Yay, that's great news! Thanks for letting us know Bek :)
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Yay, that's great news! Thanks for letting us know Bek :)
Bek that is great news. Well done to your friend and her little Princess.
Fabulous news Bekz, so thrilled for you, I hope this is the end of their hospital journey and they can relax and grow together at home. xxoo
I thought that too until I had a prem, the WCH (where i had her as I was too early to go to any of the Private Hospitals in Adelaide) wanted her for 4-5 weeks which would have made her 37-38 weeks, but we transferred to our Private Hospital only because a specialist Paeditrcian agreed to take on her case and monitor her daily (they would only accept them from 36 weeks she transferred at 34 week 2 days, we brought her home at 35 weeks 1 day old, was only 10grams above her lowest weight (which she lost that again her first week home:redface:). But as soon as she had been on all suck feeds for 24 hours, they are generally happy to have them go home, where as it wouldn't have been possible to do that at the WCH. I boarded which allowed all suck feeds, with at least 50% on the boob. I would have been comuting a few times a day into the WCH if we didn't get the transfer.:
mind you having the head of the NICu at the WCh as your paeditrician certainly has a lot of pulling power!!
But even so, every prem is different, we have a prem playgroup with the bubs ranging from 24 weekers to 35 weekers, it is amazing to see the differences, especially of those that are the same gestation. Most look like normal babies, others are on oxygen, NGT's, quite underweight etc I have learnt sooo much becoming a mum of a prem, but there is soo much more to learn!!
Beema - thanks to all of you lovely ladies and my friend now having a prem bub I have learnt heaps too!!!
Yeah, I boarded for 3 weeks :) We transferred from public to private.. well I transferred over as a boarder earlier than kayla.. i had to walk the distance to the public every feed!! She moved over once she was about 36wks I think. I was one day too early to birth at the private.. the public midwives were great.. but the food is terrible! LOL... was sooo glad to get over to the private I must say!
Anyway.. back to Kayla.. she was on monitors for a long time coz she kept having de-sats. So she was on caffeine treatment for that, and basically we had to wait for her to outgrow the de-sats. In that time we fought the paeds (me & the nurses lol) for all suck feeds.. she kept losing weight when all sucks.. but one of the weigh-ins we're pretty sure was wrong.. a loss one day of 20g to a gain of 140g the next?? something was wrong somewhere.. but the paeds all freaked at the loss. Ugh. But we got there in the end, and finally convinced them to let her off the monitoring. I was worried I'd be paranoid about her de-satting and had visions of me using all kinds of baby monitors at home, but I'm happy to say I didn't succumb! LOL.