NMY Graduates Love Thread, Part 4 - Page 8

[~Shanna~]

Originally Posted by zoebird

mmm: ryan wants to hear about your dream. we are not surprised; we have a sense of his ability to travel already. yours isn't the first dream to come in, and yes, he appears to be quite the powerful little spirit!

nursing: still not up to "full production" and honestly, my breasts don't hurt. but, i have weird notions of discomfort, i guess.

still keeping on with the finger feeding, though we are offering breast frequently. he's doing great and does get a little bit of a suckle now and again.

sleeps like a champ, too. so we're actually pretty rested.

i'm so thankful my mom came yesterday to clean, but i'm not happy about my ILs coming tomorrow. BAH! bleh. i need to feelrelaxed/comfortable to pump and feed and allow him to go to nipple, and the whole process takes an hour. so, even while the ILs are here (they're coming after church, they may be here for one or two feedings), a large protion of their time will be without me, ryan, or the baby, because i'm not doing topless in front of them (like i did with my parents yesterday. my parents are, btw, incredibly cool--i guess i'd forgotten. )

so, that's me. consternation about ILs. LOL

I wondered how things were going with those characters .

I'm thinking of you constantly with nursing, hoping the energy helps.

Have so much more I want to say, but I have 45 lbs of tomatoes to can......before naptime ends :

[witchygrrl]

Zoe, I have no doubt he's an old, powerful soul..seeing the pics on ryan's blog just confirmed that. no dreams yet...i haven't slept enough to dream.

good luck with the ILs...I hated nursing in my ILs presence, and they're not nearly as 'special' as yours. The first time, I was still in the hospital, my mil was sitting in the chair nearish my bed, looking at a bf'ing maual. Rhea and I hadn't gotten the hang of things yet, and mil's asking me a million questions about what the LC had told me (who I had only talked to for about 5 minutes at that point) based on the manual (as my mil never breastfed and hasn't a clue). It was a VERY stressful experience, and the only reason why it happened was because DH had gone off with his dad to pick up lunch.
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Shanna, 45 lbs? Wow. And woot to AF's return!

[snozzberry]

Yay for Hawk's progress!

Yay for Shanna's AF!

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[zoebird]

NAK!!!!!


so, we are on the breast! and he won't take anything else! we started with the nipple shield plus syringe and that ended quickly. he just hung out on the breast from 6 pm to 3 am, then we got 3 hrs of sleep, and we're back on again. awesome!

and we managed a side lying!

so that is great since i can just takr the baby up when i want to and ryan can hang with his parents.

[cking]

Yahoo! That's wondeful ZB!

Josephine is now sitting unassisted. I got a pretty good picture of it the other day. Also, she rolls from her back to her belly all the time, but rarely from her belly to her back. In fact, she's done it exactly three times, but that was a month ago now. I know it's no big deal, but anyone know of anything I can do to encourage her? She seems to love being on her belly, so maybe there's no incentive...?

Piepie, thanks for the tip on napping. I think I will try that. So often I feel impatient and want to get up and do other things, but I know that's probably not best in the long run.

Kelly, we seem to be going through some similar changes with naps. She hasn't really been regular at all yet, so really it's constantly changing. But I think with teething and becoming more active, she's starting to want to stay awake longer and then take longer naps. There are times when she's too tired to play but not ready to nap/nurse, so I've found that to be the best time to wear her on my back. Then I can do something (like make lunch or take a walk) and she's content, and the change of scene seems to help both of us. Then after a while she'll be exhausted and even falls asleep in there sometimes.

[Holiztic]

Originally Posted by Maela

Woo hoo! I'm actually kind of looking forward to it too. Just for the regularity of it, yk?

Me too, I can't wait!

Shanna--what do you think brought it back? Quinn is still nursing about 6-20 times a night, and I feel like its never going to come back!

[PiePie]

Originally Posted by cking

Josephine is now sitting unassisted.

wow she is so advanced!!!!!

[PiePie]

cking, toy as incentive. mirror or portable mobile. gotta go.

[snozzberry]

Congrats, zoebird!

Originally Posted by cking

Josephine is now sitting unassisted.

Yay!

Originally Posted by cking

There are times when she's too tired to play but not ready to nap/nurse, so I've found that to be the best time to wear her on my back. Then I can do something (like make lunch or take a walk) and she's content, and the change of scene seems to help both of us. Then after a while she'll be exhausted and even falls asleep in there sometimes.

What carrier do you use to put her on your back? Was it hard to learn how to put here there by yourself?

Originally Posted by Holiztic

Quinn is still nursing about 6-20 times a night, and I feel like its never going to come back!

Dang, mama! You deserve a medal. It's nice to see you on the thread more...I've missed you!

Cradle cap: We tried olive oil for 15 minutes, then a baby brush to lightly scrub, but it didn't come up. The olive oil makes it just about disappear, actually. It's easier to pick it off when it's dry. Maybe I should do that here and there, and follow up with olive oil to soothe the skin after?

Or maybe I should just wait for it to go away. It's just that it looks SO grody. And she scratches at it sometimes, so I wonder if it makes her head itch.

[MujerMamaMismo]

ZB: Yay for Hawk on the boob! That's great news - I'm so happy it wasn't a long and drawn out process for you.

My dream was not that interesting - really it was just that I'd given birth to my boy who was very obviously Hawk. We were just in the early days and lots of people were visiting. And that's all I can remember. Sorry.

[MujerMamaMismo]

PiePie - Is the trial over? How did it finish up?

[cking]

Originally Posted by snozzberry

Yay!

What carrier do you use to put her on your back? Was it hard to learn how to put here there by yourself?

I've been using a Beco Butterfly. They are $$, but very easy to use. It has an internal panel, so I just put her in it lying down, and then put the whole thing on like a backpack. You are supposed to be able to do it while DC is very young, but I didn't get comfortable with it until recently. I even got her on my back for the grocery store last week! {funny, when she's on my front, I get lots of people stopping to admire her...but on my back I just got a few weird looks )

I've also used a mei tai....a little more economical (i made mine) but a little more of a learning curve. I do the 'shoulder toss' which she actually really likes now, especially because she can pull on my ponytail.

Yeah, I think we're just sitting out the cradle cap. Our ped said it should go away in a few months. It seems to be going away as her hair thins out. The brush seems to flake it off, but it still sticks in her hair and I have to pick them out.

[zoebird]

mmm: nothing to apologize for. he probably brought reassurance, and sometimes, that's all you need.

[witchygrrl]

PiePie, how did you pick up on the reflux? I swear Rhea is spitting up too much...and now my cat is vomiting again also. Awesome.

[PiePie]

trial is going to go down as one of the lowest moments of my prof'l life. judge was a total ua violation and sexist pig who got off on humiliating me. it was miserable. don't know if we won or lost (but in my heart of hearts i know we lost) because it's not over yet -- he requires post-trial briefing on an expedited schedule. ua violation.

witchy, reflux starts at about 4 to 8 weeks. it can mean excessive spitting up but the only instances in which i consider it problematic (worth treating) are when it is causing pain and interfering with the bfing relationship. dd screamed immediately after eating and only then. eventually she started refusing the boob because she knew it would cause her pain. only 10% can be addressed by your diet, and of that chunk 90% are dairy. when she went on meds it immediately cleared up and if it had been soemthing else the meds wouldn't have helped. btw, the meds are no longer needed. we want on holiday from them a few weeks ago and no symptoms! : oh, the other telltale signs: arching back and standing -- like the whole body is stiff -- when screaming.

[Maela]

Originally Posted by zoebird

NAK!!!!!


so, we are on the breast! and he won't take anything else! we started with the nipple shield plus syringe and that ended quickly. he just hung out on the breast from 6 pm to 3 am, then we got 3 hrs of sleep, and we're back on again. awesome!

and we managed a side lying!

so that is great since i can just takr the baby up when i want to and ryan can hang with his parents.

ZB, that is so awesome! Yay!

Originally Posted by Holiztic

Me too, I can't wait!

Shanna--what do you think brought it back? Quinn is still nursing about 6-20 times a night, and I feel like its never going to come back!

Yes, Dd is still nursing 1-5 times at night. I have a feeling mine won't come back until she's done nightnursing or at least not more than once a night.

Originally Posted by snozzberry

Cradle cap: We tried olive oil for 15 minutes, then a baby brush to lightly scrub, but it didn't come up. The olive oil makes it just about disappear, actually. It's easier to pick it off when it's dry. Maybe I should do that here and there, and follow up with olive oil to soothe the skin after?

Or maybe I should just wait for it to go away. It's just that it looks SO grody. And she scratches at it sometimes, so I wonder if it makes her head itch.

Sure, just do the olive oil. I just shampooed because her hair seemed too greasy, and the baby brush helped get rd of more of it for us. Or you could just leave it. But like you, I thought it looked gross.


I'm watching my friend's 8yo dsd this week. It's fun, and Dd's loving it.

[witchygrrl]

Originally Posted by PiePie

trial is going to go down as one of the lowest moments of my prof'l life. judge was a total ua violation and sexist pig who got off on humiliating me. it was miserable. don't know if we won or lost (but in my heart of hearts i know we lost) because it's not over yet -- he requires post-trial briefing on an expedited schedule. ua violation.

witchy, reflux starts at about 4 to 8 weeks. it can mean excessive spitting up but the only instances in which i consider it problematic (worth treating) are when it is causing pain and interfering with the bfing relationship. dd screamed immediately after eating and only then. eventually she started refusing the boob because she knew it would cause her pain. only 10% can be addressed by your diet, and of that chunk 90% are dairy. when she went on meds it immediately cleared up and if it had been soemthing else the meds wouldn't have helped. btw, the meds are no longer needed. we want on holiday from them a few weeks ago and no symptoms! : oh, the other telltale signs: arching back and standing -- like the whole body is stiff -- when screaming.

PiePie, I'm sorry the judge was such a ua violation toward you...I wish there were some way that the judge could be censored for bad behavior, but that might make it worse. Ugh.

and thanks for the advice on the reflux. it's not as bad as you describe--usually she wants more after she spits up, whether it's a small amount or looks like the entirety of what she just ate. she gets more upset if there is any left in her mouth--but I would be too. it was weird how we went from no spit up to spitting up extremely often, but I guess she's getting enough to eat based on how often we change diapers.

But hooray that Lorelei doesn't need meds anymore!

[Maela]

I don't know how much Rhea is spitting up, but I remember that Maev had an increase in the amount of spitting up at some point. I think it was around 4 months though, which is much older than your dd. I never found out why she increased the spitting up; I just guessed that maybe it was from being able to move around more, and maybe she was moving around too much right after she ate?
That doesn't really help I guess.

Hope things improve soon.

[~Shanna~]

Originally Posted by Holiztic

Me too, I can't wait!

Shanna--what do you think brought it back? Quinn is still nursing about 6-20 times a night, and I feel like its never going to come back!

When he's not in teething pain (not often, but we had a week or two consistently without it), he slept really well, only nursing 2X a night (2 am and 5-6 am, then going right back to sleep). Seemed to coincide with that and when I started to suspect that Fenton was nursing often in the day because he was bored or wanted to try out his power. I started suggesting something else when i suspect this ("some bread?" "water?" "go outside?") so he wasn't nursing quite as often in the day.

Elizabeth, I've missed you . Hard to keep up here with a Toddler running around, huh?

Have to run, but wanted to add: My sister (who is ttc) has asked me to be at the birth to video tape, but she has some insecurities about having me there when she's so vulnerable to feeling judged since I make such different choices from her. Had a frank discussion with her about it, but mostly acknowledged that yes, we do make different choices. Not sure how to proceed......

[farmama]

nak. gosh, i'm behind...

congratulations jenifer & ryan!

Welcome Hawk!