Babies Born~June 16th-30th 2009 #1

[baby09]

the recipe would be great

[Early Kids]

Housepoet's Famous Lactation Boosting Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip & Flaxseed cookies
Serves: 6 dozen cookies
Preparation time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:
* 1 cup butter or marg
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 cup brown sugar
* 4 tablespoons water
* 2 tablespoons flaxseed meal (can be found at any local health food store)
* 2 large eggs
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 2 cups flour
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 3 cups oats, thick cut if you can get them
* 1 cup or more chocolate chips
* 2 tablespoons of brewers yeast* (be generous) (IT MUST BE BREWERS YEAST, NO SUBSTITUTIONS)

Directions:
* Preheat oven at 375 degrees F.
* Mix together 2 tablespoons of flaxseed meal and water, set aside for 3-5 minutes.
* Cream (beat well) margarine and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, mix well. Stir flaxseed mixture and add with vanilla to the margarine mix. Beat until blended.
* Sift together dry ingredients, except oats and chips. Add to margarine mixture. Stir in oats then chips.
* Scoop or drop onto baking sheet, preferably lined with parchment or silpat. The dough is a little crumbly, so it helps to use a scoop.
* Bake 8-12 minutes, depending on size of cookies.

[baby09]

thanks!

After a restless morning Amelia is finally sleeping yaye! I really hope she has put on at least 90g when she gets weighed tomorrow, she is taking smaller formula top ups (only 25ml this morning!) and I would like to stop them altogether and just express if possible.

[alioops]

Hey girls

Congrats to those who have joined us since my last post!!

Baby09 - Are you using a bottle or a syringe for the top-ups? If you are using a bottle, try using a syringe. It takes longer but she is less likely to overflow or get gas than with a bottle, which means most of it will stay down unless she is really full. What she spits out will be when she is full.

Sally - I considered making the cookies, but I dont think I need to increase my supply at the moment, Leah is doing a good enough job of that with 2 hourly feeds around the clock when she has a growth spurt. Maybe when I decide to do some expressed feeds (I do have a decent freezer supply at the moment though) from a cup.

I'm not looking at the clock for overnight feeds now. If I do it makes me feel more tired. I doze through the night feeds anyway, have woken up to her feeding when DH gets up for work!! She feeds at least twice overnight though so I know it must be 4 hourly or less. When she was weighed on Monday she was 3590g so I am not worried about her getting enough milk now!!

We have her 1 month birthday today!! I cant believe how fast that has gone!! And happy one month to everyone else over the next 2 weeks!!

[Early Kids]

Baby09, yay for Amelia! I have fingers crossed for a nice little weight gain for you.

Ali, Cant believe she's a month old already! Although Tristan is only a few days off... Scary stuff!

I have a supply of expressed milk in my freezer too. It's comforting to know I have some back-up especially with all the hard work to get my supply going and keeping it up.

[Melbournemumma]

hi girls. Have just come over to this group. I have a son, Noah, born 23rd of June weighing 4.5 kilos. He's just gorgeous and I can't believe he's 3 weeks old already. So far he's been pretty good although we've had issues with breast feeding. my nipples are too cracked and sore for me to feed Noah, so I'm expressing and bottle feeding my little man. He is now starting his 3 week growth spurt I think and ?I'm having trouble keeping up with him. Apart from that it's pretty good.

Congrats to all. im looking forward to sharing this journey with u.

[Early Kids]

Hi Tara and congrats! Noah was a great size This is going to seem stupid, seeing how I'm a 2nd time mum... but whats the 3-week growth spurt? Is it something all bubs have?

Brendan (my first) was born prematurely so I missed out on a lot of this early stuff. Tristan was still prem, but at least I am able to experience this early stuff