Kylie - hey i noticed about our daughters, Cheyane came 5 days early, I also noticed your sons name which is one of the names we have picked out if we have a boy, we love the name Logan and James is a family name on my husbands side. I'm breastfeeding, as well as expressing so hubby can be involved and i also have a home based hair salon so he looks after bub while i do hair. All is goin well, seem to have alot of milk and Cheyane is putting on weight, the first wk and a half she put on 530g and than the next wk she put on 220g so well over her birth weight and sitting just below the 4kg mark.
Melinda - I started doing the whole routine feed but our little one sometimes only feeds for 10min than falls asleep, i change her nappy than to wake her up, she'll than have another 5 - 10min before falling asleep again, i've tried all the little tricks to keep her awake but once she's decided she wants to sleep there's no keeping her feeding - she's putting on weight and growing so i'm not stressing about it. She has a good 3hr sleep over lunch an normally has a bigger feed after that one. I tried in the begining to hold out for the 3 hr feeds but she still didn't have a big feed. We are still doing the bedtime routine, 5.30 start feeding, 6pm bath than a feed again, she would than sleep anytime from 10.30 - 11.30, as we sort out her wind problems i will keep trying the routine and hopefully by than she will feed for longer times
Jen - this last wk has been very challenging as Cheyane has suffered really bad from colic, what seems to settle her the best is laying on my husbands chest - last night she actually slepted in our bed between us. We always said that we would never do it but when your little one is in pain it just seems to settle her, she went back into her bed in her room after the 2am feed, she woke at 4 for a feed than slepted till 7. The other thing we have changed is she now sleeps on her tummy, i know this is very frowned apon but she sleeps so much better. She has been able to hold her head up since a couple of days old and i've watched her sleep during the day and she has no worries moving her head from either side. So when she's in bed an upset we can pat her on her back and she goes back to sleep, if she's only a little upset she generally settles herself. Other than that we just walk around the house patting and rocking her. We used gripe water, which i'm going to give her today every time she feeds from lunch onwards so hopefully at bedtime she's not so windy. I don't know if any of this has helped, we just keep comforting her and hopefully it doesn't last too much longer.
Take care everyone and hope you all have a lovely wk end
Shannon xo
wishlistbaby we are off to the pediatrician for the same reason today ... all my others had reflux and had surgery to correct the faulty valve oldest 3 vomitted ds didnt and lilly does if we give her formula. She cries alot, takes over an hour to feed and is feeding every couple of hours. She isnt very big and slow with weight gain, I am feeding, we did a trial on formula while i expressed and she lost weight presumably from the vomitting, so my pediatrician wants her breast fed, which we do too ... however i had a complicated pregnancy i threw up the whole time and lost a total of 36 kgand the labor was crappy she was posterior and took 8 hours and then 1hr and 47 minutes to push out and to top it off i hemorrhaged after ... so why would i think i would have the perfect baby ... life isnt meant to be easy and wew wouldnt her for the world
well pediatrician is happy ... she hasnt quite reached her birth weight yet but she is growing and gaining and I am taking some tablets to help with my milk supply ... also give the reflux history we are going to try a little milanta and see how she settles ... everything crossed here for some sleep xx
Hope everyone and there bundles are doing well its great to see them all growing and changing on facebook pity some of us live so far away but i think Lilly and I are gonna have to do a trip to Sydney at least once hehe better start saving lol
At my parents at the moment in between feeds- 4.49am! Had the community nurse around to the house yesterday. All is progressing well, Saoirse has gained just under 500gms in 2 wks, grown 4.5cm and is supposedly normal with feeds and the occaisional possetting.
Thoughts were she had a virus so off to the Drs today to ensure this litttle fairy is as good as gold.
Tonight my hubby took me out on a date, very romantic & grandma/pa looked after Saorise whilst we ducked into a fabulous little restaurant. Lovely! It was quite empowering and positively reinforcing for Mum and Dad to have her, feed her & settle her without us... They loved it. Hopefully today brings blue skies, sunshine & a fabulous long walk along the beach.....
mum2be.. does she have a dummy? its tricky as nate has no dummy and i put him to bed and he cries for 3-4 min and then sleeps for 4 hours. just remember what ever habbit you start now... wont be easy later on if you want to change it..
If you are ok with it I used to put baby down and go have a shower.. they dont die from crying and they learn HABBIT so so so quickly.. Whatever work for you might not work for everyone.. So good luck!!
Didi - Shani sleeps through too, I feel very lucky. I have been finding that she has not slept well during the day though in the bassinet so today I have put her in the cot and she has been sleeping for about 2 hours now so far
Mrs P - I hope you are feeling better soon x
Sorry I haven't been on much, life with an almost 2yo and a 2month old is pretty hectic. I hope you are all getting some sleep and enjoying your bubs as they seem to be growing so quickly x
Didi and Kylie - is there any particular routine you are following to get your bubs to sleep through?
Liana does up to 6 hours which is awesome but I would love her to do more of course hee hee.
I've just had a bout of gastro which was not fun. Last night I sacrificed some frozen EBM and DH did the night feed for me, I still woke up but at least I didn't have to get out of bed. Feeling better today though. Just got my pathology results through and apparently this time I don't have a UTI? Which is weird as I get stinging when I wee - so what the hell is it?! I am wondering if the catheter somehow did some physical damage or something.. not sure. Very frustrating!
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