I'm feeding DD, and watching parks and recs. Feeling much better mentally after 6 hours of straight sleep. (No, my baby doesn't sleep that much, but my H took a feeding.)
F has an appointment with a pediatric urologist this morning. His pedis are worried he has a potential birth defect that would need surgery to correct. I'm really hoping he doesn't need surgery so I'm crossing everything that it goes well this morning.
Post by erinshelley21 on Apr 10, 2017 5:52:17 GMT -5
I'm up for the day. Today DD and I are going to go pick up taxes. I'm hoping our refund is large enough to pay off dh's truck. If it is, we could theoretically buy our new house anytime without selling ours first. Not the best idea but possible.
I'm up. We have an appt with a LC today. Mostly looking to see how much he's transferring with the weighted feed. Also want to ask why I have no milk in the evening. Lately M gets super frustrated with our last feed of the night and when I take him off I can't express anything. Then I get maybe a couple drops pumping. We used to supplement every feed with formula but now we're just doing the last one before bed and the MOTN feeds (per our ped). It seems to be fine during the day, but so weird before bed. Last night DS took 4(!!) oz of formula around 9:30 (BF part of feed started at 8:45) then didn't wake me up until 3:15. I'll take it! Usually DH does the first MOTN feed but he basically skipped that one last night. Hopefully the rest of the night goes as well so I'm semi rested and don't cry at the LC like I usually do. Not even bc of him, just bc of all the stress I went thru with DD and all the time I spent there. It all comes back when I walk thru their doors I swear
Post by moutonrouge on Apr 10, 2017 6:01:15 GMT -5
I was really out of it last night during our wake ups. During the first one I had a dream I was slipping in and out of that Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus were going around collecting extra breast milk and needed me to donate 100 oz just real quick into a giant bottle. I'm gonna need a nap today.
Hope your refund helps out with the truck and the new house erinshelley21
I hope the LC appt is helpful elsmom - doing a weighted feed really helped me feel better. I joined a group run by LCs where we meet to breastfeed and can do weighted feeds ourselves, and it's nice to have the option and track that over time.
Post by erinshelley21 on Apr 10, 2017 6:04:33 GMT -5
elsmom I've seemed pretty drained in the evenings too. I'm hoping after a few evenings of letting her nurse the entire evening it will improve. I had to keep switching sides every 5-10 minutes because there was nothing there.
Post by seadragon2013 on Apr 10, 2017 6:06:11 GMT -5
Now that she's exceeded her birth weight, DD is refusing to go more than three hours without eating. No big chunks of sleep for the Seadragons. On the plus side, she's growing like a week and is about to bust out of the nb clothes she was swimming in two weeks ago!
elsmom - add me to the list of those who seem drained in the evening. F clusterfeeds all evening and seems frustrated after awhile. I've been supplementing with a small bottle of formula before bed and it seems to help but I haven't decided if I want to continue to do that long term. I hope the LC is able to help!
caer we also need to see a pediatric urologist:( Hoping we both get good news.
Oh boo, I'm sorry. I can't recall the name of F's issue but it's basically that the opening may not be where it's supposed to be. There was a disagreement between our two pedis about whether it was something that needed to be addressed so we're headed to the specialist to check it out. I hope everything is ok with you guys!
L was up a lot last night. I tried to rest as much as I could bc I saw the writing on the wall when she didn't settle like she typically does. I lost track of the number of wake-ups and frankly I'm glad bc I think that would've frustrated me. Of course now she's nursing herself to sleep and the 2 y/o is just waking up. At least the 4 y/o is still sleeping!
caer we also need to see a pediatric urologist:( Hoping we both get good news.
Oh boo, I'm sorry. I can't recall the name of F's issue but it's basically that the opening may not be where it's supposed to be. There was a disagreement between our two pedis about whether it was something that needed to be addressed so we're headed to the specialist to check it out. I hope everything is ok with you guys!
If it's hypospadias that's something my friends baby had and it was corrected with surgery- I'm sure each case is different. I hope he doesn't require surgery!
Our little dude's scrotum is attached higher up on his shaft than normal...the pedi in the hospital didn't say much about it other than she wanted to wait on circ until a urologist looked at it. I should stop googling things in the meantime, ugh.
Oh boo, I'm sorry. I can't recall the name of F's issue but it's basically that the opening may not be where it's supposed to be. There was a disagreement between our two pedis about whether it was something that needed to be addressed so we're headed to the specialist to check it out. I hope everything is ok with you guys!
If it's hypospadias that's something my friends baby had and it was corrected with surgery- I'm sure each case is different. I hope he doesn't require surgery!
Our little dude's scrotum is attached higher up on his shaft than normal...the pedi in the hospital didn't say much about it other than she wanted to wait on circ until a urologist looked at it. I should stop googling things in the meantime, ugh.
Yes, that's it! We're in a similar place in that they wouldn't circumcise until they determined whether he needs surgery. I'm sorry things are uncertain for you guys, too. And Dr. Google is the worst! Stay away if you can.
I meant to reply to the FTMs yesterday. Hang in there, mamas! I think everyone has those "WTF have we done" moments. I remember thinking when DS1 was a newborn that things would always be that way - hard, sleepless, stressful. And while it's true that things won't be the same, you'll find a new normal and eventually it will be pretty awesome. You will sleep again and these little people will fill up your lives in ways you can't imagine yet. It's why so many of us signed up to do it again. You got this, friends!
C is awake and playing in his room. I'm exhausted and don't want to get up yet. I hate starting his day so late but I just can't bring myself to leave this comfy duvet.
It is supposed to be beautiful outside today so I am hoping to spend some time out on the back deck. I'm so tired of being cooped up in this house!
DS is up, so now I'm probably for the day. He use to be really good about sleep at night. I'd get up at like 4 and then he'd sleep until like 8. Last night I was up at 4, and he was asleep again a little after 4:30. By 6:30 he was up again. (And I was awake briefly during the time he slept because the alarm went off and H got up.) I just wish this kid's sleep was more predictable. It always seems like when I want him to be awake, he is zonked out (a la last night when I was ready to go to bed, but he was close to another feeding and sound sleep), yet when I want him to sleep, he's wide awake. I guess at least if we're up up, I can give him a bath...It's been a few days and he needs one.
caer good luck at your appointment today. Hope it's good and that no surgery is needed!
elsmom hope you get some answers/guidance from the LC. Also, how old is your ds? We've also been doing some combo feeding, and dinnertime I feel like we're over feeding him. We've occasionally done 4 oz, but was curious how old he is and what he weighs?
Thanks for all the good thoughts. No surgery necessary! And baby boy gained over a pound since his doctor appointment two weeks ago! All good news. ETA: 3 weeks ago, not 2. Numbers are hard.
Post by daisylola11 on Apr 10, 2017 8:05:50 GMT -5
We're up for the second time, it's 6am here and I've decided I'm up for the day since the toddler should be up soon. Plus Tilly is super awake just staring at shadows.
Add me to both the low supply at night group and the DS having to wait a while for his circumcision group.
I had to give B a bottle last night because he was so frustrated. I don't want to continue doing that, I guess we'll just have to keep nursing frequently until my supply catches up.
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