Post by mrsclark731 on Mar 28, 2015 15:49:21 GMT -5
Hello ladies!
I've been lurking, but finally have a second to post.
I'm glad everyone is hanging in there! I have been a zombie lately trying to figure this whole newborn thing out, like everyone else. I'm proud to say our household is adjusting
LO is 4 weeks 4 days and I'm trying to figure out when I'll be able to open my etsy store back up. I'm thinking I will wait until she reaches the 6 week mark and try to prepare myself. H is going into his office in the city (NYC) Monday for the first time since since she arrived...I'm a tad nervous. I've been spoiled with him exclusively working from home. I also have my cleaning people coming Monday and I'll have to handle them, the dogs, and the baby solo. I know... Such problems I have
Before it decided to be winter again, we took her in the backyard (technically just the deck) for the first time this week:
I hope everyone enjoys the weekend and catches up on some sleep!
Post by lilyelayne on Mar 28, 2015 15:51:53 GMT -5
Lots of spam to respond to & then my phone lost the whole post. Sigh. Love to all you ladies.
I was trying on strapless bras in Victoria's Secret. Got to number 3 before some other lady's baby started crying and then my fitting room got a rainfall of milk. So awkward.
Post by WittyLittle on Mar 28, 2015 16:13:27 GMT -5
Hi lovely ladies! Just popping in to say hello! Things have been very very hectic here. We're in the middle of moving house (our rental was sold 1 week before DS was born so we had to look for a new place, which is not at all easy in this city). We had to paint all the walls and get new floors put in (really weird, the last tennants took their carpet with them...). Tomorrow the boxes are being moved and Tuesday the furniture. I've been lurking in on the spam to kind of keep up to date. So great to see so many developments (we take the good we take the bad...) with everyone's LOs! I'm looking forward to being finished and able to settle in to a routine and get back in action here as well. In the meantime I'm wishing everyone lots of sleep, little wins, health and happiness ... geez I sound like a unicorn farting rainbows. I'll show myself out ...
DH and I are cleaning the house. It hasn't been done in over 3 weeks so it's about time. Except, none of us really want to do it so we are just postponing the important/hard stuff (like vaccuming) and doing small/unimportant stuff (like folding three pieces of laundry and then thinking we're done. Ugh, we really need to get ourselves together...
boxerrrmama85 sorry about your DH'S job, hopefully a better one is just around the corner.
My LO took a spill off the Ottoman last night. Little bugger pushed himself off with his feet. DH was right there with him, but it was so quick. He hit his head so off to the pediatrician we went. Thank goodness he is fine, just a little bruise on his temple, but it sure scared the hell out of the three of us!
Not sure what's going on with LO. Normally he eats 4 oz every 3-4 hours. We nursed at DH's. Office at 1pm, probably got about 3 oz and fell immediately asleep. We finish running errands and he wants BM at 3:30. Via bottle he downs 4 oz and cries for more milk. So I give him another ounce.
He went to my parents house for the night so DH and I could go to dinner. When I dropped him off at 5pm he would not stop sucking on my dads shoulder or his hand. He wouldn't take his pacifier. So, we fed him another 2oz. Then my parents fed him another 2 oz an hour later and another 4 by 8pm. By the time we get home and settled for bed, LO wants another bottle at 9:30pm. What the heck is this all about? 20 oz of milk in 10 hours!!!! I'm really shocked because he did not spit up or have milk coming out his nose.
Anyone else ever deal with this? I'm thinking some of the issue is that all but the feeding at lunch was bottle fed, making him not work as hard.
PikoPiko was it you that was told to go back to EBF instead of EP? What was the reason for having to do this?
Yeah, it was me. LO was overfed for a while, became extremely fussy and had a lot of tummy issues, straining and crying til he farts/pooped. A lot of comfort eating cos that pushes old milk thru his digestive system. No amount of gas drop helped at all. He was taking in 3oz every 2 hours, sometimes he wanted his milk even sooner. I backed him off on his milk quantity to 2.25oz per bottle (I did a breastfeeding session to weigh him before and after to check how much he actually ate to be satiated), a lot of crying, but the pacifier helped me to differentiate between his need to suck/easing tummy issues vs really hunger, and he got better. A couple weeks later, he was eating less regularly and was rooting after feeding. So I upped his bottle quantity back to 3oz, figured 3 x 9= 27oz, right in the middle of the recommended range. But I started noticing bad breath on him, and found milk in his mouth once 2 hours after feeding. I was told he had silent reflux, he gained weight just fine, but he absolutely hated to be laid down flat on his back. I needed to burp him several times during feeding and keep him upright for at least half an hour after feeding. For a baby that was voracious, it was difficult to pace him like that and I got no sleep at all. The word on the street was breastfed babies can't be overfed, so I switched back to try it out. So far so good, no bad breath, just sweet baby breath. However, I still don't produce enough, I now give him 1.5-2oz in a bottle and then nurse to top him off. He seems satisfied as he always unlatches himself and go straight to sleep with no fussing.
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