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.

Lora, I put them in yogurt, cereal etc but anything you can stomach but they are horrendous. Good luck with lunch enjoy

at going out for carvery dinner. DH was ust saying what a nice idea that would be. I've made a fish pie for tea while DH and ds1 were out though so got that to look forward to.

Dan is tending to feed one side, sleep a bit and then have the other side so it's taking longer than I can do with but he is feeding well.

The Manduca finally arrived yesterday, that's DH's little toy to play with and as Dan is apparently a velcrobaby it couldn't come soon enough. I'm sticking with my Connecta.

Apple thanks for the concern Friday. Itstaking a lot of practice to deal with two when DH is not here and a complete change of mindset but well get there in the end. Only 9 months til DS starts preschool...

Carvery dinner sounds ace well first breast feeding in public moment today ~ at church and it went well he didn't grumble n my boob stayed covered up thankfully but I did leak on my top n stuck my breast pad to my nipple

I did a sly top up feed before we went so carvery was boob free

Im laughing a bit at the pad getting stuck to your nipple. My mums going to crochet\knit a boob beanie....google it

Made me laugh Lora!
Doing ok here, but LO has started to be sick after feeds and will only sleep on us (she is 3 weeks tomorrow and used to sleep in her bednest fine).
I am also freezing cold, and so tired.

Let s hope tonight will be easier.

Spring, is your bednest entirely level with your bed?
Do you manage to have LO in there with your arm reacing her?

I have a Malm ikea bed, and there is definitely a gap between our matress and the bednest. Result is DD is in our bed to co-sleep...

Lol at the boob beanie, brilliant.

Not much to report here, finding it hard to get little miss to wake much in the day.

My mum arrived today for a week, it's nice to see her as she lives abroad but going to miss my couple of hours a night in spare room, although DH is currently comatose on the sofa so fat lot of use he will be tonight.

Hello all...I'm still in hospital with little Felix, going home tomorrow. 48hrs is definitely enough!
He's very cute and chilled out though so far - probably traumatised by the amount of drugs I had in me during labour - my plans for nothing but G&A went right out the window. I'll write it up when I'm not on my phone!

Ps I'm loving the name Aurora. That rocks!

Ok, so Daniel has decided sleeping flat is for Other People and will only settle on our chests. I have been awake since 12.40am and now I have DS1 in bed playing on my ipod and What The Ladybird Heard going round and round in the background. Telly at 4am is shit.

My LO has the squits now too. Been up twice last night with a bad tummy and about ten nappy changes :(

Horrible night here to, Lois seems to be full of wind, was grunting and moaning all night and just wouldn't settle for long when laying down.

Decided to keep DD1 off school didn't want mil driving on the roads.

Then just got call from MW asking if I can drive to children's centre instead of home visit, errmmm NO!! bloody cheek.

Hi all

octane bet you can't wait to get home.

Lost have you ever tried baby massage? Some of the techniques can help with wind and it always settled my older dcs. What a cheeky mw.

Dcs school is closed today :( so far they are entertaining themselves watching the baby and announcing everything she does!

Congratulations chutes and creepy.

apple I have been given vouchers for baby massage as a present, can't wait to try it.

Dd always seems to fall asleep on my boob, she drinks for about 10 minutes, then sucks without swallowing in her sleep for ages. If I unlatch her and try her on the other side afterwards she never takes it so I am pretty sure she is full and just sucking because she likes it. I do know if it's a problem or not, it's a bit annoying at night when I want to go to sleep.

I haven't been out of the house all weekend -we live on a hill and our road isn't gritted so I'm scared I would fall -so I'm getting a bit stir crazy.

Do you wake your babies up if they sleep all day or just leave them to it? Dd still sleeps a lot in the day and then is awake in the evening.

I woke this morning feeling snotty and as if I am going down with a cold. Is it inevitable that I will give it to dd?

Just had the health visitor she really happy with him hes 9lb now so im doing something right. Shes getting the boob feeding woman to help with my bad boob which currently KILLS and she said snuffles at this age is normal

Bugsy, I asked my midwife this morning about feeding as Bailey will stay on for 10-15 mins then come off and once I've winded him he'll only go back on a few mins. She said because I can hear him gulping down the milk, he probably just feeds quicker. She said some babies feed quite quickly, others are quite slow at suckling.

Is anyone else going to be a little tearful saying goodbye to their community midwives on hand over to health visitor care? I'm really going to miss my midwife she has been absolutely fantastic. Also a little but teary that I'll never ever be pregnant again :( baby Jacob is only 10 days old and already it's scaring me how quickly the time is going!

Pip i am so relieved its all over and will never happen again that i cannot get nostalgic for pregnancy! i know what you mean about time passing so fast and i know i will miss the baby days when they're over.

That's the thing, my pregnancy was horrific! You'd think I'd be put off for life. I think pregnancy seems to last forever and then all of a sudden you're not pregnant anymore and you have a baby to look after. Bit of a shock to the system! I just want to try and make the most of the newborn stage before its all gone forever. Feeling a bit emotional today I think

Bit of crappy day, stitches have been really painful and turns out they are infected (as if they weren't lovely enough) got two lots of antibiotics so hopefully pain will ease in few days.

On positive front Lois is back to BW, just need to deal with the wind issue and constant daytime sleeping she is the hardest baby to wake.

Thanks Apples, I have been doing the massage moves I remember but think I need a refresher, I can just about remember my own name at the mo

Pipls I know what you mean about pregnancy, I never want to give birth ever again but strangely quite enjoyed both of my pregnancies. Can't say i will miss the midwife as not had same one very often.

marking place!
birth announcement........
on fri 18th Florence Rose, 7lb6 ELCS

hope all are well, we're at the sore boobs no sleep stage...........

Congrats Knucking!!

Congrats knucking!

Been pleased to hear the discussion up thread about feeding. This LO also seems to do only up to 20 mins max before falling asleep at the boob. I am trying to set alarm most nights now to feed him otherwise he is so hungry on waking mornings are a bit of a nightmare. He has about a four hour sleep in afternoons tho and I haven't disturbed that as useful to get things done.

MW weighed today and he is nearly up to birthweight, day 12. Only 3.2% short. Jaundice not yet cleared so test next week. She said it is normal to poo after every meal - I just worked out that means around 5,000 nappy changes to look forward to before potty trained!!!!

She also looked at my stitches and said healing well, relief as they are still sore and it feels weird down there. Tbh does not feel big enough any more for PIV sex!!

One day soon I hope to visit the toilet without blood leaking from 2/3 orifices. That will be a real milestone :-)

Think im starting to crack up. Im getting myself upset cos it seems its only me who can sort dexter out when he cries, im exhausted and my boob is agony.

Lora - it's normal that you are the one that can settle Dexter. It's been like that with all my children. You are so familiar to him, it would make sense that only you will comfort him in the beginning. He will get used to others though over time. Is there somewhere you can go to get your latch checked? I'm going to a breastfeeding drop in thj g tomorrow as I'm still uncomfortable. You can also just pay a lactation consultant to help - it depends how desperate you are!

I know I was asked a few questions up thread and I will answer them when I'm on my computer instead of phone!

Hugs for you Lora. I hope you start to feel better soon. I think it's perfectly normal to feel the way you do.

We came home yesterday and, touch wood, Nancy seems really settled. She tens to sleep for 3-4 hours, and then feeds for an hour before another good sleep. She was doing the same routine in hospital and the midwives said it was fine, but I thought babies hardly slept?! Does it sound ok to you ladies? I'm not complaining, I'm getting some good kip in! Although I'm not expecting it to last for long.

Any tips for cesarean recovery? I'm trying to get up and do little bits, and sometimes are easier than others. I had a shower last night and it was lovely. DH had to help me get dried and dressed afterwards though, bless him. I still haven't had a poo yet, I feel like I need one but I'm a bit worried in case I need to strain.

I'm the only one that can settle Charlie too he fidgets and grumbles when with anyone else, especially before bed time.

I too have the wind problem (well not me LO) but loving the big beaming smiles cos he has wind

Charlie keeps sleeping 5 hours on a night and although it's bliss for me I'm worried about him but if I try to wake him it takes a good half hour!! Then though he wants regular small feeds all day as if trying to make up!!