December 2012 - the Christmas buns are coming out of the oven

[PurplePidjChickIsNotTheMessiah]

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Happy New Year everyone!

Welcome Nettles.

Happy birthday Stacey. I feel your pain re: MIL. We set off for PIL's in 2 hours. Must remember "smile and nod,smile and nod".

Ive had a lovely morning dh has taken all xmas decs down then he took all 3 dc's to the park with my step dad while me amd my mum.tidied and cleaned the house then she sent me for a shower while she prepared the veg for dinner which dh is now cooking and i cant waitvto eat as it smells so yummy :)

Happy birthday Stacey and welcome Nettles

that sounds lovely ellie :)

just tried to get kip before another ny gathering at 3. had fed G, expressed what I felt impressive 90 ml from one boob for later this eve. dh took G off for hour of entertainment while I kipped - gave permission to give G the rest of yesterday's milk if needed. Dh has just entered bedroom with G, dh and muslin completely soaked in 60 ml of that 90 ml hard earned milk with 30ml inside G but wanting more.

I have a soggy baby on my boob.
dh goes back to work tomorrow.

My DH goes back tomorrow too Clarella, I am not looking due ward to taking over all the night feeds (currently 50/50)

due ward forward bloody iphone

clarella I don't think period is poss after 3 weeks- we were told ovulation can't happen in the first 21 days so even of you ovulated then it would be a couple of weeks before period. I think.

Dp also goes back to work tomorrow. Not sure how I'm going to cope!

Oh spotty I do feel for you with poor weight gain. Is your lo otherwise quite happy and settled, and producing reasonable amounts of poo and wee? Dd1 had terrible weight gain, hvs always said they weren't really worried but looking back they should have been! Her feeding was totally crap but no 'professionals' could see that and she cried all the time she wasn't on the boob, never slept and really didn't have that much coming out the other end! Once i caved and put her on formula she was a different baby I don't want to scare you, and it might be just that your lo is going to be a tiddler for a bit as others have testified here.

Really hope that doesn't upset you but I wish someone had pointed it out as an option to me.

Soz for double post, phone makes it tricky!

That's alright the reason is because I'm diabetic he was born big (7lb13 at 35+4) so what will happen is he will gain slowly until he finds his 'line'. It's not his fault he was born big and it's not in his genes to weigh so much. Luckily my HV knows this but she still has procedure to follow. I know this too but you can't reason with your crazy thoughts/paranoia wrt your baby can you?! He poos all the time and has wet nappies. Generally content and demands food so I think he's ok? Today has been wake up for feed, awake for an hour, sleep for an hour, wake for feed etc which seems good. Hope he doesn't carry it on over night oh also dd was born on 90th centile and gained really slowly until she got to 25th and she's stayed there ever since sorry for long babbling post!

Well that all sounds good spotty but as you say you can't reason with paranoia about los. Tabitha is being weighed tom and I'll be holding my breath for sure.

My bleeding comes and goes too - just when I think it's safe to move down a pad size I get a flood!

My DH back to work tom too, not sure just how I'm going to manage three against one! He's been getting up with big 2 every morning so I've usually had a little bit of extra kip but not any more :-(

My DH is back to work tomorrow too. A friend is taking dd and ds1 out to soft play area for the morning and then we're heading to another friends for the afternoon so my first day alone shouldn't be too bad. I'm going to miss him though sappy cow :(

I've just realised the midwife didn't weigh Ethan yesterday, I hadn't even clocked it, what with all the jaundice stuff. Oh well we have hospital on thurs, midwifes again mon and then if he's still not been weighed then baby clinic down the road is next thurs. I'm pretty sure he's growing though, he seems to be filling his Moses basket a lot more these days.

Happy new year all

I was discharged by the mw yesterday, feel totally abandoned she just weighed Lily and left, didn't check my csection wound, ask anything about our well being, she wasn't my usual one.

Just back from at night home with my folks to collect supplies. He's been moved to the general ward of the stroke unit, canula is out and his estimated release date has been revised - I might get him home on Saturday!!

R has been a grumpy bum for the last day or so, think he's feeding up for a growth spurt he's nearly in his 0-3 month clothes :o

Happy birthday stacey

Dh went back after a week of dd being born so not too daunted by having all 5 dc's tomorrow. I'm lucky in that their all old enough to help themselves if they want anything while I'm feeding and pretty much entertain themselves most days anyway.

Well decided to weigh myself today and so I now know I have 8lbs to lose to be back to pre pregnancy weight. But put dd on with me after as she's not been weighed since day 10 (now day 24) she was 9lb and I now make her 10lb 10oz!

Pidj that's great news

That sounds rubbish state, hope you're feeling ok?

I haven't weighed myself yet as we don't have any scales!

Oh state that's rubbish! I know I've moaned about the midwife sending us to the hospital for jaundice but at least she's doing the job properly. Have you got a baby clinic near you this week you can go to talk to someone?

pidj that's great news!

spotty I don't own scales either. I'll just be happy when I can fit in my clothes again! Lol

I'm in my clothes but think I might be out of them again soon if I don't stop living off of chocolate and toast

If I do a double or triple feed off of one side then I can get at least 60ml from the other side when I express, is it OK to do this or do I somehow run the risk of mastitis or poor supply on one side??

Happy Birthday Stacey

Glad things are slowly improving with your dh pidj

There is a clinic but I don't think its open this week, its at my dcs school, I'm ok, I don't have any concerns but my normal mw just has a chat and makes you feel looked after iyswim, and I don't know if my csection wound is ok? If Lilys jaundice is clearing well etc. The tiredness hit me last night and I got a bit shouty with dp so I just felt I could have done with a decent visit, and then she said as she left, "don't spose we'll see you again now you've got three" which is a sensitive subject, no I don't want anymore dcs but I feel sad the pregnancys done with and every milestone Lily hits is the last iyswim? Hormones all over the show I guess making it worse.

State I know how you feel about this being the last baby. We've always said two, it's all we can afford and it's realistic for us. But now, the thought of not having anymore, I just feel really sad and unhappy about it. I actually can't imagine not being pregnant again... it really is sad! I suppose we would always feel this way about 'the last one' even if we had ten children?!

spotty and state i feel similar ds is our 3rd and I'm happy and feel my family is complete and don't feel sad about not being pregnant again but really don't want him to get bigger :( i do feel sad that I'll never have a newborn again and i know I'll find it hard when i stop bfing, however i felt totally different with dd2 even while still pregnant i knew i needed another baby and felt mortified when Dhaka was dead against it.

I feel the same, said to dh yesterday I want to go back and do it all again but not necessarily have any more children.

Mw's and hv's were closed today so couldn't have anyone to check my hip/thigh but have shown dh where the pain is coming from (he was a sports person) and he told me it's my femur, I had some voltarol and a hot bath and have a heat patch on now which seems to have helped.

My mum has offered to have dd1 for some of the day tomorrow but I don't know whether I should just brave it and have them both on my own as I'll have to get used to it sooner or later.

I have put on around a stone and a half the half was put on after the birth so am starting to eat healthily from tomorrow.