Premmie Mums #8

And now we have the gastro bug again, 3rd bout this year for the poor kid... well Brendan has it and hopefully it doesn't last long and no-one lese gets it. *sigh*

Hello lovely ladies,

It has been a busy week and lots of bad internet connectivity. I lost a huge message on monday night so decided to have a thinking week this week. it was good. I got very stressed about seeing a friend whoe was 29 weeks, but i am getting used to it as i have so many pregnant friends now.

Thanks so much to all of you for sharing your words of comfort and support.

Sally2 you are a superstar responding to my whinge when you are dealing with your own stress.

Sally i know I will find you on here and i always look forward to your updates.

Welcome Teresa and congratulations on your little one.

Tk1999 thanks for your hugs too. I love getting hugs. I a a big hugger IRL.

Sally - that is great news about Tristans assisted walking. He must be enjoying himself immensely. Hope the gastro bug doesn't stick around too long for you. I will pm you later so i can see the video. Need to go and have brekky.

in our news, Miss K is trying to lift her bum in the air when on tummy. Crawling not far off!!!

Go Miss K!!!

Brendan is well again :dance: and tomorrow he is 3yrs corrected :) I'm a bit sad... sad that he has a corrected day, sad about what he's had to go through to be here. But I'm also extremely proud of him and how well he is doing :D He will have his developmental check-up and medical assessment with the paediatrician on Tuesday (11th May)

Evening ladies.

Did anyone watch Sunday night tonight and see the special on the premmie babies? It was so sad but good to see them fighting. A real eye opener. Made me realise how lucky I was to get to 34 weeks and have a baby that only needed special care.

i saw the ad on TV the other day and almost cried from just 30 secs so knew that I should not be watching the TV show. Seeing those type of images and stories would set off emotions I do not want to deal with yet. We only had two weeks in NICU but after her heart operation at 3 months she took ages waking and breathing on her own. Scared me to death.

How early were the babies?

they were 25 weekers. sooooo tiny. i didnt see the ad on tv the other day and was watching the program for the bears when it came on

Saw it online..Cried the whole time as we were going through our journey this time last year. Today a year ago we were at day 40 and Angus was fighting for his life. Underwent a number of horrid tests including a second lumber puncher :(
A year on and you wouldn't even know other than him being a little small.

rosebud - wow. just shows that he is a fighter.

Rosebud - Woo hoo to your strong little Angus (aptly named as it seems such a fighting name) and to you and your partner for getting through all of that AND having kids at home as well.

Couldn't watch Sunday night special - had to leave the hospital room! Same equipment as our 28 weeker, just a bit smaller.....still too close to home

yeah i watched, and i cried.... esp when they wheeled the mum into NICU it was like i watching myself.
but i was glad they did this story as hopefully many others who have not been down this rd had an eye opener on what some families go through when they have a premature baby

I didn't realise it was on... I will try to watch it online

Hey all. I'm Belinda, from Tazzie.

I'm mummy to Evan (18months), whom was born at 32 weeks gestation - weighing 1.48kg or 3lbs 1.5 ounces!!

We spent time in two hospitals, and he was tube fed for around a month, and then went straight to brestfeeding!

welcome evansmum. :D

Welcome evansmum!

:welcome: evansmum

Hello Evansmum and welcome to BB. We were also very lucky and went from tube feeding to breastfeeding. We also spent time in two hospitals. It was horrible moving to the second for the last two and a half weeks as it was sooooo lacking and looked like it should have been condemned in the 1970's. And it was further from home but apparently we were in the "catchment area" and we had to leave the tertiary hospital, no exceptions blah blah blah.

How is Evan going?

Hi everyone,

I went to a premmie nuturegroup (like a playgroup) through a premmie/NICU organisation in my area today. I need to debrief about it but can't just yet... just wanted to say a quick hello and I will be back later to offload my crap - it all relates to thinking I had dealt with DDs early birth, I think a lot of the issues have come to the surface given that a lot of babies have been born around me and they have all been FT take home bubbas

Hope you and your little ones are doing well.