July 2013 - Part 1. Remember your pelvic floor exercises!

[TotallyEggFlipped]

Time to start the post-natal thread.

And start those PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISES!

[BB01]

And yes to cake and biscuits too! [biscuit

[lancslass83]

Excited to be in the postnatal section, still can't believe we made it.
Congrats to all those with new babies this last week. Definitely trying to remember pfes here thanks for the reminder.
Still being fed by my wonderful mother, god knows what I'm gonna do when she leaves on Sunday. A seems to be getting the hang of sleeping at night which is great although still terrified every day that this night will be a bad one and dreading the 3 week growth spurt which I'm sure must be nearly on us. Trying to enjoy her in the meantime, still haven't quite got my head around this massive change in lifestyle but every so often I get a glimpse of what she might be like in the future and think it'll all be worthwhile.
cheese def not unreasonable to avoid trip to London.

[Mrsd77]

Day 12 here and L has gained 1.5 oz overnight. Unbelievable considering the volumes of poo that were flying about yesterday evening!

Midwife asked if she can keep seeing us for a bit longer. I'm so relieved. She's been wonderful!

Re appetite, I've lost mine. I cannot think if a time when I have EVER said that before!!

[PhieEl06]

Woohoo for postnatal, clenching to mark my place.
Thank you to all on the antenatal thread for advice on frantic latch, things got awful last night & I actually just walked out & left her crying on the bed next to DP, he was horrified at me, but I explained that I just couldn't cope with the attempts anymore & touch wood, this afternoon she's made an amazing improvement & is back to latching perfectly first time.
Great to be in the postnatal section finally! Will try my hardest to keep up!

[dinkystinky]

Persuasion - hope you and F have a better night tonight. Having had over 2 week as of rubbish nights I know how hard it can be - tery and get to bed, and to sleep, early if poss.

Hurray for good weigh ins Might be, Waves and Mrsd.

Phie - glad things are settling down, sometimes its good to remove yourself for a few minutes to let yourself take a breath and calm down.

Thinking - hope you're having a lovely holiday despite lack of WiFi and 3 hour feeds.

Loving the nc too Panda! Hope F calms down and sleeps well tonight.

J has slept most of today - as usual. Decided to make the most of his daytime snoozathon and took ds1 and 2 to see Monsters University which was fun - don't think j even clocked his first cinema trip was happening! Having now been awake for the obligatory 4 hours he seems - fix - to be drifting off to sleep in his cot. Must go to sleep now before the hourly wake up calls kick in...

[Persuasion]

Thanks for sympathy dinky and totally. I'm feeling a bit better after a half hour nap this afternoon. Am just trying to rock her to sleep and hope tonight is better. Fingers crossed for you too dinky, I hope j switches back to uk time soon.

All these weight gains sound good to me. F only lost 4% and had put it back on by day 10, and put more on by day 12 so we don't get weighed again until the 6 week health visitor appointment.

Phie I think sometimes a break is more important. And if you're calmer baby will be calmer and will latch better. SoUnds like things have improved a little now too.

Thinking have a good holiday.

[TotallyEggFlipped]

Phie - sometimes you do just have to leave them somewhere safe and walk away for a moment. If you stay you'll just get more stressed and frustrated and that's no good for either of you.

I've survived the PIL visit - they leave early tomorrow morning. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

HV came this afternoon for 6 week check (N was 5 weeks yesterday, I can't believe it!) She now weighs 8lb 6 1/2oz. (She was 5lb 8oz at birth.) She seems so chunky now, I can't believe so many of you gave birth to babies who were bigger than she is now!

[VinegarDrinker]

We had HV today too, B is now 10lb 13 oz, so 3lb more than she was at birth! 5 weeks today. She is still really chilled out and content, SO much easier than DS was. Having said that she's been feeding absolutely non stop today and a bit unsettled - is there a growth spurt around 5weeks?

FX for a good night for everyone

[Persuasion]

Vinegar I read that there's a growth sorry around six weeks so maybe B is just working herself up to it?

Totally- glad the pil visit went well. Even when these things are ok is still always a relief to me that it's over!

[Persuasion]

A growth sorry? I meant a growth spurt. I really shouldn't Trust predictive text!

[MightBeMad]

Well done to all these babies gaining weight! And to their mummies too!

Hope you all had a good night. Dinky, I hope j gave you more then an hour between feeds?

We were enjoying a lovely sleep here post 5am feed until an nappy eruption woke us at 6:30am (but didn't wake DS - only us getting him up to change him did that!).

[TomDaleysTrunks]

Could it be the dreaded 6 week growth spurt vinegar? Hope things settle.
Another night of on and off boob.

Jealous of those losing their appetite. Yesterday I was famished. I had cereal and fruit for breakfast, 2 pieces of toast at 10am, half a kit Kat at 12, left over stirfry for lunch, choc cake at 3, pesto pasta salad for dinner then fruit and dairy milk. Plus a cereal bar at 4am. I'm not sure where I'm putting all this food.

Quick question. How often are the BF babies pooing? H seems to go about 10 times a day. Doesn't bother her or me but I don't remember DD going that often.

[dinkystinky]

J goes two or three days with only traces of poo and then does an almighty poonami Tom - ds1 was like that too. Ds2 was more like your dd - a poo every couple of hours.

Vinegar - sounds like an early growth spurt to me,

[Abzs]

There's s six week growth spurt? Eek...

Tom - lots of looking going on. Single handed ly producing a landfill mountain. Might need to investigate washable nappies, but we don't have a drier so I'm not sure if that's feasible for winter here. Winter starting at the end of October as the sun doesn't rise high enough to reach my washing line from then till march.

[Cheeseandbread]

Thanks for reassurance re London trip. My friend has been understanding and is doing that shop with her Mum. Then we are doing the other one together- not in London. She is making decorations while her DH looks after the kids- I provide support on the phone while J is attached to my boob

Tom J is pooing lots too- I think it might have gone down slightly this week but still 8 ish... I'm super hungry too and always need snacks!

Phie the last couple of nights I have left J with DH at his insistence as she has been working herself up to inconsolable crying. I know that she is clean and well fed and has had lots of cuddles- it upsets me to see her upset. DH takes over and she tires herself out in the end and goes to sleep which gives me a chance to do the same feel a bit like I'm deserting DH every evening lately. This is normally between 7-9pm ish. Don't feel bad for walking away. As long as they are safe they will be fine.

I did my first bit of expressing on Monday (only managed 2fl oz in between J fussing). DH fed it to J yesterday and she took the bottle woohoo! I then gave her more boob. She slept for nearly 6hrs in one stint 9.20pm-3am. She then went down for 2 and a half hours before her next feed and is asleep on my chest now. Do you think this might be because she had more milk in the evening?

I've managed to express 4fl oz this morning so fingers crossed for tonight! If this works I'll happily express every morning.

[Cheeseandbread]

Dinky I hope your J has calmed down a bit and you got some sleep last night.

[dinkystinky]

Glad pil visit is over and went better than feared Totally. Must be lovely to have dd1 and dh back home. Dd2 has stacked on the weight beautifully - she's just a tiny bit smaller than j when he was born.

Might be - thanks, last night was better as no screaming and j had a couple of 2 hour sleeps. Was my first dairy free day yesterday so wondering if that was the cause or js tummy was feeling better anyway. Also i had a glass of fizz before bed which at least made things feel tolerable. j is 1 month old today - time seems to be flying by!!

Persuasion - hope you had a better night too.

Vinegar - wow, B is growing fast! Not weighed J since 10 day discharge as have to prebook appt with hvs here, which is a total faff - have a appt booked for next week so guess will see how he's doing then.

[MrsMillions]

Ooh Cheese I like the sound of your expressing experience! I expressed a bit on Mon too but DH wasn't feeling too good yesterday so A hasn't had it yet. Have got some more this morning too. Would love a 9:30-3 stint!

[Cheeseandbread]

MrsMillions I know! I had to check the clock.

DH didn't feel like it on Monday either- I suggested it too late in the evening and he wanted me awake to help. I hope you get the same results as me. Let us know how it goes!

[Persuasion]

Dinky I'm glad you had a slightly better night. We had a good night too, bathed her before bed and I wonder if that helps. Managed 2-3 hour gaps between feeds which is pretty good.

Cheese 6 house is amazing. I've been expressing occasionally when I can be bothered sterilising the pump and freezing. We were waiting until about 5 weeks to give it to prevent risk of jeopardising the latch. I usually get more in the mornings too. Do you express is the day and refrigerate it to give in the evening?

I can't remember who was asking about baby spluttering on the breast at the end of the antenatal thread? F also does this and I think it's because of fast let down, it's worse for me on the left (which also seems more full). This morning I fed lying down which helps, but she popped off at one point and it sprayed up her nose Honestly is like a tap! I also had to change the bedsheets yesterday because I managed to soak them. I'm not sure what else can be done about it though.

[TotallyEggFlipped]

Great weigh-in news, Vinegar

Tom, I think normal is anything between 10 times a day to once every 10 days. DD2 seems to be more in the 10 times a day camp, unfortunately. My appetite is getting crazy. I'm eating normal meals and then a bagel or cereal bar or a few biscuits with every feed!

Cheese - my mission for the day which I reserve the right to put off again is to sort out my breast pump and bottles so I can start expressing. I hope I'm as successful as you.

dinky - glad you had a slightly better night. Hope it's the start of more to come.

Persuasion - I've found an evening of cluster feeding, followed by a late bath gives us the best chance of a 'long' sleep.

I've started N on infacol and it seems to be making a difference. I tried dentinox first, but giving 2.5ml from a syringe was torture. Another mum in tesco said it was much better, but I couldn't get it into N. Infacol is only 0.5ml and I just slide the dropper down next to my nipple at the start of a feed. Easy. Seems to be helping with winding and there's been much less of the unsettled rooting again after feeds etc. which I'm sure was due to wind.

[cheekbyjowl]

hello. also lost appetite I think due to sleep also amount of time lying on the sofa feeding joseph with food out of reach. got back to pre preg weight by start of week3 but theres a lot more wobble in my jeans. always thirsty though!

dinky glad you got some.sleep. maybe the fIzz helped. im definitely enjoying the odd small glass. I can't believe j slept through an entire film. wow. glad you got to spend some fun time with your other two boys

cheese glad you could spare,yourself a big drive . hope hen goes well

had disaster of day yesterday. we had to drive back to old flat (1hr.30) to do some chores, get carpet cleaned etc. by 3.30 we were done so we whipped round to the letting agent to drop the keys off. I jumped out of the car whilst my dh turned the car around with baby.asleep in car seat. what we didn't know is we had turned into a crime scene! in the 3 mins it took to drop the keys they had cordoned off the road with me one side of police tape and dad and child the other. and it was a cul de sac! police officer wouldnt let me through and said it would be a couple of hrs. he can't have had children found sympathetic detective who let husband and son out but he said we had to leave the car till maybe midnight as the forensic team needed to arrive. but of course we now didn't live in the area so had one newborn, 3 nappies and thankfully a pram. I felt awful. baby was crying and there was nothing we could do apart from wait for 5hrs. today ive told my husband were staying put all day and not subjecting the little man to any more ikea.queues, homebase shops, bf on wet carpets etc hes getting instant boob access and cuddles all day long. it was a horrible incident and of course so so much worse for chap involved so our inconvenience is not comparable but boy did we choose the wrong road to turn car into. gang crime is so horrible hope all our kids stay well away.

[cheekbyjowl]

cheese how many weeks is your little one now? also admiring your expressing success

[Grannyapple]

cheese I too am impressed with your expressing...I am only just managing almost 2oz per session at the mo (& I'm
Most pressed with that...nevere even got close to that last time with DS). Only day 8 here tho... I'm using a medela swing...are you using a double pump?

I need to go get more bottles for pumping into actually, if I want to get away from formula me thinks!

[Grannyapple]

cheek...what an ordeal!!