Well it seems i have a few months off and everyone has moved over here.

Anyway i gave birth to a beautiful little man on the 29th Feb. He weighed 6.2 pounds. For me he was tiny and it took me a while to get used to handling something so small and precious. For the first two weeks i was clueless as to what i was doing or suppose to be doing. It is nothing like i expected...not that that is such a bad thing just a really big learning experience.

We have had all sorts of problems along the way. First off i had enough milk to feed 10 babies. Poor thing could not deal with the fast flow and the amount. I could pump for 2 minutes and get 240 mls. So as you can imagine he put on excessive amounts of weight and had lactose overload from getting too much fore milk. So he could get some fatty milk i had to feed him on one breast for 8 hours then swap him over and even that did not reduce the amount of milk i had. I woke up engorged everyday. I had to stop breast feeding about 10 days ago it just was too much for me and him. I got teary eyed about it as i missed it...missed the closeness and missed the bond. Jacob on the otherhand took to formula like a duck takes to water.

He also has slight reflux so he is on a thickened formula plus he has colic...talk about being unlucky. I have had 9 weeks of uncontrollable crying and by this i mean it is non stop all the time. Poor thing. Now that he is having the thickened formula and the lactose overload has sorted itself out he only cries in the evening now with his colic, so compared to what it was this colic shit is easy.

For a while i was so worked up and just didnt think i could do it, i was crying all the time and so wound up, thought i was going insane. But each day is getting better and each day i am getting more confidant.

So for the minute we are happy. I will post pics when i have time.

Cheers

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