hard to believe, it's gone so fast!
My parents came and visited from sydney last weekend. Not only did I gave a conflict with mum on sunday for being rude and disrespectful in my house, BUT she came down with conjunctivitis on saturday and this morning poor little Jacob had it, and by the evening so do DH and I!
I am supposed to be going up to sydney to visit next week but I'm pretty annoyed now and don't feel like it.
Also, today I was boiling the dummy's to disinfect them and walked away and forgot about them! The result, as DH found out, was 4 melted dummys on the base of the pot!
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I have just been catching up, on this thread so I read the first four pages.
What happened was even more so due to Jim's birth, I had to rely on my parents a lot more, but we worked well together, I had new ideas from what I've basically learned from the internet, and they had all the old good ideas.
I wasn't traumatised so much from the birth but more the days afterwards (bowel probs) and early discharge (at 7.30am!). So also I had him on the breast in the early days but the supply came much later. I was feeding him for hours on end. One night Mum got some sort of can of Carnation milk and diluted for him as we ran out of S-26 prepackaged formula. He also had a red umbi and it was a Sunday so the midwife (they do weekend visits) said to go to the Children's hospital and get checked over.
Anyway I now have two breastpumps a manual pidgeon one I got second hand and a Medela Swing. (luckily pidgeon bottles are compatible with medela) I haven't got around to having a good routine with expressing though. I mainly try and feed him for 20 minutes at least, and then top up with NAN-HA. But I vary that a lot, if he is fussing I might give him formula then breast, then formula. I have been on antibiotics also just post op and from a bladder infection.
He has been quite windy so we tried home made gripe water - cooled boiled water with a bit of sugar also good for hiccups, Infacol, and now Infant's Friend.
However many nights he has slept for quite long periods, four hours and now six hours SOME nights.
The child health nurse yesterday said if they chuck up an equivalent of an A4 sized paper, that is only 20ml.
We have been using dummies but he spits them out quite often lol. It was just to calm him down while getting feed ready or ripping my shirt off lol.
OMG I just typed a huge reply and bl00dy lost it all!!!!! Now I'm cranky. I'll redo a brief summary of what I had.
Summertime - Yes I have quite a stash of EBM. I have a draw in our bar freezer dedicated to all my frozen stash and now I need to enroach on another draw as I've run out of room. I'm storing it all for when I head back to work in October. Whomever is looking after L will have plenty there. My tail bone is pain. I find it really painful to sit and to get up from sitting and also rolling over in bed. The pain is like the pain after a vaginal birth except my pain hasn't gone away if that makes sense.
L sleeps 6 hours for the first half of the night and then 4 hours after that. She cat naps in the morning till around 10 -11am and then has another 4 hour sleep and then cat naps again in the afternoon. She has her own bassinette in her own room. I wouldn't be able to sleep properly if she was in our room as I'd be wide awake at every little sigh she'd make. I do co sleep sometimes if she is really upset or unsettled but that isn't very often and I'm not encouraging that behaviour as I don't want it to lead to problems down the track. gee I sound like a mean mummy lol.
Gemini_girl - I too shower with bubs if DH is home to bring her in and grab her when we are done. That could be an option as well. haha to the splashing. Could be an exspensive bath if your using disposables.
Bern - Cluster feeding is when bubs will want to feed pretty much all afternoon. They feed and then have a play or catnap and then want to feed again. The cycle can go on all afternoon sometimes. L doesn't do it so much anymore but there were days where all I seemed to do was sit on the couch and feed all afternoon. Hard to get dinner done when she's like that. Ow how cute for DD to be sleeping with DH while playing playstation. DH does that but it's watching the motorbikes or football on TV. Gives me a great break to do stuff.
EMC - Crickey what a birth story. I'm glad your family was there. Is Jim your first?
Babybelly burton - Time is certainly going by in a hurry. L will be 8 weeks on Friday! Oh dear to your dummies. Lucky it wasn't worse.
GREAT NEWS cant be happier! i so was not looking forward to having another child with hip dysplasia, i know there are worse things for your child to get but it was quite a stressful time with Tianna, she was in plaster from 3.5 months till 7 months then in a brace for another year, i just felt like i missed out on all the cute baby stuff that other mums got to experience. The ultra guy said Chloe has good strong hips. i am so happy i wanna cry
I used to work for Cystic Fibrosis Queensland, and have been praying we don't get a call at six weeks with any bad results from the heel ***** test. It's funny what you become sensitive to when you have knowledge about it.
Jim is sleeping longer, so at night he sleeps sometimes from 11pm to 4 or 5am which is good.
Last night though I had bad reflux, I think just from stress though, but then he had it this morning as his spit up was yellow. So I'm not sure if he has reflux or is just a chucker.
Yay! B got through his needles ok! Went bright red and screamed when the needle actually went in but was just a bit grizzly after and now he's sleeping in bed, not my arms (which I have been trying to do all week to break the habit of only sleeping in my arms or the sling). So happy!
LOL Porsche I keep her nappies on top of her drawers now so they don't get wet. She has been really enjoying her baths, she is all smiles while bathing.
Bern I'm so happy for you! You must be so super excited. Congratulations!
I took Brianna to get her injections the other day, but again the nurse wasn't there, silly me forgot to mention when I booked that it was for her injections. Mental note.
I was about to feed Brianna the rest of her bottle earlier tonight when she broke out into a coughing fit and stopped breathing for about 10 seconds. I freaked out. I'm even more freaked out because MIL told us two days ago that she has tested positive to Whooping Cough. I wasn't even aware that she was even getting tested for it. I asked the doctor to do a swab on Brianna but he thinks that because its been close to a month since we seen MIL, Brianna would be really sick now if she got it. After what happened this evening, I am going to get a second opinion and demand a swab.
gemini - definitely go get a second opinion and demand that swab, specially if someone within the family has tested positive.
emc - try youtube, search for a newborn fold ( you should find 3 videos showing a different fold ) the 3rd one is the newborn and thats what ive been using on chloe when i use the flats.
Hi girls!!
I just noticed those from my pregnancy buddies group are all posting in here seeing as most of you had your babies early!! Thats a shame i will be in a different group to you all! Lillian was born 26 may so im too late for this group to join in i guess? nOone seems to post in the 16-31st thread
All going great here! Havent posted much as im too busy enjoying being a mummy of two!!
I'm reading just not getting much time to post. DH went back to work this week so it has been a challenge to juggle the twins and DD on my own, plus I've been getting over a horrid cold that the whole family got - even the twins - although U seemed to get it worse than everyone else. I'm also still trying to adjust to the limited sleep, up between 4am-5am for early feed (DH does the one around midnight) and then when the boys are fed and back in bed my day starts. Washing, preparing DD's meals for the day, breakfast, bottle washing and preparation etc. and this is all before DD wakes for the day. Sometimes if I'm lucky I get a shower in but generally this has to wait until after the boys morning feed and DD's breakfast.
Immunisations next week for us and I'm hoping they have the same effect on the twins as they did on DD, once she had her 8 week needles she started sleeping through the night but the boys are still feeding every 4 - 4 1/2 hours although yesterday evening they went 6 hours between feeds. I'm trying to use dummies to try and get them to wait longer to feed as when 1 wakes for a feed we always wake the other but I'm finding that if they wake and want to feed 4 hourly then they struggle to have 1/2 a bottle as they are not really hungry they just was topping up. So the longer we can make them wait too feed means they will generally have most if not all of their bottle. I hope it is not too long though before the drop from 6 feeds a day as they are stacking on weight - but I suppose even though we think they are chunky now they are still small in comparison to most 7/8 week old babies. My guess is that they would both weigh around 4.3kg's which is less than on of my BB friends on here who had her baby yesterday and she weighed more than my boys do now at birth.
Anyhow better go have a shower so I can go grocery shopping first thing this morning so I then have the whole day at home to do my usual everyday chores, ah the joys of having 3 under 2.
kellyd - my chloe weighs 4.7kg at 7 weeks, so if your boys weigh around 4.3 sounds pretty good to me
shanti - feel free to join us, a few of the mums from your group have commented that noone seems to post, we did put the idea out there that maybe they should just turn us into the May 2011 group. actually im going to go message the mod that made this thread to see if they can
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