We have a labor watch, birth story, post partum thread, and I was thinking we can have a newborn thread so we can get updates on how our babies are doing. For moms who already gave birth, how are your little ones doing? We'd love to know!
It's a boy! Grow baby, grow! EDD: 4/22/2016
Re: ~~Newborn update thread~~
Dolores has been a little snuggle bug today! Two weeks and now weights 8lbs.
We went from barely eating to wanting food nearly every hour! His weight was down nearly 9% at his check up on Monday. He gets a one week weight recheck tomorrow so I'm hoping all these extra feeds have helped!
Rosie will be a week old tomorrow. She's nursing a ton, but we don't have a good latch so I have been quite sore. We've got an appointment with a lactation consultant at our ped's office tomorrow, so I am hopeful that we will be able to make some progress then. I never did get a good latch with DD1 when she was a newborn and it led to all sorts of other problems, so I am trying to not wait this time around.
She slept all night last night, which was unexpected, and a little scary. I kept waking up to pee and make sure she was still breathing.
In general he is a very content baby and has been giving me nice stretches of sleep at night (3-6 hours). He has latched well from the beginning and I think we are on our way to forming a schedule!
The best thing? He has the softest skin and hair known to man! DD was well cooked AND had eczema, so I've never had a baby with baby soft skin. This rocks!
Also, I love seeing all your babes!
Peter's weigh in didn't go as expected today. He didn't lose any weight but he also didn't gain. We're really struggling to get him to eat more. We wake him every 2-3 hours and the doctor wants him to drink at least 1oz at each session but he is averaging 15-20ml each time. Little guy just isn't a big eater. I don't know what else we can do
We have another weigh in on Monday. I'm hoping his appetite picks up over the weekend.
Two week check up today. Little Mr weighs 8.5 (still not up to birth weight /sigh) Breastfeeding is going better... I'm apparently not allowed to call him a little asshole when I'm trying to latch him anymore per fiancé's instructions...
Question for BFers - Ellie has a pretty decent latch (for only feeding 3 times) and suckles well, but every time my alarm goes off to feed her I think I'd rather stick white-hot needles into my nipples. What am I doing wrong?
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Nov siggy challenge: animals eating Thanksgiving food
Rhys - born 04.17.2013
Harry - born 04.18.2016
As for latching, I find it very painful for at least a few days-1 week. It was shorter with #2 and the pain seems to be almost gone at 9 days pp. With #1 I had bleeding nipples (yuck, sorry), and he ended up nursing for 20 months pain free once they healed.
And thanks for for the kind thoughts re my bad sleepers:). This one still hasn't woken up during the day for more than 10 minutes. I started sleeping on the couch at night so at least I'm not so mad to wake up for a while.
I think a little bit of pain is always expected though. It always hurts when Luca first latches, because my nipples are not super pointy and he sucks them out to be able to feed. 5 seconds later that pain goes away and then for the rest of the feeding is just a very mild discomfort.
The only issue we are having are his fussyness in the evenings... He will not lay down and sleep , and I am starting to think it is because of gas pains. Any advice from BTDT moms?
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Nov siggy challenge: animals eating Thanksgiving food
Rhys - born 04.17.2013
Harry - born 04.18.2016
I got a tip from a LC which really helped. Since he latched on the right breast right away in cross cradle position, for the left breast we figured we would have him approach it from the same position (meaning head to the right) while in a football hold. That made the whole difference. He now knows to suck out the nipple for a sec before coming back for the latch. Since he got used to this technique, I am now practicing with him taking the left breast from a cross cradle position again, and this time he is taking it - just takes him a few extra tries.