18 hours in the life of a newborn

Notes in notebook from July 10th, 2006. Toby was 2 weeks old.

- most naps are disturbed by hiccups, possetting and uncomfortable swallowing
- has infacol before feeds
- mother expressing breastmilk for feeds as baby refuses to latch

3.15am - bottle 4 1/2 ozs
6.45am - woke hungry, took 2ozs, wet nappy
11.30am - 3ozs
12.30pm - wet nappy
14.15pm - 3.5ozs
17.30 - 3.5ozs, wet nappy
21.30 -  4ozs
             sick 30 minutes later, kept upright for 30 mins, put in moses basket at an angle
23.50 - very dirty nappy, 3ozs
02.00 - fed 3ozs, dirty nappy, large bout of hiccuping
03.45 - fractured uncomfortable sleep
04.20 - frantic for food, 4ozs
04.40 - finished feed, straight back up
07.45 - fed 4ozs
08.10 - finished, held upright
08.45 - laid in basket, brought feed up

I will re-read this whenever the broody fairy comes to visit.

Comments

[Paul]

9 feeds in 18 hours, sick after three of them.

No nappies noted 2350-0845. Did we just forget to write them down?

[relly]

probably - we were beyond caring by that point I should think.

[Nicky]

:) If I could bypass labour I'd do it again. I have a similar log but minus the vomiting. Chas has only vomited once. ONCE. Admittedly it was 120ml of excrutiatingly expressed milk which took me all day. But the fact that he doesn't vomit goes in his favour when his ability to do without sleep becomes a little boring.

[Nicky]

...therefore, I take my hat off to you if every expressed feed came back up, I think I would have thrown the pump out the window.

[Karen]

I think we must be at that stage where the broody fairy is rattling at the windows. I do *not* want another little darling beautiful baby, however much I love the one I've already got. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

One of the girls who was in my antenatal class is just about to drop her second.

Terrifying.