March 2007 - even though it hasn't actually arrived, some of us have (iyswim)

[CallieNewMum]

Here we go girls - Amie, Kiwi, Dixia, Flannelettepyjamas, we can start comparing motherhood notes on this one and wait for the others to arrive one by one. Although I suspect the other thread will be our home until there's critical mass. To those of you still waiting to join the post-natal people - get a move on!!

Morocco - oh you poor thing!

Things will get easier I promise. I had mastitis, then tonsilitis, then great thrush and its only this week i've been able to feel human again.

Hang on in there [big hugs] - your DD is doing great

Morocco - oh you poor thing!

Things will get easier I promise. I had mastitis, then tonsilitis, then great thrush and its only this week i've been able to feel human again.

Hang on in there [big hugs] - your DD is doing great

jay - sorry to hear about Jensen's bum- have you tried metanium - I saw someone else had recommended that.

When dd1 was in hospital having her cardiac surgery - she got terrible nappy rash - to the point her skin had broken and was bleeding. The nurse suggested I mix up sudocrem and metanium and it worked a treat. Mixing the sudocrem in helped make it easier to clean off.

ALl is well here - dd3 is very content - she is going at least three hours between feeds during the night - thank goodness.

Not looking forward to next week as dh goes back to work and dd1 is on school holidays. THankfully it is just 4 days. Then she is back at everything and I will start driving then. Funny - I have recovered so well from this c-section - I tend to forget I have even had one. I keep thinking - I'll just pop down the road and do this or get this and then realise I probably should ask dh to drive me .

morroco sorry to hear you are having a rough time.

anything exciting planned for Easter?? We are off to my mum's for morning tea in about an hour so she can show off her latest grandchild to her friends. Then on SUnday my aunt has invited us over for brunch and an easter egg hunt for the dds. Great - saves us doing anything for them

Morocco - sounds like yoiu have had a terrible few weeks health wise, glad things are picking up though.

Diva - thanks for your wise words....back to the contraception drawing board

Hi all - I finally get to join you on this thread. I've posted the full story of Toby's rather dramatic entrance here

Well done lunar have posted on your BA thread honey xx

Ok you guys have your thrush, mastitis, cracked nips, womb infections, retained membranes etc

Guess what Piffle gets
Bloody ingrown hairs "down there", basically lots of erm ahhh boils.
Grim painful and from constant maternity pads.
I feel so gross

Am now dousing with tea tree, witch hazel and contemplating finding the time to air dry my bits

Finn is lovely, feeding like a maddun but that's just him

oh piffle - could not think of anything worse.

I hate the itchiness that comes when scar is healing and hairs are growing back - but no boils.

You have my sympathy.

keep up with the witch hazel and tea tree - fabulous.

Congratulations lunar Did you go into shock after such a dramatic entrance?

Morocco sorry to hear you've had problems. Having just had sore and cracked nipples and mastitis myself I can really sympathise. My DD seems to be on a permanent feed ATM and because both nipples are sore I dread each one.

Piffle my teen DSs are quite concerned when the little head starts bobbing along their necklines looking for somewhere to latch on. She got hold of my mum's upper arm and gave her a nasty suck! It's quite amusing to watch- she looks like a little bird.

would it be really awful to try a light flow tampon to give the bits room to breathe?

morocco-sorry to hear youve had a hard time of it with infections etc.

i dont think one person on here has said'bf has been fine,my nips arent sore and ive not had mastitis/blocked ducts '.

my milkstill hasnt dried up after 4 weeks.i really need some new bras but theres no point getting any till i know what size i will be.plus im hoping to lose some weight at somw point.i seem to be gaining it atm

lunar-congrats again

kitty-i dont understand the photo thing then.i never got anymore replies on the site stuff thread.i really dont want the pics to be public though.maybe i could email everyone?

Elsie was sleeping for 5 hours between night feeds,but it was 4.5 hours last night.she had about 8 4.5 oz feeds yesterday.this morning shes been feeding every 2 hoursshe must be growing again.im not getting the hungry baby milk,id rather she feed every 2 hours than be constipated.

GAARRRGGGHHH LAIDBACK careful girl with the persona talk... that was me 10 years ago.... now i have a beautiful 9 year old dd!!!

My dh (at the time my dp) worked for the company who produced it... it was actually designed originally as a product to help women conceive... until a bright marketing spark realised the money was really there to be made in advertising it as a contraception - clearly a much bigger market!

Your dc's look gorgeous by the way... so maybe you secretly want a fourth anyway???

Morocco for you - i've got the mastitis t-shirt too... it's so painful...

Piffle - don't know about using a tampon... but the in-growing hair sounds pretty painful - poor you

Callie - Samuel sleeps soundly for a lot of the day too - but it's SO hard to keep a baby awake when they're intent on sleeping isn't it. I look at him now and i think... oh bums... you are going to be SO awake tonight!!

Happy Easter to everyone and here's hoping those Easter bunnies jump out for kitty, mossy and runningal

Piffle - ooh that sounds really painful down there!! You poor thing sounds horrible.

Diva - what happens to your boobs when you don't BF - do they get engorged and then calm down again gradually? My friend (who is now 70) said that boobs used to be bound with bandages to stop the milk coming in. Do they give a medicine now to stop the milk? I remember going to my GP with DS1 when I had really sore boobs begging for something to stop the milk and the GP just laughed at me . BF can be a complete nightmare in the early days TBH!

Eids - My family came up from Bath today ()Mum,. brother, sister, BIL and nephew) - it was lovely to have them all here sitting in the garden in the sun around Monti On Sunday we're going on an Easter Egg hunt in Kew Gardens. No plans apart from that - except Bfing and sleeping whenever I can

Foxy - I'm off to Bath tomorrow to stay with my parents and to visit my sister! Swapping places with your family!
Might get a bit of retail therapy in whilst my folks take oldest 2 dc to the theatre... although hoiking the buggy around the shops is never easy - I always seem to send things flying

Great news Lunar, have posted on the other thread!

thanks for yr thoughts re Jens bum! i leave his nappy off now for an hr every eve now,and wash him by 'drzzling' water over his bum rather than wiping, then its good ole vaseline as a barrier... yes i tried metatanium (sp) but it didnt work. So i went to docs who said stop the antibiotics, and doing that coupled with the vasaline, its much better!

went to a petting farm today, it was so lovely! new pics on peanutmonkey !

going for dinner and to read thread now! xxxxxx

Jay - Monti's bum is getting very sore so I'm going to try vaseline too!

Muppet - enjoy Bath - its lovely isn't it? My family live just outside in villages and we're seriously thinking of moving down there too (i.e. leaving London)

Just ordered a "My Brest Friend" feeding cushion (as recommended by TheBlonde )as my back is killing me due to poor posture.

good luck Fox, sorry Monts has a sore bum also, its a horrid thing

Who was it on here that has an Amby Natures Nest? Jensens not settled into his at all, for some reason he seems to be all 'hunched' up in it, hes so much better lying flat, so had to go out and buy a moses basket today, hes in it now, sleeping like a baby! Am hoping he will sleep longer than his regular two hr stint tonight, oh and who said something about when they get to 10lbs they sleep longer between feeds.. Jens now 11lbs 10ozs.......no difference in his sleep pattern at all!

Does anyones LO use the dummy yet? I have tried mine with it, all he does is spit it out.....is it becasue hes so young still?
Used a bottle to feed him some expressed milk yesterday, DH and i went out to see Ricky Gervais at Nottinghams Ice Arena, first time out since he was born, i managed to do the whole three hours without calling my Mum to see how he/ they were! - anyway, what i was meaning by telling you this, was that, he took to the bottle really well, so dont understand why he wont take the dummy....use Mam bottles and Mam dummys so its not like everything is a different shape for him?

Oh poo hes waking up....damn it.... spk soon xxxxxx

sore bums-bepanthen cream is the only one ive ever found to work on my 3 youngest.

fox-my breasts have got engorged on day 4 after those i didnt bf and i was walking round looking like a fat pamela anderson(i would say jordan but shes too young and too ugly to consider comparing myself to).they dont give milk suppresants now-i think the general view is that women who choose not to bf deserve to suffer

i know men have the ability to not hear babies in the night but i didnt realise they could extend this skill to daytime also...

im sure im not breastfeeding

Foxy - i remember we've nattered about this b4 haven't we! Sorry to repeat myself! - my folks are in bradford on avon... i'd love to live there again - i went to school in Bath.

Jay - i'm with you on you on the non-sleeping baby front! Plus Samuel spat his dummy out in total disgust the times i've tried it - and it only puts him into more of a rage - so i've given up - i assume he was just annoyed that he was doing all that sucking for no milk!

have now been informed that the 'mumsnet mates' thing wasnt activated in the end

so if anybody wants me to email a photo of Elsie then email me - [email protected].

dd2 took to a dummy pretty easily - in fact we are now working on getting it off her at 2 1/2. She only has it for sleep time.

tried the odd time with dd3 - mainly when she is getting her nappy changed and dressed at she hates it BUT she does not keep the thing in at all so have decided not to start with her - watch this space - may change my mind.

Thanx for the advice re. sore bums

Diva - will e-mail you for pic of Elsie

I really don't know why some babies take dummies and others won't!! I think with DS1 and DD we left it to late (about 3 weeks old) before trying the dummy, whereas with Monti it was day 3!!! Or maybe he's just a more sucky baby?

I do remember DS1 being a Klingon though - and spending hours on my boob each and every evening - give me a dummy any day LOL!!!

Piffle - where did you buy your post partum support belt from? I saw the e-bay link but that one has sold now

Thnax