random mum & baby stats

Day 12 and things are going great.

K is a fantastic big sister- she helps get nappies, always wants to cuddle or pat the baby, tells me whenever he is crying (in case I didn't know, lol)

managed our first "3-way" today...me, K and baby all went down for a nap at the same time, haha! Not sure how often this will happen, but it was good.

I gained about 14kg overall, and only dropped 4kg after birth. Currently weighing in at minus 7kg. Only another 7kg to go to pre-birth weight. I lost a lot more to start with when K was born so am finding that I am really struggling for clothes to fit as I am in between sizes now - maternity clothes a bit big, but regular clothes still far to "pitchi-pitchi". Hope this weight comes off soon (but figure that with recent aquisition of more costco cookies and muffins that it won't come off THAT quick! oh well!)

so far we have done 1 and a half days of cloth nappies (Cloth Diapering = CD). Am hoping to do CD during the day at home, and disposables for night and when we are out and about. I realised on day 1 of CD-ing that some kind of nappy liner would be useful, so yesterday we bought some Pigeon brand disposable liners. They seem to work well and make cleaning poopy nappies easier for sure. May consider washable liners down the track, but for now they will do fine.

Merries new born nappies are the best fit at the moment. I also bought Moonie and Goon, but they are too wide and short, whereas the merries are longer and leaner fit on bubs.

Bubs is a lot more alert the last 2-3 days, more awake time, lots of looking around, and kicking (kicked his blankets off already!) Very good baby so far (TOUCH WOOD) doesn't cry or fuss that much and def. more settled than K ever was, even at this age. Sleeps well during the night, waking up around 3am and 6am or 7am for feeds. The 7am feed is the one that gets to me the most - so not a morning person!

I wrongly assumed that having bf-ed K until she was 14months, I would have nipples of steel and have no issues this time....but baby boy is such a good sucker, that he gave them a real work out, and I had to let the puppies have a few days rest when we got home from hospital and espress milk instead to try to save them before they got TOO cracked and sore. We seem to be back on track now, but I am still pumping for about one feed a day, just to give me a break, and Nanna some bottle time with bubs!

he is not so good at burping, so if he has a bottle, he often ends up with a little tummy pain that wakes him an hour or more after he has finished the bottle. Is much more settled when bf-ed.

had our first trip away from home on Sunday night to visit PIL - stayed overnight and came back yesterday afternoon. It did take it out of me though, and I slept until 10am this morning, then had an afternoon nap too. What a weak effort I am!! Then again, the paraphernalia from the hospital did say I was only supposed to lie on the futon and get up for feedings and nappy changes only for the first weeks....and I ended up helping with dinner and vacuuming at PILs! (While I make my mum do it for me here at home, lol).Will have to make up for all my efforts with another 2 days of lounging on the sofa at home here now :-)

and, yes, bubs still remains nameless!!! It may well be the case that we are running down to city hall at 4pm Thurs afternoon (a.k.a. d-day, day 14 after birth) to register his name. But we are making progress - there are at least 2 names that we both like, plus 1 or 2 others each that we can put a case forward for. So I am sure tomorrow we will make the decision - well, we have to, right? haha!!!!!