January 2013 - New year arrivals welcomed into the world.

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As a few of us have popped early I thought I'd start us a post-natal thread.

Bealos, wow, tell us more about your birth story - who actually delivered the baby, was it your DP? When did the midwife/ doula arrive?

allchik, your experience was really horrendous. With DD1 I had drip induction, an epidural (that worked on the second try) an episiotomy and ventouse delivery and I was pretty traumatised after it all, despite a healthy baby. This time my birth was more straightforward and I have recovered so much more quickly, physically and emotionally, because of it.

It will take a while to recover from your experience - you will undoubtedly be very emotional and anxious for a while, but you WILL recover. Be kind to yourself, try and get out and about when the weather improves.

Thanks for all the advice everyone. Each day is definitely getting easier. Had the bead things out this afternoon too so hopefully it's onwards from here.

My mum came today and we chatted a bit about the morning Nancy was born. I got a bit emotional, but will build myself up to go through it with DH tonight or tomorrow. allchik, yours sounds awful, but as you say, Eleni is totally worth it. I'll hopefully post my story in a couple of days.

The midwife also called this afternoon. Nancy has lost 4oz. She had her heel prick test and didn't even flinch. I've never known such a chilled out baby. She slept yesterday evening for 4 hours, then fed for about 9 minutes and then slept 5 hours in the night. Still not getting my hopes up that it's going to last. I'm going to have a difficult teenager I think!

Bet u fed up u didn't get him registered Lora. I dressed Charlie In his little outfit today too complete with socks n shoes as I was taking him into work to show off. All the girls were fighting over giving him a cuddle and they all thought I was looking slim so quite a nice day

Just realised I said Nancy fed for about 9 minutes! I mean 90.

Having a bit of trouble today with feeding. Nancy doesn't seem to like my left boob? She scoffs like a dream from my right one, but won't latch properly on the left. When she does eventually get on, she takes herself off again and cries. I've tried changing both our positions and am trying to offer that one first each time. I offer it when she's done on the right one too.

I have a puker, I have never known anything like it. With DS I was honestly baffled as to the point of muslins and bibs but have now had lightbulb moment and will go and panic buy a ton of them tomorrow. Am worried my washing machine will burn out soon! I think I have massive milk oversupply that she guzzles too quickly - problem is she projectile vomits it across me then wants more

She sleeps though . Am going to try and write up my birth story tonight, can't believe it was a week ago.

creepy dd is the opposite, she prefers my left boob! She latches on that side better and my right nipple is slightly sore so I prefer it too, but I don't want to end up lopsided

lora how annoying! We registered dd at our local registry office, not the one where she was born. It just meant they had to post the paperwork off and they sent us the birth certificate a few days later.

salt dp had to go to the supermarket and buy baby clothes because we didn't have anything in premature baby size, so there was no time to wash them. Dd appears to have survived

The health visitor came today, dd has put on weight again, she is now 1lb over her birthweight .

Creepy my mw said that we and the babies might prefer a certain boob to the other... I certainly hate my right because of the pain but its getting better thank god. Dexter seems to have issues latching on to it aswell i finally got him to stay on it after i expressed a bit so the nip was easier for him and he didnt have to make an effort.

So we have rebooked to make him an official citizen next week, not too annoyed now ... il just have to choose a new outfit :-D

Hi all,

Seriously need some match sticks ive had 3 hours sleep in the last 48 hours, mega peeved off with dh but that's another story I will rant in my head about.

Dd is only settling on me and being awkward with her wind

Finally got to bed! Ds is still up with dp, don't know what I'm gonna do when he goes back to work on monday .

marasme going to gp on friday, pain is worse times like now when I'm lying down, during the day I'm now getting occasional shooting/piercing pains.

creepy ds used to prefer my left boob and plays about more with right, not latching on properly etc

Ds is exactly 3 weeks and about 30 mins - wow!
Hope everyone is getting some sleep.

creepy, lora, bugsy, my baby has boob preferences too; my left, but I think that's because my right is very productive and it's almost drowning her.
I'm thinking of keeping my left for her and my right for expressing; that'd work, right?

Ivy has a prrference for the left one as the right one has an over production and she can't keep up!

Chutes my ds1 was a puker and the projectile nature of it frightened tge life out of me! He grew out of it quite quickly though x

Tinkle I feel your pain, I need branches for my eyes

What is with wind at night???? All day she sleeps like a dream (it's mega mission to try and wake her) then soon as you place her in Moses basket all hell breaks loose.

Going to try infacol today

Ladies with overproduction issues, I scissor hold my boob close to nipple and it seems to help, also with DD1 i used to express off until after let down of i had time or just take her off and let it pour into towel. I also feed with bubs upright above the nipple.

Today's task is to try and keep baby awake longer, wish me luck

Hope you all have a good day

Morning everybody. Daniel is another non-sleeper here. Lost the carrycot has been all but forgotten, he only consents to sleep in the sling or his swing chair. Nighttimes the crib is ok for about 20 mins max.

I think we've just had a growth spurt few days as he's been demanding boob every 45 mins day and night and pretty much screaming all the time inbetween. It got a bit better yesterday and he saved the screaming til 4pm whereupon he commenced noise til about 7pm. DS1 was pretty fed up. He pushed his tea around his plate with fingers in his ears and a fairly pissed off expression but I could hardly put DS2 anywhere else. Even the sling didn't shut him up. The bath did in the end though thank goodness.

Dh has been sending me to bed at 9pm to get some kip before taking over at 1am which has helped a bit, at least I'm getting a consistent 3 hours or so of proper sleep. I might give him a respite at the weekend and swap hours. He's more knackered than me, bless him.

Had to order new pump tubing on Tues at 4am (don't ask). It arrived in the post on Wed morning. Brilliant service.

Got to go, Dan has puked milk all down the just-clean-on babygro

Bumped into a neighbour yesterday morning by the car with DS1 hovering to get in and DS2 in the sling.

"Hello, how are you? Was that your ambulance the other night?" she said

"Yes" I said, "I had my baby and needed some treatment in hospital, everything's fine".

"Oohh! We (in the pub opposite the houses) saw it arrive and saw you come out, we thought you might have fallen down the stairs"

"No" says I, "Just a baby being born"

"Did you have a baby then? I never knew you were pregnant! I mean, I saw you around the village but I thought you were just getting a bit fat" !!!!!!

Was a bit stumped by that one.

She carried on: "we thought you'd had a fall. Everythings ok then? you didn't hurt yourself?"

"no, no, just a little baby" I pointed to him on my chest.

"What did you have, can I see, is it in the car?"

"He's here, in the sling. Look see. Hes a boy."

"What did you have then?"

Aaarrrggghhh

She's a nice lady really but NO common sense and a busybody gossip to boot. I daren't hope that she's gone and set the record straight with everyone she natters with.

ha ha pascha she sounds hilarious. nothing like the village gossip to get everything wrong!!

Pascha it transpires most of my acquaintances (rather than friends) didn't know I was pregnant and have been all surprised to hear I had a baby - they must have thought I was getting fat

pascha Mama Bealos its bloody awful isnt it they do make me laugh we were trying to get in the car me obs in pain and people kept stopping to talk i couldnt get in until DH unlocked the car and came round to help me it was a bloody nightmare

Lovely neighbour saw us getting out of the car yesterday with baby in carseat and exclaimed at having had no idea I was pregnant.

The thing is I spent the whole of October, November and December walking up and down the road proudly displaying my "Baby on board" badge to all and sundry, including aforementioned neighbour.
I admit I didn't get very big, but still.

Odd.

Have realised that makes me sound like I wore my badge as a fashion accessory and wandered round the neighbourhood: I didn't, I only wore it when I was going to catch a bus or a tube, honest!

That's so annoying when u feel so obviously pregnant and nobody can even tell

Charlie very grumpy today, wanting to be held all the time. I hope it's a one off and not the way he's going to be!!

Oh lord I think I have hand foot and mouth :( my little boy caught it in playgroup and I have some suspicious looking blisters/spots on my hands and feet, ulcers in my mouth, sore throat etc etc. how crap after just getting over a section. Never rains but it pours. Now I'm worried baby will catch it too.

In other news Jacob's body clock seems to be a bit backwards. Sleeps all day then fusses and snorts most of the night! I'm coping surprisingly well with sleep deprivation (better than ds1) but am dreading dp going back to work next week :( his time off has flown.

Glad I'm not alone with the boob preference. Although she has fed from the left a couple of times today. Hope the rest of you aren't feeling to lopsided! I swear my boob was starting to weigh more than Nancy!

Well I decided to tackle the night fussing head on and establish a routine, so after baby's last feed he had a bath and then I put him in his basket in the bedroom. I figured as he sleeps so well in the day I should recreate conditions, so I have a bit of dim light, some very quiet background noise from the tv, and his mobile playing soothing music over basket. Plan to phase out light and tv. So far, so good. Baby settled straight away, and drifted off to sleep, with only a bit of gentle stroking from me now and again. I hope this works!

Does that sound like his last feed of the night? I meant the last feed he had....I'm not starving him!

From tomorrow im going to attempt sleeping upstairs again. Had to sleep on the sofa last night and tonight cos of his antics and partly cos after the two/three oclock feed which i stay up for im too wrecked to go upstairs.