4th trimester check-in 12/22

thatbaintforbetty · December 2025

How’s it going?

What’s a current win/loss?

thatbaintforbetty · December 2025

So. Very. Tired. But Saturday I could barely walk from the hospital bed to the bathroom, Sunday I could but it was painful, today I can but it’s uncomfortable after longer periods of time. I’ll take the improvement!

Win: got both myself and Ollie bathed and out of the house today for a peds/lactation appointment

loss: I have been pumping every couple of hours since Sunday evening since he has such an issue with latching (we’ve been supplementing) and I’m getting…nothing. Like I got 1oz Sunday evening, some drops at like midnight and zip/zero/nada all day today.

virginiaham · December 2025

@thatbaintforbetty ugh I’m sorry to hear output isn’t cooperating 😔 I’m so glad for the recovery improvement, I hope that keeps up! And that’s a huge win, just getting out let alone bathed too 😅

Win over here is my husband’s military unit has been slow enough to have him home to help me with all things appointments and recitals and more appointments—when H is on her OFP and is not to be bothered about any sort of time constraint.

Loss - We are deep in leap 1 and I carried Harriet in the wrap a lot yesterday. I ended up with a clogged duct by my upper sternum that I can’t get unclogged with the usual means and I’m afraid it’s heading toward mastitis.

californiacherry · December 2025

@thatbaintforbetty I feel you on the pumping and getting nothing. That was me for a bit too. It wasn’t nothing but it was really low. I’m doing a power pump in the am now and still every 2-3 hours. It seems to have helped now that I’m 3 weeks in but same boat with needing to supplement to make sure he eats enough. Breast feeding has been really hard mentally on me. With that said tho my win is actually in feeding…

Win: Rio got one whole feed from my breasts this morning. Like, he actually was content and fell asleep! Heard tons of swallows and gulps in ~30m. First time, so that’s big win for us! 🩵

Loss: my fiance is back working full days. He’s a business owner so I get it - if he doesn’t work, work piles up + he gets stressed + he doesn’t make money. But, it’s really hard being just today 3 weeks PP, FTM, still physically healing and having him gone all day 😩 I really don’t do anything but try* to BF and pump. Plus, this kid is up all day! We get one 2-3 hour nap mid day but otherwise just like 10-20m naps. So, cannot sleep 🥴

aisleofviewtwo · December 2025

@thatbaintforbetty Did you find the lactation consultant helpful? I was seen by two different LCs in the NICU and then another through my pediatrician, and they’ve all been super supportive but also given somewhat conflicting advice? So trying to weed through all the tips and tricks and figure out what works for us.

@virginiaham So envious of your wrap time (even if it sounds a little overwhelming at the moment)! I have a wrap I’m dying to try out, but wearing Sam’s oxygen tank as a backpack is incompatible with my c recovery, plus I can only imagine how many times he’d pull off his cannula while being worn…

Like many of you, both my win and my loss for the week are about feeding. We’re triple feeding for the foreseeable future and I’m simultaneously so grateful for this method that allowed me to salvage my supply while separated from babes and make sure he’s getting the nutrition he needs (they topped him up with donor milk in the NICU, now it’s just bottles of breast milk I prep in advance) and also SO TIRED of washing bottles and pump parts every 2-3 hours around the clock.

Last weigh-in was Tuesday 12/23 and Sam was still losing weight, though starting to plateau. Since then we’ve switched bottles (Dr. Brown’s to Pigeon) and seen his intake increase dramatically, so I’m hopeful we’re headed in the right direction. Gotta get back to birthweight before the triple feeding can stop. Wish us luck!

dogmom5 · December 2025

Hey girls, things are going over here. You would think by the 6th kiddo I would have this down but postpartum has been harder for me this go around with just healing and feeling like myself.

win, I got on meds for mastitis. I’m slowly starting to feel more normal, I just wish the cracks on my nipples would heal and I could get my oversupply to chill out and regulate. Postpartum is hard and breastfeeding is a second job. We are all doing great from the way it sounds even if we think we aren’t ❤️

I’m planning on going to breastfeeding support group this afternoon to feed and weigh her and just get out to socialize with some other moms
with newborns. Also, just soaking in the time I have with all of the kids home this week. Next week they go back to school and back in their routine with activities. It’s always hard bc I do miss their company at home.

Hope everyone has a good week!

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