Nov 2007..... Once we pop, we will not stop!!!

[sparklygothkat]

I can finally start this, as someone else has had her baby.. woohooo!

SparklyGothKat - 25 Sep (8 Nov) BOY - Callum Eden
KaylaBMummy ? South Wales - 18 Oct (8 Nov) GIRL - Katie

FCH - Poor old you haveing to go back into hosp. Well done on the social life though, am v impressed. I'm barely out of my pjs these days so God knows what a slob I'll be when [if !!] Lo ever arrives.

Choc - Thanks for thinking of us. No news yet. I'm getting lots of niggles but that's about it. he'll be along when he's ready. I find I'm fine as long as I keep myself busy and see people during the day..
Hope manage to catch some ZZZZZZs

Fiona - You go girl
Glad to hear you are getting plenty of snoozing.

Iris - I want a baby that sleeps like Elliot!

LOL re the Aussie and KIWI dialect words. I'll never forget the look of bemusment on the face of a Kiwi woman when I asked her if she'd my flip flops.

Hi all!

I made it - just!

Wont bore you with any details - its all over the boards anyway, but im bloody knackered, my boobs are like rocks and im feeling a little hormotional!

Hope everyone here is ok, will be back soon! xxx

That was - If she'd found my flip flops. WFT is wrong with my brain at the mo .Hormonal Lobotomy.

Go easy on yourself Jarm

WFT??? LOM you really need to get that baby out!

Rg - ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I'm driving myself insane. I just went to the bakers and was asked if I wanted brown or granary.I had to say , " The one with the nutty bits in." c'os I couldn't remember which was which. FFS

If I do end up going to 43 weeks I'll be a complete dribbling heap.

hahahah!! It's annoying isn't it!! At least you have an excuse and everyone will smile at you with sympathy!

I just wanted to find out your experiences with help with breastfeeding. Luckily my mum who is a midwife arrived on the day that Anabel was born and helped me latch on and establish feeding. I'm a legend feeder now and its all going great for me no thanks to the staff I met. The midwives in the hospital didn't check that I was feeding before I left and although if mum wasn't on hand I would have asked for help but I was shocked at how they just left me to it.
No wonder the breastfeeding rates aren't that good and so many people have trouble and end up feeling like failures. Did anyone else have an experience like this? I feel sorry for those people who had no other support around them.

Hi Fiona. When DS was born, i was a very niaive 22 year old and was "shown" how to breastfeed only ONCE in the two weeks that DS was in hospital (he was in SCBU). The nurse/mw (cant remember exactly who it was now) just told me to hold DS and then attempted to put my boob in his mouth. He didn't latch at all and the nurse/mw just said "ah no, he's not interested is he?" and left it at that! I was then left to bottle feed from that point and not another word was said about BF. I did express milk for him tho so at least he got something in the first couple of weeks!

These days however, i'm like a bulldog/ferret type thing. If i want to know something, i will grip it in my teeth and i will NOT let go til it's clear in my head and/or i can do it properly!

Fiona,

for me noone helped either except one student mw who was v nice indeed... to be fair noone seemed to have time... little Rebecca was a star feeder without help thank goodness but I don't rate the help I was given. I asked for help three times during the night and wasn't given it. I nearly switched to formula when I got home and R couldn't latch on but the community mw who came round was great and I used shields for a few days before managing it normally again. But no thanks to the hospital staff... though to be fair they were really busy... but the woman in the bed across from me, her baby couldn't latch on properly and they ignored her until eventually telling her she had to give the baby formula cos she was starving her! how rubbish is that!

No support here either!

Im struggling a little, but I think its getting easier - I wasnt sure Daniel was getting anything at all, but he sicked up yellow liquid earlier so guess that was milk/colustrum

Bit worried about the length and spacings of feeds, but am off to ask on the BF boards about that!

Jarm, sounds like you are doing great so far! Well done. Very proud!

Fiona - there seems to be a dreadful lack of support for bf doesn't there. My experiences were:
DD - struggled with latching so scary MW grabbed her head, my boob and rammed them together , made sure she sucked a bit then walked off.
DS1 - MWs too busy and "you've done it before" attitude. A student MW was sent in to "observe" because I'd done it before
DS2 - no support offered (again) but, in all fairness, none needed.

JARM - congratulations on your gorgeous baby (and born on such an auspicious date too! ) Sounds like you & Daniel are doing great on the bf front. i'm really pleased it's working for you this time

Well, feeding was working... although he is being very fussy this morning, latched for only a few minutes and wont go back on.

Will see how he goes, but today will be the longest ive ever BF for so if I can get through today, its one mile stone!

Daniel slept really well last night - 11.45pm until 3am and then 3.45am until 6am so really pleased. Wasnt expecting it as he has slept so much during the day yesterday!

Hi all

JARM - well done, you're doing great... Just to say that I found nipple shields helped temporarily when Rebecca wouldn't latch in the first week - I used them to get the nipple into shape and then took them off half way through the feed and she fed very well like that, then after a few days she didn't need them anymore.

Re bf, I keep wondering if the woman who had been opposite me in hospital ever did manage to bf. No thanks to the hospital if she did, mind you. Whereas someone in my NCT class in a different hospital managed to stay FOUR NIGHTS in hospital (after a straightforward gas and air birth) being helped with bf. Our hospital would never have done that... Still they delivered my daughter safely and that is the main thing.

NCT reunion today - hmm - hope it isn't all about the power of natural birthing - and Sunday lunch at my parents.

Have a good day all of you!

Well done to all of you with the BF. You all sound like you're doing brilliantly!

Choc - have a lovely day at the NCT reunion and enjoy Sunday lunch!

hello

iris my experience in hospital was just like yr first. mw shoved megan's face into my boob. she was screaming - megan not mw. i burst in to tears eventually - it was all v heavy handed. still haven't established bf. 3 and half weeks. but she has fed with a nipple shield for the last few days. not getting enough though cos she stays at breast for 20/25 mins then drains a 4oz bottle of ebm.

feeling quite proud - have just hosted a party for parents 40th wedding anniversary. 20 plus family including lots of toddlers. mum and aunt helped with catering and dh was fab with drinks and clearing up.

didn't see megan all day cos she was constantly being snuggled by various relatives. she slept all day and barely made a noise even when waking for feeds. must having been showing off and pretending to be the perfect baby.

i thought she'd be awake all night after that but she fed at 12.30am, 4.30 and then 8am - best night yet!!!!

Sad mummy confession. friday my mum had megan and dh said i should go to town and spoil myself . he said book a facial. mum said go to debenhams and look for something nice to wear to party - i had a gift voucher for birthday which i hadn't spent. happy to leave baby with mum - trust her totally but after facial i didn't go shopping cos i really wanted to go home - i missed megan so much. this shocked me - didn't expect to feel like this. i came hom after 2 hrs away cuddled her a dissolved in to tears

Silk - sorry you are having slight trouble with BF. Have you rung one of the helplines or had someone check your latch etc? Sorry, i have no idea what to suggest really as i'm clueless!

I'm very impressed on the entertaining front tho! That's some mean feat!!! At least she sleep well too, that's brilliant!

Oh us second/third timers should have warned you about separation anxiety - from YOU!!! I remember feeling like that with DS. It's very strange! I have to warn you tho, it doesn't stop there, it lasts for a good few years until you know they are old enough to take care of themselves! Even at 17, i worry about DS if he's late home!

Hi my birthday today I'm 31 and a mummy DH gave me a beautiful eternity (sp?) ring with 5 diamonds for 5 years of marriage and to celebrate the birth of Anabel. What a honey!!

We went of a sunday roast and they told us that you can't bring babies into the pub. luckily we had already ordered when they noticed the baby so we stayed and ate. What a silly rule I hope all pubs aren't like that.

My nipples are so sore and Anabel fed heaps yesterday and I eem to be over producing milk it is literally flowing out of me so its difficult for her to latch on. Hopefully it will come right soon. She was weighed today and has put on a pound since birth 10 day ago. She is now 3.12kgs. What a star.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIONA!!!!!! Wow, 31!! Oh to be 31 again hehe. What a wonderful gift DH gave you, awww bless him!!!

It's really pants about the pub!! Some pubs are like that but normally after 7pm or something, never during the day AND on a Sunday! Absolutely appalling! So glad our local pub is child friendly or we'd be stumped!

Have you tried expressing a little off your boobs first before feeding so that Anabel can latch better? I'm no expert or anything but i've read of women doing this to help a bit with the latch. Great news on her weight tho!

morning all!

well my word, we had a horrendous evening last night which resulted in me getting DH to take daniel out in the car at 11.30pm last night! I will sat though, he then slept til 6.45am!!! omg, 4 days old and sleeping through! not going to get my hopes up for a repeat of that for a while!

Morning Ladies with babies.

JARM - Congrat on a decent sleep. It must feel amazing.

Fiona - Happy Birthday I'm going leave you post right in the middle of the screen in the hope that DH happens across it I want diamonds too. There should be quite a few as we've been together 11 years, have one cat, almost a baby and we had a couple of gold fish for a while...

Silk - Glad you enjoyed your facial. Poor old you missing Megan so much - that must have come as a bit of shocker if you weren't expecting it

morning all

apologies for all the typos in my last post - was typing whilst holding Megan.

Had a crap night last night. She woke at 1am for a feed and then whined and mewed all night . Wasn't hungry, wasn't nappy - possibly wind. The only thing that stopped her was being held but she started up again as soon as she was put down.

We slept in the spare room so Dh could catch some zzzzzzzs.

I have to be at doctor's appointment at 10.30 - I was hoping for a littel sleep before then BUT she only just fell asleep!!!!

Happy birthday for yesterday Fiona.

Will you pg ladies hurry up and get yourselves on to this thread please >

Jarm - glad you got a good night's sleep last night. Must be really refreshing for you.

Silk - sorry you had a crappy night.

This baby will come out when she's ready, although it's not through a lack of me trying, believe me!!