Premmie Mums #8

Hi everyoe just thought I'd pop in quickly and give a little update on our littlest one. She's doing wonderfully well. Last Thursday she was wheighed and was exactly the same weight as Jacob when he was born which means she's been putting on an average of about 200gms a week, give or take. She was 7wks old on Saturday and is really the same as any normal new born now, I'm so proud of the little munchkin :) Quite colicy still though but I expected that as Jacob was the same. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to matter what I eat or anything. But we are trying to keep the Brauers colic relief up and use breast compression so that she is getting enough hind milk to line her ittle tummy, it seems to be helping some what.

Sally, I was going to try and catch up with you these past few days as I've been staying at my parents place since Thursday arvo. But I didn't have your number or anything and as it turns out I kinda ran out of time anyway (I'm going home sometime this afternoon). Hope you are well though and Brendan is also and that he's being a good little boy for his mummy :)

Hope everyone else and their bubs are doing the best that's possible.

hello everyone :D

Today Brendan is 12 months corrected!!! I need to take a pic this afternoon, we took some last year so it'd be good to see how far he's come :D

Mrs Baj, Next time i go shopping I'll give my number to your sis!! Glad your DD is doing well. Glad to hear that she's caught up to the same birth weight as Jacob, thats excellent news! Brendan was about 2.4kgs this time last year.

Happy Birthday (again) BRENDAN!!! Woooooott!! :cheer:

Hello :)

Thanks Nadine :D

Well, we had our 12months corrected check today. And he is at a 10month old level. So a lil deflated, but he's happy so thats the important thing!! I now know what he should be doing so we have some excercises to work on.

He is now 9.4kg and 75cms!! The paed was a lil concerned about his weight, in regard to the weight/height ratio. He needs to start putting a lil more on, which as you guys know is near on impossible!

How is everyone else?

Hello Ladies

How is everyone? How are all the beautiful babies doing??

Hi Sally :hello:

Long time no see ;)

We are doing fine, thanks. I'm UTD again, expecting in Dec. DD is doing absolutely great. She is currently cutting some top molars that is just making her very uncomfy. She is talking so much and trying to repeat everything you tell her. She is eating great .. most of the time. LOVES pasta. She is over 10.5kg and really heavy to carry around :lol: Oh yeah, I'm weaning her off formula and she is currently getting one bottle of cow's milk per day ... she were a bit fussy in the begining, but it seems like she is starting to like the taste. Now if only I could have had her off dipers before #2 arived ... not much luck there, although she is seeing in day-care how the big kids are doing it and before bathtime, she will go and fetch her potty and ask me to help her on for a wee. But so far there were no pee in the pot ;) So cute. I can't wait for summer to teach her how to swim ... she loves the water. And going naked, so I would be so happy not to have to stuggle to dress her everyday (lazy mommy :p )

I'm having trouble remembering how little she was with birth .. I need to get out the photo's and really SEE how small she was. AND I can't believe that time flew by this quickly .. heck, she's almost 2

How's things with you and Brendan?

Hello Nadine!!
Congratulations on your pregnancy!! Boxing day baby too :D

DD is doing really well!!! 10.5kg thats a great weight! Brendan is hovering around 9.4, he loses some and then gains some. His eating is o.k. having troubls most days, he loves cows milk, but atm I have to add formula to it. Brendan has also cut a 2nd mlar, making 10 teeth now!! Brendan also loves being naked, we give him nappy free time every night and its so funny watching him almost run around.... hehehe I'm waiting to hear from the childrens hospital still, they are going to fix his tongue tie, but he has to gain some weight first. We still see a Dietician, an Occupational Therapist and Speech Therapist, all are going quite well. Brendan's fine motor skills are coming along nicely, slowly, but at least they are developing!!

We are going to start TTC this month. I'm rather nervous about the whole thing, but I'm sure that'll pass!!

Glad to hear from you :)

take care

Thanks Sally, boxing day AND my birthday ... how lucky am I??

I have high hopes for this baby to make it the full term. We are finding out the sex tomorrow.

Sounds like Brendan is really doing great! Congratulations. I'm glad they would be able to fix his tongue tie ... will that make it better for him to eat? I hope so. And if you give him enough time he is going to be 16 too soon and eat you out of the house ;)
I remember that he had something wrong with his tummy?? I can't for the love of me remember the english word for it :redface: How is that going?

Goodluck with the TTC. I know it can be utterly daunting, but it's all worth it at the end. And Brendan will be happy to have a little brother/sister that he can play with.

Wow, you might have to share your birthday too, at least theres more chance of it being remembered!!

We are hoping the tongue-tie is the cause of his eating issues, if not at least it's fixed. Brendan has a hernia, just above his belly button (he still has that hernia too) and they are going to check on it at 2yrs, if still there or worse they'll fix it.

Good luck for finding the sex, are you wanting one in particular? I'd love one of each :D

HERNIA (I broke my head over a stone searching for that word ... we call it a breuk in Afrikaans)

I'm glad they can fix that too.

I'm having a boy :redface: :excited: Found out this morning. And he might be a tad earlier than my due date, because he measure already 21+5 weeks!! :o He is HUGE!!! I'm totally shocked ... I thought it was another girl, but I'm happy and content with this little fellow! DH is over the moon and totally stoked. We are so lucky to have one of each sex ... I'll be sending you my extra girly-ttc-dust ;) Hope for the best

wow congratulations Nadine on finding out your little bun is a boy!! sounds like he is growing well thsats what we like to hear, bake bake baking all the way to Full term for you!! (well minimum of 37weeks!)

we are going well. We have been busy moving house and renovating (we did most of it b4 we moved in thank god)
Nixon is pregoressing really well. His last check up i was told to just monitor his speech progression over the next 3 months. and i have definatley notice a difference, in the last few weeks he is coming out with more words (maybe they are just becoming clearer also) thismorning he was laying on the lounge looking and pointing at his fingers and i swear he said (three, four, five)
Tyron is 10months old, crawling and pulling himself up, he cant wait to run around with his big bro. Nixon gets annyed with him though now he can grab all of his things! (esp his trains he's very protective of the toot toots)
Sally- good luck TTC thats so exciting!! it is a bit nerve racking when u have prob talked about it and thought about it for a while and all of a sudden the gates are open and this its time!

it would be nice to hear from some of the other premmie mums that havent been in for a while
Tiff, Carrie, Helena, Ashlee,Divvy, Mitch, Odette and everyone else

Nadine, WooHooo Congrats on your lil boy, and excellent to be measuring bigger too :D Thanks for the girly dust :D :D

Nic, so nice to hear from you! Sounds like your 2 are coming along just nicely, i'm glad Nixon's speech Is improving!! And I can't believe that Tyron is 10 months!! *shock* Hasn't that time just flown by!!

It'd be lovely to hear how the other mums are doing....

Hello! How is everyone???

Brendan has his apt to get his TT fixed!!! YAY!

He's also now 10kg! 18 months old and 10kg!! and 80cm tall :D

My lil boy is growing up!

he sure is Sally!!

we are going well.
Im taking Nixon to the doctors tomorrow because i am concerned about his snoring.

has anyone else had this problem with prems? ive been not ignoring it but probably oblivious but he has always snored and recently it seems tohave gotten worse.
ive been googling which isnt always good but come across some info which makes me think i need to get him checked.
i have video taped him also and he does have some pauses in his sleep.
so hoping we get a refferal and can get it further looked into.
will update after our docs appointment

Good luck Nic! I watched brendan last night (another sleepless night for me) and he didn't snore at all, but he definately had some issues with his breathing. Hoping the CHN will ring tomorrow.

Well Alex is now five, still small but developmentally fine. He's just a light build (i hope).

Yes he is still "premmie" and sometimes has that "premmie" look, but he's gorgeous!

Hello!

Just letting you all know that Brendans tongue-tie surgery went really really well, he was normal when he woke up and wanting his toys and bottle... LOL

He is already showing signs of improvement, he actually ate cut up meat last night with peas corn and carrots, everything was cut to the size of a pea, but when he's been on mash for so long, it's really exciting!!

How is everyone?

That is awsome news, Sally!! I'm so happy for you guys. I was thinking about you just this morning. My silly head could not remember the operation date :wall:

Welcome to the wonderfull world of Finding-peas-ham-cheese-and-crusts-under-the-couch!!!! ;)

I also think that now that he can eat better, he will definatly start gaining weight also. You'll have to place a turtle on his head to stop him from growing to fast LOL

Here all is well, well, as well as can be. DD woke up at 2:45 this morning .. something is bothering her, but I can't really figure out what. If I ask her if her head hurts, she touch her head, if I ask if her tummy hurts, she touch her tummy ... and then she lifts her toes and say: "Mommy.. ouch" and I have to kiss EVERYTHING :lol: So she is turning telling me what is hurting into a game .. smart little bugger. But I do think it's probably teeth ... or tummy-cramps. We did have fresh strawberries for the first time yesterday afternoon ... but if she were allergic, she would have had a rash around her mouth, right??

We got a pee on the pot the other day. I'm not TT yet, she is still to young, but just before a bath, I will put her on her potty and she will invite me to come and potty on the "big" potty and then we just stare at each other and play with the toiletpaper till the bath is finished.

Oh my :lol: I'm chatty today!! Have a lovely day hun, and congrats again on Brendan's successfull surgery