March & April 2008 Mummies

I think they can last up to about 12 weeks. They say they start to appear between week 3 and 6. Liam has just started to get a few now. Lockie was covered in them, I'm hoping Liam doesn't get them as bad, they look awful. But they say its the mother that notices them the most.

Edited by Mummy2one

We had another good night last night too. Finally got the little monkey to sleep at 6.45pm (he had been awake since 2.30pm, which was doing my head in). Liam woke at 11.15pm so I was happy with that, then he woke at 4am, and at 6.30am after he had finally pushed out that poo that he had been trying to do for ages by the sounds of his grunting and groaning. Had him back down by 8am and he is still sleeping now.

How was playgroup Daph?

Daphne, Ben is the same , think he though Soph was just visiting... but now he strokes her and points to her knee and says baby knee and baby nose, very cute, hes still not his usual self but hes getting there!

Things are a bit better here, everyone still sick but hopefully the runny noses will clear up soon, Soph is sleeping 3-4 hours at night but is a bit of a cryer during the day and wants to be carried all the time, so I might have to invest in a sling

Hope all is good with you guys

Hope everyone is good.

Don't you hate those hormone spots, they look so ugly on your bubbas face.

I must ring the osteopath too Tiff, will do it on Monday, hopefully it will help with Gabs wind.

We got discharged from the mw yesterday, it was a bit weird to think I won't be seeing her anymore. Our first appointment with plunket is in a week and a half. Gabs now weighs 3690g or 8 lb 2 oz, which is a good weight gain from her birth weight of 6 lb 10 according to the mw, so its good to know she is getting enough.

Yesterday we went away to Hanmer for the night as it was my sisters 30th birthday. I was a bit nervous about the whole thing, I really didn't know how things would go. But they were excellent. Lockie slept in a bunk bed and didn't wake at all during the night and little Liam well he did a 6 hour stretch from 9.15pm to 3.30am (can't complain about that), and then from 4.30am to 7.30am.

Emma - Liam seems to want to constantly feed from 2pm to 5.15pm where he has a nap but will then feed again for another 3 hours after that. I haven't tried the bottle but it has crossed my mind. Apparently its called cluster feeding when they keep feeding and they are just building up enough food to get them through for a bit longer. I must say when Liam does it (yes a pain and it drives me bananas), he seems to do a great stretch at night. It's really hard when you have a toddler on the scene wanting your attention too.

Liam having a great sleep now went down at 12.15pm (in the car) and well its nearly 3pm and he's till asleep, unlike my toddler who had 45mins in the car and is a little ratty, but we did give him the chance to go back to sleep in his bed and he just lay there talking. We could be in for an interesting afternoon.

I have bottle fed since day one with formula with Gabs as bf never interested me. She is usually a good sleeper too, will mostly go for four hours at a time, but don't know if that has anything to do with it. I discussed it with my mw when I first met her and she was always supportive of my decision.

I made an apptmt with the osteopath today for next Thursday after an unsettled night and the feed from hell this morning. She just kept power vommitting and wouldn't bring up her wind and then had the biggest poohy nappy and finally got a huge amoutn of wind up and she was good after that. It can be so frustrating sometimes when I can hear the wind bubbling away but she won't bring it up and she's only had half the amount she generally needs. So fingers crossed the osteo will help her burp herself more easily.

Finally made it on here again!! Amazing how your days seem to fill up!! And because Rohann only seems to slepp on average about 1 hour I have to squeeze a lot into that time!! But I can't complain she slept from 8 - 4.15 then 4.30 - 7.30 last night and this morning so I figure she has to fit those other feeds in somewhere!!!

I'm a bit nervous saying this but I've had to bottle feed Rohann from 2 -3 weeks. A really tough and emotional decision for me (so no negative comments please). We deiscovered at her 1 week weigh that she had lost too much weight so it was decided she would be weighed in 2 days, at that time there was no real improvement. Long story short it was discovered that my milk never came in properly (never got the engorgement, leaky boobs etc), I started doing everything I could to get my milk in; expressing after every feed with a hosp grade pump, special tea, massaging a special oil into boobs etc. Unfortunately I'm unable to take the medication to bring on milk as it reacts with another medication I'm on and at this stage I need to stay on that for heath reasons. After a couple of days of this it was decided she needed something else as she was not coping on the little I had, so we started lactatube feeding her (feeding her with a tube and formula while on my breast). But unfortunately my milk just didn't come after almost a week of this (I tried expressing without feeding her once to see how much milk was there and after 20mins I got 10ml off one breast and 20 off the other and in that time I should have been getting at least 150ml) so the decision was made (with help of m/w and lactation consultant) put her on formula. She still feeds off me at least once a day but it's more for my comfort and hers than anything as she still needs a bottle after this. I don't feel guilty for giving her formula as it's the best thing for her but I do feel angry that my body hasn't worked the way it should and it has let me and Rohann down, especially as she is the best feeder, she was straight on the breast and latched perfectly. So it's been a bit sad, but as soon as she startesd getting the formula she was like a different baby, as before if she wasn't feeding she was grizzling and crying and not sleeping (except at night, she was always good there, though we thought it was be default as she wasn't sleeping during the day).
Anyway sorry for the novel!! what a long way to say 'yes we are giving our baby the bottle'!!!

Lucky I really hope the osteo can help por Gabs (and you!)

Mummy2one - hope things settle down for you soon, sounds like it's been tough. You could be right about the growth spurt - don't they say every 3 - 4 weeks? Enjoy your sleep.

Far out Lucky thats a long day sleep - she must have needed it after her busy day yesterday!! Can you believe our babies are four weeks old!!! Where has that time gone?

Tiff - just wanted to say (re: bottle feeding) that you are doing the best by your baby and that is all that matters! I can imagine how it may make you feel sad, but you have a healthy baby and that the most important thing

Well we had a good night last night, Ollie slept right through and woke happy for a start. Actually when Stu went to get him out of bed, I heard Ollie say 'Boo' when Stu opened the door! Cute!!

Lilia went down to sleep at 9pm, awake at 1am then back down just after 2am and awake at 6am again. She's now been down since 7.30am.

This morning we are all off to music, I think I'll let Stu do the running and dancing around with Ollie though. I think Ollie will love the novelty of having dad there with him.

Right off to check the March thread to see if there are anymore bubbas. Have a lovely day ladies!