January Jellybeans 2013!...

[Lilahbear]

Oops not quite sure what happened with that post.

 

[els1022]

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.

This is baby 4, including the twins, for me and I agree Sassy. I asked DH last night if it felt like our first baby for him too. He said yes so I felt better. This is our first full term baby and first exclusively BF baby. She's so much more alert and needy than our others. She didn't settle til 2:30 am last night and I cried along with her for a while til DH took her downstairs so I could get some rest. I slept soundly from about 12:30-2:30 then she slept with me but was pretty restless. She's six weeks tomorrow and I hope she gets over this little hump of fussiness bc I'm very frustrated.

 

[prayingforbby]

Finally had my baby this morning!

 

[mellywelly]

Congrats prayingforbby!

Midwife came yesterday and Jake is back to birth weight!!!

And today I got into a pair of jeans!!!! Just the one pair fit lol but getting there!

Jake has been awake for the past 2 nights from his 3/3:30 feed until 6am, we are both shattered, its hard trying to keep him quiet so he doesn't wake ds.

 

[NellandZack]

Hey ladies did any of you have nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea sometime before labor? Wow am I nauseous and having terrible diarrhea. Sorry TMI just not sure if its normal. I go to the doctor later today.

 

[jellybeans]

Hey ladies did any of you have nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea sometime before labor? Wow am I nauseous and having terrible diarrhea. Sorry TMI just not sure if its normal. I go to the doctor later today.

Ive read thats quite common hun good luck at the docs later! X

 

[fingersxxd]

Blossom i did nipple stimulation and sat on my ball the whole night before I went into labour.

Anyone having their little boys circumcized? I know it's not common in the UK...

 

[BlossomJ]

Prayingforbby - Beautiful!

Nell - Good luck! Hope that's what it is!

Fingers xxd - I was going to do that, but I started leaking colostrum & it was a bit messy! As for the circumcision, it never really crossed my mind as it's not that common in the UK as you say. Having said that, DS has a slight issue which will resolve when the skin separates fully, but wouldn't have occurred had he been circumcised. I think there are pros & cons, but I stillprobably wouldn't do it if I had another boy.

 

[ARuppe716]

We had ours circumcised but I'm in the US... I let dh make the choice. It healed quickly and is find now.

Oliver had a dr appt this morning... Cold is just about gone! And he's gained almost 2 oz a day this past week and is now 8lb 2oz

 

[DittyByrd]

Blossom - We DTD and my water started leaking about 2 hrs later. However, the doctor said it was unlikely that sex actually caused my water to break because my cervix was closed.

 

[Kaiecee]

Thanks ladies

 

[ARuppe716]

Now that we cracked 8lbs I tried Oliver in the moby wrap I purchased. He is currently sound asleep against me, my hands are free, and my life is forever changed!! Haha

 

[brieri1]

It was a long night. Lilah didn't want to sleep most of the night, and when she did sleep, she wanted me to stay awake, so she'd wake up every time I'd try to lay down with her. I eventually got a couple hours in, but I think it was just because she was so worn out. In other news, she's had 3 stool diapers since midnight, so I think she's finally gotten over her constipation. She certainly is a lot less fussy. My husband thinks she doesn't like him because she's so much more calm with me. I keep trying to explain to him that I've been her world for the last nine months and now I'm her food source, it isn't a dislike for him, but he's discouraged. I don't know how to make him feel more confident in his parenting, I think he's doing great with her.

As for the ladies asking if we did anything to start labor, I took black and blue cohosh and 2 oz. of castor oil. I don't suggest trying it because while it did send me into labor, I was in labor for 21 hours and pushed another hour and a half on top of that. It might have gone that way anyway, but there's no point in tempting fate. It was extremely rough and I was so drained of energy by the end, it was hard to enjoy those first hours with my baby girl.

 

[DittyByrd]

It was a long night. Lilah didn't want to sleep most of the night, and when she did sleep, she wanted me to stay awake, so she'd wake up every time I'd try to lay down with her. I eventually got a couple hours in, but I think it was just because she was so worn out. In other news, she's had 3 stool diapers since midnight, so I think she's finally gotten over her constipation. She certainly is a lot less fussy. My husband thinks she doesn't like him because she's so much more calm with me. I keep trying to explain to him that I've been her world for the last nine months and now I'm her food source, it isn't a dislike for him, but he's discouraged. I don't know how to make him feel more confident in his parenting, I think he's doing great with her.

As for the ladies asking if we did anything to start labor, I took black and blue cohosh and 2 oz. of castor oil. I don't suggest trying it because while it did send me into labor, I was in labor for 21 hours and pushed another hour and a half on top of that. It might have gone that way anyway, but there's no point in tempting fate. It was extremely rough and I was so drained of energy by the end, it was hard to enjoy those first hours with my baby girl.

Have your DH do some skin to skin. It might help.

 

[sassy_mom]

So today was the first day I used the cloth diapers .... So far, I'd rather continue trashing the planet. These diapers are so bulky on her and the cloth didn't absorb her pee. I'm doing some more research into them and I think I know why ... apparently you have to wash them a million times with detergent before using to break down the natural oils in the materials to make them absorb. I washed them 3 times (I believe that is what the label instructed) however I make my own laundry soap so I am wondering if it wasn't enough to break down the oils therefore doing me no good. And what good does it do if you are trying to be green and all that just to junk the diaper back up with chemicals??? That is why I wanted to do cloth. We had an issue with all the chemicals in regular diapers and with our oldest we had to try so many of those to see which wouldn't break out her skin.
I know this is the first time using them but how frustrating that I was to be so disappointed on something I had my hopes really high on. She's in another cloth diaper at the moment so we'll see in a little while how this does.

 

[ARuppe716]

Brieri- dh and I had the exact same conversation!

 

[fingersxxd]

Sassy - re cloth diapers, I washed mine using a way about 10 times and they didn't fit DD until she was 2 months. I used disposables until then. Good luck.

Brieri - my OH was a little like that at the beginning with my first. My trick, I wasn't pumping but I was exclusively breast feeding, so after a feed I went to the grocery store or for a walk or whatever for some to myself and left her with him. He couldn't soothe her by feeding so he would cuddle her skin to skin and use his pinky (nail down) as a soother in her mouth if she still fussed. It was a great way to avoid a pacifier. And after a couple alone trips for me, he felt totally confident and she was smitten with her daddy.

 

[sassy_mom]

Sassy - re cloth diapers, I washed mine using a way about 10 times and they didn't fit DD until she was 2 months. I used disposables until then. Good luck.

Brieri - my OH was a little like that at the beginning with my first. My trick, I wasn't pumping but I was exclusively breast feeding, so after a feed I went to the grocery store or for a walk or whatever for some to myself and left her with him. He couldn't soothe her by feeding so he would cuddle her skin to skin and use his pinky (nail down) as a soother in her mouth if she still fussed. It was a great way to avoid a pacifier. And after a couple alone trips for me, he felt totally confident and she was smitten with her daddy.

Did you like them after you started using them? Which brand did you use? I have the gdiapers and have read great reviews on them. Everyone who uses them seems to love them ... I just want to get to that point. lol!

 

[DittyByrd]

Sassy - re cloth diapers, I washed mine using a way about 10 times and they didn't fit DD until she was 2 months. I used disposables until then. Good luck.

Brieri - my OH was a little like that at the beginning with my first. My trick, I wasn't pumping but I was exclusively breast feeding, so after a feed I went to the grocery store or for a walk or whatever for some to myself and left her with him. He couldn't soothe her by feeding so he would cuddle her skin to skin and use his pinky (nail down) as a soother in her mouth if she still fussed. It was a great way to avoid a pacifier. And after a couple alone trips for me, he felt totally confident and she was smitten with her daddy.

Did you like them after you started using them? Which brand did you use? I have the gdiapers and have read great reviews on them. Everyone who uses them seems to love them ... I just want to get to that point. lol!

I have BumGenius and am waiting to use them for when Violet is bigger. She's not even 8lbs yet and that's the starting weight for the Onesize diapers. I only washed them once but used the recommended detergent and no fabric softener.

All that being said, I still have another box of newborn disposables and 2 boxes of size 1. I don't anticipate using the cloth for a bit longer because of the size - she'd swim in them.

 

[darkstar]

Hey ladies did any of you have nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea sometime before labor? Wow am I nauseous and having terrible diarrhea. Sorry TMI just not sure if its normal. I go to the doctor later today.

I had diorrhea the morning I went into labour but only once. My main indicator was that the contractions were hurting more than the bh I had been having and that I could feel them building and peaking like waves and they got more and more painful as the day went on even though irregular. I had some back pain while walking around too, never had back pain in my pregnancy before that. HTH!