- Hi guys!
Welcome back to my channel.
Today I'm going to be filming
my three week postpartum update
and Jackson's three week update.
He is currently having a snooze so I can film this
and the two other older boys are upstairs
having a bath with their dad, so I was literally like,
I've got 10 minutes to film this.
Jackson at three weeks is looking like this.
He is definitely getting chubbier.
He is now nine pounds, five ounces.
I had him weighed yesterday.
Still piling on the weight, so I'm so pleased,
because he's still exclusively breastfed.
He is just under the 75th percentile for weight
and he's also the 75th percentile for his head size
and then his length,
he's actually on the 91st percentile for height.
He's really, really tall,
which means he's got these really long, skinny legs.
So he has grown out of all of his newborn clothes now,
all of his zero to one month clothes.
He is now in his zero to three month clothes already.
He's fit in those quite nicely.
In the past week, we have had his hearing test,
which is what they couldn't complete when he was born,
because he was full of mucus,
so we went to the hospital and had his hearing test
and he passed that, so that was absolutely fine
and pleased that that's done.
And then we also got the results back
from his heel prick test.
When he was about three days old,
the midwife took four different dots of blood
and it gets sent off to see
if there's any potential genetic diseases he could have.
Anyway, that got sent off and the results came this week
and he is all normal, so that was also really nice to know.
His skin has changed now as well.
He's a lot pinker.
His skin has stopped shedding,
because obviously he was 11 days overdue,
so his skin was really dry when he came out,
so that has calmed down now.
I've still just been putting olive oil
or sunflower oil on it.
He still sleeps a lot.
He sleeps so much, but there are a few periods
of the day now when he's more awake.
Typically, he will wake up at about seven
and I think it's because my older children are so loud.
So he has quite an awake period from seven to nine,
which is the morning breakfast, getting everyone ready
and out of the house for the school run.
And then at about nine he'll have a good sleep, again.
And then he also has another really awake period
at about seven o'clock at night.
So he'll sleep through when I'm putting the other boys
to bed and then he'll have quite an alert period
from seven until eight o'clock
and he'll cluster feed from about seven to ten o'clock
and then I'll put him to bed at ten o'clock,
when we go to bed as well.
I feel like all of the feeding at night
has really been helping with his sleeping.
Hey guys!
We're going to film my video.
They're out of the bath!
Can you say hello?
What do you think of baby Jackson?
(vocalizing)
Where is he?
Over there!
He's my biggest boy.
What do you think of baby Jackson?
- Good.
- You like him?
Yeah, so typically, he is going two to three hours
between feeds, but we have had a few times at night
that he has gone four hours
or even four and a half hours, so that has been really good
and I think that it's an idea about what is to come
in the future.
If he doesn't wake up every two to three hours,
I don't wake him.
With my first baby, I was like,
he needs to feed every three hours.
And I would physically wake him up.
I've been much more relaxed with him
and he keeps putting on weight.
So I've been a lot more chilled out.
This week, as well, unfortunately,
we've all been a bit under the weather with colds
and he has had a runny nose.
It has affected his feeding a little bit,
so I have been using saline drops for his nose.
And then, in the day time, if I'm just with him,
I've been letting him nap on his front or on his side
so it can drain out, because on his back
you can just hear him sniffing and the poor baby.
He's really bunged up.
Cord has fallen off and healed really well.
We are bathing him, but to be honest,
it hasn't been a set routine yet.
At three weeks, we have basically been bathing him
every time he has a huge explosive poo.
If he's had a really big number two,
we take the opportunity to give him a good wash.
We do try to bath him at night, after we've bathed the boys,
but it's not every day.
It's probably four times a week.
He's still so good with getting his wind up,
which is just amazing.
With my eldest, he used to struggle with wind
and pull his knees up and get in lots of pain,
but he can just sit up and burp and he's really strong.
He's got a really strong neck and back muscles, as well.
I've been loving using my baby sling.
So many people have asked me what baby slings I have.
I have a Wuti wrap, which I will link down below.
I also have an AmaWrap,
which I'll link down below, as well.
I love both of them.
They're the type of slings
that it's basically one big, long piece of material
that you wrap around you and I will put him in it
in the morning, so that I can get stuff done
and just have two hands free
or when I'm making the boys dinner,
I will put it on then as well
or when we go to a kid's party or a play group,
I will put him in the sling.
Because, if he's in the buggy,
lots of children will come up and touch his face
and I just worry about germs.
Whereas, if he's in the sling,
I feel like he's quite protected
and he loves being able to hear my heart
and the heat of me and stuff like that.
So he sits really well in that.
If you're having a second or third child,
I would recommend a baby sling so much.
The brothers are still totally in love with him.
They are forever wanting to stroke him, hold him.
They just love him so much.
So that is still really good.
I'm sure that will change when Jackson's older
and taking their things.
But, at the moment, it's all going really, really well.
Nighttime's, overall, going really well.
As I said, he goes three to four hours
between feeds at night and it's all a bit of a blur,
to be honest and I think,
because it's my last baby, I don't mind as much.
I'm a bit like, you can get up.
I really don't mind.
Because I'm just enjoying every second of it,
because I know it's my last baby.
And, in a way, the night feeds are one
of the only times I have, just me and Jackson,
so I really enjoy them
and I take the opportunity just to look at him
and talk to him and stuff like that.
As for me, postpartum at three weeks,
I'm still feeling quite good in myself.
I don't ever rest when he's resting,
because there's always a million things to do,
whether it be the older children or work stuff,
like vlogging stuff.
I never really get the chance to rest when he rests,
but I'm actually feeling fine.
I finally got on the scales
and I'm not even going to tell you what it said,
but I will tell you that I need to lose two stone.
So, I did what I always do in every pregnancy.
I put on three stone, lose a stone immediately,
and then spend about six to nine months
losing the other two stone.
So I now have to do that.
I've been trying to eat clean.
I've been really trying to keep up my fluids
for breastfeeding and just for health, in general.
I'm still taking
my Vitabiotics Pregnacare Breast-feeding supplements now.
I take those every morning.
Ideally, I will start going for walks with the buggy
and things like that, but the boys do keep me quite busy,
so we've still been going out to gym classes.
I'm still running around after them
and I'm hoping that that will help
with me losing the weight.
I don't want to go too crazy with dieting,
because I am still breastfeeding,
but I do need to just sort it out.
I've also been using the Belly Bandit,
you may have heard of it before.
It is like a little tight corset thing,
I'll insert a picture now,
that you wear during the day
and then you can also wear at night
to bring your tummy back in
and I think that has actually been really helping.
And it's quite a nice support for when you're breastfeeding
and it's quite comfortable, to be honest.
So I'm really loving using that Belly Bandit.
But, overall, I'm feeling really good
and it's funny with the third baby,
you kind of just have to carry on with life
like nothing's every happened, like I was straight back out,
on days out and doing things with the kids
when he was a week old, because you can't really stop.
You have stuff going on in life.
You have school runs.
You have food to get.
You have dinners to make.
You have all this stuff.
So it is amazing how he has literally just fitted in
to our life.
I can't believe that he's not always been here
and he's just such a good baby still,
so content and we're still totally in love.
I really am just enjoying every second
of having this newborn, so yes, I will definitely update
again next week as my four week postpartum
and then I think I'll do this as a monthly thing,
but I just wanted to do the first four weeks,
because he is changing so much at the moment.
Anyway, I really hope you've enjoyed this video.
Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe
and I will see you soon.
Bye!
Hi guys.
Today I'm going to be filming
Jackson's one week update
and postpartum.