Moms of newborns: how is everyone doing? - Page 2

[queendom lady]

eight days post birth here. still really sore - i tore pretty bad - so it's hard to sit and type hence no birth story yet.

other than that things have been getting better by the day. she's been sleeping in 3 to 4 hour intervals at night the past few nights and has lots of quiet alert time during the day. bf-ing was incredibly hard at first. she was on oxygen for the first night so getting her on didn't really work w/ tubes in her nose! she didn't really feed until we got home which took a few days and i don't think i understood how she was supposed to latch on at first which led to blistering nipples - ouch. dh said it was like breaking in a new pair of birkenstocks... um, yah, but say the birks were on his balls. anyways, he's been amazing and we've had family here the past few days which has its plus's and minus's.
boobs are better, i'm able to walk a little more, i don't feel like i'm going to black out all the time anymore, and we're going on a picnic today. tomorrow is dh's day back to work! i don't know what i'll do but i'm sure i'll be posting more then!

i hope things get better quickly for all of you suffering right now. keep posting, i know it helps to have community. this has certainly helped me a great deal. thanks to you all.

[chlobo]

I had a crying jag last night because I miss my older daughter. I mean, obviously I see her since she's in the same house. But I'm always nursing Charlotte and can't play with Claire. I feel like I've lost something precious and I'll never get it back

Ditto this. My DD told my mom that daddy has to take care of her now b/c I have to take care of the new baby. So sad.

Starting to think I should have saved the placenta.

[mamamoo]

DAy three...she is just amazing. I am sooo tired though. And my back is worse than it was while I was pregnant for some reason. I tried to stretch it last night and got waves of spasms up my spine from the lower back all the way to my neck. I was so scared. I moved a different way, and it stopped. I will be glad when my body gets back to normal.

SHe nurses like a champ and my milk came in last night. I almost couldn't get her latched this morning cause I was so full. Luckily I have dd nursing still. My 4.5 yr old has only asked to nurse once, and it was just fro a minute. I am shocked, and a bit relieved.
Dh is here for two weeks, and a sort of trial run(while helping me with everything), he already had to go back to work today though, so I am here with 5 kids alone.
Went to bed last night around midnight, baby awake from 1-2:30, Violet came to lay with us around 3, both littles were up at 5. FUN!! I did get to nap for a bit though since then. Now Violet is napping.
I long for a full nights sleep.

[mamamoo]

oh and I get my placenta pills today!! WOOHOO!

[pookel]

I am getting really tired of sleeping in the recliner. Baby won't stay asleep on a flat surface unless he's been rocked to a sound sleep beforehand, and I usually doze off before he's there. Then I wake up two hours later with numb hands and sore muscles because he's crying to be fed again, and it starts all over. I probably got 10 hours of this kind of sleep last night, but it's not good enough, because it's not restful sleep. And sleeping this much means I hardly see my toddler - who seems to think that if he behaves badly enough for my husband, then I'll *have* to spend time with him.

The depression is fading - maybe it's the increased Zoloft, maybe it's the hormones settling down - but I feel like a zombie and I'm still living in pajamas. I'm now about 15 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight. If you're jealous, don't be; it's because I'm not eating anything.

I've gotten him to latch a few times in the last couple of days. It's nice, but he won't do it every time, and I'm not producing enough (giving him maybe 12 oz formula a day) because I can't pump often enough. I manage fine in the daytime, but at night I keep having to make the decision between holding him and pumping, and he'll cry if I put him down. There's nothing like the feeling of giving your baby a bottle of formula while your breasts are swollen and leaking because you can't figure out a way to pump and he won't latch. I'm hoping he will start latching more consistently now, and then I can work on getting my supply back up.