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Well I had an interesting morning. Phoebe did a huge projectile vomit everywhere that involved a shower, it came out of her mouth and nose - very gross! Then as I was trying to get both of us dressed and she was screaming, Tiana ran into the corner of the hallway wall. I then had 2 screaming children when the phone starts ringing. I finally got us dressed and ice on T's head. She now has a very impressive bruise and egg on her forehead! Luckily the rest of the day has been uneventful.
Tiff- I saw your preg photos, they are gorgeous. T's hair is so long! Was she dark like Hadley as a baby?
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Wow it's been busy in here, I've just read it all to try and catch up and like Tiff's idea of replying to topic too :D
Bathing - another that baths/showers every night as part of her calm down night routine. She loves the bath and also the shower. DH does the bathing & showering - midwife in hospital suggested the showering as a way of DH having some skin to skin bonding with her. I've bathed her a couple of times but going to have to practice in next few days before DH goes back to work.
Sleeping Arrangements - A has slept in her own room sine we brought her home but our place is sooo small and her room is central in the house and there is no escaping everyday noise so with the TV, washing machine, vaccuuming and me crashing around in the kitchen she sleeps through it all. Her hardest sleep to get her to settle for is the last one before we go to bed and we think it's coz it's too quiet lol. She also has no issues sleeping in pram while out & about and in the car.
Bleeding - mine stopped after three weeks, I did get concerned when after a few days of brown it went back to bright red but then I had a huge clot come away and it all finished a few days after that.
Bladder control - I've got some issues with that but it seems to be getting better, very very slowly, just got to remember to clench my pelvic floor or cross m legs if I can feel a sneeze coming on or a cough. Have to be especially careful on a fuller bladder - I wear the really light "lady pads" for a bit of a safeguard and hate it but better than not wearing them, especially if I'm out lol.
BF Boobs - They have started to settle but after A's long night sleep they are rock hard and like soccer balls, I still leak but don't have it running out like I used to.
Wind drops - I've been using Infants Friend, I had bought a bottle after trying the Brauers one and was happy that it was what Paed was going to recommend for us to use. It does seem to be helping, A seems to have less issues at night when her wind really used to play up.
DTD - Am starting to feel like it, as I'm starting to feel human again but having to go to bed fully dressed in bra, breast pads and also my "bladder issues" don't really make me feel particularly sexy or in the mood lol will work a way around it :)
Sleepy - I really hope you are feeling better & it's not mastitis. Have you tried cold packs on your boobs, same principle as cabbage leaves but they stay cooler longer.
Superstar - Are you going back to work fulltime or parttime? I've taken 12 months off work and struggling with not being financially independent for the first time in my life & relying on DH's wage
AFM - A has been sleeping quite well at night, I even got 8 hours out of her on friday night 12-8, but average past couple of nights has been a 6hr sleep, then a top up around 5ish and then another 3 hours before she gets up. Her colic seems to be a bit better but I'm also wondering if it also coincided with a wonder week & the 6 week crying/unsettled period everyone talks about.
We are just happy she travels so well so far and can't wait for the warmer weather so we can go camping etc.
Our car seems to be having issues, so DH is at a mates workshop trying to work out what problem is, am hoping it something relatively simple coz we were due to head home on wednesday morning. I'm cooking tonight so better go hang out some washing while Vic has some sunshine lol and walk down to shops to get what I need.
Hope everyone had a great weekend and a great start to the week.
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Hi.
Well it seems that I am feeling better, think a few good hot showers, expressing, lots of water and some healthy food helped me kick that infection/bug I had the other night. So thank goodness to that!
We had a pretty uneventful weekend, got to have a sleep both days, and managed to catch up on some washing. We didn't really go anywhere, which is fine with me, I'm still adjusting with a new baby. I want to be able to go out, and in time I'm hoping it will become easier.
DH had the day off today, he woke up feeling sick, so it was a day of bed rest today. Didn't get into the shower until 11.30 this morning. But at least I managed to washy hair. It's nice to feel human. Lol
I was just wondering if anyone has heard from Socks? Does anyone know if she is ok?
Well E seems to be doing well, still feeding mostly every 3 hours, but I can sometimes get a good 4 hour block at night time, which is nice. He is usually settling for the night at between 9 and 10pm.
Well I hope you're all getting plenty of rest and enjoying your bubs. Xox
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Morning everyone
well it has been a long morning for me been up since 4am and have only just recently got may settled now i have to stay up cause it time for the other kids to get ready for school going to be a long day for me.
At what weeks do the growth spurts happen?? i cant remeber as last DD never altered or changed so must of went through them but we didnt see any change in her.
I am sure may has been going through one this last week very aggetated extra hungry and seems to of found her lungs lol.
May has been getting alot more wind to lately with the infants friends etc do you give it before feeds?after?inbetween?etc
My weekend was flat out 4 kids at home very busy older 2 just tormented each other all weekend DD 17months is abit clingy atm to school holidays soon so dreading them i will be lucky to have any hair left by the end of them.
Hope everyone else is well will pop back later .
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Caplaylolmay - I like school holidays- only cos I don't have to get up at 7 when my alarm goes off. My older 2 like going to friends houses, so it gets kinda quiet around here...altho it'll mean boredom, more washing, more money....lol. Oh well. Ours start at the end of June.
We had a pretty rough night, I didn't get to sleep until 11, E woke at 12, 2.30 and grizzled lots in between. I heard him farting like a trooper before he woke at 6. I had to put his dummy in quite a few times, so lacking in sleep for me too today. Hopefully I'll get s nap this afternoon!
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Sleepy - Good that you are feeling better. Mastitis would have been terrible! I was wondering about socks myself? I'm sure she is just busy though.
Cap - Bubs generally have growth spurts around 2 and 6 weeks. But every baby is different! I hope May settles more easily for you today!
I can't complain about Phoebe. She has unsettled times but she is such an easy bub. Worst case at night I just cuddle her in bed and she goes off to sleep with me. I also havn't had any serious issues with wind. The only thing is she likes to be held and cuddled most of the day but I love that! - it just makes it a bit difficult to get stuff done around the house. Whats the bet that now I've said this she will totally backflip on me? lol
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Hey ladies,
I am a past stalker of the baby thread when we were all still preggers and have been reading through all your posts in this section since having my bubby. I was due on the 7th May and had my first little girl on the 2nd May. Birth went very average - not at all what i was expecting! Ended up having surgery immediately afterward to repair a 4th degree tear which was pretty horrible, however i have been really lucky and healing well with no foreseeable long term effects...thank goodness! I have been told that the reason for the tear was due to her large size (8p12o) and that she came out 'wrong' - apparently like a ski jumper! Unfortunately i have been advised by 2 obs and a top surgeon that my next baby will have to be born via c-section as further damage is very highly likely to cause long term issues with my bowels and bladder :(
Anyways, we are coping reasonably well. She wont take the boob no matter what we try so i have been expressing since she was born. Admittedly i have struggled with the whole concept and have decided to keep expressing until September and then put her on formula. She already has one formula feed a day and does not notice the difference at all...she really is a trooper feeder despite the issue with feeding from the breast...at the end of the day she loves her bottle and that's ok by me.
Bubby will be 6 weeks this coming Sunday...has anyone noticed a change in their bubs from about 5 weeks. A was doing really well with sleeping but i have noticed that her day sleeps are a bit all over the place and we can't seem to get her to settle until her 10pm feed. I have put this down to her having a bit of a growth spurt at the moment plus becoming a bit more alert...your thoughts?
Anyways i will try and actually keep up with posts this time...a new mummy resolution i have!
Hope you all have a good day.
J xo ;)
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jcec, my little one is 5 weeks tomorrow, and she has been harder to get down in avos, seems to be 4pm ish onwards she is awake till alter at night and wont sleep, cries alot etc etc,
although sounds dumb but i think she teething, she has large lumps and sharps bit in 2 spots and chews on eveything, she has even started pushing the bottle aside with her tongue and chewing on it, not drinking,
but yea i think must be age thing with the no sleep stuff, she is becoming harder to settle nothing works
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Hi Traylee,
I did a little bit of research on the 'wonder weeks' that have been discussed previously and A is spot on with all of the 'symptoms' of this and was dead on time coming into the 5 week stormy time! hopefully our little ones will improve over the next few days/week...we shall see how accurate the research is!
JC
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Hi JC and welcome back! Congratulations on your birth. What's your little ones name?
Wow we had a 4 and a half hour block of sleep! That's the best so far! Altho he didn't go to sleep until 10pm. He wasn't really hard to settle, he was just awake, watching telly and hanging out....
My boobies are becoming sore again, think I need to express in the shower again :( it's weird because there should be no reason for the swelling or lumps, he generally feeds equally from both sides.
Traylee - Sounds alot like teething - lucky for you you're not breast feeding! Lol
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yea im gonna ask nurse today at weigh in, im staying up with her tonight as i want troy to come tv shopping tomorrow lol, its 3.17am atm
she slept from 6.30pm till 12, and still asleep now
i think teething i got her rusks naughty me and i hold it for her and she knawls at it, loves it, sucks and chews kinda mostly chews, but yea she has swollen bits inside mouth and stuff so not sure
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Completely selfish post - I got a 6 hour block last night..woo hoo! Second night of big blocks - it appears (touch wood) the little man is learning to sleep longer at night! He went to bed at 7 (feel asleep on daddy at 630 mind you cos he only had a 20 min kip in the afternoon after his 3pm feed) and DP dreamfeed at 1030pm and he slept til 430am woke for a bottle and went back down until 7am. Is it weird I think he knows when his bath is due? and when he needs to wake up in the morning? At 530 most nights he is a bit cranky and crys until he has his bath and then is fine cos it is then bottle and bed! And regardless of whether he wakes at 3,4,5 or 6 he wakes up at 7am (give or take 10 minutes)....I am really trying to get him into a routine, only 7 weeks til I have to go back to work (hopefully I can get a job), so for both our sanity we are working towards a 4 hourly routine, which he has basically fell into himself! Fingers crossed we drop the early morning feed before I have to go back.
Someone asked - cant remember who - whether I am going back full time, I am going back 4 days and my family is looking after the little man initially (my nana, mum and aunty are sharing). So that doesnt make it too bad although I will miss my little man I have no choice as I earn significantly more than DP so if it was decided someone would stay home it would be him (I earn about 30k more per annum)....but that is the sacrifice I made when we decided to have bub - cos we purchased our first home and im sure I will be fine once I get back into the swing of things. I am going to go to each carers home and spend the day with them going through his routine etc so I feel comfortable with leaving him. Despite each of them being mothers I still want to know they can cope with my boy. I sound like an overbearing mother dont I???? Anyhow, I have told them they need to respect his routine - ie with self settling and leaving him to sleep by himself etc cos they all are besotted with him and all laugh at me when I tell them they cant nurse him while he is sleeping and not to rock and pat him (really he doesnt need it most of the time)....im babbling now!
Hope everyone else had a good night :-)
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SM - You are not being overbearing, you are just being a mother - I won't leave my babies with anyone (not even MIL) until they are at least 1. Maybe for an hour or 2, but not long periods of time. Even at that stage I worry. It's just a motherly thing. Lol. And you have every right to go thru H's routine and tell them what you do and don't want. He's your baby and at the end of the day he is back with you and if keeping his routine makes it easier for you, then so be it!
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my sleep wasnt alot lol, i stayed up waiting, but after her 4am feed i went to sleep for 1.5hrs lol, i actually put her in her cot in her room so could since she noisy lol
so she went from 6.30 till 12, then 4am then 6.30 so not to bad i guess, getting better maybe lol, i think she would sleep longer in her cot rather than bassinette cause that long sleep she had from 6.30 was in troys bed alone by herself while we wathced tv in my room
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Hi everyone
We also had a good night thank goodness got some much needed sleep after being up since 4am the morning before i fed may at 10:00pm went straight back down fed at 4:00am and then back down till 9:30am everyone slept in so it was good.
weather is so terrible here so just staying indoors once again we havent gone anywhere i havent even put the car seat in the car yet for may as mum picked me up from the hostpital when we came home.
Superstar- i agree you are not being selfish i think it is important to stick to the routine you have set out for baby things can become alot harder if the routine was thrown into chaos.
Sleepy- i hope your boobs are feeling better i remeber with last DD i breastfed her and i used to shove cabbage leaves in my bra to help it seemed to work to well did for me.
Glad to hear you got 4 hrs out of E last night.
Tralee- I think all babies start teething at different times some earlier then others some later my first 2 started early but my last dd still only has 7 teeth and still teething she has been really slow getting them.
anyway better go feed little one i love just sitting back on the couch snuggling in this awful weather.
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Routine - i think if you have a routine going others need to respect it. both DH & I get cranky when ppl try to interfer with our choice...or try to do things when we are trying to do something (ie a friend was almost pushing DH out of way to pick Z up when he was crying...they got in big trouble)
Sleeping - Z sleeps approx 9pm - 12am,12-4, 4-7. today was a good day so hopefully his night is as good.
Nappy rash - Z has gotten a rash with this cold weather. i need to uncover his tooshie for a half hr total time each day...poor sweetie
Nookie - TMI .. DH & I dtd last night, things appeared to be stopped for me but it has caused some bleeding :( I think we need to wait at least another week to try again :(
Bathing - we bath every day here. Z had his first shower yesterday - he prefers the bath in the washing tub lol
Weight - Z put on 320g this week, he is now 3.8kg!
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Well our day has been rather unaccomplished. Lol. E hasn't slept more than 20min blocks today. He only wants to sleep in my arms. He has been farting the most smelliest farts today and last night. He hasn't pooped for 2 days - which is normal for a breast fed baby. Very unsettled today. I just hope he sleeps tonight as I didn't get any sleep today. :(
I have bathed him tonight, and last night so hopefully it'll relax him and we'll all get some sleep!
Breasts - They have settled down a fair bit. So that's nice :) They still fill up and tingle painfully when it's feed time. But I have come to find that expressing and massaging in the shower helps alot.
DTD - We dtd the other night, started out well, but TMI alert - when DH was inside, it felt like sand paper in there. Wasn't so much painful as uncomfortable. It hurt a little bit, and I think we should wait at least another week or so.
I think I may also have a bit of constipation :( I can't find time to go, I hardly get a spare minute. But I seem to have alot of gas at the moment too. I seriously don't feel very sexy! I hope you all are coping and having an easy time.
I would really like to feel comfortable with leaving the house alone too. I have trouble getting myself and 2 little ones ready to get out if the house, let alone on time. Is anyone else having trouble getting out of the house?
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just a quick one - sleepy, I find planning anything around a time impossible. The girls and I get out of the house when we're all ready, whenever that may be!
