I'm really benefiting from not going in to work. Keeping my feet up is making all the difference and all the crampiness has disappeared and I'm not getting regular contractions any more, just bouts of them her and there. I think nature was telling me it was time to stop. I'm trying hard not to feel guilty about lounging around!
Was just checking in to make sure your DS is still sitting comfy with the food on tap. Glad to hear he is. Sons are such wonderful gifts. I love my girls, but my darling boys are so incredibly sweet and loving. My DS2 spent a week in NICU when he was born, but the care in there is amazing and the nurses and midwives, I found, are so good with NICU mums, so if you do end up early, you will both be in wonderful hands, so don't let thinking about the what ifs play on your mind either.
And dont you dare feel guilty for lounging! I am only 24wks and I am lounging every chance I get! LOL. Make sure you have some helping hands come the weekend. Here is hoping enough rest will stop it and everything will go smoothly from there.
Here is fingers crossed I wont be reading a birth announcement for weeks yet. for you.
Awww thanks Inertia I'm sorry to hear your wee one had a rough start. My main concern at this point I guess would be getting breastfeeding going. I know he'd be fine in the long run but I wouldn't relish the difficulties I've heard can happen with establishing b/fing in a premmie.
My eldest dd is keeping me company today - I haven't seen much of her since she moved out and w'ere having a lovely day together. She's such a sweetheart.
Yes! Well that is a challenge. The NICU I was at had everything to help me express and were amazingly supportive of my desire to BF despite the fact that it was 4 days before Sam could come out of the humidicrib (right lung collapsed during birth and it took that long to clear out the chest cavity and re-inflate it and get it working properly). The paediatrician got me a motillium prescription so that I could keep up my supply given how difficult it is to start out as EBM. If that becomes a concern, talk to them about that - and I am sure you can get it done though.
Back in hospital - re run of last week onlybaby is quite engaged and bleeding a lot after exam. Am beginning to suspect more than irritable uterus at this point and may have a baby by the next time I go home. From my phone.
TMTM, I hope your little one can hang in there a bit longer.......but if not, he will be just fine, he's done pretty well so far. Every day makes a difference! FWIW I had my DS right on 35 weeks, and he spent minimal time in SCN, and although BFing had many issues, we managed it (and still do ). I hope your little guy manages to surprise you!
I hope you can keep baking a bit longer, praying bubs can stay put just another week or two at least!
I bf'd my prem and yes it was hard work, and the pump became my best friend for quite a while (if you need to go down the expressing road for a while I would hire a double electric pump, it will make a huge difference, I use the Ameda Purely Yours), and still sits beside me! But you can do it, and there are quite a few of us on BB who have done it and we will be here to support you every step of the way! I am proud to be giving my little one her boob!!
Praying for a safe delivery when the time comes xxoo
Oh Wow. This is why I worry. Hold on little man. Just a little while longer.
Can't argue with them enforcing some bed rest on you! Everything is working out ok all over I hope. I know my DH is an absolute dream with my kids. Hope yours isnt losing his mind! LOL. Just keep your feet up and hold onto that baby as long as possible!
Same thing as last weekend - woke up at 4am with contractions and blood stained pv loss.
Let it go for a while, and called the hospital at 5am when the contractions hadn't calmed down. They said to go in and get checked out, so I did. They hooked me up to a CTG and this time the contx were actually showing up (they never usually do). I had to wait around for the doctor who did an internal and said the baby's head was deeply engaged. "You're going to go like a rocket when it's time," said the midwife. Well, yay for me, I guess.
Anyway, when the OB finished the exam I felt this gush and thought "Oh no, my water's have broken," but when I looked down there was just bright red blood everywhere, and I just bled and bled and bled... soaked pads type bleeding. Scared the living daylights out of me! I also felt extremely uncomfortable and had loads more contractions. The doctor said she probably ruptured a blood vessel when she was checking my cervix, which hasn't changed since last week.
By lunch time, though, the bleeding and contx had slowed right down. They were talking about moving me down to a ward by 2pm once they were confident I wasn't progressing, but I asked if I could just go home and go to bed instead, promising I'd go in if things heated up at all. Because I'm 34 weeks and because I had the steroid shots last week, they won't really do anything to stop labour and I've only got a fifteen minute drive to get there, so they were cautiously happy for me to come home.
I am in quite a bit of discomfort with the baby's head down very low and I feel quite ouchy down there. Contractions are irregular and the bleeding has slowed down to almost nothing. I'm feeling a bit spaced out and am trying to get into a good head space. I feel a bit confused at the moment - one minute I feel like I could go into labour right away, the next minute I feel like nothing is happening. I was surprised that things had changed again, with the baby's position, even though I was sure that I had dropped a bit this week. I wasn't expecting a fully engaged head, anyway. I have no good instincts at all about what is going on.
The baby is very quiet tonight... poor darling is probably exhausted too
TMTM, oh darlin I am so sorry you are going through this! My heart goes out to you. And my prayers are with you.
One thing you might like to think about getting someone else to do for you is to sew up some love hearts for your baby in case he comes early and needs to stay in hospt for a while. My DS was in hospt for his first four months. One thing that gave us both comfort was love hearts that my sis had sewn. The idea is that you always have one in your bra, one or two in the wash and one in with bub. You wear them in your bra so that your smell and your milks smell is on them, then you give that one to your bub so that your smell is ALWAYS with him.
With our son we used them like pillows for him as he had to be intubated and had lots of IV's etc so there were always lines and wires that needed to be padded so that his skin was protected. Ours were about 10x10cm, made of flanelette sheets mainly and padded with old wollen jumpers or cotton wadding. I didnt want anything polyester near his skin.
Anyway, just a thought. You might have some friends or people from your parish who sew and are keen to help you out. But if that desnt happen the same thing would work with new hankies. We still have our DS's hearts from hospt and have used them many times with further hospital stays.
I have been around lots of premie babies in hospt and while its obviously better they go full term, being as far along as you are is (relatively speaking) pretty good. We werent even considered prem at all as my DS was born at 36 weeks - he was small and sick for other reasons.
I know you are worried about BF. My best advice would be to make your intentions very clear about BF, insist on Kangaroo Care - skin on skin in the unit where he is and if that is not supported by the carers find a Dr who will support it and get him/her to write it up in his care plan as a therapy. It will help him grow, help stabilize his temp and breathing and he will know your smell.
Wow what a great idea Rommysmum, I have a very good friend who is 33 weeks pg with twins and will have to deliver in the next week as the little twin has IUGR and will need to go to the children's hospital as she has heart problems as well, so this would be lovely for her babies as they will both be away from her in NICU but in 2 hospitals.
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Bel, how *you* doing?
for you.
). I hope your little guy manages to surprise you!
you and your son will come out the other side of this healthy and happy.
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