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@kml636: We've had him in his crib since he was about two weeks old (he's almost six weeks old now) because he's so noisy when he's sleeping. I never thought we would do that, but I wasn't getting any sleep. We just took our co-sleeper off our bed over the weekend. It is still set up as a bassinet in our room, but I'm not sure if we will use it.

i nursed in the hospital a couple times....twice in the car (1 successfully, the other not so much), but that's it. i've heard that if you are in a store, you can use a dressing room. but i seriously need to practice more. maybe it gets easier once LO is older and can find the nipple herself?

@highwire: haha, that is awesome! your DH is quite lucky - this past time was the first time we'd gotten amorous since before LO was born.

anybody else's LO having a hard time with the bottle? ours HATES it. she cries every single time and forgets how to suck. we're trying to do one bottle a day, but DH is really struggling every time. we are using tommee tippee, but maybe we should switch to another brand? what brand do your LOs like?

@JessLC: My little guy's issue with the bottle is that the milk comes out too fast and he ends up choking himself. Then we take it out of his mouth every few gulps and he gets mad. I hate that he gets so much more air and needs to be burped every 1-1.5 oz. We usually give him a bottle everyday because I want him to be used to it. We have tommee tippee bottles and playtex ventaire. The playtex bottles were recommended by a LC, but my husband said that he doesn't think that they are any better or slower than the other bottles. We also have the nipples that fit on the madela pump bottles just for convenience. I'm too nervous to breastfeed in public because we still struggle with latching so I will bring a bottle of pumped milk if we are going to be out for a long time.

@highwire: Lucky hubby! That's all we've done so far and it took some careful positioning when I'd not long had the surgery, to make sure my incision didn't hurt.

So for those of you that have fooled around with DH, do you find yourself constantly listening out for baby? I have one ear tuned into her the whole time, I need to learn to relax.

@kml636: ha ha, yeah we had to stop and soothe too. It does spoil the mood!

@highwire: hope you have an easy night!

Baby girl isn't at all interested in sleeping on her own tonight. Falls asleep on me in seconds then wakes up the moment I put her down. Being strict though and sticking it out, so we're starting the whole night's routine again. And it's 2am. Fabulous, lol.

@highwire: I would kill for mine to sleep that long for a night. Take it while you can!

We had another fussy stretch from 8pm to midnight. She sure hasn't been sleeping much and is wanting to nurse often, but isn't taking much. When she does sleep, it's typically when she is held.

My hubsband is off work starting next week through the end of the year. I keep telling myself, 'just a few more days'. I've had 100% of night duty the past week or two and I'm beginning to get a little irked @ DH. I get that he has to go to work early morning, but it's not like I'm just relaxing all day. I'm somewhat jealous of you all that are finding yourselves more into your hubbies than pre-baby. I don't think I've slept more than a 2 hr stetch and am probably averaging just over 4 hours a night. I really hope she starts sleeping longer soon!!

@SLR: I was very irked at DH last week. There was one day where he took a few hours to chill out and eat breakfast without ever asking if he could help or if I needed anything while I was stuck soothing a cluster feeding A and didn't even get a glass of water until mid afternoon. Then he stayed up to 2am playing computer games and complained about his self inflicted tiredness. I was about to throw the Christmas tree at him. If you're staying up that late, take the baby!!! Agghh. Anyway he's been much better this week.

@bebefly: Thanks...the Beco is the one that I was thinking about.

@travelgirl1: Okay, that makes me feel better. Glad I'm not the only one who isn't totally enamored by their hubby right now! As for BF'ing, my supply has also gone down some...pretty suddenly too. Not sure if it's because she hasn't been taking much the past few days, if it's just leveling off to what she needs, or if it could be something I'm doing (not drinking enough?, getting enough rest?).

@travelgirl1: breastfeeding has been a nightmare on our end. I wish I hadn't gone into it so foolishly optimistic.

Some newborn photoshoot cuteness to start off our day : )

@travelgirl1: so precious!

@mamamoose I bet you can't wait to not wake her up, yay for more sleep on the horizon!

@highwire totally jealous of that long stretch!

more fussiness night & day here! boo! hoping it is temporary.

@travelgirl1: beautiful photo!

Are you waking up baby to eat?

LO has started giggling in her sleep. Ack cute!

For those of you going back to work, are you planning to pump @ work? I'd love to be able to, but I'm not sure it is going to happen. I work long enough as it is, have a 40 min commute each way, and have a fairly demanding schedule with some days of back to back meetings where I couldn't easily slip away for 20 min at a time. I already feel a huge amount of guilt about stopping though - and it's 9 more weeks away.

@highwire: we are. Doc wants me to for one more week. More to keep up my supply than because baby needs it.

@highwire: i wake up LO during the day time if her nap is running longer than 2.5 hours. its one of the moms on call tips for getting the baby to sleep longer at night. but at night i don't wake her up. still trying to get her to go longer

@SLR: i plan to pump at work but my job's pretty flexible. basically at the computer all day. i'm hoping to establish a supply now so that later on i only have to pump like 3x a day or something instead of the 7-8 i'm doing now.

@travelgirl1: beautiful picture!!

so it seems like the growth spurt may be over.. for now. she had a good 4 hr and 3 hr stretch last night! i feel so rested! i've been thinking about starting up nursing again. i know that if i want to, i'd have to do it asap. its been about a week and a half since i started exclusively pumping. and while it has its perks, its so hard to keep up with the supply esp during growth spurts! she totally wiped out all the excess milk i had so i had to give her some formula last night. i tried nursing today just for fun after she had eaten alittle bit and she actually remembered how to latch! she latched on one side for almost 10 min. so exciting. so i'm thinking about maybe doing a couple nursing sessions a day once we get the hang out of it again. i still think she is tongue tied but i'm going to see an ENT dr tomorrow so i'll have them look at it. hope that will help the latch too. anyway, today's been a good day so far unlike yesterday with the cluster feeding, a headache, and i spilled pumped milk TWICE. blah