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chrissy18966 
I'm sorry ladies. Life has been so crazy with my RA & baby Jenna. I love being a mommy. She will be 4 months old on June 1st. We are having her Christening on June 15th, Father's Day! I'm doing well. My RA isn't doing so well. I'm trying to exercise at least 4 days a week to keep as flexible as possible. I'm having trouble with my RA meds making me have shortness of breath. Just this week I've skipped them and next week I'll introduce 1 of them back to see if I'm ok with it. Hopefully I'll be able to identify which is causing the breathing issue. I hope it's not the good one that I think actually helps. We'll see. It could always be worse. I've lost 45lbs since having Jenna (Jenna included).
Jenna's 4 month appt is coming up and that means more shots. Ugh! I hate seeing her that upset, but I know it's for the best. She has been smiling up a storm for weeks and starting to laugh just a little bit. She is sleeping in her crib for the past 2 months. Well she was in the bassinett in the crib until a couple weeks ago. She's been sleeping through the night for the past month. She goes down around 7:30 and wakes around 6am. I'm so happy about this, b/c with my RA sleep is mandatory to being able to function to the best of my ability. She is grabbing items that are in front of her. I never really believed baby make the sound "a goo", but she does. It's so cute! She seriously dislikes tummy time, so she hasn't rolled over yet. I know I need to let her tough it out a little bit, but it breaks my heart. We do a little tummy time everyday.
I hope you are all doing well. I promise to try harder to get on. I'm going to go read about what you've been up to now!
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Jenna is doing well. We had her 3 week well baby on Friday and she is up to 7lbs 3.5oz, almost at her birth weight. We are BF and she is doing great with it. I'm hoping to start cloth diapering when she is out of the NB stage diapers. Well see! She is awake for a lot more time in the day now. We are giving her baths now! Life is busy. DH is being great with her and letting me relax some. I'm still recovering from a Csection and BF really is exhausting. Her hair is growing and her eyebrows are darker than ever. We have another weight check this Friday. I hope she is up to her birth weight :) I'm ordering some pilates videos I can do with her. I've lost 25lbs so far. I'm hoping to lose a lot more. I was overweight before I was pregnant, so I need to lose, lose, lose! I would like to lose 55 more lbs at least!
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Glad to hear that Jenna is doing so well. Congrats on the weight loss, I know that it is hard but stcik with it.
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YEA!! Good girl Jenna! I'm glad that she's BF well now. Tell her to have a talk w/ Sierra :) Isn't it awesome how the wt drops off after pregnancy. Glad to hear everything is going well. Keep up the good work!
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I'm so happy to hear you are doing well. I agree that BF is exhausting. It's so difficult to get decent sleep. Someday it will all be behind us and we'll wonder where the time went! Life is busy to say the least. I can't believe how much time a baby takes. I wouldn't change it for the world, but the adjustment is difficult. Maybe because I am an "older" mom and I was so used to doing everything on my schedule. Now my little Charlie Max runs every aspect of my life. It's his world and I'm just living in it!
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Thats awsome to hear that Jenna is doing well.
Hi Ladies,
Jenna's weight increased by 3.4 oz today...it's really slow going and isn't back to her birth weight of 7lbs 9oz and she's 2 weeks today. My PED said, I could stop supplementing b/c she is gaining and her jaundice is looking good. Have any of you had to supplement before? And, if so how did you make the transistion back to all BF? I've been pumping like mad to have enopugh milk, and I'm exhausted and so ready to BF exclusivly and not worry about pumping for a while. TIA I'm also feeling frustrated and overwhelmed from it all.
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That's good that you can stop supplementing! I'd suggest that you nurse her like you have been and then only pump when your engorged and uncomfortable as you slow down on the pumping your body won't produce as much. Think of it this way when she hits her growth spurt and wants to nurse more to increase your milk supply she won't have to it will already be there!!! I'm glad your nursing little Jenna we were "IVF buddies" now we can be nursing buddies :)
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I am so glad to hear that things are going better.
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It is sooo good to hear from you. I am glad that Jenna is doing well. Sorry that your RA is not so great, but hopefully you can figure out the meds. I can't believe how big she has gotten. She is very sweet!!!
Baby_Blues99
yeah!! I'm so glad you FINALLY wrote :) :) That's awesome you've lost 45# I wish I could say the same! Sierra doesn't like tummy time either! She's much happier being held.
nik_rn_03
It was great to hear all is going well with Jenna. Sorry to hear that not all is well with your RA.
angeldove1274