Nov 2006 - part 1 - sore boobs and paper pants

[CattyB]

Hi there,

Know I'm now offically a October mum but wanted too keep up with you all so if you'll still let me be a 'Nov mum' that would be good.

Our 1st week has been remarkably good - DD (first time I've typed that one ) is a wee star. Feeding is going really well, she came out know what to do and apart from being a bit tired all seems to be falling into place. Had a good cry as my milk came in but otherwise emotions have been ok. Luckily DH is at home for the next couple of weeks - highly infuriating at times but invaluable for helping getting big brothers out to school and for making dinner.

Look forward to hearing all your baby news x

hi everyone!

we'v only managed windy smiles so far, but as it was something dd didnt do much its great as keiran has these great big grins! lol

well we went up to my nans over the weekend (yorkshire from surrey) and it all went surprisingly smoothly! left thurs eve so dd and keiran slept the whole way, he was hungry when we got there but they were brill on the way! only forgot one thing, the milk powder! damn! it was good i had enough for the bottles for overnight, then managed to get to a shop in the morning! then just one small glitch was i lost my purse, there was no cash in it but there was £40 worth of vouchers we were going to use for our shopping and milk/nappies this month as we'r stony broke!!! the journey home wasnt too bad either, both kids slept most the way! dd was quite good when she woke up about 2hrs away from home then keiran woke up and screamed when we left the M25, but thats only an hour journey, and he was an hour overdue for a feed! poor mite, bloody roadworks on the M1!!!!

anyway, he seems to be feeding much better now, and we can get his wind up easier thanks to the infacol! so now its taking 20-30mins to feed him rather than 1hr 30 mins as it took forever to wind him before! oh and it means hes eating a bit more too as he hasnt got a belly full of wind he can eat more!! he'll be weighed tomo, he is exactly a month today! im kinda happy hes getting bigger etc and kinda sad, i dont want anymore and hes losing his babiness already, its not fair!! why do they have to grow up into horrible toddler things?!?! lol!

right sorry to be so nattery, must go and get something done i suppose!

hello ladies - can I join in over this side now...Madeleine was born on Wednesday so I have left the few on the antenatal thread to it! I am sure they will be along shortly.

All is going ok except for the feeding, I am really struggling with breastfeeding as I did with the DTs, I find it absolutely agonising even though she is latched on properly and she is currently going through the every hour on the hour feeding and has been since about 2pm yesterday, I am shattered! I havent had time to read this whole thread so wondered how everyone elses feeding is going? I am so tempted to give up but of course will feel bad if I do...

hello all, im feeling rather festive just latley! We put up our decorations, me and Jack made paper chains which was nice.

Harry is doing well he's still breastfeeding well although he's having trouble on one side i think i have an over active let down reflex and he's finding the milk is coming out to fast for him, bless!
Everyone still says how small he is, i think it's because he's scrawney where he wasn't getting any food for a while in the womb and he was early, and just to think my midwife predicted he was going to be a 10lber!
Im really feeling for the girls on the antenatal thread i think i would have gone stark raving crazy by now if i was still pregnant! I hope they come over soon.

Harry is still co sleeping with us he wakes about 3 times in the night. He's a really restless baby though he cries in the evening loads and cluster feeds (about 5 mins at a time every half hour) im hoping that's just a phase!
He's putting on wieght well which is good as Jack never did.

Were still getting windy smiles here but there still cute, i just love new born baby's gummy smiles!!!

About the sore nipples though i have a chamomile cream that's name escapes me at the moment comething beginning with K i think - it works well when i have got sore.

Well harry is 4 weeks old on Thursday - i want him to stay a newborn!

Hello, I had my DD Jessica on 16/11/06. She is thriving on a routine of what feels like constant breast feeds, so I am hoping this doesn't carry on for too long! I have had a quick read through the other posts, and am reassured to see that what me and DH are going through with disturbed nights and feeding difficulties are normal.

Does everyone else fantasise about how amazing it would be to get a full night's sleep?

Hi all

Just checking in while Paige and Daddy slob on the sofa! We have managed to get her to sleep in 4 - 5 hour stints over the last couple of nights - whoppie

Going to go and get her weighed tomorrow and then on Thursday we are up the hospital to see the doctor to check everything is sorting itself as she has a slight mummer.

Still getting lots of windy smiles although i swear we get some proper ones with the way she times them!

Hello again Everyone.

Well little Fraser is doing really well even if he is attached to my breast most of the day !! we have just started giving him a bottle of formula during the night just so i can get at least 2 hours sleep as it's hard work feeding all night and having to get up with my 17 month old Dd at 7am!!

Are any of you buying your Lo's christmas presents? If so any ideas of what to buy a 6 week old?

Hi everyone congrats to the newbies and welcome to the 'otherside' .

Harrogatemum, what is it thats agonising? Are you having the afterpains when you are feeding? (nobody warned me how painful they are second time round! i thought i was in labour again) If its that they do stop after a few days.

I have slight discomfort when dd first 'clamps' on, it feels like she has teeth and is biting me. But the sensation fades after a while. I fed dd1 for two years, and i promise you that the niggles and pains that you get initially do all disappear even when they do grow teeth, i think your nipples just toughen up basically and don't feel it anymore! Stick with it if thats what you want and i promise you it will get easier .

hi everyone! well i gave up on breast feeding after 24hrs, i dont feel too bad as dd was bottle fed and its never done her any harm. i just couldnt get my head round the fact i didnt know what he was taking, and after i put him on formula we discovered he was eating an awful lot less than he should and i was having to wake him to feed him every hour. so the decision was best for us, he loves his formula now and im quite happy to have my boobs back acctually!!!

well taking little man to get him weighed after he has a bottle so will report back what the chubba weighs now! he eats 4oz of formula 7 times a day, according to the box (yeah i know its a load of tosh!) he should be having 5 bottles of 4 ozs, hmmmm i dotn think my sons read the box!

Thanks for the advice Hattie and Stacy, however I have decided to stop breastfeeding, part of me feels guilty but I breastfed my twins for 2 weeks and became a much happier person after I stopped and could share the workload as it were. The pain was constant and for the last couple of days she was feeding every hour for 45 minutes so after dithering over whether to do it or not. Last night we had a much better night and I actually got some sleep on and off in 2 hour chunks!

Wonder if anyone else on the antenatal thread has given birth yet.......?

Harrogatemum im glad you got it sorted, it's always much better to have a happy mum then a non happy mum. After all happy parents make happy babies i always say!

My to little men are snoozing on the sofa, i missed Harry's hearing screening today i completley forgot and have now lost the letter so can't ring an apologise! Looks like it wasn't being pregnant that made me a scatterbrain after all!

I think the girls on the antenatal thread are all real close, Debbsy has been absent after her sweep and show so hopefully she will pop up with bibby soon!

We had an ok night, well they are all pretty ok Harry still isn't in a feeding routine so wakes sometimes every 3 sometimes every 4 hours for a feed. He gets an extremley blocked nose at night so he finds feeding difficult, i think i may have to buy a snot sucker!

My mum is in hospital today having day surgery, they are inserting a camera into her heart through her groin! [ouch!] to see how much her heart is leaking, it's quite risky so im hoping everything goes well.

Hope alls well.

Harrogatemum im glad you got it sorted, it's always much better to have a happy mum then a non happy mum. After all happy parents make happy babies i always say!

My to little men are snoozing on the sofa, i missed Harry's hearing screening today i completley forgot and have now lost the letter so can't ring an apologise! Looks like it wasn't being pregnant that made me a scatterbrain after all!

I think the girls on the antenatal thread are all real close, Debbsy has been absent after her sweep and show so hopefully she will pop up with bibby soon!

We had an ok night, well they are all pretty ok Harry still isn't in a feeding routine so wakes sometimes every 3 sometimes every 4 hours for a feed. He gets an extremley blocked nose at night so he finds feeding difficult, i think i may have to buy a snot sucker!

My mum is in hospital today having day surgery, they are inserting a camera into her heart through her groin! [ouch!] to see how much her heart is leaking, it's quite risky so im hoping everything goes well.

Hope alls well.

hi everyone! well keiran now weighs a whopping 9lb 8oz at 4 weeks old and he was born 7lb, hes a big fat chubba!!! lol!

Harrogate mum dont feel guilty, its better for your lo to have a happy you than an in pain grumpy you! as i said my dd had formula day one (she spat breast milk at me, lovely child!) and she has tunred out just fine at 2 yrs! no alergies (except tomatoes but thats quite common, and its not a serious reaction anyway. she can walk talk and be a pita as well as the rest of them! dotn beat yourself up about it!

Hello everyone - I have had a quick read of the messages to try and catch up & glad to see that everyone is doing well.

Harrogatemum - I had no joy breastfeeding and am now expressing for 6 feeds a day and giving one feed of formula at night - because frankly I can't face expressing then!! As far as I can see your baby will be happier if you are

Benjamin is now 8lbs at 6 weeks - still a little chap but has doubled his birthweight so doing well. He sleeps for about 5 hours in the night so I am starting to feel more human, after initially having to feed every 2 hours round the clock..

Hi all,

ivan is 5 weeks tomorrow and doing really well. He has had a bit of a cold for the last 10 days - went to the dr yesterdy who gave me some nose drops for him but he just snorts them out and gets in a strop!

he is now 9lb and too long for his newborn clothes but too narrow for 0 - 3 months - have got him in the 0 - 3 stuff but it drowns him

Harrogatemum - glad you are doing better with bottles - agree with others - happy mum far better.

Charlee - fingers crossed for your mum, hope all is ok.

awayfromhome - Hi! Glad all ok with you.

Ok, off to nap whilst ds is sparko in his basket...

I thought I would finally get round to posting! Yasmin was 3 weeks old on Sunday. I'm formula feeding as despite almost 48 hours of trying I couldn't get her to latch on to the breast. I did express for the first week or so, but with DS to look after, found it too time consuming. She is going about 3 1/2-4 hours between feeds and so far nights havn't been too bad.
DS loves his new sister and is so gentle and protective of her but his behaviour towards DH and me is very trying,I suppose he is just attention seeking. Anyone else who has jut had thier 2nd finding getting out the house like a millitary operation?

Hello All

My first child Liam was born 28th November, he was 2 weeks early and only 6lb. The labour was an unpleasantly long, drug fuelled affair. Now he's a week old, so it's about time we introduced ourselves and stopped lurking.

I think I might be mad as I'm really enjoying bf, even when it's painful - and one of my nipples is pretty cracked. I think it's the most useful I've ever felt. Mad, I know. And who knows how long I'll last.

I feel a bit of a fool for buying lots of cloth nappies which are just too big for him atm and that I'm secretly dreading using.

Everything makes me cry (good and bad), but I had that just before he was born so no change really.

Some of you will know that I had a really bad night recently where DH was a complete jerk and DS wouldn't stop screaming, thankfully there's been no repeat of that.

And finally I just got Liam into the wilkinet, he was a bit crabby pulling the "I need winding face" and then trying to squirm out of winding holds whilst grizzling - does anyone else's LO do similar? The wilkinet has completely silenced him and he's sleeping soundly now.

I have to say I've got nothing but admiration for the mum's with more than one LO, which seems to be a lot of you. I can barely manage one little baby, let alone a family full.

Looking forward to getting to know you guys and benefiting from your wisdom

Ah, so glad that I finally went looking for this thread. It's so nice to hear that other mums are going through the same sleepy tribulations (and wonderful, beautiful moments).

Jack was born almost four weeks ago. It was a loooong labour that ended in an emergency c-section.
Recovery for both mum and lo has been really good, and we go on walks together (along with dh), but mostly try and spend the day sleeping. LO was 10lbs 4oz at birth, so he looks lovely and chubby at the moment. I agree so much with the comment that these babies just slip right into your life, fitting perfectly. It's just like he was always here. I'm so glad he's around (even when I'm exhausted to tears)!

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hi everyone!

podglet im having the same problem with clothes as hes too long for all his newborn (except a select few) and he looks like a sack of potatoes in 0-3 month! poor sausage!

well we ran out of infacol last night, warning this is a bad move, im now knackered and so is keiran! going to hopefully time dds sleep so we can all sleep together!

Hi, Stacey I know what you mean about the running out of winding juice! I got lots of tut tut looks last night as i pushed a screaming baby round the local tesco at 10pm trying to find some colic drops! Paige is sick everytime we try Infacol so we are trying everything else!

Well she weighed in at 8lb 4 yesterday so is putting on weight steadily, can't beleive she will be 4 weeks tomorrow, she has fitted in as if she has always been here but at the same time it seems to be flying by very fast!

HI! Harry is 4 weeks old tommorrow. God im finding it hard, i have really hit a downwards spiral at the moment.
Harry has screamed solidly for the past 3 days only stopping to feed, im pretty sure he's in pain somewhere but not sure where or why, im going to have him wieghed tommorrow so i will ask the HV.
Everyone else just says my milks not good enough and hes not feeling satisfied which is disheartning to say the least.

oh charlee thats a load of tosh your milk is fine, and brill for your lo.

have you tried colic drops? cant remember if you said you had, they work wonders. evenings seem to be really bad with colic as keiran gets worse then, but with infacol he is a lot btter!

i seem to have hit baby blues a little late, it started a few days ago, i jsut dont seem to feel i can do anything right, where i was confident as what each of keirans cries meant before (hungry, tired etc) i seem to be getting it wrong constantly now and dd is 'trying' to say the least (while i sit and feed she wrecks the flat!) and i keep snapping at dh and am worried hes getting p*ssed off with me. just cant work it out, i felt great before, kinda worried about PND as have a history of depression, will try and get soem rest and see if it helps!

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thanks, feeling so funny atm...although im tired i cant sleep...might make a docs appointment and see how things go.

well little man has changed routine, and now he's sleeping for 6 hrs between 2 feeds then feeding every2 hrs for 6 hrs, then sleeping 6 hrs before the next feed then feeding every 2 hrs. now why exactly cant i get him to sleep overnight for the 6 hrs?!?! lol arent babies great!!!

Hi guys,

i had my dd2 on 28th of nov. 10lb 1oz, natural birth, all over in 2 hrs, didnt have time for faffing, arrived at hospital and out she popped

she is a peach, beautiful and sooo good!!

congratualtions to us all

tam