December 2007 - Santa's come early for some of us...

[Housemum]

Thought I'd start off the new thread as I've never started one before - congratulations to those of you who are on here now - hope I'll be joing you in the not-too-distant future!

Hello Everyone,

Just done very quick scan of last few pages, am so impressed with people being so organised, i just seem to plunder through each day!

Kaesha has started sleeping well at night though between 5 and 6 hour stretch which is lovely hope it lasts.

Does anyone else find their LO not settling on the boob because they're too busy trying to look around at everything?!

K has been smiling for a couple of weeks now (she's 6 wks)

Sending lots of hugs to everyone, find it so hard to keep up with mn now as only seem to get chance to log on once a wk at best.

Wizzska ah right, yes I do know what you mean as in a distant corner of my foggy brain it did ring a bell about not drinking. I have got in the habit of having a small glass of wine immediately after putting DS down at night but this is my 2nd course of ABs (admittedly for different things). I'll ask my Dr next week when I go for review

Amani it's just great fitting in a bit of pampering, well if you can call waxing pampering! least it's keeping us feeling human!

Lizzer did they find out what your DD had? glad all is well and hope you don't have to go near the hospital for a while.

Hi Melly, I wouldn't be on MN as much as I am if I wasn't so knackered to move from the sofa with the laptop beside it!

Hope everyone is having a good weekend

Lizzer - hope your dd is ok, thank goodness it wasn't meningitis!

Well, I think was a good night! Ds was feeding every 3 hours!!! Woohoo!

We put him to bed after a feed at 8pm, fed him again at 11pm, then DH fed him some EBM at 2am, he woke again at 3.40 but he only had a couple of sucks at the boob - I think he just wanted his dummy, as when I gave him that he fell asleep straight away. He then woke for a feed at 5am!!!

I can only hope that this keeps up (and is nothing to do with the Bailey's I had before bed )

Macdoodle is a bit weird how we both have to 2DDs roughly same age and we're both single mums. Weird in a cool way!

caz10 my DD is 4 weeks old today but she was a week late so maybe her digestive system maturity closer t0 5 weeks??! Poos today a bit more regular and my skirt came out of the wash sans stains mercifully after a heavy dousing with Friend followed by Napisan added to the regular powder in the wash. Am transitioning to washable nappies this week too!

Lizzer sorry to hear about DD1's trip to hospital, how scary

Student nanny arrived today to live with us for the next 5 months. Am a little bit apprehensive as to how we'll get on but will be great to have some help. She goes to Nanny college one day per week but other 4 days she's full time!

Hey everyone

Have been keeping up with you every day but dont always have chance to post.

Things are quite good here, I was really struggling for a little while and a bit worried about how I was going to cope but just as it was getting bad it seemed to get better!

Mathilda was 3 weeks on Thursday and (touch wood) for last 4 or 5 nights goes to sleep about 10pm, wakes at 4ish or a feed then back down til about 7ish.

The offset to this wonderful arrangement in the night is that she is quite a little pickle during the day, not very content the time she does spend awake and is pretty fussy in the evenings. Doesnt sleep after about 5ish and spends the next few hours feeding, wriggling etc etc.

We have introduced 1 bottle a day that we give her at 10pm and this seems to end the unsettled evening and sparks her out for the night!!

Putting EBM in the bottle when available and a little bit of formula if not!

Some days she feeds 3 hourly but the last few days has been back to just whenever so Im just going with her (as long as she is sleeping well at night LOL otherwise we will have words!)

Wow that was long and probably very boring!!!

Hi there,thanks for all your kind words (again! Am starting to feel like i'm milking the sympathy vote here ) They aren't sure what dd had but took a urine sample, i think it was bacterial cos her ab's have sorted it out thank goodness...

Got our first smiles today

Melly, yes ds is v interested in what's going on and can't settle sometimes..

Buzzy, that's exciting for you, i hope she's a God send and not a holy terror!! Well done on moving to reusables, i said i'd do it at 6weeks but i'm hanging on to the moltex for a few more weeks now

Pecka, how much are you giving in your 10pm bottle? We were giving 4oz but now he's a bit bigger its not having much of an effect on the sleepy settled front (darnit)

loucee and wizz, I am led to believe that moderate amounts of alcohol does not effect the ab's as such, but the reason they don't recommend mixing is if your body is fighting something it doesn't need the strain of breaking down alcohol on top of it.Also the liver breaks down the alcohol and the ab's so too much alcohol will put a strain on it, but you'd have to drink a lot. However a glass or 2 will do no harm at all. There are a few ab's that state not to drink at all, but your average infection fighters are usually ok. That said, don't take it as gospel and do your own research if you'd prefer

Ok I'm teetering on the verge of using a dummy, I'm trying to avoid cos i don't want the long haul of having to get rid of it, dd didn't have one, plus dp hates them. I need to ask you a few Q's though if that's ok? Do you find that if you have the dummy you can get to 2 hrs or longer between feeds? I wonder whether ds is unsettled in the day cos he keeps snacking rather than waiting for a while then getting a nice full tummy full of milk. I really have been feeding on and off every half an hour since 11am and i'm beginning to get a bit naffed off with it (plus I think he's got windy pains which don't help)

Bought gripe water y'day, gave him a spoon then read that you can't give it to a baby with kidney probs.Damn, what a waste of money!

I'm really annoyed as i've started bleeding again, just lightly but with a bit of a period pain! I really hope i'm not starting my periods again..it was 6 months when i got them back with dd when she dropped her feeds down to 4 a day.. i just thought the same thing would happen now

Lizzer, I put 3 oz in but she normally only take 1-2oz

She is 3 weeks and weighed 7lb11 at last weigh in - is your DS older/bigger?

Lizzer, I'm a dummy advocate, and def use as a plug until next feed time - I can't bear cries, but I want to make sure she has a decent feed and is not just suckling, so can tell when she's hungry cos she spits it out. We tend to go 3 hrs between feeds.

Lizzer I've used a dummy from 3 days old, ds was using me as a dummy. He will, after a good feed, suck at my nipple but not latch on properly and keep letting go. If I stick a dummy in his mouth he is happy. He spits it out (as Ambi said) when he is hungry again.

Well we have fed 2 hourly on the dot since 11pm last night - in fact this is the longest we have gone since 7pm - she is definitely hungry my god another growth spurt she is already nearly 12lbs ...am knackered luckily neighbour took DD1 out this afternoon...
Have tried a dummy she just spits it out and screams hysterically like why on earth am I giving her a bit of plastic when she wants a boob

think I'm getting to grips with the dummy as well. I'd say DS can get to sleep with it rather than boob which is good because then he is fully fed and burped before going to sleep and wakes up hungry for feed but is well rested to take a better feed.

Macdoodle, you must be shattered! How old is your little one now? DS is particular about which dummy he takes, it's either the Tomy Tippee Nuby one (that moves in and out more like a breast) or this wee Avent one but with that I have to move it in and out of his mouth for him to start sucking it.

Sounds like things are settling nicely Pecka, hope your wee one keeps sleeping so well at night, that's great.

Lizzer - what you say about the ABs is info enough for me! Thanks for going into detail on it. The Gripe Water is expensive anyway - don't you have to use within 14days anyway?
Hope your cycles haven't returned, I was just as horrified that the Dr suggested that could be the reason for my bleeding last Sun but it stopped as soon as it started so I don't think it was at all. Do you think it could be a sign of infection at all? Only the Dr that gave me the ABs on Thursday said it was one sign of infection

I'm similar to loucee on the dummy front Lizzer. I use only getting her to go down for a sleep when she's obviously tired - more during the day than at night. I have got reasonably good at reading the signs (yawns etc) and can then put her down still awake with the dummy and she generally goes off like a dream.

Nope DS is back to 2 hourly feeds, but at least it is more than 2 hours than less than!

never thought i'd be a dummy advocate but they have been a life-saver at times, especially during the grouchy hours between 5 and 8 in the evening. the tomy tippee 'closer to nature' one preferred by dd, although it seems MASSIVE she likes it more than the smaller ones we tried.
still trying to get thrush sorted out. spoke to la leche league and nct yesterday who both say oral antifungals only way, though not licensed for bf women. so have to go an persuade gp to prescribe me some - already taken the loading dose and already less painful 24 hrs later.
i too have had some bleeding, more like breakthrough bleeding like when on the pill than proper period, though dh took life in his own hands last week to tell me he thought i had PMT. to be fair, i was being a leeetle bit mental, and the gp now thinks i have post-natal depression . can you get a period 4 wks post-partum while bf-ing? mw says not impossible, gp says unlikely but not impossible. am just blardy grateful we were careful when we did the deed a week ago...

btw, has anybody else's lo got green nappies? that's what sent me loopy last week, cos i kept reading in all my helpful books (baby whisperer has now been sacked for interfering) that green/mucousy poo = upset tummy and diarrhoea. asked two gps and health visitor, and nobody was remotely bothered as dd looking v healthy, no other symptoms, gaining weight v. well (9 oz last week), feeding well etc. but I WORRY.
la leche league suggested that she might not be getting enough hindmilk and to feed off one boob for a couple of feeds then switch over. started doing this yesterday afternoon but no change as yet.
anyone else got any suggestions? dd feeding during day roughly 2 hourly, then 4 hourly-ish at night.

Dundee, we have the Dulux catalogue from bright orange to dark green. I always thought it was based on what I'd eaten (although god knows what causes the bright orange ones!)

Lizzer and loucee, I celebrated the stopped bleeding at 4 half weeks by some bedroom action then the day after started again. Not sure if it was stitches or aggrevating scar, but it lasted for a week and got pretty heavy again which led me to think period was back. All stopped again and fingers crossed I won't see any of it for a long while.

Dundee - we have had LOTS of green nappies but as dd2 putting on plenty of weight the hV was very unconcerned, She said could be not getting enough hindmilk (but didn'tmatter if otherwise healthy) or eating bananas!!

However she does nowhave a horrible cold so I wonder if it could be that? It's not fun...

Dundee - we have had LOTS of green nappies but as dd2 putting on plenty of weight the hV was very unconcerned, She said could be not getting enough hindmilk (but didn'tmatter if otherwise healthy) or eating bananas!!

However she does nowhave a horrible cold so I wonder if it could be that? It's not fun...

dundee i ahve hd a few green nappies- whien millie wasn't feeding so well with her wind. Now she seems to have recovered (yay) they have gone back to yellow. But, i have actually swapped boobs more regularly as i find it is the only way i can get her to take more. Maybe the EBM i give at night gives her enough hind milk and the greenness was indeed the upset tummy. Who knows.

Amani- i haven't been to the supermarket since your kind advice- but am going today and will have it as a stnadby- she is much much better- for me, the natural yoghurt and upping water/ avoiding bread appraoch seems to work really well- all the things that help my IBS handily.

I was concerned that millie wasn't feeding for long enough, but time between feeds seems to be 3-4 hours again now. A normal feed for me would be 10 mins one breast, 5 the other. How long does it take others to feed? (that is feeding time, not winding or nappy changing)

thanks for the reassurance. have been checking out archive and found dr jack newman's website with video clips which has also reassured me a bit. i'll keep doing the lop-sided feeding for a few days and see if that makes any difference.
sorry to hear about your dd's cold clara - not looking forward it much myself. dh had a cold this week so maybe the lo is fughting it off. no snot though. hmmm.

suey - dora usually necks 60-70ml ebm in 10 or 15 minutes, and bf for 10 + 5, though she's slowed down a bit in last 24 hours, the wee glutton.

that's me eating bananas, not her

I'd be impressed at your dd eating bananas, Clara!!
TMI Alert!
I woould like to join the "Oh bugger I think my period has started gang". Last week, had light brown discharge, so thought hoorah! Finally coming to an end! However have had red blood come through now for a couple of days and it was quite heavy today. Been a bit headachy as well which I normally am when I have my period

all these people getting their periods back - wonder who will be the first to get pregnant again

us - we're going for the permanent solution (ouch!)

God Clara, you scare me! Is anyone seriously contemplating it at this stage???

For me bleeding stopped at 4 weeks and nothing since-yay!

Some improvement here, see my thread.

DS has his first cold Not too snotty but kept waking himself up in night coughing and sneezing poor boy.