Born Oct/Nov 2015

Enjoy your shower today Kimmy, and try not to let your sister bug you too much!! Just ignore her snippy comments and enjoy your day! So easy to forget that is a celebration for our baba's!!!!

We are having such awesome warm weather, not good for kancles but im enjoying it none the less!!

louise, that sounds like a plan!!

Enjoy your weekend ladies!

HVDB: Jy's 'n MAMMA!!!

Baie geluk en mag sy vir julle net vreugde bring! Sy is sooooooo pragtig!!! Regte "kraal ogies"... sjoe!

As for the breastfeeding and expressing - I had the same fullness & rockhard feeling... even had to get laser done on my breast for the pain. I started expressing 2 days after my milk came in and froze the milk. I used the medela and lansinoh freezing bags - worked best for me. And yes, breastmilk can be frozen for 6 months, although you'll use it much sooner that that :-D

Kimmy, just say "ja okay" but don't do anything. Tomorrow if she asks you, just say - aah you know what...DH and I talked it through and decided against it.

Lol...If I were you I would send her a bill for the babysitting!!! Sommer give it to her tomorrow and watch her expression...

Urgh, painting and DIY in full swing for the girls room! And don't think I can sit down and do nothing... the nesting bug has taken me hostage!!! Even yesterday whilst we were busy watching dvd's, I said to DH i can't just sit still like this... so I grabbed the primer and paintbrushes and started sanding and the girls bedside tables for painting...
And I swear - DH shouldn't even offer to assist or I start growling at him... It's just so calming for me

@Kimmy - Sorry to hear that you're left in that situation with an "older" sibling behaving like a younger one. It sounds to me like she's trying to put across "I'm older so you must do what I say". I think you should just tell DH the details and let him tell her off

@HDVB - so good to hear that you're doing well. As far as breastfeeding goes, what I've been told by the midwife that gave our antenatal classes is that you should let LO suck for a max of 40 minutes on one boob so that she gets the fore- and hindmilk. The foremilk is more fluid, thirst quenching and the hindmilk is richer (fatty) and actually "fills". You mustn't worry about "balancing" feeds between boobs. According to a book that I'm reading at the moment, you should finish on the one boobs and then if LO is still a bit niggly, offer the other one to give more thirst-quenching milk in case she's just thirsty as opposed to hungry.

You can freeze breast milk for up to six months. It was recommended that you get BPA-free ice cube trays which have lids. Then you can freeze in little amounts and pick out how much to thaw when you need to and can just clean the trays out and use them again as opposed to using the once-off freezer bags.

It's also only recommended that, unless required, you only start expressing at 4 weeks.

I like what you say about being "ready". A lot of people keep asking me if I'm ready and my response is always "Is anyone ever really ready?".

Hello ladies

Just came home from the game lodge and I am so happy to be home. It was very nice but the heat really got to me. Wow it was hot. I ended up in front of a fan the whole time

@HVDB - congratulations again and she is absolutely beautiful thanx for the update on kloof. I feel much more at ease now. Looking fotward to meeting my boy. I am so uncomfortable that each day feels like an effort. Just 6weeks to go.

@pp - love the mural.

Anyway hope everyone will have a lovely weekend. I have had such swolen feet the last view days so I will be resting this weekend.

OH PP, that mural is gorgeous!

Hi there Mommies!

Yes I am breast feeding, we did not bump heads on this one and she latched almost immediately. My milk only started coming in 3 days after birth. I have noticed that I have a lot of milk, and my boobies are rock hard, she drinks about 10-12 min per breast per feeding session which is every 2 and half hours. We are trying to get her to pick up weight, as after she lost her weight in the hospital (which I know is normal) she only weighed 1.870kg. I will have to do the coli-flower leave thing. I was thinking of maybe milking out and freezing it, I know you can freeze breast milk for approximately 3 months?
What would you mommies do, as i think I have a lot of milk and am worried that she is not drinking enough to give me some relief.

@Lauz, we did not pay a deposit for the stem cell thing as we were still discussing it. We made the emergency choice and got the kit from the hospital just before we went into surgery. We would only have sorted out payment and deposit afterwards. BUT, they had to open the kit in theater and as it is a sterile product, we had to pay for the kit only, which is R3700, but what happened in our case of not being able to even extract a little, and not use the kit at all they only charged us R1700 for breaking the seal. They said that what happened to us happens to only in 5% of the cases.

Girls you must take it easy. Don't stress too much about not being ready or prepared. We thought that we were 100% prepared but not 100% prepared for two weeks early! But it is not a big deal as everything just falls into place in anyway. We/you/us will NEVER be 100% ready, so just relax and enjoy!

I still can't believe this pregnancy is over. I can't even imagine what I felt like only days ago. The uncomfortableness, the bloatedness, the peeing all the time, the heartburn, the swollen feet etc is completely a thing of the past, totally forgotten!

GOOD luck to all of you! I will keep all updated on this forum and will move over to a new one as soon as we have more babies!