August Beach Bumps - 24 Girls, 27 boys, & 2 team yellow! 39 babies born!!

[onebumpplease]

Oh Celtic, ruddy doctors! Hope you get it all sorted asap. Yesterday sounded hard enough. Hope your wee girl is better!

 

[more babies]

We are huge pro football fans here! So excited for the season to start!! FIL bought season tickets off someone I know so DH and I will be going to a few games. We watch college football sometimes but not regularly.

 

[lolpants]

Fingers crossed alls ok Angel!

Hope baby comes asap babyhopes!

Bella our OHs have seen it all now hey!?

I have found it hard to post on here as Melody is cluster feeding so bad! So demanding and I am getting so behind on everything! I wanna hire a cleaner.. doesn't help that OH has been moving last few days. So I've been alone and house full of boxes! & today he went back to work!

Lol xx

 

[Barhanita]

Sorry Celtic, I hope everthing improves.

Lena is such a serious baby, I started to worry. She is ALWAYS serious and is never relaxed. She hasn't smiled yet. All the other babies in baby groups are relaxed and a lot of them are smiling already, even those who are younger. Is there something wrong with her??

Also, she is now always fussy. Many-many hours a day. I think it's because she has a lot of air inside due to the oversupply. And we cannot burp her no matter what we do. Uphill positioning and expressing the let-down milk doesn't help her.

The oversupply is getting bad.. Why on earth did I take fenugreek? A LC told me too, but she was WRONG. I didn't have any undersupply issues. Now I always feel full and uncomfortable. Block-feeding doesn't help a bit. I go up to 8 hours between switching the breasts and I still cannot get them empty. I might start taking something for it. Like sage or antihistamines. I know I can jeopardize the supply, but I will try to be careful.

It's ironic how I struggled with baby that wouldn't latch, and now I have too much milk. Will BF ever be easy?

 

[Barhanita]

Also, today is my 6 weeks pp appointment. We'll see if everything healed. And I will ask for Mirena. And a permission to jog.

My husband agreed to let me go back to chorus. It's one night a week, and I can probably pump..

Also, in 3 weeks I have to start working part-time. Life is gonna get even crazier.

 

[Sooz]

It's scary how fast you working Mummy's in the US have to get back to it.

People bemoan SMP here but we are so lucky with our paid leave.

 

[JenzyKY]

Bar, with burping it may sound crazy but have you tried rubbing her head while sitting up? Either the top or above her ears with your thumb and pointer finger. I did that a lot in the NICU after seeing the older nurses doing it. Also gently jiggling her back and forth a little or sitting her up from laying. Those are just a few tricks I've picked up over the years.

Celtic luckily bili would have to be really really high at his age to mean needing treatment.

Mac, I'm more of a basketball person as I went to UK but my DH likes to watch football.

 

[HHenderson]

Celtic, I had to take my LO to the hospital for blood work because we got sick of going to the doctors. It came back and they told us it will go away. I wish I would have known earlier to just ask for a blood test asap instead of paying $60 in co-fees so far.

I hope everything works out. Its the breastfeeding thats making it stay longer as you know. Ive put her in the sun for days in the window, walked outside with her for a minute several times a day. Its SLOWLY going away.

 

[CelticNiamh]

Bar keep doing what your doing it may take a week to sort out the over supply, my DD held on to her wind and was so hard to get it up, I also pat the bum it works as well !! I also use the leaning them back and forth and head rub! I think it is normally around the 8 week mark for smiles hun now proper smiles were you coo at them and they smile back oh and yes BF gets easier I promise

JenzyKY mad I have used those tricks lol the head one my mum did I think as well with the Jaundice he would be very sleepy if they were high at this stage

lolpants hope the cluster feeding eases soon

dare I say it DD is much better this evening I gave her some pain meds she had a nap and woke up in top form and back to her old self so hope she is ok and it is not an ear infection. feeling good tonight had a nap earlier. going to go get Ryan blood test tomorrow hubby could not get time off work today

 

[CelticNiamh]

Celtic, I had to take my LO to the hospital for blood work because we got sick of going to the doctors. It came back and they told us it will go away. I wish I would have known earlier to just ask for a blood test asap instead of paying $60 in co-fees so far.

I hope everything works out. Its the breastfeeding thats making it stay longer as you know. Ive put her in the sun for days in the window, walked outside with her for a minute several times a day. Its SLOWLY going away.

yep, there is a breastfeeding jaundice that appears later and takes longer to go but it causes no harm but I do not think that is a problem for Ryan.

 

[Barhanita]

Sooz, my maternity leave is over today. It's just that my boss is nice enough to let me stay longer. I also haven't taken any vacation this year so far. (My doctor suggested to go on disability in June, but I didn't because it's not paid).

Other US ladies, when are you back to work?

 

[JenzyKY]

I'm taking 12 weeks but then I'm going part time. I'm no where near healed enough for 12 hour shifts.

 

[Scottish]

Celtic big hugs to you I really hope you get a great rest tonight and I hope your wee girl is of to school tomorrow feeling better xx

Barhanita wow back to work already ! How is child care over there? Xxx

I had a good cry tonight about the breastfeeding. I fed hama for 2 hours which is normal then he was still fussing and wanting more so I told my oh to make him a bottle to see how much he will take and he drank 3oz! It really upset me that u fed for 2hours and then he had 3oz from a bottle in 20 mins and he was satisfied and happy after. It really really made me cry that for 3weeks I gave spent literally all day non stop feeding and he just isn't able to fill up. He has gotten so used to poor sucking with his TT he is unable now to use his tongue to fill up. He takes a bottle without issue. I just don't know what to do its really stressed me out and all I want is to bf him exclusively but can't he's now almost polished 4oz if formula while I pumped a measly 1.5oz. Blaaa.......

 

[Barhanita]

Scottish, the daycare here is incredibly expensive. Full-time is usually about $2000 a month for anything decent.

Scottish, you shouldn't look at how much you pumped. And at how much formula he took. If he is gaining weight on your milk - he is fine. Please don't cry! Even if you do formula it's fine. It was a hard thing for me to realize, but formula is better than unhappy mother

 

[Barhanita]

Lena just smiled to my husband!! Now she just has to do it for me.

 

[Barhanita]

I am a spammer today!

Just had my 6 week appointment. They put Mirena UIDin there. It was unpleasant, but not as painful as I thought. So I don't have to think of contraception anymore. OB said that my breast look so engorged and inflamed, that I should really be watching out for mastitis. Now I am placing ice after every feeding. I might need to do cabbage leaves and safe tea.

Also she told me that I cannot afford to lose another pound. She put me on extremely high calorie diet and said that if I keep losing weight to drink a bunch of Ensures a day on top of that diet. She suspects that I am that rare case when nursing makes your metabolism go crazy.

 

[Barhanita]

Jenzy, rubbing between the ears is magic for burping. How does it work???

 

[JenzyKY]

I think they relax then burp. There are ladies that have worked where I do for years and years. It's definitely paid to pay attention to what they do.

Haha I've even kissed Henry's head and he's burped.

Henry is currently playing a video game with his dad. Too cute.

 

[CelticNiamh]

Celtic big hugs to you I really hope you get a great rest tonight and I hope your wee girl is of to school tomorrow feeling better xx

Barhanita wow back to work already ! How is child care over there? Xxx

I had a good cry tonight about the breastfeeding. I fed hama for 2 hours which is normal then he was still fussing and wanting more so I told my oh to make him a bottle to see how much he will take and he drank 3oz! It really upset me that u fed for 2hours and then he had 3oz from a bottle in 20 mins and he was satisfied and happy after. It really really made me cry that for 3weeks I gave spent literally all day non stop feeding and he just isn't able to fill up. He has gotten so used to poor sucking with his TT he is unable now to use his tongue to fill up. He takes a bottle without issue. I just don't know what to do its really stressed me out and all I want is to bf him exclusively but can't he's now almost polished 4oz if formula while I pumped a measly 1.5oz. Blaaa.......

Having a much better day so far

Bar has said it all and I agree with her 100% but just remember for every onz you pump they get 2 so never judge your supply by pumping as Bar said if he gaing weight on your milk he is getting enough

when the TT is fixed from reading on the breastfeeding and TT page it takes a good week before improvement so see how it goes
and check out the links for deeper latch, its worked so far for me Ryan is feeding better all ready but do not feel bad your doing a great job regardless of how he is fed

Bar yikes hope they settle soon and you do not get mastitis, I have had it before so painful if you notice pain when Lena latches and red like marks along your breast and flu like symptoms, do not hang about get checked and do not stop feeding as if they fill you become very sore fx you do not get it, or lose any more weight

 

[babyhopes2010]

im an emotional wreck today fed up