Post partum chat - Page 3

[BirthIsAwesome]

I just weighed Malachi yesterday (1 week mark) and he has gained 5 oz. from his birthweight! I'm feeling great, my tiny little skid mark is perfectly healed, and breastfeeding is going very smoothly Most nights Malachi is up every 2 hours to nurse but every couple of nights he will sleep 4 hours at a time. It has been lovely having my Dh home all day every day, he doesn't have to go back to work until Monday It's been such a peaceful wonderful babymoon, and it's not over yet! Just checking in with you guys quickly, be back next week with my birth story!

[oliversmom7213]

So it turns out to not be thrush. It was mastitis in both boobs that just hadn't shown itself yet. Sunday night I got body aches and a couple of hours later a fever. By monday morning my breasts were lumpy like engorgment even though I had just pumped and they were hot and very swollen. The dr confirmed it was mastitis and it was centeralized around my nipples. I'm on antibiotics and using a heating pad prior to pumping to help empty completely. Ingrid really doesn't want to nurse right now, but I don't blame her as both of my breast are huge and hard and it's difficult to latch. After i pump some she will nurse for a while but still won't empty them so while i feel like total crap it's just easier to pump and give it to her in a bottle.
FYI I was totally unprepared for the neck pain that came with this. Started monday night and intensified today, finally is starting to get better. Anyone else ever have neck pain with mastitis? Hope no one else has to go through this. (also hoping the antibiotics won't cause thrush.....is this ever ending?)

[outlier]

Ds and I are going to be treated for thrush. The doctor said it's not a clear-cut case if it is, but it won't hurt to treat it. I soooo hope this will take care of the nipple pain! I'm going to need a pillow to scream in while nursing if this keeps up.

[muffinette]

We have thrush too, pretty bad. It hurts so much that I kept wussing out and trying to delay nursing as much as possible by jiggling the baby or trying to distract her, but that would just make her madder. I can't wait till this horrible horrible pain goes away.

[miso_soup]

Dylan is almost 6 weeks old! Amazing how time flies.

I'm still feeling a bit up and down emotionally, but more 'up' than 'down' as the weeks pass, so I'm hoping to ride this out without resorting to meds (not that I've anything against meds - I've taken anti-depressants in the past and would do so again if necessary - but it would be nice not to have to deal with weaning off of them in a few months!).

Physically, things are great. Had my 6 week check up at the OB today, and I'm good to go - sex, baths, and back to work (boo to that last one!!). I have inadvertently lost all but 5lbs of my baby weight (30lbs total), which I put down to a combination of breastfeeding and anxiety . Oh, and Dylan has gained over 3 lbs since birth. Holy crap! The kid only nurses for 10 minutes at any one time, so I'm pretty amazed at this number. He was a 37 week baby and so he did start off on the lower end of the scale - 6lb 15oz - but last Thursday he weighed in at 10lb 4oz. He's a strong little sucka - wants what he wants when he wants it, just like his mama

[MaybeJ]

miso soup - I'm in the same boat. Still up and down emotionally but more up than down now, thankfully. On my bad days I feel like such a failure at being a mother...it's so hard. I do feel like things will continue to get better as Naomi and I continue to get to know each other.

Great work on the breastfeeding! Naomi is also almost 6 weeks and is now just shy of being 3lbs over her birth weight and she too nurses for such short periods. I'd say that she nurses about 10 minutes at a time, too, though sometimes it's even shorter than that!

[meriberi_00]

Ean is 5 weeks today...time is FLYING! And he's a total chunker Love me some fat baby!

On a sad note, I have PPD Did not want to be put on meds for it, but when I finally realized that I could not cope, I went to the doctor. It's made me feel SO much better, and doesn't seem to be affecting Ean. Hopefully, I can get off of it pronto, and be back to normal in no time It makes me sad because I really wanted at least one more child after Ean, but if I have to go thru PPD again, I'm not sure that it's worth it.

Anyways, BF is going super, which is a total plus! And he's growing by leaps and bounds, AND DS1 is getting along great with baby brother

Meredith