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@SLR: yes M totally fusses at the breast. She'll shriek and spaz out shaking her head side to side. But normally she's fine once she latches. Normally if she keeps fussing once she's on it means my breast is too full and she's getting overwhelmed by milk. If I pump for a couple minutes and put her back on she's fine.
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@travelgirl1: We don't go out.
it's killing me - soo ready to take the baby out of the house! We're waiting for 6 weeks per our Dr. I do take him for walks, and we use the Ergo, which he likes. Could you use a ring style sling like this one? http://www.mayawrap.com/ Im not sure how that would effect her hips...
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@MamaMoose: Lucky! I would looooove for her to sleep that long even just once. Unfortunately, two hours is when she typically wants to nurse, but on the occasions that she'll let me go longer, I definitely will.
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So... I took Lily to work the other day and got lots of "you are still coming back to work, right"? I just kind of ignored the question.
It's starting to sink in that DH gets off work at 5:30 and she goes to bed at 9:30, so that's only 4 hours. And when she starts going to bed earlier, like 7:30, that will be only 2 hours! I guess I just never thought of it like that before. Not sure what I'm going to do! I will start doing some work from home in 2 weeks and see how that goes. Hopefully getting a part time schedule in the office in two months. Ahhh!
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@scg00387: I track my LO's day in an app so I can better anticipate her needs. She is 7 weeks old. Last Tuesday was a typical stay at home day for us and it looked like this:
5:01 (6 hours sleep)-woke up
5:01-5:15 (14 m)- nursed
5:22 - diaper change
5:22-6:57 (1 h35m)- napped
6:57-7:12 (15m)-active time
7:12-8:45 (1h33m)-napped
8:45-diaper change-2nd of the day
8;45-9:09 (23m)- nursed-2nd of the day
9:10-diaper change-3rd of the day
9:10-9:48- (38m) active time
9:48-10:48 (1hr) -napped
10:48-11:15 (27m) - active time
11:15-11:36 (18m) - nursed 3rd of the day
12:16- diaper change 4th of the day
11:36-12:50 (1h 14 m)-active time
12:50-1:44 (54 m) - napped
1:44 - diaper change -5th of the day
1:45-2:05 (19 m)-nursed 4th of the day
2:05-3:35 (1hr 30m)-active time
3:35-3:49 (13 m) - nursed 5th time of the day
3:49-4:01 (11 m) - active
4:01-4:18 (17 m) - nursed 6th time of day (usually this doesn't happen, she must have been fussy so I tried nursing again)
4:18-4:30 (12 m) -active
4:30-5:29 (59 m) -napped
5:29 - diaper change-6th of the day
5:29-5:38 (9 m)-active
5:38 -5:51 -(13 m) -nursed 7th time of day
5:51 - 7:51-(2 h) -napped
7:51-8:47 (56 m) - active, bath time, 7th diaper change
8:47 - 9:20 (29 m) - nursed 8th time of day
9:20-10:13 (53 m) -put on pajamas, story time and cuddling with Daddy
10:13-in crib and lights outSummary:
7 diapers
8 nursing sessions (2h 43 m total)
6 naps (sleep total: 14h 55m total including bedtimes)
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@LemonLong: jealous of that time between hitting the crib and getting up in the AM.
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Today at breastfeeding support group the lady doing the weigh ins told me that my 8 lb 10 oz daughter ate 8.4 oz in the 25 minutes she fed. That seemed waaaaay off so She double checked her math to confirm and again told me that it was 8.4 oz! I was freaking out, , how was I going to continue to feed her once she went to daycare if she needed that much? Was this some crazy growth spurt? She usually only takes in between 2-4 oz!
Afterwards I talked to the LC about it and she went back to look at the records and found the first lady had accidentally looked at the line below with another baby's info when adding up the ounces! So my LO actually only took in 4.8 oz which is still a record for us, but much more reasonable than 8 oz! Big relief that she isn't actually a bottomless pit!
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We have had such a sad afternoon. A had her ultrasound and the radiologist sent us straight to our doctor and said it was important we went right away. Turns out my poor baby girl has neither of her hips aligned and one is even dislocated. I am so sad for her! She will have to wear a harness at the very least and may even need surgery. I was a total wuss and cried, luckily DH was very good and calm. Poor baby girl.
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@travelgirl1: I'm so sorry!!! You are not a wuss... You are a concerned mama. I know it's scary but it sounds like this is a totally curable issue so try not to get too upset. Our little ones are much tougher than we think.
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@LemonLong: hahaha I would die if I thought little one ate 8 ounces!!
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@travelgirl1: oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! Poor thing. I hope that everything turns out OK and she doesn't need surgery.
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@travelgirl1: omg I'm so sorry for your LO!
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@Mrs. Tricycle: I dont know how you find the time to blog - I barely have time to read boards, let alone read (or write) anything else! I hope they pay you - and that you get more sleep soon, I saw your other post about sleep deprivation
@travelgirl1 thanks for sharing your schedule! and sorry to hear about the doctor's visit, I hope the next specialist recommends the harness instead of surgery. You're definitely not a wuss, I would've been the same way!
@slr thanks for sharing! I have the opposite problem - I'm worried he isn't getting enough sleep. Day naps have slowly come back this week as we settle in after a wicked Monday of zero napping longer than 15 minutes but I'm nervous visiting relatives will restart our issues!
@lemonlong thanks for sharing that, wow! I am awful about having my phone on me, but track his sleep/diapers/nursings old school on paper for right now
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@MamaMoose: @JessLC: @kml636: thank you so much. Deep down I knew she would have hip dysplasia but to think she's had a dislocated hip all this time is heartbreaking. Prognosis is very good caught this early and she won't ever remember being in a harness. I'm just struggling with the thought of my tiny baby being strapped up for at least several months.
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@SLR: Hey, snooping on here from Dec mama's. I am having the EXACT same issues breastfeeding. He has a great latch once he's on but doesnt seem to want to, even though I know he's hungry.
The past 2 days he's been extra fussy and screaming so been giving him pumped milk.Please please let me know if you get any good tips or manage to make your LO less fussy!
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@scg00387: I started using a baby app too and it is helping me prep for the two month mark when we will start scheduling as brst we can in prep for my return to work... he avgs 6-8 dipes a day, 14-15 hrs sleep. Naps r max 2 hrs during the day. Nighttime he'll sleep three-five hr stretches. Drinks avg 5 oz pumped milk and nurses avg of 20 min 6-8x day. Usually goes down for nighttime sleep at midnight!
@travelgirl1: heart is breaking for you!! Stay strong mama! A will persevere through it all! Xoxo
Today was a great day! A ate, slept, played in perfect cycles and I also got in a much needed massage.
A IS ONE MONTH TODAY :*(
wrote a one month post on the blog:
http://conventionalbliss.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/aj-1-month/
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@scg00387: @mrsjyw: thank you. I've just sat and googled stuff other mums have written about their babies being in harnesses and it's heartbreaking. No more skin to skin, cuddling is harder, breastfeeding is harder, poor babies. Just been crying and cuddling her for the past two hours. I know there are so many worse things that could happen but right now this seems pretty horrible. I'm going to try and really enjoy her though, do lots of skin to skin while I still can and let her cuddle whenever she wants to.
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@travelgirl1: I'm sorry!!! Poor baby girl - but at least you've discovered the problem and you know there is a solution. She's gonna be OK! Hang in there.
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@mrsjyw: So you're planning to let baby do their thing for first two months and then try to come up with a schedule for the third month? That's what I was thinking I would do, too. I feel so conflicted - so much of what I read says babies can't really be scheduled for first three months, but I also have got to have some kind of routine before I go back to work!
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@travelgirl1: Oh, I'm so sorry. That's got to be tough. It's good there is a diagnosis though and you guys have a plan of action to get her all better. She'll be alright...whenever I've been worried about something, my mom always reassures me that babies are a lot more resilient than they look. Hang in there!
@travelingbrit: Will do!
Question for all you mamas....for middle of the night feedings, do you wait until LO is crying or fussing pretty good? Or do you feed when they start to squirm and first show signs of hunger? Mine sometimes squirms around and makes the 'eh eh' hunger noises for a half hour to an hour before she really starts fussing.
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@SLR: I wait for awhile before I get her up to feed, maybe an hour. If I go to get her right sway, she is usually still sleeping and then I have to wake her up and she falls asleep at the boob.
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@SLR: I wait until she is really awake and fussing, be side otherwise like@JessLC she falls asleep.
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@Mrs. Tricycle: @mrsjyw: i think that is what we are doing too. i think that newborns are too young to respond to a schedule until around maybe 3 months, but we'll start trying to introduce one at 2 months so that it can be a transition. you never really know when they'll start responding to one and that way, you'll kind of have your bases covered when they do. we've been trying to move bath time up to 7:00 so her bedtime can be moved up more. but not sure if its working. i think her bedtime is more dependent on feeding enough during the day than a routine at this point.
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@SLR: I wait until he's actually awake. He will often squirm and make noises, but is either still asleep or goes right back to sleep.
I was actually coming here to post about our night last night. He slept from about 10pm-5am, woke up to nurse, and then went back to sleep until about 8:30am. This was a first for us, but at least I know he's capable of sleeping longer and going longer between nursing sessions.
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@ChelseaRose: we had a similar night. she went down at 9:30, woke up at 4:30 to eat, and then back down until around 8:30am as well. she has been doing these types of nights about every other night, which is nice. i wake up totally engorged though...do you? she eats off of one side only and falls back asleep so i pump the other side.
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@Mrs. Tricycle: agree with you that 3 months+ is the ideal start, but like @JessLC: we def need some sort of transition period... so we'll try to come up with some sort of schedule... hope it sticks and works for all of us!!
last night was dh's night with pumped bottles. A went down at 1130 (an hour before his usual), woke up at 2, 5, 7... poor daddy! My night the other night, A slept from 1-5, then 6-930... anyway - I took over at 7am so DH could get some shut eye...
going to run some errands today, one of us will stay in the car with him, etc.
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@JessLC: Yep, I'm totally engorged by that point. I actually woke up at 4 and pumped one side thinking he'd be up soon, but he slept another hour. think I got about 4oz too. He has had several nights of going from 10-3 or 4, so thats what I was expecting. I typically only nurse on one side per session. I've been doing that for quite some time so there always seems to be a lot of milk for him. It also means that I only nurse each side 3-4 times in 24 hours.
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@mrsjyw: wow 5 oz! We haven't done too many bottles but maybe I should try offering him more when we do, I think we usually do 3 oz in a bottle. I think it's probably smart to try and transition to a schedule - I hope it works well!
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I just wanted to chime in that I have my LO on a three hour schedule now and I feel like its more for me than her... Of course if she's hungry or wakes up early I adjust. But right now at 6 am, 9,12,3,6 I feed her no matter what, followed by awake time and a 2 hour nap. I wake her up after 2 hours if its been 3hours from her last feeding. At night she grts fed at 9 & goes anywhere from 3 -6 hours at a time .
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We're getting into a little rhythm here as well. She still has her days and nights mixed up, and will sleep for longer stretches during the day (If I let her) and shorter stretches at night. If I'm holding her at night, she'll sleep longer, but since I've been putting her in the bouncy chair, she's up every 3 hours on the dot just about. During the day, I let her naps go a little longer because waking her up to feed exactly at the three hour mark means we have a lazy nursing session and I'd rather wait until she is a little more alert so we get a good feeding in.
Breastfeeding is going a lot better (latch is better, we are both enjoying nursing a lot more), but we are still supplementing with formula about 50% - I nurse and she gets a bottle of formula for every single feeding more or less. This may wind up just being our way of things forever, and I'm okay with it. She's still getting breastmilk, and others can feed with her without me being tied to the pump constantly. I've been taking domperidone 4x a day, and it has been helping to boost my supply, which I'm glad for.
The weather here has still been pretty warm so I've been pretty lax about going out with her. We go pretty much anywhere and go out every single day (even got our picture taken with Santa the other day!). It helps keep me sane and give us something to do, and I just keep her covered and don't let anyone touch her or breathe all over her.
She's rocking a little baby acne but it doesn't seem to bother her in the slightest. She's smiling a lot more now and sometime I can get a social smile out of her when I kiss her on the cheek, which pretty much makes me whole day better.
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@highwire: so glad nursing is going better for you! Yay for baby smiles! I swear LIly really smiled at me when she woke up and I was holding her yesterday! I'm so excited to get more.
i also take her out everyday... I am always on the go and I want her to get used to napping wherever. Plus everyone on both sides of the family wants to see her for Xmas. It's kind of exhausting!
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@highwire: the Trikester is rocking some major baby acne! I think it's because he sleeps on my chest all night.
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@highwire: I'm so jealous of your warm weather! It was 9 degrees here today. The idea of going outside at all is repulsive - we've basically been inside except for pediatrician visits but will be visiting relatives next week.
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@kml636: Same - want her used to being on the go!
@Mrs. Tricycle: This whole period of time is so damp (sweating, breastmilk, spit-up, it is no wonder her skin is breaking out lol.
@scg00387: Yuck on the weather! It is 64 here right now...but it is supposed to snow on Xmas (meaning it will be exactly 32 degrees and no cooler lol)
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@highwire: so jealous of ur weather!! Yay for nursing!
@Mrs. Tricycle: A's baby acne started at 2.5 weeks, flared up at 3.5.. week 4 is when we started washing his face w water and washcloth daily. Then we had a pedi appt this wk when we notced it on his neck and chest...and he told us to use hydrocortisone 2x daily...we've been doing that fir 3 days. His forehead is clear and his chks are on their way...supposedly biys get it worse because of all the estrogen they carried from us in utero...Today was a great day! A and we were totally in sync... got a lot done around the hous (both dh and I).. and we made it out to run a few errands!
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For any of you that are babywearing, does your LO seem to want to nurse as soon as you get them in the carrier? It is driving me nuts lol.
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This medicine my doctor prescribed for my milk supply is working! I just pumped the most milk ever...3 oz! Lol. Doesn't sound like a lot but I'm so happy.
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@highwire: That's great news about your supply! I hope it continues to increase.
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I had such a crappy night of sleep. Went to bed around 10. My husband was coughing and it kept wakin me up. Finally around 2am I told him he needs to go sleep in the guest room or on the couch. Baby woke up at 4am and wouldn't go back to sleep. I finally broke down and brought him into my bed with me (usually there's not enough space because husband is there). He immediately went to sleep, but then woke up about two hours later. I have friends coming over in two hours and my house is getting cleaned today too so I doubt I will get a nap.
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@highwire: yay! Soo glad for you. @ChelseaRose: that is rough. Hope you get more sleep tonight.
it's killing me - soo ready to take the baby out of the house! We're waiting for 6 weeks per our Dr. I do take him for walks, and we use the Ergo, which he likes. Could you use a ring style sling like this one? 
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