Congrats to all of you. It has been a while since i was on here only George had delivered last time I looked!!!
I am delighted to say that Jacob Shaun was born on the 26th of Septemeber by elective c section weighing a healthy 7lb 15oz. I went into hospital at 7.45am and was in theatre by 9.05am, he was delivered at 9.34am. I have to say the operaion was a breeze this time compared to the emergency last time with Joseph. I did not have a bit of pain all through -which was unbelievable and I have been at home since Monday.
He will be 1 week old tomorrow which has gone very very qickly.
Sorry to hear that you didnt get your natural birth Petra I know how much you wanted it, but like you said as long as you are both ok it doesnt matter how he came into the world!
I think these September babies have a lot in common with all of the wind and sleep problems, I was crying on Monday for them to let me out of hospital so that I could at least share the sleepless nights with OH!!!
Jacob has not slept very well since he was born, but last night he had a bottle at 12.30am and then i had to wake him up at 7.30 this morning!!!! I could do with a few more nights like that, dont think ill get them though! He has slept a lot today as well so expecting a bad night already
Congrats Cynthia and Julie. Will go update the list in a bit, there can't be many more left to go now. Any news from sammy or lolly, they must have their little ones by now as they.ve not been on for a while.
I think Freya is having a growth spurt, just as i thought the feeding was finding a pattern she's spent the last 2 evenings feeding like mad, i seem to have a baby permanently attached to my boob! She fed from 2 till 4then wanted topping up at 5.30 last night too after spending 2 weeks doing 2 then 5 every night, although she did wake up later so i managed to have brakfast and a shower before she woke up for a change! n Not too keen on the same pattern being repeated tonight though.Still loving being a mummy though! (It just feels like each time you think you're getting the hang of it everything changes)
Hope you are all doing ok, have a good weekend all.
Well things have calmed down a little here and the visitors have dried up...thank goodness!!
Finally have the HV tomorrow owen will be 13 days old and will get an idea of what his his weight is now. Got the final MW visit too hopefully she will sign us off. Have been on antibiotics for possible womb infection which is doing the trick and feeling more and more like myself everyday.
Last week was hard I found I got more and more quiet and withdrawn, I kept creeping off to the bedroom for a cry. OH didn't seemed to notice and I couldn't really have explaned to him him any way. I kept thinking about things that I couldn't change and would hear my own voice of reason telling me that it was all ok and I shouldn't be so up set. Still a bit volatile now and am trying not to let it get the better of me. I'll put it down to the baby blues and hope that at least emotionally I can get myself together a bit.
Mum moves in tonight for a week, she will do all the night feeds (she loves it, she did it with Jessica and it makes her feel bonded), I'll miss the little man over night but the sleep will be good for me and OH.
Have read up on the post's and you all seem fine and finding your way through. Your right about things changing though. It was the most frustrating thing, just when you'd get the hang of one routine 'baby' would move the goal post's and youd have to change tack. It was a constant feeling of playing catch up and I'm sure Jesisca just did it to keep me on my toes! Time flies and all too soon they will be answering back and not doing as there told.
We have had a few shakey days with Jessica but all in all she is herself still, and a quiet week next week will help settle things down. Hope we wont get too bored as I cant drive yet...will have to try the bus I think for a trip into town.
Hope you all had good weekends. Petra hope you're doing ok, I still find myself having a cry now, not as much as in the first couple of weeks but last night I was blubbing all over my poor oh and I'm not even sure why! Hopefully if your mum is on 'night duty' you will feel a lot better for getting some sleep, I know I feel everything is ten times worse if I'm shattered.
Freya gave us our first really awfull night on Sat, she had me up every hour from 1.30 till 8.30, but then last night back to her 2 regular wakings, I just think she likes to keep me on my toes! She is currently lying under her playgym, when I first put her under there she just screamed but now she seems to like looking at herself in the mirror on it.
For any of you breastfeeding I have a question. When i feed her for the first 5 or 10 minutes the milk seems to come out so fast she keeps pulling away and coughing and spluttering whilst i leak everywhere! the midwife said it would settle down as my milk production matched her needs but it seems to be getting worse. I can't feed her without getting us both wet and soaking a muslin at each feed, after about 5 mins she calms down and feeds properly but I can't really feed her in public as it's not very discreet when she comes of and screams and milk sprays accross the room! Has anyone else had this problem? I don't want to complain as obviously i'm not short of milk at the moment, it's just so messy though.
Congratulations Petra, Julie and Cynthia the babies are coming all together now!!
Gem - Harri seemed to suck really hard at first - like she had never been fed - and then would choke herself so I started to pump a little off before she fed it seemed to work most of the time but then she got greedy at times and nothing would work ...little guzzler...lol
I have started giving H formula in the day and boob at night cos she is feeding every2 hours again ...the milk is there but it isn't filling her so therefore wanting to feed more often and it is soo tiring especially in the night...like you Gem we had just started thinking she was in a routine of sleeping 5 hours through the night then it goes and changes. The thing is she is now coming up to 8 weeks and should be starting to get into some sort of routine. She is now feeding every 4 hours in the day and taking between 5 and 6 oz so fingers crossed it will work . The only problem is that my boobs are filling up and are really sore, it feels like my milk has "come in" all over again. I am waiting till I can't take the pain anymore then pumping a little it off and then just throwing it away.seems such a waste but untill they start drying up I don't see what else I can do??
Harri has her first injections on Thursday, I am dreading it, I don't want to see her in pain I am sure I will start crying!! I have Calpol which the HV said give to her before the injection just in case.
Hope everyone had a good weekend, I went to stay with mum as Carl is on a 6 week course in North Yorkshire so only takes hin 1 hour to get to my mums instead of 4 hours to get home. It is great seeing everyone but I am so glad I am back at home now as H doesn't settle for the first night back at home and it is a lot easier in your own surroundings. I have said when Carl has finished on the course I am not going anywhere to stay over cos it isn't fair on H .we haven't had a full week at home since she was born.
Anyway, enough of me whinging, Take Care you mummy's and i'll pop back on tomorrow aswe are having a long awaited day in to ourselves.
am typing one handed as my son is taking up the other hand, not that Id know what to do with 2 hands to myself!
George - I remember Jessica's first jabs, the sound she made was like a switch and tears just sprang from my eyes...... but the feeling of being Mummy and the only one who could fix and make it better was over whelming. I didnt do the calpol thing first time around (Jessica was fine) and then was told about it for the second (by the HV) but when I mentioned it to the nurse she wasn't impressed and I felt I'd been told off a bit. She asked why I had given calpol when there wasn't actually anything wrong yet? Each to there own I say.
I'm afraid I have no advice for breast feeding I never had any success with it beyond a few days of hell! Owen is going 3 hourly feeds (100mls) and following the HV visit yesterday he is now a whopping 9lbs 13oz!!! However has droped from the 91st% to 75%. I've also compared him to Jessica and if he'd been born on time he would be 3.5 weeks old and Jessica reached 9lb 11oz at 4 weeks so they are roughly the same.
He seems to be all legs and arms though which is the opposite to Jessica and they look so different it's quite strange second time round you imagine that your children could only be the same but my two seems like chalk and cheese in their build and looks.
I can't quite believe we are talking about 8 week old babies now! George I know what you mean about being settled it becomes important to have them comfortable in their own home where they are happiest. I'm dreading my first outing with the 2 of them on my own, it scares me a bit actually. I need to try and keep some perspective on it otherwise I'll never go out!
Oh well, might try and do some internet shopping for new clothes....I'll not get round town for a few weeks and I can't live in joggers forever! Although they are soooo comfy!
Health visitor came yesterday, Freya is now 10lb 4oz so it's good to know she's still putting on weight, she seems really heavy now when i'm feeding her, if i don't have a pillow to rest her on i get arm ache! HV back in 2 weeks and after that we go to the clinic for weighing. She also left me a list of baby groups, does anyone go to any? We might go to the post natal group on Monday and see what goes on.
We did our first solo trip to tesco today, i know that doesn't sound particularly scary but i was worried about the car seat in the trolley thing and didn't want her to decide she wanted feeding half way round. It was fine though, and an old lady stopped to tell me how gorgeous Freya was!
Glad Owen is doing so well, are you recovering from the section ok Petra?
George have you dropped one feed at a time? I got told that if you drop one feed every week or few days then your body has time to adjust, but not having done it yet i don't know. I think you're right to express a little bit, you don't want to end up with mastitis. Talking of constant feeding, Freya is doing that right now, she's been on and off my boob constantly for the past 2 hours, if she wants more after this boob then i'm going to top her up with a bottle of expressed milk, my poor boobs can't take much more!
Congratulations Petra, Julie and Cynthia
