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Awesome timing on this.

Baby's birthday: 7/4
Baby's gender: girl

She'll be six weeks old tomorrow and in many ways is doing so well. She started giving me the occasional smile a couple days ago, and will sleep at least five hours at night; sometimes 7 or 8. Her gas problems have gotten better, but we've also been dealing with blocked tear ducts and a heat rash that looks awful but is finally getting better. She's 90% breastfed, with one formula feed at night when I pump. I have to use a nipple shield, but other than that I've been lucky that it's going well.

Despite having a relatively easy time of it, I'm still having a pretty hard time dealing some days. Yesterday was fine until nighttime when I had a cry fest over her getting up to eat once. Once!! It's honestly got me feeling completely pathetic that I can't manage to handle my easy baby. I don't think it's ppd yet...and most days it's ok...but I do have some struggles with feeling like a failure for no reason, and feeling like I never get a break from her.

Great idea!

Birthday: 7/29/13
Gender: girl

C is just over two weeks old and generally is a pretty easy baby I think. Our biggest issue is cluster feeding, sometimes for hours at a time, especially in the evenings. I'm happy that breast feeding is working out and she is gaining weight, but there are evenings I just feel like I need a break and I can't get one because I am the only one who can feed her. She's had a couple of bad nights but usually she sleeps for 3-4 hour stretches and eats for an hour and a half. We have started finishing the middle of the night feeds with side lying nursing and then snuggling for a few hours. I'm still sleeping in the bed in her room and starting to really miss sharing a bed with Dh though! (Just sharing a bed and snuggling- do NOT want anything more than that yet!!)

I've spent more time on hb figuring out what's normal than I can count in these last few weeks. Thank god for iPhones!

@Cherrybee: I know the wind issues are no joke but every time you say wind instead of gas it sounds so much nicer

@swedishfish: you and I are going back to work on the same day; we'll have to be brave together! :'(

What are you all wearing these days? My maternity clothes are way to big but my regular clothes Re definitely not fitting yet, unless they are stretchy. I have petty much three outfits I rotate with- yoga pants (not mat but fold over waist that fit the whole pregnancy), fold over waist knit skirt, knit pj pants. I think I'll get some stretchy skirts to wear with nursing tanks for the in between time. I'm actually only three pounds from pre pregnancy weight but it is NOT in the same places!

@Foodnerd81: @Cherrybee: wowza, I'm impressed y'all have dropped the weight already. I lost the first 30...and have 20 to go. I'm really upset about it, honestly. Because of that, I don't have much to wear. I have a couple pairs of fat jeans that fit, and a couple shirts...but at home I'm wearing yoga pants and tank tops. I'm really upset that my work pants don't fit, I guess I'll have to go shopping I started lifting light weights and doing squats... My body just hates me.

@Cherrybee: @Bookworm: I had also put on weight before getting pregnant- it was the most I'd ever weighed, so it's sort of artificial to say I'm only 3 lbs up. I think bc of that, I didn't gain as much as I would have if I'd started out thinner-- less than 30 lbs. but none if my fitted prepreg clothes fit- I still have a rounded, now squishy tummy and my hips are still bigger. I also wasn't eating enough for the first week- a problem I've never had before but I was just breast feeding round the clock and didn't have time or energy to eat!

I will be happy if it keeps coming off like this but I'm doubtful!

@Foodnerd81: yeah, it sure did I guess the main reason it bothers me so much is because I had lost 30 pounds before I got pregnant, so I was in the best shape I had been in years. The weight I'm at now is closer to what I was before losing the weight, but now that I know I can be smaller, I feel more pressure. I know it's being WAY too hard on myself, but I've always had issues with that. I'm just grateful that DH is still hot for me

Baby's birthday: 6/1/13
Baby's gender: boy
Baby's name: C

I love this kidlet more than I could ever explain That first smile killed me. He is already a charmer and Mama is in biiiig trouble lol! He has this sideways grin that I just adore.

This has also been the hardest thing I've ever done.
I had a brutal labor and delivery, and we've had a rough go of breastfeeding but its getting better all the time! He doesn't sleep much, but I figure we'll get there someday. I also still have about 20 lbs to go til pre-preg weight, and I'd like to lose 30-35 more total.

@grizz: agreed on it being the hardest thing I've ever experienced. I had no idea how difficult some aspects of it would be. Still... I have so much love for this goober, even on days like today where I want to cry in the bathroom like I did when I was a kid

@Foodnerd81: I wore the same two pair of jeans that I bought before I got a bump (two sizes bigger than what I would have normally worn.) I lasted in those until about 35 weeks when I broke down and bought pants with a maternity band. I still wear both, but I'm just about able to button the jeans again. I didn't drop a ton of weight right off the bat (I'm uncertain what my final weight actually was), but I have 20-25 solid pounds to go before my waaaay pre-pregnancy weight. (I had gained about 8 or 10 pounds before I got pregnant.)

@Bookworm: Yay!! DH was really excited that it's D-day, heh. Felt like it, lol!

@Cherrybee: Some sort of growth spurt maybe?

@Ellie: your W and I share a birthday! July 20 is a fabulous day for a birthday!

Hi all!!

Baby's bday: July 12
Baby's gender: girl
Baby's name: Maya

Maya is 4 weeks and two days, and I cannot believe how fast the first month flew by. I was incredibly lucky the first two weeks to have my mom here-- because my mom is awesome and was a great help. I had the easiest first two weeks of a newborn's life ever-- if I had to stay up most of the night with the baby, it was no biggie, because my mom would take her the next morning and I could go sleep for an uninterrupted 4 hour stretch. When she left, my husband had a week off work and that was great too, because he's a very hands- on dad.

Then, last week he went back to work and I'm Finally experiencing what it's like to have an infant, stay up half the night, and still have to take care of an infant all day 100% alone.

I feel so sleep deprived! But then I feel bad for complaining because on the whole, Maya is a great baby and doesn't cry or fuss much at all. I mean, she never sleeps longer than 3 hours at a stretch, so my life isn't perfect just yet, but she's great during the day.

Our other issue is breastfeeding. When she was born, she had a subdural hematoma and a tight jaw, which made her latch really tight (she can't open her mouth wide at all), which makes nursing kill my nipples, even with a shield because it feels like pliers on my nips. So we have appointments with a sacral-cranial therapist to work on the jaw. She doesn't accept insurance. Expensive!!

I've also had 3 LC visits (more $$), and I now know Maya has a tongue tie and a lip tie, so now we have an appt with an ENT. Yup-- more $$! When all this is said and done, I'm going to have spent $1000 or more on trying to get her to breastfeed without making me scream in pain.

In the mean time, I pump. I'm thankful that *at least* I have a Good supply, but pumping exclusively sucks.

Other than that--- things are going well enough. I'm getting a routine during the day, and am starting to do simple things, like bake treats or make dinner or run errands during the day with Maya.

Oh, and....I gained 41 pounds and have only lost 20 or 21 so far. Boo! But I figure...9 months on, 9 months off-- although my goal is to lose the 20 before I go back to work at the end of November.

@Foodnerd81: I am totally on this bandwagon. Suck the fat out! *eating chocolate*

I just bathed three dogs. What in the world is wrong with me?

Gotta clean the house tomorrow for the photoshoot on Friday.

@StrawberryBee: OMG, you bathed three dogs and you just gave birth on the 8th? Tell the dogs to bathe themselves next time! Get on the couch and lay down!

@Foodnerd81: @swedishfish: Hmm, do you mean I probably shouldn't have lifted the 30lb dog into the bathtub?

I know, I'm bad. I can't help it...they were stinky and had poop on them and just...needed to be bathed. DH would have no idea how to go about doing it (and is in fact highly allergic to them) and they'd be traumatized by a groomer. My mother felt the need to tell me that my bathroom wasn't clean enough the other day. "I know you don't go into that one much." ....thanks mom. I'll get right on that. No no, it's fine, no need to offer to assist.

@Cherrybee: oh poor E with the tummy issues! I was going to ask how you know she had wind issues- sometimes I wonder if C has a little bit if a gas issue though it never seems to last long. But the girl can seriously fart (Dh tells her lovingly that she farts like a man). And she always seems happier free she does. And yeah I hear you on the over stimulation. Sometimes Dh picks her up while she's sleeping, bc he doesn't get to see her that much during te day, but then if she wakes up I have to feed her. But I can't blame him. She's irresistible.