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Announcing Gwendolyn Beatrice
(I posted to mkp last night, and forgot to cross post. But, this time
I just have a napping baby on me, and have 2 hands for typing, so it'll be a little longer!) Gwendolyn Beatrice was born 4/8/04, at 1:53 pm. 8 lbs, 8 oz. 21.5" long Breastfeeding is going well. She's doing a lot of cluster-feeding, which is nice because is give me big gaps, but difficult since I'm having a hard time judging when the cluster of feeds is actually over! ;-) The LC's at the hospital were both happy to hear that ds weaned at 2.5. They were both there when I had ds, so it was good to see them again. One interesting wrinkle I hadn't expected - after she was born, her respiratory rate was high, so they wouldn't let me feed her until it was below 60. Fortunately, that happened in about 3 hours, and she was still happy and ready to feed. I was worried, especially when the LC mentioned that if she couldn't feed soon, I might need to start pumping, and she'd be fed with a tube. But, at least since they were worried about aspirating, bottles wouldn't be an issue! Other interesting things - since (as some of you may remember) I'd been nursing one-sidedly for about a year and a half, it's been interesting to see how that affected how my milk has been coming in. One of the comments from the LC I saw on day 2 was that since ds had weaned so recently, I probably wouldn't have as much engorgement, since my boddy would remember. But, since the right side weaned much earlier, I figuerd that might be different! ;-) At first, I didn't really notice a difference, but last night, the right side really got engorged. Not quite as much as the first time around, but definitely painful. I did nurse quite a bit on that side to try and get it down. But, now it seems to have evened out. It seems like that side is still slower, so I'm trying to use it about twice as long as the other, to keep them even. Here's hoping that strategy works out! Ds has not expressed an interest in tasting the mommy milk, now that it's back. I figured it was a toss-up, so I'm not terribly surprised. He seems quite content to leave it to Gwendolyn now. It's funny - he was very prepared that Gwendolyn is his little sister. What kind of threw him was the idea that I'm also Gwendolyn's mommy, not just Tommy's mommy! He seems to have absorbed that concept, however... He still adorse her, even though he's starting to compete for attention. Fortunately, my sister is here to play with him and help out, so he's getting plenty of attention, and I'm also making sure to give him lots of love! I have a few minutes, so I may head over to mkp for a birth story... Irene mom to Thomas 7/10/01 & Gwendolyn 4/8/04 |
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Announcing Gwendolyn Beatrice
Congrats!
"Irene" wrote in message om... (I posted to mkp last night, and forgot to cross post. But, this time I just have a napping baby on me, and have 2 hands for typing, so it'll be a little longer!) Gwendolyn Beatrice was born 4/8/04, at 1:53 pm. 8 lbs, 8 oz. 21.5" long Breastfeeding is going well. She's doing a lot of cluster-feeding, which is nice because is give me big gaps, but difficult since I'm having a hard time judging when the cluster of feeds is actually over! ;-) The LC's at the hospital were both happy to hear that ds weaned at 2.5. They were both there when I had ds, so it was good to see them again. One interesting wrinkle I hadn't expected - after she was born, her respiratory rate was high, so they wouldn't let me feed her until it was below 60. Fortunately, that happened in about 3 hours, and she was still happy and ready to feed. I was worried, especially when the LC mentioned that if she couldn't feed soon, I might need to start pumping, and she'd be fed with a tube. But, at least since they were worried about aspirating, bottles wouldn't be an issue! Other interesting things - since (as some of you may remember) I'd been nursing one-sidedly for about a year and a half, it's been interesting to see how that affected how my milk has been coming in. One of the comments from the LC I saw on day 2 was that since ds had weaned so recently, I probably wouldn't have as much engorgement, since my boddy would remember. But, since the right side weaned much earlier, I figuerd that might be different! ;-) At first, I didn't really notice a difference, but last night, the right side really got engorged. Not quite as much as the first time around, but definitely painful. I did nurse quite a bit on that side to try and get it down. But, now it seems to have evened out. It seems like that side is still slower, so I'm trying to use it about twice as long as the other, to keep them even. Here's hoping that strategy works out! Ds has not expressed an interest in tasting the mommy milk, now that it's back. I figured it was a toss-up, so I'm not terribly surprised. He seems quite content to leave it to Gwendolyn now. It's funny - he was very prepared that Gwendolyn is his little sister. What kind of threw him was the idea that I'm also Gwendolyn's mommy, not just Tommy's mommy! He seems to have absorbed that concept, however... He still adorse her, even though he's starting to compete for attention. Fortunately, my sister is here to play with him and help out, so he's getting plenty of attention, and I'm also making sure to give him lots of love! I have a few minutes, so I may head over to mkp for a birth story... Irene mom to Thomas 7/10/01 & Gwendolyn 4/8/04 |
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Announcing Gwendolyn Beatrice
"Irene" wrote in message om... (I posted to mkp last night, and forgot to cross post. But, this time I just have a napping baby on me, and have 2 hands for typing, so it'll be a little longer!) Gwendolyn Beatrice was born 4/8/04, at 1:53 pm. 8 lbs, 8 oz. 21.5" long Congratulations Amanda -- DD 15th August 2002 1 tiny angel Nov 2003 EDD 19th August 2004 |
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