empressthywo:
Top of the morning to you all.

kindly advice me, i av read other comments and was able to get some of the informations i need.
i am also having my introduction next month and i av never attended one so i dont realy knw how its done. my question is do i need to hire a onilu (drummer) and alaga (standing police) for this occasion?, i dont want somthing big thou, just a parlour tin... Thanks

You need to get an alaga, usually alagas bring their onilus but its not compulsory. Alternatively, if you have a friend who can be your alaga, I have been to about two introductions that a friend was the alaga. Good luck.

Jennifer89:


that means u put to bed @ 41 weeks? can someone stay for more than 41 weeks?

I had my baby at exactly 42weeks

omoerelu1:

I think it is normal. did you change her food? wait for the experienced mothers to come in.

I didn't change his food, he's 8 weeks on Nan1 and breastmilk

Hello mamas, how are our LOs doing.For.the past 3weeks, I noticed my baby just poos once a week and whenever she.poos, it's a lot... I mean a whole lot sometimes I use up to 3diapers at a time, it just keeps coming out. the poo is usually not too watery and it's yellow but I don't know if I should be worried.

Prouddad38:
@All_My_People how una dey All August -> December Mamas, how d ministry ddey go na??
@sammione how family na? Madam Clinik nkor??
@Senior Mama Beedem... I hail ooo.. miss ya sahaaaa.

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Proudy Boy greet the entire house.

Pic attached.

ONE LOVE TO U ALL

awnnn... he looks so.adorable.

sexiebecky:
lols...is well dear. Let me share my own testimony wit u. I gave birth to twins (two girls) in april,dy ar 4months + now...I gave birth 2ru cs nd I stayed one week +4days in d hosp. DH was not around den,only my mum nd she spent only 3weeks wit me cos of d nature of her work... As a FTM I saw hell,I wll breast feed both of dem @ a time in d nit,we dnt sleep cos of stomach pains(colic). Every nit I will cryin,blamin God 4 givn me twins as my 1st issue lol...but rit now,all dos tins hv passed away,my kids can now play on dia own,wat dy know is to eat,sleep nd play...infactdy ar my closest frnds nd playmates. . I kip prayin to God 4 more strength nd may we reap d fruits of our labors in Jesus Name! Amen

Hmmm..... amen o. I also pray that this should soon be over cos I am worried about resuming work. My mom also used 3weeks with me but my MIL is with me now, she no dey send me o, just to say sorry whenever she feels like.

lovinam:
Lmao! I assume u are ftm!! It also happened to me, I just left my baby crying on the bed and sat in my own sweet corner crying with her too. It was crying galore that night. I cried eh cos I never knew motherhood was challenging. When we were done crying I kukuma wipe my face then picked her up and viam she slept off. It was and experience I will nevr forget and I've told her the story 1000x.

hahaha... this got me really cracking

Arihodo:
my baby finds it difficult sucking from the day he was born. i discovered his tongue was tied and it was cut few days ago when he was 2months 1week. now, he won't even try at out. did i do the right thing? am so scared

Depending on how the tongue is tied,it doesn't make babies suck well and trust me you did the right thing cutting that tongue cos your baby will thank you for it in the future. Have you tried feeding your baby with the bottle, tongue tied children find it easier to feed from the bottle than the breast.
if you are doing exclusive breastfeeding, try expressing to a bottle and watch if your baby will drink more from it.

[quote author=besocial post=36924449]Good evening my senior and junior mamas in the house. Ita bn a while I logged in. Seniors Beedam& Modath, Proudmum, Iyaderachuks, Beryl, Ifffyyy, Chinwedym, etc, I hail o. Pls who is the president for team December ooo, I want to book space before rushing starts abeg, put me for number 1 or 2. We shall all carry to term and deliver like Hebrew women, Amen.

#ProudlyteamDecember#[/quote/]
Hello besocial, I remember you from To be brides trend. How are you and your hubby. Enjoy a stress-free pregnancy dear.

I need to rant, I want to rant...I want to scream, I want to cry. My baby do not sleep if I don't dance with him for at least 30 minutes, if I try to sit,he would scream and cry his eyes out and then he will sleep for like 10minutes only for him to wake up and then the dancing cycle starts again from the top. we do this for about 3 times before he finally settles to sleep. My back and my stitches aches like crazy cos he has started this at 4weeks and he is almost 7weeks now. Infact, a part of my stitches got opened and I know the culprit is cos I carry him to sleep. Please how can I help him sleep, I have tried putting him in a rocker,tried to place him down and pacify him to sleep nothing is working and I am feeling really worn out. HELP!!!

corrall:
Hello mummies, anyone living around lekki ajah, who knows where I can buy sebamed shampoo and body soap? I can only find powder in the shops around me.

Also please can someone advise which formula contains prebiotics and/or probiotics. Thanks

You will get at blenco supermarket, they just opened a big mall around badore road. if you take maruwa going to badore from ajah, just tell them you want to drop at blenco, you either get inside the supermarket itself or at medplus also in the shopping mall

adesegun121:

Aro ko... Yabaleft ni...
Is called oroo baba ooooo

Obviously you didn't attend OAU, it's called Aro

modath:

Oba Awon University.

Dont let the " Aro" fool you, those guys could be on a steady 4.7 CGPA...

So you are an alumnus of OAU, good to know. Great Ife

kaffy4bill:


Pls if u can afford it, immunize the child cos they r prone to stooling and vomiting den respiratory tract infections from 0-5yrs.

Thanks

PeyButtons:


You pay for immunization ? ? ? My LO collected everything...we were not giving an option to select!

Other immunizations are free, just Rotavirus and Pneumoccoca, please check your immunization card, I know most government hospitals and health centers do not give Rotavirus and pneumoccoca cos it's not subsidized by the government you have to pay for it

proudmom38:


Thanks sis. I was given penicillin oitment 2b applying on it. I do change his diaper b4 it get wet..

What I also did for my baby was to apply Vaseline on the diaper, the part that will touch his pe.nis to avoid contact with the diaper and it fell off.at about 7days.

Please o, for immunization is PCV (pneumoccoca) compulsory, I want to pay for Rotavirus which is 7k, and I was told PCV is 9k and I know both are optional but I don't want to risk anything. @nursekaffybill please is it absolutely necessary.

pinkpebbles:
Please what happened to Chike?

Chike made it to the house

TopeMel:


Mamas, kindly help with this. I noticed that he sometimes opens one eye wider than the other. Is this normal?

Why not take your baby to a pediatrician, I guess people don't know that is why no one responded. The only time my baby opens one eye wider than the other is when I breastfeed him and it's cos of the position he is while breastfeeding and I think that is true for all babies, but of your LO is opening an eye wider than the other at other times, please see a pediatrician to rule out all worries.

demmykay:
@lamdec dentinox is also used to treat colic. it worked for my baby when she didn't respond to infacol. hw is ur baby doing? have u been to ur doctor?

Ok thanks, I will keep the drug in mind. My baby is getting better but throughout yesterday he was just restless and fussy, but since last night he has been calm. I haven't gone to see the doctor yet...cash restrains but will go this weekend cos I have lot of complains, his diaper rash is not going, to me it's getting worse and with blisters. I am using a zinc oxide and white petroleum based cream like sudocream but it's another brand and it's seems not to be working.

Jenonye:
Good day sabi mama's. I'm a FTM. I gave birth to my DS on 11th of May. I have an issue and don't know if anyone has gone thru this. After I put to bed, I experienced the normal postpartum bleeding (lochia) and it stopped after 6weeks. Thereafter like a week later, I started bleeding.. I tot it was aunt flo visiting only for the bleeding to become extremely heavy (like filling one pad in less than 30 mins). I went to my doctor and a scan was done to check if there was any retained placenta and there was none. I was given injections and the bleeding subsided only for it to start again after 24hours. I went back and I was given drugs to use and my doc said if it doesn't stop that a D&C wld b done. After the drugs (took it for 2days) the bleeding stopped and I just kept spotting dark Brown discharge (it's sometimes sticky) till recently I started seeing blood spots... to cut the long story short, I hav just been spotting all tru except for one time I didn't spot at all for about 3 days.... but now I bleeding very very lightly (I'm using a liner for it cos it's light ).
This one startd 2days ago. Don't knw if I'm experiencing
hormonal imbalance or what? Sorry for d long story.

I also experienced the same thing after 8 days of delivery. I had him through ceaserian section so I was kinda confused too that there shouldn't be any placenta left in my uterus. in my case I was soaking a pad in less than five minutes, I was given injections and drips.and was admitted..I am kind of surprised that you have not been admitted cos you shouldn't be bleeding that much. A scan was done for me that showed a blood clot in my uterus and my gynecologist performed a D and C the very next day and I have been fine. It's 4 weeks now and I am no longer bleeding or spotting, please see another doctor if possible or go back to your doctor. it is well.

demmykay:
@lamdec I am also experiencing that went to see d doctor who said its colic and was given infacol but there was no improvement so we started using dentinox and there had been great improvement

Thanks for this.I am also thinking it's colic or too much gas, I also intend seeing the doctor, infacol is a gas drop for.babies I think, what does dentinox do.

Hello all mamas in the house, how is our LOs doing. Please I noticed for the past two or three days that my son started grunting and squirming when he sleeps. Sometimes he wakes up and I have to pacify him to sleep again. I don't know if it's too much gas, and I have no idea what drug to use, some say gripe water, I heard it's not advisable to give babies gripe water. He is 25days old and he poos and burps.well, he is both breastfeeding and formula feed. I don't know what to do, is there any thing I can give him to reduce his grunting.

Thanks rieme28,dunnybaby26,rashomo and other mamas for the replies. We actually clean the. cord and.the area surrounding and beneath it thoroughly every time he feeds and every time we.change his diapers or sometimes whenever he wakes up from sleep, my mum makes sure she cleanses it thoroughly, I just want to be sure it's okay for it to take this long time to fall. I guess I will allow her do the hot compress, was advised against it at the hospital that cleaning it is enough. I will keep hoping it falls off soon. Thanks everyone.

Hello.mamas, I know a lot of questions are yet to be answered but I will appreciate if this is answered. My baby is 15 days now and his placenta cord hasn't come off, my mum is kinda worried that it is taking too long. The doctors advice that I only clean it with cotton wool and methylated spirit but my mum is of the opinion that we should use heat compress on it. The stump looks fine, no smells, no discharge and it's shrinking but my mum thinks it's just taking too long. What else can I do, she is getting me to panic and I don't know if I should allow her use heat on his navel.

enioladimeji:

WAO. For my mind, na me form the name give my son cos i wanted a unique name. Nice name

Thanks everyone. My dad named my baby Omodesire too,love the name.

Thanks tobiaboG, favoredgirl and mytestimony. I had him through cs and from the first night at the hospital the nurses had to tell me.to get food for him, I came home after 5 days and had to go back after the naming cos I was bleeding profusely, I just got home two days ago... I have been trying to pump but most times he would have emptied my engorged breast so there is very little to pump and now my dad mistakenly took my breast pump to Ado after I was admitted the.second time and I stay in lagos. It's going to take a while for me to get a new breast pump.
Since I came back I haven't been able to eat much no matter how hard I try, I take just a little pap every morning and eat foods like amala but in small quantities. I read that breastfeeding is about demand and supply that is why I put him to breast for nothing less than 30mins at a go so that I can produce enough for him but I still end up giving him baby food before he gets satisfied. He is just 12days old and we are battling with feeding, I don't know what to do.

Hello everyone o, mama sayoberry, mytestimony and others I hail o, I am a FTM here porting from the pregnancy thread. Had my baby boy 12days ago. Now my challenges are much o, firstly my baby seems to suck always especially at night, he sucks for over an hour and still cries when I remove his mouth.. I had to buy Nan 1 for him to supplement but I feel bad sometimes cos I had plan to breastfeed him exclusively, what can I do.
Secondly, pls I need advise on what family planning method to use, I want to use the IUD but I am hearing a lot of stories about it affecting DH and even hurting him, pls experience mamas is this always true, if so what other alternative can I use, I hate drugs so the pill.is out of it and I don't want something I will have to be using every 3months, I want something long term.

Hello to all the pushing mamas in the house, I can now tell my birth story now...ehwww, it hasn't been easy o,vigilante things and postpartum recovery.

Here goes my birth story, I went to the hospital on Monday for my schedule induction, I was to get to the hospital by 8pm and induction is suppose to start by 4am on Tuesday. Around 3.45am I saw bloody show, and contractions but the doctor still inserted induction gel around 4.15am, contractions started steadily every 10minutes and around 9am, I was checked and I was 4cm dilated.

Contractions kept coming stronger and closer together but around 4pm, I was having contractions at 4minutes apart and they were not getting closer and I was just 5cm dilated . So the doctor said I had labored for 12hours and he can't take chances for me to continue, so he would have to do an emergency cs.

So he put a call through to the anesthesiologist that was when wahala started o, the anesthesiologist was stuck in traffic o, he was very close by but lagos being lagos, rain started and there was traffic gridlock. A 15minute journey turned to 3hours journey and I kept having contractions and I was just 6cm dilated at 7.30pm.

The Anesthesiologist arrived around 7.45pm and I was taken to the theater weak, tired, restless. The Anesthesiologist started apply the spinal epidural, he did the first one, it didn't work, the second one, still didn't work and I was having contractions in between and I had to sit steadily, it was the third one that now worked and the procedure started.

My baby was brought out at 8.25 thereabouts and I was taken out around 9pm. Since then o, my neck has been stiff, I was told it's a side effect of the anesthesia but it is getting better. And my darling son has not allowed me sleep at night, he stays awake all through the night to breastfeed but I am getting used to it sha.

God will grant other pushing mamas safe delivery.

Doubledouble:
Happy new month everyone! Congrats to all July mamas for getting into their glorious mouth...been a silent follower. Really waiting for July mamas BS esp, proudmom38- it will be drama-filled, but somehow I think prouddad38's drama will be more!
@lamdec, how far?? Not read your delivery announcement, hope all is well. The good Lord will never desert you. Pls let's know you are ok!

@helovesme, dezoou, cutiereborn and other team September, wishing us and every pushing mama God's protection, Amen!
#proudlyteamseptember#

Thanks for asking after me o, God bless you. I had my baby on 30the June at 8.20pm, weighing 3.61kg through CS. I am still healing and recovering, birth story later

helovesme:
i have a question oh

in yoruba culture, who is traditionally expected to come around after the birth of a child? the wife's mother or the husband's mother?

Well, my hubby and I are Yorubas and we have agreed that my mum will come stay with us for at least a month before MIL comes. So nowadays, it also depends on the.decision of the couple cos I am more comfortable with my mum taking care of me at least till I heal well before MIL comes around.

corrall:


My dear sister, we are in the same shoes o. My doctor did a membrane sweep today, I feel a lot of pressure in my pelvic area, I just pray that labour comes spontaneously. I kuku no mind the induction o, even though they say it's painful.

it is well with us o