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Wow Tanya your doing well no way I could get my brain to think with a one week old, love when the belly button finally falls off and ds loves having baths with dd
Well back to bed now that dd has finished lol two boobs, two poo explosions, 2 outfits and 3 vomits later totally worth it for the big smiles I got though now she is hiccuping in bed poor thing
Hattie is 1 month old today
Jelly, 1 month already wow.
DS had his nurse check today. Poor little tyke has mastopathy. So far he does not need to go on anti biotics but I have to keep a close eye on it. He has put on 100g from discharge weight so following his sisters in the slow weight gain as I thought.
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Ariana - Kayleigh Grace McLaughlin - 24th April
Rosetti -Princess A - 30th April
jellybean88 -Hadassah (Hattie) Anne - 1st May
glenglen - James- 3rd May
Homestylemumma- Tal!tha - 8th may
BMW - Owen - 10th May
alice88 - A beautiful little girl - 12th May
MLR1901 - Kennedy Grace -12th May
Ella - Evangeline Faith Martin -13th May
Kazzo Jon@than Anth0ny -14th May
Tanyaya - Dane Jonas - 22nd May
Ladybirdflies - A beautiful little girl - 23rd May
mumto4+1 - A beautiful little girl - 29th May
Mrs Mac - Charlotte - 29th May
Hi all,
We are going well. DD has put on more weight but its in the lower end of the scale. DD seems to love sleeping but slow eater and can take up to 3 hrs! Went to lactation nurse yesterday and learnt a few tricks but overall she said we were doing fine.
Anyone else find they get grumpy when BFing?? Or maybe it's a just I have been at home too long, DH is annoying me with his little quirks and he's got a manflu (we don't usually spend this much time together!) and I'm tired, despite DD sleeping 6hrs at night.
I think it's the BFing that is making me tired.
But I will soldier on.
How is everyone else? Are there many mumma's to be in the belly buddies group?
Mlr I think I'm prob just permanently grumpy until the kids are old enough for school lol not from bf though but it does make me nauseous and anxious
Speaking of anxiety it has hit the roof the last 3 days I hope I'm not getting PND again I'm feeling very overwhelmed
Ds is at daycare today so I plan to do nothing but watch tellie and sleep lovely cold rainy weather for it, going to see if I can get a drs app today too I'm a bit nervous you think after 2 kids I'd be used to to people poking around down there lol
Dr thinks endometritis so I'm on antibiotics back next week to monitor and recheck my PND status
Wish this baby would stop screaming I feel nauseous dizzy and my tummy hurts I just want to sleep!!! I need dh to look after her but he won't! I feel like I'm gonna have a breakdown and I can't just put her down and let her cry she will wake up ds
Hugs jelly! Why won't Dh help? Surely he could take her for an hour or two between feeds? Just so you can get some rest?
ATM I'm camped out on the lounge floor with Owen sleeping in his bouncer. He's waking every 2 hours tonight. Ill be telling Dh he needs to get up at 4ishso I can get a few hours sleep even if he had to bring ds to me for a feed...
Massive hugs jelly
Dd finally stopped at 1am and now awake again
Dh tried for 40mins but couldn't handle it cause she won't settle for him even if I settle her she screams when i give her dh
Gosh Jelly is sounds like you are having a rough trot. I replied to the other thread you just started too. Regarding Hattie crying and being unsettled have you eliminated anything from your diet to see if that makes a difference? The main offenders are garlic, onion, leek, broccoli, cauliflower... anything in the brasica family. Also, chocolate, coffee and some babies dairy but I would not do that unless you have done all the others for a week. Most people see a difference within a few days.
Opps baby crying will come back later
I was going to say similar to lbf. also how long do you spend burping DD. All my babies have been very windy babies, DD1 had silent reflux and was a happy chucker. DD2 happy chucker but not as bad. Ds is very windy and a chucker but struggles with it a bit. I spend atleast 20-30min after a feed burping him and it makes all the difference.
good luck jelly - hope little hattie settles down. for the first 3-4 nights little Dane was nursing NON-STOP and i just reached a point when it got too much and i had to hand him over to DH.
question to everyone, especially you second+ timers. have you found that your post-birth uterine contracting hurts more?
for me this time around, it's almost like braxton hicks! now it feels like a dull punch to the stomach!! i'm still quite sensitive if one of the kids climbs on me (something i'm otherwise used to!)
ok, time for me to have a nap as Dane is asleep. you know the drill, "sleep when the baby sleeps, clean when the baby cleans". :shhh:
Tanya: my after pains were like being in labour again! I never had anything the first time
I'm gonna express a bottle for do dh can give to her to so I can rest tonight
When I went to the lactation consultant the other day, and my Grandma (had 8 kids in post war days!) both said nothing you eat effects babies who are breast fed. Due to the time it takes for food to break down and get to the milk, it is minuscule amounts of your food.
Also like when pregnant, if your culture is to eat certain foods, ie indian diet eating spicy foods, then baby has already been exposed whilst inside, so BFing shouldn't effect bubs.
The only exception I have heard is diary, as it can change the body's probiotic balance.
So if baby has wind it can come from many ways, and baby may require lots of burping or leg movements to release the trapped air, which is usually what upsets them.
Sorry Jelly, don't have any other pointers for you!
Back again...
I have to politely disagree MLR
The brassica family, onion and garlic, chocolate and coffee and sometime dairy are known to be found in breastmilk. The reason for this is that they require a strong sulphur process to digest it all so that the flavour does not go into the milk. Unless the mother has an incredibly strong digestion she cannot break these foods down enough for the flavour not to go into the milk. There are several studies about this online. I am quite surprised that a lactation consultant would say such a thing. In my own personal experience, I have worked with many newborns over the past 5 years, and my own babies, taking said foods out of the diet for at least the first 6 weeks improves the unexplained screaming every time. As with any newborn advice a mother has the instinct to know if she should listen or not, but in Jelly's case with an unexplained screaming baby at this stage anything would be worth a shot to see if it can help her and her baby.
The curry thing is a bit of a funny old myth too, in Asian countries most women will eat very bland foods for the first 6 weeks while they are in rest. After that the child does get used to the diet and flavours though the mama's milk.
Tan- I get severe after pains but only because I birth so quick. Yours sounds quite normal, the uterus gets a little irritated after birth so any bumps from the outside will set you off. I love the clean when the baby cleans part tee hee!!! Enjoy your baby time.
Jelly, I hope you had a better day today. Expressing a bottle sounds like a good idea. You could try giving her tummy a massage with a carrier oil and a few drops of mandarin oil around the navel, that sometimes works for colic.
Kazzo how is your little man going??
AFM- little one is going along beautifully. I have to wake her every 3-4 hours through the day, she is such a little sleepy head. When she wakes she is really taking everything in, has a little kick around then back to bed. Today she had her first bath, all of her sisters peering over the edge of the bath, baby number four has alot more noise and stimulus in all experiences, it's so funny how full it seems around this house now. She is also doing some great long stretches at night, especially if I can get her to feed a few extra feeds in the afternoon. I am still enjoying alot of rest with hubby taking over all the house and children, I know once he goes back to work real life will kick in hard so I am enjoying the next few days relaxing in between feeds. Tomorrow we are giving the baby her name, the girls are so excited and have managed to guess a name that sounds so similiar to her name its amazing. They did the same thing last time....
Ok, it's 4am, I do not know why I can't sleep but am off to try...
I have heard both theories they might both be right depending on the baby I guess I have definetly found that she will have a really bad night if I have chocolate or more than 250ml of milk but I'm not ready to try broccoli yet its hard enough to get veggies into me ATM
But we had a much better night tonight no screaming at all , I gave her a higher dose of infants friend at every feed and at 4pm gave her a warm bath and started pedaling her legs to get things moving before bedtime and sleeping her on her side
Will buy an electric pump I think some reason my hand pump decided to loose suction so I couldn't get anything out
Glad to hear you had a better night. Sounds like it's time to give up the chocolate for a few days. I ate as much choc before baby knowing it would be going for a few weeks. The screaming is just not worth it, I would rather eat plain brown rice then have a screaming baby. My second daughter screamed for 3 mths it was horrific and very hard to stay sane!!