👣 November/December 2020 babies! 👣

[danielasummer]

Mummas that are still waiting for their babes to make their appearance -

@EithneBlue - due 21st November - surprise
@kkr168 - due 26th November - boy - 2TM
@phe694 - due 27th November - girl - FTM
@Babyhope98 - due 28th November - girl - FTM
@Babyevictionimminent - due 30th Nov - boy - 2TM
@Awkes - due 1st December - girl - FTM
@amyyy1 - due 2nd December - girl - FTM
@alphabetti - due 8th December but induction booked for 2nd December - girl - 3TM
@excitednerves - due 5th December - girl - 2TM
@lc86 - due 6th December - boy - 3TM
@danielasummer - due 9th December - surprise - FTM
@Kj1010 - due 13th December - 4TM
@jalu47 - due 13th December - boy - FTM
@FTM1512 due 15th December - girl - FTM
@Nic2908 - due 15th December - boy - FTM
@viixie - due 16th December - surprise - 3TM
@Charl88 - due 17th December - boy - 2TM
@loobeelou - due 26th December - girl - 2TM

Congratulations to...

@Jwl45 - baby girl - Elsi - born 9th November
@peachypetite - baby girl - born 20th November

Also tagging @MummytoMatildaX @PipTed @MySafeSpace @Asianchick6693 @Jellycat2020 @Dee96 @LRHRN @roro87 @MrsSmith2020

Feel free to join :)

@Kpm7 I didn't start using the pump until my milk really came in, around day 7. When it was just colostrum, I hand expressed. I found it helped to massage the breast first for pumping, with strong downwards strokes towards the nipple to help with milk let down.

@Jellycat2020 ahhh that may make sense. 7 days after baby arrives?x

@Kpm7 yes, I think it was day 7, its all a bit of a blur! 😂

@viixie I didn’t start trying to syringe straight away. When I was in the bath I would occasionally squeeze my boob and noticed I was producing.

Then after a few days of realising it was something I can store and save (liquid gold) I ordered some syringes. I only did a couple on the first day of the syringes but like I say I would squeeze my boobs daily before this.

After a bath is suppose to be a good time.
My boobs don’t really hurt it’s my thumb that’s hurting

I couldn’t produce anything at first then my cousin showed me what to do xx

When are you due? Xx

@Kpm7 I am due on Wednesday 16th so I'm a bit late with the expressing 🥴 syringes have only just come though. My boobs are really aching and there's hardly anything in the syringe

Hi everyone, quick update - Poppy was born on 10/12/20 at 11:50pm by emerg c section. Had an awful very traumatic time and were both quite unwell so are in hospital for at least the next week HOWEVER she is perfect and I'm super happy and has made everything worth it, I'm so in love already and can't stop staring at all 9lb 2 of her😂😍😍😍 Hope everyone else is getting on ok!! X

@Amyyy1 beautiful name and lovely weight congratulations. Wishing you both a speedy recovery. I am in bed wondering if I am having contractions

@viixie I only started last week and due today.
Just keep giving them a little squeeze daily maybe ask someone who has breastfed or look online how to do the movement as I was doing it wrong first.
(Forgive me if your not new to this and know how already)

I understand some women can struggle more than others. My cousin didn’t manage to get that much to take to the hospital either.

Don’t stress maybe the baby will latch when they arrive if you did plan to continue. Xx

@amyyy1 congratulations on the birth of darling Poppy. Wishing you a speedy recovery. 🤗Xx

Congratulations @Amyyy1. Wishing you both a speedy recovery x

Congratulations @Amyyy1 glad Poppy is here safely hope you feel better soon 💖

@Amyyy1 congratulations on the birth of your baby girl!

Sounds like you both had a rough time, hope you are being well looked after and wishing you a speedy recovery xx

How are all the new mummies doing? Not gonna lie I'm struggling this week! Quinn's sleeping at night has totally regressed, she only slept for 1 hour 40 mins between midnight and 8 am last night, I am shattered! She was going 3-4 hours through the night but this week she's been terrible. She has colic and I know they have a growth spurt around 6 weeks so I'm hoping it's because of that and next week is better - fingers crossed!

Hey all!
Our baby GIRL 👧🏼 Flora arrived at 15:53 on Thursday
She was 7.3 lbs and absolutely perfect in every way.

We are home now, recovering from the planned caesarean and taking everything slowly.

Breastfeeding was going great but I am sore from my own bad latching skills, so we are pumping and hand feeding her until the midwife can get here.

She's just amazing, everything I've ever hoped and dreamed for.

Here's the little chunk

Congratulations @MrsSmith2020

Congrats to the new mummies on here it's just amazing we all getting our little ones well last night was fabulous little man was a cheeky one staying awake till 1 but then had 2 ounces straight went till 4 then till 7.10 this morning the extra ounce is giving us a extra hour or so as was waking every hour gotta go midwife soon for the weighing heelprick test and to check his jaundiced level and my wound he still looks a bit jaundiced hoping it's no trips to hospital he is wating pooping etc fine so hopefully its stable cant believe how alert he is either at 5 days old

Congratulations @Amyyy1 & @MrsSmith2020 x

Our little boy is finally accepting a bottle, he woke every 3 hours last night & went straight down after. I feel amazing today, totally refreshed, just from having a good night's sleep!

@NaomiB79 the colic is bad I hear you. I’ve started plying white noise to calm her down and a dummy is helping her too. She doesn’t use it for very long but it definitely soothes her.

Congratulations to everyone who has had their babies. I just want to say to anyone that is wanting to breastfeed but finding the first few days really difficult try to not put too much pressure on yourselves but try to keep going until your actual milk comes in as it then became so much easier for me.

I didn’t manage to express colostrum but didn’t really know what I was meant to do to get it. Babies blood sugar levels were slightly low so special care decided she should have top ups of formula. I felt defeated like I wasn’t able to provide enough for her and my nipples were sore and starting to crack so I just started to give her ready made formula. She didn’t take much formula but I put it down to her being very mucusy from the fast birth. Anyway we went hole and for that first day and night I just used ready made formula and my partner went out and bought a tin of SMA.

On day 3 I woke up to very hard and hot boobs so decided to give things one last try rather than let my milk dry and regret trying. Things were then so different and baby been taking my milk and seeming content. (Not a good sleeper through night but that’s another story lol) My partner gives her a bottle of formula in early hours so I get a few hours proper sleep but apart from that she’s breastfed. So anyway if anyone like me and wanted to breastfeed but finds it difficult in the early days just try to hang on as I found things got so much easier once proper milk comes in. But also if anyone finding it too difficult or just not for them don’t eat yourself up as my older 2 were formula fed and now perfectly healthy teens so I think do what’s best for you as happy mummy happy baby.

Thanks for your advice @alphabetti I really needed to read this today. It's bloody hard work and she's only 42 hours old !

My left boob is currently blocked and I'm purely pumping Fromm right every 3 hours to give my boobs a rest as they are wrecked from cluster feeding on day 1.

@alphabetti so lovely to hear.

The morning bottle your husband gives is that expressed or the SMA. I am wondering if I can do both if I struggle xx

Oh wow @MrsSmith2020 congratulations I want my baby now hahaha xx

My friends baba was born October and now sleeps through the night so I feel we just need to get through the first 2 months

I am just worried coz my husband is a workaholic and has OCD so I have already warned him not to comment on the house if I slack because I can imagine that will make me explode. Xx

I remember with my first two that around week 11 I noticed a huge difference in the night and like they were finally in a good routine, whenever we have a bad night I just keep thinking that it definitely gets easier. @alphabetti lovely advice for anyone who is set on breastfeeding, I found day 7 my milk was definitely in and I think I probably would have found breastfeeding a lot easier at that stage xx

Congrats to everyone who has had their babies, there’s some gorgeous little faces & names!!

Solidarity with everyone who is still waiting - I’m not even at my due date yet & im fed up

@peachypetite the colic is tough, they just scream for hours and nothing really consoles them, it's so hard to watch! We've tried everything we have been advised to / read about including: raising her head in the basket, sitting her up for 20 mins after a feed, baby massage, more baths we've changed to comfort formula, we've changed to Dr Brown's bottles, Infacol, Gripe Water, Colief drops (not all at the same time). It is getting slightly better now she is six weeks but hard to know what is the thing that is making the difference as we are trying so many! Xx