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congrats working....hope you feel better soon x conor was 7 15 too! and he was 38 weeker!

tobaira im sure you are delighted the 02 tanks are gone!

dreamer i hope everything goes well for you x

well conor has slept from 7.30 till 4.45am then till 8.30 the past 2 nites!!! whoooo hooo
i love my swaddle i have ordered another!!!
 
_dreamer_ said:
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?
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Thanks for asking after me dreamer. I'm still here but lurking! Have been reading everyone's news and been thinking of you all. Congrats to working and lovely news the twins are off their O2.

Amber is lovely and putting on weight but a bit slowly. She's now 9lb 12 (was 7lb 15 at birth) She is a very content girl though and has started to sleep 7-8 hours at night! Can't quite believe it. I've been sturggling with PND though and am now getting some help after admitting to myself I was struggling. I dont think my labour and delivery helped and I'm still traumatised by the experience. That story of the lady needing a section with no anaesthetic is awful. I can empathsise as I could feel them when they started to cut me after failed forceps and had to have a GA. Feeling the whole procedure must have been horrendous.

Don't forget me. I am here but in the shadows at the moment xx
 
Hi ladies just wanted to let you know Callum James arrived yesterday morning weighing 7lbs 14. will update soon with more info, congratulations workingttc will catch up properly soon x x
 
Congrats baby!! Hope you and baby are well. Can't wait for an update!!
 
congratulations baby! i love the name callum :) hope your labour went well and you are feeling ok. can't wait to hear more.

hi fizzio, glad you are still here :) we wouldn't forget you of course. I'm so sorry to hear that you've been suffering with PND, but I'm glad you've been able to get some help, I hope that it starts to make things a little better. i know a friend of ours suffered PND, but kept it to herself, and didnt get any help until about a year after her son was born, thats a long time with no support. congrats on amber sleeping 7-8 hoursby the way! if theres anything we can do, or anything you want to chat about, we are all here, or if you want someone to message, you can always message me.

futuremama are you still following? i've been thinking of you, i really have my fingers crossed that this is your lucky year. i just looked back at our original thread that you started on the cbfm. can't believe we've all been together over or almost a year! i joined april 5th lol. if anyone wants to get nostalgic, here was the thread

https://www.babyandbump.com/ttc-groups/563579-cbfm-thread-statistics-13.html

hope everyone is well xxx
 
just realised after searching for the thread, i could have clicked the cbfm logo in my signature as its linked. doh
 
I had a peek at the thread, doesnt that seem like such a long time ago! How things have changed in our lives.
It would be lovely to hear from some of the other girls on the thread to see how they're getting on.
That little machine worked wonders for us all :)

I hope you start to feel better soon fizzio, you have done the right thing and got some help. Like dreamer said if you ever want to chat, have a moan or anything just get on here or message us.
I had slight ante natel depression and kept it to myself, didnt really say much about it on here. I felt so overwhelmed with everything and had a few issues in my private life at the time, plus being pregnant and crazy hormones I was all over the place. I went to my doctors and they wanted me to take medication which I wasn't keen on as I was pregnant. Instead they put me in touch with people to talk to and I told my family. To be honest, that was the best thing I done. My family were wonderful and really helped me through it by talking.
Like I said, if you ever want to message me then please do. Dont keep things bottled up. Big hugs to you xxx
 
hi girlies....i havent looked back at the thread for a long time, i have such bad memories and dealing with the loss of the triplets...i look at their pics all the time but cant get down to the grave as much which annoys me..
i was prob very low myself and conor is such hard work, i dont think the exhaustion helped either!

fizzio its good to hear from you and im glad amber is well....
claire good for you talking to your family, i still keep alot to myself or i vent here!...i miss my girls so much it just aches.

think im back to square one with conor....he cries constantly!
 
Congrats Baby.. :) hope your both doing well and cant wait for an update
 
Hi Everyone!

Working and Baby, congrats!!!!!! I hope you are both feeling ok and that your babies are doing well. I agree with you working, no one prepares you for how you feel after birth. It took me a week before I was only peeing in the toilet lol. It really does a number on your body, and I am 37, so maybe it is easier when you are younger.

Fizzio it is good to hear from you and I'm sorry that you are not feeling yourself I am so glad you decided to get help. Unfortunately the hormones after pregnancy can really go out of control and cause problems. It's overwhelming enough to deal with everything new and the pain we experience, but then we have to deal with hormonal imbalance as well. And having a hard delivery does not help at all. Mine was very easy but I truly felt traumatized by it. I would replay it in my head nightly and tense up thinking about it. I'm starting to feel better about it now and my doctor says in a year i'll truly forget about the bad and want another baby. I laughed at him but now that time is passing I think he is right. I hope you are starting to feel better and be sure to use us for support if you need us.

Trixie I hope you are feeling better too. I can't imagine what it is like to suffer a loss like that and I hope that time will truly help heal. I think it is hard too having a new baby and therefore not having the time to do the things you want to, like visiting the grave.

Hope everyone else is doing well. How are the twins tobaira? I don't know how you do it!!!

Giada is not sleeping as well as she was. I had to buy her a new swaddle as she got too long for the newborn one and she keeps breaking out of this one. I dont know if swaddling is making it worse since her hands get stuck trying to come out. I might try and leave her arms out tonight and see what happens. She was sleeping til between 4-5:30am and two out of hte past 3 nights she has woken up at 2:30. What swaddles do you guys use? I use the halo sleepsack swaddle and had no problems with the newborn one, but it is way too short for her so now I have size small and she breaks out of it almost nightly.

uh oh, the little monster has arisen lol. Hope everyone is well! :)
 
Fizzio, good to hear from you!! I think everyone has a bit of PPD, some just more severe than others. I also felt like that at the beginning, but have found it's getting better with time now that Jack can interact with me more, and he's not such a bundle of needs anymore. Glad you sought help, and we are all here if you need us.

Dreamer, so much has changed since we were on the original thread. It is quite crazy to think that around this time last year, we were all joining that thread hoping for those BFPs!!
And yes, Future Mama, I also think of you and hope and pray that this is your year!! Please don't forget us when you do get your rainbow baby!!

Trixie, I know it must be hard for you remembering your girls. I know they will forever have a place in your heart and hopefully, it'll get easier with time.

Stranje, I use the miracle blanket (don't know where it came from bc someone gave it to me secondhand). It's kinda like the halo except it's a thinner cotton material and there's no velcro. It's more like a wrap. He can break out of it sometimes, but I like that it's thinner and more breathable. Jack is such a sweaty baby. When I've used the Halo, he wakes up with his head soaking wet all the way to the sheet! Poor thing!! I've saved the halo for when we have a cool night, but the weather has been so ridiculously hot, I doubt that I'll end up using it again!

We've made a bit of progress on the sleep front. Jack has slept from 8pm-3am the past 3 nights, but wakes again at 6. If he would just make it through from 3-8 without waking, I would be one happy Mama!! Ah well, one day at a time. And we go this Thursday for his 2 month appt and shots. I hope they don't make him feel too bad. Can't wait to see how much weight my fat baby has gained!!

Hubs and I had us a nice date night Saturday night. Went to a movie and out to eat, and my parents kept Jack for the night. It was so nice. Even though I still had to wake in the middle of the night to pump!! When I go too long, it gets so uncomfortable I can't even sleep. My breasts become rock hard....DH says they feel like a bad boob job! Haha!! But it still was nice just to go straight back to sleep and even sleep in a bit.

Hope you all are doing well and getting rest.....well, as much your little ones will allow anyway!
 
StranjeGirl said:
Hi Everyone!

Working and Baby, congrats!!!!!! I hope you are both feeling ok and that your babies are doing well. I agree with you working, no one prepares you for how you feel after birth. It took me a week before I was only peeing in the toilet lol. It really does a number on your body, and I am 37, so maybe it is easier when you are younger.

Fizzio it is good to hear from you and I'm sorry that you are not feeling yourself I am so glad you decided to get help. Unfortunately the hormones after pregnancy can really go out of control and cause problems. It's overwhelming enough to deal with everything new and the pain we experience, but then we have to deal with hormonal imbalance as well. And having a hard delivery does not help at all. Mine was very easy but I truly felt traumatized by it. I would replay it in my head nightly and tense up thinking about it. I'm starting to feel better about it now and my doctor says in a year i'll truly forget about the bad and want another baby. I laughed at him but now that time is passing I think he is right. I hope you are starting to feel better and be sure to use us for support if you need us.

Trixie I hope you are feeling better too. I can't imagine what it is like to suffer a loss like that and I hope that time will truly help heal. I think it is hard too having a new baby and therefore not having the time to do the things you want to, like visiting the grave.

Hope everyone else is doing well. How are the twins tobaira? I don't know how you do it!!!

Giada is not sleeping as well as she was. I had to buy her a new swaddle as she got too long for the newborn one and she keeps breaking out of this one. I dont know if swaddling is making it worse since her hands get stuck trying to come out. I might try and leave her arms out tonight and see what happens. She was sleeping til between 4-5:30am and two out of hte past 3 nights she has woken up at 2:30. What swaddles do you guys use? I use the halo sleepsack swaddle and had no problems with the newborn one, but it is way too short for her so now I have size small and she breaks out of it almost nightly.

uh oh, the little monster has arisen lol. Hope everyone is well! :)
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i use the love me baby swaddle......he slept form 8.30 till 3.45 till 7.15 last nite...the last few nites have been tough....growth spurt???
 
sorry to hear you're having a tough time trix. is he sleeping 8.30-3.45-7.15 now? that sounds pretty good to me, or was he sleeping better than that before? Erin is sleeping 11pm-6am ish. So I guess I do get a good chunk of uninterrupted sleep but in the evenings she is MEGA fussy so don't get to have much of an evening. And then she wont go down in her cot again after the 6am feed for longer than half an hour. She'll sometimes sleep on me for a couple more hours so least I can get a little more then.

Glad you had a nice date night Lady

How did leaving Giada's arms out go Stranje? I've been using a large sheet folded in half so its 2 layers but she's started being able to break out. Then I feel so guilty when I go in and shes uncovered! I'm looking to get a summer swaddle pod which has a zip, it has good reviews

I went to a weaning session yesterday. Was so proud of Erin, she was so well behaved lol. A couple of the mothers whose babies were screaming through the whole thing said to me how do you do it!!! Just luck though lol
 
Jack is sleeping about the same as conor is for you trixie. He may be in a little growth spurt. Hopefully he'll get sorted for you soon.

A weaning session for what Dreamer? Breastfeeding? I don't know if they have something like that here, so when I get ready to stop bf, I may be asking you for help!!

I woke up this morning running fever and am super achy!! I don't know if I'm getting sick or mastitis again. I really hope it's not mastitis! That was awful last time. Hubs had to go to work today bc he has an interview for a job promotion!! So fingers crossed that goes well. It'll be a $10,000 a year raise (and he works for the state, so that's a really good pay increase)! He took jack to his parent's house (they live right down the road from us), so they can watch him while I go back to bed for a while and see if I can sleep it off.

Jack is 2 months old today!! Wow, time has flown! Only 3 more weeks till I go back to work. :(. I wish I lived in the UK where I could be off longer and still get paid!! Y'all are really lucky! We only get 12 weeks here that they'll keep your job for you, plus you have to use sick time and/or personal leave time in order to still get paid. It sucks.

Oh well, I digress....off to get some more sleep....
 
third time lucky, had written this out but lost it twice!!!

ouch lady, i really feel for you us ladies, you have a rotten deal. we really are lucky here. i hope its not mastitis, and you feel better after some rest.

it was a session on weaning from breast or formula, the uk recommends not until 6 months so it seems a bit early for us, but some of the people there had already given a little solids at just 2 months so i guess its never too early. they said to introduce slowly, just a teaspoon a day at first, of something like mashed banana, carrot or baby rice and then increase this in amount, texture and variety with the aim being that between 9 and 12 months, theyd be on 3-4 solid food meals a day with milk only as a drink. most of the info is on our nhs website, they gave handouts of this, might be worth a read
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/solid-foods-weaning.aspx
 
LadyL, I really hope you feel better and that it is not mastitis. I have heard that can be very painful :( Glad you are able to get some rest!

Well I tried Giada without the swaddle last night. She woke up two hours after going to sleep lol. But I picked her up and she was basically asleep so I just swaddled her and put her back down. Actually, minus that 5 minutes, last night was her best night, sleeping 10 hours!!! She didn't wake get up til 7:15, and even then she wasn't really crying. She did get restless around 4am though like usual, but she never woke up to eat. I tried to put her on a schedule yesterday, eating every 3 hours. She was NOT happy! I had to try everything I could to distract her til the next feedings. Then at night I fed her in the rocking chair and my husband had downloaded this classical music that I think is supposed to help the babies sleep longer. He had that playing through part of the night and I swear last time he used it she slept really well also. She also stayed in her swaddle til the very end, so maybe that helped.

Trixie I do think they go through growth spurts and wake sooner. I also think sometimes they just have bad nights. GIada will be doing great for multiple days in a row, and then all of a sudden regress for a a night or 2 and only sleep for a 4-5 hour chunk. But I talked to my friend who has a 10 month old and she said it is totally normal. Sometimes they just have a bad night and then they go back to sleeping well. Hopefully those nights will become fewer and farther between. I'm getting bad nights about twice a week and then the other nights are either decent or very good. However day time is another story! I don't know how I ended up with such a cranky baby! It seems she gets bored so easily...she is happy for 10-15 minutes and then ready to move on to the next thing. Oh well, they are only babies for a little while!

I do have a miracle blanket. I should try that again. I stopped using it because she would fight being swaddled, but now I do it when she is drowsy so maybe it will work better!
 
Oh Im so jealous of your sleeping babies. Darcey is really struggling, she does have a really stuffy nose. I think this is what is waking her. She went from 9.30 to 1.30 last night then 3.30 but didnt really settle after that. I managed till about 5am with grunts and snuffles then gave in and let her sleep on meon me. I was sooo tired! She then slept till about 7am
I dont know what im doing wrong, even when she is well she only sleeps one 5hr stretch if im lucky then every 3hrs.
Can I ask how much formula your babies were on at 6-7 weeks old, those of you that formula feed obviously. She takes on average 4oz but sometime 5oz. Ive been trying to keep her to every 3hrs if i can, she does go longer if we're out and shes asleep.
Shes not a very sleepy baby during the day, she only tends to cat nap...sometimes she'll sleep an hour at home, but rarely any longer, but will sleep longer if im out with her in the pram.
I feel like I have no structure with her, every day is different but I find it really hard to get a routine going....im at a loose end!
Maybe I should try swaddleing at night, but she loves sucking her fingers and Im trying to avoid giving a dummy.

Sorry for the moan, any help/advise welcome!

Hope you feel better soon lady :)

How old is Conor now Trixie? Becausse my hv said they have a growth spurt at 12-14 weeks?
 
Thanks for all the info Dreamer. I go to the pediatrician thursday for Jack's 2 month check. I was actually going to ask him if I could introduce cereal for his nighttime feeding. When I was there last time, he said normally people don't introduce solids till 3 or 4 months, but Jack is such a big baby and eats so much already at each feeding (6 oz of breastmilk). I m thinking he may say it's ok and hopefully it'll help him sleep longer at night. He's such a hungry little man, and throws a fit when I pull the bottle out to burp him! Haha! I call him my little pig!

Stranjegirl, that is great that Giada is sleeping for such long stretches. I think you're right, sometimes they just have worse nights. Jack usually has 2 or 3 each week too. But the good nights seem to be getting better.

Claire, I have read that having a good schedule during the day actually helps how the babies are at night. I know it's hard to get into a routine, especially if you go out and about often. Maybe just try to keep her feedings around the same time each day and put her down for naps at certain times. She'll soon figure out that when you put her down, it means nap time. Jack's last 2 feedings are at 4pm and 8pm and I try really hard to keep him awake between these 2 feedings so he'll go to sleep right after his last feeding and sleep longer. When he does stay up, he tends to sleep better. Hang in there, she'll sort herself out soon enough.
 
Thanks Lady, I'll try and give that a go. It is hard because I am out every day...I cant stay in, it drives me crazy! I will try and keep her awake a bit in the afternoon, because if she does nap its between 3 and 6 but again nothing is regular with her. And when she is asleep im pleased because I can get on with things.
I like the idea of having set feed times, but I'm not sure how easy that would be because she feeds anything from 2.5 - 4 hrs. Thanks for the advise though, I will give it a go. xx
 
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