Wow, I really feel out of the loop. Just reading the last few pages, and everyone seems to be going really fine.
Darcey had her immunisations last Tuesday, she ended up with a temperature, hoarse voice, and really out of sorts for around 3 to 4 days. The temperature was starting to worry me, and then it just dropped off completely. She was weighed at the immunisation, and weighed in at 4.4kg!!! Yay, my little girl is nice, healthy weight for her 9 weeks, although on the small side, she's healthy. I'm really excited that she's wearing 000 clothes now.
We've had a horrible week really, from Tuesday onwards. I ended up in emergency on Tuesday, followed up with surgery on Friday. It was an absolute panic station. Not about the surgery, but about BF'ing. BF'ing has been going so well, and then I needed to start to express (first time for everything) and then the panic set in, the milk disappeared . Managed to express around 300ml over 36 hours, which was really hard work. The tears were flowing down my cheeks, kept thinking what a terrible mother I was to go into hospital and leave my baby with no ready supply.
Darcey was also going to 'room in' with me at the hospital, but in the end, I couldn't even hold her *big sobs from me and her* I just felt so inadequate and helpless. My DH looked after her, with some great help from my Mum, who sterilised the bottles, bought some ready made formula etc. First day back at home was horrible, no booby juice to feed her, and my DH didn't buy anymore formula, as he thought I would be producing enough by then. It wis a nightmare.
The milk has come back in now , but emotionally, I'm not really doing so well. DH is back at work today, and my Mum is coming around after lunch today. I'm so sore, feel so drained, blood pressure is all over the place, and I'm feeling very weepy. I hope this isn't PND settling in. It's just so frustrating, to get over the c-section (10 weeks ago today my beautiful girl was born), only to have this happen.
I'm going to make a cup of tea before Darcey wakes up, and take 5 minutes to think how damn lucky I am to be here, and to have such a beautiful daughter.
Take Care, sorry for the selfish post (woe is me)
Petal
Petal so sorry to hear about your surgery, that would be so hard with a little one....makes me feel bad for complaining about a few bad days. Big hugs and i hope you feel better soon.
Well Maddie was an absolute angel today, she slept for 3 hours solid while i was out from 11 - 2 and one of those hours i was doing post natal yoga while she slept in her pram so i got to have a nice relaxing stretch without having to worry about her. She also went down at 7pm but then woke up 30mins later, this happens a lot. I went in to try and settle her but her legs where coming up to her tummy so i picked her up and she let out a massive burp, still took us another hour to get her down bec then she was hungry again after getting rid of the wind. I cant wait till she outgrows the wind stage, fingers crossed for around 3-4mths max.
petal - so sorry to hear about the surgery and the trouble with your milk, that must have been terrible. Try to rest up sweetie, sounds like you have had a lot to deal with and you need to take care of yourself. Keep talking to us if you feel like PND may be coming on, it helps to get it all out and we are here for you
Teagz - I can understand your DH being a little worried about twins - that would be such a handful!! I know someone who got twins when going for their third and last baby and they ended up with 4 under 4, eek!!
shantelle - congrats!!
trace - sounds like Maddie was an angel on your trip.Glad to hear you had a good time. It is great to be around family so you can get some help. I am really missing that this time around as we moved interstate a year ago so there is not so much support here. Sorry I am not sure about the vomiting but I would say it is probably just a reaction to the vaccinations.
Eluned - wow what an amazing sleep!! I am from Perth too, we used to live in Atwell. How did you go in the storms? Sounds like they were pretty wild.
We are still going well, DS is growing like a weed as well and his sleep is not too bad now after a couple of unsettled nights. Generally he has two night feeds and the only trouble can be getting him back down when he has wind. I was up with him for ages last night trying to get the wind out but other nights have been fantastic. I am soooo in love with him and his smiles just make me melt. He has really started chatting to us too and coos away for ages when he is in the right mood. He is such a good little boy and I am really enjoying being his mum. Of course I adore my DD just as much but she was a very challenging baby so I am really enjoying being a new mum this time
Petal - what trauma you've just been through. I am so excited for you that your milk came back though! did you have to do anything for it to come back or it just did?
we are going well here. some nights Caroline sleeps from 8pm to 5 or 6am and other nights she'll wake anywhere between 1 and 4am for a feed then back to bed. I can handle getting up once a night so no complaints here!!
I uploaded a video to you tube just to see if i could lol if anyone's bored and wants to check it out it is here:
Teagz - I have twins in my family also, my mum is a twin, my cousin had twins and my dad had twins with his second wife. ALL are fraternal so that's the hereditary kind! so far I've been lucky to have two singletons but yeh you hear all the time that just when you try for 'one more' that's when the two eggs slip out lol so yeah - i'm trying to convince him to have just one more lol so it would only serve me right!!! maybe I should quit while i'm ahead!
Welcome shantelle!! We were in the same belly buddies I think, seems so long ago now!
trace, how is the sleep going? I hope it's getting better for you
petal, I'm so happy for you that your milk came back in and that you're recovering from surgery. I hope things continue to get better
Bun, I have a few friends in the Atwell area. We survived the storms ok thankfully! There was a lot of damage over Perth as I'm sure you probably saw on the news. We didn't even get hail at my house! Seemed to hit in certain pockets over Perth. Now we are back up to low 30 degree temps and very high humidity yuk!
illeyena, tried to have a look at your video but you tube said it was private.
We have twins in our family too! My grandmother had fraternal twins, so I guess it's my generations turn as well! I would love to have twins, but now that I already have 2 kidlets, I'm not sure about turning that into 4 of them! LOL...
I weighed DD yesterday and she's 4.66kg. Still a little one, but still growing nicely. She has been such a treasure and I think we are slowly starting to get into some routine, well in the mornings anyway. In the afternoons we are still a bit hit and miss.
Well, she is waking for her feed so gotta run. Hope everyone is well!
tracehb - so glad you enjoyed your visiting, it's wonderful having people around to fuss about them and give you some time.
DD1 used to get some yellow chunks when she swapped to formula so i think that could be a possibility.
Maddie is growing so well, keep up the wonderful work.
Shantelle - welcome and congrats on your little girl.. we were in the same belly buddies group, so nice to hear your doing well.
Teagz - Jackson is so damn cute, keep up the great work hun.
I am glad we wont be going back for anymore, we have twins on mums side, dads side and Marks mums side... if we went back for 1 more we would prob get 2 (that happened to my cousin)
Petal - so sorry to hear about your surgery, when A was just over 5mths i had to have my gallbladder removed we finally got her back on the (.)(.) only to realise a stone was stuck and i ended up in hosp for 6 days on a drip.. my milk supply was GONE and i couldn't get it back so glad your persevering and hope your recovery is going well.
To everyone else HELLO and hope your going well, post is getting a bit long so will do more later.
AFM - we spent some more time up the house, 1 night was just the girls and I which was fun except Z decided to have a hissy from 2am til 4am then ended up having BOTH girls asleep in my bed (a blowup)
She is VERY alert and so strong in her head, she is rolling from belly to back and on her back is getting up on her side, lets hope she doesn't figure it out JUST YET.
Can't wait to get her weighed, i can't believe she is 11wks already, it's gone so so quickly.
Well i better get going, got washing etc to do from out at the house and going to make A some apple & sultana mini muffins, if anyone has muffin flavor ideas please checkn out this thread and let me know.... https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...n-mixture.html
Eluned - strange re the video link. i just tried it from here and it worked. it seems a bit random as i had someone else say the same thing that it was private but then it worked for them. strange you tube!
It's been so long since I posted in here so I wont try and catch up on the personals, just wanted to say hi and that I hope everyone's doing well!
Can't believe how quickly time has flown! Austin will be 3 months soon were did that time go??
We've been doing lots of reading lately, Austin's really taken a liking to all of his shiny books. I read and he smacks the pages and giggles he's also discovered how to yell, lol if he needs to get my attention he'll just squeal and when I come start giggling, super cute!
Take care ladies, hopefully I'll fall back into the swing of this thread
She was weighed at the immunisation, and weighed in at 4.4kg!!! Yay, my little girl is nice, healthy weight for her 9 weeks, although on the small side, she's healthy. I'm really excited that she's wearing 000 clothes now.
. Managed to express around 300ml over 36 hours, which was really hard work. The tears were flowing down my cheeks, kept thinking what a terrible mother I was to go into hospital and leave my baby with no ready supply.
, but emotionally, I'm not really doing so well. DH is back at work today, and my Mum is coming around after lunch today. I'm so sore, feel so drained, blood pressure is all over the place, and I'm feeling very weepy. I hope this isn't PND settling in. It's just so frustrating, to get over the c-section (10 weeks ago today my beautiful girl was born), only to have this happen.
so glad your persevering and hope your recovery is going well.
he's also discovered how to yell, lol if he needs to get my attention he'll just squeal and when I come start giggling, super cute! 
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