July 2008 babies!

My wide awake girl last night...

Beautiful pix of wee Chiara Emma!! What a cutie Wow, she had an excellent night last night! I wish Tilly would sleep like that! She is still feeding every three hours or so during the night. We are still having trouble with her spilling - don't know if that is the result of overfeeding - since we are comping with formula - or perhaps she is intolerant to her formula??

Parenthood certainly kicked our ass tonight - didn't get to have our cold & burnt dinner till 9pm...Georgia was teething and absolutely miserable...Matilda spilled all over herself while sitting in the bouncinette, then as I was changing all her clothes & nappies she decided to do a big poo, then spill up more & then wee everywhere! Then had to bath her... put Georgia to bed... Michael and I were shattered once we got to sit down & eat dinner.It certainly made a difference having my Mum here... we got to quite like the 3adult to 2 baby ratio! Emma - I take my hat off to you - I don't know quite how you do it!
Here is some pix of Matilda having her bath...

Believe me Kimmies I am terrified about what will happen when mum goes home! I'm outnumbered by children!
Chiara is quite spilly too, yesterday she brought up a whole feed at one point, and then small spills with all her other feeds. I'm hoping it's just spilling and not a sign that she's going to be a refluxer like the gremlins - must say that the big sour milk spill yesterday brought back memories
She did 4 hours overnight last night but was a bit of a mission to settle after her 6am feed, I was just getting her back to sleep when Maya came in and that woke her up and we had to start all over again.

Yep, I have a nanny 4 days a week so am lucky in that respect, I'm going to need her just to be able to get out of the house!

I didn't cope well at all with the gremlins reflux! Theirs turned out to be allergy related, they were reacting to something in my breastmilk and once we weaned them onto Neocate (allergy formula) at 3 mths the reflux stopped. It was awful while it lasted tho, poor things screamed 24-7 and after every feed they'd have a little cough then projectile the whole feed across the room. Maya learnt to call muslin cloths 'spew cloths' coz we couldn't feed them without a supply of cloths on hand.

If Matilda is coping with the formula it's unlikely to be your breastmilk, coz formula is generally worse reflux-wise. It could be a time of the day thing ie. she's more spilly in the mornings when you have more milk or your milk flow is faster, or in the evenings when she has to work harder coz your supply is lower and she takes in more wind. It's all trial and error.

We had Mercedes seen by a paediatrician, he observed her feeding and diagnosed the reflux but she also ended up in hospital twice when she stopped breathing and they think that was reflux related. She was on meds for it,but we never medicated Sienna, I kept trying to convince myself that she didn't have it coz the thought of TWO refluxers was too overwhelming.

Definitely worth talking to your doc about it tho. If Chiara does have reflux I think I'm gonna try and avoid meds if I can, will have to see how we go tho. Atm the spilling doesn't seem to be upsetting her which is a good sign.

Hi July mums

Beautiful pics Emma and Kimmie.
Your babies look like little darlings. Logan is cute too. Went to the shops today and noticed I had spilt some of my breakfast on my dress as I got out the car - turns out it doesn't matter - nobody looks at you when you have a newborn! They only have eyes for the little mite:)
Hopefully I will get him into a slightly more convenient sleeping pattern but I am quickly realising its his rules really!!
Congrats to the mums with more than one child too - I often wonder how you do it!!

hey all

Well have had the most hectec week. So first chance I've had but you all know how it is.

Our beautiful Ryan William was born on Monday 14th July at 4.39pm via waterbirth after a 10hr 45 min labour. head cir. 34cm and weighing in at 3250g, 7lb 2 1/2 oz.. Oh and completely drug free. Just thought i'd mention that. I had the best suport team Dh was so wonderful fell apart in a few places (having you cervix streched for 8 - 10cm) ouchy. and my mum was so good to i couldn't have lasted without her.

Having real problems with feeding as our lil ryan is stil yet to latch on properly. We are expressing and feeding through a measuring cup.  

I've been thinking of flissty sounds like she's still waiting for her lil bundle.

Have a few photo's just to show off his thick head of hair and how bad you look after labour.

And the lovely Dh changing his first nappy.

And this is the wee dude just awake ready to go home.

 

Welcome to the world Ryan!

Yay for Tilly being less spilly Kimmies, long may it continue!

I just had my first go at expressing for Chiara, man it brought back memories Just getting the breast pump out of the box and sterilising it gave me flashbacks. But I figured it was as good a time as any to start coz I had just finished feeding Chiara and I still felt really full. Managed to get 25ml off one side and 70ml off the other so enough for a feed for her. Have put it in the freezer, I want to start giving her one bottle of EBM a day in a week or two so that she gets used to taking the bottle coz we never did that with Maya and she refused point blank to take a bottle which was a PITA when I needed to leave her anywhere.

Edited by Maya

I saw it in the herald,would like me to cut it out and post you a copy for a scrap book or anything

Will cut it out of the paper and post it tomorrow to you

Sorry to hear your Mum has left Emma. Hope you are doing OK. My Mum is still ringing me twice a day, skyping & texting me! In fact, she just rang my cell phone to check on us & woke Michael, because I had my phone on charge by the bed - he was asleep when it rang - not a happy chappy now!
You sound like a total milk machine! Wish I had your supply...mine barely even leak - have just started to have using breast pads.