Hi,

My name is Jo a newbie, so I thought I'd post here. I have a little boy Tyson who just turned 6 months. Ty was born 5 weeks early, i had him at 35 weeks due to pre-eclampsia. I had high blood pressure from about 20 weeks and was on medication.

At my 34 week check up they found I had protein in my urine so I was admitted to hospital straight away. Lucky I had already started my maternity leave a week early. Anyway that was on a monday, by wednesday it had got worse and my ob decided it was time, so I had steroids that night and the following morning and had a c section on Thursday night. Little Ty was born at 6.35pm on the 29/4/04, he weighed 2.5kg (5lb 8oz). He was admitted to the SCN but required no oxygen, heat or anything. He was a little bit jaundice but that cleared up.

By the friday night he was b/f and we took him home with us when I was discharged the following tuesday.

His paed has been really happy with him and thinks that he is very healthy and happy bubs.

Hes been doing really well, weighs nearly 7kg, is starting to roll, has started solids and best of all sleeps through the night. We've had the usual, first cold and he got a bit of a chest cold about a month ago and had to take antibiotics but he is over that now and fighting fit.

Matt and I love our little man so much and love being parents that we were going to wait till Ty was 2 or 3 but have decided to ttc next April/May after Tys 1st bday and we were only going to have 2 children but have decided we want more (fingers crossed).

I'm a bit scared I may get pre-eclampsia again but have been off my medication for about 3 months now and my blood pressure seems to be ok. I get it checked regularly to make sure everything is fine.

So really glad to be here and hope to chat to you all soon. Bye for now.