Mel, how are you going? How is life as a mum of 3? Hope you're coping alright and that you're not too exhausted. How's the breastfeeding going?
Guess what? It's Lara's birthday tomorrow (26th oct). Can't believe my little girl is almost two already. Poor liitle kid has a bad cold at the moment. Hopefully she's a bit better tomorrow to be able to enjoy her bday. We're not having a party. We had lunch with some family yesterday & we'll just have a small cake at home tomorrow.
hey... just quickly 1 handed. All is ok, busy but o k. Had a meltdown yesterday and just cried all day. feel ok today. amy is beautiful. i am so blessed. when i have a free moment i will type more....
happy birthday for tomorrow Lara x o hope shes better soon
Aww Mel, huge hugs hun. Gosh the first bit is so so hard and overwhelming, your exhausted, your hormones are all over the show, trying to get the hang of breastfeeding and you've got two other little energisers to look after as well. Just be easy on yourself and I remember with Finny, when he had that horrible colic in the evenings, I just used to repeat "it will get better, it will get better". Your doing a fantastic job, today's a new day and the sun is shining.!!
Amazing, Lara is two tomorrow, wow, I was just in Toysrus looking at a trike for Finny. Huge Happy Birthday hugs to Lara!!! Hope the cold improves.
All well here, I have just bought two bassinettes on ebay - long story - didn't mean to - but now have realised that it will be a good thing. Still feeling great so making the most of getting things done and making the most of spending lots of time with my gorgeous little ones before it turns to bedlam.
Mel, I agree with laurin, it's the hormones. You are doing a fab job. It can be very overwhelming in the beginning. I'm now down to 2 - 3 breastfeeds per day with Lexie coz I was just too busy with Cadence and Lara to sit for long periods of time during the day to breastfeed. Hope you're getting plenty of rest & we're here to listen anytime you need!! xxx
Laurin, 2 bassinets will be good. Least you can keep one in bubs room & one in the loungeroom or something. Have you thought of any names for bub?
Lara's bday was good. She was a little bit better yesterday but has been very sooky coz she's sick. We had a quiet day at home playing with her toys & a cake. Lexie had her 4mth needles today. She's a chubber & weighs exactly 7 kg. She did really well with her needles.
leigh... do you give formula for other feeds? am expressing all the time and am over being on the couch. amy is crap at sucking and needs ebm top up after each feed. i dont know how long i can do this for. i hope she learns soon otherwise i will have to do formula glad to hear lara is better... a bit!
laurin- 2 bassinetts are a great idea... and yes do u have any names yet?
well things are slowly improving. i managed the housework today! i have healed well and bleeding has almost stopped. So now I am back to feeling almost normal and can do so much
Ok better go. Rebecca has painted heself with lip gloss.... my dad just informed me she has also painted her other lips with lip gloss too!!!
Mel, I had to top up with ebm after each feed too but found it hard trying to breastfeed, pump & look after 3 kids all at once. I only had a manual pump so after about 3-4wks I topped up with formula. Now Lexie has 2-3 breastfeeds per day & the rest of her feeds are formula. It was too hard for me to breastfeed all the time, especially when it was time to drop off or pick up Cadence from school. I found that once I introduced formula I could relax a bit more & wasn't stressing about feeds.
hey girls thought i would pop in and say hi while i have a spare minute. Things are going along ok, I suppose it gets better with time. I am still trying to bf and am topping up after every feed with ebm. Am going to do this for another month as I hired the hospital pump for another 4 weeks.... gives me a time frame! If Amy still hasnt worked out how to attach by then, then I will pop her on formula full time. I do have hoe though that shes starting to get it albeit slowly.
Rebecca is doing well, I cant believe she will be 2 soon. How time has flown. Her words are fantastic, shes such a character. Shes coping ok with Amy most of the time but does have some moments of jealousy... shes such a mummies girl. Shes beautiful, when she sees me crying she just looks at me and says ' mummy dont sad'. Shes started biting too, not all the time but she was in the bath with Olivia last night and they were so cute kissing each other on the lips and then Becca just bit Livs lip and there was blood! She also kickes a lot... jut trying to assert herslef I think! Her sleep has been a bit all over the place since Amy has been around but hopefully like everything else it will settle.
Well I hope everyone is well. I better go and sort bed time out before Amy wakes for her next feed... this is the longest I have been on line for
Mel, sounds like you are coping well. Lara was a bit jealous when I first had Lexie too but now she's settled right down. She had started biting too but hasn't done it for some time now, hopefully she's forgotten about it coz Cadence was never a biter so I've never had to deal with biting before. Looks like next week will be my last wk of breastfeeding coz DH got a new job at the casino & he starts his training school on the 15th. It goes for 5 wks & runs from 8.30pm-6pm. So that means I will be doing the school run everyday will all the kids in tow. I won't gave time to breastfeed Lexie in the mornings while getting breakfast & everyone dressed & ready & at school by 9am.
Hope everyone else is well & you all have a great weekend!
Hey girls, hope youre all well, its very quiet in here.
Lifes busy but starting to get on track. Amy is devine. She still isnt feeding well but we are making slight progress. I just have to get her tongue to come out a bit and hope she will be better on the boob....i dont like having my nipple chomped at!
Rebecca turned 2 on Wednesday. Shes a beautiful little girl. She doesnt stop talking, shes so cuddly. She also has some fantastic tanties but it s all good.
Olivia is also a beautiful you girl, shes really struggling at the moment not getting the attention she is used to. Especially with Beccas birthday and the fuss about Amy and the amount of time I have been on the couch for. Shes having massive tantrums and huge attitude. I suppose thats all part and parcel hey!
Ok well... just thought I would let you know I am alive!
Mel, you are doing such a great job with your three gorgeous girls!!! It sounds like they are all thriving and I hope it is getting easier and easier for you a little bit at a time. You are doing great with the bf'ing. It is interesting how the siblings react when a new baby comes along isn't it. I am getting nervous about the whole thing from birth to after, but once your in it you just gotta keep going. Happy 2nd Birthday to Rebecca.
Leigh, how are you doing with your DH working long hours?
We are all well here, pregnancy going great, I just sat an exam on Tuesday night as I am studying part-time, so now i feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can start to enjoy life, Christmas and my gorgeous kids. DD and DS are all good, so cute and they play together so well (and fight too!!!).
Happy Birthday Rebecca for Wednesday!!! Wow Mel, can't believe Amy is 4 wks old already, goes really quickly hey. Lexie will be 5 months on Tuesday, it doesn't feel like 5 mths since I had her. Glad the breastfeeding is going ok. I'm still feeding Lexie 3 feeds per day. Lara has been chucking some massive tantrums lately, think coz I can't give her the one on one attention that she'd like. She gets frustrated if I'm busy with Lexie & she wants something.
Laurin, I bet you're glad your exam is over. Must be hard at times trying to study & look after two little kids. This is the first wk of DH's long shifts. I've been struggling doing the school run a bit, especially this morning coz it was raining. Lara refuses to sit in the pram so I have to hold an umbrella, hold lara's hand & push Lexie in the pram. Then when we go to leave Cadence's classroom Lara chucks a massive tantrum coz she wants to stay at school.....some days I wish I could leave her there lol. I think cadence's teachers feel sorry for me coz they can see I have my hands full. This arv I have to take cadence to swimming lessons & Lara & Lexie have to come with me. I can just see the tantrum Lara will put on once she sees cadence in the pool. Then cadence has a school disco straight after swimming for 2 hrs which I don't know if she will go coz it's a bit much for me to take Lara & Lexie from swimming straight to the disco for two hrs, especially when it's at dinner time, I feel bad making cadence miss out though.
OMG Leigh... you sound so busy. I hope it all goes smoothly for you.
Congrats on finishing your exam Laurin
Time flies when youre having fun
rebecca has an obsession with putting her hand down the back of her nappy and says yucky in there. I have tried a few times to get her on the potty but she wont have a bar of it. At least now she tells me when she is doing a poo... she calls it a fart! And she asks me to change her. I have had her crap on the carpet in her room and on the couch.... all when I am feeding Amy... not a great idea to have her nappy off then... oh well!
Mel, Lara is the opposite, won't tell me when she's poo'd but gladly sits on the potty. If I say go sit on your potty she goes & grabs it & takes her nappy off & sits on it. Still hasn't poo'd or pee'd in it yet though. I'm not pushing her though, she'll do it when she's ready. I pushed Cadence too soon & she wasn't ready & then all of a sudden a couple of days before she turned 2 & a half she wanted to go to the toilet herself & was trained in like 3 days. I've had to clean up a few of Laras poos off the carpet lately, they always pick a great time to do it hey. I've enjoyed DH being home this weekend to help out. Not looking forward to another busy wk starting again tomorrow.
AFM- we are settling in fine! Fine enough for me to start thinking about things....like my visit to the drs on Wednesday and trying to decide about contraception and if I want more kids. I have a feeling that I might...maybe. I think dh might too.... I have to say though that I hate the first 6 weeks of baby, its so hard and emotionally wrecking! Things have turned around now and are looking up. I am still expressing though which I hate with a passion. I took Amy to the osteo for the 2nd time and there has been some improvement in her feeding. She has done 2 feeds this weekend without needing ebm. Shes going through a growth spurt though and is almost constantly feeding at night... anyway I am hoping things will look up in the b/fing saga coz I am going to review it this time next week and make some decisions. I dont think I am ready to give up though.
Olivia is doing well. shes a delight most of the time and loves her sisters. Shes a great help too. She sleeps through most nights and I have recently taken her bed rail off and her connie off too (waterproof top sheet). Although she did wet the bed one night last week...first time in months.
Rebecca is doing well. She talks and talks and talks..... OMG she does not stop. Her language is so good and she has such a wide range of words. We are trying to potty train her but she wees/poos then says she needs to go or she will sit on the potty post wee! Shes been waking up of a night for some reason and cracks the sh*ts. So between everyone waking I dont get a load of sleep.
Mel, yay for Amy having two feeds on the weekend without needing ebm. Hopefully you will be able to stop expressing very soon. I was like you in the beginning with Lexie, always expressing too, and I only had a manual pump but now I haven't needed to express for about nearly two months. I'm still breast feeding 3 feeds per day but Lexie will be 6mths on the 23rd and I am thinking I might start to fully wean her then.....not sure though. Do you think you guys will have another bub?
Laurin, how are things going with you? How much longer have you got now?
Where are all the other girls? We haven't seen them in here for ages. Hope everything is ok, I bet they're probably just busy.
Well not much happening here. Tomorrow is Cadence's last day of school & then 6wks holidays. It will be nice not having to do the school run everyday but I usually get Lara & Lexie to sleep at the same time during the day & get a bit of quiet time to myself but with Cadence home that quiet time will go out the window. I still haven't finished my Xmas shopping.
Hey Leigh.... so you stopped expressing at 3 and a half months? I need some hope. Am so over it today. Shes 8 weeks next tuesday and I really need her to do something soon. Am so tired.
Other children...maybe I dont know!!! Looked at getting the Mirena and have a script for it but had a discussion with dh and he is happy to use condoms for the moment!
Better go....
Mel I probably stopped full on expressing around 8 wks I think coz she was happy with breastfeeding & I gave in & gave formula top ups. The only time I would express then was if I actually missed a feed so my milk supply wouldn't dry up, as it dried up completely with cadence at 3 mths. Then when Lexie was around 3 & a half months I started introducing formula feeds & not expressing the feeds that I would do with formula, if that makes sense? And from then I have now cut down to 3 breastfeeds per day & the rest formula. It was just too hard & time consuming expressing & breastfeeding full time. You know what it's like with 3 kids. Maybe if you don't want to stop breastfeeding completely you could do the same as me, pick 3 feeds that you'd like to breastfeed & do the rest formula. My milk supply is still fine for those feeds coz I tend to feed those 3 feeds around the same time each day & my body knows to make milk for those specific feeds.
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glad to hear lara is better... a bit!
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