May 2012 babies - so far 8 yellow, 22 blue, 21 pink!

[zephyr]

Congrats Luci!

Naw cute pic Yazzy

OH's nana checked the supermarkets in her town and found a couple of cans for us yay! We sent the money through and she picked them up for us today and will post them so that will get us through the next few weeks anyways, long enough for us to figure out whats going on

Went to the doctor today and he said it definitely sounds like a milk intolerance or allergy just with her being really sluggish and stuffy and sleeping heaps on milk formula and when we switched to goats formula 'waking up' and being more perky and full of colour.
Basically we continue the goats milk for two weeks then we switch back to cows milk based formula, see if she goes back to vomiting and being ill and if she does he will then refer us to a pediatrician who will be able to set us up with a formula that will be right for her. So thats good news!! kinda....would rather there was nothing wrong with her but am glad we are making progress.

I had a really really bad day today ladies This twin thing is soooooooo hard. Most days I cope cos I have to and usually its easy but today both babies were upset and hard to settle, Max just wanted to eat and eat so I think maybe a growth spurt? I dunno but I spent most of my day crying, I didn't eat till after lunch and even then i had to order a pizza and pick it up after I dropped my son to daycare just so I could eat something cos making myself food at home is impossible when I am here alone and we ran out of snacks.

Long story short OH rang me when I had a bit of a meltdown crying into my pizza lol (it sounds really funny now that I have reached the end of my day and survived when 6 hours ago I was seriously wondering how on earth I would make everything work out today) and he came home from work early to help me, I probably would not have made it to our appointment if he didn't.

This twin thing has been great and I have been trying to stay positive through out but days like today phew!! Its so incredibly hard! I just hope theres not too many more of these days and cant wait till we can get this home help sorted, I am in desperate need of a cleaner.

 

[anti]

Zephyr it's ok to have a melt down. I have days like that and I only have one baby!! You are a legend having two. You're doing a great job and you're allowed to have a good old cry sometimes. Glad you're managing to sort something out for aria. You'll feel better once that's all sorted out as well.

I have the health visitor coming round today. Gonna ask her about ashlynn's sleep.... She is unbelievably noisy and wriggly in her sleep!!! It gets worse everyday as well!! I'm so tired and my poor OH is exhausted with work and everything as well. Hope this phase passes soon!!!

 

[YoungNImum]

Me an both girls are well Rosalie was weighed yesterday by HV an is finally above her birth weight by 1oz MW is out today to weigh an check her swollen breasts. Eva is such a sweet big sister if Rosalie makes a peep, she straight over saying aww baby shhh an gently rocks her Boucher, she melts my heart! Altho she isn't to keen on holding an touching Rosalie yet, she's pretty content just doing her own thing.

https://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p116/crazyco-co/01e466e0.jpg

 

[frangi33]

Congrats luci - you got your may baby a day early!

Zephyr glad you managed to get some goats milk - I hope things go a lot better moving forward x

anti I know babies can be very snuffly in their sleep, we plan to put our lo in her own room straight away with monitor and sensor, hopefully it will mean she won't be waking us up with every snuffle as OH works really long hours and needs his sleep

youngnimum that photo of rosalie is adorable - she looks like butter wouldnt melt!

I've got my second sweep today - only 12 hours left till june!!! I'm going to ask the MW about induction as my official overdue date is on Tuesday which is a bank hol here so I'm hoping they would squeeze me in tomorrow rather than on a bank hol when they are likely short staffed and busy?

 

[wavescrash]

Zephyr- glad your mil was able to get some of that formula for you. I know how frustrating it is trying to find one that works. We've been going through it as well. And you're allowed o have a meltdown!!! Cry all you want! It's the only stress reliever us moms really have.

Anti- I've read so many things (while searching about stuff were going through with Hannah) where moms said they had to put their LO in their crib at a week or two old because they were just such noisy sleepers. Hannah can be pretty obnoxious too. I'm just not yet comfortable moving her out of our room haha.

I think I'm going to strangle OH. Normally he's super helpful and we take turns feeding her at night. Because of her reflux we have to keep her upright at least 25 min after each feeding. Tonight he took the first feeding and I recall seeing him come back to be and I happened to glance at the clock and take note of the time. When I woke to feed her next, I saw he wrote on the fridge she had 3oz at 12:50am. He put her to bed at 1:09am. So he basically fed her and put her right down... not keeping her upright. Which explains why I heard her spit up and kind of start choking on it and I had to jump out of bed to clean her up and make sure she was okay. Furthermore... he put her to bed while she was still awake and she stayed awake the next 3 hours until I just fed her (I only know because I kept waking up and hearing her in her bassinet. Since she wasn't fussing much I kept trying to get some sleep so I wouldn't go crazy with sleep deprivation (she barely naps in the daytime so I can't sleep when she sleeps, boo!) He has a tendency of doing that at night- putting her to back to bed when she's still awake and wonders why she's fussing not even an hour later. Take the extra 20 min to rock her after the bottle (since we have to keep her upright that long anyway) and kill two birds with one stone. That's what I do every late night feed and always put her back down near sound asleep. He was up with her for maybe a half hour yet it's an hour later and I'm still sitting here with her (rocking her after her feed.)

Needless to say I'm going to have a few words with him "in the morning." yesterday morning he woke me early because she was fussing and he "didn't know what to do." I got her calm and asleep in 10 min and of course he says that's the one thing he didn't try. Then last night when she was fussy again, he had to nerve to get frustrated. I flat out told him "You give her to me early in the morning because you can't handle it after a few minutes and then I'm home alone with it, with no help all day long and you deal with an hour of it after work and you're frustrated?! I don't even want to hear it!!" he shut up pretty quickly haha. Yeah it's frustrating and at times annoying when she screams and fusses especially if we can't figure out why but at least when he's home and dealing with it, I'm here too to help figure out why or a solution or to take turns. During the day it's just me with no help, no relief... just a screaming baby. Yesterday I realize I never went to te bathroom until nearly 5pm! I had to go just never got the chance or forgot to. Same with eating. And I didn't even get to finish my dinner because I had to take over with Hannah because she was fussing and my food got too cold.

So yes... I'm going to have some words with him. Anyway time to put her back down and attempt a little more sleep myself.

 

[hoping29]

My hospital can't find a bed for me until Sunday (14 days over) and even then thats not a given!! I have to phone up to see if there is a bed free. I am a little worried as I have read stuff that risk of problems to baby increases drastically after 42 weeks.

 

[KendraNoell]

Ugh hoping I am so sorry how frustrating to be that overdue and seems like nobody is really worried about it. Did they ever have an issue figuring out your original due date or anything, like could you really not be that many weeks? Just trying to help you figure out something to make you feel better. I hope that baby comes on its own for you by Sunday!

I am feeling pretty down lately, I guess my facebook has been really negative, its not intentional, I just whine a lot about how tired I am and how my husband gets to go out and do things with friends and leave the house every day and how I'm stuck at home unless i want to cart the baby out and about to just do basic things- its frustrating. I hate it when people comment on my status about how lucky I am because they were a single parent or because they had a scare with the baby and how they never took anything for granted because they almost lost them, or whatever, and then some of my husbands friends had posted about how I always call him out and make him look bad- sorry but I've tried telling him face to face many times how upset I am with him that he seems to not care that I spend all day with the baby and I need down time just as much as he does, if he isn't going to listen to me then I'm going to call him out on it. That's just how I am. And I KNOW I'm lucky. I know it could be worse, I could have a truly collicky baby, I could have had more pregnancy complications, I could really be a single mother and not have the help (however small sometimes) of my husband, and the help of my mom and other family members, but when Jackson is crying for hours and I'm sitting here alone trying everything to get him to calm down it still FEELS like its the worst thing in the world. And I hate it when people try to make me feel like my feelings aren't important.

Anyway- vent over, baby is crying again :/

 

[kwood]

Anti - my yellow bump was blue as well, but you are right there have been a lot of yellow bumps turning pink

I can't believe my little boy will be a month old on Saturday already. I am starting to slowly get the hang of this parenting thing (i'm sure everything will change as soon as I figure it out) I never understood how much your life does really change when you bring an infant into the house. I have new found respect for young single mums and mums with young children already in the house, I don't know how they do it.

Last night was my first night alone with Sam, I took my mum to Heathrow at 5 am yesterday morning and my DH is in Paris for work this week. We have seemed to survived (DH home at 9 pm tonight so I guess there is still time for it all to go pair shaped) We haven't really done much though, managed to get some laundry done and a tesco delivery scheduled for tomorrow (thank goodness for online grocery shopping).

I hope everyone else is doing well with their little ones and hope to hear about the births of the remaining 'May' babies.

 

[anti]

I forgot about the yellows turning blue! you ladies were a lot earlier than the pink ones!

Hoping sorry to hear about there being no beds!! How annoying. Hope your bubs makes a move soon for you! Annoying that it takes so long for them to schedule an induction. I had an induction date given to me 2 days before my due date just incase I never went natural within 2 weeks.

Friday tomorrow!! Yay! I love weekends coz I have my OH home all day. I miss him so much when he's at work!

 

[KendraNoell]

My OH is staying home with me all day tomorrow because he's going away for the night on Saturday and I'm nervous about my first overnight alone

 

[frangi33]

Looks like I'm having a June baby

 

[rjsmam]

frangi - hang in there honey, can't be long now

YoungNI - Rosalie is gorgeous & looks very content having a snooze!

kwood - i feel the same, I can't believe Eva's a week old - a month seems so grown up!

Kendra - you're definitely entitled to call out your dh, he really needs to be supporting you more. is there anyone else you could talk to that might get through to him, his mum/family? I hope he pitches in really soon & you the support you deserve

hoping - yikes re the bed, what happens if they don't have a bed, do you have to head to another hospital?

waves - how did the words with dh go? i'd be so annoyed! hope you got some more z's

zephyr - glad to hear you managed to get hold of some goats milk to keep you going. it is SO ok to have a meltdown. honestly i often think of you when i'm exhausted & imagine how hard twins must be.

anti - how did you get on with the hv? did she have anything to say about the noisy sleeping

afm - well my girl is really starting to sleep much more, not for hrs & hrs but just more often. I'm so pleased! she lost 4oz at her first weigh in, now 7lb 5oz, but that was only day 5 so the hv said it was all very normal. my dh is still home on pat leave & has been so good. as he can't do any night feeds he's been getting plenty sleep but has being doing every single bit of housework/cooking etc. we're so enjoying this time together & he's dreading going back to work. we have lots of visitors, some of them our friends kids wanting to see the kittens lol.

i also managed to write up my birth story, as i want to have it as a reminder of such a special time..... https://babyandbump.momtastic.com/b...1032859-water-birth-eva-mairi-24-05-12-a.html


xxx

 

[anti]

The health visitor went well. She said that babies can be noisy sleepers and it's nothing to worry about unless I think she's breathing funny, then to get her checked out. She just squeaks and moans kicks around alot!! Very distracting when I'm trying to sleep but I love her to bits!

Lovely birth story Rjs!! I really need to do my birth story at some point!

 

[cliqmo]

Wowee look at all these gorgeous arrivals!!

No sign of our little one, got a sweep booked for this afternoon xx

 

[KendraNoell]

Sorry Frangi, couldn't imagine going that long without having the baby, I'm glad I had him at 38 weeks 4 days cause I was miserable so I can only assume you are just ready for this to be done. I don't miss being pregnant at ALL I can tell you that much!

DH has stepped up a lot since the Facebook incident where I called him out, he is staying home with me all day today as a compromise so he can go on a motorcycle run tomorrow and Sunday (overnight). I haven't spent a Friday with him in months because those are also motorcycle club days and he goes and does things with them every Friday, so the fact that he's staying home with me is a big deal. But he knows I wouldn't have let him go on this ride tomorrow if he didn't!

 

[anti]

Ashlynn has been so fussy today!! Not sure what it is! Growth spurt? Wind? Argh!! This newborn stuff is hard work. ESP with me expressing everytime she feeds. Takes so long and I'm getting exhausted!! Thank god it's the weekend and OH is here to help.

 

[KendraNoell]

That's why I finally threw in the towel on BF-ing... I hated being attached to a pump and not really getting the bonding I wanted with my son. Now I have more time with him. That and not pumping more than an ounce at a time after all that work either

 

[rjsmam]

any reason you're pumping Anti? I've not even thought of it yet - am just feeding on demand & so far it's getting easier every day

i'm currently waiting patiently for news of my ds - talk about never a dull moment in my house - he came home earlier screaming after a football bashed his thumb, it's very swollen & dh has taken him to a&e. hate not being there with him but Eva was crying & ds was so sore so dh just whisked him off. a&e is mobbed apparently & they waiting for xrays...


x

 

[anti]

Rjs I'm pumping coz ashlynn has a tongue tie and won't latch. got an appointment with the specialist on the 13th but still seems like ages away!! My right boob keeps giving me issues as well. It's sore and feels bruised and just when I thought it was better it's starte up again. just so tired now....

 

[rjsmam]

aw i'm sorry you did tell us already - poor you - have you tried hot flannels etc, is the health visitor/midwives giving you support?


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