I'm up with DS and DD is in bed whilst Hubs has a sleep. Geez Hubs has been good, and might I add that I've bene good to him too. LOL. Thursday night he got up adn changed DD both times, while I got to stay in bed and sleep between changing sides. Then DD and I slept until 10.30am. So I thought I'd pay him back today. hehe
How is everyone going? We are doing well. Had first MCHN home visit on thursday and at 8days of age, DD was pretty much back at her birth weight which was good. She's got something called a granuloma which is where her belly button hasn't completely healed before her cord stump fell off. MCHN says it's due to the hospital leaving the cord clamp attached and it pulls the cord stump away before it's ready. It's healing, and it's not as scary as it sounds.
My magical boobies juice seems to have nearly fixed the conjunctivitis that she had in both eyes aswell. Geez I'm glad I'm a second timer. The belly button thing would have freaked me out had it been DS. hehe.
Other than that, all is well. DS is teething (2 year old molars... the worst apparently) and has a cold and DD has got a bit of a stuffy nose so I'm suctioning the yummies out and squirting breastmilk back up there in the hope it will clear it up before it gets any worse.
Well, I've waffled on enough. Have a great day everyone
Yaaaay! I'm here too. Ignoring the dates and sticking with you lovely ladies! Might not be around much for the next week though as hubby has been downloading software and so we have exceeded our monthly download limit - making the internet soooooo slow that it took me about 20 mins to get on this page!
All good here - nothing new to report really but that Ivy is STACKING on the weight and is now 8 pounds so the SCN are finally leaving us alone and are satisfied that she's past any concerns they had about her feeding and development. Hurrah!
Enjoy this beautiful time gals and sending you all some extra zzzzz's!
well nothing much going on here except my parents and my sister are coming on monday to visit coz my sister is yet to see J poor thing she really wanted to see me in hospital she can help me with him so she'll be happy
was supposed to have the MCHN come on friday but she didn't turn up not sure why i'm gonna give her a call monday i wanna know how much weight he's gained coz he's on formula now after issues with BF
now i know why ppl believe their baby is the cutest baby in the world coz i can't stop looking at him coz hes so cute i can't imagine wat my life would be without him even though i've only had him for 8 days
Hi girls, it's so good to see us slowly filling up the thread with babies Seven so far and hopefully a few more in the next few days!
And it's great to read that we all seem to be doing pretty well, and so do all our babies.
Kyson has had his 2 week check up with the MCH nurse (when he was 2 1/2 weeks old) and he had already gained just over half a kg since birth lol! He's definitely feeding well and gaining weight. It's just sad that my "little" boy is growing up so fast already.
We started having a bit of a problem with Kyson wanting to feed every time he woke up even if it had only been an hour or so since the last feed. So we have been trying to break that cycle with him. We know he's not hungry, so we are trying to stretch the feeds out a little by trying to settle him without feeding him. He's now feeding about every 2-3 hours, and last night he went a four hour sleep which was heaven, lol.
He's also been getting quite a bit of wind which has been giving him tummy aches. It breaks my heart when he's crying because of it. We have a tummy tub that he gets bathed in, and luckily he looooooooves it and it's great for easing his tummy aches and getting out the wind. The MCH nurse noticed that he has a mild "tongue tie". It doesn't affect his feeding at all, but may be contributing to him getting wind. We have to make an appointment for a 6 week check up at the paediatrician's office, so I'm going to get it checked again there. I really really hope that they say it's all fine, because I definitely don't want him to have a frenectomy if it can be avoided!
In general we are doing really well though. DH is being a huge help. He'll even get up in the middle of the night and settle Kyson during the night so I can get a little extra sleep, even if it means he paces around the house for an hour. Such a sweetheart! He's even done a bunch of cooking today that will be some of our meals during the week. That means that I don't have to worry about cooking dinner for the DSS's after school before DH gets home from work (he goes back to work on Tuesday and I'm a little nervous!).
My little darling is being an angel at the moment and is napping. He's getting more and more adorable each day and I just love him so soooooo much!
i finally have a few mins to myself. am wondering if i should put the heater on for andy damn cold here. He is a big eater too like his brother was ( well still is). MY stitches are killing me and now my boobs hurt grrrr does it end lol. sounds like our DH's are being good, mine is fabby, he cleaned and is sterilizing the bottles etc dont want him to go back to work yet lol
So whose gunna share piccies firt?lol i wanna sneek a peek
KL - Ivy had a tongue-tie as well. I was soooo scared of getting it fixed but because she was having so much trouble feeding already because of premmie issues, I didn't want anything else to interfere. My brother has one and he told me that he has always found it problematic and it may have contributed to him needing speech therapy when he was little. I was also told by several midwives that I trusted that babies don't fuss that much getting it fixed... In spite of all of this, I was TERRIFIED when i agreed to get it sorted.
I was crying beforehand and had to leave the room as I couldn't look. Hubby told me that they put a little bit of sucrose into Ivy's mouth (to give a positive association with the procedure) and that she was so busy licking her lips and getting all excited about the sweet taste in her mouth, she didn't even notice the procedure! I came back in a minute later expecting to see my poor baby screaming in pain and instead found a happy sleepy baby smacking her lips with pleasure!!
Of course, we can't know that Kyson will have such an easy time of it, but I'm told that most babies don't even cry - but their Mummies always do!
Oh Kat, thanks so much for telling me all that! Hopefully Kyson won't have to have it done, but if he does you've made me feel a whole lot better about it! My husband's sons (from his previous marriage) both had it as well. The eldest had heaps of trouble feeding and it took them a while to work out why before he had it snipped, and then when the second boy was born they checked for it and snipped it straight away. DH says it wasn't too traumatic, but it's still scary for me.
Jess, sorry to hear your stitches are causing you grief. I'm so glad that I didn't tear or need to be cut, because even with no stitching I was pretty sore down there. I can't imagine how bad it would have been with tearing as well! I found that it helped to lean all the way forward and put my hands on the floor when I was going to the toilet. That way the "stream" didn't flow back to the ouchy bits. I also would take a jug of warm water with me and pour that over the area afterwards. It stopped any stinging and I figured it was keeping everything nice and clean too so that it could heal faster.
Well it looks like I haven't managed to avoid the germies, grrrrr. I've got the beginnings of a cold. The sore throat, sore neck, headache and the start of an icky nose. I really hope I don't give it to Kyson. If he gets sick I just know that I'll cry about it! I don't EVER want to see him sick!
Oh, a funny (but disgusting) thing happened last night. I was laying on the couch with Kyson laying on top of me and I thought I could feel something damp. Kyson had been laying on his daddy before coming to me, so my first thought was that he must have gotten really warm and sweated a little. So I disregarded it and just kept lying there with him. He had a bit of wind and was farting quite a bit. It wasn't until I went to get up that I discovered that his nappy had come undone on one side and that he had been doing "wet" farts His little jumpsuit was yellow/brown at the back and it had soaked through not only my singlet, but all the way through to my pants and underwear! So gross! And yet, so funny! Poor Kyson didn't find it so funny when we had to clean him up though, and then I had to strip off and clean myself too. Good thing it was time to get into our jimjams anyway
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His little jumpsuit was yellow/brown at the back and it had soaked through not only my singlet, but all the way through to my pants and underwear! So gross! And yet, so funny! Poor Kyson didn't find it so funny when we had to clean him up though, and then I had to strip off and clean myself too. Good thing it was time to get into our jimjams anyway
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