Jessica - congratulations on the birth of your daughter. Keep going with the EBM!
Yay to see so many of us from the 1-15 july Bellybuddies and welcome to the new girls!
Things going well for us. Grace is feeding well, 4 hrly during the day and then 2 hrly at night! so catching up sleep and trying to work out how to change the feeding times around. She sleeps well between feeds so I can catch up on sleep pretty easily. DH is loving the cuddles and DD1 is a great helper - very good at burping Grace and fetching things for us.
I'm here too!!!
My gorgeous little man was born 5th july... he is just adorable
so far all going well... feeding heaps, sleeping b/n feeds and just enjoying getting to know him.
my ds1 is adjusting pretty well too... i have heaps of milk too..seem to have cracked nipple on the right - v sore and i guess i need to work on attachment on that side..
jessica - yay on avoiding the induction.. she was just ready! keep up the expressing.. must be hard work though!
better go i am feeding while i do this!!
So good to hear that everyone is doing so well and great to see some new faces who weren't on the belly buddies thread.
Ashley was born on Monday 6 July at 8.04 pm. He was 3.7kgs, 48cm long and has a head circumference of 36.5cms. He was born by emergency caesar 12 hours after I was induced because my waters had broken 4 days earlier.
We came home yesterday and are doing really well. It's so nice to have time with just the three of us and no well meaning midwives or visitors interupting us all the time IYKWIM. The only problem we have is that I have an inverted nipple which neither Ashley or I can get milk out of. I am able to express from it so have been doing that but I think I will see a lactation consultant next week to try and get it working better. Other than that, these first days at home together have been a dream!
Miss Eva was born on the July 9, at 6.26am after a 4hour spontaneous labour. Eva weighed 3.66kgs, with a length of 54cms and head cir of 34.5cms.
My labour was my hardest yet but I still managed a very active drug free labour. All thanks to midwife who followed my birth plan and did not let my stray lol!!! I went home 6 hours post birth. Miss Eva has lost a little too much weight, however my milk came in yesterday so I am hoping she has caught up.
Like Tinsel's bub Eva is sleeping all day and cluster feeding between 10pm and 5am each night. I am totally exhausted but we living on bliss atm!!!
Me and Phoebe checking in. Lil Miss P kept me waiting 11 days, but she is here at last.
She is a great little bubba and really the only thing ruining my nights is the pain, but everyone keeps promsing me it will soon pass. She has only been put down once since she was born which is when we discovered no one can hear her crying unless you are standing right over her! I do plan on bringing that up with the doc at her 1 week check, just in case there is more to it than she is just a tiny baby with a tiny voice. For now, she just happily inhabits someones arms.
after some early bf problems, things seem to be going much better (touch wood!). had a crazy evening last night when he wanted to feed about every 45 minutes & wouldn't sleep anywhere but in either mine or DP's arms. he did sleep for two hours in bed from 6-8 which was great! i just keep repeating my new mantra - they're only little for such a little time!
today we have our 2 week appt with the MHCN & it'll be our first non-family outing!
hope everyone else is going well & getting some sleep!
Sloane - I am glad you've got your bfing probs out of the way.
Miss Eva is still feeding for hours on end during the night. I think some of the sucking atm is comfort sucking too. I have decided to wake her every 2.5/3hours for feeding and unfortunately I have introduced the dummy to try and settle her to sleep. It seems that she'll sleep on me whilst sucking but once I put her to bed she screams her little heart out. I didn't want to give the dummy but at this point I need more than a couple of hours of sleep per night. On the bright side Eva has gained 50gs in 2 days.
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