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

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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.

Wow I thought I had a long baby but your babies sound super long :-) Kitty sounds like you're about 1lb ahead of me as baby Pear was 9lbs7 last week at 7 weeks.

It's crazy hot

Are you not on fb pear we have a secret group and there are pics of all the babies, it's really nice to see them all although we probably need to update them now!
Yes dd2 is very long especially compared to her little big sis! Gp asked how tall dh was when we measured her last thur lol
Jojo 10:40 blinking heck did you drug him?? Dd1 is waking at between 6-7 in this heat and light streaming in

They still wake up wary if you drug them kitty you can get them to sleep but not to stay asleep.

Out the door for the first outing with 3 kids. We'll see how this goes.

M is already fussing in her carseat...

Good luck bring it'll be fine.

Ok. It actually went really well. I think once you tackle two kids in public, 3 really isn't that much worse.

Ok so this is a weird thing to gate crash come onto a post natal thread to say, but I foolishly think of you all as my lovely friends over here. I got a bfp today. Can't believe it- it's been such a dark few months for me, but its a small step in the right direction!

Hope you're all well and bubs are doing great x

Oh thunder so so happy for you, how fantastic
Ofcourse you had to come and tell us, we would have had to track you down to scold you otherwise!
Stay with us, we always kept your seat < dusts off a seat next to the isle, for running to loo>

Yay Thunder Congratulations on your BFP!!!

OK baby pear has been sucking like mad and I now have clear blisters on my right nipple. It doesn't hurt now but I'm thinking its about to

Take that back. It does hurt OMG why now!?

Ouch pear

Yay yay yay thund !!!!'

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

Congrats thunder!!! So excited for you! I absolutely did not burst into tears reading your post. Ridiculous hormones! Yes, you stay put now. We've got space for a few more babies on this bus yet!

We're all friends on Facebook now - feel free to come join us so you can see our babies & we can see yours in 9 months time! Let me know if you want to. I'm sure I can cyber-stalk you & add you to our group!

Blisters on your nipples ow ow ow
How bad is it??

jojo is a cyber stalker. thund have you run up and down any stairs? Counted your monties? Poked yourself in the boob until it hurts?
So happy for you.

Pretty bad His reflux has been bad today so he's been sucking more than usual. They felt a bit sore so I looked down and there they're

God I don't know how you are going to deal with that ontop you poor thing, have you got a pump? Would expressing hurt them less? Is it just one side?

Yes I've got an electric pump. I'll have to dig out the bits again. Not one of my best days, really annoyed this had happened just when I was starting to get some sleep

Only the right side is effected. He's been crying for the last 1.5hrs and has just drifted off to sleep. It's going to be one of those nights I can tell

OMG so so so so happy for you Thunder!!!!!! I actually gasped and had to tell DH who was like "Who?" I'm like, "THUNDER!". He got up and walked away with an eyeroll. . Seriously, come join us on facebook! We need weekly daily updates on how you're doing! Have you had any symptoms or just a late af?

Oh pear . Ouch! Those hurt like a mother-f. I hope you can get some sleep tonight. I agree with kitty in that expressing the affected side for a day can help them go away.

Bring, why has this happened? Is it the vigorous sucking or the heat that has caused this? Or both? DH thinks I should go to the doctor but what will they do? Nothing they can do surely? Arrrrgh it's just problem after problem! Feeling and

Kitty ~ Alison says if they don't go away they will have to be punctured with a sterile needle. OMG :-(

Usually the blisters happen from a poor latch and baby suckling on the actual nipple instead of the areola. They are different from a milk blister (or bleb) which in that case, yes, blebs do have to be punctured sometimes to relieve the blocked milk. If they are just clear and at the tip of the nipple, they should resolve after a day of expressing milk -or- having an exceptional latch where he can't suck on the tip of the nipple again.

Ahh I see. That doesn't sound fun! As you both suggested I have just pumped 90ml from right side. Maybe I can entice him to take a bottle today as he's been refusing when DH tries. The midwife told us only DH should ever try to avoid confusion but I think we're past that point now. This boy is not stupid. He definitely knows the difference between me and the bottle!

Does anyone else find that their electric pumps suction cup quickly becomes misty making it hard to see if Milk is coming out? I love my Medula pump (as much as you can love a pump ) but its v annoying when I can't see what's going on.