June Bundles of Joy - 2016

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Dory - please update when you can. I keep checking back here and on your thread about lethargy/sleepiness from yesterday. I hope everything is OK with Georgia :hugs:
 
Yes Dory I'm also checking in to see if Georgia is ok. I hope the other babies are too.
 
Sorry, we've been out this morning. Georgia is still very sleepy and not arguing about being put down but has been waking for feeds since about 7pm last night so I'm happy for now. I keep checking her temperature which is fine. I wonder if she's feeling a bit under the weather because my other 2 are loaded with cold.

Sorry about the ladies with spd. If it helps, mine has almost entirely gone now except for click joints and a bit of pain if I turn awkwardly.

Once my contractions were at their peak I absolutely could not talk or walk through them. I kind of went into 'the zone'. With Georgia they took my contractions seriously once I was having 3 significantly painful ones in 10 minutes but they were 4 in 10 briefly before she was delivered.
 
So glad to hear that G is waking for feeds :happydance: it could well be a cold or virus, I hope they're all feeling better soon. :hugs:
 
ehjmorris said:
Squig- so is Thursday the day for you? Sorry ive got really bad preg brain atm, if so thats not long at all im jealous I still have 15 days to go!
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It is indeed :) so glad I don't have to go any longer, especially with so many other ladies reporting how uncomfortable they are! By Thursday it'll be less than 2 weeks for you though; that will fly in!

Dory, glad to hear of Georgia waking more. Hope she continues to improve. Keep us posted!

How are the other Georgia & Arthur?
 
What pump do you have angel? Maybe a silly question but can you store and use milk expressed in pregnancy?
 
I'm sure if you can express any now you can freeze it surely?

My milk is not even there same happened with my son didn't til 5/6 days after I had him :nope: but think I'm giving first feed (going to try anyway) then combining
 
tinkerbelle93 said:
What pump do you have angel? Maybe a silly question but can you store and use milk expressed in pregnancy?
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Mine is a calypso or something? I think you can freeze colostrum in syringes but I didn't get that much and I didn't have any syringes. I was hoping it'd start some contractions tbh and also needed to remind myself how it works!
 
Arthur's fine thanks he's taken to cluster feeding and my nips feel like they're going to drop off! Planning to add some bottles soon anyway as things are going to get hectic around here - OH is back to work tomorrow and it's half term so I'm flying solo with 3! First thing I'll do is go to my mums haha x
 
Milk doesn't come in til after birth it's colostrum before that Hun totally normal.

I've started a little leaking of colostrum too which didn't happen with my first!

Starlight I was 3 cm when I got o the hosp and an hour later was 5 I couldn't physically not move til I was like 8 ish. Remember we're all different.
 
Boo44 said:
Arthur's fine thanks he's taken to cluster feeding and my nips feel like they're going to drop off! Planning to add some bottles soon anyway as things are going to get hectic around here - OH is back to work tomorrow and it's half term so I'm flying solo with 3! First thing I'll do is go to my mums haha x
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I've never bottle fed (I'm too lazy) so excuse my ignorance but I just feel like bottles would be more effort? Or are bottle fed babies genuinely more settled? I know how it over fills their bellies so makes them sleep heavier but I'm sure I read they wake less but when they're awake they're awake for longer (ie same sleep/awake totals just different intervals).

I do solo bed time by sitting between the eldest two and reading a story whilst I feed Georgia. I would need an extra hand to do that with a bottle?
 
Ive only ever bottled fed Dory and can honestly say I find it no fuss at all. My babies both went 4 hours between feeds straight from the hospital. Madi was having 3oz and Zach just over when they came home. She slept through from 5 weeks, from 9-7 ish but Zach never slept through until 12 months, he had a bottle at 3am most mornings.

As for the bedtim stories, yes I guess you would need another hand, but you learn some incredible ways to hold bottles and use your hands when you've got other kids :D
 
Totally craving ice cream but I don't want to gain a bunch of weight at the end lol. I'm up about 25 lbs total and hoping to not pack on a bunch more.

Angel, how did pumping go?

Mommyx, I have a really low pain tolerance so I imagine labor is going to be very painful for me! These tightenings I've been getting must just be my uterus practicing for the real thing lol.

Hope all the babies are doing well <3
 
The pumping got a bit of colostrum which I wasn't really expecting, didn't have anything sterilised to store it in so had to chuck it :( it didn't start any contractions or anything, but it did me good to remember how to set it up.
 
We'll be introducing an occasional bottle soon too

Two reasons really. One - dh will be able to do either the last feed before bed or first feed in the morning so I can get some sleep, and two - I've got about 20 bottles of expressed milk in the freezer that came from the hospital and I don't want to waste it.

Starlight eat the ice cream! I love ice cream :haha:

Weigh in day today and another 1.5 lb down so I'm down 11.5 lbs from my previous pregnancy weight :dohh: really hoping to round that up to a full stone next week.

Little G is doing great thanks. She's started closer feeding now and is struggling a bit with wind but not too bad. She's still going 3-4 he's between feeds in the day but wakes every two hours through the night so I'm only getting about an hour at a time. I'm tired but nothing like how tired I was when we had Xander so it's all good :-)
 
How is Arthur over two weeks old now boo??

Dory I found that introducing a bottle at night solved cluster feeding issues. DS would feed normally and easily in the day but from 9pm to 1am straight he would cluster feed, so introducing a bottle of formula meant straightforward bfing in the day then a bottle at 9 which stopped the hours of feeding.. So even though that bottle needed to be prepared and washed/sterilised it was nothing compared to what we were dealing with before :)
 
Starlight I don't have a huge pain tolerance either but I have super intense bh normally so I guess I'm just used to them. So when dh told me to go to the hosp I thought he was full of crap til the monitor was put on me
 
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