Premmie Mums #8

[tiffanny]

TK I never used the whole corrected age thing. Don't know why, (actually there was and is a reason but it won't sit well with others so won't say) but in a nutshell I just didn't think it was necessary for everyone I met to explain.

Sally and Nic, I hope everything goes well for you both and you get some answers.

Us- we have had a big leap in our toilet training with Feeb's wowing me with a big stinky poo and then topped it off with telling me when she needed to do another one and she stripped off and hopped on her potty again with the same outcome as before. YAY for us. I've been waiting for the warmer weather to start but never imagined she would take to it this quickly. Can't wait to tell her teacher at D/C.

[Early Kids]

Tiffany thats awesome about the toilet training! Brendan is no where near it yet.

With corrected age I only used it as far as development went, and only when seeing specialists ect. As for everyone else I just told them his real age.

[*Beema*]

TK I never used the whole corrected age thing. Don't know why, (actually there was and is a reason but it won't sit well with others so won't say) but in a nutshell I just didn't think it was necessary for everyone I met to explain.

You have made me curious as to why

I got a lot of comments about DD's size, especially when she was not even near the bottom of the charts and 3 months old, so I would either just say her corrcted age, although for a while that didn't stop the comments so I just made up and arbitory age, smiled, nodded and walked away if they commented

[Bee83]

Hi Ladies

Well my little boy Jacob was born a month early at 36 +2 and he was 2.8kg, we were very lucky as we were told he would more than likely go to NICU being early and small. The paedatrician said he was tiny but perfect and monitored his blood sugar slowly, but we were home in 5 days.He is now 4.5 months old and on 10th percentile for weight but feeding has always been a huge issue for us. I never got milk so Jacob went straight to bottle feeding which he did well at in Hospital but was a whole new story at home. He still only has about 100-120mL at a time and wakes every 3 hours during the night. I find it very frustrating as he wasnt that "premmie" so to speak and has been slower to reach milestones (ie still hasnt rolled).

He has also been plagued with sickness this winter resulting in no weight gain for a month. I spoke to a doctor at work who suggested i thickened his feeds and he gained nearly 900g in a fortnight but he has been sick again and stops feeding.

Any advice would be greatly accepted!

Love Bee & Jacob

[butterfly_warrior]

I feel a little bit odd finally joining this thread now that Sam is nine months old. He was born at 36 weeks and even though we spent 10 days in the SCN and I'm still traumatised by watching my son have NG tubes inserted, I never really felt that he was all that premmie, and well... Just didn't find it until Sam was older and bigger and didn't look like he was born prematurely at all.

But I saw Bee's post and I just had to respond...

Bee, Sam went straight to the bottle in hospital as well as my milk never came in either. Hours upon hours on the torture device they call a breast pump, all for nothing. Anyway, Sam's grown well (gone from 3rd percentile to 97th for weight), but he's still been somewhat slow in reaching his milestones. Don't worry! Sam didn't even attempt to roll until he was well over 4 months old. He was probably closer to 6 months old before he finally figured it out. Then he rolled both ways for about a week and then stopped completely. It's only now at 9 months old that he's started rolling regularly and is using it to get places. His fine motor skills are impressive, but his gross motor skills have been particularly sucky up until this point. Being sick certainly won't have helped, but try not to worry too much about meeting physical milestones and concentrate more on his feeding issues. I hope you get them sorted... I remember how stressed we were when Sam got sick and wouldn't take his bottles. He dropped a lot of weight when that happened, but as soon as he was well again his growth took off again.

BW

[tk1999]

Hi,

Bee, welcome! I am not much help to you as DD is 6 weeks old this Sunday so we haven't been through many milestones thus far. BW gave you some great advice though. Hope all goes well for your DS.

BW, hope the odd feeling is gone for you now. Glad to have you here! Sam is doing so well. Congratulations to you both.

Well... tomorrow is DD's EDD... my oh my how those time has flown from her birth date to now! I have been processing a lot of mixed emotions but overall I am ok with everything - it is just surreal watching my belly buddies go through the end stages of their pg, their labours starting and their bundles arriving!

[*Beema*]

Welcome Bee and BW, and it is never too late to join BW

I am not the best to comment on Gross Motor Skill Milestones as DD has Hypermobility (too flexible), she can tickle behind both of her ears with her big toes at the same time and giggle She has only just started rolling in the last few weeks

But every baby is different, and he is only 4 1/2 months give him some more time, he will get there in his own time.

DD was stuck on drinking only 100ml for a long time, the only way we got it up was by 5ml increments every few days, eventually she got up to about 180ml, but a majority of the time she was BF'ed and the toped up with F when she was losing weight

Happy EDD to Caitlin for tomorrow!!

Hope DD isn't getting ill again, she thew up all overherself in the car (TMI) this arvo, poor little poppet, she didn't even whimper just sat there Cleaned her up when we got hom 10min later as I had nothing with me After she had a long shower, gave her some dinner, which she proceeded to hide in the highchair when I was looking and before bed she drank 20ml of milk, and would only take tiny sips of water. Also had some diahorrea, hope what ever it is is very short lived!!

Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!!

ETA: oo cool that was my 1500th post!
xxoo

[tk1999]

Hope Nakita is better soon Beema - fingers crossed whatever it is, it is short lived