Milly is the biggest stooge when it comes to giggling...my mouth gets sore from making silly noises but its worth it in the end when she gives me a little giggle
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Milly is the biggest stooge when it comes to giggling...my mouth gets sore from making silly noises but its worth it in the end when she gives me a little giggle
Lol, POF, dont you love it? We went to Perth on the weekend and I was busting out every farm yard or zoo animal I could think of (i was sitting in the back entertaining Jackson because he was getting a bit restless) and I had him in fits! God it was so damn cute <3 But yes, every muscle in my face was a wee bit tired afterward ><;
woohoo DH and I had our first night out last night since Caroline was born! we went to the Kelly Clarkson concert which was good. it was just so great to go out and do something fun. Caroline was really horrible yesterday and climaxed with screams she nearly vomitted on she was so distraught but she gets SO overtired from only sleeping 30 minutes at a time that she's beside herself. Yesterday was my second mum's group and I spent 3/4 of the time outside with her screaming nonstop for 30 minutes. It was awful. anyways I am hoping that this passes SOON.
sorry this is long but I just wanted to run something past you ladies. Caroline took a bottle of EBM for the first time (other than trialling a small amount a few weeks ago but finished the feed on the breast) last night when we went out. anyways, last night was the first time that she had a full feed with a bottle for her pre bed sleep and mum gave her another bottle later in the night just before we got home (i was hoping to feed her myself when i got home so wasn't happy!) anyways, today she won't feed properly and it's awful. She usually takes an hour to feed in total and the first feed this morning was 20 minutes and the next was only about 15 minutes. She DID however sleep for just under 2 hours this morning so that's a good thing after these horrible 30 minute sleeps! she seems fine in herself otherwise and has wet nappies so doesn't seem unwell. After her afternoon sleep, of 45 minutes I might add she wouldn't feed at all and was really grumpy so i put her back to bed (she eventually went back to sleep after grizzling for ages). so I'm really HOPING she'll feed properly when she wakes again.
I called the Maternal Health Nurse and she said that Caroline could have become a more efficient sucker but she thinks it is too coincidental after having the bottle so thinks it is because of the bottle. she said that if we gave her a bottle she bets she'd happily drink it all but that if we want to continue to breastfeed to perserve and she'll get back in to the hang of it. She agreed that if we start doing bottles regularly then it's all down hill as far as breastfeeding so i am going to just perservere. she said that she thinks that Caroline should be more efficient and eating in about 20 minutes instead of an hour (although there are no hard and fast rules). she said that I should call the breastfeeding clinic and try and get in for thursday to see if they can help. I have called and left a message with them. in the meantime I have got Caroline back to sleep so will try and feed her again when she wakes up and hope she takes something even if it is only 10 minutes so we can get home! (I am still at my mum's house which is 45 minutes from home).
any thoughts?
illeyena, jacksons been like that today too. Just been really fussy over the boob. And then I switched sides and he latched on fine :doh:... and the last time he had a bottle was over a month ago and he didn't even take it because he's a booby man...
do you think that you might be extra full? Seeing as you didn't feed her last night, and your flow is fast so she's getting more quicker?
other than that... i have no idea
eta, i dunno if i'm allow to do this but someone will tell me sooner or later if i'm not!
I'm getting rid of my MCN's. I'm just not using them enough. I have 10 CT's left, I was hoping to sell them for 20 each as they have only been used probably three times each..so if any of you are interested, lemme know :)
Teagz - that's a VERY valid point re; the flow and I was sooooooooooooooo FULL!! by her pre bed feed tonight she fed the full hour which is normal for her and my boobs were very thankful!
how long does everyone else's feeds take? is an hour too long still? and if not then those with older babies, when do they start shortening the feeds and less often? an hour feed every three hours is getting a bit much some days :redface: and while I am happy to do it for now I guess I just need a light shone at the end of the tunnel :o
sorry for hogging so many posts!!!
Hi girls! I'm still around, usually reading from my iphone so bit too lazy to write a decent post usually! :)
I'm glad to read that everyone is going well. Amelia is doing great too. She had her 3 month check up last week and is growing nicely. Her weight has slowed down a little bit, but still gaining and the CHN thinks it is probably to do with the fact that she is moving alot. She rolls from her back to her sides, plus she digs her heels into the floor and pushes herself backwards :o and she also lays under her playgym and goes nuts batting the toys hanging above her...hehe...she is also babbling heaps and interacting heaps more. Sooo cute <3
illeyena, our feeds are taking around 30 minutes but her evening feed before bed she goes for almost an hour...I think you're doing great, an hour for a feed is still ok at this stage, some babies are just leisurely drinkers ;) But yes they all do get quicker at some stage! My DS fed for one hour every TWO hours! So only an hour between feeds. I was exhausted! But he sped up real quick, by about 4-5 months he was taking about 30 minutes per feed.
Illey- The maternal health nurse sounded dead against any bottle. I personally do not think she would have been turned away from feeding due to having 2 bottles of EBM. If in doubt, you could always ring the Australian Breastfeeding association too. The flow could have been the issue like Teagz said. I have found Alice fussing around for feeds for the past few weeks too. Our feeds are taking about 30 minutes now. Although some snacks take less. They do get more efficient very soon. Plus you guys are using the shields still. Could that be making the feeds longer?
Hi everyone. Sounds like all the babies are tracking similarly. We have the catnapping during the day with the odd 2 hour sleep in there. Alice is sleeping from about 830- to anywhere between 3 and 6. She then goes back to sleep for a couple more hours before our fun starts. I have found if we go out, any resemblence of a routine is out the window and the day is gone.
My goodness they are all near 4 months now.... More needles :( but where has this year gone?
Morning ladies
Have been slack getting into here ;)
Sounds like everyones bubbas are doing really well, cat napping usually happens about now gotta love it :rolleyes: Sebs not to bad he will have a cat nap in the morning and late arvo but his sleep after lunch is anywhere between 2-4hrs long. Night times we are still waking up a fair bit, the reflux really hits hard before bed and we sometimes have to change clothes a few times. After taking him to the chiro last week it helped a bit so hopefully with a few more treatments it will be a bit more managable and we wont have to resort to meds.
As for the giggling i LOVE it! Seb started last week and its just georgous!
With feeding seb has become pretty good at it and will take about 20mins all up sculls it :lol: except for the feed before bed that usually goes for up to an hour which i dont mind.
Bottles - seb wouldnt take a bottle for a while there and i went back to work about a month ago now, turns out he just wouldnt take a bottle if i tryed to give it to him or if i was in the room :doh: So luckily he will take it off DF or my mum when im at work. Hasnt effected breastfeeding at all he still prefers his boob although sometimes he gets frustrated before let down which i can only assume is because the bottle is milk straight away. Usually only happens once im back from work.
Better find me blue book so i can see when his 4 month check up is!
illeyena - Zara is anywhere from 30-45min for a feed and then sometimes when she's fussing she is up to an hour.. i am prety sure thats still fine, Ava took an hour to feed at this age still.
Eluned - Amelia sounds like she is going brilliant, Zara does the heel dig when she's in bed and headbutts the top of the bassinet
jenjams - alice seems to have a decent sleep at night then, hopefully soon they will all start sleeping through.
AFM - Zara and Ava were BOTH against me yesterday, Ava slept 30min all day on top of the fact we went to a play centre for MG and she SHOULD have been wrecked.
Zara decided 45min sleep in 7hrs was fine for her :wall: Maybe she's startin to change her routine again.
At the moment she is awake from 1.5hrs to 2.5hrs then is sleeping 30min to 1.5hrs sometimes we get a longer one but that seems to be if she falls asleep in the car and i leave her there (we live on 10acres, massive driveway and lots of shade, no-one is stealing her and she's not getting too hot) or if she's in her swing.
Going shopping today to pick-up some lay-by's of Ava but have decided will buy Z some new clothes, she has a couple of things but is otherwise in all Ava's stuff... will be nice for her to have some HER clothes.
Yeah, my flow is crazy when i'm chockers! I'd say that is it. I think being three months now and not having a bottle often, I can't see how she would get confused? But, I'm no expert either.:
Jackson takes about 20 minutes usually... maybe half an hour if he's fallen asleep :)
DS's feeds take around 20 mins total, including burping!! He is a real little hoover though. I haven't tried him on a bottle of EBM yet and am thinking I may have left it too late now. I haven't needed to but I have a couple of bottles of EBM in the freezer so may give it a go at some stage.
We have no giggling here yet, but he does a smile where he gurgles at the same time and I think it is kind of a laugh. He is soooo close to rolling now, and can move himself around in circles by pushing his heels into the ground.
We are also having issues with catnapping here, although we usually get one decent nap a day.
He was going through the night until around 3am or so, then feeding and sleeping for another couple of hours but lately he is back to three hourly feeds every night! Grrr, not sure how to go back to what we had, but I think maybe he is having a growth spurt so hopefully he will go back to longer sleeps soon. He is sooo big, I have really noticed how much more quickly he has grown compared to DD.
I can hardly believe they are coming up to 4 months either - where did the time go?!
A little woohoo here - this morning Amelia rolled from her tummy to her back for the first time! I put her down on her playgym mat thing on her tummy and quickly dashed to the loo and when I came back she was on her back! Then at playgroup today, I put her down on her tummy and all she kept doing was rolling onto her back. But tonight she didn't want to have a bar of it so Daddy has yet to see his little girl roll! So exciting, DS did everything late so I'm utterly surprised when DD does things! :)
yay Amelia!! Caroline rolled once a few weeks ago but I think it was a fluke as she hasn't done it since!
hello ladies im still around just wanted to pop in say hi, been busy with school holidays and ive joined the weight loss thread aswell, so dont have as much time to sit on pc as i used too.
wont try and catch up on personals but sounds like everyone is doing fantastic. Nikkita is doing well has occasionally rolled from back to belly and has recently discovered her feet its soo cute to watch she laughs aswell now and i always want to see it again and again.
hope your all well ill try and get on a bit more regularly ;)
Hi everyone,
Go Amelia and Caroline. Woohoo for rolling.
Well, our beautiful sleeping booby fed baby is no longer sleeping so well. She's decided that at approximately 3.30am each morning, to hold an impromptu concert. :lol:We're all invited to hear her croon, ooh, aah, squeal with delight, and try out every sound and syllable combination she can. :clap:Her concerts rival Pink for stamina....at least 2 hours each time. I've tried giving her some boob juice at concert interval, but she continues to TALK WITH HER MOUTH FULL!!!!!! *sigh* Although it's crazy to be up at that time, we just can't keep but thinking how adorable it really is. Cue the over-enthusiastic Mum who thinks she will be the next Kelly Clarkson or similar.
Also, our little girl is teething:o. I have been thinking it was just teeth moving in her gums, but, she's definitely teething. Low fever, general irritability, fussing over one boob in one position (gums rubbing, I think), drooooooooling, droooooooling and droooooling some more, rubbing of mouth/lips etc up to ear, wanting to suck, wanting her dummy (which she doesn't normally have), and the biggest give away: red, inflammed gums where the first teeth are going to come. *sigh* poor little thing. She will be 15 weeks on Tuesday, and as my Mum keeps reminding me, I had my first two teeth at 4 months.:pray:Please, please let them poke through relatively quickly, as I think she is in a lot of discomfort.
Went shopping with my sister yesterday. Bought way too much for Darcey. Found this fantastic brand, called The Zipper Tree, which is based in Melbourne. This woman does reversible pinafores, a light denim on one size, and on the other uses beautiful japanese type print material. On each side is a bird, made of the other type of fabric. The pinafore has one button on one of the shoulders, so you can easily flip it one way or the other. Couldn't resist. Bought one for Darcey (size 2/3!!!!), plus the most beautiful box pleat, super thick and soft corduroy skirt, with fancy button on the side, which is size 1. I'm so excited. This was really the first shopping expedition, that I've actually bought things for her, for the pleasure of it. Not just having to buy her singlets or practical warmth etc. We bought from The Zipper Tree, from Unearthly Delights, Myer, David Jones, Pumpkin Patch (they have the cutest boy things at the moment, not so for girls). Plus, finally found some tights (thank god for Red Robin) that hopefully will fit for her baptism in 6 weeks. They are soooo cute, ivory colour with ruffles on the bum.
Really needed to get out with my sister yesterday. Have been quite down in the dumps, and retail therapy does help a lot. That and Chocolate :D
Anyway, got to go, my DH was going to put Darcey to bed, and me to wash-up, got to keep up my end of the bargain.
Take Care,
Petal
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CUTE!!! I love it when they try talk with a mouth full of booby ^^;
Just wondering... has anyone got AF back yet? I'm so totally hanging out for her, i feel so... puffy!
i have had beeding but only for maybe 2 days at a time which I think is breakthrough bleeding because of the mini pill... that's enough for me!
no, no AF here. I'm BF'ing, plus the mini pill, which I'm not taking very regularly, maybe 2 or 3 in a week :shakehead:. So, no AF at all. Not worried from a contraception point of view: Darcey is a pure miracle. Not worried about not having AF either!
No AF back here either. Not too fussed although I have wondered at times when she'll show up. With DS it came back at 7months.
I never got AF back at all after having my DD so have not seen her since May 07. I just fell preggers again when DD was 16 months all and still breastfeeding! I am hoping for something similar this time, but time will tell.
No AF here either :dance: Hoping im one of the lucky ones i dont get it until i have finished BF.
No AF here either. Like Bun, I have only had 1 AF since April 2007. We are on the mini pill too but I think I will send DH in for the snip :)
no AF since 2007?? you lucky girls!! I always thought having a year off for good behaviour was awesome (that's how long I didn't have it with DS but am BF DD so it's longer now) but 3 years? AWESOME... :clap::clap::clap::D
jeez, 07?! Wow! I'm not on the minipill because it just doesn't agree with me... occasionally i'm feeling a bit bloated like before AF comes, and I think she's coming then it hasn't! Kinda wish i'd be put outta my misery sorta thing XD
No AF here but I am tandem feeding so fingers crossed stays away for a while!!
After DS1, AF came back after months and I had 3 or 4 periods before preg.