May 2010 babies!

hehe, if only you were staying in NZ longer and we could have our second babies together too!! lol.

Well he hasnt gone yet! he still hasnt signed up so you never know (is it bad Im secretly hoping to stay here? even if it means living at home for a while? I dont want to go back to work! or move to the states!)

For those of you with babies that dont scream all the time. how much are they awake and feeding? Finn had a real good feed at 3 so i tried to wake him at 6 but he wont have a bar of it. he had one side at 7 but only for 5-10 mins and is strait back asleep with no interest in waking up. how much are they awake at a time at this stage. the first few weeks are unfamiliar teritiry for me cos mack was so sick. and how often is it ok for them to sleep at night? mack has done 12-6 two nights in a row now, and only wakes at 6 cos i make him. i get wet and dirty nappies fine but he seems to sleepy to what i thought a healthy NB would be like

Has anyone seen the baby whispering dvd by Sharlene poole? is it worth getting, or is it a croc of sh*t?

Hehe thanks Bex! Oh Im planning on coming to coffee group on Mon (all thing going well!)

if i wake him to feed him he ends up spilling it up. i might wake him at least every 4 hours and see if he holds it down better. MW is coming 2mrw so ill see what she says. He had an awesome feed at 3 and a small feed round 7 so ill wake him soon and try get a decent feed into him now and midnight then 6am, 10 etc...

Emma lots of pees and poos is a good sign, did your mw say otherwise? It's normal for babies to lose birth weight but it can take 2 weeks to gain it back.

Mon the spilling might be that he takes too much in so brings some up... Does it hurt him when he brings it back up?

Kelly I've seen bits of it. I think it's what, $40? Personally I wouldn't bother, she used to have a stint on the GM show on Tuesday mornings where she demonstrated everything that was in the video.
What she says may not even work for you, see if you could rent it/borrow it.

At 5 days they are still pretty sleepy Mon, but he should be being fed every 4 hours at the most during the day. In the first week they even suggest every 2 hours to help establish supply. Their tummy's are the size of their fists, but formula takes longer to digest so the top ups are keeping him fuller longer which means he sleeps longer as he isnt hungry as often. Ive never combo fed, but maybe asking in the main part of the boards for the advice of people who have and how their babies have slept in the early days?

Does he spill if you are just breastfeeding him? Is he swallowing when you breastfeed? Could you try giving him 5mls of formula and then try to breastfeed him and then if he still is hungry then give the rest of the supplement.   Tips for baby who wont nurse
Are you winding him after/during his feeds?

he is getting winded and doing heaps better now we got some gripe water into him. He is fully draining both breast then having formula on top of that but not force fed anymore. he just takes what he wants and stops. if he doesnt get the extra formula he just screams until he gets it. we tried rocking, sucking fingers, skin to skin but the only thing that makes him stop crying is the food. we do the stripping and notmal stuff. he is just so cosy. lol. im slowly cutting down the formula he takes and only giving it when he is realy wanting it. he drained one side at 7 and went to sleep so hopefully my milk is starting to do its job now. he spills after little amounts of milk (BF or FF) too which is why im thinking another reflux baby but its too early to tell. all good. i shall pursevere(sp) :D

I know I had 3 bags of fluid after the section since I lost a litre of blood, DH thinks I did have one lot of fluids during labour, which he thinks would have been about 3 or 4 pm so 8 or 9 hours before she was born. I think she would have been weighed before she had peed and pooped, and before her first feed..