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Might as well make it a trifecta of the HPTs! Hello pretty babies, i've waited SO long to see you guys!
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@chibee: Beautiful! I have a picture that looks exactly the same! Wishing you a happy and healthy 9 months gf!
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@marionberry: Thank you!! It's been a wild day! Now if i can just get myself to get some sleep...
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@chibee: Yes, try to rest. If you end up with any morning sickness you're going to need it.
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@chibee: Beautiful!!! WOoooohooooo!
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@chibee: That is the best sight greeting my eyes this morning!! You deserve this so much!
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@strawberrybee: Congrats on baby Ella!!!!
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@StrawberryBee: hurrayyyyy!!! Welcome to the world baby Ella!!! Congrats!!!
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@marionberry: you do realise this means we are next!!!
eek!
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@Mrs squirreld: I know! Craziness! It really could happen in the next few weeks. I'm not ready lol. This last trimester is flying by!
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@strawberrybee: yay! congrats!!!!!!
@Mrs squirreld: @marionberry: I cannot wait for you guys to have yours!
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@Cherrybee: How are you doing hun? I can't believe you have a two week old! Can we see some more pics?
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@chibee: that sight is a thing of beauty! I'm SO happy for you
!!!!!@marionberry: @Mrs squirreld: @chibee: @Cherrybee: goodness I hope I didn't forget anybody: Thank you!! We just got home from the hospital. Ella-girl is swinging in her snugabunny swing. I'm soooo happy to be home. Looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight. I can't believe we have a baby. How?????? Amazing.
I think we're all gold here? If you haven't seen yet, I posted a few pictures to the August 13 babies thread:
http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/august-2013-babies#post-1003479
I wrote up a very long birth story last night, so depending editing it vs. just posting ;).
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@Mrs squirreld: The last few days have been tough. Well, the whole two weeks has. A long and exhausting birth experience, episiotomy recovery, mastitis, fever, a parade of visitors, pumping every 3 hours in addition to trying to care for a colicky baby, losing my milk supply.... and now I've come out the other side I'm battling absurd feelings of inadequacy. Today has been a better day, though, we've had no visitors today and I've been in my PJs all day for the first time in my adult life!
As requested, here are some pictures of my beautiful baby girl at 2 weeks old:
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@Cherrybee: So cute, congratulations!!
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@StrawberryBee: @cherrybee: Your baby girls are so beautiful! So happy to see them.
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@Cherrybee: I've been following your threads and you've certainly been through the ringer. Let yourself hang out in pjs; you deserve it! Love that last pic.
@marionberry: thanks!!
We had a really long night last night. No sleep because she cried constantly unless attached to my boob. I just can't sit on my stitches (2nd degree tear) that long :(.
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@Cherrybee: beautiful!
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@StrawberryBee: Oh gosh, I really feel for you. Stitches HURT. Have you got a boppy? I found sitting on mine really comfortable. Its currently 11.30pm here and Ellie is bathed, fed but won't go to sleep. She's getting more and more overtired the longer she fights it. She keeps spitting her dummy out then crying for it. Exhausting.
@tinyperson: @marionberry: @pui: Thank you. I think she's rather lovely but I'm pretty biased!
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@Cherrybee: I have a boppy but only one and I was using it to nurse her at the time. It was torture to want to lie down and not be able to all night! Every time she drifted off and I tried to put her down she'd start wailing again. I tried nursing her on the bed but it just didn't work. She finally calmed down and DH was able to take her so I could get two hours of sleep. And yet somehow, I don't feel the need to sleep during the day? Not sure how its all possible.
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@StrawberryBee: @cherrybee: ahhh you guys are killing me with your pics!! they are absolutely gorgeous!!!
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@Cherrybee: NAaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! How did I miss this before!
She is a little doll!!!!! Cluck cluck cluck.. this makes me want my little guy so badly to be here! You are a trooper for what you have been dealing with healthwise!!! You are doing a wonderful job! You stay in those PJ's as long as you want and don't be afraid to say no to visitors!! I hope you are starting to heal up ok too! xoxox
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@StrawberryBee: Oh she's is just beautiful!! That sweet little face! Can't wait to see more! I hope you are doing well and enjoying being at home and settling in ok! xoxox
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@chibee: When is your first appt?
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@Mrs squirreld: Thanks! We're doing great. I think she was cluster feeding last night, but then it stopped and I was able to get a good three hour stretch of sleep. I'm super nervous at night because we're ending up co-sleeping. She just won't stay in her pack n play; she ends up screaming. Strange because she'll stay in her swing during the day just fine for naps, but at night she just wants us and nothing else will do.
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@StrawberryBee: You gotta do what works for you! How are you coping with the lack of sleep? Its one of my biggest fears!
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@StrawberryBee: Oh I hope that's not the case for us too as we're planning on using the PnP for night time. Are you swaddling her while she sleeps?
@MrsSquirreld: This is my fear as well as I know I don't do well with lack of sleep. It will mean lots of me being mean to DH or crying.
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@Mrs squirreld: @marionberry: The lack of sleep isn't too hard on me, really. Elliott is on a pretty tight schedule though - which is a happy side effect of having to FF I guess. We feed her at 10pm and put her to bed - I ususlly get to sleep at about midnight, after some snuggles with DH. She wakes 1am for food and its usually 2.30am before i get her back down (this is her witching hour). I sleep 2.30-4am, when she wakes again but this is usually a quick one and she is back down by 4.30. Then she wakes again at 7am and i usually snuggle her in bed after this feed (this is her most alert time) but can put her down maybe 9-10am and sneak another hour in. Then we are up for the day - but i sneak a nap in during one of hers and bag myself another 2:hrs on the sofa. That's 8 hours! DH is struggling though because he needs continuous sleep and feels worse after a nap!
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@Cherrybee: ooh 8 hours sounds good! Ill take it however it comes!! I have no doubts DH will be ok. He does 10 hour nights shifts and then only sleeps for 3-4 hours before getting up. He's a machine!!! It just doesn't phase him!
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@chibee: Yay!!!!
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@Mrs squirreld: tomorrow! Only blood work though, and paper work. So boring! But first ultrasound is next Thurs, 8/29 - I'll be around 7.5 weeks along!
@StrawberryBee: lack of sleep scares me too! Looks like you are doing well though!
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@marionberry: we tried swaddling but she really doesn't seem to like it. The past couple of nights we've had success with putting her into the RnP.
@chibee: first ultrasound, how exciting!! What do they see at 7.5 weeks? just the sac, or a heartbeat as well?
We've had a pretty good sleep schedule going the last couple of nights, but I feel like things change all the time! Last night she had a long nursing session until 1am, woke up/nursed at 4:45am, again at 7:40, and we cuddled in bed/slept until 10:30.
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@StrawberryBee: A friend said the same thing about getting used to one schedule and then it changing. I'm sorry! I hope I don't regret not getting a RnP. We just didn't see the point in buying that and a PnP and a bouncer, but I have a feeling we may end up having to get one anyway. Does your ds love it?
@chibee: Should be a yolk sac and at least a mini little gummy bear (at least that's what ours looked like at only 6 weeks). It's the most amazing thing to see! So excited for you!
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@marionberry: she doesn't love the RnP, she loves the swing a whole lot more (so much that we've debated taking it upstairs to see if she'll sleep in it, but it's so darned *big*...). We didn't get the bouncer.
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@StrawberryBee: we got a swing! That makes me feel good..that at least your baby likes it!:happy:
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@marionberry: I hope yours does, too!
We had a long day of cluster feeding here.
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@chibee: I'm pretty sure we saw the heartbeat at 7.5weeks! SO that will be super exciting!
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@StrawberryBee: I just attended a makeup breastfeeding class and they talked all about cluster feeding. You poor thing! Do you feel like a milk pump yet?
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@marionberry: she ate like 18 times yesterday! Luckily she's a very efficient nurser; her usual nursing time is 15-20 minutes, but a lot of those sessions were 6-8 min.
She's calmed down a lot today. Last night she nursed until 2am and I had a migraine from lack of sleep. When she woke up again around 4/5am I told DH I was going to sleep and he could feed her some pumped milk from the bottle. Omg it was bliss! I woke up really engorged at 7am (hope I don't regret that choice and end up with a blocked duct). She nursed one side, I pumped out 5oz, she nursed again, and then we fell back asleep until 10:45.
Working on her birth announcements and have dinner cooking in the crockpot
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@StrawberryBee: Good for you and for getting DH to help. I can't believe on top of that you even had dinner on the stove. What a super mom! DS is wriggling so much right now I can't sleep. Guess this is just prep for what's to come.
Ps your daughter is just so cute!
eek!
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