Selfish, very selfish post coming right up, just really quickly, because I am absolutely exhausted. We had to get the locum doctor out tonight, and we had to wait and wait and wait for him to arrive. I'm sick, sick, sick. Had a virus for over two weeks, but b/c of bf'ing, can't have anything to help, apart from panadeine. Now I have a pretty severe case of sinusitis, plus the locum wants me to have a scan on my head (?????!!!!????) Anyway, waiting for him wasn't tooo bad, as DH and I managed to do all of Darcey's invites, planning etc for her baptism coming up. Is 98 people too many for a baptism?>>
We had our first Mothers Group meeting today. Really great to finally have the group called. I got a little teary though when I saw all the other babies. Darcey is tiny compared to them. Had a good chat to the nurse after the main session, and we weighed her. They don't seem worried, but we're going to do a couple of extra things next week, go over her graphs etc. Today she weighed 5.37kg, and that was with clothes on and a wet nappy (she's still not 100%, so I didn't want her to strip down to nothing b/c it was a little nippy) . She really is a dainty little thing...17 weeks and 3 days old, I can't believe the time is flying.
Anyway, my DH is grumbling at me to come to bed. Apparently, sleep helps with getting better
Eluned and Petal - Caroline is the same and at last two check ups (2 weeks apart) she was only 5.2kgs and 60cm long. I expressed some milk last night for DH to use today so I could go out and not have to rush back and it wasn't enough for a feed so had to squeeze some extra out this morning after her morning feed and even then only just got barely enough. Last week I expressed once and there was easily a full feed for her so I am panicking that my supply might be dropping?? She SEEMs happy enough, doesn't seem to be upset and crying for more because she's hungry and even usually has some extra puke up afterwards coz her tummy is full (my assumption - I could be wrong). I have mum's group tomorrow so will ask the MHCN to weigh her again and see if she's made any gains. I was feeling okay about it until my reduction in milk last night. Oh and she still takes FOREVER to feed. another MHCN that did her immunisations said that by taking so long she is possibly burning up some of the kj's WHILE she is eating... way to freak me out more.
she started what I call 'rolling with intent' yesterday she rolled twice Monday last week and once ages before that but they just seemed like little flukes but yesterday and today she rolled easily when i put her on her tummy and she pushed up real high beforehand too (except when DH was watching so he has missed all of them - woops!). anyways I caught one on the camera and was trying not to laugh the whole way through coz she's FARTING the whole time (only twice it is really audible though). anyways if you're bored or want a chuckle here she is:
Thanks for the reassurance girls. I just felt so deflated when the numbers on the scales didn't reflect what I thought. Those of you who are also worried about the weight, petalpetal, illeyena, it sounds like your bubs are doing great. Amelia is only 4.83kg!!! Now I know she is not going to be a giant but I was expecting her to be around 5.2ish kg. She is 61.5cm long though so that is fine. I've been trying to squeeze in a few more feeds so hopefully she just maybe was feeling a little off and is going to have a growth spurt soon.
I went out for the first time with some mums from mums group last night. I left a 100ml bottle of EBM for Amelia which DH said she drank 80mls of. That's not too bad and was pretty much spot on for my calculation. He said she woke up just after 10ish and he thought she might've wanted another drink so he got out another 50mls for her and by the time he got it all ready she fell asleep again! LOL but he said she then woke and drank only 20mls before falling asleep. I got home just after 11pm and just as I hopped into bed, she woke up so I brought her in with me and she had a nice big feed and we snuggled in bed
So as for her weight, I've got to take her to the GP so will probably do that in the next few days. CHN said there's no hurry so I won't. It will only be 6 more weeks before I plan on starting solids so hopefully if she's still going slowly that will help pick things up too.
illeyena, cute video! (had a giggle at her t-shirt too!)
Party of five, I hope everyone is over the colds now.
feeb, hows the tandem feeding going? You are amazing for doing it, well done
Bun, sounds like Josh is a real little mover. Amelia is the same. I had one lady comment the other day about how she did not believe Amelia is 4.5 months old! She thought she was older. "She's so alert!" is the most frequent comment I get about her. Amelia digs her heels into the floor and moves off her playmat now and turns around in circles. She also bats the toys above her like mad. Her chatting is her making these little gurgling sounds from the back of her throat. The extra movement is why the CHN thinks her weight has dropped off - because she is sooo active.
Eluned - bring on solids to fatten em up! my MHCN said that i could try her on solids at 5 months and see how that goes so that's 2 weeks away. has anyone else started solids?
my mother in law said she had DH on cow's milk at 2 weeks old!! and also put rice cereal in his bottles and just made the hole bigger to let it through. i just about fell off my chair! i have seen on a forum of mostly US women who started putting rice cereal in with bottles of formula at 8 weeks. seems a biy extreme to me ...
illeyena, back in the day mum was telling me her mum (so my nana) was told to feed my mum solids at the age of 6 weeks - apparently it was standard practice back then. Lamb brains to be exact! Pretty amazing how things have changed!!
Love the vid too! Don't you just love how they seem completely unfazed by how they can roll? Jackson cracks me up. I stand behind him so He can't see me, so to see me he has to roll... while I'm calling his name you can see his big chubby cheeks in a huge grin - 9 times out of ten he just pivots till he can see me, lazy bubba!. It makes me melt. He does the most revolting farts as well... puts his father to shame!
Teagz - I hear you on the revolting farts - DS has started doing them too, yuck!!
eluned - I reckon the CHN is probably right, they move so much these days that it is no wonder they are burning through their milk and not gaining as much weight. I have found that Josh wants a lot more feeds right now but his weight gain has slowed right down. I am not sure if I mentioned it before, but Amelia was one of the names we were going to use for DD, and of course DS is Josh, so we must have pretty similar taste! The only reason DD became a Catherine is because she is a very strong willed little girl and we could tell that as soon as she was born and we thought she needed a tougher name to suit her personality!
petal - I hope you are feeling better now hun. Sounds like you have had a rough few days
illey - love the video, that is sooo cute! I had a chuckle at her top too!
We are still getting too little sleep here but things have been a little better the last couple of nights. Josh used to go until 3am before his first feed, but then it was 1am, then midnight, then 11pm and last night 10.30pm. He then wants feeds 2-3 hourly from then, and from 5am I find it very hard to get him back down again so he comes into bed with me where he sleeps pretty well until DD bellows that she is awake. She literally says 'Mummy, I awake, I awake, where are you??' and if I am not quick enough she starts knocking from the inside of her bedroom door!! She has recently figured out how to turn on light switches so I am sure it is only a matter of time before she learns how to turn the door handle... Anyway, I am wishing for more sleep but surviving. How many night feed are the other bubs having now? I am starting to think that my kids are just bad sleepers, even though DS started out ok.
Bun=Milly is waking atleast twice a night for a bottle and countless times to be resettled
illeyena=your video was cute...thanks for sharing
Teagz=lamb brains gross!!
isnt it amazing how things have changed since our parents had us
Milly has her needles tomorrow I have to take lucy with me, Im a bit worried Lucy is protective of her baby sister she might kick the doctor!! im hoping for a bit of a weight gain she has gotten so long im sure she must have put on something!!
Well i best be off to bed im sure Milly will be awake soon
. She really is a dainty little thing...17 weeks and 3 days old, I can't believe the time is flying.
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she rolled twice Monday last week and once ages before that but they just seemed like little flukes but yesterday and today she rolled easily when i put her on her tummy and she pushed up real high beforehand too (except when DH was watching so he has missed all of them - woops!). anyways I caught one on the camera and was trying not to laugh the whole way through coz she's FARTING the whole time (only twice it is really audible though). anyways if you're bored or want a chuckle here she is:
Now I know she is not going to be a giant but I was expecting her to be around 5.2ish kg. She is 61.5cm long though so that is fine. I've been trying to squeeze in a few more feeds so hopefully she just maybe was feeling a little off and is going to have a growth spurt soon.
she might kick the doctor!! im hoping for a bit of a weight gain she has gotten so long im sure she must have put on something!!
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