August-September 2010 Moms

Hellooooooo

My oh my, I've missed out on so many posts here, I dont get a chance to go on this site any more, Facebook via balckberry much simpler and easy if any of you are on there, as I do have some of you as friends already, add me, it's Shihaam Solomons-Khan.

Where is time going, before I know I'm back at work, which is November Saniyah will be 2months soon and she'll have her next vaccine on the 11th Oct. 10n week one...I attend the Well Mothers Baby Clinic in Ronderbosch, I'm very happy with there service!

With regards to sleep, I don't know what that is as just when I think I'm falling asleep, I hear waaaaa It's like Dh said, every 2hrs feels like 2mins! His still trying to find work here but tries to come down when he can, I just booked his ticket for the weekend of the 8th so at least he'll be here for her next vaccine like he was for her 6week one! My contract with this company ends next year Feb so I'll see what happens as he doesn't want me to move back to Joburg but stay in Ct with the family for Sani's sake!

I'm still breast feeding but slowly trying to get her off onto the bottle, have to start now before I go back to work plus i'm on a mission trying to find a live out nanny for her...she still soo small and I dont particularly want her to go to a creche as yet. Sadly both our moms work so we cant ask them to look after her either!! I'm dreading to leave her but what can I do, waiting for Dh to strike that brilliant paying job son that he can cover me to stay home with her

Had my 6week check by the gynae and she put me on microval contraceptive, not that im doing the deed as Dh not even around lol and I must admit my recovery after the caeser went smoothly, hardly any scar visible nor did develop any stretchmarks during my pregnancy, thanks bio-oil but i've got quite a few more kilo's to loose, so far lost 12 kgs to date n I think breast feeding has alot to do with it plus your constantly up 'n down with baba, sure we'll loose those extra kilo's in no time I'm not exactly tall either, 1.53cm so any added weight, you can see it but im getting there, cmy pants dont fit yet but im getting there!

As long as our baba's are healthy n growing, we cant complain

Catch u ladies next time on facebook then? Ill try n pop in when I can on this side...havent gotta chance to posting my birth story, that will have to wait till we all meet? Would be nice seeing as we never made it for our Ninos get together !

Godda go, mommy duty calls...

Take care n have great wkend further xxxxx

Hi All!

Baby K is doing much much better! Slept a five hour session last night as opposed to the 2 hour sleeps she's been having with the infection... imagine my suprise when whe put hr down at 8 and when i woke up and looked at the clock it was 1am.... i was so very shocked... she then had a 4 hour sleep after that and then a three... i feel restored!

Girly - they did the same urine stip test type thing you did during your pregnancy... all they did was put a bag in her nappy for her to fill and then we waited - as for how they knew, well doc said there are only three real causes of constant crying poor handling... which we ruled out coz she would have been crying since day one - milk shortage... which i have no issue with but hubby and i had expressed a few feeds in a row just in case and it didn't help and no 3 infection... so she undressed K and pressed her tummy to feel for anything and her bladder area was a little sensitive... oh and dr also said to be careful... baby doesn't know the difference between stomack pain and hunger... so when she has stomach pain she will try eat you dry... which is what was happening to us.

I have been expressing bottles for DH to take a shift at night for two weeks now... so since my baby was 2 weeks and shes had no problem... doesn't like bottles... but if you give her a mam bottle or a pigeon bottle she's happy! And takes the boob same as before... happily

As for expressing i am blessed with milk... if baby K feeds off the left boob i simply express the other side and we are good to go... But i know its not like that for most... sorry

Anyway ladies have an awesome weekend.... DH is away on a team building thingie this weekend... so it's just me and baby for three days!

Hi everyone

Sorry for my absence. Been a rough few days for us.

We took Kaylee to the paediatrician today, and he is very happy with her yay! She weighed 3.6kgs with fleece her top on, so around 3.4 without it which is spot on where she should be basis last Tuesday's 3.16. Her cut has a bit of an infection where the knot was made, so we have to give it extra care now. Doctor at least took the stitch out so now it should heal nicely. I just feel awful as we have a tape over it, and have to pull it off each time we clean it, and its sticky and hurts her when we do

About the vacs, I was gonna take her to a pharmacy clinic but they dont have stock of prevenar so would have paid R600 or something just for that. So the breastfeeding clinic have stock and even though they have a very high admin fee (R440) for the government one, on this occasion it works out cheaper than going to the other clinic.
We go for the vacs next Thursday.

Seems we are all going through the colicy stage now. Kaylee has had a few very difficult nights. Tuesday I was up from 2 - 5am with her and nothing seemed to help except to be on the breast. She seems to be very niggly between 7 - 11pm the last 3 nights and nothing we do actually consoles her. It's really tough as its the time DH is home and means we have no evening to speak of. It is definitely putting some strain on our relationship, and we have fought more the last week than in the last 2 years.

Babyzee awesome re the smile!!! How old is he now?
Kaylee gave us one smile last week, but nothing since. We are waiting patiently for this, our second big milestone. She lifts her head really high for quite long periods and turns her head from side to side quite nicely. I'm such a proud mom.

Kerry shame hun! Just as well you followed your gut and took her. Imagine how she'd have been if you hadn't. How exactly was the doctor able to pick it up / how did he know to test for it?

BabyKsmom congrats on John Wow your baby is 3 weeks old and was bigger at birth than Kaylee is now!
How is the mastitis going for you? Shame it cant be nice. You're the 3rd August girl I know whose had it. The antibiotics should work quickly.
Sounds like your little one is an absolute angel! K very seldomly falls asleep on her own, we have to rock her or feed her or swing her to sleep so you are lucky.
Breastfed baby's eat 2-4hourly during the day so you're doing pretty good with 3-4hourly. K feeds 2.5-3.5hourly during the day.
Ive heard not to introduce bottle before 6 weeks to avoid nipple confusion. If you really want a break why not express some feeds? Remember that formula requires work too - preparation, cleaning etc so you should toss up each.

M2J wow active already! I dont know how you do it. I am dreading the internal as I also need a pap smear and I believe its very painful.

JeanineK congratulations so glad to see you online. I'd love to have a MIL next door you're so lucky!
Let me know how the nuk teats go - K refuses her Nuk! Apparently after the first morning feed is when your milk is 'most' so maybe express after that feed? Or post a question on the forum to hear from other ladies how they express but without skipping a feed. I also want to do that in a couple weeks so that weekends I can have some time for myself. But remember if you skip a feed your breasts wont stop producing milk so they might become full & leak. Please keep me posted on how that goes, keen to hear.

Nikki how is the swing? Saw your pics, so cute! Did you get the honey dummy? And how is it working?

Charnenay hows that routine going? Still extremely jealous of you. But I want to continue demand feeding her. So we do things to her needs not her to ours. I dont feel its right for me to do that at such a young age.

Judes mom re the bath - are you filling it properly so that she is lying in water? They like water so make sure you dont just have part of her submerged, try have her tummy and bum and legs and back covered.

Charnenay how was date night? I'm not ready to leave her alone yet. While I'm breastfeeding will just have to contend with not having much me time or us time.

Re the deed - I'm in no mood for that. Rather tired and possibly some pnd so I really am not looking forward to it even though I know DH is struggling. I cant seem to get my head around the idea of doing it when so many other needs are not being met.

We definitely experiencing colic at night. Between 7 - 11 she is very niggly and fights her sleep so bad. The bathing seems to wake her up so will have to figure that out.
Anyway gotta go. Baby is crying gotta calm her down.

Hi Mommies,

KerryA glad that Kaelyn is doing better, they bounce back real quick.
BabyKsmom its great to hear from you and that you are coping well.

AFM: took Fayaz to the clinic yesterday he now weights 5.4kgs, he has gained 2kgs since birth i was worried he wouldnt gain much because of all the cramps he'sbeen getting.

Mommy2J i also went for the Government one, its didnt cost me a things i was glad that they now offer Prevenar and Rotarix with my LG i paid over R1000 for one shot of prevenar, also about the back not being aligned i am taking my son to the Osteopath she is great, she says it could also happen to natural births.

Last night i was up alot Fayaz had really bad cramps and nothing seemed to help, i have to check what i am eating it might be causing it, i have cut out alot and still...i cannot wait for when he turns 3 months they say it should end around this time. On the positive side he gave us the first real smile yesterday and he is still doing it, its great to see.

Kaelyn who is normally an angel had a day and night of absolute screaming! I was in tears it was just sooo bad and nothing helped... so hubby took a day off work yesterday and we took her to a paediatrician... turns out she has a urinary tract infection and had to go onto antibiotics... so very very sad but she is so much happier now so i guess its for the best...

My three and a half week angel!

Hello mommies! Its so lovely to be back online and reading all your posts. I am so sorry I haven't been in communication since I had my baby. Here are some details:

John is now 3 weeks old and 1 day.
He was born on the 30th August at 8h28 via c sec and weighed 3.8kg, 53cm and head circ of 36.5cm.

I took a while to recover from the ceasar, only started to feel normal again last week and drove for the first time on thursday last week but I have not driven since. My scar looks amazing, my doc is very good. In fact my stretch marks are worse. I picked up a tummy bug in the first week and I had been taking movicol to get things moving as I was constipated from the op so the bug, in addition to the movicol, was the worst I've felt in a long time! I thought I was going to die! (Drama queen )
And now I think I have mastitis! Going to the doc tomo. My left boob has felt sore and engorged for a while and then on thurs/ fri last week I got a lump under my arm that has proceeded to get really big and is so flippin painful I tell you. I've tried putting bactroban on it and not really working and when I googled it, it sounds like mastistis.
Anyways, I sound like a real hypochondriac with my weakened immune system so onto more exciting things:

My son is so amazing and such an angel. Don't get me wrong, he lets me know when he is hungry and gets very frustrated when he loses the nipple or thinks he's not getting the boob back after burping. He is very strong-willed. But he is good as gold. He sleeps really well. He either falls asleep on the bed after the feed and its no problem to transfer him to his cot or he falls asleep in his cot, usually without too many hassles. I'm only up a few times if he pops out his dummy and then the bear noises start as he really wants it back.

Its funny how you change all your pre-conceived ideas in a split second. I was so hell-bent on natural but had to embrace the caesar in the end, I was not going to be very forceful about a dummy but he started using one on day 2 and we've never looked back. Anything to make my baby happy.

I'm just not too sure whether to supplement with a formula feed during the day to give me a break or not. I'm finding the breast feeding very taxing. He feeds about every 3 to 4 hours. In fact I need to go feed him now... brb...

hi moms, I will continue this message tomorrow, had a stream of visitors after earlier feed and now its dinner time and and and (I'm sure you all understand)

Hi ladies...

I took Sienna for her vaccines today at the baby clinic and got so confused between the goverment vaccines and the pvt ones, apparently
The goverment ones are 3 injections and given at 6 weeks and cost R160
The pvt ones are 2 injections and given at 8 weeks and cost R590
but they both exactly the same and the extra injection in the goverment ones is only because the govrement got it cheaper buying it that way so that vaccine is already added in one of the 2 pvt vaccines and just taken seperate in the goverment ones!

It took me forever to understand this

I eventually went with the goverment ones, and shame i couldnt hold her when they gave them it was just to heartsore...she gave a little cry and i quickly gave her a bottle and she calmed down.

Also went for my gynae appointment today, made sure i was all fresh and ready for this horrid internal and raced Sienna thriugh her feed only to get there and be told its tomorrow, the date on my cell-phone is a day ahead for some other reason so after arguing that its the 22nd today i looked on there calender and said oki doki see you tomorrow then

As for BD we have a few times....was uncomfortable at first but used the ky jelly also and it helped now im worried cos my bleeding stopped at 4 weeks and all of a sudden it came back yesterday and today we havnt BD since about 8 days ago so not sure its the first time in 2 weeks im bleeding?

Need to get back on my pill asap, dont want to take chances

Found out at clinic that if baby born via c-sec and not natural sometimes there backs are not properly aligned due to not coming through birth canal so this causes them to be crampy