Second attempt at posting while Miss Izzy is snoozing - finally! Damn computer froze before. Grrr.
Sangie - I hope your supply gets back on track soon hon. I didn't get mastitis (touch wood!) but I know all about supply issues and it sucks! Hopefully little E starts getting a fuller belly soon
Art - cute pics on FB! I love that one of the two kids asleep. What a champion mum you are! I am super impressed at how often you pop into our thread while juggling two kids. Nice work
Pooley - how's Frazer doing? Glad to hear the waking him for feeds worked at shifting his long overnight sleep to a more reasonable time slot! I'm going to try it with Izzy tonight. She did almost 7 hours between feeds last night but sadly it was from 7pm - 1.45 so I missed half of the precious sleep time as my parents were over for dinner. Bugger!! At least I know she can do it, now we just need to push it out a little later.
Janine - must say I'm very jealous of Emily's sleeps!! Izzy has it in her (see above) but I just need to move her sleep to a more appropriate time slot. LOL. As for your supply, can you get Emily back on the breast yet? She will help increase your supply again, a lot more than a breast pump will.
Nicola - you've done so well getting on here as much as you have. I'm struggling to post and I only have on child to look after!! Indigo sounds like she is doing really well and I'm pleased to hear that your move went well and you have extra help close by now. I am SO glad my parents moved to Perth last year. I don't know where I'd be without them.
Sanchez - how's Violet going? Bet you're super excited about the brace coming off! Will she fit into some of her smaller clothes she hasn't worn yet once it's off? As for breastfeeding clothes, I'm pretty much hanging out in Bonds maternity singlet tops and shorts, skirts or jeans. In the cooler weather, I've been wearing my long sleaved mat tops which are actually really nice and reasonably flattering so I don't mind. It is hard looking at all my nice clothes in my 'pre-baby' wardrobe though and knowing they are just too hard to tackle while breast feeding.
Kelly - Izzy has had quite a few days like you described Tadhg having and they were due to my low supply. We are still working on increasing my supply (we have doubled my does of Motillium as of yesterday) so hopefully it will happen very soon. Izzy is a right piglet so she has at least one formula top up a day, often more. I had to give her a bottle of formula this morning as she breast fed pretty much constantly for two hours and kept waking when I put her down so I gave her a bottle and she has been asleep now for almost 2 hours. Woohoo!!
Ruth - welcome and congrats on the arrival of your little man! Did you get the belly button issue sorted? One of the baby boys in my mothers group had a strange belly button and it turns out he (or his belly!) was actually trying to reattach with his mum!!! So bizarre but not that uncommon apparently.
AFU - thanks so much for all your supportive words girls, you are all so lovely! It's been a damn hard slog for Izzy and I but I think we are getting there. My nipples are still sore but I think that's a combination of the vasospasm and BFing in general. Most new mums I have spoken to are experiencing very sore nipples too. So much for the 'breast feeding shouldn't hurt' line I've heard numerous times. It sounds more normal for it to hurt than not! Most of the mums in my mothers groups are experincing pain and BF issues - boy was I glad to hear all their stories and know I'm not alone at all!
We have our 6 week checkups tomorrow - OB and PD. Hopefully things are all ok with both of us. I'm hoping my OB can give me a script for the new drugs I need so I can get onto of the vasospasm. I'm so tired of going to the doctors! Seriously, I've spent more money on doctors and at the chemist in the past 5 weeks than I have in the entire year! Crazy.
We had our first mothers group last week and it was fantastic! We have about 17 in our group and I hit it off with about 4 girls immediately so that was great. Really looking forward to our next session this Wednesday.
The weather has finally improved in WA (was so hot on Saturday - 37 degrees!!) so I plan on getting back into my walking again. I've always been a big fan of exercise but struggled during pregnancy due to all the back, pelvis and groin pain I experienced. It will be so good to get back into it again and get back into shape. I'm actually quite happy with my post-pregnancy body. I only gained 10kg and had lost all that by the 5 week mark so I'm at my pre-pregnancy weight which is great. I do have a 'muffin-top' for the first time in my life though so I'm keen to get rid of that. I fit into a lot of my old clothes but some of them are a little tight in the boob area. Oh, and the muffin top isn't such a great look in my skinny jeans. LOL!
Izzy is going well but I'm struggling a little to get her to sleep during the day unless she's in the pram (so at the shops or our walking - it must be moving), in the car seat or in someones arms. I think she's still been a bit unsettled due to my boob issues and low supply so hopefully that should all improve with the new meds. We upped my does of Motillium yesterday so she should be getting more milk within a few days. I'm more than happy to give her formula to fill her up though and I'm so glad she's more than happy to take a bottle. What a godsend!
Izzy is sleeping brilliantly at night but tends to do her massive stretch (between 5-7 hours) from 7pm so I tend to miss a good chunk of it as I'm having a bit of 'me' time once she goes down. I'm going to attempt to move that big sleep to a later time though by waking her for a last feed around 9.30pm. Hopefully that works. Izzy has a tendancy to start her day around 4.30am too which is a real pain. Given she has that massive sleep earlier on though, it's not surprising that she is wide awake by 4.30ish. Fingers crossed it will sort itself out if we can push out her long sleep to a later time slot.
I was a bit worried over the weekend as Izzy hadn't pooped for 3 days but low and behold, it came thundering out yesterday morning. It started small in her nappy but then she downloaded the rest of it on the change table. There was so much of it I had to call for backup! DH came armed with plastic bags to dispose of the mess. It was like a very stinky version of Mr Whippy! DH decided to nickname our poor little girl 'Stinkerbel' after that episode. It really was hilarious.
When are we planning our next baby? Not for a good couple of years! We had always planned to have roughly 3 years between our kids and we are definitely sticking with that plan. My sister and I are 2.5 years apart and my bro and I are 3.5 years and that was good growing up as kids. I want to enjoy not being pregnant for a while before I consider any more kids and more than anything, I really want to savour the time I have with Isobel. Not saying you can't do that with more kids but I just want to be able to give Izzy all my attention while she is little.
Well that's enough from me. I'm off to upload a few pics of 'Stinkerbel' into FB while she is STILL sleeping. Oh this is bliss to have some 'me' time during the day!!
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