Howdy everyone! I am still here reading how everyone is going, but don't seem to find the time to post anything myself!
Deana- I lost it yesterday with DH as well. Feel totally taken for granted and like a single parent! Have cleared the air and we have decided to wean Sam so I will now have more hours in my day in which I can do housework! (Hmmm, not so sure it is a good thing, but will remove a lot of stress!)
Apes- we had the same problem with Sam the other week. We went for a long drive out to the dam to see the water flowing through the gates (sad I know, but so is the other half of Brisbane which was there!) Sam slept the whole time which was a good thing at the time, but that night, he thought it was party time. Was not fun at 11:30 begging him to go to sleep!
AFM- we had our 6 week check up with the Paed on Wednesday. Sam is 4.11kg and is catching up! The paed thought his double chin was cute! He is getting into a bit more of a routine now with waking up in the morning and being awake for a couple of hours and then going back down for a big sleep. He has had some really gugrly noises coming from his bowels and will sometimes scream in pain. Tried infants friend which didn't help, but found a nice warm bath did! I asked the paed and she said that between 6-8 weeks their guts get a bit noisy and windy and that they grow out of it pretty quickly. Hope so. Hate hearing my little guy in pain.
We are also going to wean him as well. He is on EBM atm and the time I am losing during the day with expressing is killing me! And having to keep an eye on the clock to make sure I am home within 6 hours is limiting my life, so will slowly space out the expressing so my body starts to decrease supply. Will still take a couple of weeks, but slow is good. Less chance of mastitis! Oh yeah, and sorry to all of you who have it. I had a blocked duct with DD and it was awful! My SIL had such a badly blocked duct with her first baby that it became an abcess and she had to have surgery to get it cleaned out. Took weeks to heal and she would get BM leak out of the wound! (ewwww) She perservered with the BF though and managed to continue until he was about 14 months! Her 2nd baby who is 10 weeks older than Sam has reflux. She took him to the paed last week who told her to start him on solids and he was hungry! She was feeding him every 3 hours and it was killing her! So at almost 4 months she is starting him on farex. I started DD at about the same stage as she was hungry all the time and it didn't do her any harm!
I have my first appointment with the psychologist on Tuesday to try and get on top of this PND. Really hoping she can help me deal with some of the head stuff going on. It doesn't help that when Sam was a week old my dad got diagnosed with cancer (melanoma) and is now facing major surgery and radiation therapy to treat it. My mum is barely holidng it together and she is usually the person I would go for to vern and unload and I don't feel right doing that, so hopefully she can listen to my cr@p!
Finally we have some nice weather here, so when DH gets home from swimming with the older kids, we might clean out the vege garden ready to plant for summer! I am looking forward to having my body back and losing all of this weight I put on and getting into some nice clothes! I am sick of everything being tight! I also have a gastric band which I can finally get some fill in and limit my food (was worried about doing it in case it affected my milk!)
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