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[LadyL]

Ugh! Bragged on jack too soon!! Been up since 1 (it's nearly 4 am here now). He won't stop fussing! I don't know what his problem is. I've tried everything!! I am so ready for all this to pass!! Only got 1 hour of sleep before he woke up!

 

[trixie79]

lol lady!!!! we always think we turn a corner and then BOOM they go back 2 steps!!
i hope you got some sleep.....conor has been awake from 7.30 and hasnt had a nap yet....he fights them so much! and he is sooo tired!

tobaira i hope things go well for the girls....it must be harder for you with the o2 tanks. atleast the girls seem to be doing well x

 

[baby2310]

All the best tobaira thinking of you and your girls and have everything crossed for you xx

 

[LadyL]

Well jack finally went to sleep about 430 and slept till 8, so I was able to get a little more sleep. Yeah, it seems once we reach a new milestone, we'll have a little setback. But hopefully he'll be back on track tonight.

Good luck with the O2 weaning tobaira. I know you can't wait to be rid of those tanks! I'm sure they are such a pain!!

 

[Claire1]

Good luck Tobaira
Its great to hear everyone is doing well and the babies are feeding and sleeping a bit better. My LO is doing ok, she is 6 weeks and it is proving to be a bit difficult. She is wanting to feed constantly. She rougly takes anything from 3-5oz during the day, but usually around 4-5 at night.She is still feeding anything from 3-5hours at night...love the 5hr stretches! The days vary a bit, but try to go at least 3hrs if I can.

The weather here has been glorious, its so nice getting out with Darcey and lots of fresh air. I hope it continues. She is really smiling now as well, its so cute. She has a lovely coy kind of look sometimes when she gets what she wants

Have you all been able to get out and about?

 

[lilrojo]

HOpe all is going well for you all..

Working & baby labor dust to you both..

Lady happy you got a bit of sleep.. babies are very unpredictable..

Tobiara keeping all crossed that the girls did well with the oxygen weaning..

AFM things are going well.. Bryce will be 6 weeks tomorrow... have my 6 week pp check up in the afternoon.. so hope all goes well at that.. We are going a good 3-5 hours at night, often its 5 so thats great.. and 3 in the day between feedings.. so all in all everything is great..

 

[trixie79]

i swaddled conor in the love me baby swaddle at 2 this morning and he slept through till 7.....no grunting or nothing!!!!!! whooo...hooo

thats 7.30 till 2 till 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Claire1]

i swaddled conor in the love me baby swaddle at 2 this morning and he slept through till 7.....no grunting or nothing!!!!!! whooo...hooo

thats 7.30 till 2 till 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh wow, thats amazing. I cant wait for that! Well done Conor

 

[lilrojo]

Thats wonderful trixie.. we use a swaddle sack that the hospital gave us.. tried without and he would wake up.. so now we use it every night and he sleeps a good 5 hours..

 

[workingttc]

Hi ladies!

I had baby Eli last Tuesday at 5 pm! He is perfect! Labor was a bit crazy - I ended up going to the doctor the Monday before he arrived and she said my amniotic fluid had gotten low so she wanted to induce that night at 9 pm (at this point baby was 8 days overdue). So we went home and got everything for the hospital and then had a nice dinner. On the way to the hospital, though, my contractions suddenly started. So no need to induce! Spent the rest of that night walking the halls of the hospital suffering through contractions. That morning (Tues), when I was at 4cm and 100% effaced, they broke my waters, and I went from 4 cm to 8 cm in an hour and a half! I was so psyched because I'd been trying to do an unmedicated birth, and I was certain that if I'd made it to 8cm, the rest would go by quickly and I could make it the whole way. But then labor totally stalled for me - I kept having horrific contractions (was in the shower under scalding water forever) but I didn't progress beyond 8cm for the next 4 HOURS! It was awful. So, I ended up going with an epidural, which quickly got me to 10cm. Pushed for an hour and then he arrived!

Things have been going well. I wasn't prepared for how sore and tired I'd feel, which has been a bit of a downer - no one told me how horrific it would be to pee! Eli also didn't sleep a wink the first 2 nights we were home (demanded to be fed constantly for 7 hour stretches through the night), but since then he has gotten much better and seems to be going from 11 to 3 or so and then 330 (after feeding) till 7, which is very manageable. Hopefully we won't have a setback!

Anyway, I hope there's news from Baby soon, and I'm glad to hear you all are doing so well.

 

[LadyL]

Congrats on your baby boy working!! Glad you didn't have to be induced. Sounds like your labor wasn't too bad. Enjoy being a new mom!! It's the best!! Cant wait to see pics when you have time!!

 

[Tobaira]

congrats working!!! looking forward to seeing some pics!

As for us, the girls passed their test and came off the oxygen today. Every time I think about it I tear up!

 

[_dreamer_]

congrats working!!! eli is such a cute name! well done on the quick labour sorry if i didnt make it a big point but i really fdeel for you on the peeing. did you tear? i tore and also had a 'graze' on my labia which now its healed i can see was actually a tear and jeez it was awful. i would sit on the loo and cry because it stang so much i couldnt go. i tried pouring water on but didnt help me, the only relief was to get into a warm bath and pee in there. was round my sisters and had to ask to run a bath there lol! i cant remember exactly when it started to get better, i think it was around the 2 week mark, but good news is does go soon.

trixie i've also started swaddling, didnt at first because erin loves thrashing her arms around and seemed to hate being confined, but MIL did it a couple of times and she seemed to nap for longer in the day as she wasnt waking herself up. i now do it every night.

how did your 6 week check go lilrojo? well i hope

how are the twins tobaira? must be so hard with the o2. also hard with having 2 on the sleping side. do you find they wake at the same times?

claire, weather has been soooo gorgeous hasnt it!!! yes we've been out and about. my oh is landscaping the garden so have been out there lots too. the sun makes such a difference to your mood

afm, erin had her first lot of jabs on tuesday poor thing. she cried so hard after the second one, broke my heart! she was a bit grouchy in the evening, cried solid for half hour which she never does, so gave her a little calpol.

i went to the doc regarding the lump in my breast. she also found a second lump, and said that they felt like cysts but the only way to be certain was to be referred to the breast clinic where theyd scan them. she also said with breastfeeding things can change, so im going back to her first on the 11th april, to see if they are still there or any changes, and then go from there on the referral. she said it might be a half day thing, and may not be in my local, might be 45mins away. not quite sure how thats going to work with erin and no parents here. maybe my sister could look after her. ah well we'd find a way.

hope you are getting on ok baby, hopefully you'll be any day now....

x

 

[Claire1]

Congratulations working, its all so worth it in the end isn't it.

Im sure everything will be fine Dreamer..I have something called gritty boobs ( obviously not the medical term ) But I often have lumps comes and go, it did get worse with breast feeding. They changed quite alot.

Fab news Tobaira, the girls are doing so well

Darcey is slowly stretching out her feeds in the evening and going longer..hope it continues Im finding things much better since the 5 week mark id say She still amazes me every day xx

 

[lilrojo]

Congrats on your boy working.. things get better and better how big was he?

great news tobira

claire-happy things are going well..

my appt went good all healed up, go back 4 my annual in nov, no birth control 4 me till were done having kids which will b next year sometime, prob the end still taking prenatals just in case... not worried though

 

[workingttc]

Thanks, Ladies! We are thrilled with him.

Lilrojo, he was 7lbs, 15 oz. Pretty big, tho perhaps not if you factor in that he was 9 days late! Great that your postpartum check went smoothly.

Dreamer, thanks so much for the supportive words on the peeing - it stings so much! I'll be hoping that it eases up around the 2 week mark like it did for you! (And yes, I did tear in a few places, not bad enough to need stitches, but bad enough to make my life a bit miserable, at least on the pee front!) I really hope the lumps turn out just to be cysts - seems like that's a common thing after having a baby, with breastfeeding, or, I'd guess, even without just given the hormones and changes your body is going through.

I couldn't agree more with you all on the swaddling. Eli fights it, but it's definitely the only way that he'll sleep for any extended period.

Tobaira, great, great news on the oxygen!!!

 

[lilrojo]

THats a great weight for 9 days over.. and thank you.. hope all is going well

 

[_dreamer_]

glad your appointment went well lilrojo.

working, thats a great weight. erin was a whopping 8lb5oz and she was 2 days early lol. i have my fingers tightly crossed for you that it stops soon. i remember the relief when it didnt sting and i could just go.

fizzio...hope your still notified on this thread...havent heard from you for a while, how are you and amber?

 

[LadyL]

So glad the girls are off the oxygen Tobaira!!

Glad your appt went well lilrojo! Good luck to you when you start ttc again!

Sorry about your discomfort working. I'm sure it'll pass before you know it!

Dreamer, hopefully the lumps are just cysts. Hope it's nothing major.

I was just talking with my friend from work and she said they had a patient who was post partum (we sometimes get pp patients if something goes terribly wrong). The poor girl had to have an emergency c/s with NO anesthesia!!!! She had complete placental abruption and the baby was getting no oxygen. The anesthesiologist couldn't get there in time, so they just had to do it right then!! Good news is the baby and mom are ok, but mom spent 9 days in our icu. Once anesthesia got there they knocked her out, but my friend said she was in a lot of pain.

At least no matter how bad any of out labors were, at least it was nothing like that!! I cant even imagine!! Sorry, I'm sure none of you wanted to hear that story. I was, and still am conpletely shocked by it.

But my friend did say that the mom was so brave, that while all this was happening, she was saying "just cut me, just cut me, I want my baby to be ok!!". I think she is my new hero!!

 

[Claire1]

Oh my gosh Lady, what a true champ. I cant imagine the pain she would have been in. At least it has a good ending and mother and baby are ok.

Fab weight working, I hope you heal soon.

Great news about your appointment lilrojo, You just reminded me to book mine...thanks I think i need a full MOT when I go in, I need a PP check, prob the coil fitting and a smear test...its all going on down there ha ha.
It makes me chuckle to think your planning another baby already when this one is so brand new... you know what you want eh! Wish I was that organised ha ha