March & April 2008 Mummies

Well I cant believe it's almost been a week since Maddi was born. Shes been so easy (I think especially after Keira was so difficult) I dont know what shes sleeping at night.. She usually has 3 feeds probably every 2-3 hours but I'm usually only awake for 10 minutes and then end up falling asleep, so not feeling too tired at the moment. Feeding is way easier than I remember from last time, I atcually feel like I have milk and shes getting lots to drink, mw doesnt think she would have lost too much weight. I really hope shes stays such a placid baby.
Keiras been generally pretty good with the baby, she loves to sing to her - Maddi likes it too, and is telling her about everything. I think this morning she woke up a bit grumpy and told us she wanted to 'throw maddi away now' DH has taken her out to playgroup this morning so hopefully she'll come back a lot happier and not so mean to Maddi.
I better go check on the sleeping baby before the others return and the house is no longer quiet.
Hope you all have a good day and these babies are all well behaved for their mummies

Hi, I just had my first bubs - Jaxon on the 23rd March...just wondering if anyone has any good tips for winding, cause after feeding him after the initial burp I can't seem to get much more out of him?

Hi Lauren,congratulations on the arrival of Jaxon and welcome to Oh Baby! I meant to say if you look earlier on in this thread, some of the others were talking about winding problems.

Welcome to Ohbaby Lauren and congrats on the birth of Jaxon. Sorry I'm not much help with wind, both my babies seem to wind themselves pretty much - and if they don't get it out sraight away it doesn't seem to worry either of them it just comes out later.

Only one thing to say this morning zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, Sophia was up feeding from 1am onwards....ouch!! do they have growth spurts around 2 weeks!!!

Off to playgroup...zzzzz... today could be a challenge!

Hope someone else was up in the early hours keeping me company!

Well let me see what did last night bring. Liam was down about 8.45pm, then up at 12.30am, back down by 1.30am and then he woke at 4.30am back down by 5am but only to wake again at 6.15am. I then decided nope not getting up yet and gave him a feed in bed and he feel asleep until 7.30am. Finally got him back down at 9.50am.

Now a question for you ladies with toddlers, how the hell do you get out the door with a newborn. I'm still trying to get my head around how I am going to eventually do this?

Right off for a shower while I can.

I'm not looking forward to trying to organise a newborn, toddler and myself! My one day where I had to do everything myself we were just at home and that was mission enough. eek now I'm picturing trying to chase a toddler while holding a newborn!

We were just at a birthday party for a 2yr old. She is the first of our antenatal group babies to turn 2. It was lovely to see how all the kids have grown and see them interact together (and generally this was done relly nicely!). They were actually all really good. I thought Ollie would be a nightmare as he woke again last night and then didn't really sleep properly after that. But he was an angel (other than at nappy changing time of course). He fell asleep in the car on the way home but woke when Stu was trying to transfer him. Great, now we'll have a grumpy toddler later in the day. Arrgh. At least Lilia is being good!

Christy - Maddi is just gorgeous!! And I love the family pic too

Love the pics Christy. Maddi is adorable.

It's been a pretty good day today we had an Orthopedic appointment to check the girls hips and everything was ok.
We also had a Plunket visit today. Eimear weighs 4.21kgs (9lbs4ozs) and Aoife 3.55kgs(7lbs4ozs). Eimear only gained 350gs in 2 weeks whereas Aoife gained 610gs.
We're putting it down to the horrendous screaming and winding issues we had with Eimear which would have limited her weight gain.

I've been feeding Eimear without the nipple shield since yesterday and her wind issues seem to have disappeared! yay! Clever girl! 1 down and 1 to go

It's Rohann's 1 month birthday today - I can not beleive how fast that time has gone by!

Rohann is having a bit of an unsettled day today, I wonder if she is having a growth spurt as she is feeding and sleeping without much 'play' time and when she is awake she is quite clingy.

Tishy - here you are with Eimear weighing 2oz more than what Rohann did at birth (I was not expecting such a big baby!)!! She was also weighed today and is at 5kg!!

Edited by Tiff

Just saw the mw and Maddi has put on 10g in the first week, yay!! Keira lost heaps in the first week and we had to give her formula top ups so its nice to know Maddi is doing well and getting lots of milk.

We just gave her her first bath, which she really liked, wasnt too keen on getting out and getting dressed again.

We try and sleep her in her own bed right next to ours but has ended up sleeping with us most of the night as I am too asleep to remember to put her back. It freaked me out the first few nights cos I would completley forget about her

Her day routine is pretty random at the moment, today she slept 10-1 had a quick feed then slept till 4 shell probably have some awake time this evening and do lots of feeding so she will sleep tonight. Shes pretty good at falling asleep on her own, although she is only a week old.