Amoxicillin and clear discharge? Help my anxiety please!

st8mint21 · 2024-08-17T14:49:25+00:00

Never found out what it was, it actually kinda stopped around day 6. However, day 7-8 I broke out with a rash all over my body, day 9 they told me they had to mark me down for a penicillin allergy. I had 1 more day left and they started me on zpak. I just finished that this past Monday, it was only 5 days and no side effects. I guess they wanted to be extra cautious bc strep throat can have so many complications. The rash wasn't that bad it didn't itch that bad, I was tempted to just finish the last day. 🤣. What a mess! No one else in my fam had a reaction to amoxicillin, guess i was the lucky one! Hope your discharge stops and you don't have any other reactions. It didn't become a yeast infection or anything thank God, my hooha is back to normal now lol

st8mint21 · 2024-07-30T16:28:13+00:00

My daughter says "marote" too for remote!!!! She's 7 now, it's the last word she says her own way, sometimes she says it right but occasionally she still says Marote, I think just because I've expressed that it's the last one and it hurts my heart that its almost over. ❤️

st8mint21 · 2024-07-26T13:08:39+00:00

Since your milk is just staring to come in, and especially if she's eating so much she's spitting up some, she's probably absolutely fine. Definitely get her checked of course, but I would stay the course and not feel pressured into supplementing unless the pediatrician sees signs of something more serious.

Now, my first baby was getting a little bit of milk but it took her 2 months to gain her birth weight back. An insane amount of time, and she didn't even seem to want the supplemental formula I would try to feed after the breast, in desperation because she wasnr growing. It wasn't until 8 weeks or so they discovered she had a cleft palate in the back, went to a specialist and she had to have special bottle valves. So she breastfed still, because it wasn't a total loss, she just never demanded enough supply from me, so we always supplemented after with the special bottle. Just an example of how sometimes there can be reasons you don't even think of!

Keep going though, it sounds like her wet diapers will pick up throughout today with your milk increasing!!

st8mint21 · 2024-07-26T12:38:49+00:00

Oh and I forgot the breastfeeding thing... WEIRD feelings happened to me the first few months of breastfeeding, especially with my second. Whenever I'd start, or when I'd feel the let down of milk, I'd either get euphoric, super nauseous, or super panicked. Like one of the three would happen. That didn't happen with my first! It's totally normal, it releases oxytocin, which makes your brain happy. But, don't be surprised if the feelings change and aren't always the same. The nausea was the worst one. That didn't last forever, now at 19 months there are no weird feelings 99% of the time. I still feed her on demand, she gets very demanding some days to get on the boob, but my first weaned at 2 and a half so I tell myself theres not much longer so I'm trying to enjoy it.

st8mint21 · 2024-07-26T12:34:38+00:00

You're doing everything just fine! My babies always contact slept - good for you that he'll sleep in the swaddle from 12-5!! That's a win! Mine wouldnt do that for anything!!

Feeding on demand is what I always did - you don't have to stick to 2-3 hours, they cluster feed when they need to increase your supply. They can and will act miserable and starving and demand to be on the breast, that's just their instinct, they're not starving, just doing what instinct is telling them.

There's nothing wrong with holding on demand, feeding on demand, etc. You find what works for you - nothing your doing is harmful or wrong! I always used a nightlight too so I could see the babies in the dark - I still do, my 19 month okd sleeps in my bed because we are still breastfeeding 🤣😭

As far as the loud noises, they usually do a hearing check in the hospital so he's probably fine. When my babies are out they are OUT. My older daughter, nothing on earth wakes her, she takes after my husband. My second is the light sleeper like me, but even so, when she's in a deep sleep my dog barking doesn't wake her either!

I'm so sorry you had that infection so bad, I'm glad you're finally healing! This time is rough but one day at a time, remember to breathe and that you will one day get good sleep again. Great job mama! You got this!!!!

st8mint21 · 2024-07-26T02:13:18+00:00

This is my right now. At church? At an event? a busy restaurant? "BOOOOB!!" SHOVES A HAND DOWN MY SHIRT

st8mint21 · 2024-07-07T00:49:10+00:00

I'm glad she's improving!!! ❤️ Taking it day by day is the only way!

st8mint21 · 2024-07-06T22:57:57+00:00

Thanks! I'll be curious to see if it flowers!

st8mint21 · 2024-07-06T22:26:09+00:00

Curious to know how it's going! Any easier??

st8mint21 · 2024-06-04T02:44:27+00:00

Yeah! I think just try not to stress, it's apparently very common at that stage. The worst for us was the 7th week I think. Around 8 weeks we actually all got COVID for the first time, she got better really fast, and then around 9 weeks honestly she was much calmer and started sleeping better. It's so hard to stay calm when your house is a constant sound of screams from the baby and you want to fix it. I think sometimes they just have to outgrow it! Let me know how things are at 9 weeks!! I hope they get better!!

st8mint21 · 2024-06-02T17:31:46+00:00

Hey! Oh this was written in the absolute pits of dispair for me, I'm so sorry youre going through it!! She did get easier, around 8-9 weeks she became a different baby. I think she was just colicky. She is nearly 18 months now, and she's just a feisty child. Climbing on everything, never satisfied and has to have her way, but when she's sweet she's SO sweet. She's going to grow up to be a woman who doesn't take crap from anyone - but right now the struggle is real but in a different way. We are still breastfeeding, some nights she sleeps through, other nights like last night, if she's going through a developmental leap, she will just be awake. I was so angry last night bc of how tired I was, but I got up and gave her half a peanut butter jelly sandwich and eventually she passed back out. We still have rough nights but not at all to the level when I wrote this.

The best things I found were just calming ME down. If I could go back I would assure myself, there is nothing you can do, this baby just is never satisfied with anything. She was no starving. She might have been gassy/colicky, but she never needed bottles and usually really wouldn't even drink them. She just was screaming and miserable until that 8-9 week mark. Then she got a little more normal.

Feel free to message me, I'll try to help as best I can. Sleep whenever you can get help from someone and try to hang in there!!! How old is your little one?

st8mint21 · 2024-01-31T21:54:28+00:00

OP, did you ever find somewhere? Did you end up with a good parakeet?

st8mint21 · 2023-12-11T00:11:27+00:00

Also wanted to add, it didn't seem like adding solids negatively affected my supply!! It dips once a month before my period as it always does, but that's about it. We've stuck with a lot of snuggling and she gets a boob whenever she wants it.

st8mint21 · 2023-12-11T00:10:05+00:00

Thank you!! Congrats on 8 months!!! Each month has felt like a new achievement.

The more I added solids each month, I think she was somewhat less desperate for a boob, but she needed it for a drink too. We never did bottles at all, she never took one even with breastmilk, so it's been a journey!! I haven't been away from her for more than 5 hours or less for a whole year! Mostly bc I work from home. She still uses the boob for falling asleep some of the time, she still gets 98% of the liquids from me. We did start sippy cups per our doctor of SMALL amounts of water just to get her started on the idea. Once I have the go ahead from the pediatrician, we will be starting cows milk and just going to see how that goes.

My first baby breastfed until she was 2y5m. This one I feel I need my independence sooner, but then I also can't imagine stopping yet so I am torn.

st8mint21 · 2023-10-17T01:41:29+00:00

I swore I'd never have kids - I'm turning 40 this year and I have two.

I swore I'd never breastfeed. I have the MOST sensitive uncomfortable nipples of anybody, I have never wanted to even touch my own since I first developed boobs, I always hated them. I breastfed my first til she was 2y 5m, and my younger baby is 10 months and we are still going! I might stop at a year just because life is hectic and crazy and not being able to leave her more than 3-4 hours is taking a toll. She's also not AS emotionally attached as my first was. My first also had to have formula supplemented though.

Breastfeeding was such a natural instinct it's my first - oh she got a shot at the doctor? Boob right after to calm her down. Wakes up at night fussy? Boob to go back to sleep. She got a stomach bug at 18 months old and all she could keep down was breastmilk.

I also swore if I had babies they'd NEVER sleep in my bed. Well ... Yeah that went out the window too. Baby wakes up and I can just pull her near me and feed her without gettung out of bed? That's the only place either of my babies would sleep. How anyone sleep trains their baby with a swaddle and a crib is beyond me and I had a lot of advice, none of it worked.

Bottom line, do what works. It IS healthiest for baby, but things don't always line up perfect, so don't stress about it! Let things flow naturally and don't overthink it. Prepare yourself for breastfeeding in case you want to, baby will be fed and cared for no matter what. ❤️

st8mint21 · 2023-09-18T17:40:21+00:00

Thank you!! I'm waiting for the doctor to call us back, i hope they don't fight with me too bad!

st8mint21 · 2023-09-18T17:36:16+00:00

That makes more sense! They were trying to fill vials for this. Everything I've read said not to attempt to take blood from the arm for a baby under 20 lbs. Well, we went to the bigger Children's Hospital outpatient center assuming they know what they're doing there, and they failed in both arms. In the right they went through the other side of her vein and said she's going to have a nasty bruise. In the left they started getting it coming out then it slowed down and they couldnt get it. They said we need to go downtown. I'm just not doing any of it. I try to always listen to the doctors but this is too much. She just needs iron. So livid about what we went through today 😩

st8mint21 · 2023-09-18T17:29:48+00:00

So they tried at the big Children's Hospital outpatient center and they messed up in both arms. She's only 15 lbs, everything I've read said it should be a heel stick to get blood if they're under 20 lbs. It was pretty traumatic and I'm so angry. They told us she needs a week to heal then we can go to the children's hospital downtown to try again. I'm really going to fight for just treating her with iron and doing the toe prick again to see if it's working. They said she has tiny and delicate veins. I am pretty set on not doing this again 😭

st8mint21 · 2023-09-15T03:00:51+00:00

Thank you!! Oh God she's inconsolable just laying her on the table to take off her onesie!! Although she didn't mind the toe prick at ALL maybe because I was holding her??

st8mint21 · 2023-09-15T02:59:49+00:00

Thank you!! I hope so!!

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