I'm up, fighting sleep while baby eats. It's way too easy to put my head back and pass right out with her in my arms. 😳
This is me too. I am so, so tired!
I'm glad the preemie nipples are helping DD3 eat, but it takes so much longer. Doesn't matter during the day, but I feel every extra minute in the MOTN!
I always think feedings would be ok if it weren't for all the pooping. DD cries (Screams actually. I'm like don't you dare wake up your big sister!!) and won't eat until she can poop, and then you have to get them back to sleep. It's tough being a baby!
Morning ladies!! Up early as well - LO has been super active so I figured I'd just get on up!
I think we have several ladies getting induced or having c/s today right?? GL everyone!!!! Definitely keep us posted!
I have my NST/cervical check/39w appt later this afternoon. I'm curious to see how I've progressed. I've been 1cm & 50% effaced for two weeks straight. Hopefully there's been some changes since LO dropped low after last wkend.
I'm so glad it's Friday, I'm determined to take it easy this weekend. All I ask for MH to do was mow the lawn and clean the floors so hopefully that'll happen between now and the kid's arrival. His gout is flaring up along with his ulcer so he tries to push through but it's hard. He usually spends most of the weekend sleeping when he's like this. If anything I might pay the neighbor's kid to mow the lawn and just worry about the floors when I can get on my hands and knees again to scrub.
Good morning! We are getting discharged from the hospital this morning! Of course the nursery wad closed last night but A gave us a few good chunks of sleep and was pretty quiet in our room. The lack of sleep the last few days is catching up with me a bit. I can't wait to be home and sit on my own couch/sleep in my own bed!
Also, what do you mean the nursery was closed??? I've never heard of this before, but I'm a FTM so I feel like lately everything is new to me!
This happened one of the nights with ds1, too. Depending on nursing staff, they may need to close the nursery (regular, not special care) for the night if all the nurses are needed elsewhere. So baby has to room in. With ds1 it was a nightmare because he screamed all night and wouldn't eat. Ds2 was a much happier camper but I still would have enjoyed a quieter night!
I think you're delivering at a different CT hospital...other people I've talked to who have been elsewhere have never heard of the nursery not being open either, so hopefully you don't have to worry!
redhead610 I'm delivering at Yale-New Haven and they just got a certification to be a baby-friendly hospital so I was wondering if the closed nursery was part of it. The pediatrician already warned us we're going to get a lot of push back for FF over BF while here, so I'm guessing baby-friendly =/= mom friendly.
It's slow at work today, I might pop over to the unit and see what the nurses have to say about this initiative.
If anyone has any info about this baby-friendly initiative or any experience I'm curious now.
redhead610 I'm delivering at Yale-New Haven and they just got a certification to be a baby-friendly hospital so I was wondering if the closed nursery was part of it. The pediatrician already warned us we're going to get a lot of push back for FF over BF while here, so I'm guessing baby-friendly =/= mom friendly.
It's slow at work today, I might pop over to the unit and see what the nurses have to say about this initiative.
If anyone has any info about this baby-friendly initiative or any experience I'm curious now.
I'm up at Waterbury, which is not yet baby friendly. My MIL is a labor and delivery nurse at Yale though and I did hear about the baby friendly there thing. I agree with you that it does sound quite mom unfriendly, which sucks. They do encourage rooming in and bf. Luckily we haven't gotten push back on ff here.
Post by hummingbird125 on Aug 5, 2016 7:06:51 GMT -5
Good morning!
Just realized that unless baby comes on his own, exactly one week from today my induction will be well underway 😬. Today I'm just trying to remind myself that 1) lots and lots of women are induced and things go just fine and 2) it's still likely that baby will be under 9lbs, as measurements are often off! Still, what I wouldn't give to go into labor this weekend....
Today DH is WFH again, AND my baby sister is coming up to visit for a few hours! She just graduated with her masters and returned from MI on Wednesday. She will be starting a job in Boston early next month, but I am so so happy to have her home in NY for the next few weeks, and ecstatic that she'll get to be there for the birth as I wanted. In my head, I've decided that DH will of course be my #1 during labor, my mom will be there for when DH doesn't know what to do/say, and my sister will be there for when my mom inevitably starts bothering me more than helping me, and can get her to back off. Also, I know my sister can take great photos of us in the delivery room (NOT of the main event).
That's awesome redhead610. I work here and I didn't even know about this baby-friendly thing until I had to go to the triage a few weeks ago, forgot about it, then when you said the nursery was closed, I was like "well then".
*PDNQ below*
*poof*
On an unrelated note, my favorite Puerto Rican restaurant is in Waterbury so you inspired me to head up there for dinner tonight! Thanks!
youdontsay, I just delivered at a baby-friendly hospital and I FF from the beginning. I was nervous (because I had tried BFing my other two so I never started FFing in the hospital), I talked to my doctor about it beforehand and she said to let her know if anyone gave me a hard time and she would talk to them.
I was asked multiple times (by nurses and doctors coming on shift) but no one said a single word about FFing. Maybe it's because they were super busy (every room full), but I was surprised the LC didn't stop in. But I was pleasantly surprised how well it went with FFing.
They don't really have a well-baby nursery anymore, but said at the tour that they would take a baby for a few hours if the mom needed the rest due to laboring all night or a c-section or something.
redhead610 I'm delivering at Yale-New Haven and they just got a certification to be a baby-friendly hospital so I was wondering if the closed nursery was part of it. The pediatrician already warned us we're going to get a lot of push back for FF over BF while here, so I'm guessing baby-friendly =/= mom friendly.
It's slow at work today, I might pop over to the unit and see what the nurses have to say about this initiative.
If anyone has any info about this baby-friendly initiative or any experience I'm curious now.
I'm up at Waterbury, which is not yet baby friendly. My MIL is a labor and delivery nurse at Yale though and I did hear about the baby friendly there thing. I agree with you that it does sound quite mom unfriendly, which sucks. They do encourage rooming in and bf. Luckily we haven't gotten push back on ff here.
This is all so interesting. The hospital I'm delivering at is considered baby friendly and I don't even think that they have a nursery... all babies room in with mom unless there is a medical reason.
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Baby friendly is definitely not always mom friendly. I'm actually a little worried since I will be stuck in the hospital by myself and couldn't pick the baby up last time without help. If I could send #2 to the nursery they could just test her blood sugar there and then bring her in, but instead I get to call and wait for help. On top of the constant monitoring and noise there is like a zero percent chance of leaving rested. (Really you have to check her hearing at midnight?).
In other news I finally packed a bag. I have extra clothes for DD #1, snacks, and toys for her. I'm hoping that will keep her occupied for a bit!
Our hospital as a whole encourages rooming in, but the nurses I had last time were fantastic. Since it was so encouraged, I felt like an asshole sending her to the nursery (which was absolutely ridiculous looking back). B was a bit high maintenance from the start, she wanted to be held held held. But they swore the second she was more than 10 ft away, she was happy as could be just hanging out. So they took her for tests one night, and when they came back I was sleeping. She was one of like four babies on that floor, so the nurse held onto her for a few hours and let me sleep.
B is still the same way. She screams at dropoff at daycare but the second I walk out she's happy as can be. Same thing if I leave her with DH to run errands lol.
On top of the constant monitoring and noise there is like a zero percent chance of leaving rested. (Really you have to check her hearing at midnight?).
This is why I hated staying in the hospital, and we left as soon as possible. I would just settle her to sleep, and someone would barge in to test her for something. There is no chance to rest or recover from labor.
I have a lot of conflicted feelings about the Baby Friendly Hospital movement. I feel strongly about encouraging and supporting BFing when it is the right choice for the family, but I am not at all down with any kind if bottle shaming. I *do* think, sadly, that there is some financial motivation leading hospitals to close their nurseries under the guise of being "baby friendly." But I also feel that childbirth is an incredibly stressful event to a woman's brain and body (good stress too!) and am equally concerned with supporting the mother in her recovery. PPA/PPD are rampant and underdiagnosed, and we seem, at least in the states, to be getting worse at it instead of better. "Baby Friendly" to me means ensuring that the baby goes home with a healthy, mentally stable, well supported parent
Post by countrycotton on Aug 5, 2016 8:39:21 GMT -5
As far as I know my hospital hasn't gone "baby friendly". I would say though if they decide to give anyone flack for wanting to formula feed. I would simply state that as the mother you feel it's more baby friendly to feed the new child than to have it starve until you leave the hospital. If they continue to give you problems have some one go get formula and bottles and feed your child!
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