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I don't know where I'm at with my weight loss. I feel like I have lost most of it (based on what I see in the mirror). But since I only ever was weighed at my OB's office during pregnancy, I'm waiting until my six week PP appointment to be weighed there again (so I'm comparing apples to apples).

@dc yoga bee: I'm sorry you're dealing with colic. It is one heck of an introduction to parenthood but it will make the other baby & toddler phases look easy. I hope you find soothing techniques that bring some relief.

@dc yoga bee: For colic, I recommend Happiest Baby on the Block and doing the 5 S's. It saved our sanity with E. Happiest Baby and the Windi got us through colic. I've been there. You have my hugs!

@cascademom: My buddy told me about the five s''s, amd we've been doing them the whole time instinctively!

@LindsayInNY: Hang in there. Lactation consultants are a great help, and hopefully things keep getting better!

@Eko: The ped recommended bicycling her legs, and putting her on her tummy to help her pass gas. Also, gripe water helps her burp and pass gas. Highly recommend it!

Hi everyone,

I hope i can join in your group. I followed along with the june boards, but never joined in (I meant to, but never got around to it, then I waited so long I figured it was too late.)

Anyways, I am a first time mom and have no friends with babies, so I am a little lost with this stuff.

@Coffee-lover: Happy to have you join! Congrats!

So I'm a dummy and counted 4w instead of going by the month, must be leftover preggo brain! So a couple days early.

@Mrs.KMM: @Eko: So sweet! A month already!

@Coffee-lover: Welcome! Tell us about your little one!

@Ash: @Mrs.KMM: @Eko:

Thank you. She was due June 6th, but I went into labor a little early and had a c section May 19th. After a couple weeks, the recovery was not too bad.

I have loved every second of being a mom so far. We had a few health scares with her, but she is ok for the most part. She was born with a small hole in her heart (VSD) which was not detected in utero. She is not symptomatic. The cardiologist says its very small, will close on its own, and she will not need surgery. She also had to have a ultrasound to rule out spina bifida occulta, because she was born with a dimple above her butt. Thankfully the ultrasound was totally normal. She had terrible acid reflux, but now that she is on meds, she is doing much better.

We are formula feeding, and she sleeps pretty well at night. I have a few questions for everyone: does anyone have a chart that shows by age how long babies can go without eating at night? I Was told not to let her go longer than 4 hours without eating at night, but that was a couple weeks ago.

Also, where is everyone doing daytime naps at? She Is napping mostly in the rock and play in the living room, but I am wondering when we should starttrying to have her nap by herself in the bedroom. I wonder if her napping with me watching tv and making noise is interfering with her sleep.

@Coffee-lover: I agree with Jess's advice... I think you are fine not to wake her if she's gIning appropriately, but check with her pediatrician.

My LO naps all over the place... crib, cosleeper, rock n play, swing, my arms, or the Ergo. i don't think the tv interferes with my LOs naps, but every kid is different. I think it's good to eventually get them used to sleeping on a flat surface without motion, but I think that is just something to keepin mind and work in gradually. My LO needs to start daycare in 8 weeks and will be napping without a swaddle in a crib, so that's what I'm working towards. She does fine in the crib, but she's still swaddled. She slept this morning with both arms out, so I think she will be ok by the time I have to go back to work.

@Coffee-lover: Glad to hear all the health scares worked themselves out!

We just had our 1 month appointment with our ped yesterday. He wants us to start trying to stretch DD to five-hour sleeps at night immediately with the goal to have her close to six hour stretches at a time by two months.

During the day, DD naps in her rock n play in our main living area with the TV on and such. We don't have the auto-motion or anything so she is pretty still. But she is slightly slanted and not swaddled.

Hello June Mommas! Hope everyone is doing well! We got home on Saturday morning and have been settling in. My mom has been with us and has been a HUGE help with the baby as well as all the cooking, cleaning and walking the dog! She left today but my MIL is now here and she is not as helpful. She actually broke her foot in my hospital room (a story for a different day) so I feel like we now have two people to take care of!

Breastfeeding is going really well thanks to anamzing nurse who introduced me to a nipple shield during a mini breakdown in the hospital room one night. She is eating every 2 1/2 hours for 30-40 minutes at a time with some longer sessions. She slept in the bassinet for 2 hour stretches too last night!

I feel like I'm healing ok from my second degree tear even though I know there is s lot more recovery to come.

Our only issue has been LO's lack of poop! Plenty of meconnium poop in the hospital, and the two poops at home but nothing in the past 48 hours. Lots of wet diapers and she doesn't seem to have any discomfort but we called the pediatrician just in case. She said unless there is fever or irritability to not worry and they will see us Thursday at her one week check up. It just seems like with all the breast milk and minimum spit up that it has to come out eventually!

@rpparker: glad everything is going well! Having some help has been such a blessing. I know you gave a status but don't worry so much about the poop. My LO is 50/50 formula and BF and went 3 days without pooping. I talked with my doctor and as long as their poop isn't hard or thick then it's fine. Just means LO is sucking up all the nutrients!

@MrsBrewer: oh wow! I definitely know a lot of people who are close in age with their siblings but I'm not familiar with fertility while breastfeeding. In an ideal world I would love for the age gap to be about 2-3 years, but money will dictate future LO for us. Hope that everything works out how you want with #2!

@78h2o: We aren't quite at 99%, but all of a sudden, I think we might be done with 2 (don't tell my husband, in case I change my mind.) However, we made a deal that we wouldn't make any permanent decisions until LO2 is at least 5 (at which point I'll be 35). So I'll go back on the pill until we are ready to make the call one way or the other.

@MrsBrewer: More power to you! The thought of kids that close together is terrifying to me, haha. But I'm sure there are advantages, too.

We're having some night sleep issues. LO is sleeping up to 3 hours at a time during the day (in the swing), but at night he's in bed with me. He was doing at least one 3-4 hour chunk followed by every 1.5, which was fine, but now it's 1-2 hours all night. I think it's because he's lying flat and gets really uncomfortable. I didn't have these issues with DS1, but LO2 seemed so uncomfortable all night and didn't poop until I held him upright this morning (usually I get 4-5 poops at night), at which point he fell asleep for a long time. I think I'm going to do a combination of waking him more often during the day (which I've tried, but only for a day) and using the Rock N Play during the night to get him on an incline for now. It makes me a bit nervous, but in the grand scheme, it's probably better than having him in bed with me, which is where we're at now.

@Eko: Oh my. I don't think there's anything wrong with doing that if you want, but I would totally not want to deal with the drive and spending the night somewhere else, so I think it's perfectly acceptable to say no.

And I won't limit his sleep during the day, just hoping that feeding him more often will help. Maybe...

@78h2o: I'm in the same boat as you - 99% sure we're done but I am afraid of an iud and don't want to be on hormonal bc... not sure what to do especially because as a married couple, I would like to avoid condoms haha!

@MrsBrewer: yes, you're crazy ours are 18.5 months apart and I'M crazy.

@Jess1483: oh I see! sounds like it could help! Sometimes that works for us.

@Mrs.KMM: sounds like fun! Go you for doing a tennis tournament! I can do some physical activity but couldn't imagine doing a tournament.

@hocuspocus: does she just like the RNP because it rocks? I try to not use those features for that reason. Maybe try having her sleep in the pack n play during naps and start stretching it over time. That's my plan for transitioning W to his crib.

@hocuspocus: I am of the mindset of doing whatever it takes to get LO to sleep during the night at this stage. But my LO wakes up every 3 hours so I do what I can to get him back to sleep so I can sleep. I usually play around with his sleep during the day when I have more energy. When W just wants to be held during naps I'll try to lay him down and only let him cry for a couple minutes before picking him back up. Sometimes he can soothe himself to sleep other times not. I think there are different opinions on letting LO cry it out, but I don't mind letting him cry for a couple minutes.

@Jess1483: ah. That makes sense. I Definitely try to get LO back to sleep asap at night. Part of it is due to letting DH get some sleep too! We have a tiny apartment so if LO doesn't sleeo no one does. During the day I have more patience to hear the crying.