October 2013 Bus Graduates: the one where we're not pregnant anymore

[MrsHoratioNelson]

Check in here. Do we still need the stats?

I really want to take the plunge and bf in public (means I don't have to be so rigid about going out in between feeds). But baby also has a lazy latch and doesn't open his mouth wide enough - often takes ages of latching and unlatching to get it right. Combined with the thrashing limbs and howling, it's no wonder I haven't whipped out the boobs in public yet.

P.s. Flyer, enjoy your dinner out. Fingers crossed the proper medication will really improve things.

And welcome all newbies!

Great that they could snip it straight away flyer! I really hope that improves things a little for you.

Green poo - HV said as long as not every ok it's ok (otherwise can be a sign it absorbing the milk correctly), midwife said will be the jaundice coming out, and breastfeeding helpline said as long as it isn't accompanied by fever etc it's ok and doesn't mean anything. I've also heard/read it can be over feeding, under feeding, not enough hind milk, infection or nothing at all. Take your pick! Doesn't seem to be anything to worry too much about.

I did my first public breastfeed and first drive with Thomas visiting nct girls today. Really anxious someone would crash in to us and drove quite slowly. I am sure I annoyed lots of people.

Hi umlauf, good to see you.

Oh and stinker I am still writing down feed and nappy times on my iPad from when I had to tell midwives about it (Thomas lost quite a bit of weight and we had lots of checking up on it and various schedules to follow). I wasn't in nicu but know what you mean about that - even though we have been discharged I now feel I have to keep track. Hopefully as I get more confident he is fine I won't any more.

Bronze same thing here - ever since I said S would usually go 3 to 4 hours between feeds, he has demanded to be fed every 2 hours. Definitely taught me a lesson...

Flyer hope you have a lovely evening. Very jealous of evening out.

My DH wants us to go out for dinner together this weekend and leave S (plus bottles of expressed milk) my mother. I think it feels a bit too soon though...

How does everyone else feel about leaving their babies?

Georgie. we're going to try the same this weekend when H will be 6 weeks. We're going to stay at my mum and dads so can just pop out to the pub 2 mins away for tea. I've not left him once yet so will be a challenge but think me and dp should try and spend some time just us two while we can!!

After a particularly fractious afternoon I have succumbed and sent DH out for a dummy. Not mad about how it looks, but C has found his hands and keeps sucking them, even though I only fed him a hour ago so I figured it would comfort him - lo and behold, peace and quiet!

Presumably he'll spit it out when he actually is hungry?

So we didn't make it out. Ended up with visitors (unexpected) so dp gone to the Chinese for a takeaway. Going to attempt trying again tomorrow.

Orange I laughed at the vision of you driving really slowly and loads of cars backed up behind you

mrshn yes baby will keep spitting it out if they've actually hungry xx

DP and I went out to the cinema the other day (matinee, I pumped and dumped on the way, baby was left with dad and a bottle of formula). It was BRILLIANT, I highly recommend! Lovely to come home and to have 'missed' him.

flyer sorry u didn't manAge too make it out too dinner, how has A been today since her tongue tie was snipped? Xx

I started using a dummy on Saturday MrsH; DS would never have one but C loves it - as long as she's not hungry! Looks awful though...

I hate it Pseudo, but its preferable to the screaming and snorting - plus my "only sleeping or screaming baby" is now calm and awake... I'd forgotten what his eyes looked like since they were either closed or screwed up!

We've started with a dummy today, too. Not massively happy either, but better that than him using my nipples for comfort, or us offering a bottle when he's not looking for food but just to suckle as that makes a right mess.

Those who are giving dummies, did your LO take to it straight away?

We've tried but he doesn't like them at all and just keeps spitting it out!

stinker I was given pethidine just before starting to push, when I had been 3 cm only 30 min earlier. I thought I had hours to go, if I'd known I was fully dilated I would have declined it. Annoying.
I am in the 'still fat' club, have 1 pair of jeans that I can wear that I bought after DS was born. I am 2 dress sizes bigger than I should be. Had my boobs measured today as my maternity bras blatantly didn't fit properly. I am now a 34H, whereas I was 32DD before pregnancy! Can't see me fitting in a size 10 anytime soon with those boobs!
flyer hope things turn a corner for you soon.
Ladies who are EBF, when are you going to introduce a bottle. My DS rejected the boob in favour of the bottle so I don't want to introduce too soon. I was thinking about 6 weeks. I want to be able to leave DH with a bottle so I can go out running etc.

C certainly seems to have got the hang of it quite quickly.

Parents and nephew are in bed so I can finally try to catch up!

Flywr I really hope things improve for our very very soon, both with A's health but also your own.

My poos are starting to hurt and I really hope it's not an anal fissure. I'm trying to make an effort to drink more as that may soften things up, too.

Thanks, chickie I'm absolutely exhausted with my family here but it's been lovely. I can't believe the gifts they've brought and I'm really excited about the food my dad will cook with the groceries he's bought. They're also much better at winding and soothing than we are. It is however a very full house and my poor nephew is stressed and jet lagged. I am even more in awe of mums who care for toddlers and newborns at the same time. I'm hoping tomorrow we can get out into Heaton park.

sanji we tried a bottle for the first then this weekend, at 3 weeks, just so DH could have that bonding and a bit of a longer cuddle in the evening. J took one ounce at a time but accepted the bottle and I haven't noticed new latch problems since. I'm just worried that bottles will make colic worse. I also hate sterilising with a passion and find expressing inconvenient and weird so I'm not rushing to get bottle feeding going.

I've tried to give him a dummy about four times but he just spits it out so I've given up.

Al kept spitting it out a couple of weeks ago, but I was advised to gently hold it in place for a while, which has worked. I couldn't say if it was because he's a bit older or because of the holding.
Ana - the weather is meant to be lovely here, tomorrow, so Heaton Park should be perfect

Feel shit, achy and bleurgh. C hadn't stopped feeding all day and I also took DS swimming and for a long walk. Cooked his dinner with DD screaming on a sling.
DP cooked dinner and is running me a bath, and dd is fitfully asleep.

We have given Amelie a bottle of ebm. First two times she was sick but the third time she had one, she kept the contents in. She has good days and bad for sickness. Today has been a bad day with three lots of projectile vomiting.

Those three bottles have been spread out over the last 4 weeks. I can't believe how fast the time is going now. Amelie is four weeks old already!

Sanji - my sentiments exactly, really hard to push when all you want to do is sleep! And I do feel I missed out a bit in the immediate post birth euphoria. DH was in tears and saying 'we have a son' and I just lay there! But then may not have made it through the pushing if I'd actually been more compass if that makes sense.

Bit of a tmi question, any of you with csection scars done any grooming/tidying up down there? I have dr s appt tomorrow and panicking about neatness