PP Chat Thread June 8-14 - Page 4

[Sadie Lake]

Originally Posted by j_p_i

So the past 2 days or so, Olivia has been pulling away from the breast after several minutes, and become pretty frustrated. I switch sides, and she's fine for a bit and then the same thing happens. She sometimes coughs a bit too. Could this be that my letdown is a little too much for her? If so, any suggestions or experience with how we can overcome this?

In other news, she's 8lbs already! She was weighed yesterday at 9 days old. She was born at 7lbs 9.5oz, and was 7lbs 2oz when we left the hospital. So she's definitely getting enough to eat!

Two things... first, you may consider getting her a chiro adjustment. I know that sometimes pulling off the breast can be because their neck/back doesn't feel comfortable turning toward the breast or laying in a nursing position. She may just be kinked up. But, mine does the same sometimes when I try to feed her too often and she wants to suck but isn't hungry. That could be it too.

Second... way to go on the nursing mama! My dd#1 was born at 7lbs 2oz and at her 1 week checkup weighed 8lbs 2oz. Some babies just put it on fast!

Sadie

[Madalyn]

I finally figured out my moby today. I'm actually on the computer using BOTH hands for once!! Jonas loves to sleep on my chest but usually it leaves me stuck on the couch unable to get up. Now he's sleeping in his favorite spot secured by the moby and I can get up and move around. I'm totally loving this so far. : Though I have to admit I have new mommy paranoia that he's uncomfortable. But if he's sleeping and not fussy he must be enjoying it too right?

[OceansEve]

jpi - Anna tends to do that when she needs to be burped. I think that's why the flipping over to the other breast allows her to eat a bit more but then starts fussing about it again. She usually goes right back to nursing once I burp her.

weight - the ped we started going to acted shocked when she was at birth weight at 5 days and added a pound by the two week appt. I was worried cause DD2 never lost weight, she left the hospital at her birth weight she's always been my chunky monkey.

[ScootchsMom]

Hey all. Its been a rough day for us. My cold is now a sinus infection that I'm trying to clear up without having to go get antibiotics and DS has decided he is going to be a "I want to be held all the time when I'm awake baby." He will not let me put him down as long as he is awake, and on top of that he hates every carrier I have tried him in. He hates the hotsling, the wrap, the Ergo, and the Mei Tei. He also hates to be held cradled in my one arm unless he is eating. He wants to be up high on my shoulder so he can look around I guess, but that means I have to either hold him with two hands, or use one hand and constantly feel like I'm about to drop him, all while trying to get stuff done.

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. He is still a bit congested too, so him wanting to be upright makes sense, but I need to be able to either put him down a bit (I've tried the swing, a bouncy seat, the boppy pillow, and a baby papasan seat, and he freaks out in all of them) or carry him in something, not getting stuff done is not an option.

Other than that, I got him to nurse 3 times today! Plus he got another 2 oz of pumped milk. We successfully had one feeding that was totally breastmilk, he nursed than I topped him off with the pumped milk and he was done. :

[Limabean1975]

Scootchsmom, can you do a froggy-position high shoulder carry with your wrap or sling? I've managed that once or twice with my ring sling. Also, I'm sure you know this but it's worth mentioning - best way to get them liking a carrier is to get walking - the rhythm of outside walking being more effective to initially settle babe.

[lotus.blossom]

ScootchsMom- It might be worth looking into the tibetan rucksack carry. My friend learned it with her 1 month old. He is high on her back with his head just above her shoulder. She has two other young boys so she had to figure out a way to keep them all happy!!

you can youtube it. I tried to figure it out one day but I really need a spotter.

[surprisedmama]

nak

wow this tread is going so fast I can't keep up! are we allowed to make threads on baby topics now or will they move them to life with a babe?

liam hasn't pooped in days and he has started to cry a lot. Last night was better thankfully! but still no poop. we went from poop in every diaper and a nasty rash to no rash and no poo just crying and gas ..... I guess he is now a real baby instead of the perfect sleeping one I definitely have a lot less time to cruse mothering these days

Ezra's mom: I think he is the one with the rash, if not sorry. I really recommend weleda calendula baby rash cream. I got results in less than 24 hrs. I think I saw a post in another area with pictures and it looked similar to liams rash. I could just be a crazy lady right now if so sorry!

I am really trying to enjoy all the little baby moments before they are gone ahhhh so sweet little humans.

[kdtmom2be]

It's totally normal for EBF babies not to poop for days on end, I've heard of times as long as close to a month. My DD used to go once a week. DS is down to twice a day right now, for the most part, at 4 weeks, so I expect him to follow in her footsteps shortly. Just enjoy the no-poop diapers and don't be too concerned. As long as babe is still making wet diapers, isn't uncomfortable and is happy, then don't worry about the poop!

[RasJane]

Man, I wish that would happen to me! DD still poops at every feed just about. I change a heckuva lotta diapers!

[Quate]

So this is probably the wrong place to ask it, but any tips on convincing baby to sleep without being held? She did fine for a while but lately I'm having a really hard time putting her down at night, and this morning (at 6, long before I was ready to be up) she also refused to sleep in her bassinet but was out cold as soon as I picked her up. I'm really wishing I trusted myself cosleeping, but I just don't. I'm too active of a sleeper (and these days, too exhausted), and we don't have a firm mattress.

[Punchy Kaby]

Originally Posted by Quate

So this is probably the wrong place to ask it, but any tips on convincing baby to sleep without being held? She did fine for a while but lately I'm having a really hard time putting her down at night, and this morning (at 6, long before I was ready to be up) she also refused to sleep in her bassinet but was out cold as soon as I picked her up. I'm really wishing I trusted myself cosleeping, but I just don't. I'm too active of a sleeper (and these days, too exhausted), and we don't have a firm mattress.

We are going through this on and off. DD sometimes will go to sleep fine in her bassinet or crib, but other times she cries until we pick her up and then immediately falls asleep. I am trying some baby whisperer stuff, but at this point I think she is too young to go to sleep on her own every time. I am not one of those 'push through' the crying people. Do you swaddle?

[Amydoula]

Originally Posted by Quate

So this is probably the wrong place to ask it, but any tips on convincing baby to sleep without being held? She did fine for a while but lately I'm having a really hard time putting her down at night, and this morning (at 6, long before I was ready to be up) she also refused to sleep in her bassinet but was out cold as soon as I picked her up. I'm really wishing I trusted myself cosleeping, but I just don't. I'm too active of a sleeper (and these days, too exhausted), and we don't have a firm mattress.

We have sleep issues too, although I have tried bedsharing and that actually didn't help either,sigh. I had one good night the night before last when I put him on his tummy but last night I put him on his tummy too and he was still up from 2am-5am smiling, wideawake or crying with the gas so I think the night before was a fluke. I will keep putting him on his tummy though b/c I think in the end it will help and it seems to help him get the gas out. I figure this too shall pass, but man is it hard in the meantime. He will do well with a few 2 hour stretches in the bassinet/co-sleeper thing and then after that he just can't settle. I've tried everything, back sleeping, side sleeping, swaddling, unswaddling, raising the bed, bedsharing (which we are not fans of either), nothing seems to make much of a difference but like I said I'm going to stick with the stomach sleeping since he did sleep well that one night. I think maybe last night he reacted to the egg salad I had for dinner, I don't normally eat a lot of eggs and his gas was just so smelly and bad in the middle of the night it's the only thing I can think of. I also noticed he is starting to try and really suck his hand (HATES pacifiers) so I think once he figures that out well (I think it was around 3 months for DS1) plus the comfiness of tummy sleeping we should be good to go. Of course that might take another couple of months.......

[JD5351]

Yeah, lucky ladies with no poopy diapers. My son is a rotten egg. uke lol We took him to get his newborn portrait taken, and they had him laying with his body inside a little mailbox...He pooped in there which "incubated" the smell. The poor photographer assistant looked like she might faint..lol Another time, he was napping in his carseat, and I had put a light blanket over the carry handle to block out some light so he'd sleep...I took the blanket off, and was like OHHH BOY! lol He definately takes after daddy for sure. His little butt stinks!

Quate--I've been making sure to put my guy down when he starts getting drowsy. I read that helps. (if you read a lot of the same info as I did about it, sometimes they do recommend letting them cry, but that is out of the question. If he cries, I pick him up, settle him down, and again put him down while drowsy, but still awake.) He won't sleep if he's swaddled, he hates it, but I make sure that he is good and warm. I kind of wrap a light blanket around him and under his sleep positioner so it won't ride up over his face, and I make sure there is no air blowing on him.

[OceansEve]

Anna is only pooping every other or every third day at 4 wo.

quate - swaddling can help, Also convincing LO to stay awake during most of the day. Can you sleep on the couch? w/ DD1 I used to lay on my back on the couch w/ her on my chest and a blanket snugged around both of us so she wouldn't roll off and I didn't have to worry about smothering her. w/ DD2 we coslept because she would not sleep. period. not sleep without being held. I was just as paranoid and scared I'd smother her. I have no qualms now cosleeping w/ DD3, but fortunately we only have to do so for an hour or so a night !! Success!

JD - that is a great story!! that definately has to go in the baby book!

[Asher]

Baby G is still going 3-4 days or more between poopy dapers. He still has lots and lots of wet diapers, though so I'm sure he's getting enough. However, despite not having poopy diapers, he still stinks horribly. This boy has the most horrible gas that I have ever smelled on a baby. Like, "bottle it up and use it for toxic gas against the enemy" stink!

Today was my older 3 kids last day of school for the year. Let the chaos begin!

[triplembride]

does anyones LO HATE the carseat? DD will not fall asleep in the car and she SCREAMS until she is out unless we put her in the carseat asleep its so sad to be in the car with her...even with me in the back trying to soothe her the best I can, sometimes a paci works but tmost of the time it does not...anyone else?

[lil_miss_understood]

Sorry I'be been MIA. Likely won't change soon. Still having latch issues, going to see the LC on Saturday. Trying to figure out if I have mastitis or thrush. No apparent signs of thrush, so... My breast hurts, mild fever, yadda yadda Trying to nurse and pump as much as I can. I've started trying to get Marius latched properly then letting him nurse for a little while then unlatching him (it feels like razor blades in my breast when he nurses), finger feeding him with an SNS (or getting DH to do) and then latching on DS2 to empty the breast and pumping the other side for the next feeding (or a later feeding). If DS2's not available, I pump both sides and feed it back.
*sigh* This is DS2's infancy all over again.

ETA: On the poop front (I haven't read any of this thread ), Marius poops in nearly every diaper. It's sickening.

[Asher]

Jacqueline ~ that sounds rough. The razor blades in the breast does sound so much like when I had thrush with my 2nd daughter.

[lil_miss_understood]

Originally Posted by Asher

Jacqueline ~ that sounds rough. The razor blades in the breast does sound so much like when I had thrush with my 2nd daughter.

See, the messed up thing about that though is that it only happens with Marius during let down. DS2 can nurse until kingdom come with no pain at all... Beyond the whole feeling like my breast is bruised thing...

ETA: I should mention too that I know that there are plugged ducts in both sides which my pump is not moving. DS2 dislodged a couple in my problematic breast today, the first time he's nursed on that side since he was about a year old.

[Punchy Kaby]

Originally Posted by JacquelineR

See, the messed up thing about that though is that it only happens with Marius during let down. DS2 can nurse until kingdom come with no pain at all... Beyond the whole feeling like my breast is bruised thing...

ETA: I should mention too that I know that there are plugged ducts in both sides which my pump is not moving. DS2 dislodged a couple in my problematic breast today, the first time he's nursed on that side since he was about a year old.

Sorry to hear things are painful while nursing. At least your DS2 is helpful on that front! Maybe the LC will have some good advice about the latch.

DD slept in her crib last night for the first time. I got much better sleep! DH was up until the wee hrs so he even brought her to me to nurse. She is so loud when she sleeps and I sleep so lightly when she is next to me, I would constantly stick a boob in her mouth because I was so out of it I couldn't figure out if she was needing a burp, diaper or just making a little noise.