Babies Born ~ May 2012 #1

[~TT40~]

We had a 5hr stetch on sat night!! I couldnt believe it. My poor books tho cause axcording to them we missed a feed. Was totally one off tho its every 2-3 hrs otherwise

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[Three Graces]

Kathryn, 6-8hrs- that's awesome.
We had a 6 hr block the other night and I thought we were getting somewhere, only for Olivia to take 5 hrs to get to sleep last night. She was waaaay overtired and cranky and we were taking turns trying to get her to sleep. My sister had bought us that book "Go the F to sleep" which I was thinking about whilst pacing the kitchen at 12:30am.
Finally put her in her cot and we gave up and kept telling her (from our bed) to go to sleep. And she did.

Just finished my lunch and she's awake again. She's gone from doing poos every nappy to wet, wet, wet, poo plosion! Wakes herself up after an hour, which is too soon for a feed but then after changing her she's like 'what now?'
Hope everybody is going well. It's been a bit quiet in here

[jacklicky]

We do mostly 2-3hours during the day but have had a few 4, 5 and even on 7.5hr blocks of sleep. Its amazing when I wake up and realise Ive been asleep for so long!
It wont be too long until we get some good night sleeps in a row. So far I get one good night then back to every 3hr feeding the following night.

Not much else is really happening. Just trying to get into a rhythm with bubs and DD1. So harder to be motivated to take both of them out sometimes cause its just so much more work.

Tried to go back to the gym today but apparently they are saying I have high blood pressure so I have to go to the doctors and get that checked out before I can start to get this bubs/IVF weight off....I just want to feel fitter again....

Hope everyone else is going well!

[~TT40~]

J ~
Sucks about your bp! Hope you can get out there and loose it. Im surprised how much ive lost i havent weighed myself (we dont own scales) but my tummy is actually flatter than it was before i git pg! Atleast flatter than the ivf pudge i had. Just heaps softer.
Maybe just take your kiddlets for walks til you can get back to the gym gets them out and keeps you active . We did heaps last week but this week has been raining....been cold to but we can rug up in cold but dont want my little one getting wet =p

TG ~ how painful!! We have had a copy if banshee screams but only last an hr or so never as long as yours did =( hope youve recovered!

DD will be a month on sunday. Cant wait for those long sleeps!

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[Loops12]

Hi Lovely ladies
Sorry I've been MIA, really find it hard to find time to get on here. Mylee is now nearly 9 weeks old and she is really starting to become a real little person - smiling and cuing etc.. She has another cold at the moment though which makes her wake more during the night - 3-5 hrs on average but prior to that she had done a few 6-7hrs straight. I havent had an 8 hour yet - im really hanging out for that lol. My BB's have been a lil sore lately - probably because of her cold and wanting to feed more regularly. I was toping up with formula at one stage but now not needing to, so I think she may have just gone through a growth spurt couple of weeks ago.

I hope everyone else is getting on top of the mastitis, cracked nipples etc and enjoying all the smiles like I am

Welcome to this group Little-O

Take care all xo

[~TT40~]

hey girls!
I need some help =(
So basically DD wakes up every 2-3 hours overnight, normally there is one stretch of 3 hours, otherwise she wakes up every 2 hours!! Its starting to really get to me. Now I actually think she is waking up cause of wind/tummy pain, rather than hunger. i feed her cause it calms her down and puts her back to sleep..but think thats just a quick fix. I have a nice warm bath with her once a day, and every nappy change we spend a good 10 mins pumping her legs and squeezing her tummy etc.. sometimes even at play time I cycle her legs then too.
now when she wakes for it, her eyes are closed but she is making so much noise and wiggles around so much (gets out of the swaddling...no matter how good i do it), she also does that really high pitch cry before going to sleep... she might settle down again, but then 5 mins later does it again... and she wakes me up so i might as well tend to her, I try to lay there and give her a bit to work it out, but she is just too noisy!
any thing else I can do?? I have stoped eating onions and brocalli and colliflower etc.. and I'm trying to cut out soft drinks, but dh isn't helping with that and I might have a can of coke every other day,
what else girls?? will this go on for weeks?? or should she sort it out? the 2nd hour wake ups are just really starting to kill me...

[Three Graces]

Hi Teirae,
All three of our kids have done something similar. Is she vomity? Or just tummy pain? If you feel her tummy is it really hard when she's upset? Is she doing poos ok? Are they mustardy/pumpkin colour or greeny/brown? If it's the later, it could mean her digestive system isn't happy. If she's vomity it could be reflux (or silent reflux) - does she wake suddenly from sleep and scream? If so, I'd say it sounds like reflux.
Here's a few things that you could try:
* Go off dairy for up to a week and see if this makes a difference. It did with our kids. I'm currently using A2 milk which has a different protein to most milk and is easier for their immature digestive system to absorb. Nuttelex instead of butter, goat's cheese instead of normal cheese. Anything that doesn't have the normal long protein found in most cow's milk. So it's not really 'no dairy' it's just better dairy. Unfortunately, I haven't found an alternative for ice cream. Just beware that most breads, biscuits/everything has milk powder in them too.
* Cut back on the sugar and citrus juice in your diet.
* Go on a probiotic (for yourself, which will pass in the breastmilk to bubs). There is a baby probiotic you can get, but I think it's from 3 months. This is meant to help their digestive system and it helped with DS1 who had quite bad reflux for the first 6 months. I grabbed some of that Inner Health from the chemist yesterday.
* Try a paed chiro who can work wonders. Not sure where you live, but I can recommend some great ones in Melb and further afield. There might be something out of alignment which is making bubs uncomfortable and waking in pain (?)
*Try some infacol - given before each feed. It helps get the wind up better and you can buy it from the chemist or supermarket.
*Lastly, try cuddling/re-settling etc to cut back the number of feeds, as this can make the problem worse, as they get too much of the foremilk and the sugar in the tummy gives them a pain and then they cry and get another feed, which feeds the problem, so they cry some more...
You're right that it's probably not hunger every 2 hours and it must be making you feel absolutely exhausted.
Will your partner help out at night and hold her for awhile to settle her down again so that she can't smell you or your milk? Just to cut the cycle of 2 hr feeds?
Hope that she starts to sleep better for you and that you get some much needed rest! Good luck and let us know how you're going.

[~TT40~]

Thanks 3G!! The only dairy I normally have is cheese, but I do have ALOT!! problem is everything Im trying to cutback/stop makes up most of my diet =(
her tummy is soft, and she is doing poos, they are the mustard...the other day there was a green one, but Im pretty sure I know what caused that (something I did eat) which Im not going to have again for a while =( (my favourite drink), and she does pass lots of wind, she just seems to get so worked up about it.
dh is pretty useless...he will try for 5 mins then gets frustrated and just puts her down to CIO...so doesnt really work, plus he is a truck driver, so really needs to get a good sleep at night, unless I'm in tears in the middle of the night he doesnt really help much.
I might try the probiotic, and i did think of infacol, but im relucant to give her anything...

[EsJay]

I second the infacol, it worked wonders with DD1. It does sound like wind do you burp her often during a feed, i used to take J off the boob every fee mins & burp her that helped too, she hated it & would cry becaiuse she wanted back on but it made a huge difference & i only had to do it a few weeks & the problem.was resolved.
If it helps im on 2/3 hr stints as well, now & then i get 4 but thats rare & then she takes hrs to go back down. She seems to have reflux but the gp wont give her anything for itt saying oh shell grow out of it. So were currently seeing a chiro & failing that were off to a paed. Ive been dairy free & on probiotics for 4wks with no change. No caffeine, soft drink, windy veg, citrus fruit or juice, onion or spicy food, chocolate etc it makes no difference. Im exhausted between her & running after a toddler, not to mention this weeks growth spurt which has meant feeding every 1.5/2hrs all day. We had a 15hr screamathon last week. All of this has meant littloe chamce to post here, hope ur all doing well, im off to head into hr 3 of getting her down, if shes the same aas normal ive 2/3 hrs ahead of me yet

[Three Graces]

I forgot to add that we heat up a wheat bag and put it in DD's cot while she's having a feed and then I take it out before I put her back down. It's really nice and warm and she snuggles in and falls asleep well. Some nights I think 'oh she'll be fine, she won't need it' and boy am I wrong and it takes ages to re-settle her. So, not sure about where you both live and how warm/cold it gets but it makes sense - why go from warm and snuggly cuddles with mum to a cold bed?
Also, you can try putting one of your pre-worn tops into the cot - tuck it in like a sheet that they sleep on and it smells like you. We did this in hospital and for the first week at home and she seemed to settle better when we put her down for sleeps.

I remember before deciding to try for a third, thinking 'do I really want to go down this path again' and it wasn't the whole pregnancy/birth stuff, but the hard yards that comes after the baby is born, the silly dieting, feeding, feeding, feeding, trying to settle an irate baby....... it's sooooo much hard work! But worth it all the same.
Hang in there, hopefully they'll throw you a better night's sleep soon

[Loops12]

Hi ladies
Tei ~ Mylee had bad wind for a couple of weeks as well but it has passed as she's gotten older - so hang in there, im sure you are doing a fantastic job! I dont believe myself that our diets would really have that much affect. I certainly wasn't going to give up cheese or milk. But Mylee's problem was that she wasnt pooing and her tummy would get mega bloated - I knew it was wind troubles because she'd have a real bad night of screaming and the next day she'd do a poo. Now she is pooing more regularly - like every 2-3 days an I'm getting much more sleep.
Infacol worked a few times. She wasnt getting her wind up real well after a feed either and now she is much better so that must have been a factor as well. You could also try some baby panadol for the aching.
Hope she's better soon

[Three Graces]

DD decided to do a big poo, about 10 mins after being put back into her bed after a 2:30am feed last night. She wasn't keen on going to sleep after the change.
DH and I were both arguing in bed about who's turn it was to settle her. I chucked on some white noise on the CD/Radio underneath her cot and told her to go back to sleep. And it worked! I think that was after I'd dropped back into bed, muttering 'for the love of god, pls just go to sleep'. Yay!!!

[little_O]

DD decided to do a big poo, about 10 mins after being put back into her bed after a 2:30am feed last night. She wasn't keen on going to sleep after the change.
DH and I were both arguing in bed about who's turn it was to settle her. I chucked on some white noise on the CD/Radio underneath her cot and told her to go back to sleep. And it worked! I think that was after I'd dropped back into bed, muttering 'for the love of god, pls just go to sleep'. Yay!!!

Wow good to know I'm not the only one whose bub does this! Wish it would work when I mutter for her to go to sleep lol

Can't believe how fast time is going. Miss C is changing and growing so much. She's into her 000 now and eats like a maniac.
I've ended up with mastitis for a third time... So frustrating. Hurts to feed her but I know it's best if she does.
Things our bodies do!

[~TT40~]

hi girls! sorry im on my phone so going to suck at persies...
we are going away fir the weekend! first time taking her away. dh isnt coming cause of work which im bummed about cause we will be at the beach. ill just have to take heaps of photos. im nervous but sure we will be fine.. we will be with my 'uni girls' who i trained with.. one is pg, one has a 1yo, one is a mum of 6, and the other one is actually who were refer to as the mother of the group (shes the responsible one =p) and all midwives.. and we will be staying at my folks place days either side of going to the coast.
another thing adding to my nervousness is DD is getting her immunisations today before we leave..was the only time could be done and bad timing... hopefully she doesnt become too affected by them .

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[Three Graces]

Hope you have a great time away!

Maybe take some Panadol baby drops for after the immunisations. Can go either way - grissly/unhappy or sleepy. Hopefully she behaves for your girls weekend away

[leesha]

Eli had his last Friday and became unsettled and grizzly on the Monday and is only coming back to himself today :-( sleep issues as well but that's a whole other story....
Def panadol helped him the night of the needles as he slept the best he ever has :-)
Enjoy your time away and beach sounds awesome right now! Sitting here with the heater on as it's 11 degrees and pouring rain :-(

[leesha]

How is everyone? No one has been in here for awhile! Hope everyone is settled into at least a bit of a routine now!
We are Still having sleep issues during the day, he just won't sleep unless I'm out and he is in the capsule! Nights aren't too bad, usually only up twice once he goes down about 7.30...
So excited to nearly be at the end of winter and able to get outside more with the kids!
Had a girls night out the other week and man I can't handle my liquor like I used to....karaoke and nightclubbing plus me just don't mix anymore :-( paid for it the next day......

[Three Graces]

I was just thinking the same thing, Leesha. We must all be busy mums!
DD threw an all nighter during the week 8-5:30. OMG. Hasn't done it again since, but it's achievable. My boys never did that for ages.

T - how was your weekend away?

My 4 year old asked me the other day how the water in my tummy gets turned into milk for his sister. So I started explaining that mums have breasts and after they have a baby they make milk (but how??) ummm, yep, good question....
We're getting lots of gummy smiles now, which is lovely. How's everybody else going? I'm looking forward to the end of winter, it can't come quick enough!