Postnatal-May 2011
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I have been having complications and started bleeding extremely heavy almost two months later I am thinking it was my cycle but omg it was rough. I hope your feeling better0
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My little one is a side sleeper lol hates being flat on his back he sleeps on his back only when elevated lol he has alot of personality
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My little one is a side sleeper lol hates being flat on his back he sleeps on his back only when elevated lol he has alot of personality
sounds like mine, we put her in her boppy or daddy's arms0 -
Hi I'd like to join. I have 15 month old twins. I am now back at my pre-pregnancy weight as of this week yay! However I do need to lose more at least 10-15 more lbs. Overall I lost about 45 lbs from last year til now. I find that working out is the hardest thing for me to do. Not because I am all that tired my LO's nap like champs but I just have so much to do that the last thing I want to do is workout. Plus I don't go to a gym I just workout to dvds in my basement which can get dull. Im doing weight watchers which has been wonderful.0
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I'm interested to hear what your bedtime routines are (if any at this point...lol) We try to put Annabelle down around 10 or so but she never goes to sleep until 12:30 or so...and is usually fussy the whole time in between there... She is sleeping most of the day, so I'm trying to keep her up more today to see if that helps (she didn't get to sleep until 2 last night, and was extremely fussy
). Just curious to hear what works or doesn't work for your LOs. Maybe I'll try the tummy sleeping and see if that helps. She use to sleep good in her swaddler blanket but now she can't stand to be bundled up, she jsut wants to throw her arms about (mainly cause she's upset I guess)
I'm 3 weeks PP and still have bleeding/spotting. I'm just using pantiliners though, not enough for a pad. A week after my delivery I had a stitch come out (I think...) so I've been kind of worried something isn't healing right, but I guess I'm not too concerned because I haven't called the doctor.
Would you all take anything or call the doctor for a sore throat? Usually I wouldn't and would just take something over the counter, but being that I'm nursing and around the baby 24/7 it makes me feel like I should. DOn't know what medicines I can tkae though. I am hoarse today but my throat feels better today than it did yesterday, but it was bad last night. Probably didn't help that I was geting emotional when she was crying forever
Welcome, singingmom! Congrats on pre-preggo weight! I have 10 pounds to go, then I would like to loose another 15.0 -
I'm interested to hear what your bedtime routines are (if any at this point...lol) We try to put Annabelle down around 10 or so but she never goes to sleep until 12:30 or so...and is usually fussy the whole time in between there... She is sleeping most of the day, so I'm trying to keep her up more today to see if that helps (she didn't get to sleep until 2 last night, and was extremely fussy ). Just curious to hear what works or doesn't work for your LOs. Maybe I'll try the tummy sleeping and see if that helps. She use to sleep good in her swaddler blanket but now she can't stand to be bundled up, she jsut wants to throw her arms about (mainly cause she's upset I guess)
I'm 3 weeks PP and still have bleeding/spotting. I'm just using pantiliners though, not enough for a pad. A week after my delivery I had a stitch come out (I think...) so I've been kind of worried something isn't healing right, but I guess I'm not too concerned because I haven't called the doctor.
Would you all take anything or call the doctor for a sore throat? Usually I wouldn't and would just take something over the counter, but being that I'm nursing and around the baby 24/7 it makes me feel like I should. DOn't know what medicines I can tkae though. I am hoarse today but my throat feels better today than it did yesterday, but it was bad last night. Probably didn't help that I was geting emotional when she was crying forever
Welcome, singingmom! Congrats on pre-preggo weight! I have 10 pounds to go, then I would like to loose another 15.
Megan- You have got to keep her up, on Mothers Day there was so much going on that I let Brooklynn sleep in everyone's arms and she was up til 1am, then up at 3 and 6 to feed. Our boys have to get up at 6:30 so there was not much sleep I am trying to get her into the routine we have with the boys, last night was awesome. After a week of cranky butts I have moved bedtime from 8:30 to 8 which will work well for me when I return to work next week. We are a early family so I usually cook dinner around 3:30 so we can eat between 4:15-4:30 baths are between 6-6:30 snack is at 7 and bedtime is at 8. I am throwing the baby into the routine, if she is up for atleast 2-3 hours before bedtime. I deal with a cranky baby who wants to eat so I can nurse her from like 7:30-8 and she is good until about 10:30-11 and about every 3 hours after. Baby wants to sleep but so do I :laugh: just move her around in different ways so you can get her down, if she is not tired she will not sleep and she is getting to the stage where they can be up hours at a time.
The doctors wont do anything for a sore throat, my oldest has strept so he got penicilin but otherwise they say you can take tylenol/motrin for pain and use sucrets/chloraseptic and ofcourse hot tea will help. All are safe for baby0 -
HOLY CRAP!
I thought I gained 25 pounds over night.... until I realized my husband had his FOOT on the scale!!!!!!
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Hi I'd like to join. I have 15 month old twins. I am now back at my pre-pregnancy weight as of this week yay! However I do need to lose more at least 10-15 more lbs. Overall I lost about 45 lbs from last year til now. I find that working out is the hardest thing for me to do. Not because I am all that tired my LO's nap like champs but I just have so much to do that the last thing I want to do is workout. Plus I don't go to a gym I just workout to dvds in my basement which can get dull. Im doing weight watchers which has been wonderful.
Welcome! Yay for prepreggo weight. I workout at home to dvds as well, I just try to switch it up and got Zumba for Wii. That is super fun/hard to do.0 -
HOLY CRAP!
I thought I gained 25 pounds over night.... until I realized my husband had his FOOT on the scale!!!!!!
o_O
rofl!
How mean :laugh: I would have cried0 -
Sheri - what are ways to keep her up? All she wants to do is sleep! I try carrying her around and she just falls asleep, I put her on play mat and she sleeps...lol I'm sure It's a process though, she's not just going to do it on the first day probably. Thanks! Man, 8 oclock would be nice to have some me and hubby time at night, but with her late nights we aren't getting any of that!
Carina - that reminds me of the v8 commercial! lol!0 -
Sheri - what are ways to keep her up? All she wants to do is sleep! I try carrying her around and she just falls asleep, I put her on play mat and she sleeps...lol I'm sure It's a process though, she's not just going to do it on the first day probably. Thanks! Man, 8 oclock would be nice to have some me and hubby time at night, but with her late nights we aren't getting any of that!
Carina - that reminds me of the v8 commercial! lol!
It sounds mean but make her uncomfortable, I feel bad but we move her around. Make her stand up on our laps, talk to her and play/sing. Just do anything possible to get her up, Brooklynn HATES bath time as well as being lotioned so those are GREAT things to do. You just have to be prepared to deal with a fussy baby, but I have noticed whether it is 8pm or 12am she will adjust and go to bed all the same. You have to figure out how to torture her by what she does not like. Geez that sounds mean and makes me look like a horrible mom.0 -
Hi ladies! I hope everyone is having a good day! I just had to pop in and share my wonderful night.
Patrick not only slept for 6 hours last night, he slept in his crib! That's marvelous for a one month old who always wants to be held.
Now if i could just eat without him screaming his head off, we'd be good.0 -
I would have, if I hadn't just done it to him 2 months ago. :laugh: ROFLMBO!
How mean :laugh: I would have criedHOLY CRAP!
I thought I gained 25 pounds over night.... until I realized my husband had his FOOT on the scale!!!!!!
o_O
rofl!0 -
Annabelle loves her bath and lotion time! HAHA. I've just been moving her around a lot today, and i think she is so worn out lol. I think it will just take time and she'll get more use to it. She has been up a lot more today than usual anyway, so it's a start! Thanks for the advice! I took her outside and tried to go for a little walk but it was SOOO hot that we will have to wait until later when it gets cooler. That will be good for me and her! Exercise!!
Bethe and Amanda - In regards to your BFing position, is that you sitting up and he's on your lap with just a rolled blanket underneath? Annabelle wouldn't be nearly high enough.0 -
Hi ladies! I hope everyone is having a good day! I just had to pop in and share my wonderful night.
Patrick not only slept for 6 hours last night, he slept in his crib! That's marvelous for a one month old who always wants to be held.
Now if i could just eat without him screaming his head off, we'd be good.
LOL I know the feeling, it seems like she knows exactly when I'm going to eat and decides to wake up crying...
We have bassinet in our room by my side of the bed but she's growing so much and getting so long I think we'll have to upgrade to the pack n' play until I'm ready to move her to her room (definitely not yet! I couldn't walk across the house to feed her, come back, etc all throughout the night)0 -
Annabelle loves her bath and lotion time! HAHA. I've just been moving her around a lot today, and i think she is so worn out lol. I think it will just take time and she'll get more use to it. She has been up a lot more today than usual anyway, so it's a start! Thanks for the advice! I took her outside and tried to go for a little walk but it was SOOO hot that we will have to wait until later when it gets cooler. That will be good for me and her! Exercise!!
Bethe and Amanda - In regards to your BFing position, is that you sitting up and he's on your lap with just a rolled blanket underneath? Annabelle wouldn't be nearly high enough.
You do not need to keep her up all day, just for a good amount of time before bed. We will keep Brooklynn up from about 4-4:30 til bedtime 8pm that way she will be tired when we are all ready to go to bed. I hope you get a nice walk in, I am going to start walking after dinner again. Zumba is fun but 20 mins is pretty tiring so maybe that plus walking for now, I can tell that I am not recovered all the way.0 -
Hi ladies! I hope everyone is having a good day! I just had to pop in and share my wonderful night.
Patrick not only slept for 6 hours last night, he slept in his crib! That's marvelous for a one month old who always wants to be held.
Now if i could just eat without him screaming his head off, we'd be good.
LOL I know the feeling, it seems like she knows exactly when I'm going to eat and decides to wake up crying...
We have bassinet in our room by my side of the bed but she's growing so much and getting so long I think we'll have to upgrade to the pack n' play until I'm ready to move her to her room (definitely not yet! I couldn't walk across the house to feed her, come back, etc all throughout the night)
Lol I could not imagine having Brooklynn in her crib, not even sure why we as pregnant women worry so much about the crib. My first shared a room with us so he is the only one who slept im his crib, my second did,t move to his crib til about 3 months. We will probably do the same this time but she LOVES sleeping in daddy's arms.0 -
Megan- I was thinking about what you said about wearing your baby, so I went on youtube and looked at some videos after looking at sevenslings.com. I have decided that I am going to take a trip to the fabric store and get a beautiful. stretchy fabric and tie her myself. It is super easy. You have got to check it out!0
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I wear my son all the time. I have a long wrap and a short wrap and getting some more fabric to make a ring sling. Patrick loves it and it really helps with his reflux. I spent $15 on my fabric, but I'll probably have to spend a little more for the woven wrap I want. thebabywearer.com is a good resource for all things wrap/sling related.Megan- I was thinking about what you said about wearing your baby, so I went on youtube and looked at some videos after looking at sevenslings.com. I have decided that I am going to take a trip to the fabric store and get a beautiful. stretchy fabric and tie her myself. It is super easy. You have got to check it out!0 -
I am taking Ethen to the doctor he is stuffy and coughing etc it worries me I think he got it from daycare so I worry.0
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I have some catching up to do but had to say last night was the third night of letting Wade sleep on his tummy. The first night he slept from 10:30 pm to 1:30 am (maybe a little longer). The second night from 9:30 pm to 2:30 am. And then last night best ever from 9:15 pm to 4:19 am!!! He is nursing and going right back down too.
He has about 3 - 4 ozs of Good Start formula right before bed (Similac was not his friend, made him gassy). The rest of the day he is breastfed or bottle fed breast milk.
He has been in his crib in his room from night one. It makes it hard because our room is downstairs and the kids rooms are upstairs at the opposite end of the house, but we have done this with all of our kids. We have also always had some kind of white noise going in their rooms. We keep Wade up and out of his room all day long (will encourage room naps when he is a bit older). When he naps it is on me, the playmat, swing or carrier.
Enough one handed typing for now. :laugh:
Talk to you later!0 -
I am taking Ethen to the doctor he is stuffy and coughing etc it worries me I think he got it from daycare so I worry.
Hopefully he is better soon. :flowerforyou:0 -
Hi Ladies!
I am new to this group. I had my 2nd child in Feb., and have been working towards loosing the baby weight since getting
the go-ahead to start exercising from my doc.I'm trying to loose about 50lbs total, though I'm sure I could stand to loose more. Is anyone here exclusively breastfeeding? How do you adjust your calorie intake?0 -
HOLY CRAP!
I thought I gained 25 pounds over night.... until I realized my husband had his FOOT on the scale!!!!!!
o_O
rofl!
This is always a nice trick of my husbands. Gotta love their senses of humor :laugh:0 -
Annabelle loves her bath and lotion time! HAHA. I've just been moving her around a lot today, and i think she is so worn out lol. I think it will just take time and she'll get more use to it. She has been up a lot more today than usual anyway, so it's a start! Thanks for the advice! I took her outside and tried to go for a little walk but it was SOOO hot that we will have to wait until later when it gets cooler. That will be good for me and her! Exercise!!
Bethe and Amanda - In regards to your BFing position, is that you sitting up and he's on your lap with just a rolled blanket underneath? Annabelle wouldn't be nearly high enough.
Megan,
Yes that is how I nurse him. I always use pillows under my arms and another pillow or blanket underneath him.0 -
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A little frustrated today!:explode: Nothing to do with baby..she's wonderful, as usual
I talked to the superintendent of the school I work for and in order to be paid for 2 of the snow days we had earlier in the year I have to get cleared to go back to work early and work for two days (I'm a teacher, and I have to go back on the post planning days before summer break). Somehow this doesn't seem right to me..?? I guess because they weren't made up before I went out on maternity leave, I either make arrangements to work or either don't get paid for those days. It just stinks because now I have to pump and start giving her a bottle so she can eat those two days!:sad: We were not planning on giving her a bottle for a while since I don't have to go back to work until August (well, thought so!) And for only TWO days! UGH! I guess I could always opt to not get paid and stay home, but we are already losing income due to maternity leave anyway and to lose that much more would be really tough. :grumble: :grumble: :grumble: I can't imagine leaving her for those two days :laugh: ...makes me sad:sad: Sheri, do you go back next week??
So...NOW...when do I pump? She is nursing about every 3 hours, so when should I pump...in between those times, before, after? What do yall suggest?
Update on putting her to bed: I kept her up much more yesterday than I have been, and I think it helped. I nursed her at 9:30 and tried to put her down afterwards, well she wasn't having that! She fussed for another hour or so and finally fell asleep on me around 11. It's a small step (much better than 2 am like the night before!), so hopefully we can start getting earlier, because I would like her to go down around 10 or so. It's a work in progress... I'll take little victories though! I think she's getting use to falling asleep on me though, which makes it tough for me to do anything at night, but idk....
We did get out and walk a little bit last night, but it was still in the 80s, which made her get hot quick. We walked for maybe 10-15 minutes up and down the driveway and around the yard (we don't live in a neighborhood), but it was a start!
Sheri, I don't know if I could make one...it might not turn out all that great :laugh: But I'm going to look at what you suggested and see!
I think I'm getting a little stir crazy...thought about loading her up today and going to see my DH at work...after finding out about the school stuff I"m just aggravated though, lol.0 -
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Htuzzi- Did you buy something like the mobywrap or just go with a stretchy fabric? As I looked on youtube it seems like you can use most any long stretchy fabric. I really want to try that for now and maybe a ring sling for later.
Sculley- Hope Ethan gets better quickly, kids bring home all kinds of stuff.
Bethe- Sounds like such nice sleep, I am too chicken to do tummy sleeping. We barely even do tummy time because she gets so irritated but, she does love to sleep on her side.
Rhapsody- Welcome, I am exclusively breastfeeding. You add it in your food diary, it comes as a negative number.
Megan- That seems like absolute crap to me since you are on medical leave. I understand the monetary need, being the sole provider I would love to take the addition 6 weeks of paid family leave but we REALLY need my regular pay. Also my coworker is due July 5th so she will be going on maternity leave just a few weeks after I get back. I do go back next week and I am dreading it, I dreaded leaving all of my babies but this one the most because she has been exclusively breastfed. Daddy has given her a hand full of bottles (usually if I am in the shower and she is screaming her head off), one day I had just pumped because she would not wake up so I tried to give her the bottle and she refused. Hubby said she knows she can get something better than that nasty thing from mommy and so she will hold out, lol. The wonderful thing about the breast is that you will always create more milk, you should start pumping now, the lactation specialist told me to pump separate from her feeding. It took my breasts a bit of practice before they would let down and perform for the pump so you should try asap. Let daddy or someone else introduce the bottle. The wrap is just a stretchy piece of fabric and tying it seems super easy, just look on youtube.
Julie- Hello, can't wait for you to join us, just think Maisie will be considered a full term baby in just 7 short week's so crazy that all of our babies are here already or just around the corner.
Lynn- Sorry you poped in while I was typing, can't wait to have you and ofcourse see pics of little Joshua!
AFM: Brooklynn proved to be her own person AGAIN last night. Didn’t go down til nearly 10pm and was wide awake at 3:30 this morning. I decided to do some work since I have a few projects I am working on and got her back down at 5:45. I guess I should get used to it, my boss changed my schedule so instead of waking up at 3am to be at work at 4am I will now be starting my day an hour later. Some pros and cons there but oh well, I have got to do it and 5am to 1pm is better than 9am-5pm0 -
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A little frustrated today!:explode: Nothing to do with baby..she's wonderful, as usual
I talked to the superintendent of the school I work for and in order to be paid for 2 of the snow days we had earlier in the year I have to get cleared to go back to work early and work for two days (I'm a teacher, and I have to go back on the post planning days before summer break). Somehow this doesn't seem right to me..?? I guess because they weren't made up before I went out on maternity leave, I either make arrangements to work or either don't get paid for those days. It just stinks because now I have to pump and start giving her a bottle so she can eat those two days!:sad: We were not planning on giving her a bottle for a while since I don't have to go back to work until August (well, thought so!) And for only TWO days! UGH! I guess I could always opt to not get paid and stay home, but we are already losing income due to maternity leave anyway and to lose that much more would be really tough. :grumble: :grumble: :grumble: I can't imagine leaving her for those two days :laugh: ...makes me sad:sad: Sheri, do you go back next week??
So...NOW...when do I pump? She is nursing about every 3 hours, so when should I pump...in between those times, before, after? What do yall suggest?
Update on putting her to bed: I kept her up much more yesterday than I have been, and I think it helped. I nursed her at 9:30 and tried to put her down afterwards, well she wasn't having that! She fussed for another hour or so and finally fell asleep on me around 11. It's a small step (much better than 2 am like the night before!), so hopefully we can start getting earlier, because I would like her to go down around 10 or so. It's a work in progress... I'll take little victories though! I think she's getting use to falling asleep on me though, which makes it tough for me to do anything at night, but idk....
We did get out and walk a little bit last night, but it was still in the 80s, which made her get hot quick. We walked for maybe 10-15 minutes up and down the driveway and around the yard (we don't live in a neighborhood), but it was a start!
Sheri, I don't know if I could make one...it might not turn out all that great :laugh: But I'm going to look at what you suggested and see!
I think I'm getting a little stir crazy...thought about loading her up today and going to see my DH at work...after finding out about the school stuff I"m just aggravated though, lol.
What a bummer, but it is only two days and who knows maybe this will be a good step for Annabelle (with the bottle). I know it probably is hard though. I would suggest pumping after she eats. However, if you are like me you won't get much from the pump. Last night he slept 7 + hours and I was so full it was nuts, but pumped 6 ozs total! But he definitely had enough so far the rest of the day because I see him getting it and swallowing.
It hit 94 degrees here today. This is crazy!0
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