Hello! I am joining this thread even though my baby Eva was born on November 19th since her original due date was the 11th and I would like to stay with my belly buddies
I am off to get some friends from the airport for the holidays but I will post a bit later !
Hope you are all having great holidays and hello to the old and new buddies on here!
Just waiting to give Jacob his last feed of the night before I hit the hay - so thought I'd jump on and say hi.
Lani - wow, I thought I had a quick labour but 1hr45mins is pretty good going! Jacob is in a similar pattern to Jett - feeds more regularly during the day but can go up to approx 5 hours overnight. Makes such a difference to get approx 7 hours sleep overnight, even though I do still wake a bit bleary eyed after being up for 30-40 mins during the night to BF.
Tilda - Hey, I'm a former Taswegian of 27 years (NW Coast) ... my regards to Hobart! I can sympathise about Matilda suffering wind. DS1 used to suffer from wind pain ... I used to give him gripe water and it seemed to help. We also used to gently "cycle" and "pump" his legs when he was suffering wind pain - it settled him down and he'd generally have a good fart or two and be the better for it. It's not nice seeing your new baby suffer wind pain, but fortunately it eases after a couple of months. It looks like we're lucky with Jacob not suffering from wind so far (hope I don't jinx myself!). Hope your trip to the cinema went well.
Willow - that's great that you took Harry to see a chiro - I swore if we had any "issues" where sleep, wind or being unsettled were concerned, I'd take Jacob to see one too as I've heard such positive things about the benefits of babies undergoing chiro adjustment. Glad to hear it's already made a difference ...
Hi BrusselsSprout - look forward to getting to know you further.
AFM, well so far all's well. Jacob will have a little milk spew sometimes after BFing and he's a total poo machine. Poos after just about every BF . Today I was burping him after a feed, and I heard a "no.3" come from his nether regions, to which I replied (very off-the-cuff) "well, at least you kept it in your nappy". Hmmm. Thirty seconds later he did a bigger, better "no.3" ... and it came shooting out the side of his nap, down my cleavage and bra and onto my tummy. Yup, spoke waaaayyy too soon. At least it was warm ! Needless to say, bath time followed very quickly!
Jacob is growing like a weed and he's filling out beautifully. Unlike DS1 (I shouldn't compare, but can't seem to help it), Jacob is quite happy to have his nappy off and/or have a bath. DS1 used to howl!
Out of interest, are other states encouraging new parents to have a whooping cough booster? Apparently whooping cough is in epidemic proportions in some pockets of Qld, and as a result the state govt here has made the booster free for parents of all newborns.
Anyway, enough from me - about time I wake Jacob up for his feed so I can go to bed.
Hope you all have a lovely New Year with your bubs - catch you in 2010!
Hi Girls - my baby was born 30 November but I was in the December thread as my original due date was 2 December so will stay with this one as well as the November born bubs if you don't mind! I know all the December girls too well, we're like family!
Anyway, I have to run to feed but I will check back in tomorrow, been away for 2 days so haven't been on. Amelia is now 4 weeks old and started to smile heaps and try to grab things, it's so exciting!
I'm joining this thread even though Amelia was born on Nov 30. My EDD was Dec 10 and I can't bear to leave my belly buddies - as Alison said, we're like family. I look forward to meeting any new baby buddies.
willow - MIL suggested last night that we look into chiro for Amelia as she has had some pretty unsettled nights. Things have improved since she figured out the difference between night and day, but I had a 4 hour crying marathon from 7-11pm Tuesday night. Time for me to do some research I think.
Hi Hannah I think chiro is pretty good for lots of things, but I would be careful who I took a baby to, or who I would see for that matter. There are different types of chiropractic methods so if you're thinking of taking Amelia these are the methods that my chiro practices, they're very gentle and seem to be effective for me and so far for Harry.
The methods are called ACTIVATOR METHODS/TORQUE RELEASE TECHNIQUE
My chiro also does a method called NEUROLINK which is non manipulative.
If you like I can ask my chiro if he could recommend any good chiros in your area? I would trust his judgement specially when it comes to a newborn.
Hi to everyone else thought I'd have a little more time, but no Harry's awake again, he fed hourly last night and looks like it won't be much different today! Another growth spurt maybe??
I've been reading this thread (and the baby buddies thread) but haven't had the time and energy to post.
Quick summary - Liam Jack was born after a fairly traumatic induction on December 2nd (he just turned 4 weeks old, which I can't believe!), 8 pound 15 ounces, 51.5cm.
I had some major issues recovering from the birth - complete loss of appetite and almost constant nausea, amongst other symptoms, which worsened when my milk came in. I got super engorged, which was extremely painful, and to make things worse, Liam had a lot of problems with feeding at first, so it wasn't easily relieved. We eventually got him feeding him in hospital with the use of a nipple shield.
The first few weeks back at home were really difficult for me. I was severely sleep deprived, still suffering from nausea and a lack of appetite and just generally a wreck. Liam still wasn't feeding well, and was fussing about 95% of the time he was awake and not sleeping well at night at all.
Things came to a head and, after several visits to the GP, I was diagnosed with postnatal depression and started on antidepressants and a very low dose of a sleeping pill (for the record, I've suffered from depression for a good many years and came off antidepressants to get pregnant). Liam was also tentatively diagnosed with silent reflux and started on medication.
As I type now, things are much improved. Liam's far more settled, and generally sleeps much better at night, waking every 2-3 hours to feed and generally settling down quickly afterwards. He doesn't always sleep well during the day, but he spends far less time fussing now while awake. He's also feeding much better now - he rejected the nipple shields a few weeks ago, and latches on without too much fuss now. Him feeding properly makes everything a lot easier. Our next challenge is to get him to accept a bottle of expressed milk from time to time from DH, which he's so far rejected.
I'm doing a lot better, too. Getting a bit of decent sleep makes a huge difference to everything. The antidepressants are starting to kick in, and everything feels far more manageable. DH has been home for the last few weeks, too, which has been a huge help.
And now I've written a short novel Hope you're all doing well and enjoying your little ones.
Hi Rose - it's lovely to hear from you, I wondered where you've been. I'm sorry to hear you've had a hard time, I didn't realise it was so tough for you, sounds like you've been through the ringer a bit the last few weeks but very glad to hear you're feeling much better. What caused the nausea do they know? Bad enough having it in the first trimester, let alone after bubs is born huh! You sound like you've got things under control now so you'll start to enjoy being a mum more and more. Don't worry, we all struggle with having a new baby, it certainly would help if they came with instructions huh! I'm only just getting used to the sleep deprivation now after 4.5 weeks, in fact, oddly enough I feel more exhausted/tired at the 6.00 am mark now so have been getting DH to do a FF bottle feed unless I've got expressed milk but we've been out and about so much lately I haven't had much time to express much! I hate using formula even though it shouldn't matter but I've found I'm less stressed using it because it helps so much, Amelia can't go hungry and if she does she won't settle so it's best for all of us at times. I don't have to use it a lot but I have no issue doing so now, I'm past the whole issue of it not being good.......it's only because it's drummed into us to BF. I was formula fed and I think I'm fine.....although some would argue. LOL.
Anyway, hope everyone has as fabulous New Year's! It's DH's birthday so we're just going to his parents for an early dinner. We'll be in bed well before midnight sadly, have to get our couple of hours in before Amelia wakes for her 1.30 am ish feed!
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. Today I was burping him after a feed, and I heard a "no.3" come from his nether regions, to which I replied (very off-the-cuff) "well, at least you kept it in your nappy". Hmmm. Thirty seconds later he did a bigger, better "no.3" ... and it came shooting out the side of his nap, down my cleavage and bra and onto my tummy. Yup, spoke waaaayyy too soon. At least it was warm
! Needless to say, bath time followed very quickly!
I'm sorry to hear you've had a hard time, I didn't realise it was so tough for you, sounds like you've been through the ringer a bit the last few weeks but very glad to hear you're feeling much better. What caused the nausea do they know? Bad enough having it in the first trimester, let alone after bubs is born huh! You sound like you've got things under control now so you'll start to enjoy being a mum more and more. Don't worry, we all struggle with having a new baby, it certainly would help if they came with instructions huh! I'm only just getting used to the sleep deprivation now after 4.5 weeks, in fact, oddly enough I feel more exhausted/tired at the 6.00 am mark now so have been getting DH to do a FF bottle feed unless I've got expressed milk but we've been out and about so much lately I haven't had much time to express much! I hate using formula even though it shouldn't matter but I've found I'm less stressed using it because it helps so much, Amelia can't go hungry and if she does she won't settle so it's best for all of us at times. I don't have to use it a lot but I have no issue doing so now, I'm past the whole issue of it not being good.......it's only because it's drummed into us to BF. I was formula fed and I think I'm fine.....although some would argue. LOL.
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