This thread is for parents who's baby was born August 1st-15th 2010 #1
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Yay we finally have a baby buddies thread I had my DD Shani Violet on Aug 2nd and she is number 2 I also have a DS who is 22 months. Hoping to hear from some other August mums soon.
Hi Melinda and Shan - Shan it looks like our daughters share a birthday Are you two both breast feeding? Shan I hope the colic settles down for you. At the moment Shani is doing really well and weighs in at just over 4kg. She has been asleep for the past 4 hours so I am expecting her to wake up soon for a feed. She usually is waking once at night time for a feed, sometimes twice so I feel very lucky at this point. I hope we get some more new mummies in this group soon.
Hi girls, I had my beautiful baby boy Kobi John on 12th August 2010. He is 2 weeks today, it's still quite hard to believe that we made this precious little man and I just can't get over how perfect he is. He wakes me up normally twice a night for a feed so I also feel very lucky. The only drama we've had so far is his refusal to breast feed from the minute he was born, so I am now exclusively expressing and feeding him via the bottle. I will attempt to get him to breast feed at a later date, but am just happy for the time being that he is getting enough goodness even though it's in a bottle.
I hope you are all well and loving spending this precious time with your beautiful new babies.
Hi everyone,
Does anyone have any ideas to share on what you do with your older children whilst you have to attend to the new baby? My husband goes back to work in a week - he's been great at keeping our 3 1/2 year old amused and giving her lots of attention, but I'm afraid it's going to be ABC2 for Kids babysitting for her once I'm on my own and don't want her to become too TV addicted! I do hope to get out and about to parks etc with her on some of the days that we are home together (she's at daycare 2 days a week), but there's still the 3 hourly feeds which take up to 30 or so minutes where I can't really give her much attention. Would appreciate any ideas from those mum's with toddlers/pre-schoolers...
We went back to the hospital today to see the lactation consultant as I've had attachment problems on one side for the last week where I've been in tears with pain and not looking at all forward to feeding...this in turn made me feel guilty and worried that it was affecting my bonding with Amelia...which led to more tears!!! A real vicious cycle! ...but thank god for the lactation consultant, she set me right today with my positioning for the feed and it didn't hurt at all. My husband came with us and filmed the "lesson" so I can review it to make sure I'm getting the right position again...
I can't tell you how impressed I have been with Hornsby public hospital and their support and services for maternity, it beats the private hospital I went to for my first baby hands down...
How are people's feeding schedules going? I am doing 3 hours during the day (by choice, to get my milk supply going) waking her for a dream feed around 11pm and then she wakes around 2.30/3 for a feed before morning, so it's quite manageable (fingers crossed!).
Great news about Hornsby Hospital and the fabulous lactation consultant. Im sure you've been at wits end trying every trick you know but thankfully now you've got a few new techniques, Amelia is going to just be a dream baby.
Saoirse and I are doing well. She is a little congested at the moment with a few sneezes and the occaisional cough. No temps thank goodness but to couple that she seems to be either somewhat on the side of reflux and or colic. Have the community nurse coming today at 10am so timing couldnt have been better - we'll sort this one out quick smart. Saoirse is incredibly unconfortable just after a feed with the usual possetting. We've been really struggling to settle her with last night a real challenge. Tonight has been good and have gone back to some settling techniques.
Outside of that she's feeding every 2.5hrs for approx. 20 - 30 minutes and a top up feed some ten minutes after the initial feed.
Im beginning to have a sleep in the afternoon when she goes down, has made an enormous difference.
Hubby cooked dinner tonight, popped up the road to get a few things and brought back a dozen red roses! What a sweetie.. We're going over to Mum & Dad's on Friday night for them to play with Saoirse and baby sit for a few hours. He's asked me out on a "date" which I thought was really thoughtful so off to dinner and a romantic walk along The Esplanade under the stars & moonlight it will be. I pinch myself often & much knowing that like many of you ladies, the support of your husband/partner at times like this can give you an even greater sense of how deep your relationship & love can be.
Would be keen to hear of anyone elses experience with colic and how you've been able to settle your bubs.
We went tothe GP's today after the community nurse suggested if Saoirse wasnt any better to go to the local GPs. Our usual GP is off having a knee reconstruction so we went with a recommended GP up the road. Lovely Egyptian Dr who was just fabulous. Turns out our little one has colic. He suggested that SMA Gold was not recommended as it causes constipation. Recommended Norcal formulae designed for babies with Colic as well as Infocol drops. Gave some great suggestions as well as laying the baby on her side for sleep with rolled up blankets on her back and stomach area. We touched on how we were demand feeding & exhaustion was settling into our routine. Every 3hrs with a 7hr break from 11pm through to 6am and offer her tepid water during these hours so that she begins to form a sleep habit. We'll see how we go but its finally great to get some good recommendation and the possibility of sleep rather than waking every 2-3hrs sounds like bliss....
I beleive tomorrow and Monday maybe incredibly challenging but she should settle into a routine from Tues/Wed onwards. Lets hope!
Anyone else having challenges?
Hope you're all doing well. Im feeling like Im aching all over & flu like. Sleep would be nice... Oh well mid week and a few hours sleep will be enough to keep me going....
Hmm well looks like our little one doesnt have reflux ... none of the mylanta etc is helping at all, although when we tried topup feeds of formula she vomitted so his lactation consultant recommended formula for low birth weight and premmie babies and she took that without throwing up. ATM I feed her, then if she is still fussing I offer her some formula, he said she will only take it if she is still hungry. Last night she took 30ml, and slept but still woke after the 2 hours for a feed. The next feed she took nothing extra and was very unsettled.The wind drops and gripe water help with the wind but no idea why she still isnt settling hopefully as my milk settles in this helps
Jen I hear you loud and clear on the challenges. Lilly is feeding every 2 hours and takes forever to feed. Some of my night feeds are done laying down because I am so tired I am scared I will drop her. My pediatrician says colic usually settles after about 12 weeks but there s no definite time, we know Lilly has colic but none of my others did and I am so exhausted. My pediatrician said sometimes we can make it worse by reading too much into it because we become stressed and the baby picks up on it. So for me I am tryingto relax and take each feed as it comes. I just wish DH was home more to help but I guess I am in the real world now.
Mrs P - No particular routine here. Just demand feeding and DD goes down anywhere between 8 to 10pm and usually sleeps til around 6 when she feeds and sleeps for another couple of hours or so. I had issues after the catheter I had with DS, took quite a while but eventually went away. Hopefully it doesn't take too long for you.
Mrs P... since they are creatures of habbit.. While I was in Canada, Nate would feed at 9 then 3 then 6am.. so for 2 night for the 3am feed I would not feed him and let him cry through was mm 10-20min..so nothing really.. (since babies dont die from crying) and 2 nights later he would sleep through as he learnt that you dont need a cheesburger at 3am.. SIMPLE>. was very easy...
he has no dummy either so not like i need to go into his room 20 times a night to put the silly thing back in.
Hey Belle & Rob.
Liana has been all over the place with her sleeping. At about 3 mths she would do 9pm-5am and I thought AWESOME!! Of course it didn't last long. Sometimes she would be up once a night, other times 2-3 times a night.
When she was 6.5 mths old I asked my GP ( who is a similar age to me with 2 young kids) if she should be able to get through the night without a feed. She said yes. At that point she would sometimes sleep for 10-11 hrs straight but often would wake once too. So I decided her waking was more of a habit. So if she woke before 5am I just re-settled her. For us this involved patting her back or tummy and staying in her room until she was calm and nearly asleep (not completely asleep though). It took an hour the first 2 nights (she wasn't overly upset during this time, more angry that she wasn't getting booby!).
Then she slept through a couple of nights, woke a couple of nights etc. After about a week she was sleeping through more often than not.
Now she goes to bed around 715-730pm and is up around 630am. Mind you she still sometimes stirs during the night but goes back to sleep. I, on the other hand, still wake up at least once or twice a night - hoping to stop that very soon as it's driving me nuts!
Not sure if my post has really offered much useful advice for either of you. Belle maybe you could try the re-settling again?
Whatever you do, be consistent. We were on a routines from day 1, so if George woke any time between 5:30 and 7am, he would have to wait till 7am to have his feed - he soon realised there is no point in waking up early. He now sleeps 6:30pm - 7:30am, and has been doing so since he was 5 months old.
At this age he should be eating enough during the day to sustain sleep through the night (unless he has growth issues/illness etc). There were a few nights where I was just let him cry/whinge a little and after a few minutes he would go back to sleep. My concern was that if I got up each time, he wouldnt learn to self settle and he would also know that if he cried enough, someone would come. If you genuinely think he is hungry during the night, maybe you need to increase his food intake during the day? Or his water - maybe he is getting thirsty? It could be so many things... its hard to give advice without knowing every detail.
Ok so last night was my first night attempting to get through the night with no feeds, and it wasn't as bad as I expected
We put Kobi to bed at about 6.45pm with lullabys playing quietly (our new bedtime routine which is working wonders) within about 15 minutes he was sound asleep. Then at about 9.15pm he woke crying so I thought I would give him a bottle since I was still planning on doing the dream feed at 9.30 anyway. He didn't drink the whole lot but fell straight back asleep. He then woke at about 11.40pm and because I thought my night was going to be alot worse than it was I just gave him the rest of the bottle he hadn't finished at 9.15 (about 20mls) and he settled straight back to sleep again. He then woke at around 2am (things a bit hazy by this time so not 100% sure I was seeing the clock right), so I went in to settle him only to find that he had wet through his nappy, so we then had to change nappy, clothes, sheets etc but the whole time I was determined not to give him a feed. I then tried to settle him by rubbing his back and shhhhh'ing him but with me in the room he was just getting agitated as he expects a feed if he see's me (habit I guess), so I then thought I would replay the lullaby's and go back to bed. I could still hear him and he shuffled around for about 30 mins, but no whingeing
He then slept until 5.30am where he let out a tiny cry to which my partner went to get up to for a feed, but by time he got out of bed silence again. He was sound asleep and stayed sound asleep until 7.30am
So we will repeat the process again tonight and see how we go. I do think if he hadn't soaked through the nappy he may have even stayed asleep. I did say to my partner as I was stripping the bed, if it's not one thing it's another, but I know it's just perserverance and these things will happen. I have a nice feeling that we may be on our way to at least one or two nights of full sleep. Thanks for the advise girls, I will keep you updated on the progress.
Oh and one more thing I started as of yesterday was no dummy during the day, no matter what, and I then leave 2 in his cot on a night so that if he loses one, he will hopefully find the other and self settle back to sleep. Seemed to work as I could hear him rattling the dummies around so he knows where to find them. Once we have his sleeping sorted out the dummy is the next thing to go
Well done Belle! It was hard for me the first night too. But if you stick with it, I am sure more sleep will come. I know what you mean about there's always something.. Liana has been sleeping through more often than not now, yet I keep getting woken by things like my cats, the neighbours cats fighting outside my window, my alarm clock (that we don't ever set) going off at midnight... Oh I could go on!
Goodluck tonight
AFM - it's my bday and Liana gave me a sleep-in that allowed me to eat the pancakes with strawberries, blueberries and real maple syrup DH made me! We had our swimming lesson, caught up with a friend who bought some delicious cakes (which I ate for lunch!) and I am catching up on American Idol (hee hee) while L naps - and we're going out for Italian tonight with some of my girlfriends. So far a great day!
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I had my DD Shani Violet on Aug 2nd and she is number 2 I also have a DS who is 22 months. Hoping to hear from some other August mums soon.
Are you two both breast feeding? Shan I hope the colic settles down for you. At the moment Shani is doing really well and weighs in at just over 4kg. She has been asleep for the past 4 hours so I am expecting her to wake up soon for a feed. She usually is waking once at night time for a feed, sometimes twice so I feel very lucky at this point. I hope we get some more new mummies in this group soon.
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