August-September 2010 Moms

Little Kaelyn went for her 2 week checkup today... shes gained 400g since birth.... yaaay shes thriving on the breast milk... and with 3.5 hours sometimes 4 between feeds mommys doing good too.

all is looking good!

Hey everyone. Jeez - you ladies have been chatting up a storm. Bit hard for me to log on because I don't have a desk so my laptop and IBurst Modem is on the kitchen counter when I use it and then it gets packed away again and it's a REAL effort to drag everything out the cupboard and get it all set up, so I only log on once in a while when I am really in the mood.

Read all your posts, but by the time I get to type my message, I can't remember who said what!! How bad am I!!

To those whose babies have day and night confused, I really feel for you - that must be sooo tiring especially if you have a toddler who is up during the day!!!

Emily is still doing well, just struggles to go down at night - she usually moans from around 7ish until 9ish when we finally manage to get her to go down. Once she is asleep, she sleeps really well though. But she wants to drink from 7 until 9, and if I take away from the boob before she is ready, she screams the roof down. Other than that, she is a really easy baby and we are doing great.

Girly, I give Emily gripe water from a bottle and I dilute it with a bit of boiled water - she seems to love it. Not sure if you want to give Kaylee anything from the bottle though?? Emily has been drinking from the bottle from day 6 and has no problem with the bottle teat or the nipple - as long as she gets something to drink, she doesn't seem to mind where it is coming from I really recommend Tommee Tippee though!!!

We are going for our photoshoot on 27 September - can't wait. Emily has changed so much since birth already so I need to do it soon.

BTW - she woke up with a really bad rash in her head, on her face and down her back and chest last Friday - so we took her to the paed and apparently she has eczema - he prescribed Advantan and Mylocort - the mylocort is for her face and the advantan for the rest of the problem areas. It has cleared up nicely, but if she rubs her face against something, it flares up again - the problem with the creams are that they are cortizone creams and really strong for a baby so we can't use it everyday - I feel so sorry for her because I guess it has to itch because she gets a bit niggly at times

Well ladies, enjoy your little ones - I will try and do personals next time I log in.

Where is everyone?

Kaylee is so hungry she is eating 2 hourly sometimes, barely get a chance to have breakfast.
I'm not complaining though, cos she picked up 120grams in 3 days I'm so relieved! Still under 3kg though so still so tiny, but definitely better.

My phone is stuffing out, so I'm using my work phone with personal sim, but all my new contacts are on the old phone which I think is now not possible to retrieve.
So I may have to ask you all to SMS me again so that I can store your numbers on the pc. Meant to get a new phone this weekend, but just depends on time.

Anyone with Cell C? I need to know how to check my prepaid balance and the number for that is also on the old phone

morning mommies. Shew what a day. K really struggled with wind yesterday morning and in the afternoon waking every 1.5hrs for snacks of 5minute feeds. This lasted till 9:30pm and now did not eat for 4 hrs. Grateful she doesnt have days & nights mixed or Id be exhausted. But my intention of some catching up on sleep didnt go to plan. Re the winds, starting to wonder if my eating habits play a role as cant think what else it cld be. Milk seems first option, but dont know how to replace cereal while largely home bound. the telament seems to help provided i remember to give it before a feed. But not in that habit yet only remember after.

Congrats to all the new moomies welcome to the world of motherhood. Glad to see every coping well, its been a while since i feature here my boys clock is all switched around his days are nights.

He has very bad cramps and suffers alot i have tried Buscopan, colic drops and finally Bennetts colic mix and still he is not well, he feeds well every 3hrs and brings up winds i dont know what to do, last week i saw an osteopath with another appointment this week. I will tell you how it goes,

Girly my boy also spits out the dummy the doc says to move it alittle or tap on it to make it live like it seem to work.

Night time is a nightmare with the cramps DH and i take turns to comfort him hope it all passes soon.

Sorry i cannot do any personals will be back soon.

Hang in the mommies some day we will be laughing at this.

Judes mom - So sorry... know what it can be like.... kaelyn has her nights and my nipples hurt yesterday so bad as she was niggly and feed hourle for a few hours... sounded like she was battling to breath no we used a nasal aspirator and all of a sudden, though nothing came out... she latched and fed a proper feed went down and slept for 4 hours.

Girly - I got an eyedropper thing called a medicine dropper.... and you drip it into the side of her mouth one drop at a time... wait forher to swallow and then another drop

With the day/night thing...What i did, that helped me is a few things... first during the day she's not in the room... very important to make two seperate environments... second the bath... i moved it to 7... after that it's bed time... and last... leave the light on... dim but on in the room. after that theres not much you can do but keep her active during the day... But only keep her awake for a few minutes after each feed, when she starts niggling let her sleep or you will suffer

oh and the bath was also a scream session until i read that babys like water and want to be submerged... she was crying for more water... so now i make the water pretty full and she loves it... i can take as long as i like to bath her without even a moan. oh and i am making the water about two degrees warmer then our bath thermometer says... fancy that. still okay on the wrist though

had a crying moment on friday night... puppy had been acting up ll day and wanted attention... come 18:00 baby got soo terribly niggly and was crying the house down... and just as i settled her at 8... the darn kids across the road kicked their soccer ball into our electric fence for the millionth time... and set off the house alarm. OOH i was so angry because baby woke... i refused to give back the kids ball... hubby fixed the fence and turned off the alarm but the damage was done... finally half an hour later i got her settled in her bed... then i looked at the dog and just knew i had to do something... so i ran her a bath in the baby's bathroom... and washed her like i do the baby.... she loved it and finally calmed down... phew... at this point i commented... finally everyones had a piece of mommy... now can mommy have five minutes to...

and hubby.... very innocently, not realising i was at breaking point joked " what about me?"

well i was in tears...

but i felt better after so i guess i just needed to let it out huh?

hello everyone
sorry for being MIA but mia has been keeping me pretty busy.she was born on the 16 August 05:01.she weighted 3,5kgs was 50cm long.

my birth story is actually really plain.i was supposedmto go for nduction on monday but Mia prefered to come wth her own doing.the saturday i had slight cramping what i thought was mabe bad tummy ache or sumthing i ate cause with Tristan my contractions was dffrent.but it dissapeared after a while and i cud continue doing my chores.that night about twelvish the cramps got more intense that i cud hardly sleep as i was home alone i got a little bit worried.during the night i smsed my fiance to let him knw that i xpierence cramping i eventually fell asleep at 4 that sunday morning.the sunday it was the same story but this time the cramping got intense and it lasted a few minutes i actually had geusts that day while i was monitoring my contractions not really knowing i was in labour.my fiance woke up and he became really worried so i phoned the labour wards and asked them if i can come in for a check up as i was xpierencing cramping ect ect.when i got there they hooked me up to an fetal monitor and did all the tests and examinations that was supposed to be done.well i thought i was going home later on but the nurse told me i can forget going home as i was 3cm dilated.i spend the night in the labour ward counting down the hours for the birth of my daughter.and im proud to say that i wanted to give birth naturally without any pain meds and i did.

there was times that i was in so much pain that i thought i wasnt gonna make it but the pain was all worth it at the end.all went well with the birth but unfortunately for me this time around i did some bad scarring in my perrineum area.my little girl is a real blessing she went for her two week check up and weight 3,8kg im still breastfeeding but my milk is busy drying up so mia has to get a top up of nan milk.she is sleeping quite well but recently we r struggling to get her to sleep in her cot cause whenever we lay her down she cries.......... .but i knw it will get better.girly how r u hun ur little Kaylee is a real angel.

congrats to all the new mommies and i will post photos real soon.