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

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Time to start the post-natal thread.

And start those PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISES!

Morning all, feeling a bit more in the land of the living today as M managed a 5 hour stretch last night!! From about 11-4am . I think it helped that she pooped lots during the day yesterday. Even if it's just a one off it still gives me hope! Bugger she just puked all over me and couch, got to go

haha oh dear!

We've just come back from a lunch with the inlaws. Elka wont stop crying.. I have changed her formula milk to HIPP instead of Aptimil (I combo feed) would this make her cry more?

also, talking of poonami, we had four wet farts of the apoocalypse! luckily nappy just about held out.

Yay for big sleep but boo for big vom Thinking.

Totally - N is 6 weeks isn't she? I suspect its the 6 week growth spurt messing things up.

Nexus - changing formula can give them tummy ache while they get used to it - hopefully will pass soon. Out of interest, why did you switch?

Another bad night with j and difficult day of battling him to sleep today - he really fights sleep every step of the way. As am hugely restricting my diet by cutting out dairy and restricting wheat and gluten I was hoping things would be better by now, but safely not. Ho hum.

Safely not, meant to be sadly not...

Also forgot to say: beginning it is nice in some ways, makes you feel
Loved :)

Tbh, I don't really have a reason to change, I keep reading how they are all the same etc and that it shouldn't upset their tummies to change... I changed to hipp as we try to buy as much organic as we can anyway so.. Seemed logical to go with it. Bloody hate the packet though. I thought she'd be ok because she still gets a lot of breast milk. I guess she hasn't been crying more necessarily but she's just been awake for most off the day.

I changed to a combo diet because she feeds so much, I wasnt enjoying bf (yeah, you know sometimes you have to be selfish) I now love bfing she gets 5-6 drinks per day and around 4-5 bottles a day (seriously, this baby is a monster- she's growing so fast).

Six weeks today and hungry and cranky.

Hv here today. J has now crossed the 10lb mark, though has dropped on the percentile scale - now just below 50 instead of bang on. We're adding to the collection of non-problematic problems - an umbilical hernia, infantile acne and a slight tongue tie. Shall have to see what the gp says at his check up tomorrow.

In other news, the shirt dresses I ordered from people tree on Sunday arrived this morning. They are pretty and lovely and yet practical for feeding. I shall wear them and think pretty thoughts, while smelling vaguely of sick and watching the rain...

Shouldn't have mentioned the sick. He's just spewed down the front of one, down his own arm, over two muslins and a blanket.

Abzs - I suspect j has an umbilical hernia too and poss silent reflux issues going on. May well explain the crapness at sleeping! Glad you got some lovely dresses to brighten your day.

Yay for more sleep, Thinking! Hope you get a repeat performance tonight.

dinky - yes, N is 6 weeks, but the sleep reduction has been going on for a could of weeks now and she probably has some of DH's lateness genes, meaning she'll have a 6-week spurt at about 8-weeks

Abzs - I've almost stopped noticing the vague milky vomit smell. My mum pointed it out to me today .

A new event for the Olympiad - the stealth wee, or "Why is your hair wet?"

Oh abzs, that presumably is limited to male contestants! We do have occasional stealth vomit but is usually pretty low volume...

I think females can compete, just using the puddle rather than fountain strategy. This means they also get a pass into the "That top was clean on" event.

J just punctured my nipple with his.latch and I couldn't stop it from spraying ..It was mid feed so everytime he went back for more it squirted.him in the eye!

Like the new event Abzs!

Back to hourly night time feeds in the dinky household - ho hum.

Morning! Sorry J is still doing his hourly shifts Dinky. I think you're a legend for staying so together. You must be exhausted!

L saved up a days worth of poo yesterday and let me have it at 3am. It was a case of me standing by the changing table as she grunted and got rid if it all! They are so small. Where does it all come from?!

I think I need to make some decisions re expressing. I'm only getting about 100ml a day now and that is taking me about two hours over four slots. Now DH is back at work I'm finding it really difficult to calmly fit into the day.

DS at nursery today so think L and I will have our first solo girly walk down to the shops. Quite excited!!

Sympathies to those whose babies are keeping them up all night.

I think we definitely had the 6 week GS a bit early, thankfully it seems to have passed. B is back to cluster feeding in the evening but then going a decent stretch overnight (last night we went to bed at 10.45 and she didn't wake til 4.45...!). She does then take a while to go back to sleep (we had a little disagreement about whether 5.30am was time to get up, gargle, grunt and coo loudly) but I really can't complain. I think DS was 15 months before he was sleeping 6 hours in a row.

6 week check with the GP today. DH is here to have DS so I am rather looking forward to a leisurely walk and sit just with DD, whenever I just have her to look after it feels like luxury!

abzs M has also been v spotty and I do wonder if she has sl Tongue tie as her latch is still not great. Hope GP appt goes ok

Aargh big vomit again!

Anyway hope those with little sleep are taking it easy during the day. Sadly M was back to normal wakings last night needing to poo etc. Subsequent poonami this morning so maybe she'll be more settled today

vinegar sounds like dd doing really well, enjoy your time with her today.

dinky could it be 6 week gs keeping J up all night? Sorry can't remember how many weeks he is now.

I'm off to get M weighed then going to work to show off my beautiful baby

Dinky- if you think it is silent reflux, he may be feeding for comfort sometimes rather than hunger, refluxy babies suck for comfort alot. Gps often get confused because presentation for classic reflux is failure to thrive but with silent reflux often they are gaining weight more rapidly than average because they are feeding so much for pain. Unfortunately the constant feeding makes things worse as the stomach is always bulging and spewing milk back up oesophagus. After 3 silent refluxers i could talk for hours on my specialist topic so i' here if you want any advice
Also, some silent refluxers are even intolerant to breast milk even when wheat and dairy excluded( v rare, but mine do fall into this category)
Sorry everyone else for lack of conversation, struggling with 1 fingeredtyping and sleep dep

Morning ladies just about, hope we're all well! I'm awful at keeping up & posting, I have skim read, but now have a waking baby!
Breast feeding in public - I know it was subject a while ago but managed my first & only public feed in Nando's last week, I was petrified & tbh still scared about doing it but possibly because I only have one feeding top & nothing to really cover up with, must buy more clothes!! At least I had my sister & mum with me for moral support.
Oh dear crying baby wanting feed now she's woken up from slumber, will be back soon!

Wow, we have los sleeping through already? Hats off to you ladies managing that! And massive sympathies to dinky with hourly feeds C is going through her 2-3wk growth spurt and feeding for an hour to 1.5hrs every 2hrs, so now I know not to feel too sorry for myself. probably needed for the up-all-nighters!

Have many little ones started smiling, cooing and gurgling yet? C has been trying to smile for the past few days - do we have long to wait for full on grins?

Phie we've managed 3 public feeds (all in different Costas!) and each time I've employed a muslin as a cover-up. I'm worried each time about exposing myself, and have rubbish feeding tops (must also find better vests when I next go shopping) but the muslin works well for being able to keep an eye on C as well as being a good sized cover.

Latched on nicely!
Persuasion we often have stealth vomit here, the other day M managed to reach my shoulder in a lovely ark from my lap, cue crying as she was still hungry as she'd managed to sick up whole feed!
Cheek forceful let down? I have similar & sometimes it's too much for M so she pulls off & gets a face full of squirting milk & everything else in close proximity gets soaked.

M had awful colic last week, we started on the Infacol & have seen a massive improvement but it seems to have made her constipated, hmm bit of a more acceptable trade-off, she is still doing at least 4 poos daily but seems to really struggle to push them out.

Sorry for lack of personals, I hope everyone else is well!

Not having much luck getting N to nap now that she's more awake. Getting overtired and it's hard to break the cycle. It means she's nodding off on the boob/being held much more than I'd like. It took months 2 12 years and counting to get DD1 to settle herself to sleep.

MrsRoss I used a muslin as it was all I had to hand but found it difficult to be discrete with a pink bunny rabbit printed muslin draped over my shoulder. I also find that I get a lot of dirty looks from people of a similar age to me, at 19 people don't expect you to breastfeed.