Hi Ladies

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