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ainy · 04-04-2015 4:24am

Kauto0709 wrote:

I stopped expressing 2 weeks ago and have been careful not to stimulate the breasts since but am still leaking... anyone else who is not breastfeeding having this problem?

I was wondering the same thing, i'my only a week finished so guess have to grin and bear it for another while! Get very itchy nipples at times though!

Kauto0709 · 04-04-2015 5:29am

Sittingpretty wrote: »

Yep. Baby nearly 5 weeks old and still leaking too!

Use breast pads to protect your clothes until it stops

How long does it usually take do you know?

baby_pebble · 04-04-2015 11:40am

I wasn't breastfeeding at all and baby is 3weeks tomorrow, left boob has dried up but right one still leaking a bit? So maybe give it another week

Kauto0709 · 09-04-2015 9:37pm

Does everyone have their babies now? Or anyone still waiting?

Myself and babs doing well, I can't believe how big she has gotten already!!

How is everyone else?

baby_pebble · 09-04-2015 9:44pm

We are doing good, have a bit of dilemma at the moment, baby is 4weeks this Sunday coming but he is looking for bottle every 2 hours around 5oz each time and not settling at night, started him on hungry baby feed at night which has helped alot sleeping an extra hour and settling easier for us but I'm worried as a lot of talk online about it being bad for baby?
Any input anyone?

Sittingpretty · 09-04-2015 10:14pm

Kauto0709 wrote: »

Does everyone have their babies now? Or anyone still waiting?

Myself and babs doing well, I can't believe how big she has gotten already!!

How is everyone else?

All good here, 6 weeks on Tuesday! WHERE does the time go?!?!

deedless · 09-04-2015 10:29pm

2 weeks tomorrow and doing great. She is putting on loads of weight and looks and feels bigger and more alert.

She is BFing and my left side is fine. Right boob hurts a bit still though.

crazy cat lady · 09-04-2015 10:33pm

All good here! The little man is growing like a weed. He will be 4 weeks on Monday.

Glad to hear that everyone else is doing good too!

ainy · 10-04-2015 3:17am

All good with us too, she takes ideas of having 2 hourly bottles at times babypebble, we were thinking of hungry baby feed but then she was going back to 3 hourly so i don't really have any input for you but sounds like if he'still drinking 5 oz every 2 hours it's a lot of feed, definitely sounds like an example of hungry baby!! (Although i'm a novice at all this too!)

think we're going to have to transfer herself to the cot this weekend, think she's getting too big for moses basket, doesn't seem to have enough room to stretch out, started using the sleeping bag things and she seems to settle better, she just kept kicking the blankets off!
4 weeks tomorrow, it's flying! have her bcg appointment next week, not looking forward to bringing her for thatðŸ˜•

yamiki · 10-04-2015 4:03am

They go through a growth spurt at about three/four weeks old. My little man is three weeks now and currently on the boob every two hours... Even at night. I'm wrecked, but I know it'll pass

hang in there!

Kauto0709 · 11-04-2015 9:34pm

5 weeks now and tear down below still not healed :-(

ainy · 12-04-2015 10:24am

Kauto0709 wrote:

5 weeks now and tear down below still not healed :-(

I was having a look with a mirror and mine still seems quite raw looking, no pain though, you still having pain? they'l be checked at your 6 week check but if your concerned i'd go to your gp for a check before then.

my bleeding is just starting to stop now, when would I expect first period then? would love a couple weeks of not bleeding!

Kauto0709 · 12-04-2015 12:06pm

ainy wrote: »

I was having a look with a mirror and mine still seems quite raw looking, no pain though, you still having pain? they'l be checked at your 6 week check but if your concerned i'd go to your gp for a check before then.

my bleeding is just starting to stop now, when would I expect first period then? would love a couple weeks of not bleeding!

Yes still sore! Not agony now, I can sit down ok which I couldn't the first couple of weeks but still sore especially when going toilet. 6 week check-up is next week anyway so will ask her to check it!

I stopped bleeding after two weeks, still have a heavy discharge though. I was looking up about periods before and apparently when bottle feeding they can return any time from 5 weeks to 3 months or so.

ainy · 12-04-2015 1:24pm

Kauto0709 wrote:

I stopped bleeding after two weeks, still have a heavy discharge though. I was looking up about periods before and apparently when bottle feeding they can return any time from 5 weeks to 3 months or so.

ah so it can be whenever now so! my boobs have stopped leaking now which is good, just need to get fitted for new bras now and can get out of my nursing ones and feel a bit more normal!!

definitely get her to check you out next week too!

baby_pebble · 13-04-2015 5:47pm

My once perfect baby is suffering from what I think is infant gas, he is bloated, belly is hard and is distressed and cries when trying to pass wind. Burping has gotten harder too

started him on sma comfort today
Any other tips to help ease his pain

ainy · 13-04-2015 6:59pm

baby_pebble wrote:

My once perfect baby is suffering from what I think is infant gas, he is bloated, belly is hard and is distressed and cries when trying to pass wind. Burping has gotten harder too started him on sma comfort today Any other tips to help ease his pain

my little one gets that on and off, I find rubbing her tummy while she's lying on her back helps!

Kauto0709 · 13-04-2015 10:40pm

Nearly 6 weeks now since I gave birth and between leaking books and still not healed tear down below I am feeling like my body will never be back to normal :-(

It's getting me down in myself and affecting my relationship with my partner.

It's funny how noone ever talks about these things. In the media people just give birth and then that's it, they go home with baby and live happily ever after, not a bother.

yamiki · 14-04-2015 8:31am

're-admitted to hospital!

baby had a temperature two days ago, so we brought him in. Now he's fine again but I have a fever and am also admitted! God knows what's going on here.

hopefully I'll be out soon, not what I needed.

baby_pebble · 14-04-2015 8:55am

Oh girls few us hitting a bit of a rough patch

Kauto I feel like my relationship was also being affected and like you said no one ever mentions this. Everybody talks about labour but no one ever mentions the first few weeks after. At least with labour there is an end to it and an amazing prize at the end, but the first few weeks of no sleep, milk problems, colic, reflux and whatever else is what people need to know about!

Everything will eventually get back to normal for us, at the end of the day our bodies went through something pretty life changing and needs just as long to resolve itself. We will get there keep your head up and take a few mins everyday to yourself weather it's a nice hot shower or quick walk outside, I know this has helped me:)

Yamiki get well soon to you both!

fall · 14-04-2015 10:16am

Kauto try not to be too hard on yourself. It took nine months for your body to change so give yourself time. It will change. I am from the January thread and the first eight weeks are definitely tough. After that they do settle down and you can start spending a bit more time on yourself. My baby is 14 weeks and I have just started to exercise now. Baby pebble my baby had the same symptoms as yours and we found colief brilliant.

yamiki · 15-04-2015 8:52pm

Home again thankfully! Bloody hospital. Some viral thing apparently, I'm just happy to be out.

Kauto0709 · 15-04-2015 8:54pm

yamiki wrote: »

Home again thankfully! Bloody hospital. Some viral thing apparently, I'm just happy to be out.

You poor thing! Hope you and baby are ok now.

yamiki · 16-04-2015 12:11pm

Kauto0709 wrote: »

You poor thing! Hope you and baby are ok now.

Yeah we're both good again!
Himself is feeding non stop though, which is taking its toll, both physically (my nipples!) And mentally. I spend all evening with him clamped on to me. And if he's not feeding he's bawling looking for more. Better during the day, but the evening is pure torture at the moment.

Kauto0709 · 03-05-2015 7:53am

How is everyone?

We had our little girl Christened yesterday. It was a wonderful day! Hard to believe she is 8 weeks old already! Anyone else find the time is just flying by??!!

ainy · 03-05-2015 8:14am

Kauto0709 wrote:

We had our little girl Christened yesterday. It was a wonderful day! Hard to believe she is 8 weeks old already! Anyone else find the time is just flying by??!!

our christening is today! hoping the rain might ease off for a little bit!
The time is going so fast, isn't it?! I keep looking at her and hoping she'd stay this size forever! can't remember what it was like before she was here, what did we do with all our time?!

she's piling on the pounds, had a hospital appointment with her during the week and the doctor was laughing at her double chin!! she's getting so alert now and smiling all the time, it's the nicest feeling in the world seeing your baby's face light up with a smile!

she slept through to 7 on Saturday morning, thought we had cracked it, then she was awake at 5 this morning but suppose it's still good going for 7 weeks.
hope everyone else is well and all the babies are behaving!

baby_pebble · 09-05-2015 7:10pm

Last 3 days my baby has been seriously suffering with gas and wind came out of nowhere since yesterday diarrhea. Poor thing is in so much pain. Bought fennel tea today and a infant probiotic also moved onto cow and gate hoping sma is to blame for it all

Kauto0709 · 09-05-2015 8:01pm

baby_pebble wrote: »

Last 3 days my baby has been seriously suffering with gas and wind came out of nowhere since yesterday diarrhea. Poor thing is in so much pain. Bought fennel tea today and a infant probiotic also moved onto cow and gate hoping sma is to blame for it all

Oh dear :-( Maybe contact your public health nurse or GP for advice.

baby_pebble · 09-05-2015 9:16pm

they keep brushing it off as normal and it will pass and my phn is away with the fairies

Kauto0709 · 11-05-2015 10:09pm

When did this change?

Kauto0709 · 11-05-2015 10:09pm

When did this change?

Kauto0709 · 11-05-2015 10:10pm

When did this change?

Neyite · 11-05-2015 10:40pm

We decided to move the threads from Pregnant to Newborn and Toddlers once people had their babies so you could continue chatting in a more suitable forum.

mirrorwall14 · 12-05-2015 12:15am

Neyite wrote: »

We decided to move the threads from Pregnant to Newborn and Toddlers once people had their babies so you could continue chatting in a more suitable forum.

Neyite is this being done with all threads? We're pretty active in jan 2015 so I don't want to lose it!

Neyite · 12-05-2015 10:39am

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Neyite is this being done with all threads? We're pretty active in jan 2015 so I don't want to lose it!

Only active ones I'd say. No point in moving zombie threads. You wont lose the threads or any of the posts, they are just getting moved to N&T once you have all had your babies and renamed. Nothing got deleted.

The idea was to move them to a more appropriate forum, since you aren't pregnant anymore, and newcomers who have similar aged babies could join in too if they wanted.

Kauto0709 · 04-06-2015 7:12pm

Hope everyone and their babies are all doing well!

Does anyone know do we need to contact our PHN to organise our baby's 3 month check-up or should they contact us?

Thanks

ainy · 04-06-2015 9:54pm

Kauto0709 wrote:

Does anyone know do we need to contact our PHN to organise our baby's 3 month check-up or should they contact us?

they sent me out an appointment letter, I remember when she visited after the birth, she said if for some reason I didn't get one out, give them a ring.

All good with us, just trying to stretch out her sleeping at night. we seem to have a wonder child though, she rarely cries, doesn't dribble or spit up at all, I thought I was going to be doing loads of washing all the time but i'm not! If/when we ever had a second I say we would get a shock!
hope everyone else is getting on well!

Kauto0709 · 04-06-2015 10:20pm

ainy wrote: »

they sent me out an appointment letter, I remember when she visited after the birth, she said if for some reason I didn't get one out, give them a ring.

All good with us, just trying to stretch out her sleeping at night. we seem to have a wonder child though, she rarely cries, doesn't dribble or spit up at all, I thought I was going to be doing loads of washing all the time but i'm not! If/when we ever had a second I say we would get a shock!
hope everyone else is getting on well!

I haven't received a letter yet, will give it another week or so then ring if I haven't heard.

Glad to hear you two are well! We are very lucky too, baby sleeps for 8 hours most nights! She really is such a good baby, we are blessed :-)

goldlocks10 · 04-06-2015 10:23pm

All good. Can't complain. Sleeping well dream feed works really well. The phn gave me appointment date at 6 week appointment. Our is next week. Can you believe 12 weeks. Only 12 weeks before back to work. Sad face

ainy · 04-06-2015 11:26pm

goldlocks10 wrote:

All good. Can't complain. Sleeping well dream feed works really well. The phn gave me appointment date at 6 week appointment. Our is next week. Can you believe 12 weeks. Only 12 weeks before back to work. Sad face

we're doin a dream feed as well and I still find it mad that she doesn't wake up when we're doing it but drinks the bottle! i'm taking unpaid leave too so have until January before i'm back. that's probably going to make it harder to leave her but will have to deal with that when the time comes.

Kauto0709 · 04-06-2015 11:35pm

Ladies what is a dream feed?

ainy · 05-06-2015 7:21am

Kauto0709 wrote:

Ladies what is a dream feed?

it's the last feed, we do it at about 11, she'll have been in her cot since 8. We go in pick her up and give her the bottle, we don't change her or make any noise. she drinks the bottle in her sleep and then we put her back in the cot. It just gets us longer in the morning than if we let her go without!
when she starts to sleep more regularly to the right time in the morning, we'll start to reduce the amount in that feed gradually and then she'll be off it!

12 weeks today, it really does go so fast!

BlazingSaddler · 05-06-2015 8:20am

Hi all, first time posting in this forum. We had our 3rd baby late March so almost 11 weeks now. The little fella has a bad cold at the moment so is having trouble sleeping. Any tips what we can do to help him breath easier at night. With the older 2 kids I'd use Vicks or previously Karvol but apparently they have to be over 2 to use.
Also how long are your March babies sleeping for at night. He is now in a routine where after a bottle at about 8 he'll fall into a deep sleep so I'd lift him for a dream feed at about 11, we give him 6oz. He would generally sleep then until about 4.30/5. He's been doing this for about 6 weeks but I'd like to start seeing him go for a bit longer! Thanks all

ainy · 05-06-2015 9:31am

mattb74 wrote:

Hi all, first time posting in this forum. We had our 3rd baby late March so almost 11 weeks now. The little fella has a bad cold at the moment so is having trouble sleeping. Any tips what we can do to help him breath easier at night. With the older 2 kids I'd use Vicks or previously Karvol but apparently they have to be over 2 to use. Also how long are your March babies sleeping for at night. He is now in a routine where after a bottle at about 8 he'll fall into a deep sleep so I'd lift him for a dream feed at about 11, we give him 6oz. He would generally sleep then until about 4.30/5. He's been doing this for about 6 weeks but I'd like to start seeing him go for a bit longer! Thanks all

hey! I can't advise too much on the cold, it's my first and she hasn't been sick. A bit congested the odd time and I just use a saline nasal spray to help clear it. I know theres a product called snuffle baby or something like that, think it's like vicks but suitable for babies, I think. i'm sure the pharmacist would be able to advise you anyway!

on the sleeping, we have pretty much the same routine as you but just in the last about 2 weeks she hasn't woken any earlier than half 5. Some mornings she'l go a little bit longer, this morning it was 8!! but we're happy with anything after 6 as my partner gets up for work then anyway so i'm awake. We didn't do anything different she has just gone longer so it seems to be just pot luck! maybe some of the others have more tips!

bobskii · 05-06-2015 10:37am

there's a calpol plug in and a baby vicks plug in you can get both are great for help in them sleep through a cold.

Kauto0709 · 05-06-2015 11:07am

ainy wrote: »

it's the last feed, we do it at about 11, she'll have been in her cot since 8. We go in pick her up and give her the bottle, we don't change her or make any noise. she drinks the bottle in her sleep and then we put her back in the cot. It just gets us longer in the morning than if we let her go without!
when she starts to sleep more regularly to the right time in the morning, we'll start to reduce the amount in that feed gradually and then she'll be off it!

12 weeks today, it really does go so fast!

Thanks for that. At the moment I give her her last bottle about 9 then put her down for the night about 10 and she sleeps until 6/6:30. We are very lucky really!

baby_pebble · 05-06-2015 3:53pm

My little man is teething for past 2 weeks suffering badly again today refusing the bottle, lately he will go down at 9 or 10 and will sleep til around 3 then up again after 6, would love if he would sleep a bit more but he is too fond of his bottle.
At his shots app (2months) I asked the nurse to way him and he was 6.7kg then. Anyone else have bigger babies?

ainy · 05-06-2015 5:57pm

Kauto0709 wrote:

Thanks for that. At the moment I give her her last bottle about 9 then put her down for the night about 10 and she sleeps until 6/6:30. We are very lucky really!

wow sounds like your doing well then anyway! We're liking having our couple hours together before her dream feed, have been able to start watching our boxsets again!

ainy · 05-06-2015 6:02pm

baby_pebble wrote:

My little man is teething for past 2 weeks suffering badly again today refusing the bottle, lately he will go down at 9 or 10 and will sleep til around 3 then up again after 6, would love if he would sleep a bit more but he is too fond of his bottle. At his shots app (2months) I asked the nurse to way him and he was 6.7kg then. Anyone else have bigger babies?

my little one seems to be teething, constantly chewing her hand but doesn't seem in pain with it and she's not off her bottles.
I didn't get her weighed at that appointment but have the 3 month phn one in 2 weeks time so will see then what she is. she is a chubby baby so I wouldnt say she's too far behind your man! I have her in 3-6 month stuff for the last month and theres not a whole lot of room in them for her!

yamiki · 07-06-2015 3:53am

ainy wrote: »

my little one seems to be teething, constantly chewing her hand but doesn't seem in pain with it and she's not off her bottles.
I didn't get her weighed at that appointment but have the 3 month phn one in 2 weeks time so will see then what she is. she is a chubby baby so I wouldnt say she's too far behind your man! I have her in 3-6 month stuff for the last month and theres not a whole lot of room in them for her!

Yeah same here, 3-6 months clothes and they fit or are already getting tight. I weighed little man about three weeks ago, he packed 6.3 kg then.
and at the moment he wants grub every 2.5 hours, night including.
But the smiles, almost chuckling, his love for his sister and seeing him flipping over from belly to back make the lack of sleep worth it

two under two is brilliant fun so far, and surprisingly easy going.

Kauto0709 · 01-07-2015 10:53pm

Hello ladies, hard to believe our little ones are coming up on 4 months now!!

What are your plans for solids? Will you start at 4 months, or try get them to 6 months without?

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