August 2007- More boys than girls? Our beautiful summer babies are arriving at last!

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Thought I'd start a thread to give somewhere for Jem, Washersaurus and Bresha to discuss their little ones and make all those of us waiting impatiently jealous!

Who will be next??????

I saw my HV this week for the first time. They have a new system round here Pink - and have much bigger caseloads than when you and did it first time round! I would have thought you should see her fairly soon - should at least have an appointment by the time you are discharged.... ermm.... today...

I saw Karen (M/W) on weds at an Antenatal thing at the Hosp, I took Evie to show her off, and do the whole " this is what having a baby is all about" thing for the new parents!!

Busy day ahead here, off to Cornwall tomorrow at the crack of dawn (who does DH think heis trying to kid?) so need to make sure its all organised before the traditional strop DH has to have before any trip away...

uh... milk monster has awoken... best go be a good cow.... MOOOOOOO

morning...hope everyone's getting some sleep. my wee one is doing quite well, she tends to do 2 3-4 hour sleeps during the night. then it's a feeding frenzy from about 5am. it's DD1 that's making us sleep deprived - she went to bed at 7.30 last night and didn't go to sleep till 10pm after many tears/tantrums/getting out of bed. i really hope she starts to settle soon!

conker - the red book is standard across scotland (don't know about the rest of the UK though) so your own hv should have given it to you .

pink - my hv came out on day 10 then if i wanted she would have come out once a week till week 6 - said no to this though.

i've already been given appointment for wee ones first injections on th 4th oct. not looking forard to that - though with DD1 they did maked her sleep well...

she was weghed and measured yesterday and is 11lb 15oz and 56.5cm at 4 weeks - think i've got another giant on my hands!

did anyone see GMTV this morning - they had a woman on who gave birth naturally to a 14lb baby - he's now 16lbs at 4 weeks .

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Finally I can join you on this thread! Had my LO, Logan William, on Sunday 2nd! 10 days over - the midwife I saw for third sweep on Sat thought he was in the wrong position to descend even though I was 3cm dilated, but sweep must have had an effect because when he decided to come it was fast! Contractions were every 15 mins after the sweep at 2pm on Sat, built during the afternoon and by 10pm were every 5 mins, lasting a minute. The birth centre told me to hold off a bit longer so we got the TENS machine out - thank god we had one! - but they got stronger so went in at 1.30am on Sunday, and I was already 7cm. I got into the pool with gas and air, which didn't do much to be honest but was a distraction. I got out of the pool to use the loo after about 2 1/2 hours and almost immediately wanted to push. Got back into the pool and 20 mins later at 4.24am he was born! Apparently I breathed him out really easily but it didn't bloody feel like it! I was definitely pushing.

He was 7lb 1oz, and he's gorgeous with lovely blonde hair. Exhausted at the mo but v happy, in the grip of baby blues though. My nipples are so sore and engorged I dread feeding him, got nipple shields now so hopefully they'll help.

congratulations katybird!

Pink - hv came when ds was 14 days old. I don't envy you having to get out for the school run this early. I was meant to meet my mum in town at 9:30 on Tuesday but didn't get there til 10:15. Dd is the most difficult one to get moving though. I asked her to go and get her clothes and she came downstairs with 2 hats, a pyjama top and pyjama shorts that didn't match.

Hv came again today to weigh him again. Can't believe he's put on a lb and a half in a week!

Hope you have a nice holiday bagpuss. My dh is the same - always gets in a mood when we're trying to get ready to go somewhere. I just leave him to get on with it and he cheers up soon enough.

I saw that my2weegirls. That's almost twice the weight of ds when he was born. It made me laugh that he's in 6-9 month clothes already.

Congratulations katybird. Good luck with the feeding. I definitely found that nipple shields helped although ds didn't like them very much. Some of the time I had to express some milk into them before he would latch on.

Congratulatons Katybird! Welcome here at last, it horrible waiting until the end isnt it!!!

Gill, apperently i should have heard from the health visitor by now but my one for my doctors has left so i have no HV have to ring anothre clinic to try and get someone to see me, pretty bad all in all, good job he is my 2nd!
Im still finding it tough getting out the door, i give ds1 1hour to get dressed and he still pushes it!

Well im still under the midwife as htey want to keep an eye on my stiches, think they will be fine but still have a lot of white tissue and they want to make sure that it goes back to Pink! oh want great fun!!
Midwife weighed him for me again this morning and he has lost 5oz! not worried but am shocked as he eats really well so i bet next time he is massive!

Have a nice holiday bagpuss, bet the break will be nice!

Im off to see our friends tomorrow how also had there baby on August 9th, we are there DD godparents so really looking forward to meeting there new DS and both ours are now close so they will hopefully grow up great friends!

Congratulations katybird, is there anyone left on the expecting thread?

Health visitors, mine should be phoning to make an appointment next week when dd is 2 weeks old. But I know down the road 5 miles away they have a different system again.

Well my mum went home (300 miles away) this morning and I blubbed like a 2 year old . Its been so lovely having her here for such a special time and she's been brilliant getting up at 5am with ds most days. Anyone else getting this uncontrolable floods of emotion? Quite nice really, especially as we have a great excuse.

I'm finding that I'm feeding Caitlin approx every hour for 15 mins from 5pm to 9pm. Wouldn't mind but this is the busiest time of the day with ds's teatime, bath and bed and I'm constantly on tap. Anyone got any tips on how to change this around?

Just a quick message before In-Laws arrive.

Had water broken at 2pm yesterday, was put on the drip at 4pm and went from 1cm to 10cm in four hours had Alexandra Grace at 8.05pm last night. She was 9lb 2oz so just 2oz smaller then lizzie.

Only had gas and Air and just 3 small grazes.

Fantastic, lizziemun! Big congrats! I'm already jealous, my lo is almost 5 weeks old, those first few hours/days are so special (well, it's all special but you know what I mean!)

Hope everyone's ok, is that everyone popped now? Sorry if it isn't, but I can never find the stats thread!

James "got" me today- we got ready to go shopping, one of the rare (these days) occasions where I did my hair, makeup and got dressed up in something other than comfy top and tracky bottoms. Dp had just given him some milk before we headed out of the door and as I picked James up to put him in his carseat, I said "don't you puke on Mummy's top" and put a muslin on my shoulder.

Famous last words. An instant later he virtually erupted all over me. The muslin did nothing! He got it on the floor, his babygrow and vest, all over my top, in my hair, it pooled in my bra, everything. He had to have a bath, I suddenly had a washerload full of washing, with one vom! You've got to laugh haven't you...

COngratulations lizziemun! So glad you finally made it over here. I think there are still a few stragglers but maybe they've had theirs and just not made it online yet.

GillL, thanks for the tip on nipple shields. One of them has healed now but the other is still really sore, those first few seconds are agony!

Struggling with baby blues , still dreading feeding and LO is finding it hard to settle at night so had no sleep last night. Please someone tell me it gets easier! At the moment I can't see any of the positives, and feel v guilty, it's not Logan's fault!

That sounds like my dd banana. She was very greedy and, just when you'd got her all ready to go somewhere or asleep at night she projectile vomited her milk all over the place.

Got so angry with dh last night. I was supposed to do the last evening feed (10-11pm) and the first morning feed (6-7am) and he would do anything in between. I fed ds at 10:30 and then put him down but he wouldn't settle so I asked dh to feed him - it was midnight. He was sick all over dh after his feed so he decided to have a shower leaving me to settle ds. He still wasn't asleep at 2am so I fed him again (as dh had got really annoyed about having to do the 12 o'clock feed). Finally got him to sleep. He woke again at 4:30am hungry so I woke dh (why don't they ever wake up when the baby cries?). He was again pissed off and didn't know that I was up at 2. He moaned all the way through the feed so I didn't get back to sleep. Then I had to get up at 7am. I know he's going to refuse to do any more night feeds once he's back at work (that's Tuesday and I'm dreading it being on my own with 2).

Pink, bagpuss - how do you cope with 2 on your own? Pink - does your dh help out with feeds when he's working the next day?

Hi everyone ,
Gill - DH was great with ds and did help out with night feeds but this time he is struggling with lack of sleep - Last night we did the same as you, dh went to bed at 10, i stayed up until midnight and feed Tate and managed to get into bed just after 12, dh then got up at 2.30, did that feed and i got up at 6.30, find this works well but dh wont do it when he goes back to work, but have agreed that he will do this friday and saturday so i can catch up! i have a great big advantage that ds is very capable and nearly 5 so i dont have to run round after him so much, also a good sleeper, bed at 7.30 - up at 7!!!
Do hope that it gets better for you!

Lizziesmum - congratulations!!

Katy, it's still so very early, it will get SO much better, and fast! Just take it day by day and really do try to snatch sleep when baby sleeps otherwise you'll find it a lot harder. James is slowly starting to sleep more at night and less in the day, but I still do all the night feeds/changes with him.

It does almost seem like a routine is evolving by itself with no input from us. It's sketchy right now, but so far he wakes up about 6am, we have a feed in bed and try to persuade him back to sleep for as long as possible, sometimes it works for an hour or so, most times he decides he's bored and we need to get up. Then he feeds almost constantly til about 3pm when I tear my hair out, cave in and give him a big bottle of formula. He has a nice big sleep then til about 6ish, then we try to keep him awake til 10pm when he has another big bottle of formula, and sleeps for about 4 1/2 hours, then a breastfeed and another 2 hours sleep.

Congratulations Lizziemum (guess you'll have a new name soon!)

Was very smug for a week - Euan was having 2 10min feeds and falling straight back to sleep. Past 2 nights sounds like he's being the same as everyone else - awake from 1.30 to 4.30 am - feeding and chucking! Feeling really tired but have got DS at home today and don't trust him to entertain himself!

My DH is also being really rubbish this time (the novelty of no.3 has definately worn off!). He's using the excuse of ignoring crying baby because I'm BF and he can't do anything. However not sure what his excuse for not getting the others dressed etc in the mornings is. Thought I was the only one having issues as all RL friends seem to have really 'supportive' DHs

Hi All

Sorry to hear about all the lack of sleep
This thread is so different from my old ante-natal thread with ds where it felt like everyone had the most blissful easy babies, mine wasn't and i used to get depressed reading it sometimes, it's great that everyone is being so honest here.

I can't believe LL is almost one month old, has it been that long without a full nights sleep??? it's actually going quick really. my main whinge at the moment is the leaking or should i say bursting (.)(.)'s It's just crazy i should buy shares in Johnson&Johnson breast pads, going though 3 pairs a day. I'm wondering how i can decrease milk supply

LL is also quite chucky some days and it ends up everywhere. He is having a check up tomorrow curious to know how much weight he has put on. he looked pretty budda like in bath today.

Hi all,
Sorry i havent been around much,
Congratulations to lizziemum and katybird
One question, its almost 3 weeks and im still bleeding like i have my period. I dont know if its normal or not. I tried to call mw, but since she discharged me i got to call GP, which is i got to call toorrow morning for appt.

Or am i too paranoid?

Loler - I didn't bf for long but my dh (and my mum) was useless at working out why ds was crying. They'd tell me he needed feeding and then 30 seconds later he'd do a huge burp and then go back to sleep. He was terrible when I had dd. He never did one night feed and left me to do everything. He's much better now, thankfully. I feel for you having 2 others to look after. Dh goes back to work on Wednesday and I'm dreading having to deal with a newborn and a demanding toddler.

divamum2two - I've completely stopped bleeding now after nearly 4 weeks but a couple of others on here said that they bled for 5 or 6 weeks after having their previous babies and were told it was normal. Do you have a central midwives office you can call? Even though I was discharged I was still able to call the local midwives office for up to 28 days.

Had a much better night last night. Gave ds an extra ounce of formula at his 11pm feed and he slept til 3am. It's amazing what a bit of extra sleep does for you. Yesterday I had to have a 3 hour nap in the afternoon. I haven't had to do that for ages.

katybird - hope you're ok - how's the feeding going?

Diva - to put your mind at rest why not ring neurotic mother helpline (NHSdirect) - I've found them really reassuring

Thnx girls,
I called GP, and managed appt. GP said bleeding over 3 weeks heavily is not normal, an dgave me antibiotics incase there is infection. Im supposed to see him next week. I feel better now. I was very worried as my neigbour died 5 yrs ago due to blood loss.
Im off to go bed now.

Diva, glad you managed to get to the doctors and been able to put your mind at rest a bit!

GillL - Ds sounds just like mine, normally takes 3oz but at the 11/12 feed we give him 4oz and he then goes for 4 hours instead of 3!

Dh is at work for the next few days then off thursday/friday then back full time! -thank god, he means well and i dont want to be the nagging wife but he does nothing that I NEED doing during the day, hasnt even offered for me to go and have a nap!!! He spent 2 hours yesterday on line looking a computer wire ( ok we do need it but 2 hours!!!!! ), then moaned when i asked him to put some stuff up in the loft!
BLoody men!

hello all !!!

Sorry to have been such a stranger but had DH at home last week which was absolutely lovely and we're missing him terribly now he's back at work. Nothing apocalyptic to report here just lots of loveliness. Paddy's now registered so officially exists, got registered at the doctor's yesterday and am off to open him a bank account this afternoon for the kind monetary gifts he got sent. Poor little wotsit had a bit of a cold on Friday night so I had my first pretty sleepless night, which I can't complain about after 3 weeks. Fortunately it seemed to have lifted on Saturday and he's just snuffly now but there's nothing you can do for them really is there ? Stuck a few drops of saline solution in each nostril to try and help a bit but he doesn't seem to be letting it bother him at all now. He still feeds really well every four hours and is definitely more alert for longer in between which is nice.
Got another wedding this weekend so fingers crossed that there's a room I can use to feed him again as am still not past the 'whacking 'em out' stage to feed yet . there's absolutely NO subtlety possible so there's no way I can go public yet !!

Sounds like you've got a really good baby TT. Hope you have a good time at the wedding.

pink - my dh spends all the time he can get up on the computer. He says he's going to finish his game and won't be long but I don't see him for over an hour. Fortunately the laptop is now working so I'll be able to use it when he's back at work. Who knows what would happen if I left dd on her own with ds downstairs. I found her putting one of her teaset spoons in his mouth. She said she was feeding him tea. I guess you don't have that trouble with your ds1.

Dh is back to work tomorrow. I've asked him to take dd to my mum's for the day (she'd have her every day if I wanted her to). Shouldn't be too bad with just me and the baby. He's quite good really. He's definitely spending a lot more time awake. He was awake for several hours this morning with a short nap in between.

Thanks for the advice everyone, I'm slowly getting used to the sleeplessness! Still feeling a bit rubbish, goes in waves - yesterday was great, but by last night I was really down again. I've had a headache for two days which doesn't help! Logan is thriving though, so that's the main thing, and it's only day 10 so things will take a while to settle down yet.

Feeding is getting easier too GillL, I very gingerly stopped using the nipple shields and one nip is still sore but healing, so it's only agonising for the first minute! Still engorged though, so LO struggles to get latched on sometimes. But I'm getting there!

Impressed that you're braving your second wedding TT! The thought of BFing in public terrifies me at the mo. We're on our first trip out with Logan in a minute, dp is changing him then we need to figure out how to get the bugaboo down the stairs!

Hi all,

sounds like things are improving for us eh..?
Mila's much more settled now in the evenings, hope I don't jinx it..!
I was a bit sad to see her birth certificate is printed rather than hand written and we've had palava taking her passport photos but hopefully we'll be going back to Zanzibar start of October.

I'm disappointed with dp's reluctance to cook, if I don't cook he'll order takeaways or make burgers etc that I don't eat so we've had words!

Breastfeeding in public is harder than i remembered, esp as I don't want to reveal my huge saggy belly. Have managed to feed twice in restaurants at lunchtime by hiding in the corner a bit and draping muslin and blanket. I'm going to practise my 'whipping them out' technique at home

question for TT- how's paddy enjoying the amby hammock? Mila's fine in it, she also sleeps well in the carrycot though.

Hi folks

GillL, ds is quite keen on pulling Caitlin's blanket off or shaking the moses basket which doesn't go down well. Am going to be preparing myself military style for the days when its just me and the 2 of them to have plenty of distractions for him and knackering trips to playgrounds etc. Don't want to imagine what would happen if we were at home all day and he got bored and tired and hitty.

Katy, glad the feeding is getting a bit easier, Caitlin is 2 weeks old tomorrow and though its still a bit sore I think its loads better than initially when I had to swear most times she latched on.

TT if Paddy is still snuffly you can get this stuff called Karvol which has a eucalyptus smell and drop a few drops on their mattress, a bit like vicks, seemed to help ds.

I'm uming and ahing about asking the midwives to look at my stitches, cos they're so itchy, i actually pulled a bit out this morning, it reminded me of butchers string. Lovely. Just had a look at some old threads where people said the stitches can take up to 6 weeks to disolve , think I will have scratched them out by then.