December 2017 babies club

LittleBoBeep · 06-01-2018 11:53AM

bee06 wrote: »

Is anyone else having issues with nappies? We have 2 or 3 nappies leak a day. We’re going to run out of clothes at this rate!

We had the same bee with our little man. Personally I find the Tesco own brand nappies heavier than pampers so we are using them. We moved up to the level 2
Nappies and have had no accidents since. The level 1’s fitted him perfectly but it was going all up his back.

bee06 · 06-01-2018 12:03PM

LittleBoBeep wrote: »

We had the same bee with our little man. Personally I find the Tesco own brand nappies heavier than pampers so we are using them. We moved up to the level 2
Nappies and have had no accidents since. The level 1’s fitted him perfectly but it was going all up his back.

We have the bigger size Aldi ones so might try those so today. Thanks!

Milly33 · 07-01-2018 01:49AM

justwhatithink wrote: »

Milly33 wrote: »

Whats the DOY formula Justwhatithink

Oh I just mean regular formula you make up yourself as opposed to the ready made stuff you can get and the hospital gave us to use.

Ah I was wondering!! I see I see, yeah we have been using the SMA one for filler in feeds. Love making up the bottles

lashes34 · 07-01-2018 10:58AM

How's everyone doing? After a few bad days and nights, last night was easier and I managed to get about 5 hours over the night which is a massive improvement on 2 the previous night! Never thought Id be so pleased to get 5 hrs of broken sleep!

It will pass as everyone keeps telling me ðŸ˜’

andreac · 07-01-2018 01:38PM

Hi ladies. Haven't posted really since I had my baby girl. I only have my phone to post from so I put off posting lol.
All going well but she's not sleeping much through the night. Maybe 2 hours at a time if we are lucky ha.
I'm still expressing but giving formula at night. We have switched to the hungry baby formula last night just to see would that help and it seemed to make a little difference. She went for 3 hours after the first feed then 2 hours and 2 then 3. Suppose it might take a couple of nights to get a routine going.
Just not sure if I'm doing it right or should be doing something different for her bed time routine.
She's very good and not unsettled or crying etc. Just wakes a good bit during the night.
She was 4 weeks yesterday already.
Starting baby massage in maynooth on the 17th so I'm looking forward to that.
Have been out and about a little bit but not too much. Just afraid with all these doses going around that she might pick up something.
Getting out for little walks locally as I have 4 dogs so they need walking too so I take turns and bring one with the buggy and do a lap then swap over lol.
Hope every one doing ok :-)

spottybananas · 07-01-2018 01:57PM

Andrea waking frequently is completely normal, their tummies are tiny so they need frequent smaller feeds. Waking every few hours at night also protects them against overly deep prolonged sleep which is a SIDS risk. But yeah, at 4 weeks that's totally fine, you're not doing anything wrong at all!

You also don't need to stress about routine at such an early stage, I don't think we had any routine with my first until he was 5+ months, no real bedtime routine until he was about 8 months I'd say, not that it mattered because he woke every 1-2 hours until he was 18+ months no matter what! He's a rare one, most kids aren't that cruel and sleep a few hours longer when they get a bit older

My current newbie is 7 weeks old and has shocked me by sleeping 4-5 hour stretches most nights since day 3, I think it's a combination of just a different (less intense!) baby and that we cosleep since day 1 which I didn't start with my first until he was 4 months.

shesty · 07-01-2018 02:11PM

What spotty said!
Andrea I wouldn't expect a stretch of maybe 4-5 hours at night til roughly six weeks.Not if you are bf either, that probably won't hapoen.
And as for a night's sleep 8/9 hours or so....unlikely until at least 12/13 week, and I wouldn't push it. They need frequent feeds. Wouldn't expect a repeatable day or night routine til at least 12 weeks either.They settle quite a bit at 3 months, you just have to wait it out.:D

spottybananas · 07-01-2018 02:18PM

Also when people refer to sleeping through the night, a 5-6 hour stretch is considered sleeping through, not the 12ish hours some would have you think. My eldest is 3 in April, he still woke every 2-3 hours until very recently, now some nights he will sleep 4-5 hours straight in a total of 12 hours sleep.

bee06 · 07-01-2018 02:55PM

I’ve been very lucky that my little fella is sleeping from 10/11pm to 7/8am. I have to wake him every few hours to feed rather than him waking me. I fully expect that when he recovers fully from the jaundice that he’ll change but it’s good at the moment because between my low iron levels (after a post partum haemorrhage) I’m exhausted just from that. I can’t even walk to the bathroom without being completely wreaked.

Milly33 · 07-01-2018 06:36PM

Our lady has got a few sniffles and a little cough, so cute and not so cute.. Hopefully twill clear in the next few days, but like you andreac don't want to go out much with this cold weather.. Wanted to go visiting today but thought the better of it.. Have her wrapped up in cozy clothes and the fire on instead...

4 dogs fair play to you for getting them all walked..... Felt bad for the cat and dog here, just one of each..Me thinks we have come to terms with the baby (the furry animals that is,) but it has been hard on them getting pushed back to second on the list.. And despite everyones twopence about the cat, he has not attached or even gone to sleep near herself. He has no more interest in her....

How is everyone who had sections doing are ye all healing nicely?... Doing quite well, hate sneezing though as the right side is still a little tender and when I sneeze it still twinges...Weird I am not to squimsy but nearly passed out in the shower taking the steri strips off.. They were fine to take off it was just the thought of it me thinks and maybe a bit of going back to the section memories, glad to have them off in the end, felt like getting rid of the last bandage..

Was so happy today with pumping too, all these you should do this and that with the breast feeding is mad.. I took a night off last night well after six, and himself done the formula feeds last night. This morning I was worried about the milk not really being there, and not a bother. Express nearly an oz from one breast and had plenty to feed her... And not I don't think I have a major supply of milk, I am not even leaking or anything..So was all happy

Glad to hear you are getting some sleep lashes must feel like heaven...Think happy thoughts she will sleep more for ye!! Sounds normal, have been doing a formula feed of 3oz at 12 and herself sleeps until around 4 or 5, then a breast feed and she is up either for 8 or 10..I thought that much sleep was great.. Good note for the planning of feeds was that it took around 3 hrs for the breastmilk to be digested and then 3 1/2 - 4 for the formula to be digested.

justwhatithink · 07-01-2018 08:00PM

Milly33 wrote: »

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How is everyone who had sections doing

I'm not really sure how I'm doing. I feel like I've gone backwards a bit in that I'm more tender and stiffer since I got home. I'm doing less, in the hospital I had no choice but to be up feeding & changing etc but at home I'm under recouperation orders from the husband. I'm a bit disappointed over a week later that the wound feels as sore as it does. I'm taking my meds and there's no sign of any infection etc. Public Health Nurse checked it on Thursday and said it looked perfect. It just still feels very tight or something (just on one side, the side the surgeon was standing supposedly). Im trying to move around more, but carefully, but a wrong turn and it can be very sore. I guess I'll give it a few more days and if I'm not happy I'll put a call into the hospital.

shesty · 07-01-2018 09:02PM

bee06 wrote: »

I’ve been very lucky that my little fella is sleeping from 10/11pm to 7/8am. I have to wake him every few hours to feed rather than him waking me. I fully expect that when he recovers fully from the jaundice that he’ll change but it’s good at the moment because between my low iron levels (after a post partum haemorrhage) I’m exhausted just from that. I can’t even walk to the bathroom without being completely wreaked.

Very hard bee, I had one about a week after my first.Very tough and makes having a newborn twice as tough.Take it easy on yourself.
Lile I said before, my first trip out by myself was around 5 weeks to get a drive thru McDonald's takeaway coffee and it felt like a huge achievement.It"s rough but you will feel better in time.

bee06 · 07-01-2018 09:15PM

shesty wrote: »

Very hard bee, I had one about a week after my first.Very tough and makes having a newborn twice as tough.Take it easy on yourself.
Lile I said before, my first trip out by myself was around 5 weeks to get a drive thru McDonald's takeaway coffee and it felt like a huge achievement.It"s rough but you will feel better in time.

Thanks Shesty, I do feel a bit stronger every day so that’s keeping me going. I’m so lucky that my husband is home with his 2 weeks paternity leave as well. I’d be lost without him. All I seem to do is breastfeed, sleep and eat whatever high iron, high fibre meal he brings me! I even wake him up for the night feeds so he can put the baby back in the crib for me because I can’t get out of the bed while holding the baby because of my episiotomy stitches.

andreac · 07-01-2018 09:57PM

Thanks ladies. I'd be happy with even 3 hours of unbroken sleep ha ha. Wouldn't expect much more at this stage.
Just wondering with the naps during the day would you put them up to bed where it's really quiet like night time or let them nap down stairs where you are and tv on etc? We have a Moses basket down stairs as well as the bedroom and I usually leave her sleep in sitting room while doing my bits during the day but wondering should I put her up bed in bedroom like night time.

heldel00 · 07-01-2018 10:05PM

andreac wrote: »

Thanks ladies. I'd be happy with even 3 hours of unbroken sleep ha ha. Wouldn't expect much more at this stage.
Just wondering with the naps during the day would you put them up to bed where it's really quiet like night time or let them nap down stairs where you are and tv on etc? We have a Moses basket down stairs as well as the bedroom and I usually leave her sleep in sitting room while doing my bits during the day but wondering should I put her up bed in bedroom like night time.

Until our fella was 3 and half months he slept in moses basket in living room with tv, hoover, doorbell you name it to contend with. Made a great sleeper of him and he wouldn't wake now if there was a marching band going through the room!

bee06 · 07-01-2018 10:18PM

We keep our fella downstairs in the day with all the noise as well. Can’t be dealing with running up and down the stairs whenever he wakes up.

andreac · 07-01-2018 11:11PM

Grand. That's what I've been doing so I'll keep doing that.
Yeah think I'd be wrecked going up and down all day too lol.

Milly33 · 07-01-2018 11:55PM

Same here, said from day one I wanted to get her used to noise. Done the hovering in all today with her asleep in my arms

... Have the buggy downstairs with the bassinet and we pop her in there to sleep... Again could not be running up and down the stairs, not suppose to either with the section. So works out well...

Bee I hope you feel better soon, one day at a time and take all the help you can get.. Your husband sounds like a great man fair deuce to him... I know he should just help out but a lot of men would not...

Justwhatithink, hopefully you will ease out soon. Defo found the moving around helpful but then I felt able to move around so it wasn't bad.. Are the pains still bad then? I get a kinda pain on my right hand side, depends which way I am sitting and like you said if I turn too quickly a certain way.. Think tis normal but might ask the nurse the next time

shesty · 08-01-2018 09:20AM

andreac wrote: »

Thanks ladies. I'd be happy with even 3 hours of unbroken sleep ha ha. Wouldn't expect much more at this stage.
Just wondering with the naps during the day would you put them up to bed where it's really quiet like night time or let them nap down stairs where you are and tv on etc? We have a Moses basket down stairs as well as the bedroom and I usually leave her sleep in sitting room while doing my bits during the day but wondering should I put her up bed in bedroom like night time.

Up to yourself andrea, if it's working downstairs it's probably no harm to leave her there.You will start to notice round three months she won't drop off so easily and you will probably have to move her upstairs anyway as her naps settle into a better pattern anyway.
Bee are you taking iron tablets?I literally felt like a whole new woman when I started on them, couldn't believe it took the doctor telling me at 6 weeks before I thoght of taking them!

bee06 · 08-01-2018 10:31AM

shesty wrote: »

Bee are you taking iron tablets?I literally felt like a whole new woman when I started on them, couldn't believe it took the doctor telling me at 6 weeks before I thoght of taking them!

Yep, taking the dreaded Galfer. They gave me an iron transfusion when I was still in hospital as well.

justwhatithink · 08-01-2018 12:07PM

Milly33 wrote: »

Justwhatithink, hopefully you will ease out soon. Defo found the moving around helpful but then I felt able to move around so it wasn't bad.. Are the pains still bad then? I get a kinda pain on my right hand side, depends which way I am sitting and like you said if I turn too quickly a certain way.. Think tis normal but might ask the nurse the next time

Ya it's quite painful on one side with sharp stabbing pains on moving that can stop me from getting down onto a seat or bed at times, like it feels like it's too tight or something. I kept saying this to them in the hospital but they kept saying it's normal for one side to be more sore and it's just bruised from the surgeon standing that side. I've phoned the public health nurse as she runs a wound clinic so will see if she can look at it but I don't think there's much to tell from the outside.

I might also talk to her about the baby, he seems very windy and spends all his sleep time wriggling and grunting and groaning and has a lot of farts that I think he's struggling to pass through. He winds well during and after feeding and we break up the bottle with winding him. Have tried the bicycle legs and now that his cord is gone I'm gonna do some gentle belly massage too. He's not constipated, we'd two dirty nappies in 12 hours, but definitely think the wind is bothering him and his sleep is very badly disturbed as a result.

shesty · 08-01-2018 12:58PM

Justwhatithink, my second was horrendously windy!!!She was the noisiest sleeper.she would sleep soundly initially then after she woke for the first night feed she would grunt and groan all night until she woke herself up every night.Most nights she started the night in her basket, and then from 1/2am she was on her tummy lying on my chest.Not ideal but it was the only way I could get sleep, lying on her tummy seemed to help her digest and sleep ok.When she was tiny I didn't want to put her on her tummy in her bed, so that was why I put her me.She continued to be very bothered by her wind until she was well over 1, if she hadn't got a burp up or had eaten something that was tough to work through her digestive system, she would be awake on and off all night til she worked it out.Definitely talk to the PHN but it may just be him...:eek: If I had a euro for every night I spent an hour or so at 3am massaging her tummy, bicycling her legs and turning her from sids to side I would be wealthy!Pharmony gripe water worked for her when I was desperate.The wind thing actually just kills.me, it"s so frustrating.

Milly33 · 08-01-2018 04:46PM

Had a visit from the nurse today, typical herself had just got sick all over herself so was just out of the shower trying to get ready.. Always rushing, I really cant wait to have this schedule down, sleeping in an hour makes everything askew...Poor mite was very stuffed up last night and we didn't sleep well checking on.. Have to say the snot sucker is the job, and I hate snots but it does give her great relief..

I asked the nurse Justwhatithink about pains, and she said that yep some pains on one side is completely normal and to have the doc check at the 6 week check up if they are still there,, She did mention sharp stabbing pains is very bad might need to be checked earlier.. Perhaps twud be an idea to call to the GP just to be sure to be sure...Thank god the scare is healing up fine, have been putting a little Aloe on it.. It is trying to get rid of all the stickie stuff is a pain...

Our little lady farts a lot too, from day one.. The doc and the nurse said tis grand that any dispel of wind, be it from their bottom or mouth is good...

bee06 · 08-01-2018 08:07PM

We had the PHN as well today and the little fella is heavier than he was when he was born so delighted. I did feel like the breastfeeding was going OK but it’s such a relief to get the confirmation.

Milly33 · 08-01-2018 10:16PM

Fantastic bee06 well done to you, ye must be delighted...

bee06 · 08-01-2018 10:30PM

Thanks Milly, I am alright. Low iron can impact supply so I was a bit worried that I would have issues and it’s important with the jaundice that he’s getting enough milk to get rid of it. I’ve had a tough time with the iron issue and the stitches so it’s good to get a win on something.

Milly33 · 09-01-2018 04:07PM

And a winner it is...You should be well proud of yourself, especially for keeping up the breastfeeding through all of that...

Milly33 · 09-01-2018 04:57PM

Have you tried expressing bee? Just wondering I'm still on the debate of am I actually producing enough milk... I tied expressing and can do it twice a day and get just under an once from both breasts.. My boobs don't even leak or anything... Just wondering is that it then.. Might just stick to the breast for the day and maybe night feeds

bee06 · 09-01-2018 05:07PM

No, I haven’t bothered Milly. I don’t have time to fit it in really with all the feeding he’s doing. I have read that you’ll always get less milk when expressing than feeding because the baby is much more efficient at getting the milk out than a pump.

andreac · 09-01-2018 10:06PM

Ladies how long would you leave them when they haven't pooped? I think she's a wee bit constipated since I've started giving her some of the hungry baby aptimal.
She had a really good poo Sun eve and a little one yest but nothing today.
I gave her some cool boiled water earlier.
I know they can have days where they don't have a dirty nappy.
But don't want to leave her too long without going.
She's doing little farts here and there. I'm massaging her tummy and doing bicycle legs to try and help her but nothing yet.

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