How's your "New MOM" experience?....... - Page 2

[oyinmama]

54 hours into motherhood, i am most stunned by the intense, almost debilitating physical impact of birth. i had a 2nd degree tear and feel like i am heading toward engorgement. i know it could be a lot worse, and i am grateful to my birth team and to my son for their skill and gentleness, respectively. but the latching is still painful as heck, it's annoying not to be able to go downstairs, it's humbling how long it takes me to sit down, to get up, to roll over, etc., and it's bizarre that the high pleasure point of my day physically is a sitz bath.

emotionally i'm skating. the baby is great and i just can't stop looking at his chewy little face. DH and i are in pure babymoonland. we had GREAT help immediately after the birth, which was 100% unexpected - DH's brother, SIL, and 1yr old baby had planned a visit and ended up arriving just in time to pick up our keys at the hospital and hang out at our house while we labored! so what did they do? cleaned the house top to bottom - i'm talking that scrub-the-floor-behind-the-toilet, walls&windowsills kind of cleaning to which i only even aspire once a season, and usually only achieve three times a year. (sigh.) they also did all the laundry in the house, cooked pots of food, and assembled and organized all remaining baby clothes & furniture. their being here was a huge blessing, and perfectly filled in the gap until our mothers make it (DH's on monday - she was at a conference one state over and will stop by on her way home - and mine on tuesday to stay for a few weeks. after which i think MIL is coming back)

i am only concerned about work, since we were only like 4 days out from completing our masterplan prep-for-postpartum strategy and now have to reconfigure all our plans with one less person and 80% less sleep

[riverside knitter]

I've been MIA since Nora Skye's birth. The new mom experience is nothing like I imagined. 4 weeks later and we're still struggling with nursing. Her delivery was quite traumatic for both of us - forceps required, 4th degree laceration requiring over an hour of stitching and a 2nd degree hemorrhage on my part. So, bonding proved to be a bit challenging at the beginning since I had a LOT of healing to do and was generally in rough shape - she got at least one bottle before I was in any condition to attempt nursing and consequently developed a strong nipple preference and is still adverse to latching onto my breast. This has been the hardest thing for me emotionally. SO, I am pumping like mad so that she at least gets mommy's milk and making efforts to get her to understand that milk comes from boobies. We've worked with LCs who have assured us that we are doing everything that we can to get the nursing going. And the sleep deprivation is like nothing I could ever imagine.

[ishereal]

Hiccups

So my LO seems to always get hiccups, is there something I can do for this or is it just plan natural? He does not always burp and I heard that was common for bf'd babies...... any ideas

[ishereal]

*bumping for the new moms*

[Bully Lover]

Hugs to everyone having trouble. It does get easier, I swear.

[ErikaG]

Mostly I'm enjoying this whole new mom thing, but I wish we weren't having the breastfeeding issues...it's devastating to me to not be able to give her everything she needs.