DTD - I wouldn't mind, but am still bleeding, not to mention tired! DH seems keen though...
Contraception - We don't want condoms so I think it'll be the mini-pill. Will have to speak to the ob about my endo though, because before we were ttc I was taking the pill full time (no period) for 5 years. They say preg is a great treatment for endo, but I don't want it coming back!
Baths - We bath every day as part of B's bedtime routine: feed, bath, massage, cuddles, bed. He settles really well afterwards and most of the time for longer - we've had 5.5hrs the last couple of days! He hated them at first, but really likes them now and looks so relaxed. DH and I always bath together and it's my fave time of day. We want to take him in the shower one day soon though... Oh, and we have ducted air con/heating so always turn that on before bath time so it's nice and warm in his room, otherwise he shivers when we take his clothes off!
Sleepy - Hope you don't have mastitis, it sounds very unpleasant from what I've heard.
Tina - Happy Birthday!!
traylee - B loves noise! He's slept through heavy traffic, vaccuum, mower and whipper snipper as well as TV, phones ringing and shopping centre crowds! That's gotta be a good thing!
pmccask - I wish I had some secrets for settling! I've just handed B off to DH to settle as he's been very unsettled all day. He hasn't slept for longer than 10 minutes (though we're up to 15 now so he might finally have tired himself out!) and is feeding every two hours, then crying/grizzing non-stop, even if he's being held! If he's really upset, a dummy stops the really loud cries, but won't put him to sleep. Sometimes he'll go to sleep from drowsy; sometimes he feeds to sleep; sometimes he will self-settle from wide awake; sometimes he'll fall asleep only if he's being cuddled and sometimes he'll sleep if he's in the pram! The midwife said to remember the "5 S's" - swaddling, sucking (your finger, a dummy or boob), side hold (lying flat against your body with your arm along his back), swaying (or rocking or in a pram) and shhhhhing (slow and loud enough to be heard above their grizzles/screams). Hope that helps!
Question - Tell me about the drops etc that you guys are using - Infacol, gripe water, Infants Friend etc. Do they work? What's in them?
AFM - As I said above, B is unsettled today, but yesterday was an angel. I went shopping and he slept for 6 hours in the pram, with 10 or so minutes awake and crying while I changed him - he even slept while he fed!
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