Day 6 (by alaric)
Last night we slept well, since we have found that some formula milk in a bottle satiates her for a good six hours - so one of those before bedtime, when she's starting to get dissatisfied with Sarah's breast output for the day and would otherwise start wailing every half hour for more, leads to a relatively quiet night with only one or two interruptions.
This is very welcome, although I do slightly miss her falling asleep on me! It's nice to be wanted, eh?
Anyway, the midwife (well, another midwife) came today, and after a routine check-up took some blood spots for the Guthrie Heel-Prick test, which appears to be a genetic screening for a range of diseases that, if picked up early, can be treated effectively. This is a good thing.
Looks like we'll be heading home to Gloucs on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. I eagarly await living in my home with my family again, and getting on with pressing work...
And Jean passed a little bit of stool this morning! Then a lot more, later on. So the constipation scare is over. Phew.
Wooow, I feel so grown up getting worried enough about baby's bowel movements to make INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY POSTINGS about it! Welcome to middle age, eh?
Anyway, today was our first outdoor day with Jean; we went to visit various friends in the area. Since there were four adults plus Jean plus a wheelchair and crutches (for Sarah) and a pushchair (in case we saw an opportunity for a stroll), we took two vehicles - Sarah's parent's car plus our van.
Vans are great for this kind of thing since you can fill the back up with wheelchairs, pushchairs, and so on without all the hassle of packing a car boot up. And the three front seats mean you can have the baby seat in the middle (which is a very safe place for it), Mum to the left, and Grandad driving, meaning conversation between the adults is easy and the baby can be entertained easily.
Turns out (like her dad) that she seems to like the van, and dozes off to sleep in it, despite the loud 2.5L Diesel engine.
Sat 3rd Sep 2005 10:04 pm 6 Comments
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By Cait Hurley, Sun 4th Sep 2005 @ 11:55 pm
I don't think your comments thing works but I'm going to say this anyway.
Breastfeeding takes absolutely ages to bed down. 10.300ish formula feed is a great idea but whatever you do, grit your teeth and stick with it for all the others - by the way, you can expect her to wake after 3 hours at this stage - she's a starving little wee'un! It's only when your tits start being supercharged do they go to once every 4 hours.
I kept feeding for a year - well, about 16 months actually and believe me, it was totally the right thing to do, not only from a health perspective (it really helped her when she got gastric flu - she wouldn't have been able to keep formula down but breastmilk - fine and dandy) but from a perfectly delightful private time together type perspective.
Gawd I've got all this to come again. Argh. and this time with a 2 1/2 year old who wants to be amused! Erk!
Sarah - hope you're getting enough rest. Believe me, this bit doesn't last too long. It settles down pretty quickly.
xxx
By ella, Tue 6th Sep 2005 @ 8:36 am
Not to give you ideas (cos technically it's illegal now), but me, my two brothers and my sister have travelled in the back of a van lots when we were younger. For long journeys we lay on duvets and slept (cept me as I can't sleep in vans), and short journeys we had fun sliding around on the spare tire! Then my dad got a car...
By Derek, Thu 8th Sep 2005 @ 5:08 pm
We worried the same way about our first child. The expert advise from the doctor was, "call us if its been 5 days." 5 days?! Now with our third kid we check him once in a while to see if he's breathing, but otherwise just let him do his thing. "Mom, Oscar is chewing on the cat blanket." "That's fine ..."
By chubaka, Sun 20th Nov 2005 @ 11:32 pm
your baby is sooooo cute!i hope she is in good health and you guys are a happy family.
By chubaka, Sun 20th Nov 2005 @ 11:33 pm
best wishes to you and baby Sarah!
By chubaka, Sun 20th Nov 2005 @ 11:39 pm
i mean baby Jean!