April 2015 - thread 17. The babies are still coming thick and fast, waving Pom poms a plenty in support!

[PenguinPoser]

Felt we might need a new thread to get through the night feeds and labours!

Ass suspected back up again, actually snoozing while he feeds which isn't ideal. My nursing chair is comfy just a bit chilly!

Congratulations CowBiscuits!! Glad you had the birth you wanted and ds is well

Definitely mention to the midwife about ds not wanting to lay flat. It will get better!

Confused. Think he woke at 2.45ish for food. Thought I put him on line f boob but really can't remember, no infacol that time and less comfy, slept him on me for a bit trying to settle him. Fell asleep but I can't even remember feeding him last actually though I remember thinking I'd cuddle him for a bit after. Don't remember using left boob. Don't remember much. And now I'm hungry.

Done infacol and another feed. He isn't as settled. I'm desperate for .ore sleep. Come on little man...

Congratulations cowbiscuits! Happy due date brum!

Sorry for broken sleep everyone. I can see why sleep deprivation is a recognised form of torture!! DD had been silly tonight, wriggling like mad when on the boob but not been able to work out why?!

Congratulations cowbiscuit

RL tell the midwife because she will be able to help your little boy and importantly you be able to get some sleep.
Is he in a gro bag or blankets? The midwife showed me a trick with a blanket to make baby feel secure, lie baby down, get a cellular blanket fold in half roll one end into a sausage and tuck at one side of baby then repeat with the other side. It makes baby feel like you still have hold of them. Midwife also said when you are feeding warm the blanket behind you so it's warm and smells of you. I hope that makes sense but I can take a photo if not.
I don't know whether you can do this but can you raise the head of the Moses basket stand a little bit, with a book/bit of wood etc so it's on a bit of an incline.
And have you tried infacol, it helps get the wind up.

Congratulations cowbiscuits!

Not too bad a night here, well still got a little boy who is full of bubbles (I can hear them in his tummy), but warmed his moses basket with a hot water bottle (well warm!) and he went straight down both times in the night. Might be a fluke but i'll take it!

DH doing the early stint has meant I feel a bit more alive and knowing my mum is here today means I know I can sleep when he is if I need to!

Hope everyone feels better and the little ones start sleeping beautifully soon!

Congratulations cowbiscuits, lovely birth story too!

RL - great news

Lauren and Penguin - I too am getting sweaty chest. I'm not counting this as night sweats as I had them last time and they were a dreadful full body experience. Am wearing a loose ancient feeding bra and pads on top at night and we have ditched the duvet in favour of sheet and some blankets/ throws.

Can I ask what babies are wearing at night? When we got DS up for his feed at around 5am he was really sweaty - so much so that we had to change sheet as well as his clothes. We put him back in just a sleep suit (no vest), he had previously had a vest on too then a cotton cellular blanket on top.

Also - recently there was a news item on the new meningitis B jab that government is recommending for new babies. Up until now it's only been available privately. I asked the comm mw but she didn't know about it and suggested I mention to HV. Has anyone who has seen HV heard whether/ when the babies are getting it?

DS is in a vest, sleepsuit and blanket generally but has just been in a vest and blanket until it cooled down (He doesn't like things round his feet much). Guess it depends how warm your room is. Ours tends to go down to around 18.5 - 19 in the night.

Have heard about the jab but not any details. Guessing it'll be a case of how quickly they can get a plan in place as it was only agreed in march just before parliament was disolved I believe.

Morning everyone.

So around 8am seems to be the time that DS actually wants to be in his Moses basket! I don't get it? I had another cry to OH this morning before he went off to work because I was so tired. I was up at around 1 and he went to work at 10 to 6 and he'd been awake all that time being grizzly with no break.

What babies wear - I normally put DS in a short sleeve bodysuit for bed as our bedroom is quite warm, with one blanket over him. I have put him in longsleeve before but at the minute they are too big for him anyway! Sometimes I put socks on him too.

Haven't heard about jab but will ask about it if I remember to.

FiRaffe I might try the hot water bottle trick for his Moses basket.

Thank you wine. Midwife is coming today at some point (although I hope not very soon as I'm going to try and get some more sleep!) so I will ask her advice. It's funny you mention that last part as last night when I was looking at information about colic, it said to try that. So I put some towels under the mattress on the head end, well around the middle, and a pillow under the legs but I think I need a sturdier pillow as it's a bit too soft.

Hope everyone's ok

I put dd in a short sleeved vest, then a sleep suit and wrapped in cellular blanket for bed. I try and keep the bedroom 18/19 degrees and she doesn't feel sweaty to me.

Right need to get ready for doctors postnatal check in 20min!

Forgot to say congratulations cowbiscuits!!! Sorry too self absorbed and sleepy...

Sounds like your labour was perfect, shame about the bleeding. Hope you recover quickly.

Congratulations Cowbiscuits. Glad you had a nice experience.

Happy due date Brum!

Hope your check up goes well Penguin.

41+2 and feeling ok. Lots of pink discharge and aches and pains so something is happening but I've decidedI don't care anymore. Being induced on Friday so no matter what I'll have my baby by the weekend. Back at hospital tomorrow for another sweep and I moan at the doctor. He he.

Hope everyone is doing well. Come on babies, night time is sleep time!

Thanks for all comments on babies' sleeping attire. Will now have to dress DS more appropriately, it seems we probably have been stifling him!

Comm mw has just been, he's gained 140g in a week and is back above birth weight, so I am very pleased. She says the jaundice is all but gone and I have another appt next week so they can officially discharge us.

Health visitor rang too and she's coming tomorrow morning so will ask about the meningitis B and report back.

Kismac, the weekend's not far off, hang on in there. And brumma too!

Penguin hope the check goes well today.

Out walking about a lot yesterday for dd's birthday, carrying her etc. Half way through our morning out felt like there was something "there" down below. Tried to do lots of pelvic floors (methinks too late if this is a prolapse ) Hoping its just new feelings where stitches were at the back etc now all swelling is disappearing. Anyone else had similar? Its only when I stand up, I'm worried

Also this lochia business smells horrid. Can't really describe it. Its gone to that watery brown stage. Anyone else's smell horrid? On day 19.

Congratulations cow

Glad you can see the end in sight now kismac

Have knitted some mittens for Bump to wear at football. V proud of self not managed to complete any knitting ever. Going to make him a scarf next

Hello, sorry, have been crap at keeping on top of the thread. Hope everyone still waiting gets their babies very soon!

Am another one feeling a bit zonked out through broken sleep. Thankfully DD seems to settle again ok-ish in the night, but she's still sleeping with us as she seems to hate her snuzpod. She's also loving cluster feeding in the evenings

She tends to sleep in a baby gro with a cellular blanket folded in two, but our room seems to become freezing in the night so around her 3am wake up I tend to pop a cardi on her too. Can't wait until she's big enough for a grobag! I feel like we're sometimes freezing her. But then I'm terrified of overheating her due to cot death etc.

Health visitor came today - what a stonking waste of time that was. Just asked a load of pointless questions such as did we know about SIDS and did we have friends and family nearby. I realise they may be useful for some people but it felt like 30 mins of my life I'll never get back! Still she seemed pleased as DD is piling on weight.

Today we are going to try going on public transport for the first time with DD - going to attempt a trip to the V&A which means navigating a train and a tube Yesterday we successfully had lunch out with her in Brixton village so I'm feeling confident we can do this! Will take her in sling on her dad though rather than in the pram I think. Then seeing friends for supper at ours later.

I've actually been amazed at how much having a baby has felt like "normal" life (though I suspect this will change when she's a bit older and sleeps less and can't just be carted around in a sling..) - we even had supper round at some friends' on Saturday night. Is this just a honeymoon period? Am dreading DP going back to work next Thursday though - really nervous!

Hope everyone with babies can take lots of naps soon, sending to have with the cake I hope you're all eating (I'm assuming that breast feeding gives me carte blanche with cake, right?!)

Congratulations Cowbiscuits! If I end up having a birth like yours ill be more than happy!

Happy due date Brum!

Good to hear you're feeling positive Kismac, they can't stay in there forever. Can they??!

Enjoy your day out Brixton!

Just booked a reflexology and acupuncture session for Thursday, assuming little lady isn't out by then. But until then it's leftover vindaloo for lunch!

40+5

Brixton I was having lots of cake... Then got on the scales and have gained 5lb apparently in the last 3 weeks so trying to be good now although obviously with bf still need more than usual. Sounds like you're doing really well!

Brummagem well done on the knitting!

Daholster I would say lochia does smell a bit grim but have you had swab to rule out infection? Mines just stopped now after 6 weeks! I doubt if you've got a prolapse think it's more likely to be funny sensations with swelling stitches etc as you say. Even now I feel heavy down below if I've walked a lot.

Smogs I've been reading up on the meningitis b vaccine here

www.meningitis.org/menb-vaccine
It seems that yes it's being brought into the vaccination schedule but likely not until September which I think will be too late for our little ones as they would get it at 2 and 4 months. Will ask my health visitor when she comes on Friday too. I wonder if it's worth getting it privately otherwise...

Thanks for the sling demo cinnamon! Have just been to supermarket with dd in mine except she kinda fell down it and curled up in it so suspect it wasn't tight enough? Will keep practicing!

Postnatal check was ok except GP was bit worried about dds slow weight gain. We just have to monitor at the moment though.

Just quickly popping in before my mum thinks i'm being anti social, but don't buy superdrug breast pads (or toads as they are now known in our house thanks to this thread!) They leak like a sieve and are barely big enough to cover a fly!

Sam is wearing vest and sleepsuit with cellular blanket smogsville and he's not sweaty, are you sure it wasn't a nappy leak? How warm is the room? Sam is quite a cold baby, he hates taking clothes off and cries if he's not warm enough.

My friend had a prolapse daholster, was worse for her when she stood rather than walking. Keep an eye on it and ask if you are concerned.

Well done on the knitting Brummagem.

We are the same in the evenings BrixtonBunny! Or perhaps you're just taking to motherhood? I think the impact depends on what you want to do but it's definitely different when they are a few months or on the move!

Yes sounds too lose to me PenguinPoser, but you will get the tension right with practise. If you're out for a while you need to start tighter generally.

Knitting is very rewarding Brum and a great way to pass the time when your waiting.

HV has just been, she seems nice. Just the usual barrage of questions;name, age, occupation. She did remind me about registering at the doctors and said one of the local childrens centres now offer birth registration once a week. Easier than trying to get into town to do it.

Must stick some hand cream on my hands they are proper dry with all the hand washing going on.

Just had the 1st health visitor appointment, I asked about the meningitis b vaccine and it isn't being introduced until September so ours will miss out because they will be older than 2 months. The visit was ok she was nice but didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know.

Cluster feeds at the V&A. That is all I have to say.

defo just sweat cinnamon we checked. I think the radiator was randomly on and the cellular blanket was double layered and perhaps if he was thrashing around a bit that explains it. In any case I have dug out some short sleeved and legged suits for bedtime so we'll see how we get on tonight.

I managed to time his nappy change v badly today and he did a poo in the middle of it today at park cafe!

Brixton I have always assumed that BF = cake at every turn. Today's was a very gooey lemon polenta. Scrumptious. I think you're right to go about your normal life with baby in tow - it won't be quite so easy when you have two so make the most of it

That's a bugger about the meningitis isn't it. So presumably if they don't have it at 2 and 4 months it doesn't work and there is no point and this must also be true for older children? I will have a read of the link anyway thanks for posting Penguin (think it was you?).

Oh daholster do check re lochia as my mw asked me if it was smelly today as if this might indicate infection.