I am also not really missing my pregnant body, and soooo can't wait to start working on this new after bub bod!!! 3 more weeks till I can fully start working out again *yay*
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I am also not really missing my pregnant body, and soooo can't wait to start working on this new after bub bod!!! 3 more weeks till I can fully start working out again *yay*
kanga,.. OK? That's freaking brilliant!! Since they say 150g is a normal WEEK weight gain!! And he's put on almost a KG! WOOT!
that's what I thought, lol...I have to get to my GP or even the chemist next week to double check (as the middies at the hospital suggested before the 6wk check up), but he's eating so well and stacks of wet/dirty nappies so I am pretty happy!:
Hi
Just thought I'd drop in and do a quick intro - mummy Belle and bub Parker, born 12/06 @ 5:46am weighting 3100g (6lb13oz)
Currently he's weighing 3000kg after losing 340g in the first 4days :( but weight gain has been slow - 80g in 11days as opposed to the 120g in 3days, it is still a gain, but clinic wants to do weekly weigh-ins to make sure he still gains and doesn't lose anymore
Milk came in hard and fast 2days post birth and thankfully has settled down now (think really bad fake boobs that just sit there and don't move, couldn't move my arms or touch my boobs without massive amounts of pain). Now he gulps it down (and sometimes throws it back up :lol:)
Pretty much back to pre-pregnancy body - can do my jeans up again (never stopped wearing them, just had to use a belly belt/band), the belly is just a little bit less toned than it was before... but yay I won't have any problems fitting into my wedding dress in about 7weeks time
Sorry haven't had a chance to read through it all, but congrats on everyone who is here... and a BIG hello to my fellow belly buddies :) we made it!!
Belle
Welcome Belle & Parker!!
You're getting married in 7 weeks??? Congrats!! I still get giggly at the thought of weddings. I loved mine & had a really fun day of it. I can't imagine doing it with a baby in tow, though!
:D
Hi and welcome Belle and Parker!
How's everyone feeling tonight? I am knackered. Amelia is going through a huge growth spurt and waking up and feeding every 1.5-2 hours.. Although she has just woken from a 4 hour nap, had one boobie now Daddy is changing her nappy so she can settle straight after 2nd boob.
I lost 17 kilos in the first 2 weeks but then put back on 3 (eating too much junk due to lack or energy) but now lost it again. Still have 35 kilos to go till I'm back at my wedding weight. I am so determined I know I will get there. I am not naturally a big person I was just depressed for a couple of years.
Belle. How's the wedding plans coming. Have u got everything organized. So awesome u fit in your dress still.
Well Milly wants the boobie so talk later
PS thanks for letting me stay. I can't believe she is a month old already
Ok... the MIL is starting to get to me.
I would like:
-to have DS sleep in his cot & me in the room next door. I can hear him, but not be kept wide awake by every snuffle & fart.
-to not have DS cooed & talked to & poked at during night feeds. He has a job to do & then go back to sleep - 3am is inappropriate awake time.
-to sooth my son without a dummy every time. Jamming in his mouth & him sucking madly is not the same as restful sleep (especially if he cries when he drops the dummy).
-to cuddle my son after a feed occasionally, without being guilted to hand him over because I 'have the rest of his life to cuddle him'. I don't have him as a newborn for the rest of his life.
-to not race her to his side every time he squarks. Let me pick up my own son once in a while.
-her to change his nappy if she insists on being the first person to pick him up all the time.
Otherwise, she is extremely helpful with the cooking & cleaning, but if she could just give me some time with my son, I am happy to share.
I was bullied into getting a bassinet & now I feel like a neglectful mother for not being able to sleep with him next to my bed. I can sleep with him in the bed, and in the next room, but next to the bed for one night had me in tears by midnight, and DH was being kept awake by the snuffles & farts too. He works in a very dangerous profession where sleep-deprivation is equal to being drunk - it just can't happen.
*sigh* Otherwise, we're really well. Jack is still a little champion. Feeding & sleeping well, and increasing his awake time every day to look & learn. :)
Will try and post more over the weekend, but for now, here's my Birth Story
Hi ladies - hope you are all having a fab weekend!
My DH is running his first marathon this morning and I am glued to the laptop watching his 5km times.........it's exciting! Wish I could be down there to cheer him on but X didn't wake up until 8:30am and has gone back down her next morning sleep. Her routine is that her day doesn't really start until around 11amish - oh to be a baby.
Kanga - that weight gain is awesome!!!! We are having X weighed on Wednesday and I will be interested to see how she goes because she seems to have lost her chin somewhere :ROFL:
Welcome Belle and congratulations on your upcoming wedding. I love love weddings, they are such a special and exciting time.
Mrs Hendo - you are amazing, how you lost 17kg in 2 weeks is absolutely beyond me. I hopped on the scales yesterday and was very excited to discover I am exactly my pre-preg weight but I am still wondering where this jelly belly fit into that number on the scales. Hmmmmm
Entreat - wow. Can I say that you are awesome for having your inlaws staying with you right now? I know it is frustrating for you but seriously, I couldn't tolerate it. DH's family are coming tomorrow for the DAY and I have planned a full day at work. I will see them but I just don't want to hang with them all day because I am soooo trying to keep me stress levels low right now and they tend to stress me to the max. You are getting a massive virtual pat on the back from me.
Seph - simply amazing birth story, I had tears reading it. I am so glad you shared it, thank you.
Hiya to Smamfa, Missymoo and everyone else I have missed :)
Things at this end are going okay, I have a terrible case of the guilts......feel guilty when I am at the office without X and feel guilty when I am at home with X because my staff are at the office working and I am at home. I guess I will just have to learn to live with it! I have actually been taking X to work, when she wakes for her first feed (between 7am - 8:30am) I feed her and put her in the pram and go to the office, then feed her when she wakes up and I call DH to come and get her. That's working pretty well so far because I am really trying not to have to use the pump since my oversupply is STILL giving me grief. Last night I was feeding her off one side and the other side leaked 60mls.......... It just means that when I feed her, I have to either catch the other side in a bottle OR have a towel strapped to the other boob. It just limits my feeding in public/in front of people. I am cool to feed in front of people but when I have to take my whole top off or it ends up soaked, I am not so cool with that part. Is anyone else having any dramas like this?
Hello everyone!
Aimee was born on 15/06/2010, so I guess we're in here! I will apologise in advance for not being very good at keeping up with buddy threads, but I promise to try my best.
Anyhow, Aimee was born via c/s (8lb 6oz, 52.5cm) and we stayed in hospital for 7 days. On discharge, she had lost 200g, which is pretty good really, and I took her into child health at 2 weeks, and she had put on 500g in one week! Neither of my other two every put on that much in a single week (and my Hannah was a real chubba) so it seems I may have another lovely chubby baby on my hands. So... I'm feeling pretty proud of my breasts :) Aimee is a pretty settled, chilled out bubba (so far!), which is nice! The pregnancy was pretty hard this time (weird heart arrythmia's, lots of throwing up, and antenatal anxiety and panic - none of which I had with the other pregnancies), so it's nice that these early days have been so great., and all the physical symptoms have gone away - still a little anxious, but I'm hoping to get on top of that soon. Aimee is feeding and sleeping well, and we just love her to bits!
Anyhow, I look forward to getting to know you all better!
Cheers,
Juliette
took some pic's of my little man today and just wanted to share, lol...
can't believe he is 3wks + 2days already!!!
Lukey
wow, you are a whole lot more patient than I would be (with my MIL or my mother for that matter) xxxxmez:
I LOVE your photos Maz... how do you get him awake without the squarks??? Actually, Jack has lots of time without squarking, but I'm too giddy with wonder that I fail to pick up the camera... Bad mum I am. ;)
I had to diffuse MIL situation today. She has been feeding off my stress (all internal - I freak sometimes about not being a good mum, and am also the sort of person that needs a cry sometimes), and that has been stressing her. She announced to DH this morning that her & FIL were checking into a hotel & would be flying out before the end of the week. Suffice to say, DH was devastated. He loves his parents dearly, and thanks to his ex-wife, didn't get to talk to his mum for 5 long years. He was really terrified that his mum had taken something the wrong way, and he wasn't going to see her again for a long time. All morning we were trying to convince her to stay, and it was met with a stubborn 'no', and some story about us needing to settle back into our lives. It took until DH was about to drive them to the hotel (with tears in his eyes & a look of defeat that breaks my heart) to finally convince her to stay.
Although I vented the other day about her, she really has been wonderful. The house has never been cleaner! And I would never want her to stay at hotel - in fact, that would stress me more. Not to mention breaking her son's heart. I know there's an element of emotional blackmail in what she pulled (DH's sisters have gone through phases of not talking to her over similar stunts). I really did want to say: 'if you're crabby with me, so be it. Don't take it out on your son or grandson.' But... I also realised my part in it. I have been allowing myself to get crabby too, and not showing my appreciation & gratefulness for her effort here. And I also have to accept that she will not see Jack for a long time after she has gone back to Tassie, so I need to let her have more time with him.
Enough about me...
Welcome Juliette & Aimee!! Our babies share the same birthday! :D And i eases me to know I'm not the only anxious one. I honestly thought I was! *hugs* to you when you need them.
SAK- I used the pump to take the edge off the gigantic morning BB's (otherwise poor Jack struggled to attach), and less for expressing a full feed. Do you think that might help the leaking? If it helps, I still leak when I feed! Especially the left one. It's like I've blown an o-ring on a tap & it just runs out. The poor couch is gonna start smelling like sour milk if don't catch it with a spare cloth (one cloth for baby-spills, one for boob-spills).
Seph- Your birth story is amazing. I agree with you about the shift changes of the staff. I wish you could get at least two days with one middy/nurse. We were in hossy for 4 nights & never had the same nurses. I don't know if it's engineered that way so you don't rely on one person, but it would have been nice to have some continuity with care/advice. I had 4 different people on 3 different days check my breastfeeding (because I'd managed to mince my nipples with the first feed thanks to the epidural). Not to mention the conflicting advice on everything!
But although your experience is traumatising, I really admire that you have put it all into words to begin the healing. Parts of it will always suck, but you have so many positives in there. Xx
How's everyone else? Big warm winter snuggles to everyone. Xx Hope you're keeping those bubs toasty warm. :)
*hugs* re: MIL...it's hard sometimes to keep everyone happy as well as yourself..vent away here, at least then you won't be bottling it up and it may help you deal with the situation whilst you MIL is visiting xxxx:
I have gotten into a habit of whipping the camera out and the older kids now just groan, lol...I have also decided to start taking some pics of luke in all the cute outfits he has been given before he grows out of them!! so tomorrow it will be crochet/knitted items, lol...(as they are the smallest) then I can send photo's to everyone who gave him something special of him in it or with it...(which I never did with the other boys and some stuff never got used)
*hugs* re: MIL...it's hard sometimes to keep everyone happy as well as yourself..vent away here, at least then you won't be bottling it up and it may help you deal with the situation whilst you MIL is visiting xxxx:
I have gotten into a habit of whipping the camera out and the older kids now just groan, lol...I have also decided to start taking some pics of luke in all the cute outfits he has been given before he grows out of them!! so tomorrow it will be crochet/knitted items, lol...(as they are the smallest) then I can send photo's to everyone who gave him something special of him in it or with it...(which I never did with the other boys and some stuff never got used)
Can't stay long today but wanted to see if anyone in Melbourne would like to come along to the High Tea at the Windsor on 17 July: Melbourne Meet-Up
Would be good to meet some of the Buddies group, not sure who else is in Melbourne besides myself and Mrs Hendo...
Hi guys
Entreat - I soooo feel for you. It must be in law day - mine were here today but only for ONE day and I was at the office for 5 hours of their visit so barely saw them! I agree, your MIL did do a bit of manipulating and as much as that sux, I think you handled things really really well asking her to stay and realising how the situation was effecting your DH and your little one. Hopefully now that things have come out in the open a bit more she will realise that YOU are the mum and she is the grandparent and see her role there. On another note - I am SO HAPPY I am not the only one using a cloth for boob spills - hee hee. TBH, I am using a towel and about 2/3rds of it ends up soaked.....yep, that's how much I am leaking. I even had a dream the other night that my whole nipple came off and milk flowed out like a tap!! Thanks for your advice about the pump, I have been trying not to express as per the lactation consultants advice but I am seeing her again on Wednesday and I'll ask her about this again. She said if I really really needed to I can hand express but only enough for comfort - but meanwhile, this supply issue doesn't seem to be getting any better.
Welcome Juliette and congratulations on the birth of Aimee - look forward to getting to know you better.
Kanga - those photos are gorgeous gorgeous. Happy to see I am not the only camera happy girl!
Seph - I am on the Gold Coast, I wish some of you guys were closer so we could have a meet up :)
Hope you guys are having a great week.
How do you feel about homeopathics?
I was given a kit of pilules from my girlfriend & I swear by it now. I've never really taken much before, but I have found it a huge supportive help. In my little 'self prescribing guide', there are a couple of remedies that may help: 1) Urtica Urens (when supply is low or over abundant with no obvious cause. Helps establish good supply), 2) BellaDonna (breasts engorged, red, hard, hot, inflamed, throbbing, painful, especially right sided. Supply can be over abundant), and 3) Calc Carb (breasts full & sore, but supply low, or copious but of poor quality. Mum can be sensitive, fearful, and prone to cold sweats). Or maybe Pulsatilla (supply low with thin watery milk in mild, weepy women, or copious but changeable as are the emotions. Helps to balance the hormones). I have been using a variety from the kit, depending on how/what I'm feeling.
Seph - I'd love to join you, but I think a trip to melbourne at this stage is a little over my head! ;) But I hope you guys have a great time.