Jan/Feb 2011 Mommies (Nov & Dec 2010 early babes)

Morning all

Neva eva doing veet again, burnt the life out of my sensitive parts, vix take my hat off dont know how you do it.

Yvette no she doesnt do the dummy but we try sum times she'll suck it now days i see she sucks her hand. We starting bottle end of April coz i go back May will Express and see if she takes that Arwen refused, so ya. She eats alot during the day so im drinking up to 2liters of water, at dinner time she is quiet has a nap.

Maryke hubby has bibolar so was in hospital for 3 weeks last year, he still has his tonsils and there alot of dust here so they play up all the time and Dec he got a virus.

Glad all well.

Hi ladies.

Sjoe, I get so much information reading your posts. Hope I remember everything when baba is here. I’m still waiting for his arrival, but it better be soon. It’s not nice now anymore.

Went to the gynie yesterday. Marinus weigh 3.4kg at this stage. So he will almost be the same size as his brother at birth. My next appointment is next week Tuesday & the gynie will let me walk until 41 week before he does an induction. O boy, hope this little one makes his arrival before then.

Enjoy your day ladies.

Hi gals

Lizelle what beautiful hair I wish my lg had a head of hair like that looking at her dad I know why he he

yvette, no still batteling with the maids I am sure the twins are putting them of but the more I tell them they will hardely look after them it just doesn't seem to sink in o well I will keep looking the right one will pitch up soon I hope

Ster it's Dr Lizel Blignaut at the Mulbarton Hospital 011 682 1635 shame on the reflux my lg had reflux till she was 2 not fun not nice the thickening meds didn't work for her but we survived but not fun to seem them suffer like that

Marie Carmen few days left then we meet your bundles of joy

Meags 6weeks not too long them your mom will be there for you how long will she be staying for then?

Kimika how you feeling?

Binks glad Vanya's doing ok now, how's your husbands, if I may ask why is he in hospital alot?

The boys slept from 8 till 12:15 and then from 12:30 till 5:20 shoe lets hope they are starting to cut out the late feed

Hi Ladies,

sorry for being MIA

Hope you are all well?

I need to change Pead. When she went for her check up 2 weeks ago he asked me different questions and after answering it (does she have a blocked nose, chest a bit tight, does she bring up milk etc) he turned around and said: Congratulations your child has colic. So I have been giving Inge Bennetts for a while, rubbed castor oil on her tummy, warm water bottle on the tummy and while it relieves the pain slightly we are drugging this poor child every night too sleep.

One guy that works with DH gave DH a number of a sister in Pretoria that specilizes in colic / reflux etc. This guys brother's child was very bad with colic and this lady helped them to sort it out. I was sceptical as every second person knows how to treat colic but out of pure desperation I trekked through to Waverley (170km there and back) yesterday afternoon. this lady asked me if Inge spits up milk and I told her yes, but since being on Isomil she is much better. Any way she gave me a form to read re reflux and to tick off if I see any similarity with Inge. Turns out that almost 70% of the things on the form was Inge. This included - cramps, sleeping short periods, sleeps very light, hickups, drinks the first 50ml very quickly and then stops drinking, blocked nose; cries in her sleep swings her arms and cry out loudly - to name a few.

Turns out that Inge has "silent refluxs". Silent because she doesn't have projectile vomits. does occur in premature babies and c-section babies. Any way she gave me things to thicken the milk and I must feed her every 4 hours now - even though she does pick up the correct weight she will get into the habit of drinking every 2 / 3 hours. Inbetween she must have herbal tea or water - not rooibos tea. She is also to sleep at a 30 degree angle. I know it is still very early days but by just sleeping higher she slept last night from 19:00 to 00:45 and again from 01:00 to 05:45 this morning WITHOUT BENNETTS / GRIPE WATER / BUSCOPAN / WITHOUT A BATTLE TO GET HER TO SLEEP.

I hope we have the right recipe now. should anybody want to give it a try her name is Anna Cronje (I see other people also mentioned her on Moomie if you google her name) and her nr is 012 332 2459.

That is my little sad story - Maryke you mentioned that your pead is very good - what is her / his name please?

i'm doing ok Yvette - but if i forget to take my pain meds - i'm in lots of pain, happened once - never again - i'm making sure of that.
With my LO i had no pain - painkillers helped (now as well) was only aware of my cut thats all, now im aware of it and got some exstra pain - but more a burning-pain sensation....the sterilization causing the ekstra pain even if i take my meds...but the meds is helping to feel a bit better though.

Congrats on Emily's weight gain as well - doing great!!

hi girls how are you all? sorry i;v ebeen quiet - just so busy with everything. been a tough week.

fisrtly my maid decided that she does not want to work every sat morning anymore but will work every second sat to help me out. i don;t have a contract with her which is something i will be sorting out this week. nice drop in the mud. sheesh man, its only 4hrs but it helps me tremendously. i need to sleep in the day becasue if i don;t my milk supply gets affected, and quickly. then i spend 2 more days trying to get it back up again with a niggley baby.
ashley is doing well at 'school'. she loves it there even though its only 3 hours mon/wed/fri mornings.
emily weighs 4.84kg as of today - exactly 2kg picked over birth weight in 5weeks 6days. well done baby girl! mommy feels it though! . she;s wearing 0-3month things now - newborn way too small because she has long legs and is bigger than average, depsite the low birthweight of 2.84kg. i sorted through ashley's old things today. was quite fun.

on friday last week i went to the gynae because i had a big hematoma (blood clot) right along my incision area. om antibiotics now. vix had the same thing, thank the Lord above its clearing up because i DO NOT want to go back to theatre and have this thing reopened.

mommy - fantastic weigh gain for little nathan-john, well done. are you breastfeeding him? with regards to reflux, here are a few things that helped me with ashley:
- feed upright position at all times even if you breastfeeding, you need to do some gymnastics!
- change nappy BEFORE feed, not during or after because the milk and/or acid will come straight back up
- use ulsanic meds to soothen the oesophagus. (my paed and 2 others i have seen have disagreed with the use of gaviscon - so pls check with your paed.) dr's have different opinions. there was a paediatric gavsicon on the market a few years back but it has been taken off the market.
- use those sleep wedges for him to sleep on or prop up his mattress with a towel underneath to raise to 45* angle - never have him lie flat
- keep upright position for atleast 30mins after feeds
- giv ehim a dummy to suck after feeds - sucking action causes increased saliva production which is alkaline - a natural way to counteract the acid that comes up
- reflux is really just heartburn. he may groan and grunt because his throat and chest feels sore. it is due to a weakened sphincter muscle that sits on top of the stomach. generally the prem babies get this, althoough many bigger ones get it too. as they grow, the muscle will mature and strengthen. there is really no danger with having reflux except if they do not gain weight sufficiently or choke and aspirate on the acid. if he is propped up while sleeping, the likeliness of choking is minimised - gravity, so he;ll spit out or just swallow back down.
he should grow out of this in the next few months. don;t stress!

there are anti-reflux milks on the market - so check out the shelves for when you decide to change to formula. i am sure you are breasfeeding hey? can't remember right now.

carmen - we are waiting for you love! bet you can;t wait! shame and you have had to wait for all ourl ot to be born before yours comes! enjoy packing out the room

lizelle - love kayden's mop of black hair. very pretty. how is your recovery going?

vix - you ok? how is jono doing? how are both their weights now? and how is the big boy C? is your scar 100% now?

chan - kade ok? there was a fantastic med on the market for colic but i cannot for the life of me remember. had it with cameran and i am sure it started with a 'C'.

ster - how is inge doing? you loving your firstborn to bits?

chris - glory girl. hats off to you my friend. enough said! you doing ok? hows things with your maid? have decided to find somebody else?

maryke - any luck on a new maid? how are you twinnies doing? post a pic of them together so we can see their little faces.

binks - wish i was parmalat and clover in one! my milk is battling with having no rest. my fault really. luckily emily is gaing really though and i suppose that is all that matters. when are you putting onto a bottle? does vanya take a dummy? does she cluster feed in early evenings? shucks emily does and it is trying of note. perfect timing when the rest of us need to cook, eat and sort out other kids. nic eone on the sleeping through. lucky you!

marie - hi! soon for you! what is your date again?