January Jellybeans 2013!...

[AJThomas]

Oh man, I've forgotten everything I wanted to write anyway let's see what I remember.

Cayde does the whole pulling on the nipple and screaming thing, but in his case it's because he needs to. E burped, so I take him off and burp. Him even tho he continues to cry and root around for my breast, then once he burps he quiets down and I can continue nursing.

When he decides to do the crap where he wakes up as soon as I put him down, I let him sleep on me a bit until he's in a deep sleep, that usually does the trick. I'm a light sleeper and i don't roll so that works well for me at night when I'm exhausted and he's fussy, just put him on my chest and we both get a couple hours sleep that way u til the next feed or until he settles properly.

I've had to hand him off to DH a couple times to keep from bursting into tears, I feel bad waking DH at night (sometimes) but if I don't I'd lose it. I do the feeding and then DH does the burping, maybe the changing. If Cayde burps on his own or burps quickly then I do it all myself and don't bother waking DH.

To all the mommas still waiting - chin up! January is almost done now, your beanies will be here very soon!!

Oh and my house is almost ready! It's taken waaaay longer than we hoped but the change is awesome! The trouble now is getting the cleanup done with an infant in tow but we'll get it done somehow.

 

[La Mere]

River, congrats on your little girl!

Amanda and Els- yay for sleep!

Blossom- hoping this will get you going!

Jellybeans- I heard and felt a pop when my waters broke...

My little Sam man will be 3 weeks tomorrow! Gosh, time is rushing past!

 

[NellandZack]

anyone else still waiting? im due in 2 days!! x

Still waiting here! Due Monday!

 

[NellandZack]

Good Luck Blossom! Hope it works!
Iv had a lot of pressure between my pelvis on my hip bones with pain on the pubic. Also having constant menstrual cramping. But other than that nothing. Just my normal BH contractions. I'm pretty sure ill go past my due date.

 

[DittyByrd]

Question for you ladies...DH took Katie with him today to visit his mom, was gone about 4.5 hours so I pumped. I got about 3 oz out of each side in about 8 minutes so is that what she's getting with a feed? She nurses about 10 minutes, usually one side only. I know with breast milk the quantity isn't that important but I'm curious. I also pump every morning after her feed and get 4 oz from each side in about 5 minutes of pumping. I've been doing that since the initial engorgement though. Today was the first time I pumped in place of a feed. I go back to work in 3 weeks though so I will be doing several more trial runs til then.

Unfortunately how much you pump does not correlate with how much she eats. Your let down can be dramatically different from when the baby stimulates you vs a pump. Usually baby stimulates more but if you are really good with the pump you can pump 8oz+ in one sitting - way more than a little baby would eat!

The only way I know to measure how much she eats at a feed is to weigh her before and after a feed on a highly calibrated scale.

It's so hard but you need to trust yourself and your body. Wet and soiled diapers and satiated baby are a good indicator she's getting enough. Save your pumped milk in 2-3oz increments and once you go back to work if 3oz isn't enough, add another 2 and see what she takes. However, I have read babies will drink an ounce from a bottle even when they are not hungry because it's easy and once they suck, it starts a cascade of milk through the bottle nipple and the only way to combat the excessive flow is to keep gulping. So it looks like they were hungry but really they were drinking just to keep up!

 

[NellandZack]

In the last hour I have gone from hot and nauseous with slight head ache. Rapid breathing like I couldn't catch my breath and all I was doing was watching a TV show on my bed. I kept feeling like I needed I vomit and I would get up to go and nothing. I also felt like my heart was racing. My BP have been normal at the dr office but have noticed they are gradually increasing. My husband is a corpsman or medic for marine corps so e took my BP and HR 3 times over a 45 min period at rest. They were 138/78 hr 78, 140/82 HR 88, 130/80 hr 100. I then had a soft bowel movement. I'm resting again and then I will retake it. If it doesn't go down I'm calling the OB. Not sure what to think.
Retook my BP it was 120/70 hr 76. So back to normal. Not sure what just happened its like my body at an anxiety attack but I was calm mentally. I'm just glad I'm feeling better now.

 

[Soniamillie01]

Nell - glad you're feeling better and had your DH on hand to check your BP. Hopefully it was just a one off

 

[els1022]

Thanks Ditty. Katie's getting chubby so it wouldn't surprise me if she's getting a lot!

 

[BlossomJ]

Mommyof2 - Love the fuzzy hair

Nikki - Sounds like us last time, except DH couldn't do any feeds. But when I was having a bad night, had already just done a feed & DS wouldn't settle he was supposed to help out. The crying never seemed to bother him though, he'd just sleep through it & barely wake up if I spoke to him!.... and we just had to fork out to fix my car grrrr! So annoying - I feel your pain!

AJ - Glad the house is coming along. How exciting!

Nell - Hope you're ok. Glad you had DH there with you! Maybe you're not far off now - hope that's what it is & nothing else.

Thanks to everyone who's wishing & praying me into labour! Not sure if it's going to happen though. I had a a lot of cramping & spotting for a few hours, but it stopped a couple of hours after coming to bed. Can't sleep now, but maybe it'll kick off tomorrow.

Any UK ladies see One Born Every Minute Last night? How lovely were the couple from Mexico & Columbia? It was such a nice episode!

 

[BlossomJ]

Oorweeistyin - Hope the sweep goes well!

 

[jellybeans]

Still waiting...I'm guessing the pop I heard wasn't my waters and was bubba's joint clicking or something please come out little lady! Xx

 

[Leinzlove]

Ladies, I hope it happens for you all soon. Only 8 days until February!

 

[BlossomJ]

Ladies, I hope it happens for you all soon. Only 8 days until February!

Thanks Leinz! Do we get kicked out of the group if we make it to February?

 

[Betheney]

Ladies, I hope it happens for you all soon. Only 8 days until February!

Thanks Leinz! Do we get kicked out of the group if we make it to February?

Lol

If you get kicked out then I'm long gone

 

[Leinzlove]

No, but I hope your baby's don't make you wait that long.

 

[oorweeistyin]

Well I might just make it till the last day!!


No sweep today, cervix tightly closed.......section booked for 31/1

I'm away into my cave

 

[Trissy]

Still waiting...I'm guessing the pop I heard wasn't my waters and was bubba's joint clicking or something please come out little lady! Xx

I had that popping quite a bit in the last couple of weeks of my pregnancy. My doctor said it could be a few things: Your own ligaments stretching and releasing with BH contractions, baby sucking on its fist and then pulling it out of its mouth or baby "popping" pockets of amniotic fluid.

Hope your little lady makes a spontaneous appearance very soon!!

 

[BlossomJ]

Well I might just make it till the last day!!


No sweep today, cervix tightly closed.......section booked for 31/1

I'm away into my cave

I'm sorry it didn't work out Will still be crossing my fingers for you that things suddenly start to happen

Betheney - LOL... guess I'm safe then.

 

[La Mere]

My little man is 3 weeks old today!!! I can't believe it. He's growing so fast and my baby girl will be 2 in less than a month!!!! Where does the time go?? Hope all you ladies still waiting don't have to wait much longer!!!

 

[brieri1]

I finally got a bit more sleep last night. Lilah woke up at 11, she'd been asleep since 8, and I fed her and tried to put her back in her co-sleeper, but she was immediately awake. But then my loving husband got up with her and woke me up around 3 to feed her again. So I did, and then she slept on me until almost 7. I fed her again and he took her again and let me sleep until 9. This would've sounded horrible 6 months ago, but at the moment, this was an amazing night's sleep.

My baby is 2 weeks old tomorrow! Woohoo! We switched her over to her cloth diapers a couple days ago. I think I remember a couple of you mentioning you are doing cloth diapers? I'm really liking it, although they make her little bottom look a lot bulkier, lol. I guess that's what happens when you buy all one-size diapers.

You ladies still waiting, as annoying as it is to hear and I know it bugged the hell out of me during those final weeks to be told it, but try to get as much sleep as you can right now. Even if you get up every couple hours to pee like I did, its better and more restful sleep than you are gonna get after your baby is born.