August 2015 - Let the Sleepless Nights Commence

[nolongerwaitingfornumber2]

My DC2 was born on 5th August and I'm up in the wee hours feeding away. Anyone else with their August babies care to join me?

I still can't believe he's here and in my arms!

Hi wtf, I've been wondering if I've got nipple thrush which would explain the pain when feeding. Can you still feed while it's being treated?

I hear you wtfih! It's only been two nights but DS2 is exactly like DS1 when it comes to sleeping (or not!) Feed, doze for 5 mins, fidget, fuss, screeeeeeeam. Repeat. I thought it was our turn for a sleeping one this time!

Kbro did you get home in the end? There's nothing quite like your own bed after a stay in hospital!

Hi Game, yes I've been feeding fine. Baby has oral thrush and the nyastatin almost cleared it in less than 36 hours.
Mine is not on the nipples but in the breast iykwim

Hi wtfih and congratulations on your baby. Welcome to the thread...thrush sounds horrible. Hope it improves for you soon.

Touch wood but the feeding seems to be better for me now my nipples have started to heal. Waiting for an appt to get the tongue tie snipped and hopefully that should be the light at the end of the tunnel and I might actually start to enjoy breastfeeding.

I think she's sleeping fine, maybe too much, that's not the problem with us. The problem is she starts screaming murder as soon as I try to put her in her cot.
She literally lives on my boobs/chest. I can barely go to the toilet at the moment

Welcome and congrats wtfih. Sorry to hear about the thrush
I think my nipples are also improving - hurrah, but think my LO may also have a problems with wind/constipation. Started on the infacol yesterday but no difference so far. Did you have any joy Nolongerwaiting?

Just started the Infacol too and nothing yet. Midwife who came today for 10 day check said due to tongue tie he is probably swallowing air which is giving him wind. Just horrid to see them writhing in pain though isn't it?

Anyone else finding they are absolutely starving when they wake to feed at night?

Hi, I was briefly on the overdue thread. Good to see some of you here on the other side! Baby was born on 12 August after induction for meconium, also a week over. He was 9lb 2 which although big enough for a first wasn't nearly as big as they'd led me to believe.

I'm with you all on the excruciating nipples front. My milk came in yesterday and he's taking longer feeds plus I'm using nipple shields which takes the edge off the pain at least. Hoping these promises of it gets better turn out to be true!

Hi Effin and congratulations on the birth of your baby!

Hi Effin. Congratulations and welcome!

How is everyone doing? We have a day of visitors today all wanting cuddles.

Hi Effin and welcome to the world to baby Effin!

We've just found out some friends are coming over to visit and they gave us a 30 min notice.
Been running around the house like a headless chicken with baby on breast trying to tidy up a bit, bin the soiled nappies etc
With regards to visitors, we only had close family so far and 1 neighbour who held the baby for 5-10 min in her arms and it felt like they were the longest 10 min ever! We went out to buy a pushchair yesterday and took the baby to the park once.
I thought all this was ok but then my mum told me last night that she didn't let anyone get close to us until we were like 6 weeks old. I've felt really guilty last night that maybe I should have kept contact to the outside world to a minimum?!

Hello all

We did get home thank you and I was on cloud nine. My mum, dad and sister visited and was so happy to see them. Then after they left DH and I sat all first timers, am sure, and chatted about how beautiful our baby is. Couldn't have been happier. Was never going to last. From 10pm to 4am DS did nothing but scream and feed (on my v painful breasts) Queue 2am breakdown about how I mustnt be producing enough milk and DS must be on verge of starvation or dehydration as clearly has had no food since birth. Midwife came today and did some nice gentle reassuring that he is not on the verge of starvation and I must be producing milk otherwise he wouldn't feed for ages.

Nolongerwaiting yes. I could eat a full dinner at 4am this morning. Such hungry work.

So reassuring to read other people's babies are having these huge cluster feeds and is perfectly normal.

Effin am tempted to try nipple sheilds. Are they easy to get the hang of? And do they help with the pain.

Visitors is a tricky one isn't it. But wagon don't feel guilty about how many visitors you have exposed baby to. Think is more about how many people can mum and dad cope with. Is hard though as people are so excited and can't wait to meet baby but also need to keep sane. We have loads coming this week. Think have over promised and going to be strict about not agreeing to anyone else coming this week. Meeting baby at 1 week or 2 weeks old really shouldn't matter to people but will help a lot with not wearing us out too much.

I think with visitors there are no rules - just see who you want to see. And please don't feel guilty wtfih, what works for you is what's best for your baby. We've had heaps of people round because we've found its nice to see people and show off DS but equally I wouldn't hesitate to say no / cancel at short notice if I was too tired or didn't fancy seeing them. I've also found that when you have a newborn normal hosting goes out the window and the visitors have been bringing us lunch, making us cups of tea and even doing the washing up

Hi everyone and welcome home Kbro. I hoe you have managed to get some mire sleep tonight.

Re visitors, we've had a fair few - mainly family but some friends too -:and how comfortable I am totally depends on how high maintenance they are! Visitors who help, make tea or bring dinner are very welcome chef Waiting's house. Ones who just want to hog the baby and take endless photos less so.

We've had only a couple of visitors - a couple of friends who came to say hello and my DPs. I don't think babies really mind at this stage as long as they get fed and sleep. Whatever you're comfortable with goes. Maybe this is a first step in doing things your own way with your own baby - you won't want to do everything the same as your DM and that's ok.

The nipple shields have helped. It doesn't make it not hurt at all but helps me carry on for sure and hopefully get over this difficult bit. DH went out and bought several brands so I could see which works for us. So far I like the avent ones.

Now my mill's in I'm getting ds to feed for a bit longer and he goes a bit longer between feeds - 2-3 hours rather than every hour. But his last feed was 2315 and he threw most of that up and now it's 0230. I just woke up suddenly to check he's ok and he seems fine but we're in the ridiculous situation of me being awake and him sleeping. I should be grateful but I'm now worried and considering waking him

What gaps are your DCs doing between feeds?

Ha ha kbro chat about how beautiful our baby is

Yes we did exactly this!

Arg sorry for multiple posts I can't scroll back.
Yes, the nipple shields are easy to get the hang of. I'm also slathering on the lansinoh which helps them stay stuck on.

Right that's it, I'm waking him up. Idiot ftm that I am.

I woke mine up for feeds every 3 hours for the first week on the advice of a midwife. He then only lost 6.5% of his birth weight so was told I could drop this to every 4 hours... Sometimes in the evenings it feels like there's no time between feeds - maybe 20/30 mins but then he's being doing a good stretch without food at night the last 3 nights - fx it lasts!

Is anyone else suffering with the baby blues? I'm getting so flipping fed up of crying all the time. How long do they last for??

Hello! Can I join?

Baby girl born on Saturday (15th), weighing 8lb 4oz. First time mum, so learning as I go, have had about 3 hours sleep in three days, but she's totally worth it!

Hi Groans, I keep flipping between being ecstatically happy to floods of tears for no apparent reason. The tiredness is a big part of it and I think once you get out and about to groups etc where you can chat to other mums in the same situation then it should start to lift.

Sending you , and

Welcome OMC1 and congratulations on your baby girl. Lots of boys on this thread so far!

Yay OMC - good to see you

Are all you ladies BF? Feels like I'm the only one who's ff sometimes, as if I didn't feel bad enough about not being able to BF...

Is anybody else's child having a meltdown in the evening for about an hour? Did starts to cry uncontrollably at 9pm until 10pm ish. Nothing soothes her, she's not wet, dirty or hungry it's just like she wants to cry. Any ideas anyone? I'm a FTM, in case that's no obvious

*DD not Did!