March 2016 babies! The (hopefully) graduation thread!

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Park your bums and continue the newborn chitter, and due date whinges

Eeek my waters have gone! Off to hospital shortly (please may they not send me home again...)

Morning ladies, up for another night feed! Jealous of you Maybe smd Wooden with your stretches of 5 hours sleep! Zach still mostly goes 2-3 hours max, sometimes longer after his bottle of expressed milk which DH gives him in late eve/early morn.

Ffaux, Zach is also a really sicky baby and like Seren (fab name btw, and she's gorgeous too!) it can be ages after a feed, sometimes more than an hour or so. He does spit up with it in (his big bro did the same) and it just kind of comes out round the edge (grim I know!). He never chokes or anything like that, if it's while he's sleeping, which it often is, he just ends up with a kind of crusty sick moustache behind it! Nice! I'm so sorry to hear how hard feeding is going for you, big respect for your exhausting schedule. You are not a failure you are doing brilliantly! Pumping alone with no baby and no feeding was hard enough so its no surprise your exhausted. I'm guessing she's already been checked for tpngue /lip tie etc? Many of my friends struggled a lot with latch etc for a few weeks but then magically turned a corner and it all became easy. fX that happens for you sooner rather than later. I would say if she's already having boob and bottle then the issues of nipple confusion with the dummy wouldn't be such a problem. Do you swaddle her at night? We have the Woombie which worked wonders well I say wonders, it took wakes from every 1-2 hours to every 2-3, very occasionally four

Time, I forgot Calais is one week corrected so like Zach still a bit too little to be expected to be doing much! They've been here so long it feels like things should be happening (plus for me I think smiling is going to be the first sign hopefully that things are going to be ok for Zach and he doesn't have any major disabilities.) and I need to remember his corrected age and try not to worry.

Oh and Ffaux, it's totally normal what you describe about increase in cramps and bleeding. Pumping/feeding stimulates your uterus to contract back down to normal size so the more you're doing either the more your womb is contracting resulting in more bleeding. I used to get gushes (sorry tmi!) when pumping after my milk came in with Zach.

Cross posts Crispy! Good luck, thinking of you and wishing you a speedy labour! Xxx

crispy eeek good luck!!

missi thank you! That's reassuring on lots of fronts (cramping/bleeding/dummies/feeding etc) Thank you for taking the time to advise me :) Hope Zach starts smiling soon and you can feel reassured. Have you seen the Wonder Weeks app? It tracks the developmental milestones to expect but goes by due date rather than birth date. I paid the extra 99c for the e-book too and it is worth it, certainly for a FTM anyway

Yay crispy good luck! Hope things are progressing well. Hopefully that will be at least one Easter baby on the thread. I'm pretty sure mine is way too comfy and not planning an Easter Sunday appearance.

Ooh, crispy!

Nice to hear the woombie had a positive effect Missi. (Got one lined up if this baby will ever make an appearance)

Mine too magpie. Though he now needs to stay in past DSs birthday tomorrow.

Good luck Crispy

My milk is yet to come in so Ginny is clearly still getting colostrum. Last nightshade decided to "stimulate my supply" midwife talk for waking every 30mins and demanding food!! Cracked out the dummies to give me a whole 45mins sleep between feeds! Now she is sound asleep and v content - I wonder if she and the toddler have agreed a rota for keeping us busy??
As madame was late we have missed out on our Easter plans which is a.shame for DS. We live down the road from the city cathedral though and they have Easter egg hunt after the service - do you think we'd burst into flames if we wandered down for the fun bit having not gone to the service....

Ooh crispy good luck!

Good luck crispy!!

Think we've hit the 10 day growth spurt bang on in this house, Eleanor fed at 11, then not till 3 (well, 2, with clocks gone forward), but since then has been a hungry little munchkin and is having double boob at every feed (I usually don't have to feed much off second breast if at all as I have so much milk at the moment and like to make sure E gets the fatty milk at the end). My left boob is mostly healed now and latch not perfect but improving. However right boob has a really bad split at the base of the nipple, its not bleeding but bloody painful, think I'm going to have to pump and/or use nipple shields until its healed. Such a faff

missi glad to hear from you and that Zach is doing well, hopefully your appointment with neonatatologist goes well next week.

We have a fleecey outerwear suit for Sid which he seems to like wearing but I keep worrying he'll get too hot. We put it on over his vest and sleep suit, is that too much? Find it so hard to gauge the right temperature!!

marmite well done for persevering with the feeding.

Continuing to send baby dust to all overdue ladies!

missi lovely to hear from you and so glad Zach is doing well.

Commiserations to the sleep deprived. Can I ask how you ladies plan to divvy up the night stuff when your oh's go back to work? I was planning on doing the majority of the night stuff during the week with DH taking over during the weekends as much as he can given I'm breastfeeding. Also going to try expressing so DH can give Sid one feed a day, maybe late evening so I can get a couple of hours sleep. What is everyone else planning on doing?

maybe we always had a '12-6' rule at night time whereby when DH was working I would let him have those 6 hours uninterrupted but I could go to bed earlier and have an extra nap first thing. However, if I was up solidly feeding, pacing, settling and was at the end of my tether I could wake him sooner. Worked for us. Sometimes at the weekends I'd express and he'd do a night feed or two or I'd literally just BF then pass the baby over to him for burping/changing/settling. Worked for us so plan to do similar this time.

maybe with DD1 when she was just waking to feed I'd feed her, and DP would do nappy changes. When she started just waking and wouldn't settle, we took it in turns to settle her by rocking her to sleep/comforting her. We always agreed on a 50-50 split for night time parenting as much as possible. As it turns out I went back to work at 6 months and he had 3 months paternity so it worked out fairly as we continued to split night duties (and when we were both back at work - DD1 continued to wake at night regularly till she was 18 months old even though she night weaned at about 1 year). We're planning to do the same this time too. I know quite a few mums who did all night time parenting in the week which was fine when they were off work but when they went back to work it was an issue as they were stuck doing all the night time wakings!

Thanks for the sling suggestions. I think we are going to go to John Lewis on Tuesday so I can try some on. I like the idea of the caboo though as it doesn't need to be tied by me. I know I'd spend the whole time thinking she will drop out of one I'd tied!

Just feeding E and thought "oh god she has some kind of reddy brown spot on her head" like a birth mark that wasn't there before. Did the mum finger lick thing and lo and behold it was Easter egg chocolate from when dh was cuddling her whilst scoffing an egg

After 4 weeks this is the first time that ds has really interacted with Cassidy lets face it she can't play buses or football so he was never going to be very interested, he thought her holding his finger was hilarious! I wish I had dressed her in pink today though, the sleep suit is unisex but she looks like a boy in this pic!

Oh MrsElls that's such a cute pic! They both look beautiful!

Still nothing here.

mrsells that is so cute!! How old is your ds? He looks a similar age to my ds who vantage wait for his brother to be old enough to play!!

mrsells that is an adorable picture!

Still no sign of baby here...induction tomorrow in theory although it's a "phone at 7am and we'll let you know a plan" job so I'm convinced I'll be waiting a while longer. DH has just told me I "smell a bit birthy" wtf that means I'm not sure.

Hope crispy has a baby by now.

Ahh mrsells that's lovely! My boy is more concerned with helping - he keeps bringing the baby the cuddly bunny she got as a present, and if we're in the bedroom he keeps putting the cot mobile on for her. He's been quite cautious around her, seems to be nervous of hurting her, maybe dh overdid all the talk of how soft and delicate babies are.

Re night wakings, last time I covered all of it while I was on leave and thankfully he started sleeping through around the time I went back to work. This time I'm not so sure as I have ds to look after so won't be able to catch up in the day after a bad night.

That's quite exciting magpie, good luck tomorrow!!

Good luck tomorrow magpie, I hope no news is good news from crispy.

Ds was 2 in December, I thinks its quite a nice age gap but will be better when Cassidy can play!

Aaah gorgeous pic mrsells

So DS did a nice 6 hour stint of sleep last night but then I woke with painful engorged boobs. So I fed him and he then did a massive spit up which was somewhat projectile. I know projectile vomiting is bad but if it was a one off do I still take him to the doctor??

Good luck magpie

I hope crispy is having new born cudddles now!!

MrsElls there's a similar age gap between mine too. It will be lovely when they are old enough to play together.

maybe, if it was a one-off, and he otherwise seems well in himself (I.e. not hot, not crying with a high-pitched pained tone, normally responsive) it's likely he just got a bit overfull!

Sounds like a wonderful sleep!

Good luck with the induction, magpie! That'll leave just me & Tri, right? (Assuming Crispy's all babied up!)

40+5 today, so not hugely overdue, but it's DSs birthday so need to get through today before anything' allowed to happen!

The bonus is, of course, that we've all had a good few days rest & catch up on sleep now! Deffo ready after today!

I think if it's a one off, and down to taking in too much milk rather than illness, then you should be fine maybe. I'd ask a doctor if it keeps happening though in case it's reflux or something.

Sylvie did six hours last night too, I feel pretty good. And smell like yogurt.

Impressed suz and maybe by the 6h sleeping stints - still on a high here after Eloise did 2 stints of 2h a time last night. She had been mainly nocturnal since return from hospital so this felt like a breakthrough (she is 7 days old).