September 2012 babies - warmest welcome!

[Macaroons]

Here's the new thread for September babies fresh from the oven!

I'm a first time mum and I'm struggling with breast feeding at the moment, my 6-day old DS always seems to be hungry (a feed every 2-3 hours, each lasting roughly an hour), and when he's hungry he's very aggressive towards my nipple it really hurts! Any tips out there? And how often do you feed your baby and for how long?  how do you teach your baby to be gentle on the nipples?

Good luck to those still waiting for their babies to come out! Will be watching out for more baby news!

[MrsNPattz]

Thanks ballroomblitz, yes we are pretty unlucky with the weather here in Aberdeen - I am from Chester so it has taken some getting used to!! Good luck with your little one, hope he or she makes an appearance soon exciting

[moogs1000]

Hi, just checking in after another sleepless night! It's so hard with another child! No time to sleep in day now dh is back at work too. MY eyes are stinging now and its morning!
Little one seems to be feeding so much. Bf seems to be less painful but still not painfree, its exhausting!
Hope u r all coping better than me and getting more sleep!

[Mikyahrose]

Where's my baby! 9 days over now and still no sign.

Had a sweep yesterday, which doesnt seem to have made any difference, got another booked for Saturday, then being induced on monday. So at least i now have an end in site.

I'm hoping he'll arrive before the induction, so carrying on with the walking, swimming, bouncing, curries, pineapples, baths, raspberry leaf teas and any others that i hear about along the way. :D

[MakeTeaNotWar]

Good luck miky! I'm 40 + 1 now and even though DD arrived spontaneously 13 days after her due date last time, I am fretting about possible induction. Having a sweep next week at 41 weeks then they want to talk about bringing me in for induction which I really do not want. Sending uterus contracting vibes to us both!

[Rachel130690]

milky good luck hopefully they will work for you but they didn't for me :( felt like I wasted my time doing it all but only cause it didn't work. Hope he arrives before your induction date.

smallgreen think I have to agree with you, although not my boob but bottle, I feel like I'm the only one not breast feeding on this. Yesterday evening Herb had a 4oz bottle at 6, had another 4oz between 8-9 pm. At 10 o'clock he had a 2oz bottle and then when going to bed about half 10 he had another 1oz. I couldn't believe it, but then he did sleep until 5 this morning. Didn't think a baby could take so much.

maketea hopefully things kick off for you soon, I too was dreading being induced but having gone through it now I was just glad to have my boy out. Hopefully the sweep will work for you if you haven't gone by then.

Had HV out yesterday, seemed happy enough, Herbie has gone up to 7lb 15oz. He has put on quite a bit of weight. Will be 2 weeks old tomorrow, can't believe it, seems like yesterday I was sitting bouncing on a ball thinking get out now. Time flies :(

[leelteloo]

Hi Rachel, I'm bottled feeding Euan, so you're not the only one. ??

[Rachel130690]

leelteloo how's the bottle feeding going? Herbie is taking 4oz every 3-4 hours. (When he not eating crazy amounts in a short space of time) He'll be 2 weeks old tomorrow, and he is taking more than his cousin who is over a month old. :) gonna be a mushroom soon.

[TurquoiseGoldandOrangecat]

Yay! I can now join this thread! Hello everyone, and congratulations to all those with new bundles of poo!! . Although bundle of poo is right in my case, as it was the first thing she shared with me on the initial skin to skin (so proud!!)

Baby turquoisegirl was born at 7.46pm yesterday, with a very healthy birth weight of 7lb12. Definitely was not expecting a baby that size, as I'm only 5'3" and dh is only 5'6", and our respective mothers are only 5'2" and 4'11"!!!

I hated labour though, really really really painful (probably to do with the relative sizes of us) although I managed the whole thing just with gas and air, even with an episiotomy. If I have any more, I will definitely be going for a elcs, don't care if I'm too posh to push, I just can't put myself through that again.

So now I should try to get some sleep - my lovely midwife (the final one of six!) managed to snag me a private room, and the adrenaline is now wearing off, so I might as well try for a kip before trying to feed a very sleepy dd in an hour!

[leelteloo]

Well done Turquoise and welcome baby Turquoise.
Rachel, Herbie and Euan are having about the same, 3 to 4 oz every 3 to four hours. Euan is three weeks today. I'm finding it really hard to sleep between feeds at night and it is often just when I've dropped off that he wakes me, YAWN! I wish I could just get back to sleep but I am so awake.

[Rachel130690]

Congrats Turquoise and lucky you getting a private room. Hope your recovering well. Going through that on just gas and air is pretty amazing. I got to 4-5 cms before I was demanding diamorphine :) would def recommend it :) have you any names picked yet?

[TurquoiseGoldandOrangecat]

Thanks for all the congratulations! We've now picked her name, and it is Beatrix Martina (after my dad). Thankfully all parents are in approval

I'm back in the midwife unit for some baby training - dd is very mucussy, so it's taking a while to get bf established. I'm recovering quite well, just a very sore stitched fanjo

Hope everyone who is still waiting have quick deliveries very soon

[MrsNPattz]

Congratulations turquoise, I feel the same about labour, not sure I could do it again! worth it though

[Smallgreenone]

and I'm not sure I can deal with all that comes with a CS again - it still hurts when I laugh, cough, sneeze etc and I'm 5 weeks post op so I guess there's no 'easy' way. I want to try for VB next time definitely.
My little boy was an angel at the wedding yesterday and was much admired. I was a very proud mummy showing him off to everyone!
Xxx

[cjbk1]

after ds I tht 'no more VB' then like a fool I tried again with dd and it was so much worse than I cld hav imagined (that's why I had ELCS for dd2) so don't be like me if you don't want another VB don't have one x

[Macaroons]

Congrats turquoise! Same here not sure I want to go through labour again! My left leg is still numb from the epidural I had, I still can't walk normally yet after almost three weeks. Hope this is only temporary and will recover soon!

For those of you breast feeding on demand, how often and for how long do you feed? My 3 week old dear son is always crying for food - like once every 1-2 hour, but hes only interested for sucking for less than 30 minutes. (sometimes less than 20 minutes) how can I get him to suck for longer so he doesn't need a feed as often? I'm knackered...it's like a marathon - feed him, burp him, change nappy, then it's almost feeding time again!

[MissCoffeeNWine]

DD feeds every couple of hours in the day Macaroons, then hourly in the evening and constantly at night, last night she did 3 and a half hours on one boob before I cracked up, but it was 2-5.30am in my defence. She usually feeds 20-30 minutes each side in the day/evening. I don't do any burping though, nappy changing takes about thirty seconds though I'm well practiced at that.

With birth I don't think there is an easy way - I was curious as to how a second labour would go after having DC1, I found that birth very hard to deal with and would have preferred to have pain relief, but there's no way I would have been able to have a CS for DC2, I'd have been laughed out of the room. So I just had the same plan as I had for DC1 and had another home birth, but it was a much better experience this time and I felt back to normal in hours, physically anyway. I'm sorry to hear of all the sore bits, hope everyone is back to normal soon.

[Rachel130690]

I can't wait to have another kid, I will wait a good wee while before I do it again but I'm not dreading it, I would have another vb and I don't think I'd mind being induced again, am I the only one?

macaroons hopefully your leg will get back to normal soon.

I'm very stiff today, I fell on Thursday at my mums getting Herbie out of the car, he's in the back seat atm and I was in lifting out his car seat and my foot got caught on the seat belt and I overbalanced and fell backwards landing on my butt and Herbs car seat just landed on ground. He came to no harm but I was mortified. Of course this all happened at school leaving time so place was packed (mum lives opposite a primary school) just ran into mums house. So very sore after my walk :(

[meXem]

Just checking in to say that I had a beautiful baby girl early hours of wednesday morning.

Charlie Iris arrived on her due date (!) after 24hrs of contractions and just under 2hrs of labour weighing 6lb 10oz

[cjbk1]

I'm not calling anyone silly but in my area I was lucky enough to be classed "very traumatised" by VB of dd1 and allowed a CS for dd2 without seeing a psychologist or anything x

[WhereAreMyShoes]

Oh god, I forgot about these baby blues.
Sorry for being miserable but just wanted to vent.
I've done nothing but moan at DS while trying to constantly feed DD. My dogs are looking at me like I'm about to tell them off too.
Relationship is on the rocks at the best of times and looks like we'll be trying to forget our relationship for now and just try to raise the kids together and see how we are when we're both feeling stronger.

I do feel like I've made amends with DS and once the baby went to sleep I took him upstairs and had a good story and cuddle. He also gave me lots of kisses so think he's forgiven me.

I knew having two kids would be difficult but it's just these wretched hormones are playing with my mind.
Roll on a bit of stability so I can start looking forward and stop seeing myself as useless and a rubbish mum.

I hope everyone at the same stage as me has plenty of support and someone to give them a cuddle. x

[WhereAreMyShoes]

Congrats meXem hope you're enjoying cuddles.
Rachel I hope you didn't do any mischief in your fall. Imagine if it was sooner after the birth, that would have hurt more than just your bum!

[Smallgreenone]

Congrats mexem!
rachel I'd do it all again definitely but just really want to try for a normal birth next time that's all. I'd like 3 years max between them so we'll try for number 2 when DS is 2.
wherearemyshoes sending you a big hug. It
must be hard having 2 I'm sure once these crazy newborn days are through you'll get your relationship back on track. Xx

[HeffalumpsAndGoldenWoozles]

Morning all, I've just made it in time for the September babies group can I pull up a chair here? DD2 was born last night, 13 days late but she's here now so the waiting is finally made worthwhile.

I'm in total agreement with everyone who's said "never again"! I said it after DD1's birth but I knew deep down I would want another, now that we have two I feel a bit relieved, like its ok to stop now I've given them each other. We did always think we'd like 3 but labour truly does suck and I'll be writing myself a good stern note this time saying do not do this again!

DD1 is coming to hospital to meet her sister in the morning, there's 2 years exactly, give a few days, between them and I have yet to find out how hard things are going to be!

[MrsNPattz]

Congratulations heffalumps

[Macaroons]

Help! I suspect DS has got cold sore (white blister on his lip) what should I do? Is it still safe to breast feed? (will that transfer to my nipple?)