Due Sept 2017

[Tess08]

Hi! How is everyone? Question regarding naps- what's your schedule/routine like? How long does your LO sleep for?

Hey ging 😊 were good thanks u? Our nap routine isn’t very well established yet. He gets up about 7.30 every morning then goes for an hour nap about 9. He then goes for a second nap st about 11 which can be up to 2 hours long. After that he has 1 or 2 more naps but their time/length seems to vary. What about you guys?

My AF returned 2 days ago so fortunately I must have already O’d before hubby and I had our slip up! I’ve been on my pill over a week now so I should be covered in future 😊 x

 

[MrsKChicago]

That's good news, Tess!

Naps are all over the place here. Val cat naps all day (partly because she wakes up if I put her down and I can't just hold her all day), but she's awake more and more now. She takes one long nap in the afternoon or evening usually, and for that one sometimes I can put her down. Night sleep is still really good most nights but it can be hard to get her to sleep initially. I'm working on slowly creeping bedtime earlier, some nights she keeps me up until 2am.

 

[gingmg]

Same here. Couldn't remember when naps start to consolidate. Can't believe he is 8 weeks today! Seems like yesterday I was overdue waiting to go into labor but at the same time it feels like I've known him forever.

 

[Tess08]

Does anyone know if you can get mastisis 2 weeks after stopping BFing? I haven’t fed Zack myself for 2 weeks now (maybe like 10 days actually) and I thought the milk was all gonna but yesterday I developed a really bad pain in my boob and it is all red around my nipple. Last night I then had chill/night sweats/feeling sick and I am the same today with a really high temp. All of the symptoms according to google are pointing towards mastisis but I thought you could only get that whilst still BFing 🤔? X

 

[Dani_b]

Tess when I was looking at mastitis symptoms it said you can get it when not breastfeeding, but it is more common in those that are feeding

 

[gingmg]

Tess-I would imagine it takes time for the milk to go away completely so I would think it's likely mastitis. I would call your doctor or midwife to see if you need antibiotics.

 

[MrsKChicago]

Sounds like mastitis to me. Probably there was some milk still and not removing it caused the infection. Definitely call your doctor for antibiotics, hopefully it clears up soon.

 

[Tess08]

Thanks ladies. Yeh I got an emergency appointment with the doctor and it is mastitis. Got antibiotics to start thank god! Feel so lousy. Mum had to come and take the kids for me today because I felt so weak and sick. Hopefully the antibiotics kick in sharp x

 

[gingmg]

Well it was bound to happen. Had our first trip to the ER yesterday for my older son. Fell and slammed his face into the corner of a concrete slab. 11 stitches to his face and knocked his teeth in a little. What an awful day yesterday. I know in the grand scheme of things it could have been worse, but I feel traumatized from it. I keep seeing it in my head over and over. He's so hard- so busy, so fast, so dangerous. It's so hard to keep him safe while I'm holding a baby. I feel sad for his teeth. Ugh.

 

[Savasanna]

Oh, Ging! I'm so sorry that happened! Thank goodness he's alright but I can imagine that gave you quite a fright Panda fell down the stairs once and I still have flashbacks to it. I'm not looking forward to Nora being learning stairs..

 

[Tess08]

Oh no ging that’s awful!! Poor boy 😞 hope he’s feeling ok about it. Although I’m sure he is, kids are always so much more resilient than us. My daughter always gets over her falls so much quicker than I do 🙈 Big hugs x

 

[MrsKChicago]

Oof, ouch! Poor guy, that sounds really scary for both of you!

 

[Dani_b]

I think we have an all night sleeper �� past few nights we have fed between 8-9pm, and then not had another feed until around 6am

 

[Savasanna]

That's great, Dani!

 

[Tess08]

Excellent Dani 😊 our little one had his first case of the sniffles last week and it’s stopped him sleeping through the night unfortunately 👎🏼 He is only getting up once tho and is only awake long enough to take a bottle then straight back down so it’s not too bad x

 

[Tess08]

Excellent Dani 😊 our little one had his first case of the sniffles last week and it’s stopped him sleeping through the night unfortunately 👎🏼 He is only getting up once tho and is only awake long enough to take a bottle then straight back down so it’s not too bad x

 

[Tess08]

Hey everyone. For those of you who have AF back, was your first one a bit of a nightmare? Mine keeps getting light like it’s stopping then bam, gets heavy again! Going on 10 days of bleeding now 😕 x

 

[Dani_b]

Not had and AF here yet, but that could be due to the little man being breastfed. I can’t really remember what my first AF was like after my other children eother

 

[Tess08]

Not had and AF here yet, but that could be due to the little man being breastfed. I can’t really remember what my first AF was like after my other children eother

I gave up breastfeeding 2 weeks ago though 🤔 I’m on the mini pill because I was still breastfeeding him when my dr prescribed it so she said I could go on the combined pill and my friend said when she went on the mini pill she had a couple of weeks of bleeding at first so I don’t know if that’s contributing towards it x

 

[Savasanna]

My first period was an emotional train wreck! I would say it was a little heavier than normal, but I usually have heavier periods so it wasn't anything super out of normal for me. But holy hell was I emotionally out of control. All the tears. It rivaled the immediate postpartum hormones for me.

Which, keeping on theme, I've also had a hard time as I stopped pumping this weekend. Oy.. hormones! Anyone else experience a hormonal crash when they wean?