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SS - we also had problems with a tounge tie - grace could suck but not get her mouth on enough or tounge out to get really big sucks. But the paed checked it and said it would fix itself eventually - but it wasn't helping the BFing - so he snipped it! Grace didn't even flinch when he did it and then I put her back on the breast straight away and immediately there was a huge difference in her feeding...
BekZ glad to hear that Eva is back to birth weight.
Glad to hear everyone else seems to be doing well with BFing as well!
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hi everyone
it is quiet in here - hope everyone is doing well and just enjoying their precious bundles.
i am good - must admit it is very hard for me with the 2 of them (even though DS1 is at creche) with a combination of guilt (never enough time for anyone), fatigue and probably hormones....
i am coping ok but it is more just a big adjustment atm. i think dh and i are pretty snappy at each other - we both prob feel we are taking on the burden iykwim.
not sure if i told you all we named the baby Jacob. he is doing really well - had a mach nirse visit on monday and he had put on 700g in 10 days since he came home, so she was v happy with that (as was i!). he is on the small side though (25th perc, unusual for me my DS1 was bigger) but in proportion so thats ok. she said somethying about a small fontanelle which i need to follow up with the paed at the 6 wk check up - she said it is rare for it to be a prob but worth checking it out. we had jacob's naming on sunday - had about 100 ppl at our house... tiring but so amazing he was surrounded by so much love and good wishes.
Bekz - glad the feeding is going better now the tongue tie is fixed... how are you coping with your 3 princesses?
SS - how are you going now?
I wonder how debbee is - havent heard from her in a bit!
Anyway J is waking and I want to have a shower before his next feed - lots of love to you all. xxx
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Hi Everyone
Grace was weighed yesterday and has reached birth weight at last, and has grown 4 cm in a week! She is still feeding and sleeping well so no complaints over here. Taking her to work today to show her off - its lovely getting comments that she looks like me!
Hope everyone else is doing well.
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wtg cat on grace reaching birth weight again, that is great news - you must be so pleased!
i hope you have fun showing her off at work - that is always fun!
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Hello Baby Buddies,
Update on Sophie:
Went to Dr. yesterday dor her 2 week appt. She now weighs 5 lbs and 15 oz and is 19.5 inches tall. We decided to go off of the cloth diapers as Sophie has had a bad rash with them. So we are now using Huggies organic hypoallergenic diapers. Her hair color is three different colors in three different spots so we are still unsure of her hair color. I have red hair and DF has brown. Plus the sthird spot is BLONDE! Ver y confused. lol
AFM- Finally starting to feel like I am getting a hang of this being a mom thing and I like it. Sophie still has trouble with getting her days and nights mixed up and we hope that resolves on its own.
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Jessica - Sophie's hair sounds gorgeous. I wonder what colour it will end up being.
ryatha - 4cm in a week, wow, go Grace! I bet all your work colleagues were clucky when you went to visit. Re the dummy, Amelia has only taken to it for two nights and it doesn't stay in for long and it hasn't made a difference to her feeding.
preagainpan - I have been hanging out to know what you called your little man. Jacob is a lovely name. It really is an adjustment and I know what you are saying about being snappy. DH and I have been a bit snappy because we are tired. We have DD1 in childcare two days a week but have just asked if we can put her in another day a week at least for a couple of months until Amelia is in some kind of routine. Monday was my first day by myself with the two of them and it wasn't as bad as I thought considering DD1 always wants to be on the move and play. When DD2 is feeding that is when it gets a bit crazy.
ss_storm - I find it hard to nap in the day and like you say, time goes too quickly before the next feed. Isn't it awful when you are leaking and bub won't attach. That's great that you will express for Hayley.
Blayne - I can't believe Amiteal is 4 weeks already! Where did that time go? I love having a small baby - well Amelia is over 4kg now but so small compared to her sister LOL. Amiteal sounds like she is doing great.
Bek - I wish I could put Amelia in bed with me but Monique is still in there :rolleyes: We have shorter feeds here too which is nice. I can't stay awake with the long feeds.
Good news on all the weight gains. If I was to express some milk to keep as backup in the freezer, is the best time to express after a feed? How much do you feed them in the bottle? I have completely forgotten.
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tinsel - i have a fact sheet on expressing from the ABA but i can't seem to find it in the disaster zone that my house has become! i'm sure it said to express on the same side you last fed from about 30 minutes after a feed...i think!
cat - it must have been great to take grace to work!
preagainpan - i'm not sure how you manage with 2! i have said about 50 times to DP that i don't know how anyone copes with a newborn plus other children! i'm not sure where my days go at the moment!
bek - sounds like eva is going beautifully :)
ss_storm - how's the feeding going?
miss e - hope you were able to get a diff nurse.
blayne - sounds like amiteal is going so well :dance:
corey is still going well. he was getting really bad wind & wanting to feed (but really comfort suck i think) every 30 minutes or so...so we got him some wind drops & the difference has been amazing. he's gone from being one very over-tired baby who just wouldn't sleep to a contented baby who is feeding every 1.5-2 hrs during the day and every 2.5-3hrs overnight. ahhhhhh! i almost felt bad getting the drops but then just about everyone i've spoken to has used them for their babies!
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Sloane - I know the feeling!! Get up in the morning and all of a sudden it's 5pm and I'm wondering what to have for dinner...lol. Feeding is going ok, I'm not really making any more milk though, only getting about 80ml from both at each session...it's sort of enough for now but by the end of the week she should be getting about 120ml so not sure what I'll do...it's very time consuming expressing all the time, the only thing keeping me going is we paid for the pump so I better get good use out of it! and all the "goodies" that are in breast milk for her...she probably needs as many of them as she can get.
Had our last midwife visit the other day and were officially discharged from hospital. She weighed 3.51kg so was heavier than her birthweight. Have a home visit from one of the early childhood nurses next Friday.
Better go...our dog is peeking through the window at me, I think he wants his breakfast...feel sorry for him he's been very neglected lately...and has taken to jumping up and putting his paws on the windowsill so he can see through the window into the loungeroom, where I spend most of my days..i think he's feeling a bit unloved :(
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hi everyone!
it sounds like we are all getting into the swing of things with our little ones... Jacob is still going really well. he is a champion feeder though - prob every 90 mins - 2 hrs in the day and then every 2-3 hrs overnight at the moment... he seems to poo at every feed which I know is normal but it makes for a LOT of nappy chgs - seems to havea knack of doing it when i have just chgd him!
sloane - dont feel guilty re the wind drops. i havent used myself yet but i know they can really help others and it sounds like it is just what corey needs!
it was my bday yest and had a great day. dh and i went to a movie with jacob and then out for a yummy japanese lunch. then picked ds1 up from creche early and went out for afternoon tea. was lovely! my mum is in town this sun so we are going out for high tea on sun - lucky me!
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Happy Birthday Pregagainpan!!!
Just letting you all know that Deb is fine. I pmed her on FB and she is getting used to life as a mum.
I am having one of those poor me days. Miss E wants to feed constantly and is then very unsettled due to wind. I think I need to contact the ABA or some thing as I am not sure if this constant feeding is ok. Maybe I am missing her cues and she is not hungry but windy or tired..who knows. I have also had Miss L sick with fevers as well and a DH who just wants to stick Miss E on formula because he thinks I am not producing enought milk. Sorry for the rant. I am just a bit tired and getting sick
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ss_storm - all the expressing must be hard work. you're doing a fab job to stick with it! i know what you mean about all the goodness in the milk - that's what keeps me going as well!
bek - the wind is a killer! we had one of those days on tuesday - corey just kept wanting to feed constantly. but i figured it might be compounding the problem if he just fed again & again & so soon after the one before. i ended up getting drops & he's been so much happier - he actually seemed to be in real pain before, iykwim? i hope the ABA can help - i called them a couple of weeks ago when i was having trouble with the feeding & they were good. mostly just for the reassurance factor that everything was okay & i was doing the right thing etc.
preagainpan - happy birthday for yesterday!
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Hello everyone,
I'm a bit slow to join this thread, but the past couple of weeks have been a bit foggy! Nothing really prepares you for sleep deprivation does it??
Our little 'Annie Jayde' arrived by emergency C section on the 4th of July at 9:54am (11 days early!)
She weighed 6lbs 11oz or 3.02kg and 50cm long.
She's BF like a champion and appears to be steadily putting on weight, which is great. She is such an efficient feeder - feeds can be over within 10 minutes... which caused me great concern in the early days - was she getting enough? But I was reassured with our first baby clinic (last Thurs), as she'd put on 450g since birth. So she's obviously getting what she needs!! Miss Piggy! :) And I have tbh, 10 mins is highly desirable for night time feeds! So I'm not complaining!
I'm loving getting to know her & being a first time Mum, but struggling with the lack of sleep... (I'm sure you can all relate!) There are just times when I just feel so exhausted... and I'm a bit impatient to heal from this darned c section - but I know that's going to take quite a bit more time! (Unfortunately patience is not my forte)
DH has been amazing... such a doting Daddy. He really has suprised me. He just loves her sooooo much. It's wonderful & makes my life so much easier.
Anyway ladies, I think I should try & get some sleep whilst my little angel sleeps, because she'll be looking for food in those 'wee hours' of the morning... yawn!
I really hope to catch up properly with you all over the coming days/weeks. It's so lovely to see so many of you from the pregnancy forum for 1st-15th July... and some new faces too!!
Big Hugs to you all. xxxxx
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Hi everyone..
I havent been able to really have a chance to get online much, but Noah is soundly asleep atm so thought I would say hi and post an update while I can.
We have had the longest horrible week :crying:
Been having huge issues with bf.. Just when I think things are worked out something else seems to go wrong. In hospital we had attachment issues and I ended up grazed, blistered, bleeding nipples.. and cause I have flat nipples we were using a nipple shield.
The LCN has helped so much, and we have managed to get off the nipple shield and straight onto the boob. I was (sometime still am, more out of frustration rather than pain now) ending up in tears from the pain at every feed. I ended up with blocked ducts in left boob - and from the either that or the grazing I now have mastitis and am on ab.
Luckily I have access to a free lactation clinic, so far I have spent 4 full days at lactation clinic and will probably go back again next week as well. I honestly dont know how on earth I would have managed without help from the LC and think I would have well and truely given up buy now on bf. Now he is just refusing the left boob all together. :wall:
On the up side Noah is doing great guns, he is very healthy and has puts on tons on weight (he is getting plenty of food...just through a lot of pain!) and has changed so much already. He is generally sleeping pretty well 3-4 blocks most of the time during the night.. and shorter sleeps during the day.
Well that turned in to a longer than planned post.
Hope everyone else is doing well :)
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i think i must be crazy i told my eldest daughter she could have a bday party she turned 5 yesterday and is having a party today,. ill have my 4 kids ages 2, 3, 5 and anton plus 6 other kids thank goodness both sets of grandparent are coming to help as the kids dad is working today.
anton is doing ok is only 50 grams below is birth weight he has a cold at the min and wasnt feeding very well yesterday feedinging much better today. well so far anyway
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Hi Ladies,
Glad to hear that everyone seems to be getting into the swing of things. Thought I would drop by and fill you in on how our latest MCHN visit went on Thursday. I took everyone's advice and switched the appointment so that I could see a different nurse to last time. Little Ash is still putting on about 20 grams a day and is now only about 70 grams away from his birth weight. The nurse didn't seem at all worried about this as he had grown a whopping 5cm in his first couple of weeks. She seemed to think that all the growing was why he hadn't been putting on as much weight as the averages look for. So all in all I left feeling reasonably happy.
As a first time mum I can't help but be a little concerned by his weight gain, but he has very wet heavy nappies with every feed, lots of poos, is having 8 feeds a day and is very alert, so based on all of those signs it seems he is getting enough food.
We are still struggling a bit with the attachment however. Even after seeing the LC who told us we were attaching perfectly earlier this week both my nipples ended up horribly cracked and bleeding so I decided to go back to the nipple shield. I've been using it ever since and I must admit I am considering sticking with it for awhile longer. It takes the stress and anxiety out of feeding for both of us which I think can only be a good thing. Also I can't help but wonder if because of my inverted nipples it may not be possible for him to feed directly from the breast without doing damage...
Anyway, sending you all lots of sleep vibes... I'm sure we all need them xoxo
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Hi Ladies,
Glad to see everyone is coping ok with nights and seems most babies are gaining weight and are happy...
Blake is now 3.840kg (8lb8oz) 53.5cm long and 37cmHC
I noticed a few of you ladies are having problems with wind pain....BLake is the king of wind pain....i try to avoid all food that is considered a no no...but he still has alot of 'wind' he generally burps after every feed and 'farts' away quite happily until night time...he seems to have trouble getting it out...and cause him to stay awake not crying or screaming in pain but discomfort....Ive gone to the chemist and hes using "Infants Friend" and i find that to be great....he has about 1/2ml - 1ml before and after feeds and he burps and farts alot better....they say breast feed babies shouldnt have wind pain etc but i beg to differ.....he also has silent reflux and we are managing that ok so far....i think Blake went through a 'growth spurt' this week he was feeding more and sadly needing more formula at night after having me....my supply is fine during the day but seems to go to nothing after 12am...he generally goes to sleep for the night after 8.30pm...has a 40ml top up and wakes about 2am ...goes back to sleep but wakes again at 5am and stays up...when his wind pain starts again....but its getting better.
Ive noticed that Blake is 'cooing' more and smiling more too.....hes quite strong in his neck and trys to hold the head up to look around....i call him my little 'turtle' as he always turns his nose up to the sky lol
His sisters love him dearly always asking to hold him and they help in the mornings so i can get dressed or have a shower...we love going shopping and he adjusts well to my hectic routine...
Everyone else noticing the same milestones as BLake? Cant belive our babies are here and sadly they are growing up way too fast...
Hope everyone has a great weekend....:dance:
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chrissy - i have been using the 'turtle' name as well!!it's almost like he's doing push ups sometimes :lol: i have also noticed corey making some different noises in the last couple of days :D
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Yes! Ash has become a little 'turtle' in the last three or four days as well. We've also had a couple of little talking noises pop out which have delighted us as much as him. It's so wonderful watching them grow and develop isn't it :clap:
