January Jellybeans 2013!...

[sassy_mom]

Today was rough and Nikki I feel you on losing my marbles. This is my second baby and I am still trying to figure things out. Each child is SO different!!! I keep asking DH are we doing this right? How about this? Should we do this? AHHHH!!!! I keep telling him I just don't know! I have been so use to my older daughter telling me what she needs or even doing it herself so I find myself going uhhhhh what does this mean???? lol! We will all get through it. I look at my oldest and say 4 years ago, I did this and struggled through and she is beautiful and brilliant so it can't be that bad!
Chloe slept 5 minutes at a time today. Sometimes 10-15 minutes at a time and I just couldn't figure out why she wouldn't sleep today. Finally it hit me that maybe she needed more food! So tonight she took down 4oz and sacked out and is still down. I felt like such a failure today! She has been eating 3 and I was wondering when she would bump up to 4.

 

[darkstar]

Arrived home from hospital last night and its all been a blur but its so nice to be home and OH is great watching Nash and letting me catch some sleep here and there even if its just 20 mins.

Weight loss support is a great idea!

Nash is doing great but his quick birth meant he has a lot of mucus to clear out he gets some upset with. Hopefully once my milk is in properly it will help with that.

Nell hope your this is it is coming soon, my mucus increased a day or so before.

Will post more pics when I get on laptop instead of ereader.

Kim stay in touch? We'll miss you here, maybe you just need a break to regroup?

OH just bought me cream donuts, will start weight loss later lol. Sugar is good two days postpartum! I forgot how tiring newborn life is but that cute face makes it all goo

 

[sassy_mom]

Arrived home from hospital last night and its all been a blur but its so nice to be home and OH is great watching Nash and letting me catch some sleep here and there even if its just 20 mins.

Weight loss support is a great idea!

Nash is doing great but his quick birth meant he has a lot of mucus to clear out he gets some upset with. Hopefully once my milk is in properly it will help with that.

Nell hope your this is it is coming soon, my mucus increased a day or so before.

Will post more pics when I get on laptop instead of ereader.

Kim stay in touch? We'll miss you here, maybe you just need a break to regroup?

OH just bought me cream donuts, will start weight loss later lol. Sugar is good two days postpartum! I forgot how tiring newborn life is but that cute face makes it all goo

Glad you are home! It does feel good to be back home. Hope you settle in soon and cannot wait to see pictures!!

 

[Betheney]

Today was rough and Nikki I feel you on losing my marbles. This is my second baby and I am still trying to figure things out. Each child is SO different!!! I keep asking DH are we doing this right? How about this? Should we do this? AHHHH!!!! I keep telling him I just don't know! I have been so use to my older daughter telling me what she needs or even doing it herself so I find myself going uhhhhh what does this mean???? lol! We will all get through it. I look at my oldest and say 4 years ago, I did this and struggled through and she is beautiful and brilliant so it can't be that bad!
Chloe slept 5 minutes at a time today. Sometimes 10-15 minutes at a time and I just couldn't figure out why she wouldn't sleep today. Finally it hit me that maybe she needed more food! So tonight she took down 4oz and sacked out and is still down. I felt like such a failure today! She has been eating 3 and I was wondering when she would bump up to 4.

Don't feel bad sassy. This happens sometimes. I had Eva sitting in poo once for hours as I couldn't smell it. She screamed for so long and I just couldn't figure out why. When I finally changed her she had patches of weepy burnt skin all over her bum that took weeks to heal. How much of a fail was that! !!! Didn't even occur to me to check, how effing dumb.

Formula must be hard. Remi feeds anywhere from hourly to 4 hourly and from 5 mins to 40 mins. Must be hard with formula as the babies can't control it like they do with breast feeding.

♡♥♡♥

 

[Soniamillie01]

Sassy, don't feel bad I've been feeling the same. I felt like anything that went wrong was my fault as I'm the main carer if you like. I was blaming myself for the bf issues, the tongue tie, the nappy rash etc - think it's all part of the journey. I'm no expert as this is my first but feel much better today x to you x

 

[Nikkilewis14]

Oh wow!!! I can relate to the increase in formula too!!

Ella was on 2oz every 3-4 hrs... Well today she was up and just cranky all day so I kept feeding her every 2 hrs on demand the 2oz and I couldn't believe she was taking it.. I was in the mall with her today and she jut was very very cranky.. So I fed again..!got home and fed again an hour water... Then she slept 6 hrs and took a full 4oz!!!!! Whoa.....

 

[Nikkilewis14]

Later* not water*


Good luck kaixee!! We will miss u!

 

[Soniamillie01]

It's so hard to judge how much they want. Archie has taken 4oz all day and night, we upped him from 3oz last Friday as he was guzzling it down and always wanted more. Then this morning he wakes and only took 1oz x

 

[BlossomJ]

Good luck Kaiecee. Hope everything works out. Pop back whenever you feel like it!

Feels weird that people are leaving & I'm still waiting for a baby & not even at my due date. I don't know if it's because it's my second child, but no one is remotely interested in whether it is coming any time soon (don't mean you guys!) - it's the opposite of when you girls were getting pestered for news. I guess they know I'll tell them when something happens, but I'm feeling a little lonely & fed up & missing friends & DH now

Did any of you do anything that you think actually put you into labour? My sweep is tomorrow & induction is probably less than a week away now, but I'd rather avoid it as I so wanted to do it on my own. Don't know why I'm so glum today

 

[Soniamillie01]

Blossom - after my sweep I walked loads, used my ball loads and really upped the raspberry leaf tea - about 30 hrs after I thought well that hasn't worked and looked ahead to my induction. An hour later I had a huge bloody show and 4 hrs later I was in active labour. Hope it works for you x

 

[oorweeistyin]

Good luck Kaiecee. Hope everything works out. Pop back whenever you feel like it!

Feels weird that people are leaving & I'm still waiting for a baby & not even at my due date. I don't know if it's because it's my second child, but no one is remotely interested in whether it is coming any time soon (don't mean you guys!) - it's the opposite of when you girls were getting pestered for news. I guess they know I'll tell them when something happens, but I'm feeling a little lonely & fed up & missing friends & DH now

Did any of you do anything that you think actually put you into labour? My sweep is tomorrow & induction is probably less than a week away now, but I'd rather avoid it as I so wanted to do it on my own. Don't know why I'm so glum today

Blossom I'm exactly the same, the only difference seems to be is that my oh is here. He is military and we are lucky enough that I got him back for 3 weeks (although the cabin fever is proving difficult)

I have a sweep on Thursday morning and I'm really hopeful that it works as with my first I ended up with an emcs at 40+5 after a failed induction. It was horrendous and I really want a vbac, I've convinced myself that I'll go through all this wait and then when all else fails ill end up with a section anyway.

I have absolutely no symptoms whatsoever....none, zilch, nada, nil!!

I'll wait it out with you if you like, pm if you need to rant

 

[ARuppe716]

So Oliver has been a pretty good sleeper getting at least one block at night of 3-4 hours and only needing to be fed twice. Well it was my first night solo since dh goes back to work today and little guy has decided to wake every 90 minutes plus my cat has decided that she wants to be psychotic. I'm exhausted and dh will be getting up soon from his full nights sleep

 

[BlossomJ]

Good luck Kaiecee. Hope everything works out. Pop back whenever you feel like it!

Feels weird that people are leaving & I'm still waiting for a baby & not even at my due date. I don't know if it's because it's my second child, but no one is remotely interested in whether it is coming any time soon (don't mean you guys!) - it's the opposite of when you girls were getting pestered for news. I guess they know I'll tell them when something happens, but I'm feeling a little lonely & fed up & missing friends & DH now

Did any of you do anything that you think actually put you into labour? My sweep is tomorrow & induction is probably less than a week away now, but I'd rather avoid it as I so wanted to do it on my own. Don't know why I'm so glum today

Blossom I'm exactly the same, the only difference seems to be is that my oh is here. He is military and we are lucky enough that I got him back for 3 weeks (although the cabin fever is proving difficult)

I have a sweep on Thursday morning and I'm really hopeful that it works as with my first I ended up with an emcs at 40+5 after a failed induction. It was horrendous and I really want a vbac, I've convinced myself that I'll go through all this wait and then when all else fails ill end up with a section anyway.

I have absolutely no symptoms whatsoever....none, zilch, nada, nil!!

I'll wait it out with you if you like, pm if you need to rant

DH will be coming either when I go into labour, or am induced, or on Friday, which ever is sooner. He's only a couple of hours away but I hope he makes it as my labour was quicker than that last time with the induction (so opposite to you!). I'll have my mum if he doesn't though. Please feel free to rant to me too... I totally get it!

I've had the odd day where I've had regular BH for a while & felt like something could happen, but on the whole there's not much going on. You're right - it really does just feel like waiting it out now & I'm pretty sure it'll end like last time too! Hopefully we'll be wrong! I'd love you to get your vbac though. The thought of a section scares me, but I'll go with whatever needs to be done for the baby to be safe.

Sonia - Thanks for that... Will definitely be going for a good long walk after the sweep! I joined in with DS at toddler gymnastics, went for a walk and did a mini dance workout yesterday, but that didn't do much. Hopefully the sweep will get things going if I can't do it myself in the next 24 hours. Booked in for 9.45am!

 

[BlossomJ]

So Oliver has been a pretty good sleeper getting at least one block at night of 3-4 hours and only needing to be fed twice. Well it was my first night solo since dh goes back to work today and little guy has decided to wake every 90 minutes plus my cat has decided that she wants to be psychotic. I'm exhausted and dh will be getting up soon from his full nights sleep

DS was such a bad sleeper & I found it really hard, but at least he was consistently bad & I think my body just got used to it eventually. I think it's almost worse when they give you a false sense of security for a while & then throw a spanner in the works or change their pattern Hope it's a one off and that the cat behaves!

 

[ARuppe716]

Thanks Blossom... Here's hoping it was a weird night. It was the first night out of the car seat in awhile bc his congestion is better so I'm sure that had something to do with it!

 

[darkstar]

Good luck Kaiecee. Hope everything works out. Pop back whenever you feel like it!

Feels weird that people are leaving & I'm still waiting for a baby & not even at my due date. I don't know if it's because it's my second child, but no one is remotely interested in whether it is coming any time soon (don't mean you guys!) - it's the opposite of when you girls were getting pestered for news. I guess they know I'll tell them when something happens, but I'm feeling a little lonely & fed up & missing friends & DH now

Did any of you do anything that you think actually put you into labour? My sweep is tomorrow & induction is probably less than a week away now, but I'd rather avoid it as I so wanted to do it on my own. Don't know why I'm so glum today

When my contractions started in the morning around 25 mins apart I knew they were more than bh and probably early labour. OH suggested dtd so we did and made sure both of us O,'d. My show came about an hour later. May have been coincidence but I think it at least expedited things

 

[BlossomJ]

Good luck Kaiecee. Hope everything works out. Pop back whenever you feel like it!

Feels weird that people are leaving & I'm still waiting for a baby & not even at my due date. I don't know if it's because it's my second child, but no one is remotely interested in whether it is coming any time soon (don't mean you guys!) - it's the opposite of when you girls were getting pestered for news. I guess they know I'll tell them when something happens, but I'm feeling a little lonely & fed up & missing friends & DH now

Did any of you do anything that you think actually put you into labour? My sweep is tomorrow & induction is probably less than a week away now, but I'd rather avoid it as I so wanted to do it on my own. Don't know why I'm so glum today

When my contractions started in the morning around 25 mins apart I knew they were more than bh and probably early labour. OH suggested dtd so we did and made sure both of us O,'d. My show came about an hour later. May have been coincidence but I think it at least expedited things

Well DH should hopefully be here before I'm induced, so we'll give it a go if possible, but we're staying at my parents (just while I have the baby). Guess we'll have to be quiet!

 

[darkstar]

Typing one handed during a 2am breastfeed, he slept 3 hours straight since 11, phew!

Good luck to you girls still waiting. I left hospital less than a day after birth and while loading up the car a labouring couple were entering. We exchanged smiles and it was very surreal since I had entered pg the same way 21 hours earlier.

 

[Lilahbear]

Good luck Kaiecee. Hope everything works out. Pop back whenever you feel like it!

Feels weird that people are leaving & I'm still waiting for a baby & not even at my due date. I don't know if it's because it's my second child, but no one is remotely interested in whether it is coming any time soon (don't mean you guys!) - it's the opposite of when you girls were getting pestered for news. I guess they know I'll tell them when something happens, but I'm feeling a little lonely & fed up & missing friends & DH now

Did any of you do anything that you think actually put you into labour? My sweep is tomorrow & induction is probably less than a week away now, but I'd rather avoid it as I so wanted to do it on my own. Don't know why I'm so glum today [/QUOTE

Im not sure if its what put me in labour or not, but we dtd in the morning and I went in to labour that night. I also had some pineapple thay day, but not a huge amount (just a fruit pot). I had no symptoms what so ever until my waters broke.

 

[Lilahbear]

Good luck Kaiecee. Hope everything works out. Pop back whenever you feel like it!

Feels weird that people are leaving & I'm still waiting for a baby & not even at my due date. I don't know if it's because it's my second child, but no one is remotely interested in whether it is coming any time soon (don't mean you guys!) - it's the opposite of when you girls were getting pestered for news. I guess they know I'll tell them when something happens, but I'm feeling a little lonely & fed up & missing friends & DH now

Did any of you do anything that you think actually put you into labour? My sweep is tomorrow & induction is probably less than a week away now, but I'd rather avoid it as I so wanted to do it on my own. Don't know why I'm so glum today

Im not sure if its what put me in labour or not, but we dtd in the morning and I went in to labour that night. I also had some pineapple thay day, but not a huge amount (just a fruit pot). I had no symptoms what so ever until my waters broke.[/QUOTE]