Hellobee Boards

@IRunForFun: Slowly but surely the stretches will longer! The past few nights mine was up every 2-3 hours! And yes if you saw all my posts I'm a mess!

@Pumuckl: welcome to the January board! Great job nursing twins I find nursing one baby takes all my time! You must be constantly hungry making so much milk.

Lo is 8 weeks tomorrow . Still no where near a schedule, although I didn't get my first on a schedule until she could do the 2-3-4, does anyone remember what age that is? Last night she slept 4 hours and up every hour after that. Hoping we can just keep stretching out tha first stretch!!

@Peasinapod: Ohh 2-3-4! I completely forgot when DD1 went onto that! I guess it's when they can be on 2 naps and can be awake for that long...?

@IRunForFun: So first nap is 2 hours after wake up; next nap is approx 3 hrs after; bed time is 4 hrs after that. it's def for when they're a little older and on 2 naps. I prob used that and tweaked it till DD1 was like 15 mo and went down to 1 nap! 2-3-4 just get stretched longer and longer as they're awake longer and longer.

@IRunForFun: Haha! Don't worry too much! I was so obsessed with DD1's sleep schedule but in the end they do what they wanna do!

@IRunForFun: Me too! Fingers crossed! That's how I do bed time... I nurse on one side, then switch to side lying nursing on the other and pray to God she falls asleep quick lol!

@Peasinapod: my first didn't go to 2 naps consistently till almost 8-9 months. Or at least that is when I remember getting her on a schedule with two naps.

How many times are your LO's eating in a day?

I feed her around 6 last night but she still seemed hungry so I gave her some formula. She ate an oz. Then fed at 8, she fell asleep at 845. Then needed the paci like 3 times before finally falling deep asleep at 10. Then she slept till 4:30! I'm sure it was a fluke from shots and Tylenol. But I feel 200x better today.

I did tell DH that I think I want to try formula this weekend, make sure she doesn't react. Then move towards that direction.

@Smurfette: I can't even count how often she nurses during the day. I'm bad at knowing cues so I pretty much always give boob... plus she was slow to regain birth weight so I became paranoid.

At night though it's prob 2-3 times on average.

I nurse 7, 10, 1, 4, 7. Top up usually 8:30/9pm and then whatever through the night (usually twice). Daytime following the "EASY" schedule from online, lol.

Is anyone dealing with pp bleeding still? B is 10w today. I had pp bleeding pretty much up to 5-6w and then got like a week off and have been bleeding every day since. More than spotting, same amount each day, definitely not period like. I'm on depo provera too, so technically "no period". I'm just frustrated. I would like to not need a pad every.single.moment and have some closure on the pp bleeding, lol.

@sunnyday: Does she ever get hungry in between those times? Or act hungry?

I'm no help on bleeding. DD is 8 weeks and mine stopped 4 weeks ago. That's annoying!!

@Mrs. Toad: What does she do in those 2 hours between going back to sleep? Is she fussy, or just awake?

@sunnyday: what do you do if your lo is sleeping during one of the feeding times? I love the idea of a schedule but I feel like I just can't quite work out the details of how to do it!

@snowjewelz: Life is busy. The older two are still in FT daycare so it's only the twins (F and J2 ) and me during the day. They still sleep a lot and luckily they do that in their "daybed" in the living room. It gets crazy for about 2h when the older two (B not quite 4 yet and J1 is 2) get home.

@Peasinapod: ha, I pretty much live on chocolate these days.

The twins sleep pretty well already. They go down between 8-9pm (after being fussy ) then they eat at around midnight and then again at around 6-7am. We do usually end up transferring J to our bed because he wakes at around 5am but will continue sleeping in my arms.

@Pumuckl: welcome!!!

@Smurfette: they go 4 hours between feeds. They were put on a four hour schedule at the hospital and we stick to that. They go a little longer at night and often after their first feed in the morning.

@Pumuckl: So many winter babies! Yep she's Dec '14 and now I got Dec '16!

@Pumuckl: I really think she is just going to be a slow gainer like her sister. I checked the app and R ate more often and had the same weight gain pattern.

@Smurfette: totally might be true - J still is a slow gainer. She has the same stats at 2 that B had at 1 year old. Obviously I didn't do anything differently so you never know... J2 seems to follow big brother's lead, he's grown over 2 inches already!

@sunnyday: I was wondering this as well. DD is 7 weeks tomorrow and I have only had a day or two without bleeding. It is only enough for a pantyliner, but it is annoying.

Have any of you had a plugged duct or mastitis before? Trying to figure out what's going on. When I woke up this morning I had a deep bruised feeling in the side of my left breast up toward the armpit but thought I was just engorged. Nursed on that side and pumped after and it felt a little better but has felt worse again as the day goes on. Tonight I massaged that area in the shower, hand expressed a little, nursed on that side, and took 3 Motrin but it still hurts. It feels maybe a little swollen but not hard and no lumps...no real redness either though it's hard to tell because I've been massaging and rubbing it. Any ideas?

@sunnyday: Nice!! Enjoy!!