July 2008 babies!

She is so gorgeous

hello all

Emma, Chiara is such a cutey.

hmmm breast pads, when i'm expressing i have be topless with a nappy on one boob coz  it pours out one side while expressing on the other. lol i feel like a cow.

This was taken about 1/2 and hour ago. Soooo cutsey. I  him.

 

Wow, ladies - no wonder you feel like cows! lol Sounds like you have lots of milk! Mine are pathetic....drip drip drip - hardly even soaks my breast pads. Though do agree with you Emma .. my flow must be better now if I am having to use the pads. I am still taking two of those pills a day though to stimulate the flow.

Emma - love your pix of Chiara - what a cute little blue eyed angel!

Sounds like you were a powerhouse this morning & organised to the max!
This morning was my first official time as Mum to 2 under 14 mths - without any other adult help! Michael was back to work at school today - was very nervous about it! Matilda cluster fed till late last night, she went down just before 1am, then she fed again at 4 but wouldn't go down and settle till just before 6am! Poor Michael was really tired going to work this morning. Then both Georgia & Matilda woke at 8.30am - brilliant timing eh! Had to very quickly feed Tilly, then get up an upset Georgia to change, feed, so I could get back to Tilly who needed more feeding! Then the midwife turned up, with a student midwife, then the fridge repairman turned up (cos our fridge was playing up after power surges all last night ). Damn weather during the weekend meant that I had a massive backlog of washing to deal with & finally got to have my shower at 3pm! No rest time either as when one was down for a sleep, the other one needed feeding! Need to work on our routines! Don't know how you do it Emma - i was so close to tears today!

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Yeah it was pretty crazy! Much better today - and even found time to back American chocolate brownies in the morning. Michael says I am turning into Nigella Lawson...a domestic goddess It has been pouring with rain here today - so not much else to do than care for the babies, feed the babies, change the babies, play with the babies & bake!

Can't imagine what it is like when all 4 of yours wake at the same time! You must be very organised to get Maya to school on time with all the others to deal with as well. Totally know what it is like to be in your PJ's late...sometimes I'm in mine till lunchtime! I managed to get in a shower before Georgia woke this morning, after I had fed Matilda.

Georgia woke up crying about 5am ish this morning - she must have had a bad dream or something. She is in a much more delightful mood today....still quite clingy - but just wants to come and hang with me on the couch & give me cuddles. Lovely Mummy & daughter time. Tilly needs to be fed now, so better go wake her

How did music go Thomasina?

Yay for a more productive day Kimmies! I just posted about mine in the preg thread so won't go over it all again but not having a supermummy day today.

Question re feeding - how often/much are people feeding. We've been doing one boob then a play time of an hour or so, then the other boob or EBM (20ml ish), then sleep. It means that the whole process plus a sleep is 4 hours, and he's only being fed about 6 times a day. We're now cutting down the play time to 20 min. I can express off about 40 mls. Does that sound about right for him being 6 days. My milk is starting to come in, but isn't hugely there.

Lol to your last comment Emma....can only imagine how hectic it was with a feeing schedule for your gremlins!

My midwife advised me that in the early days babies only need to be up for maximum of an hour - get up, change, feed, burp & put back to bed. Matilda is having a feed every 3 hrs or so, 6 feeds a day and is generally up for an hour - though less for the middle of the night feed..... although - when she wants to cluster feed - the whole organised routine goes straight out the window!! Matilda does seem to be a lot more alert now & is taking huge notice of the red, black and white cushions on our couch - which makes sense - as these three colours are excellent for babies to practice focussing on. I've been putting her in her bouncinette for a couple of times a day for a wee while just to chill out and look around - though have to be very on my game with a 14 mth old toddler running around the room too, wrecking havoc!

hi laides im officially here and home havent had time to look at any posts yet and mw coming in half an hour and still in pjs! just wanted to pop in and say hi will pop in later when have time to catch up!

Oh Kimmies, she's so cute!

Welcome back Kye

Kye, i need some of your milk. We're having to top up with formula and a bottle at night which I really don't want to do but I can't fill him up on my own. He is a pain at night, wakin up for 3 hours at a time (hence my one handed typing).

DH is really struggling cos he's so tired and doesn't feel like he's connecting with Daniel which I'm finding really hard - he gets really frustrated with him which both he and I hate. I don't know what to do about it clos I can't do all the feeds and settlling on my own but I don't want him getting pissed off with Daniel. DH is worried he's getting PND - we always thought I would - and it's just really sad he doesn't get to enjoy his time with his wee boy