June 2005 babies

[uwila]

Hi everyone. Thought it was time we have a post-natal thread.

[katzguk]

Lua - meant to ask was the nightie i sent any good for you?

[Lua]

Katz - gown fits great! Thanks again!
I do worry though with the cosleeping wether I am going to fall asleep and he will suffocate with the top thingy...IYSWIM.... Have you been using anything like it for night time feeding?

[katzguk]

no i haven't i can't find anything like that the will house my bust!! i do have a rugby top in a simialr style but obviously that is for day wear. I don't think that your DS would suffocate if it fell down, but what about a safeypin to hold it up?

[welshmum]

Gosh I am totally exhausted today, running on empty.
Dh was out last night with his dad looking for a car and ds had a very unsettled evening and then a restless night - including bringing up one feed all over the bed - I lay there and thought 'Am I tired enough to sleep in baby vomit???' Did change the sheets but left my hair until the morning! The reality of a new baby is hitting home now I guess. Still managing to hang on to my sense of humour (just) I'll know I've reached the bottom when that goes. Sleep deprivation is just the pits - and the 3 week growth spurt is designed to coincide exactly with when you're out of the honeymoon period and into the realisation that the light at the end of tunnel is a fair way off??
Hey ho - on we go. Hope you're all hanging on in there girls.

[LipstickMum]

Hello new mummies

I haven't really caught up with your chat, but all seems relatively ok...? Welshie, sorry to hear you're knackered I can't quite remember it, but am pretty sure it will be hellish for a while. Did your dh have paternity leave? Mine does, which is great, although he may not take it all at once so as not to disrupt his patients to much, we go on hols at the beginning of August too.

I never bothered with bf tops, I was sick of buying stuff that I would only wear for a little while and wanted some normality. Plus, 2 years ago it was all just a bit grim and I'm not a rugby shirt type of gal! Which is what they all seemd to be styled as! However, I was also not bothered about bits of my body being on show...

Did any of you get the really strong uterine contractions when you started feeding?? I remember those as being almost as painful as the latching on in the beginning, but at least you know that the bf-ing is helping the uterus get back down to size quickly!!

Still can't believe I'm not even at my due date ye and some of you have little month old babies

Lots of love xxx

[welshmum]

Hello Lippy, loking forward to you coming over to join us - interested to see your strategies for combining Bree standard house work with 2 little ones. My cleaner is just making life so easy on that score - she's here at the moment and I really do love her.
Yep dh had 2 weeks off and now he's back at work - poor love - and finding it hard I think as he's also trying to juggle time to sepnd with his parents and keep me happy. Difficult.
I don't mean tops specifically designed for bfing - just ordinary clothes that let you do it without flashing all and sundry. I think I'm also aware of my FIL being around alot. I gave in yesterday and bought a couple of floaty numbers from New Look - they didn't cost much and at least they're better that baggy tops which make me feel like I'm still pg. All my normal t-shirts are close fitting which is really unsuitable as my bosoms are bigger and I look like I'm a barmaid on her lunch hour.
I did have strong uterine contractions when I began bfing but they only lasted for about the first day or two. I'd forgotten how fab bfing is for getting your ute back to where it should be - mine has just disappeared now - even more quickly than the first time around. Have also lost alot of the extra pg weight - only about another half a stone and I'm all back to normal - really pleased as he was only delivered 3 weeks ago. And even through exhaustion and I can find the energy to be ridiculously pleased at that
All the best to you and the Junies as you get through the last bit of pregnancy xxx

[uwila]

Oh, bad bad neglectful Junie here. I am so sorry about my lack of punctuality. I JUST looked at my saw and saw that Pink sent me a text last night. Baby Osiris Peter was born my emergency caesarean yesterday at 5:39am. Mama Pink and Baby Blue are both well. I have no more details so hopefully Pink will soon have a chance to give us an update.

So sorry I haven't read the thread much lately and hardly posted at all. We are well. Still struggling along with breast/bottle feeding but I've stopped complaining about it. Sorry, but I have to cut this short. Patient hubby is going to run out of patience soon as it's taken me all moring to get out of bed!

[uwila]

or rather looked at my PHONE and saw...

[uwila]

oh, next text says 6 pounds 6 oz. She's obviously in hospital so won't be on for a while. I'll update here again if I get any more news.

[mrsflowerpot]

Hello ladies, hope you and babies are all well and that you're getting at least some sleep - I'm trying not to think too hard about the early weeks, last time it went by in a bit of a haze so I'm hoping it will again this time! How is it now that the dhs are starting to go back to work?

Lovely news about Pink too, fab name.

Will definitely be joining you by 27 June as that is as late as they will let me go if I can't persuade this baby out before then. See you soon.

[MrsWednesday]

Ahhh, lovely news about Pink. Hope she's ok and that the circumstances leading up to the emergency c/s weren't traumatic.

Uwila, was wondering where you were and how things have been going. Just seen your other thread about your supply issues - hope you get some answers soon.

Welshie, sorry you are feeling so run down. Hope you get the chance for a bit of break over the weekend, it must be exhausting having house guests on top of a new baby not to mention recovering from a major op. I hope your DS slept better last night too.

Blimey, I am very about the weight loss...I've got about a stone to shift I reckon. Unfortunately it's all on my belly - I look about 6 months pregnant at the moment. Have managed to get into my pre-pregnancy jeans though The problem is, I just can't stop eating sweet things (I blame the breast-feeding, it's making me so hungry, mainly for chocolate). Any tips for healthy sweet stuff to eat to satisfy my cravings?

About babies in the bed - read your thread Welshie and was a bit about the idea of DS1 being in my bed for a year!!! I reckon when he's about 6 weeks old I'm going to tackle it, I might just try putting him in the cot in our room rather than perservering with the moses basket (not sure he really likes it). I read somewhere that putting something in the cot that smells of mummy helps too.

Lippy, the afterpains were really uncomfortable this time round, as bad as contractions near the end of labour actually. They only lasted about 4 days though, and my uterus has gone back to normal already.

Breastfeeding tops: I'm still wearing maternity tops . They are the smaller ones that I had to stop wearing near the end, but I am struggling to find anything of my normal stuff that will cover my enormous boobs (not quite as enormous as yours Katz ). DH told me yesterday he's the happiest he's ever been - two beautiful boys and a wife with 34DD boobs (shame he's not allowed to touch them).

[berolina]

right, it's about time i joined you'
no-caps typing is my speciality atm due to samuel often being in other arm when on mn. he is currently asleep and extremely adorable. everybody says how tiny he is...
well, we seem to have cracked the bf, at least for now - ds goes on boob at every feed and seems to be getting more efficient at it, although from early afternoon until well into the evening he seems to be feeding non-stop and getting very little out of it. due to the way we started (establishing bf alongside bottles) i thought yesterday eve that it might not hurt to give him a bit of formula - thought it might give him (and me) time to 'recover' and feed more efficiently next time - but it didnt really work out that way - he just brought it up and then headed for the boob again . suppose i have to tough it out and hope it'll increase supply. in the night and morning though i seem to have more milk. Am putting fenugreek seed on everything i eat and drinking milk-boosting tea... (the germans have a tea for everything - women's tea, men's tea, stomach-settling tea, anti-stress tea, evening tea...).
at nights he sleeps quite well - wakes every 3-4 hours - but in the day he'll now only have a couple of periods of proper sleep and will be awake the rest of the time (when he's not dozing off at the boob). we had him in his moses basket at first but now we have him in our bed because i like having him next to me - we've got a kind of portable mat with padded 'walls' on the head side which means he's safe from either of us rolling onto him.
oooh, weight loss - wish i was in my pre-pg clothes... i don't own scales so don't know how much i weigh, but i'm in fairly good shape apart from bulge round middle (which is stopping me getting into aforementioned pre-pg clothes). when my mw came to see how i was doing and checked the womb she always squealed enthusiastically at my muscles?! - i don't feel particularly muscly! we're waiting for ds to hit 3.5kg so we can use the baby bjorn - after that we will probably get out and about for longer walks (as it'll be so much less hassle than the pram) - as dh has a bit of weight to lose round his middle too we're planning to get rid of it that way.

[Holly290505]

Hi all...been lurking on your threads for...well, about 9 months actually! My baby girl Ruby was due 29/5 but finally made her appearance on 8/6. All is well so far!

Anyway whilst reading through I realised that Scraggy hasn't had time to post (unless I missed it!) so I hope she won't mind me letting you know she had a beautiful baby girl on 9/6, Lucy Valerie, 6lb 11 at home in the water pool. Thought you'd like to know

[LipstickMum]

Glad I'm not the only one who had bad shrinking/contractions while bf-ing. No-one seems to mention that when talking about bf-ing at the start.

I didn't officially co-sleep with dd, although there was many a night where she fell asleep on the boob. I have to say, it absolutely petrified me. Some nights we were so tired I was sure I would suffocate her, I didn't like it at all, but it was by far the easiest option. ANyone else bf in bed and have a good method for not putting baby at risk??

Lots of love to you all and welcome Holly, glad you de-lurked after 9 months

[Holly290505]

Thanks lipstickmum I never wanted to jinx myself by posting on june threads in the vague hope I might have my may baby on time - so much for superstition eh - 9 days late!

We have got dd in bed with us too - its just easier and we like the cuddles. We just separate out pillows so theres a good gap and she sleeps between us. I was dead against it but am now totally confident we won't crush her.

I've been bf dd in bed too - either lying on my side with her at the breast or lying her across my chest. She always comes off if my boob blocks her nose anyway. Sounds a bit dodgy but I guess you just have to trust yourself!

[Holly290505]

BTW I was surprised at the feeding contractions too - and the increased bleeding with increased feeding....i suppose there's a good reason why no-one mentions these things!

[katzguk]

evening all

so is everyone elseenjoying the joys of breatsfeeding during the hotest day of the year so far!! DD2 has spent a large proportion of the day attached to my boobs!!

[MrsWednesday]

Oh yes, same here. Nipples are very sore now and he's still not stopping. I'm finding it quite hard to get used to having a summer baby - I am not sure what he should be wearing.

Good to see you over here Holly, I did see you on the May threads when I was lurking to see what was in store for all of us Junies.

Off to put some Lanisoh on my sore bits

[Noggermum]

Ah, my little one had the opposite reaction to the heat - she slept all day and I had to keep waking her to force feed her! I was expecting a rough night but she only woke up twice. We seem to be settling into quite a nice routine now - she feeds every three hours approx between 6.30 am and bedtime (which is anywhere between 6 and 7.30pm), has a bottle of expressed milk care of daddy at 10-11 ish and then a couple of feeds in the night.

Am hoping one of the night feeds goes soon, although she is speeding up and i normally have her fed and back in bed in 40 mins max so its not as bad as last week when it was taking up to two hours to settle her! Thank god for Infacol, that's what I say.

Am considering moving her into the nursery soon though as she doesn't half fidget and snuffle and snort and its taking me ages to zone out the noise and go back to sleep! I know its against SIDS advice, but the nursery is only next door - anyone have any opinions on this?

Hope all the June mummies and babies are well. Hot, isn't it?!!!!!

[summermummy]

Hi everyone - can I join you ?? I discovered Mumsnet once I started maternity leave so a bit late to join the 'due in June' thread. My DS1 is now 9 days old (hard to believe, God knows how I'll feel when he's a whole month!!) dp and I still have moments of saying we can't believe he's really here. Things are going relatively smoothly and we're completely in love with him but I gave up breastfeeding on day 6 and am still going through the emotional wringer with the decision. Huge guilt all mixed up the baby blues (now fading thankfully) means my dp's been dealing with a rollercoaster of tears and smiles all weekend. Has anyone else felt the 'blues'..what the heck are they about ?!)

Anyway - look forward to joining your chats now I have more time on my hands (for how long?!)...all our little one wants to do is sleep!

[MrsWednesday]

Welcome summermummy. Sorry it's a bit quiet on here at the moment, we're still waiting for lots of the June mummies-to-be to make their way over here. DS2 is 14 days old and has also spent most of the day asleep - I'm a bit nervous that he won't sleep tonight now. How's your DS sleeping at night?

Sorry to hear the baby blues have hit, the days after birth are a strange time aren't they? Hormonal upset combined with lack of sleep and the pressures of looking after a newborn...it's not surprising there's lots of tears. Please don't beat yourself up about the breastfeeding thing, there's a few of us on here who have had problems and aren't doing it any more. It's a lot harder and more painful than I realised.

[lynny70]

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[uwila]

Hi Summermummy. And WELCOME.

How is everyone? I got loads of sleep because I dicovered (by accident) DS will sleep for hours in my bed with me rather than in his moses basket which is where he sleeps. What a little cheek. This is MY bed. Actually I am terrified of the possibility of rolling over on him so I really don't like having him in the bed with me.

[welshmum]

Hello and welcome Summermummy and Holly - nice to 'meet' you.
Hi Uwila - hope all is good with you - ds is in bed with me most of the night too - I'm getting more sleep that way - although part of me disapproves of myself for doing it.
Lynny - big congrats on your little girl - glad things are getting back on an even keel for your family. Hope the blue bits disappear soon - such a wierd old time for us all.
Nogger - I too have a snorting snuffler - who combines incredibly loud farts and burps with grunts and squealing too - for what feels like hours. So I'm like you -considering a move to the nursery next door. Dd was in there at 5 weeks but I feel less inclined this time around. I might wait until he's outgrown his moses basket - which won't be long as he tends after his dad in limb length (lucky boy - dh is 6'2") How long do you think you'll last? I have to reach a certain level of exhaustion before I get up the nerve.....
Anyone else still happy with the bfing? Don't want to bore on about it if most have stopped.....

[Lua]

Hi everybody! Did everybody survive the heat? We are getting a nice break today with perfect weather! Not too hot, not too cold!

Good to see the thread filling up! Wellcome to all!

Yesterday was my first day alone and we did pretty well. I planned on getting lots done, including work and exercise. I'm ashamed to admit I actually slept a lot of the time and shove chocolate in my face the rest of it ...

Hey Uwila ! good to hear from you and wellcome to the "I didn't want to but am sleeping with my baby" club. Every day I promisse I'll crack this bad habit, but....