New Baby Check-in 2/2

[ls2012]

Hope everyone is doing well! ellabee , allisong87 , beachdreamer , dancerspose , shellbell , musicallyinclined , @jacks605 , HeyMrsPotter


Baby Age/ Weeks Postpartum:

How Are You Feeling:

Baby Highlights:

Struggles:

Goals For The Day/Week:

Pics (optional, of course):

[ellabee]

Baby Age/ Weeks Postpartum: 3.5 weeks

How Are You Feeling: Pretty decent! I'd love for the pp bleeding to stop so I can kick the pads to the curb, but other than that, no real complaints.

Baby Highlights: Good weight gain and progress with the jaundice! Bs also getting much better at latching, so I'm pleased with how well nursing is progressing. Last night I also got him to do all his sleep in the bassinet! This is a big accomplishment because he hates that thing lol.

Struggles: Getting B to nap somewhere other than on me or in the car.

Goals For The Day/Week: Keep getting B to sleep in the bassinet at night.

Pics (optional, of course): Bs working on his blue steel.

[ls2012]

ellabee, HAHA!! That side-by-side pic is awesome!

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Baby Age/ Weeks Postpartum: 6 days

How Are You Feeling: feeling pretty good. Gave my Gram a tour of our new house when she came to visit today and definitely felt my incision....too many steps!

Baby Highlights: Yesterday did their first baths at home. Probably not a highlight for them- not happy about it!

Struggles: Getting over this jaundice with miss O! And the lack of sleep for me due to their cluster feeding.

Goals For The Day/Week: Get miss Os bilirubin score down!!!

Pics (optional, of course):

[allisong87]

Baby Age/ Weeks Postpartum: 2 weeks 1 day

How Are You Feeling: pretty good. This recovery has been a breeze compared for DS1!!

Baby Highlights: N is almost back to birth weight, just 1 oz to go! He is still in the NICU but has been cleared for his circumcision and the car seat challenge (because he is a preemie and his birth weight was 5lbs he has to sit in his car seat for 90 minutes to see how he tolerates it. If his vitals look good then he passes.) Also, his umbilical cord finally fell off last night! There is a still a decent sized stump that needs to dry out but the doctor no longer thinks it's something that would require surgery. Fingers crossed!!

Struggles: Breastfeeding has been so so. Sometimes we have awesome feeds and others not so much. He's still working on his feedings and that's what's really holding him back from coming home. He's still trying to figure out suck, swallow, breathe. Sometimes he's wide awake and takes all his feedings and other times he wants to sleep through the whole thing and ends up needing the feeding tube.

Goals For The Day/Week: Getting him home by H's birthday (the 7th).

Pics:

[coffeeonice]

allisong87 he is so stinking cute I can't handle it! It sounds like things are on the up and up!! I hope breastfeeding becomes breezy for you guys soon, but at least little man is almost his birth weight already, that's great news 😊

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@ellabee- love that pic-too cute!



allisong87- glad to hear things are continuing to go well! FX for the pass on his seatbelt test!

[dancerspose]

ellabee glad everything is progressing well! Love the Blue Steel look!

@jacks605 I hope O's jaundice resolves soon, and take it easy on yourself miss!

allisong87 I'm glad things are progressing. FX the feeding gets better. We had to do the car seat test because Z was under 37 weeks, what a pain!

Baby Age/ Weeks Postpartum: 2 weeks tomorrow!

How Are You Feeling: I'm feeling pretty well. My one tear must be healing because it no longer burns every time I pee. The bleeding has decreased, but like ellabee said I can't wait for it to stop altogether or at least decrease enough to me being able to ditch the diaper like giant pads and use regular ones.

Baby Highlights: We are finally able to sleep upstairs in the our bed, when we sleep. She still won't sleep in her bassinet, but she will sleep in her little foldable sleeper thing if we bring it upstairs. I don't think she likes the bassinet because it's flat, and the sleeper is a curved position with high sides around her.

Struggles: Breastfeeding is still our major struggle. She still won't latch. My appointment with the lactation consultant is Tuesday, finally. In the meantime I'm attached to my pump instead of her. Supply does not seem to be the issue at all, although I have on boob that produces double what the other does...I really wonder what's going on though, because she doesn't even really latch on to the bottles. She suckles, but I wouldn't say she does a real latch because she is on and off the bottle the whole feeding time just like she was doing on my boob. It's frustrating but I'm trying to remind myself daily that she's being fed, and it is my providing the food, even if it's not my preferred delivery method. We've pretty much cut out the formula since my supply seems good. We'll do one or two nighttime feedings with it just for convenience, but that's it.

Goals For The Day/Week: Breastfeeding - figure out this latch thing. And maybe try to do some daytime sleep training in her bassinet.

Pics (optional, of course): I'll add from tapatalk later.
Z side eye:

[shellbell]

dancerspose I don't believe it's unusual for one boob to be the producer. I could always count on lefty to produce the bulk of the milk. Has your lo been checked for lip or tongue ties? The LC should be able to look. Take a bottle with you to your appointment -- she may be able to help with bottle latch as well. Or she may recommend a different bottle.

[musicallyinclined]

Baby Age/ Weeks Postpartum: 28 hours!

How Are You Feeling: exhausted I haven't gotten much rest yet.

Baby Highlights: he's precious and looks like me!!! Also pooping well and peeing!

Struggles: he's little so nursing is hard, he's very hard to wake up

Goals For The Day/Week: waking up to eat with less struggle, maybe momma getting a nap

Pics (optional, of course):

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Feb 2, 2017 18:58:07 GMT -5 shellbell said:

dancerspose I don't believe it's unusual for one boob to be the producer. I could always count on lefty to produce the bulk of the milk. Has your lo been checked for lip or tongue ties? The LC should be able to look. Take a bottle with you to your appointment -- she may be able to help with bottle latch as well. Or she may recommend a different bottle.

Agree on all this.

[musicallyinclined]

Y'all, I just had THREE sips of a beer and I am now tipsy. What happened to me?

[dancerspose]

Feb 2, 2017 18:58:07 GMT -5 shellbell said:

dancerspose I don't believe it's unusual for one boob to be the producer. I could always count on lefty to produce the bulk of the milk. Has your lo been checked for lip or tongue ties? The LC should be able to look. Take a bottle with you to your appointment -- she may be able to help with bottle latch as well. Or she may recommend a different bottle.

Thanks I'm glad to know uneven production is coming. I get twice as much out of righty than lefty every time I pump. And thanks for the tip; I'll bring a bottle with us next week too.