The 5th Gemini luxury bus - the one with babies!

[FrustratedSycamoresRocks]

As we have all our gorgeous babies now, welcome aboad the 5th Gemini bus.

Drinks and previously banned foods supplied in bulk, Car seats installed, slings and prams at the ready, as we head into parenthood, and all the excitement, and sleepless nights our little ones will bring along the way.

I just look at them, I'm sporting the lopsided look today. If its not obvious I poke them. yup in public too

It's great that you can share and help bring

Aww bring, well done you for doing such a wonderful act of kindness

Has anybody else's DH adopted leaving a rubbish programme on TV whilst you're bf and then walks out the room with the controls out of reach of you? Grrrr

Ha ha! Yes! pear

For the 1st time in my life I have had a bra-less day. --can't wear a nursing bra with a halter neck summer top, so stuck the breast pads to the top. Finding it kind of funny that I have droopy lopsided cleavage.

Hahah yes pear mine does it all the time! Or....he'll steal my laptop from me when he sees that baby is feeding and look so surprised that I was actually looking at something.

Boo, I can't go braless. I've got the leaks under control for the days, but they leak like nobody's business at night. I'm a 34C whilst feeding and down to a 34A-AA when not. . I miss my 21 year old perky B's.

bring at 21 I was a B cup. Only developed proper d/dd boobs with dd1, and luckily they didn't leave when I stopped feeding.
I have serious leakage at night.

Hah hah glad its not just me then!

I just got left with tv channel with naff signal, no controllers, milk-drunk sleeping baby on me, and feet in a foot spa. Thanks DH.

Frus I time the feeds because I'm nosy & because I miss my days doing physics experiments at uni. Never really understood the science behind it but I always loved timing things, writing them down & noticing patterns. He feeds whenever he wants, for as long as he wants... & I observe him like he's the subject of my experiment!

I wanna be bra-less! I'm fed up of them constantly being too warm & moist! I can't though. My let down is completely unpredictable & I drip 1/4 - 1/2oz just randomly! Sooo annoying!

On the bright side, like bring, I'm planning to donate my milk. I contacted the local milk bank before DS2 was born & they said I'd need to get back in touch once he was 6 weeks as they don't accept milk before then & they like to have the blood tests done as close to the start of donation as possible. DS2 is 5 weeks today & I'm trying to contain my excitement! I'm swinging wildly between waiting until 6 weeks like I was told to do & contacting them now to arrange an appointment for next week! I'll probably email towards the end of this week. I could probably feed the entire NICU with just my drippage! May be a slight exaggeration!

We don't have a tv so I don't have that problem & because I time the feeds I always have my phone with me to entertain me!

Lol oh frus that doesn't sound good at all.

That's odd that they make you wait 6 weeks, Jo. The early milk would be more suitable for babies in NICU. I'm excited to have a fellow donator :) This is the 3rd baby that I've "fed" through donation. There were two babies while I was feeding DS#2. It's pretty cool to be able to help out families!

I think the idea is to make sure you've established your own feeding routine & your baby is growing well. I did offer them my antenatal colostrum but they didn't want that either!

I'm bra-less & sleeping on a towel! & going to be damp, sticky & smelly by the morning!

Hello nighttime. Babber is having a marathon feed. She has a snuffle and a tiny cough...it is surprisingly cute but of course a little worrying.

I had to wake her up to feed her as my troublesome right boob (her not favourite side) was hurting me so much. And now she won't stop. And she's poo'd, and it smells!

Lib that doesn't sound fun especially the having to wake the baby up! That's double torture having to wake a sleepy baby when all you want to do is sleep yourself!

JoJo another wonderful giver! I'm very envious of your milk supply. I glare at the unused box of breast pads in the changing room and wonder whether they will come in use when weaning! Probably not!

Morning. I looked at my phone last night and 1 feed involved 1 and the other 4. I don't know how long they lasted. The 4ish one lasted long enough for me to read new posts here amd write "morning lol" before the baby magician clicked his finger and said "and sleep".
The 1am was more frantic, and after nearly 5 hours sleep him not me he did angry feeding. Like he was cross with my boobs that they'd dared to let him go so long without feeding, and he was adament he was going to drink as much as he could as quickly as he could to make up for it. [baby piggy smiley]

I am rather and of the tiny babies, 5weeks sounds so small and long ago. And not helped at all by the fact that I'm going to have to move him up into 3-6 vests and sleepsuits because of his length.

pear don't worry about having non-leaky boobs. I didn't leak at all with dd2 and she feed and grew well.

Love that you tried to time last night frus lol
Dd2 still asleep a good night for her 7:30,3:30 and well when she wakes up now although I think it will be any minute, my right boob the one she didn't use at 3:30 has just been leaking and Is very porn star, I refuse to wake child though, I'd rather leak ( do you think it leaks when it's full or when you think about them?)
Dh though is very much in bad books, this is his 4th day off although ofcourse no offer for me to have a night off even though he's been in the spare room for 2 weeks! His responsibility is dd1 though, well did he get her when she woke at 12:15 from the heat? No! And while we probably could have left her as all I did was say it nighttime sweetie lie down I was worried shed wake dd2 and then this morning baring in mind he's now slept all night uninterrupted the lazy twat didn't get up to her at 6:45 when she's woken up and believe me I left it 5 mins to see if he would, I had to go get her then go into dh room and nudge wack him in the arm to have her, it's things like this that really piss me off particulaly as I had taken both girls out yesterday to car boot and to play at nanas so he had 5 hrs to himself ( used productively playing the Xbox again ofcourse!)

kitty I get letdown when I think about them, or when I hear the right type of baby cry not every baby, it has to sound right Dd2s cry also does it.

kitty I'd remove the fuse from the x-box have done this before, I now don't allow them in the house for you.

Ds is now feeding again, or would be if he wasn't lying there grinning and eyes rolling with a nipple hanging out of his mouth like some drunk.

You paint a wonderful picture frus

Kitty that sounds like my DH lol He says he never hears the crying from the spare room. I don't believe him Sometimes I feel like bursting into his room sound of music style I'm being naughty though as he works really long hours and helps out loads when he's around and awake!

Frus how big is your baby now? Baby pear must be at the 10lbs mark now. He's still wearing a couple of his newborn clothes from the shops that have large sizes but most of his clothing is 0-3 months now. It's hard to say goodbye isn't it. I'm in denial and refusing to pack his tiny baby size clothes up

Why can you not get takeaway breakfast? Really need it! However I'd still have to answer the door and leave the bedroom

My DH can sleep through anything. not helped by wearing headphones

Ds is now almost 9 weeks, and well over 11lb last time weighed 2 wks ago I love them when they are tiny newborn, and the attention he i get when we're out.
Don't know how long he is. They don't correct their size if born after 37wks, 3 days earlier and he'd be corrected, so his percentile on the charts isn't a true reflection of his size. It's below the 50th, but corrected is around the 90th, which is more realistic.

Pear the spare room is next to dd1s bedroom, mine is across the corridor and I had the door shut, I still heard her!
Baby kitty was 10lb7 at our 71/2 wk check, she couldn't get into the newborn from the day she was born as she's so long, unless they don't have feet, even then they strain on her body! The first baby grow I took to the hospital didn't fit her and dd1 had worn it for a good month, we are in the up to 3 months already!

All I ever get is "is it a boy or girl" and hasn't she got alot of hail! Lol

It must be hot if at 10am I choose to feed ds in the change room in a department store because its cooler than the cafe.

I leak when I think about them too... Or when I touch my breasts or accidentally brush past my nipples or when either of them cry or when DS2 will need feeding soon or for absolutely no obvious reason just half an hour after he's finished a feed!

My DH is a heavy sleeper too. It's ok though because we usually only have 1 night feed & generally DS2 will settle without even needing a nappy change so I'm only awake for half an hour. DH needs to be left to sleep through because we're still struggling to adjust/get organised enough to get to bed at a sensible time & he's got to get up & go to work on only 5-6 hours sleep anyway! Poor bloke! I woke up at the same time as him today after sleeping 12.30-6! but am only about to get up now! DS1 took ages to settle after getting over excited by PILs visiting so I left him to sleep this morning & he's only just started making noises now! Crazy!

I've been v productive though! PILs have some concerns about BIL where's places when you need her?! & asked for my advice because I have a lot more knowledge & experience of mental health issues than them so I've spent the morning writing a 'how to support him' guide for them! I love psychology & seriously considered becoming an educational psychologist at one point but got scared off by people telling me it's a difficult course & a draining career. I'm really glad that my knowledge can help them & just stunned that they asked for my advice! I was under the impression that FIL knew everything there was to know about everything! I'm desperately trying to hide my excitement about all this from them - I felt the need to explain my apparent gleefulness at his brother's difficulties to DH last night but he understood when I told him that I see people the way he sees buildings - I'm fascinated by the way they're 'put together' & get excited about understanding how they work. I'm not rejoicing in his brother's despair anymore that he'd be 'rejoicing' if a building fell down & he could look at it & figure out why. We both like solving 'puzzles', his are made of steel & concrete & mine are rather more organic!