May 2010 babies!

gosh why do I do this to myself?! Just looked into the June thread. I cant belive we have all our babies?! None of us are on the look out for labour any more! Gah shut up Em and enjoy your bubba

Does he spill when he gets sleepy? It may be that he isn't swallowing.

Emma did they weigh with or without nappy? Some mw/nurses weigh originally with nappy and then weigh them without to do comparisons. My mw always weighed Lily in the nude but when we were in hospital the nurse kept weighing her with the nappy on and I was saying it's a full nappy so it won't be accurate and she goes "Oh you're right I never thought of that haha..."

Mon Reuben was so sleepy for at least the first 7 days, I struggled so hard to wake him up for feeds and he had a couple of nights sleeping that much in the day. He was spitting up sooooo much back then too, has settled down now tho and stays awake during his feeds much better. I would def feed every 4 hrs min in the day as much as u can If not 3hrly, and wake him maybe once at night?

Hey all, nothing to report here, pretty boring actually lol

To the akl peeps, ima organise morning tea/lunch at my place sometime next week if anyone is keen. I live in Blockhouse Bay, just PM me and ill send you my address if your interested in catching up. Anyday is fine with me, when you PM me let me know what days you are available and we will work something out :)

we are giving molly gripe water and it works really well for her :) she brings up gas so easy now!

thanks Emmi and SK will get some tomorrow and try.
I need to send u a pic of what I'm doing with my ittis Emma cos I didn't really gget that explanation hehe. Mine only have 2 things that snap in, the trifold and a little shaped insert. I just had the shaped insert in.

well done on the bf progress that's soo great. go Lilla!!

Just had MW and unsurprisingly she said that my wound is infected so DH is off to pick up some antibiotics for me. Oh well, it's only a 1cm patch and she said it's pretty minor and would heal itself but it's too sore to leave it. Apparently its unusual to get infected this far down the track so I guess I'm special

Flynn is 3 weeks old today and is now 4.4kgs (he gets weighed in the nude)!!

Pinky - how are you surviving on such little sleep? Is he going through the 3 week growth spurt do you think?

Question for those who have refluxy babies - how much spilling is ok? Flynn spills a wee bit with each feed but it doesn't seem to bother him so I've not thought too much about it....

Flynn might be a happy spiller. Lily is, and she spills HEAPS! Well to me it's heaps, sometimes like 2-3 tablespoons worth! But as she gains weight well they don't worry about it.

Emma your dh will understand! It's normal for them to do that regularly until like 6-8ish weeks.

Kaitlyn seemed extra hungry yesterday betw 9:30am-2pm, fed 1.5-2hrly but did a huge spill again (we're talking her whole feed and then some ) so am beginning to think that I have too much milk that comes too fast for her first thing in the morning. Expressed a little off before her 7:30am feed which seemed to help. Then she actually woke herself for her 10:30am feed this morning, so I gave her one side then let her play for 30mins or so before giving her the other side - she's sound asleep again now so... so far so good

In terms of sleep, Kaitlyn doesn't ever really tend to stay awake long enough for two sides so I always end up changing her nappy in the middle (day or night!) to wake her up again. Half the time during the day she'll fall back asleep with the second side, and maybe once or twice she'll stay awake and have some awake time before going back to bed.

Mon, sounds like what you're doing is the best approach for Finn. I guess it prob is the formula top up that's making him sleep longer, and therefore harder to wake. Hang in there though, it sounds like you're seeing progress!

Phew you must be exhausted after your night Emmi!   Hope DH has let you get some extra sleep today

DH goes back to work tomorrow & Fri for half days then full time next week... eek! I'm thinking I'll be on here a lot less lol!!

ETA - I just realised that Flynn & Kaitlyn are exactly a week apart Amy!

Edited by kmarie

kmarie I always have to change halfway too. its funny how sleepy they are at feeding time haha.

all of a sudden reuben hates to be wrapped so I left him free tonight and just woke himself at 3am, so far so good