First time mums 2017/ early 2018

[lydiangel83]

An ode to the first time pregnancy thread! x

Hi All, I hope this isn't TMI. Did anyone's bleeding almost stop then come back? I'm 16 post partum now and it's come back almost as bad as when she was born but just darker. I'm trying not to stress out. I Feel daft bothering the midwife especially as we have no more planned visits with her

@Squigglefish my lo is 4 week old on Saturday and I had a day of no bleeding a couple of days ago then it started again 😢

Oh god, that sucks. It's crap sitting on mattresses day and night and when the bleeding is unpredictable it's scary. I had a PPH and I'm so paranoid now 🙈 it's been steady today so I'm going to relax and see what happens tomorrow.

I've been in normal pads for about a week now but I still can't wait for it to stop. I hate pads I never feel clean I'm used to tampons.

I forgot what it was like after 9 months!

Due in March 2018. Just can't wait to have my little bundle of joy!

I am finding breastfeeding exhausting atm, it's no longer painful and I do quite enjoy it (since it's the only time she's really quiet!) but DD is cluster feeding again and never goes more than 2 hours without a feed. She's also a crap napper during the day! Today is the first day I haven't cried though (yet anyway, the nights are always the worst), so hopefully I can keep it up...

I'm still bleeding but could probably make the switch to normal pads now, will be really weird when I no longer need to wear them with my massive Primark pants!

@NC1990 I second the primark pants they come all the way under my boobs 😂

Sorry your finding breastfeeding exhausting, I really feel for you. Can you express some so your oh can do a feed in the evening let you get some sleep?

I'm so confused regarding formula feeding,if I have a tin of formula it says to boil kettle,leave to cool for 30 minutes then make up the bottle, how do you do that with a hungry baby? Or am I missing something? Getting really frustrated because I can't get my head around it!

@Jessiecat27 we got a perfect prep machine from Tommy Tippie and it's been an absolute god send. We clean it once a week and have had no issues with it so far, might be worth checking out!

@Squigglefish have you been over doing it at all? Apparently lots of activity can cause it to start again.

Maybe a little bit of housework but nothing major. Will phone tomorrow if it continues like this. I'm so fed up with it, It's gross.

We also got a perfect prep machine @Jessiecat27, we tried the kettle method and I order he perfect prep the day after. It's a god send!!

Oh great thank you I'll have to order one!

Also got a perfect prep here, couldn't live without it, I've even got it up in the nursery so I don't have to go far at night

@ew1990 They hide a multitude of sins don't they 🙈

I'm definitely going to try expressing more, I have an electric pump which works great but I struggle to find the time to do it, my LO doesn't sleep much in the day at all 🙄

@NC1990 even with izzy on formula I still don't find the time to do anything, she slept really well in the day but she's more awake In the day now but I'm not complaining coz she's great at night (bar the few nights where she's screamed with trapped wind)

I wish Layla was good during the night, unfortunately she's a bit of a bugger then too. She just wants to be held all the time and seems to suffer with trapped wind so she's really reluctant to sleep on her back in her cot. We're using Infacol and hoping it will help a bit. I've no idea how I'm still standing really considering I haven't slept more than 2 hours in a row since before she was born 😩

I know how you feel in the week I breastfed I had about 7 hours sleep in total! I use dentinox for trapped wind, you can put it into a bottle so they don't spit it out, maybe you could put it in a bottle of expressed milk? I just put it into one of her night time feeds coz that's when she suffers the most.

Hello everyone. Happened to glance down and see some people experiencing problems with hospitals and breastfeeding - ME TOO!

As soon as baby was born someone tried to get her on my breast - failed - and was told to try again later. Taken downstairs to a room and then pretty much left to it! She ended up in intensive care because no one actually bothered to check why she wouldn't feed - she had an infection. She was fed cow and gage through a drip and I ditched the breastfeeding attempts. She now gets mostly formula with some expressed breast milk.

@mrsjkerry that's shocking! So sorry to hear your LO was in intensive care. How are you both doing? X

So good! I dread night times because she's very awake then, but my husband has been getting up most of the time. He let me sleep the whole night through yday! I am dreading him going back to work on Monday 😬

I was dreading my OH going back to work but we are fine, got our own little routine. I look forward to weekends when he does night feeds although last night he did a feed at half 4 and told me to sleep even though he had to leave for work at 8! X

Yeh I'm sure I'll work it out!! She's not that bad a baby all in all...

You'll be fine ☺️ izzys 4 week old tomorrow it's going too fast

Does anyone else have a constipated baby? We have just moved to powdered to milk and the ready prep machine but poor baby has been struggling to poo for the last 2 days. We gave her some cooked boiled water and that seemed to help a bit but she's still in discomfort and it's quite distressing.

Any tips?

Put her On her back and cycle her legs. As if she is riding a bike - it works for my LO so worth a shot?