Fab Feb Thread: 22 on show........33 to go.......!!!!

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Ooo I feel all important now.

LBB - I've been using medium flow teats since the beginning....slow flow ones go straight in the bin here.

DS also does the squeaky feeding thing....bringing up wind atm involves quite a lot of phlegm vomit cos of this horrible cold he's got.

My HV is a lovely person, but I agree, most are a waste of space...I get two home visits then I go to clinic...if I choose to...and generally I choose not to....I weigh myself and fill in weight in red book

MS - well done you on getting out! I managed to walk all of 10 minutes to our local high street to get my hair cut today (DH's valentines day present to me - knew DS2 would be ok as had just had a feed before I went out) and was exhausted after it after all night mammoth feeding sessions, so am impressed at you getting into town. Sorry to hear Frankie is suffering too from the evil wind...

Nkweto - sorry to hear about your migraine! Is there anything you can take for it? My MIL suffers from migraines and the osteopath she sees says its due to tension in her shoulders - dont know about you, but I sure get alot of tension in my shoulders being hunched over breastfeeding all day, so if you do get tension migraines maybe you could try some warmth on your shoulders to loosen them up which might help? Sending you huge hugs - sounds like there is a big dose of baby blues going around at the moment - bloody hormones!

Pluto - Al is a big baby so from my experience with DS1, I think its usual for his digestive system to be able to hold more before clearing it out (if you know what i mean); DS1 was the same (though not as big as Al) and for the first few days was just a poo a day - then when the milk really came in (and he cluster fed for England) that one day a poo started to resemble an explosion in a curry paste factory .

DS2 does several explosive curry paste factory incidents a day...

P.s. LBB - your post about your DS1 and the Haa-hoos made me chuckle; thank you so much

I've just read through the last few pages and couldn't help a slightly emotional outburst of 'Oh I love these ladies'. DH is now looking at me like I'm even more of a madwoman than usual. (An example of one of our conversations in the past few days: Him: Have you taken in a word I've said for the past few minutes? Me: Are you kidding? I can barely even remember my own name at the moment.) That's unfair of me, he's been amazing these past 10 days.

Anyway, back to the point, it's so helpful to hear your messages of support re feeding. I definitely feel like I've made the right decision and I guess that's the most important thing here. And I agree with everyone saying that Alexander will still be a healthy and happy child, it doesn't all hang on breastfeeding.

Funnily enough MS, Alex also does the air gulping and the high pitched noise. We just try to make sure we stop regularly throughout feeds for long winding sessions.

Where would I be without Mumsnet, it feels like a lifeline at the moment.

I'm sending lots of positive vibes to all those who are dealing with the blues, with migraines, with bleeding issues and with other children who are having trouble adjusting to the new arrival.

I want my baby NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wail...............

Hi all, posting to bookmark this thread so I can look out how people are doing.

I was due in late January and always suspected baby would be late. Conor turned up in the early hours of 3 February - same hospital as MsLucy and Stanley but I think we probably weren't on the same ward at the same time. I had a crash caesarian followed by a huge blood transfusion (for anaemia rather than blood loss at birth) and didn't make it up to the Cellier postnatal ward until late afternoon Wednesday. I was somewhat shocked by his weight - 4.528 kg which equals c 9 lb 15 oz (DS1 was equally overdue and had to be induced but only weighed 7 lb 7 oz).

We came home on Friday but got referred to hospital re weight loss on Saturday and were admitted following further weight loss on Sunday - I hadn't managed to latch him on well. We are home since Wednesday afternoon on "home leave", returning to hospital daily though this will hopefully only be until Friday (depends on weight gain). I've fought like mad for bf support (didn't get it with first baby on same Paediatric ward) and have got it. Breastfeeding is going better now but I'm having to give formula topups as they don't consider he was regaining weight fast enough on my milk alone .

Labour vibes to anyone overdue and impatient, I know how it feels.

Morning ladies.
QK Glad to hear you're feeling better about it all. My dp's also been really good but he doesn't think 'baby brain' is asctually real, he thinks we all make it up as an excuse to ignore everyone else

I spent the 3rd night in a row on the sofa, dp is such a f*k-wit for leaving me there!
Hv is due round this morning so that should be interesting, you should see the state of my living room!

The winding seems to be getting a little better already and only been using infacol since yesterday lunch time, so fingers crossed by tomorrow Jerky won't be in such discomfort/pain and I'll hve to come up with a new nickname for him

dinky ds ran away from the telly every time they came on screen, he's never done it before, strange. The look on his face was classic, mixture of confusion and fear, very funny.

morning all,
congratulations elkiedee on the arrival of Conor, lovely name, my friend has a Conor.
Don't worry too much about the forumla top ups, I've been doing it too since day 1 as Harrison was getting jaundiced but I'm managing to cut back on the bottles now which is good. Its quite handy that he will take bottles and breast as its more than a little difficult to breastfeed in public here

ref bleeding, I'm on day 11 now and found that it has started and stopped a few times. I've noticed that it seems to be after an energetic burst of activity (I do have them sometimes) it starts again. Think you get less bleeding though after a CS so hopefully LBB you have nothing to worry about although as the others have said, if you have pain you should contact your midwife.

all those with older siblings I agree it can be really difficult finding the right balance. Gracie is 2.4 and is fabulous most of the time which I think is down to the fact we'd prepared her well for the arrival of her little brother. The times when she plays up however are when she is tired, ie nap time/bed time and it is then when she wants 'booby', when she sees Harrison having some. I've had a few moments when I've had both of them feeding at the same time and felt like a bloody dairy cow!
DD has been a bit of a monkey at times and it is so hard to not tell off and a few times I have which has made her cry which then makes me feel so guilty. I guess you have to try to take into account how their little lives have been turned upside down.

think i could be next girls - waiting for midwife to call to arrange a home visit, to check me over - been having regular 'pains' all night from about 9pm and a lovely bowel clear out. Waters leaked a bit, teeny tiny tinge of pink, and baby is less than active today.

So had shower, done make up and hair, bag is by the door and DH is on standby!

Still got my doubts though, when pain kicks in I'm like "yup this is defo it" but then it subsides and I think "nah, you big wuss, you fine!" Don't want it to be a false alarm, I have to get that many people arranged to look after boys and my mum needs to get on a 4 hour train journey it has to be definitely IT!

yay, good luck neeerly3, sounds like it is it!

Morning

Good luck Neerly....hope this is it for you...have you pre-warned your mum?

Congratulations elkiedee

Just me and DS today....DD has gone to nursery...so I'm going to catch up on my sleep a bit. I had an early night last night (9.30pm) and DH done the 10.30pm feed....he has now gone up to 5oz and he slept until 4.30am this morning ....so I actually feel a bit human today...

Question for those doing FF.....how long did it take for your milk to dry up? My norks are still leaking over 2 weeks in....I'm sure it wasn't this long last time. They leak even when DD starts crying...

No dog walker today, so DS and I will take the dog out today...

Fed up with not being able to drive already, so will be ringing insurance company today as well....Has anyone else whose had a CS started driving again? I think I'm safer to drive now than I was when I was zooming everywhere 38 weeks pregnant!

LMN, - no, she'd only flap and come up anyway - then I'd be stuck with her til the real thing kicked off!

Just been looking at the pics of your DTs on your profile....they're gorgeous ....they were so tiny in the incubators...were they very early?

11/12 weeks depending on whose dates u go on. Officially they were due 23rd feb (freakily, same as this one), but born on 1st december. Scary time, but you wouldn't believe it now! can't believe I am full term and having what appears to be a proper labour this time!

Morning everyone.... Good luck Neeerly, hope it all kicks off for you...

Blimey....must've been very scary....

Well hope it all gets going for you

Hello everyone - still waiting here, now 40+1. Still having a bit of a headache about childcare for DD but basically, as long as nothing happens today () we should be ok. If I have to go it alone for some of the labour, so be it. I had fantastic midwives last time so know I wouldn't be completely alone.

It's really interesting reading the post natal posts when I can't quite imagine what it's going to be like having two babies, because DD is still a baby really and I must try to remember that. We've jsut discovered Peppa Pig on channel Five so I'm going to try and find her a PP toy. LBB - Little O chats about the Haa-hoos all the time, but also got a bit scared last night - she came running over for a cuddle and looked warily over her shoulder. I think it;s the noise they make. She's also scared of the Toucan thing when it appears on the branch on its own!

Hope you lucky ladies are gettng to know your little ones now, and those of you still waiting - lardybump I'm with you!! - hang in there .

Neerly3 - hope this is it for you!! Good luck.

good luck neerly

my boobs have gone mad.... spent all night leaking and all my clothes and the bedclothes were drenched and they were still painfully engorged, aaron half drowned trying to feed at one point. weird thing is he wasn't feeding more than usual yesterday to cause this. damn ds1 has forgotton how to latch on so no relief from him... grr.

speaking of twins, i forgot to tell you guys about the superwoman in the bed across from me in the hospital..... twins 8lbs 8oz and 7lbs 9oz.... exclusively breastfeeding and 3 other kids at home

thanks everyone - still every 6 mins, and no contact from midwife. when do i give up waiting and call hosp?

the mws on mn say it's the length of the contractions that matters more than how far apart they are.... when they get to 50 secs or longer it's time to panic.

was true for all 3 of mine

Go Neerly! So exciting.. can you still deal with the intensity of the ctxs? If they're getting a bit more full on, call hospital ( i got told to when i was at about 5 mins apart lasting or 40 secs or more for an hour or so, but they started at that so i called as son as they started kicking off properly to warn them, but really i think you know when to call as things feel like they're ramping up).

Pink- wow at the superwoman on your ward - brilliant!

Catstar - DS1 loves Peppa Pig too - he got the PP campervan or xmas (Argos sell loads of PP stuff) and loves it though the George is quite tiny (so you may need to hide it from O if she's still in the eating toys camp)... Glad childcare is getting resolved: fingers crossed little one comes tomorrow!!

Elkiedee - welcome back to you and congrats and well done on having Conor - another lovely big boy! Sorry to hear about all the hospitilisation but great you're home and getting the support you want this time round - all sounds really positive.

Despite being up virtually all night with DS2 (who was subscribing to the sleep is for wimps philosophy last night and is now happily dozing on me!) I actually eel miles better about lie this morning so must have been baby blues kicking in abit last night. New day and all that. Hope you all have good days today

hmm,must apologise for lack of fs in last post - DS1 pulled off the f key (how, god only knows) and it has been v temperamental ever since!

she's been, baby fine, had a few contractions while she was here, she happy they doing somethinng just need to be closer together before going in.

Need to call hosp tomorrow AM if not progressed as if my waters have gone I need to be looked at ASAP.

aaron has been awake since 10am! he was awake for hours yesterday evening too.... he's so quiet though he's just happy looking all around even when i have to put him down in his chair or on his mat..... so differant from my other 2, and i thought ds1 was a quiet baby at the time!

dinky, be careful that you're not just working off adrenalin if you've been up all night, happened to me a few times last week... thought i was feeling great despite having no sleep and then would come suddenly crashing back down to earth and barely be able to function.... rest up with the boys for the day and conserve your energy in case he decides to party all night again