August-September 2010 Moms

hi girls!

i think i'm jinxed!!! cos everytime i want to go visit girly something's wrong with my boys!!! I wanted to visit her this afternoon, guess what my monster (Jadon) has measels and german measels - pead confirmed this morning. sorry for doning this to you my friend

NOW i need to keep the kids apart, how the bloody hell do i do that, seeing that we share a home???LOL ja well, at least dr said that lil one might not get it cos he still has some of my antibodies in him and if they get it as lil one's it will be round 9 months. guess i'm covered then cos L's only 4 months hehe


what's your LO's weight??? Liam was weighed today and he tops the scale at 7.4kgs that is huge!!! jadon only weighed 8kgs at 1 year. no 2 kidds r the same hey

Babyksmom... its only because i express a full feed while hubby feeds her... if i need to make a bottle i have to express after every feed just like you guys. and if i forget to express that feed i battle the next day and night to build it up again.

But in the end i agree if your baby is thriving on the formula then is he really missing out? and if you are struggling every feed and neither of you are happy, then it just isn't worth the stress... especially since the more you stress about having no milk... the less milk you have.

Oh and don't stress abt the playdate i don't think i could manage to sqeeze it in myself... leaving on saturday been running around finishing christmas presents, getting the dog vaccinated for the kennels... and need to get sum stuff at baby shop today to take with for k... baby sunscreen mozzie stuff and such... oh and a window shade for hubbys car...

Charnenay - its a 3-6 month i got at baby boom... if you want it i could get one for you? I saw it when i was pregnant and loved it... so soon as we knew when the christening was gonna be we went to get it!

How's everyone doing?

Emily had her 14 week vaccination today (very late, I know). It REALLY, REALLY broke my heart this time, I was actually crying more than her!!

I am soooooooo glad we don't have to do that again until 9 months. She is sleeping now (fell asleep in the car on our way back home), and I am really hoping that she wakes up in her usual good mood. The nurse said that she felt a bit hot before the injection, so I'm hoping its just the heat and not a fever. Will check when she wakes up.

Otherwise, we are doing good - Emily is really playful now and hardly ever cries anymore. She has decided that she needs a 2AM bottle again, but I'm not complaining - I miss her at night because she goes to sleep just after 7 already, so by the time I go to bed, I am really tempted to go and fetch her and put her in my bed So, I don't mind seeing that smile again at 2AM.

Can't believe that I have to go back to work in a few weeks time and that I am going to miss so much time with her really sad about that.

CPT ladies, enjoy this beautiful weather - I might take Emily to the beach once the temperature drops later this afternoon (that's if she isn't in a bad mood from the vaccination.

Keep well and enjoy your little munchkins.

P.S - Kerry, her dress is soooooooo pretty.

Kerry, sorry we can't seem to work out a 'playdate'
I am working this week and next week and then you go away.
So lets take a rain check and maybe we can do something in Feb on a Sat or something? Or we can meet for dinner at Cresta one night too but we'll make the plans in the new year?

Have a fab holiday in Cape Town, good luck with the driving down, I'm sure it will be fine.

I'll find you on facebook. Oh if anyone wants to find me, I'm Taryn Kokkinn.

Cheers ladies XxxX

Aaargh I've been working and haven't been able to go on moomies to reply but here I am now.

Aaah Girly, I feel your pain and I am so glad that K is feeding better again and like Charne said, I really admire your perseverence! You know, John fought me at the breast from the day he was born but I persevered because like you I was adamanant he would only have breastmilk. When he was 6 weeks old I was at my wits end, I mean even though people told me that breastfeeding was not the easiest thing in the world like its made out to be, I couldn't believe that John and I were still struggling so much with it. I felt like such a failure - first I had to have a caesar instead of natural, then I was faced with the possiblility of putting him on formula much earlier than I wanted to.

My paed told me there's nothing wrong with a complementary bottle of formula a day, so that's what we did from 6 weeks and John would get it at dinner time. I also started expressing at this time. NO WAYS can I express 180ml at a time - Kerry is amazing - my step-mom-in-law (mouthful ) could do that but not me. I pump over the course of a whole day and might have enough for a freezer storage bag or one feed the next day. In fact my left boob, the most I have ever got out of it is 30ml - wierd hey? My right boob gives me between 70ml and 100ml. So in order to build up some stock for the freezer I started giving John another formula bottle in the mornings too. My life suddenly got alot easier over this time and I felt much better.
Then he decided to up the tempo of fighting me on the boob, maybe because he was getting used to the bottle? But it was heart wrenching and I cried and felt like a failure all over again. So that's when we changed to4 feeds a day, and 3 bottles a day (mostly 2 bottles of breastmilk and 1 bottle formula at night) and then I breastfeed him the early morning feed. And so far so good (its been about 3/ 4 weeks).

So all my pre-pregnancy expectations of breastfeeding him exclusively for 6 months flew out the window. Like I was telling Sonay from the Sept moms group, these babies of ours have their own agendas and we follow suit. Its been a humbling lesson for me but the most important thing I keep reminding myself, is a calm and happy baby. That's why I opted for the caesar in the end and thats why I succumbed to using formula. And John is a MUCH happier baby when he doesn't have to fight for his food

Anyways, much love from JOzi side and know that we all support you. Sometimes these men of ours don't understand the immensity of what we are feeling and going through but we need to give them the benefit of the doubt. My DH and I are going through ups and downs too, I think the first year of a baby's life is very hard on the parents' relationship, I mean things are so different and all our attention is now on our babies and not on our men anymore, and even the most mature of men must feel a little abandoned and left out.

Oh and even though breastfeeding has never been as pleasant for me as its supposed to be, John and I have still bonded incredibly and have lots of special 'together' time

now that's more like the girly i know

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