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post #61 of 183
9/29/04 at 7:15pm

40 weeks 1 day

Yay Lynsey!!! I was just thinking of you this afternoon. I can't wait to hear more.

to all of you having tough times right now.

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post #62 of 183
9/29/04 at 7:54pm

nak. 3 weeks old.

MY BACK HURTS.

ok, i have to feed the other 2 kids now.
post #63 of 183
9/29/04 at 7:55pm
Congratulations Lynsey! I am so happy for you! Yay! Moon power! kiss that little sweetie for all of us.... that's alot of kisses!

Lazuli i am sorry to hear you are struggling, i know the feeling. At least my Jerome is around alot. He works about 5 hours a day during the week. He tucks me and Mielle in and then cleans the kitchen. Little by little I am able to get more done during the day, but I have to leave Mielle in the bouncy seat to get any thing done. I feel so stiff and akward wearing her in the wrap. She fusses alot in the sling.

I managed to make abig batch of chili today... in the crock pot! Smells so good in here!

Love to all
post #64 of 183
9/29/04 at 8:21pm

More Photos

Here's some more photos of Mielle, they are mostly from the first 2 weeks. I've gotten behind.. imagine that!
http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?...5atXLA&notag=1

My in laws are begging for more photos, need to feed the obession! Maybe they will refrain from calling for a day or two! Seriously, it seems like they always call while we are in the middle of cooking dinner, changing a diaper and Mielle is screaming her head off in on of those "blue poodle fits". And then Jerome feels he must talk to them for at least 20 minutes as they as ask for all the details about my breast pain, rash etc. It drives me crazy! I know they love us and adore their grandaughter, but JEEZ, can't you take a hint!

Gotta go eat some dinner
kisses
post #65 of 183
9/29/04 at 9:32pm
I'll be back to read and post... But just got finished uploading new pictures to Shutterfly! Here you go: http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeAM2TRszcsWzEXg

Love,
post #66 of 183
9/29/04 at 9:50pm
Great pictures Savannah. I the tandem nursing ones!!

Anna, you go making a batch of chili!
post #67 of 183
9/29/04 at 10:02pm
me again.

so all this talk about nighttime diapering troubles got me all in a tizzy and i just ordered 2 small fuzzibunz. what do you all use to stuff them?
post #68 of 183
9/29/04 at 10:29pm
Thanks for the advice and encouragement, everyone.

I'm all nervous at the moment. I just realized Dave is going back to work TOMORROW for the first time since....EASTER!


I am sort of freaking out at the idea of being alone with everyone while still trying to figure out all these nursing/pumping issues.


I'm still only getting 1 or 2 ounces (2 is usually only at my early morning pump session) per pumping and Anna is eating 3 oz. every feeding. So, I'm only managing to give her breastmilk as 1/3 of her daily diet at the moment.

I'll get together a list of things I have to give away sometime in the next day or two. I need to get the laundry washed and put away tomorrow so I know what's ready to be passed on to someone else.

Lemme see...

I used infant prefolds to stuff my fuzzibunz with Nathaniel. I don't use pockets this time. I'm in love with my Nanipoo newborn fitteds and the "faux" kissaluvs size 0 diapers that a dear friend made for Anna. The nanipoo diapers are the only things we own that actually FIT Anna. They fit so perfectly at 6 pounds but have plenty of growing room so I'm pretty sure she'll be able to wear them till 12 or 15 pounds.

Anna doesn't have any clothes that fit her. She loses her arms in the size 0-3 and newborn sleepers and goes into meltdown. We are expected to attend DH's brother's wedding next weekend and I have no idea what she'll wear.

Off to pump some more.

Hugs and blessings,

~L
post #69 of 183
9/30/04 at 12:14am
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JenInMpls - sort of off topic, I know they say that all babies "look alike" but your son looks just like my daughter to me! I even had my DH look and see if it was just me or if the resemblance was really there!
Kinda strange!

He's Beautiful, of course!! :LOL
post #70 of 183
9/30/04 at 1:21am
Thread Starter 
jen - my mom says all babies look like winston churchill. how anyone can say that about our beauties I'll never know

my adorable son has been gassy and pissy all night. A couple of doses of colic remedy and a squirt of baby simethicone seem to be helping the air out of him. he's struggling to keep his eyes open now even as he nurses as if it's going out of style. So am I, actually, I'm hoping all of the yelling neans that he is good and tired, esp considering he missed his morning nap. I suppose, though, he'll be up good and late and we'll be too bleary-eyed to talk at the dr appt tomorrow.

ok, i'm getting too tired to type. night night i hope

j
post #71 of 183
9/30/04 at 1:31am
Quote:
Originally Posted by chrissy
me again.

so all this talk about nighttime diapering troubles got me all in a tizzy and i just ordered 2 small fuzzibunz. what do you all use to stuff them?
toh and haven't looked for other responses yet...

I have one MOE (FuzziBunz) Microterry insert per diaper (though I had some extras before I bought more dipes!). I'll use one of those and either a second of those or one of the inserts I got in an Insert Sampler pack from http://www.clothdiapersnmore.com/ - this includes some PFs, JoeyBunz, Duz it all, another flat hemp I can't remember the name of... I find the PFs to be the least absorbant and the hemp maybe a bit more absorbant than the microterry. Anyway, I really like having the sampler so I have lots to try! There may be some cheaper options, but these work well for us.
post #72 of 183
9/30/04 at 1:42am

Maya Leigh - September 23, 2004

Hey guys!

I'm ridiculously behind on reading posts -- let's not even talk about responding to them.

Thursday morning, September 23, I woke around 8am with a crampiness that was "new," even after spending the night on the pot (TMI...it was so bad, I had to take a bath for my poor tushy!).

I ran a bath, and as soon as I lowered myself into the tub, my water broke! There were little bits of vernix floating everywhere, but otherwise, it was clear. Called my midwife to let her know (she was suprised, since her bets were on my going 41 weeks), and said we'd touch base periodically over the day.

In the photos, you'll see pictures of me outside...my final "pregnant" shots, since I'd neglected to take any pictures since 30 weeks. Look over my shoulder...as I walked toward the edge of my complex (to overlook a mountain view), a doe was waiting there for me!

My mw had a 1:30 appointment, and I told her no problem for her to hit it...then she'd come to my house by around 3pm. Around 2:30-2:45, the crampiness that I'd THOUGHT were contractions suddenly changed, and I found myself hanging on furniture through what I'd assumed was transition. MW arrived a bit after 3, just for me to learn that while I was 100% effaced, I'd only dilated to 3cm. With my permission, she "stretched" me to 4cm (really, that was easy).

Contractions continued, and we (okay, I didn't do anything other than say "that's too hot!") filled up the fishy pool at the foot of my bed. Ah, relief. Sort of. From there, I travelled into that neverworld zone known as laborland. I vaguely remember standing in the doorway to the kitchen, hearing MW tell my cousin and S/O that she was going to run out for a salad, and would be right back. I'm not sure if I said anything or not, but I started to feel PANIC. No! Don't leave me!

Another check soon after that showed that NOW, I was at 7cm, and hitting transition -- only 2 hours after checking at 3cm! This baby wasn't taking her time. Within an hour after that, I'd begun feeling *very* pushy, and back in the water, didn't let my mw get near enough to me to check to make sure I was really dilated fully. The idea of being touched sounded like torture. At some point, I finally felt inside myself, and told them, "I feel a head." With that, my mw did check me (she was in disbelief -- first time moms aren't supposed to work that fast!), and verified, yes...I really was pushing.

Maya Leigh was born at 5:58pm, after only 3 hours (but VERY intense hours) of "active" labor. She's beautiful, and of course, I'm in love. At 6 pounds, 4 ounces (39 weeks 6 days), and 19-1/2 inches, she's a petite dollbaby.

The past six days have been a huge adjustment, and each day brings changes. As soon as I get used to one "routine," the next day is completely different!

I'll post a couple photos in the yahoo group, assuming it ever lets me do more than create an empty album... :

(Okay, YG still doesn't even give me the "add photos" option, so here's the whole PG-rated photo album.) http://tinyurl.com/4ekyl

Somewhere along the way, I suppose I'll actually write a more "put together" birth story, but for now, I'm still dealing with tailbone achiness...

I hope everyone's well! We're over the moon here.
post #73 of 183
9/30/04 at 2:06am
Congrats, Allison! Welcome, Maya! Glad everything went so well!

Anna and Savannah, thanks for sharing the great pics! Anna, I love those first pics of you and Mielle sleeping. SO sweet!! And Savannah, all the pics of the twins sleeping together and also the tandem nursing are wonderful! The sleeping after nursing is a classic!

Leigh, have you tried preemie clothes? I know places like Gymboree and Children's Place carry preemie sizes that fit those "small" babes. You may even be able to look online to find some from those places. Even Iain, who was 7lbs2oz at birth, didn't fit well in 0-3 month sizes! We're slowly working into them. Hope you find something sweet for her to wear!

Anna, Lazuli, and Vicki - I hope you're all doing much better soon!
post #74 of 183
9/30/04 at 2:06am
CONGRATULATIONS, Lynsey!! : Big Baby Girl!!

CONGRATS TO YOU TOO, Allison!! and : to Maya Leigh!! Hooray for a nice quick labor.

I love the pictures of Iain, and of Mielle! I wish my dh would take some nice pics of me with the babies... my sister is planning to take some family ones Sunday; maybe I can get her to do a couple of mom and baby ones then. But Anna, I just love the pictures of you and Jerome snuggling Mielle in bed. She looks so cute with her naked fat belly; I'm afraid to let my kiddos go topless, afraid they'll get too cold. McKenna especially seems to shiver horrendously when I'm changing her outfits each day... <shrug>

Well, off to sneak a nap before the babies need to eat again. Thanks Chrissy for your picture compliments. Today was only the third or fourth time I've attempted tandem nursing, and it went well.

OH! The babies went for their 5 week checkup today. William went from 6-3 at birth to now 9 pounds! No wonder he was feeling so heavy... McKenna has all of her feeding and weight gain issues "resolved" says the doctor, and went from 5-12 to now 7-12, woo hoo! She still clamps off her milk flow at the end of a session, and falls asleep too early, so I see why she's lagging behind her piggy brother. But I feel so justified and pleased! I scoff at all my naysayers!!!
post #75 of 183
9/30/04 at 2:12am
P.S. I'm just now starting my quest for the perfect stuffing for pocket dipes. I just bought 30 dipes! So far I've stuffed them with prefolds, birdseye flats, microterry, hemp inserts, and terry/microfleece inserts. The prefolds are huge but quite absorbent. I need huge now, though, since the little thighs are still not quite big enough to keep in the pee with the slimmer inserts like the hemp ones. the microterry works better than I expected, and the birdseye flats aren't nearly absorbent enough, unless you use 2. Then they're perfect.

In fact, I'll probably be posting a "ISO" thread on the Trading Post soon looking for lots of inserts for sale, cheap. With our fitted diapers, the person who sold them to me did this and I'm just doing what she did: She trifolded regular terry washcloths and laid them in the diaper, then topped that with a piece of microfleece for softness/dryness. My babies still manage to soak through all those and the diaper itself in no time flat, so I do love my good quality covers! (PUL and Bummis SWW).
post #76 of 183
9/30/04 at 8:34am
How did I miss those pics of Mielle last night? They are wonderful! She is such a beauty- and I love all the mom and Mielle and dad and Mielle shots too!

Allison- Congratulations on Maya's birth!! I loved your pictures too! It was really cool watching the birth process in still photos. She is gorgeous!!

Thanks for the info on stuffers ladies! I bought 2 joey bunz and I've got tons of prefolds so I guess that ought to be a good start.

Savannah- what did you buy 30 of???
post #77 of 183
9/30/04 at 10:16am
Oh! More babies! Congratulations! *throws around confetti*

I'm feeling better today, thanks for the encouragement! My friend is coming out today to entertain Kallisti so I can get some stuff done. We went to the doctor yesterday for her 2 week checkup and she's back up to 9 lbs! (She gained almost a lb in a week, yikes!) When we got home we took a 2 1/2 hour nap. Yay!

I'm behind, I need to look at all these pictures, and I need to finish writing up my birth story and get it posted. Maybe today. I'm going to go grab a cup of coffee now.
post #78 of 183
9/30/04 at 11:00am
link to a few pics of my baby:
http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeAMWbli4bM2z4Q
post #79 of 183
9/30/04 at 12:13pm
OOOOOHHHH, what fun I've had looking at the new pictures!

Allison, who took all those terrific labor/birth pictures for you?? What a nice thing to do. You look terrific, and what a nice waterbirth. Maya is too precious! You can see why she stayed so long inside you... Look how mad she was to be out! haha. And you sure had a pretty preggy belly!

Lynsey, I just love all the pictures you've taken this pregnancy with the older kids and your belly! What a nice chubby cutie your new daughter is. Did you knit/crochet that pretty, soft matching blanket and hat set? It's great!

Chrissy, I went on the TP and found different deals on pocket dipes:
1) 1 small Happy Heiny cow print for $4 and 1 medium Lilybottoms cow print (well worn) "free for shipping", $2.
2) One gal sewed her own pockets using HH as her guide, and was selling some smalls because she didn't like the way the seam bunched up on the front. So I got 10 gorgeous, perfect, new pocket dipes similar to HH for $3 each!! Two even have an embroidered design on the back!
3) 2 small and 1 medium Ella's pocket dipes, including inserts, and a medium cover tossed in, for $6 each.
4) 2 small Starbunz "white bear" dipes for half price, $8 each.
5) and 7 newborn Little Lamb AIOs (which haven't arrived yet) for $6 each. I've also found a gal on the TP who likes to trade for Enfamil Lipil formula checks, and I received one, so I'm hoping to trade for one more cute medium pocket diaper she had for sale, plus a cover....

See them here! http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeAM2TRszcsWzEfA

Did I mention THE TRADING POST ROCKS!?!?
post #80 of 183
9/30/04 at 2:20pm
I love the Trading Post; i use it all the time!

Congrats Lynsey and Allison!
What beauties you both have!

Do you notice the DDDDC someone gave me?
My friend KJ did it!
(A DDDDC is a little "signature" thingie someone can pay MDC to put under your username- mine says "20% crunchy, 80% diva")

I seem to have a fussy gassy baby, too.
Not colicky, just fussy at certain times of the day (usually between 8pm and 11pm). The simethicone drops seem to help sometimes.

Well, I go back to work tomorrow night!
I'm actually looking forward to it; is that crazy?
My DH is nervous; he has a hard time with newborns, and gets easily frustrated with the fussiness.
But, my mom is here, so he probably won't have to do much with Finn anyways.
Finn is getting baptized on Sunday (we're Catholic), so I'm looking forward to that!
I'll take pics of him in his little outfit for ya.
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