Babies born~January 1st-15th 2010 #1

[helle]

I don't feel anything in my boobs when I get a let down but instead I get majorly thirsty.

me too!! It's so weird!!

Thanks for letting me stick around girlies It's good to be around some familar faces!

i was just popping on because I had a BF question. Is it normal for your nipples to become quite sore? Even during feeding? I'm 99.9999999% sure the attachment is right, and I'm putting it down to the fact that I've never had someone suck on my nipples 2-3 hourly, but I just wanted to check. The first couple of sucks are quite painful, but once he settles in it's ok. They aren't cracked or anything, or even red for that matter & my nipple is come out the same shape as it went in... maybe super sensitive is better word than sore... This BF stuff is confusing!

As for the dummy... Jackson will take one, he did at the hossy, but it doesn't last very long - probaboly because nothing comes out of it XD - and he spits it back out

So far since we've been home we've had great nights, Jackson has slept through and needed waking for feed times which is great. At the hospital he was partying til 3am in the morning before he'd settle down. I spent the first day home warning DH of what he was in for and he ended up being a little angel and made a liar out of me!

Sorry about the selfish post! I shall be back shortly to do persies! Hope everyone is enjoying their babies!

Mwah! xx

[Hummingbird]

Hi Ladies,

Well here I am, taken a little while to come back...had a dramatic couple of weeks!

Little Henry was born on the 11th at 6:01pm, after 11.5 hours of labour (10 of which I managed to do with only a tens machine and a bath), ended in his heart rate plummetting and having to have an emergency c-section...scariest part of my life. He came out all perfect except for a raspy breath which meant he had to go to special care and because of the stress of the labour he'd used up all his reserves and had really low blood sugar levels.

A few days in special care (with me feeding colostrum like crazy and being milked by the midwives to get even more) he came out and joined me in my room which was great.

I ended up having an oversupply of milk (I think cause I was being pumped like crazy for colostrum before my milk came in) and on top of really damaged nipples I also have mastitis!!! All of which I only discovered after I came home and ***** hit the fan a few days later and I headed back to the lactation consultants. I should have had a fever from the mastitis but the pain killers from the c-section masked it!

I am on anti-biotics and have nipple shields which makes feeding so much better and I think me and my little man are becoming a good little team.

All the previous drama's aside, I am recovering well from the c-section and it's great watching the belly get smaller instead of bigger I am besotted with my little man and is it wrong to be sad already that he's growing up too quick???

Being a first time mum I am not really sure where I stand with dummies, DH would rather never to go there but knows we might have to, though we've caught Henry's thumb in his mouth a couple of times so we may be heading down that road sooner rather than later because I think it's much hard to break a dummy habit than a thumb sucking one, but will see how we go.

OK I think I have rambled on enough, I am heading upstairs for a nap and will catch up on personals with you all later.

xxx

[Laranna]

Teagz, sounds like the BF'ing is going well. Your nipples should become less sensitive in the next couple of weeks. Mine were like that at first both with DS and DD.

Hummingbird, sounds like you've had an eventful few days! I hope your recovery is quick and that the mastitis clears up soon.

[harleysgirl]

Lucylu - Good luck with DH going back to work, i didnt find it as scary as i thought when hubby went back last week. you will be fine

Teagz - Yep with my first 2 i spent about 4wks with ouchy nipples, everytime they attached i would have to breath like having a contraction lol Should ease up soon for you. For some really odd reason i havent got it this time?? maybe is coz its not even a yr since i stopped feeding lacey.

Hummingbird - HUGS hope its all on an up for you.

[feeb]

Hi all been a full on 2 weeks for us!! 18 MONTH age gap is hard work!! especially as DD1 does not walk yet and I had a cs, DH worked 1 day last week and goes back to work on wed!!!!! AHHHHHHH
I am also Tandem feeding so thats hard work and tiring!!!!!!!!!
DS2 has a lot of wind pain the last few nights have been up all night till 4 or 5 am with him!!!! Tryed infants friend and tonight trying Braurs colic relief fingers crossed it works.
He lost a lot of weight in hospital and put on small amounts the next 2 days, 2 days after coming home MCHN came and he put on a small amount but she was not concerned so hopefully he has put on much more by time we get wg again this fri.



harleysgirl breastmilk for any yucky eyes can help.

Eluned i found same BF a newborn again and having to do all for them is so hard to remember that they dont attach self LOL

Hummingbird hope the boobies settle down for you soon, sounds like you had a tough time!!

Teagz sensitive sore nipples at start is normal as you are not used to a mini vacum cleaner sucking on them so often. It will get eaiser

lucylu Hope you find it ok with DH back at work!

~ Zarava Flutterby ~ you are doing well to get out with 2 kids let alone cook dinner!!! So tell DH to pull his head in!!!

Daintree dream woo hoo on Annabelle's NG tube coming out thats fantastic news!!

[Party-of-five]

its not so hard with dh going back to work...Lucy is better behaved lol don't know if thats because its more "normal" kwim.

feeb+ got fingers crossed for a good gain and i think your amazing bfing both your DS's what a champ

Hummingbird+ sounds like you had a bumpy start but things can only get better from here and Im already sad that Milly is growing too quickly aswell

were having wind issues Milly was really unsettled last night and i could tell she was in pain but know matter how much i tried she wouldnt burp so im thinking of a trip to the chemist for something today poor DH ended up on the lounge because he has had to go to work today so he needed some sleep.

[feeb]

lucylu I reccomend brauers colic gave bubs the 4 doses over 2 hrs then 4hr after and he slept so well!!!! Went down 2000 up 0001 down 0200 up 0500 down 0600 up 0900 so beats the screaming o and off 11pm till 5am!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[illeyena]

Hi Ladies - it has been ages since my original post announcing Caroline's arrival on the 8th January however I didn't get any reply email from belly belly when new messages came through so have missed out til now and have gone through all the new messages now and so relieved that there are some other mum's out there also!!

Caroline has been doing good, she put on 350grams the week after hospital (8 days) but this week has lost so we're going back tomorrow to double check but MHCN thinks it's numbers balancing out so we'll see.

I had mastitis which was painful and the fever knocked me around - was hard work with the little one feeding like a mad child and just wanted to shower to get the temp down which when i finally got to do i ended up barfing. all after hours on a saturday so had to go to emergency to get the antibiotics to get things moving to work on the infection. as a result Caroline got super fussy and couldn't be put down, was cluster feeding again (2 hours has been my limit on two occassions - one not so good as was tired and desperately wanted to go to bed but the other time okay as we put a movie on to watch!). the ER dr said that the antibiotics doesn't affect them but when i told this to the MHCN on the Wednesday she immediately disagreed and said that it was their experience that they were definitely affected by them. I also think that Caroline has a little bit of thrush in her mouth because of it so have some stuff for that for her. I use nipple shields (have flat nipples so she hasn't been able to attach without them) so haven't had to worry about getting that from her and am finally feeling recovered from the mastitis and have had a great night last night with sleep and a day out today which is a great cure also after so long on the couch feeling like all i ever do is breastfeed!! let's see what tomorrow brings coz it seems to be so changeable!

re; dummies - haven't used one yet for Caroline but i did for my son so know they can be a god send. i also prefer them to thumb sucking because you can cut back a dummy and then wean but not a thumb and i've seen some pretty crooked teeth from long term thumb suckers.

Lucylu - how did you go with DH back at work? i notice Nathan and Lucy have a generous age gap. My son and Caroline also have a big gap of ten years (he's just turned 10 last week~!)

someone mentioned a melbourne meet up - is that in the city? i'd love to go but not sure as we live out in Healesville so would be quite a full day and at this point we're going day to day and venturing in little steps!! lol would love the details though!

anyways, that's probably long enough from me!!

if someone could please remind me how to change my ticker that would be AWESOME.