Jan 2016 #3 - booking in for ginger tea vs frankfurters + rapidly expanding boobs

[Blackandwhitecat3]

New thread for the January babies

jellytots my experience was similar to coffee's. I did have a pump and expressed after about 3 weeks but it is a bit of a faff, and sometimes felt like more effort than it was worth.

I loved breastfeeding, it was like a miracle answer for everything with DS. Whenever he cried in the early days - I fed him and he was happy.that did mean DH wasn't as confident and did generally pass DS to me whenever he cried but that was only in the very early days.

Nightfeeds were too bad. Kept all the lights off - usually quick feed of about 15 minutes and baby back to sleep without me even needing to get out of bed.

Hoping baby no.2, takes to breastfeeding just as well, although looking after a toddler at the same time will be a bit of a different dynamic.

Thanks for stats update teenie I have early scan on Sunday 14th June too just to be updated!
Feeling the dizziness and gaggy nausea today heaved in the office loos after a friend made me a (lovely) herbal tea think it was just too much!!
I'm v interested in the bf discussion above as I plan on bf for quite a long period maybe around 5-6m (she said in blissful ignorance of how hard it may be...)

Thanks for doing the stats teenie!

loveu I was all set for breastfeeding exclusively, to me there was no alternative. We had NCT sessions and books on the subject. What could go wrong? Unfortunately my DS would never stop feeding (5 hours on the trot sometimes) and I did not produce enough milk. I became depressed at not being able to do anything but nurse and did not enjoy motherhood. I felt like a failure and cried all the time. Finally, after 2 weeks of misery I went to see my GP who opened my eyes about alternatives. I felt such relief. I realised how much I loved my son and that it didn't matter how he was fed as long as it was with love. Sorry, long story but it's my story.

For anyone who is concerned by baby only needing/wanting them and thinks breatfeeding may cause that issue please Google the "4th trimester" Baby is completely biologically programmed to want and need only you for at least the first 3 months ago there is nothing wrong with baby being constantly close to you and wanting to feed. For some breastfeeding can pose challenges but it really is worth it, both for you and baby.

No crumble it's always helpful to hear all experiences. I really hope I get to grips with it and it is as easy as you say impatiently! I think DH is just worried that he'll be a bit useless anyway! Not being able to feed baby is just something else he can't do if that makes sense. He's not very confident with babies in general and he's worried about not finding that confidence once the baby arrives.

Thanks brickiemum I'll have a look at that.

joey I am 9 weeks 5 days and am completey the same with the bloating. Look like I'm about 5 months pregnant and feel so uncomfortable!

Strange you've all been talking about mac n cheese as that's all I could think about last night!!!!!

Hi DIJ-ers, wow can't believe you are on the 3rd thread already - you lot are chatty :)

I'd like to join please; I'm under a namechange (think SIL might know my username and it's too early to share) but might switch to my "real" name after the 12 week scan.

Anyway, I'm 8+0 today, and this is DC2... and DC3 - I'm having twins! So due the 18th Jan but guess I won't go that far...

Hope all you lovely ladies and babies are well - some mild nausea here but nothing terrible.

Hi all, I've been reading the threads since I got my BFP in May, delurking now to join! Name Spooble, 0DC, 0 MC, booking in on Thursday 11th June (yay!), 12 week scan 6th July. Due 16th Jan.

Nausea has really ramped up the last week (currently 8+3), hoping it doesn't get any worse as it's so hard to get any work done!

Just back from scan. Was absolutely terrified before we went in. I was convinced it was going to be another mmc. But everything was perfect! Saw baby moving and a lovely heartbeat. Measuring 9+5. Have got past the stage of all my previous miscarriages. I am finally going to force myself to relax a bit now.
I found breastfeeding really challenging to begin with. My DS had a tongue tie that was undiagnosed for nearly 2 weeks. I spent most of those two weeks dreading every feed. It was cut at 2 weeks, and completely changed the way he fed. I went on to breastfeed him for 14 months. I loved it and it did make life so easy. I made sure DH was involved by letting him change all the nappies!! I will say though, that if the tongue tie hadn't been cut, DS would have definitely ended up on formula.
Welcome to all the newbies!

Hi to all the newbies
I've got my booking in appt tomorrow. I'm prepared to be underwhelmed and bored. Since I've done this so many times before could they not just get most of the details from there lol?

Welcome to the newbies spooble same EDD as me

I breastfed both of my boys, and expressed for both of them from two weeks so my ex-dh could do one feed per day. I fed ds1 until he was 6 months old and ds2 until he was 9 months. I went back to work when ds2 was 3.5 months old, so expressed at work. It all worked out well for us... the first couple of weeks were hard with ds1 as we were both learning, and then with ds2 it was easy for the first 6 weeks and then had a hard couple of weeks. There is so much more support than there was when I was pg with them (10 years ago). I am actually really excited about bf again, although I think dh is a bit squeamish about it!

I am definitely looking pregnant now - no idea how I will hide this for another 4/5 weeks! And my sciatica is painful this afternoon so had to spend quite a lot of time in a meeting standing up! My boss is definitely going to guess as his face was at belly level!

fizzy glad your scan went well!

Does anyone else plan to use cloth nappies? I used totsbots with my sons and am spending a very dull conference call browsing all of the new patterns! Things in the baby stuff world have definitely improved in the last ten years, I cannot wait to start shopping.

As you might have guessed I'm feeling massively excited today about being pregnant and having a new baby. Cannot wait to tell my boys - going to wait until we have the Harmony results, and still cannot believe we will be able to tell them the sex too

And another question (sorry!)...

Has anyone got any recommendations on pregnancy pillows, you know the long ones that you can use in bed between knees/under bump? My crappy very old, should be thrown away pillow between knees is no longer doing the job and I reckon that is not helping my back. But there are loads online, too much choice!

I still haven't heard from the midwife so I phoned them, my forms hadn't been passed to them. So I need to go and pick up my maternity pack and then the midwife is coming to see me on 20th June. I'll be 11+6 by then. I really hope that doesn't hold up getting a scan between the limits for whatever they do. Can anyone remember what the limits are? Is it 11+6 - 13 weeks?

Welcome spoodle and babybaby. Congrats!

Lovely news on the scan fizzy, you must be feeling great.

Still not very patiently waiting on 12 week scan date (despite having my booking appointment over a week ago). DH and I thought we wouldn't go for an early scan, but starting to question my resolve!

Hi baby and spooble- congratulations!

baby it's so nice to see someone else on the thread expecting twins. I'm due on the 15th, but like you I expect to seeing double trouble arrive earlier (maybe this year) from everything I'm reading.

Ooh, hi Ready I was wondering if anyone else on the thread was already expecting twins - I guess a few wont find out till 12 weeks?

Do you have any other DC? How are you feeling? I'm actually feeling a little guilty I'm feeling so well - I have intermittent, not too bad nausea but otherwise feeling well. Not suffering too much bloating (I did in my first pregnancy), this time I get a little bloated towards the end of the day and I've noticed that my stomach muscles have already relaxed - I get a noticeable "bump" after eating a big meal but it slowly fades. I've actually lost a few lb since finding out I was pregnant (I was on a diet before getting my BFP and have continued to eat sensibly and healthily without restricting myself too much). I actually ran 5km at the weekend - I've been slowly learning to run and haven't felt the need to stop yet, overall I'm feeling pretty good.

Saw my two on a scan today - one measures 8 weeks, the other 7 weeks. Sonographer says its nothing to worry about, hope she is right...

congrats on the twins babybaby - so exciting!

loveulots bf'ing varies so much with each person. I know friends who have bf 2 babies and then really struggled with the third. I bf both of my 2 DC - DS for 9 mo and DD for 13 mo. Personally I found is really straightforward, both babies seemed to latch on really easily (or at least once I worked out how to gently release the suction and re-align them if necessary) and both fed well, with decet gaps between feeds. Both were good at night, and being able to just pick them up at night, stick them on and then put them down again after without having to sort out bottles etc made night-feeding fairly straightforward. Both of them tended to go straight back to sleep after feeding so although it was of course tiring, I never felt like I was up all night. DH did help out at night by picking up the baby, and changing nappy and passing him or her to me, so I just had to lie in bed, and that to me was less hassle than having to express milk for him to do night feeds. The thing ws unelss your DH will do the night feed every night then you'll probably find you need to releive the pressure from your boobs anyway. If DC ever skipped one of the night feeds it was agony by the next one. DH never felt he was missing out on bonding - there are so many other opportunities to interact wtih teh baby.

All that being said, I have nothing against formula feeding, and if I was really struggling wtih bf'ing I'd certainly go down that route. However I know a lot of people have found the first two weeks or so really hard but then once they got the hang of it then next 5+ months are much easier. So I'd encourage people to give it a go.

Congrats on the twins!!!

Kep - I used a dream genie last time and found it amazing although it was near useless by the end... I must have completely ruined it.

Anyone else feel a bit better, then worry like mad and then feel utterly dreadful. I had loads of energy this morning, it's my day off with dad so we did loads...shopping, toddler group, more shopping, playing, lunch. Then she went for her lovely 3 hour afternoon nap, I had lunch and then literally couldn't stay awake, so had 1.5 hrs sleep. I only woke up because she was chatting down the monitor. Can feel twinges of growth in my tummy.. Have a day in work tomorrow and somehow need to hide this massive bump.

Much harder when you don't see everyone that often. I work from
home a lot, so they're bound to notice a change in me..

Hi all,
sadly after my scan 2 weeks ago where we saw a lovely heart beat, I had some more bleeding and today there was no heart beat on the scan, so I will be leaving you lovely ladies. hope all goes well for you and i'll be thinking of you all, especially in January

I'm so sorry to hear that waiting, I really hope you have some support in RL.

Oh Wombat I'm so sorry to hear that, I hope you're as 'ok' as you can be. Take care xx

So sorry to hear that wombat. Thinking of you.

So sorry wombat Look after yourself.