Oh my goodness! When I hadn't heard from you for a while I was starting to think you'd had the baby already! Well, that is exciting, Monday it is! A new addition to the family. 37 weeks is fantastic, I hope I get that far! Make sure you take it easy over the weekend. Is the baby still breech? Will you be having the c-section? I will be thinking of you on Monday, and Im sure everything will go well.
Did the doctor comment on the flow in the artery? Just wondering if that is playing a part. Bloody low PAPP-A, wish that would disappear!
Well my scan last friday went well, growth is on target, still a little behind the 50th percentile, but growth is keeping up. He measured the cord flow for a while, and didn't mention anything was wrong so Im assuming thats ok. Will be seeing him again on Monday for a visit and then on the 16th for another scan. Im really wishing everything keeps going well.
Well I'm home from hosp, we have a beautiful baby girl Holly Matilda she weighed 2.4kg which was a pleasant surprise given we thought she was going to be smaller.
Everything at birth went well and she performed wonderfully, however, over the coming days she got weaker and weaker, she just didn't have the energy to feed, so while I am home Holly has remained in special care to working on her feeding. The problem has been her size and Dr say some 37weekers do start well then just start to fall in a heap. We abandom BF (for the moment) because it was taking too much effort but even bottle feeding EBM was taking over an hour to get the required or less into her. So that is when she went into special care.
Anyway she will be fine just needs to the strength to endure feeds but obviously a vicious cycle needs food to gain strength but it is the feeding that makes her so weak, all she does is sleep. It wasn't until day 5 we heard her cry for food before that she just slept and had to be woken for feeds of which she never opened her eyes.
Anyway they think a week in care and she will be ready to come home.
Stellasmum hope everything is going well with you, look forward to continuing hear your story.
Yes I did have c-sect which I am recovering well from still have a little pain but nothing too bad. It is just annoying I can't drive it would make it so much easier if I was able to drive myself to hospital to see Holly.
I can't believe you have decided on Holly as a name, great minds think a like.
I called the hospital this morning and she had a really good night, feeding really well, they are going to let me try breastfeeding her today which I am very excited by. The nurse said she thought she might have turned the corner so hopefully we will have her home within the next couple of days.
I hope the last 10 weeks goes well for you, I know they went really quickly for me but that was largely because it always seemed she might be coming in a few weeks, at one stage she was going to be arriving at around 30wks then 34wks, then 36wks so it always seemed close.
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