Monday Baby Talk 6/29

[dogmama22]

The newborn support chat is crazy long these days and there was talk of moving to a weekly post on Mondays, so here we go. What are your baby questions/ concerns/ brags?

[erbear]

My H is busy so I got LO to nap in her crib while I am pumping. Yessss! I've been afraid she'd hate it since she sleeps in the rock n play so well.

[musicfrk2002]

Been trying to avoid co sleeping...but after baby screamed every 2 hours, I brought him to bed with me after H left for work...best hour of sleep I have gotten in the past day

[jessila]

O woke up at 3am to eat and stayed awake until 730 alternating between being ridiculously alert and eating every half hour or so. His first pediatrician appointment was supposed to be at 9am. We were running maybe 10 minutes late so I called to say so and they rescheduled our appointment to this afternoon. Cue ugly, hormonal, exhausted crying for the next half hour. DH suggested we go grab breakfast which made me cry more because tired. We came home and O woke up and started screaming. DH made me eat breakfast while he dealt with O. So I ate while crying. Then took O and cried more because it wasn't his fault. But I fed him and suggested we try the swing. O's been asleep for for three hours AND I got to sleep too!! Much less crying happening now.

[lunalovegood]

LO hates, hates, hates her car seat. She starts crying as soon as she has to go in it and then sometimes does this weird thing DH and I call Hulifying. She basically holds her breath for a second stretches out her arms and clenches her fists. He little face turns all red and then she goes back to crying. It is kinda scary. She will usually fall asleep once the car is moving, but before that is brutal for all of us.

[bruunk]

N maybe has his nights and days confused? He'll sleep well during the day and then at night it's all about constant feeding - he eats, sleeps about and hour and then we start the process all over. He also hoards all dirty diapers until night - I don't get it. But last night he slept from 3 until 5 and would have slept more but I had to change him (diaper so wet it was about to burst). Then DH took him from 5-7 so I could sleep. Most sleep in a row I've gotten since his birth. I feel great... Must not over do it.

[veggiemo]

Took LO to his 2 week check up, everything went great. Birth weight of 7lbs 14oz and current weight of 9lb 1oz! Yay for a good nursing baby! DS1 was a crappy nurser and had a really hard time gaining weight, so this is such a nice change.

Pedi told me to avoid places like the grocery store because of germs, and here I am sitting with baby at work right now. Oops. I'm on my bosses couch nursing while I wait for my temp to finish up a task...which could take forever and a day because my temp is SO SLOW. I really wanted to just get in and get some things done and get out, but it's not looking good.

[carolyngrace]

At 4 weeks, any hopes I had about a routine are being swiftly squashed. My SIL is visiting and I told her about oscars typical nap and sleep schedule and he has not followed it at all the last couple days. He took two hours to put down last night and screamed on and off the whole time. Finally fell asleep with a half hour of "comfort nursing". Ouch. Well, hello witching hour, or growth spurt, or whatever!

[bruunk]

carolyngrace that comfort nursing is hard - I'm sorry!

[mrskblack11]

Baby J has been spitting up quite a lot lately. Now I know why we received so many blankets! Got to do another load of laundry to keep up with this boy.

[wormgerm]

His claws officially grew in today. Just in time to show up to his 2 week well visit looking like he got in to a street fight. Sigh. Oh well. Everyone said he was handsome anyway. 8 lb. 3.4 oz. up from 7 lb. 8 oz. at his 2 day post discharge visit. Happy to see his incessant nursing is working out. My boobs are really soft after being engorged for days so I was mildly concerned my supply was dropping.

[theBeeMama]

Okay so I breastfed DS for 14 months. It was awesome and I loved it, and I was genuinely excited about doing it again! And I still am, except now I am starting to remember how incredibly painful and difficult it was at first. When I was thinking back to the glory of nursing, I was remembering from like 9 months on, when it wasn't a constant ordeal and when I wasn't engorged and when my nipples weren't killing me.

So latching is pretty freaking painful right now and I'm looking for the light at the end of the tunnel... How long will this last? Should it be this uncomfortable? Should I get a nipple shield or just let things play out? I thought of myself as such a pro but the newborn stage is back with a vengeance!

[baytosa2013]

We don't have another Dr appt until her one month next week but I know she's gaining weight because she has thigh rolls now! Also I went to the grocery store today...by myself, with the baby...and neither one of us died! I wore her around the store and she slept the whole time. It was SO much easier than I anticipated.

[veggiemo]

Jun 29, 2015 14:53:06 GMT -5 theBeeMama said:

Okay so I breastfed DS for 14 months. It was awesome and I loved it, and I was genuinely excited about doing it again! And I still am, except now I am starting to remember how incredibly painful and difficult it was at first. When I was thinking back to the glory of nursing, I was remembering from like 9 months on, when it wasn't a constant ordeal and when I wasn't engorged and when my nipples weren't killing me.

So latching is pretty freaking painful right now and I'm looking for the light at the end of the tunnel... How long will this last? Should it be this uncomfortable? Should I get a nipple shield or just let things play out? I thought of myself as such a pro but the newborn stage is back with a vengeance!

Latching was painful for me in the beginning too, but only for the first few sucks. My nipples are still a little sore, but got a lot better maybe after a week and a half? I tried to be really diligent about keeping lanolin on them so they wouldn't get too chapped. DS1 was on and off so much and my nipples were so torn up that this feels like nothing. I'm not sure if you should be having so much pain, but maybe this baby has a stronger suck or a worse latch?

[turtletyme]

Slept on the (hardwood) floor last night with lo in the mamaroo, bc she would only stop screaming if I had a hand on her. Crying continues today. I thought she might be sick, but no fever, so I guess we are entering the hardcore crying phase. Hooray!

[dogmama22]

Jun 29, 2015 14:53:06 GMT -5 theBeeMama said:

Okay so I breastfed DS for 14 months. It was awesome and I loved it, and I was genuinely excited about doing it again! And I still am, except now I am starting to remember how incredibly painful and difficult it was at first. When I was thinking back to the glory of nursing, I was remembering from like 9 months on, when it wasn't a constant ordeal and when I wasn't engorged and when my nipples weren't killing me.

So latching is pretty freaking painful right now and I'm looking for the light at the end of the tunnel... How long will this last? Should it be this uncomfortable? Should I get a nipple shield or just let things play out? I thought of myself as such a pro but the newborn stage is back with a vengeance!

It shouldn't hurt for more than thirty seconds after latching on. If it does, that indicates poor latch that should be corrected. A nipple shield is probably not needed if you didn't need it with your first.
I think my pain was gone and I was healed up within a week and a half, but sometimes I'm a bit sore by evening still (3 weeks in).
I'm not the most knowledgable on the subject, but I've been reading up on the BF board, so if you have other questions they're awesome about answering - no need to search or lurk.

[mrsmonogrammed]

LO actually woke up on her own for the 2nd MOTN feeding last night!! I never knew I would be so excited about my child waking up at 3:30AM
We go in for a weight check tomorrow...I swear if she hasn't gained anything I'm throwing in the towel with this breastfeeding thing...we're nursing every 2ish hours during the day and it's not like it's a quick process!

[lunalovegood]

Hang in there mrsmonogrammed, those every two hour feedings are tough. Fingers crossed for good weight gain tomorrow.

[lunalovegood]

Jun 29, 2015 11:56:31 GMT -5 veggiemo said:

Took LO to his 2 week check up, everything went great. Birth weight of 7lbs 14oz and current weight of 9lb 1oz! Yay for a good nursing baby! DS1 was a crappy nurser and had a really hard time gaining weight, so this is such a nice change.

Pedi told me to avoid places like the grocery store because of germs, and here I am sitting with baby at work right now. Oops. I'm on my bosses couch nursing while I wait for my temp to finish up a task...which could take forever and a day because my temp is SO SLOW. I really wanted to just get in and get some things done and get out, but it's not looking good.

WOW! That is fantastic gain!  Good job momma!  And LO too for being such a good nursing baby.

[tiffbot]

We had a newborn/family photo session booked to do outdoors today but my photog and I decided to postpone due to major smoke around from intense forest fires in the northern part of our province. It's just awful and while a haze is normal around here for a bit in the summer when the fires get bad, there's one particularly bad one only a few hours away they've been having a lot of trouble with. So I'm currently sitting in a high risk air quality area (too far from the forest and fires, we won't get hit with that thankfully) and it's just not safe to take the LOs outside. Lots and lots of thoughts are going to the firefighters and evacuees right now.

In in other baby news, DD is a walker/bouncer..oh my heavens I am going to lose all my baby weight just putting on the miles with her bouncing between the kitchen and living room! (positive thinking lol!)

Anyway, just wanted to show the difference between 8:30am here of my back yard when I already thought it was very smoky, to how much worse it got at noon. They are hoping by Wednesday it starts to clear up a bit, I hope so too because it's much too gross out for little lungs and already smells of smoke in our house. I can't even imagine how bad it is the farther north you get.

[carolyngrace]

Jun 29, 2015 15:55:36 GMT -5 mrsmonogrammed said:

LO actually woke up on her own for the 2nd MOTN feeding last night!! I never knew I would be so excited about my child waking up at 3:30AM
We go in for a weight check tomorrow...I swear if she hasn't gained anything I'm throwing in the towel with this breastfeeding thing...we're nursing every 2ish hours during the day and it's not like it's a quick process!

Fx for you! I did every 2 hrs for two days and DB gained like 2oz each day!

[Widget123]

Yuck that is super gross tiffbot! I hope all that smoke clears out soon!

[shahoi]

I'm so glad to hear all these babies are gaining weight like champs! LO had another weight check-in today. Her birth weight was 6lbs 15oz, at her 2 week appointment she was still only 6lbs 11oz, and today at 3 weeks she's 7lbs 6oz!!! I'm one happy momma! Now we no longer have to wake her for feedings every 2.5 hours!!

[sully326]

LO had her weight check appt. She was 8lb 3oz at birth, was 7lb 14oz when we left the Hospital, and at her 2 week check she was 8lb 11oz! I'm super proud of her :-)

[gilder40]

My baby girl is 8 weeks today. Holy crap. Officially two months on July 4th.

I think we are finally getting over the 6-week growth spurt. I can actually put her down, and she's becoming more alert and looking around. She's even smiling when we talk to her and looking at us. It's amazing and makes it all worth it.
She still likes to eat every two hours in the wee morning hours, but she gives me a good 3-3.5 hour stretch before that.

[erbear]

So is it just that they need to get back to birth weight before you have to stop the waking for feeding thing? We go Wednesday and according to our completely unscientific scale experiment, LO is over 7 lbs which is above her birth weight. Waking her up to eat is getting harder because she just fights us.

[billyhorrible]

Jun 29, 2015 21:36:20 GMT -5 erbear said:

So is it just that they need to get back to birth weight before you have to stop the waking for feeding thing? We go Wednesday and according to our completely unscientific scale experiment, LO is over 7 lbs which is above her birth weight. Waking her up to eat is getting harder because she just fights us.

For waking at night, yes (although my pediatrician likes them over birthweight). You'll still want to wake during the day to help them learn nighttime is for sleeping.



We made it through our first day with just me and the two boys. Especially. AW-worthy because BH started his 3 week growth spurt last night. He went from sleeping 5-6 hour stretches to being up every hour, and the only time he wasn't miserable today was when he was eating or sleeping. Which is super convenient when trying to entertain a 3 year old. LBB is in school tomorrow, so I'm anticipating a day of just couching it!

[ladysif]

DS1 had a fever of 101.2 tonight. Awesome. Just crossing everything I have DS2 has enough immunity from nursing to dodge it. Was hoping to avoid the rectal thermometer a bit longer...

I'm kicking myself for falling into the self neglect route already. I've been forgetting to take my ibuprofen and haven't showered in 2 days. How does this happen?! I also need to have a talk with DH about what paternity leave is all about which ticks me off because he knows better. I am dealing with the sleep deprivation far better than he is, not to mention getting less sleep; he's being a major crabass but denies it. And I'm sorry, but paternity leave is not the time to do totally unnecessary fun to do projects you didn't have time to do before DS2 was born.

...apparently I am a major crabass, too.

[Widget123]

Jun 29, 2015 22:37:44 GMT -5 ladysif said:

DS1 had a fever of 101.2 tonight. Awesome. Just crossing everything I have DS2 has enough immunity from nursing to dodge it. Was hoping to avoid the rectal thermometer a bit longer...

I'm kicking myself for falling into the self neglect route already. I've been forgetting to take my ibuprofen and haven't showered in 2 days. How does this happen?! I also need to have a talk with DH about what paternity leave is all about which ticks me off because he knows better. I am dealing with the sleep deprivation far better than he is, not to mention getting less sleep; he's being a major crabass but denies it. And I'm sorry, but paternity leave is not the time to do totally unnecessary fun to do projects you didn't have time to do before DS2 was born.

...apparently I am a major crabass, too.

I feel your pain.  During DH's paternity leave he decided he wanted contractors to do work in our basement, so he also had to prep and clean up before and after... So he was almost totally useless.

[jcprn]

Jun 29, 2015 21:36:20 GMT -5 erbear said:

So is it just that they need to get back to birth weight before you have to stop the waking for feeding thing? We go Wednesday and according to our completely unscientific scale experiment, LO is over 7 lbs which is above her birth weight. Waking her up to eat is getting harder because she just fights us.

For us they wanted G at or above his birth weight by his 2 week appointment and then told us we could let him tell us when he was hungry at night. Best thing ever.