light hearted ttc

[hello_kitty]

I definitely don't wake him up at night since I need to sleep too. He's been going to bed super early though, like around 8 and sometimes he can sleep for more than 2 hours without needing to feed. I was scared of him starving so I gave him the boob as soon as he started squirming around.

Doctor never explained it, the med assistant just called and simply told me the result was negative.

 

[AC1987]

Hmm how odd... maybe still hormones left in your body?

I never took a pg test after I had cassidy so I have no idea what it woulda shown.
Man I'm excited to take them again!!

Its odd, part of me is DYING for the whole ttc thing again and being pregnant, then the other part wants to enjoy having my body for just myself for a little bit. Because I am super excited to wear summer dresses this year and not worry about them not fitting

Wow Cassidy still can't drink more then 3 oz at a time I've tried at 4 and most of it just comes back up oh well!!

 

[boxxey]

still no baby, hes taking his time to make things happen lol, im so tired from the on and off contractions and I have carpel tunnel and it keeps me up almost all night as well, I think I may go crazy lol, on the bright side im due this month lol heres for hoping he comes soon. I added a pic from today almost 37 weeks, and my belly has dropped so much in the last week I think that this fella is giving me a run for my money lol

 

[Blondiejay]

Hi ladies,

Ashley, has Cassidy always been like that? I breastfeed Darcy first although only for less then 5 minutes now as there isn't much in there, then give her formula of 4oz each feed apart from her last feed at night which is 5oz. That usually knocks her out and she sleeps all night for between 6 and a half to 8 hours.
Great bump pic Boxxey, hang on in there, not long to go now.

 

[mzswizz]

AFM, on sunday i was in a terrible car accident. the guy did a hit and run. he side swiped me and caused me to hit the right wall and swerve 3 lanes over and end up hitting the left median wall. so i have a muscle sprain in my lower back and will have to seek physical therapy. so im not going to be on here much. just wanted to give you ladies an update.

 

[boxxey]

oh so sorry to hear this.....I hope u have a speedy recovery thinking about you
AFM I was in the washroom and was bent over picking up clothing and well I soaked my pants, im unsure if I peed (lol) so as soon as adam is home I am going to go get checked to see if it was my membranes that ruptured

 

[Blondiejay]

Patrice, I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you make a speedy recovery.

Boxxey, how exciting!!!

 

[boxxey]

boo was my water breaking i guess the way i bent over caused baby to push on my bladder

 

[hello_kitty]

Ashley - the tests could've been bad considering I bought them at the dollar store. I was out shopping earlier and went passed the maternity section. They have such cute clothes, I wish i was pregnant again. They also had a great baby sale. I was able to buy Zachary 7 new oufits. He has soo many clothes now. Is anyone else also addicted to buying baby clothes? Zachary hates his bottles now. He prefers the breast. He would also take only 3 oz from the bottle, sometimes 2 oz.

 

[mzswizz]

thanks ladies.

 

[AC1987]

omg how scary patrice!!! I hope you get the therapy you need!!

boxxy, well you're not overdue yet, so maybe your baby will come at week 40? I know the last few weeks are uncomfy, however newborns are SO exhausting, though you're a pro it probably isn't bad for you

Susi, some days I can pump SO much bm its crazy other times not so much, I know I don't hafta give Cassidy any more formula if I dont want to, but I do use it for her food because I hate wasting bm.
Though i've heard that babies need less bm because it has more calories then formula so you can't really compare... so maybe I don't need to worry that much.

On a plus note Cassidy is back to napping. Shes 7 months old now.. its crazy what happened to my little newborn baby who screamed all the time wanting to attached herself to me 24/7?

 

[hello_kitty]

Ashley, how much are you able to pump on good days? Seems like I can only pump 3 oz total if Zachary hasn't breastfeed. We went to his 4 month appointment today and he's growing good. He had 2 shots and one oral and was crying at the tops of his lung but as soon as we calmed him down he was back to being his playful self. The doc thinks he is teething since he keeps putting his fist in his mouth. We will start buying teething toy. We also got the ok to start solids too, so excited! Doctor also thinks we need to train him to sleep through the night for 6 hours.

 

[josephine3]

Oh dear patrice i hope u have a speedy recovery

i can express aboutr 6oz per go on a gud day, and do this 4 times if im not feeling too lazy. So 24oz a day! Often tho its more like 15oz a day which is just enough to cover her 2 bottle feeds.

It took weeks to get to this point tho. I recommend expressing at the same time every day, when u would usually bf ur bby. So when u give a bottle, express, and keep pumping till u get let down. I really struggled with this at first and thought it wud never happen then suddenly it does and the milk really flows. Also try in the morning before ur first bf.

I wannt to get Georgia off the breast now and onto formula but she wont drink it so iv settled for ebm in the day and bf just morning and night for now. Im not sure i could exclusively pump its a lot of work.

 

[mzswizz]

thanks ladies. physical therapy is tomorrow and Im getting better so I am happy about that. Also, will be finally moving to permanently be with DH next month

 

[hello_kitty]

Josephine at least Georgia will still take a bottle. I've been breastfeeding Zachary so much that he doesn't even like the bottle now. I was able to express 4 oz this morning before leaving the house and he only finished half. I got so frustrated and pulled out my breast and he took it immediately.

Patrice how exciting. I hope your physical therapy goes well.

 

[josephine3]

Only a month till ur back together again patrice?! Thats going fast!

Georgia wudnt take a bottle at all to start with. It took months. There are plenty of times i gave up and got my boob out lol. Its very frustating esp when its breast milk that u worked so hard to get!

 

[AC1987]

Cassidy has no problem with a bottle since shes had one since she was about 2 weeks old.
On a good day I can pump about 9oz, but usually i pump 5 oz in the morning, I find its a WHOLE lot easier to pump more if I am feeding her at the same time as I just CAN'T activate let down on my own anymore Like I can pump for 20 mins and nothing and by that time I need to be doing something else.
I tried her on frozen milk yesterday she took to it no problem YES so I'll probably get her more onto bottles before shes a 1.

Patrice, aww you must be so happy to see your dh soon!!

 

[AC1987]

My nipple started bleeding and i dont know why, for the past month or two its been peeling and ive been covering it with lanolin, lotion anything I can think of but NOTHING has made the peeling stop, then I was pumping earlier and found that it was bleeding. I dont get why it is, its not like it hurts at all either.

 

[AC1987]

Well I've been more diligent in covering it with lanolin after every feed and it looks a little better.

Gah woke up with my mouth killing me, can't wait til we can afford to get my caveties filled and wisdom teeth pulled.

I'm a little mad at my DH today... I've been asking to go grocery shopping for the WHOLE week, and hes made excuse after excuse, and also coming home LATE an hour past LO's bedtime so its been impossible to go as well. So yesterday evening he comes home exactly at LOs bedtime and is all like "Ok are you ready to go grocery shopping?" and I'm like "Now? No its time for her bedtime" in which he replies "I got off early(YEA RIGHT) just so we could go" and hes all grumpy about it. But like he doesn't get that I'm not gonna screw up Cassidy's bedtime. So then I'm like "Ok well when can we go?" So hes like "Saturday" only we're having company over saturday and I need stuff for that day Then we made up afterwards and he told me that I need to rest and take it easy and that he'll take me out to dinner tomorrow (today) so I'm all happy, then this morning its a completely different story and we're not going anywhere Its as if he cannot remember telling me that.
And to top things off I'm having a horrid time with maintaining and gaining weight and I'm freaking out., I'm just so stressed!

 

[josephine3]

Ashley how strange about the bleeding nipples.. Iv never had a problem with my nipples at all how bizarre u shud get it suddenly now?
I went thru the exact same thing with pumping for about 3 weeks! Just could not get let down. I even bought a box of formula in as i was worried about my supply nut never needed it (thankfully as she wont drink the stuff anyway...) it suddenly worked again! Honestly just keep going lol. I got loads for about a month but tbh it seem to be harder again now. Maybe it comes in waves. Triggered by growth spurts maybe?

and i totally sympathise aboutt the oh. Mine is exactly the same. He cannot seem to make plans more than half an hr into the future. He'll say like 'we need to go visit my mum... ' and I'l ask when and he'll say 'oh next week or something' and he'll put it off for ages then one day just say we're going today in an hour its like well Georgia needs a nap and a feed etc... He is starting to learn that i need advance warning tho.
It is VERY annoying tho when i ask him what time he has work in the morning he just says 'early' arrrrggghhhh. He can start anytime between midnight and 6am! all these times are early! He hate any question asking it so bizarre like he avoids giving me a straight answer for no reason... Our oh's sound very similar sorry u made me rant too