Baby/Mom Check-In Week of 10.22.17

[grumpycat]

Borrowed from Oct 17 ... we can make changes if we want.


How many weeks/days PP/How old is baby?







How are you feeling? Any concerns?







How is baby in general doing?







How is baby eating & sleeping?







BF or FF? How is that going?







Milestones? Both baby and mom.

[beefinch]

How old is baby? 4 days old today

How are you feeling? Any concerns? I'm fine, C-section recovery sucks though. Most certainly is not the 'easy way out', all of the staff are very impressed with how quick I recovered.

How is baby in general doing? She's just in this past hour been moved from NICU to special care, it's a very important step be we are still waiting on 1 last blood results.


How is baby eating and sleeping? Eating every 3 hours, and pretty much sleeps until 10 minutes before feeding time.


BF or FF? How is that going? FF, since she's away from me my boobs literally refuse to do anything. I try my best to pump but I literally get like 1 ml from both boobs. I will still pop her on the boob once she's back to me though.

Milestones? Both baby and mom. Moving from NICU to special care, me - I coughed today and it didn't feel like my guts were going to come flying out

[cnf]

beefinch a csection can delay your milk coming in so just keep pumping until she's back with you. My pump was basically an extra appendage for me after DD was born and I managed to get my milk to come in towards the end of the third day, which is fairly fast for a csection.

[grumpycat]

How many weeks/days PP/How old is baby?
10 days today.






How are you feeling? Any concerns?
Recovery wise, feeling well. I'm exhausted, but that's my biggest complaint. I have sore nips and I'm trying to work on ds2's latch because I think it's a little shallow.






How is baby in general doing?
He's doing well ... eating, pooping, sleeping. Clusterfeeding seems like it's getting better or I'm just getting used to it. He's a sweet, happy guy. We are lucky. DS1 does not have the same disposition.






How is baby eating & sleeping?
Still a sleepy eater and longer nursing sessions. Sleeping well ... during the day!






BF or FF? How is that going?
Bfing ... going so much better than it did with my first. The pediatrician mentioned that I may want to start pumping a little bit around 2 or 3 weeks and i smiled/nodded, but I'd rather eat my own hand than pump again. Plus my first didn't like defrosted milk. I have to check if high lipase varies per pregnancy or if it's always there.






Milestones? Both baby and mom.
More periods of being awake and alert.
For me, less sore everyday and I went for a very short walk to the playground near our house the other day. Once I was healed up, I went on mile+ long walks while babywearing ds1. I'm looking forward to that again.

[librarylady]

How many weeks/days PP/How old is baby? Two weeks old today!



How are you feeling? Any concerns? Pretty good. C-section recovery is harder with a toddler, I think more mentally since MH is handling everything, it's just hard to step so much back from her life.



How is baby in general doing? Good, I think! She is having more awake periods of time and is nursing for longer so that makes me feel really good.



How is baby eating & sleeping? We stopped supplementing with pumped milk last week and she is still gaining, so that's a relief. She is sleeping in mostly two hour something stretches at night but they get closer to 90 minutes in the wee morning hours, She is nursing for more like ten minutes instead of 4 minutes so I hope that keeps improving.



BF or FF? How is that going? BF. It has been stressful what with bottle feeding and pumping in the beginning and then with just how little she was nursing in general. Both the LC and pedi seem baffled with how few minutes she nurses at a time yet has plenty of poops and pees and good weight gain.



Milestones? Both baby and mom. I would say mine is going off the hard pain meds and hers would be just continuing to become more awake to the world.