Losing Weight in the Land of Chocolate and Cheese!

Joh, Your birthing story has me in absolute awe!!

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Seriously. I am amazed at how you have dealt with this!

You really are awesome!

I almost cried reading about you & Dunc crying after the birth.

I could just picture it. :beating:

You are an amazing & awesome woman

& will never let you say otherwise,

without giving you a severe talking to.

Be very proud Joh!

No Epidural, no Pethidine......

Wonderwoman!!

xoxoxoxo Cate

PS I just came out in goose-bumps thinking of the birth!
 
A:iagree: :iagree: :iagree: :iagree: :iagree: :iagree: :iagree: :iagree: :iagree: :iagree: With wise mum up there :)

I had a pretty similar labour but i had all the drugs so ended up having a section. :smilielol5: You totally put me to shame, you wonder mum you!!! :smilielol5:

When Jack was born Mark cried ALOT!! I had to tell my dad on the phone the 'details' as Mark could only snivel out 'it's a boy'. I worried when he started crying cos i thought he was upset (i was off my face on a cocktail of drugs and was very tired by the way lol)
It truly is an amazing feeling seeing that little person that you have both made for the first time, it's a moment you will never forget. The first of an amazing amount of memorable moments.........Treasure them all my lovely, they go very quick. All of a sudden you will have a teenager who just grunts lol.

I am so so happy for you guys. :grouphug: :grouphug:

Oooh, doesn't Beanie look like Dunc, as in, Dunc now with the same hair lol. He is totally adorable (Beanie lol)

Looking forward to more pictures (Hint hint)
 
A:D :D :D Thanks ladies!!! I am so amazingly glad that I managed to do it without any meds... though I really have my midwife to thank, because if it was totally up to me at that point I would have chowed down anything...

We're having some major problems with breastfeeding... it has since come out that my Mum was never able to breastfeed... this is devastating for me, and I'm doing absolutely everything possible to try. Breastfeeding has been really the only totally non-negotiable thing for me with pregnancy/birth/babies... and I have done so mcuh research and preparation... I have a lactation consultant coming every day for two hours at the moment... Currently Ruben is spending 30 min on each boob, then we have to feed him with formula ( :( ) while I use an electric breast pump for another 30 min... then I have 30 min boobie-free before we start again. At night I get an hour boobie free so I can try to sleep a bit... it's pretty demoralising sitting there with two gross pumpy things attached to me while my hubby feeds our bubba formula in the lovely feeding nest I made.

BUT my god my baby is beautiful. I love him SOOOOO MUCH. It's just ridiculous. I can stare at his face for houuuuurs. And my husband is just incredible.

Meanwhile, I have very little appetite but am eating very healthily and often. Dunc is keeping me well nourished :) And what with all these big squats I do when dancing to put him to sleep, I should have a hot bootie in no time! lol. :D

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Oh Joh, Your photos are just gorgeous. What an overwhelming love parental love is! I love all of your photos & can't get enough of them! Not having ever actually met either you or Dunc in the flesh I still can't help comparing Ruben to the 2 of you. To me, he looks just like Dunc, but with your nose. What a cute little baby man he is. Hope you succeed with breastfeeding him sweets. You are one determined woman & will give it your best shot. Apparently my Mum couldn't either, but luckily I didn't know that. Some things, like the agonising pain we go through in childbirth are best not known or believed. Lots and lots of love, xoxo Cate
 
AHi guys!

Well Ruben is now three and a half weeks old... I have been thinking a lot about my desire to get fit and healthy again, but I have to wait still. The breastfeeding is still not happening, despite 14 appointments now with a lactation consultant... she has now referred us to the top consultant in switzerland, who is apparently verrrrydifficult to get an appointment with. So hopefully that will give us some more hope again. In the meantime, we need to make sure he is putting on weight, which he finally now is. Until my breastfeeding gets sorted, I am on quite a strict pretty high calorie diet. It's amazing to watch your body make this stuff though! However little of it I make, it is still amazing.

I am getting very sore and exhausted from little walks to the shops and stuff... pretty sure the birth shouldn't be affecting me like that anymore, and I think it is probably due to the fact that I was pretty much on bed rest for six months and have absolitely no fitness whatsoever. It's going to be a tough road back to fit, I can see!

Still very happy,but also very sad about the breasteeding. The first lactation consultant we saw has been doing this for 25 years and never had to give up. but with us she has had to. She has tried everything she knows and it hasn't worked. Yay for being 'special'. gah. Making sure this doesn't affect how I see this special time with my new baby boy though. He is a little piece of magic. :)

xx

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AHello sweetie :)

You little man is just too cute :) Such a darling little thing with such a cute little nose.

Sorry to hear about your breast feeding struggles, i didn't manage for long........Jack was lazy and breast is harder to suck that bottle.

Looking forward to more photo's

Love and hugs to you all :grouphug:
 
Hi Joh, Your little Ruben is such a cute little thing & does have such a cute button nose. I had big galumphers! If your Mum couldn't breast-feed you then there may be a biological reason for it. Whatever happens sweetie your little man is starting out in life with caring & loving parents who will do their best to give him a good life. I'm sure he won't want for much. Keep your chin up sweetie. You will regain your fitness slowly but surely. Sending you lots of love, xoxo Cate
 
AI've been avoiding this site... :leaving: but the time has come to take control again.

I really want to be so healthy right now, but I'm really struggling, because IF I manage to find tome to eat, it will be something crappy and instant. And comfort food. I should be being so healthy right now, but that requires a lot more organisation than opening a bag of corn chips. I'm still eating my veggies, but they are all pretty much at dinner time when my hubby is around. when it's just me and Ruben, it's not good. And this isn't good for me with my continued attempts at breastfeeding either!

I've been avoiding you guys because, sadly, I don't know if I WANT to give up the muffins. :banghead: But I have to. I have just had a baby seven weeks ago, and theoretically I should be continuing to lose the baby weight ('fluid', right? Ha), but now I've started to gain again. NOT GOOD. This morning I was 98.0kg -- 17kg more than what I was pre baby. I don't FEEL particularly big, though the scales are telling me otherwise, but I do feel unhealthy.

So it's time to gain control again. And this requires organisation. Which will be hard... but I will try. I'm not planning anything drastic, just HEALTHY EATING. I'm getting back into my exercise again slowly, but it would be so much easier if I was a little lighter.

Food diary begins tomorrow. Scary!

Love to you all! And... I HAVE to include a pic of my little boy. :)
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AWell... not the greatest first day. It was Google's summer barbecue picnic, so lots of food... but this is a once-a-year thing... and I actually had very little. it was nice to show off my gorgeous boy to everyone! He was looking so cute and was such a happy little bean. Yay!

Food:
- small bowl leftover chicken and veggie Thai green curry with a little basmati rice
- Salad bowl with lettuce, ham, cheese and boiled egg
- cholocate ice cream
- risotto
- 2 slices rockmelon and an apricoag popcornt
- small b

Exercise:
- 45min walk
 
Joh, well done on getting through such a big day, without any major eating calamaties! Glad you're back with us xo I'll catch up properly tomorrow as I'm in a hurry this morning. Lots of love xoxo Cate
 
AYay! Thanks girls! I will do my best to keep up with everyone else's diaries too... as much as I can.

Yesterday's food:
- 2 slices wholegrain bread with gruyere cheese and two slices of ham
- raspberry yoghurt and kiwi
- decaf latte
- (bbq lunch) 3 mini sausages, 2 chcken and veg skewers, grilled veg and salad, 1/2 piece seed bread
- 1/2 glass WINE!!!!!!! (first wine / alcohol since March 2011! Wiggedy!)
- two slices of stupidly healthy banana bread made by my nutritionist friend (yes! I have one!) - no sugar, no salt, no flour (only oats)... lots of bananas, eggs, oats and a little olive oil. it was SO yum! crazy!
- 1/2 slice leftover grilled veggie lasagne

Exercise:
- 3 hour cleaning frenzy
- 40 min walk through our village and along the lake.

Dunc's gone to the tour de France today with some mates of ours... Ruben and I could have gone too, but the last two years I've done it for a whole week camping, and I'm totally over it. So I'm not sure what we'll get up to today! Hopefully not too much eating, but I don't like my chances... I should make a big pot of herbal tea instead. Yes, I'll do that now.

xx
 
ARuben and I were by ourselves today and the weather was dreadful and... well, despite the fact I'd really encouraged Dunc to go to see this one stage of the tour de France, I felt a little abandoned. I totally could have gone, but I've had enough of it after two years of camping throughout the whole thing. I suppose it wasn't that I I felt abandoned, just a bit lonely. And longing for a lovely Sunday with my little family.

Food
Leftover veggie curry with rice
Slice roasted veg lasagne
Punnet blueberries
2. Slices Choc cake
Chicken broccoli stir fry with edamame

Exercise
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Hi Joh, Welcome back sweetie! You'll get back on track & lose your excess weight I know, because you are a smart cookie & know what to do. I didn't lose my baby weight like everyone around me. I ate for 3 I think while I was pregnant & continued on that way for too long. I know that feeling of encouraging your man to do something but then feeling abandoned when they do it. Crazy, isn't it? Can this be a time to do different things. Have a girlfriend stay over maybe? It is lovely having you back & I have missed you in here, xoxo Cate
 
AAwwww Lil Rueben is getting even cuter by the week, how is that even possible? :D

Glad your getting back into dieting mode :) Don't worry about it too much, just make small changes like eating an extra 3 portions of fruit and veg a day, and you can maybe start dieting properly when Rueben starts eating solids... That way you will be doing healthy meals for both of you. I breastfed Charlie for 4 months... Had A LOT of trouble with it though as he has tongue tie, and he just couldn't do the right sucking motion... When I got him weighed every week it was going further and further below the median line which he started out at pretty much bang on. He was crying all the time, I was crying all the time and I just felt so hopeless because I couldn't get him to latch on properly. Part of me looking back just wonders if he was crying because he was hungry... If I were to do it over again, I wouldn't have listened to what the health visitor said (She knew he had tongue tie), I would have started bottle feeding him earlier. When I started, his weight went straight up. DON'T BE HARD ON YOURSELF!!!! You are doing everything you can to breastfeed him but it just isn't meant to be for the long term.... Even a little bit of Mummy milk is beneficial to him. And he is getting some!

It does feel extra lonely if your alone with kids than if your alone by yourself. It will be great when he gets back though cos you will have missed each other so much.

Much love xxx
 
AWell hello there Mum!! :hurray: your little guy is beyond adorable....I just want to kiss is little cheeks!! ...glad you are starting to think about coming back...but you do whats best for you and we will be here when you do :)
 
AHi my gorgeous friends,

Sorry I was all talk... it was perhaps a little optimistic to think I'd have a chance to get on here every day. I will have to wait a little longer until things settle into a more established routine and I get a little teeny weeny bit of time.

It has been a massively emotional week here for me. I have had about three breakdowns. I have a meeting with my breastfeeding consultant this arvo, and I think this will be where I will finally give up. It has become ridiculous, and I know that it is just so much more important for Ruben that he has a happy environment. So that's it, decision made. It still really makes me feel like I've failed though. And while I went from being in awe of what my body is capable of one week, I now feel as if it's pretty dysfunctional. The idea that I could grow my baby no problem, but that now I can't sustain him, is really hard for me to come to terms with. I know that for a lot of people this isn't a big deal, but it is the most important thing to me. So making the decision to stop is a really really reallllly big one. But I know that he and I will be much happier in the long run. And healthier.

Love to you all, and looking forward to having the time to catch up soon! x
 
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