March 2008 births

[MarchNowFebMum]

Welcome March Mums (and late Feb/early April Mums!) from the March 2008 threads.

I can't believe some of our LOs are already here. For those of us who have 'popped' we can cross post on the two threads and wait for others to join in on the fun! Those who are willing to share should also put their birth stories up on here.

I was MarchMum but LO (baby girl) came 2 weeks early so technically Feb but I am sticking with the March group :.)

I need to spend some time properly writing out my birth story for her journal so I will do that and come back to post it on here. That and picking her name (yes, almost two weeks and we still don't have one - argh! dh and I not agreeing on anything) are top of the to do list. But the main activities of life are getting the family fed and keeping visitors at bay. I just found out today that I have mastitis so I am now expressing one breast and feeding from the other so it doesn't leave much time in between feeds!

OUCH, mastitis That must be tough all that extra expressing. All power to you love.

Loved your birth story. Did you keep the same MW the whole way through?

Do you have competing names you can't decide between, or flat out disagreement on the ones each other have chosen (she says remembering the old Ross/Rachel veto episode of friends)? We had the first type of situation and in the end I gave up and let mine go for the middle name...and may sneakily use its cute diminutive every day anyway

Oh, your little girl is darling. Look at those cheeks! Can't wait to hear your name choice. We're struggling with girl names for some reason. I find them more difficult than boy names. I think we'll have a selection and then choose one once we find out what we've got!

Good luck getting through mastitis.

She's beautiful MNFM! Truly lovely birth story.

Hello ladies.
Guess we are all too busy to spend so much time on MN now! Thread is way down the list.
How are you all + LOs.
I'm loving being a mummy and Emily is lovely - but I can't believe how tired I am!! why do people worry about the labour so much - I'm sure this bit is more physically demanding. Either that or have forgotten what the birth was actually like!
MB - mastitis sounds nasty, I was 'engorged yesterday and have been expressing a bit to relieve the pressure. Rather fun!
Marchmumnfm - good luck on name choice! we found a website with top 100 names and I called random numbers 'till we got to a name we both liked!

hiya piggy, twasn't me with mastitis, i am still blooming PG (nyargh! sick! knackered!), taws marchmum but she got better quick.

it's a shocker how tiring it is, huh. not looking forward massively to it all again, have to say!

ok, well that's my nightly contractions seem to have burned out. back to bed.

sigh

see you guys sometime. i hope!

Hiya all...
We definitely must be too busy for MN now - no posts here since Friday. Am loving it though. Yesterday was Bloe's first day back at work, so it was just Ffion, the dogs and me, and we had great fun.

I think she is having her three week growth spurt. She always seems to feed for quite a long time (at least 30 mins plus each time) but has been relentless since yesterday lunchtime (although she did sleep for five hours before this feed, thank goodness!)

How is everyone getting on?

It's so quiet over here! Hope everyone is doing okay and too exhausted! I've never watched so much television.
Emily hasn't got back to her birth weight yet (12 days) but she seems fine so mw wondered if they made a mistake weighing her the first time! She's very fractious in the evening / night and each feed takes an hour so we're going to try a cranial osteopath. Bit 'alternative' but if it works....
looking forward to hearing how all the los are doing!

I mean not too exhausted!

Still in hospital. Using phone. We are doing fine. Mostly wasting tax payer cash i think. Oh well home soon i hope. Hilarious trying to feed nearly 12lb of new born on colustrum. Not! Still he totally rocks. All in proportion and placid so far.

Thrilled to announce the delivery of 1st poo since childbirth. Feels more momentous than 11lb baby i kid you not !

Aw, MB, you must be so proud. Does it have a name? Dare I ask how much it weighed? Sorry, potty humour makes me giggle.

Hope you're home from hospital??

Um. Richard the turd! All weight insignificant next to 11lb 11 . Still in uch. We are blood group incompatible hence jaundice.

Um. Richard the turd! All weight insignificant next to 11lb 11 . Still in uch. We are blood group incompatible hence jaundice.

Um. Richard the turd! All weight insignificant next to 11lb 11 . Still in uch. We are blood group incompatible hence jaundice.

So nice, you named it thrice.

OK, and bad puns, well, they crack me up, too.

Hope you get home soon - can't they give you one of those cool UV lights? You could have a rave afterwards.

I found you!

Congratulations everyone and to you Merryberry I do a "we're not worthy" bow down to the ground.

Charlie had a touch of jaundice too and needed 24 hours in a phototherapy box. I burst into tears when they slapped the little mask on him and popped him in, without warning me. Seems to be ok now and is putting on lots of weight. Think it's due to the gallons of Hipp Organic formula he's glugging. I really miss breast feeding him but I'm trying not to get too upset about it. Pictures of breastfeeding babies still make me cry though.

Still haven't seen a health visitor but I'm due a visit on Monday. The community midwife came twice before discharging me. She even wanted me to take out my own stitches. As far as recuperation goes I feel pretty much back to normal, apart from a touch of backache. Did the school run on my own with Charlie yesterday for the first time. I'd forgotton the joys of buggies and crowded buses. In a week or so I'll be popping him in the sling, that's if he doesn't weigh the equivalent of a baby elephant by then. DP goes back to work on Monday as he managed to get his motorbike fixed and I'm dreading it. Mainly because we'll have to sleep apart as sleep deprivation and being a bike courier do not mix.

Anyway, DD just come back from school so I should go and mingle.

Take care all of you.

Having a trial off jaundice lights. Fingers crossed. So ready for home now. Good to see you all here on the other side!

Glad to see more people 'over here'!
Hope you get home today mb!
Did you actually take out your stitches glamma? how??? i've got dissolving ones, i don't see how you could possibly do your own. very impressed that you've been on a bus - i haven't been further than my garden for two weeks! Why can't you put charlie in a sling now? Sleeping apart must be hard - but it shouldn't be for two long.
Emily is putting more weight on now - but each feed still takes an hour; she's very relaxed about it. She's got very dry, cracked feet, i've been rubbung olive oil on but it doesn't seem to be working. Any suggestions?
I think i've got some kind of urinary infection - very uncomfortable and difficult to 'release', but mw did urine test and it came back negative!
have a peaceful weekend all!

MarchnowFebMum If you have mastitis I would really recommend that you try to feed from that side if possible I know I did it through tears and gritted teeth but to be totally honest it cleared up a lot quicker than when I tried to express hth and congrats on your lo.

I've made it over here too. Congrats to all new families.Baby Mia and myself doing fine after giving birth on Wednesday morning at home, she weighed in at 7 lb 13 1/2 oz. Feeling really well, but my milk has come in overnight and I feel as if I have a pair of boulders strapped to my chest.Feeling with merry on the poo, still waiting for mine Happy weekend new families.

Congratulations Delcymru, a sweet name! chilled savoy cabbage leaves are blissfull on engorged boobs! MW told me to express a little bit to take the edge off + make nipple easier for pfb to latch on too.

piggy I had a c section so not really supposed to be lifting or carrying anything, hence not using the sling yet. I am though . It's practically impossible not to, really. And my "stitches" was a long piece of plastic! I refused to do it, mind. I'd had enough self care by that time, after having to take my own dressing off and no-one inspecting my incision in the hospital. apart from once.

I'm feeling a bit fed up today, think it's mainly to do with tiredness but DP and I are suffering from lack of sleep and as he is phobic (his words) about poo, I have to do every single nappy change. He has been doing the odd feed in the night and staying up with him, but he has been needing to wake me to do the nappy. He's going to be sleeping in the living room after tonight so he is not too tired for work. He thinks I can sleep in the day but he's having a laugh.I'm dreading it. Charlie is much more awake at night than in the day and I don't do being awake at night very well. I guess we'll just have to see how it goes but at this moment in time I'm wondering why I thought having another baby was a good idea .

Well, I better go as I was hoping he'd settle himself in his crib after a big feed and a nappy cahnge but he's starting to yell loudly so will have to go and get him.

Congratulations delcymru also.

I also expressed under the water in the bathtub before a feed - that helped mastitis and engorgement (which were happening at the same time). But GET THIS, tonight I have come down with some sort of awful fever/chills thing which is exactly how mastitis started the first time. Argh! I've been draining/expressing so have no idea how it could start again.

Speaking of boobs, am so gutted that sleeping is still incomfortable due to massive breasts :.) Was one of the things I was looking forward to after pg! Being pg seems a long ways back btw - I looked at my massive can of Gaviscon today and was like oh right, remember heart burn. Will sell cheap to anyone who wants it, hee hee.

For those who missed the other posts, LO now has a name - Sanam Ruth. MB, we were at a loss bc we couldn't find one that we both could get excited about. Sanam was really the only one we both really liked that suited her. I preferred a different spelling but gave in bc we were using my family name (Ruth is my grandmother that raised me) as the middle. (PS to delcymru - Mia was number two possibility!)

Hang in there glammama, it gets better! Am on Week 3 and it's so different/better than even last week. Am still tired but feelign more in control of schedule and Sanam more adjusted/regular.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Home! Magic! BUsy working out how new family works together. Miss you guys will post soon. xx