Babies Born ~ December 2012 #1

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Oh who is going to be the first Dec born babe?!?!?!

My money's on PZ!

I'll butt out now :)

Am I still allowed to hang out in here?? :D

You better phoenix!!!!!!!!

Possibly OP... You just never know!

My little man K obi J ames was born 3.12.12 via elective c-section due to mass (fibroid?) in uterus. We're still in hospital till bubs beefs up a little, was hoping to go home tomorrow but maybe now Saturday. Milk hasn't come in yet, hopefully it kicks in soon :)

Any other December bubs yet???

Dr had a look at the 'fibroid' while he was in there, they didn't have the special photographic equipment in the theatre at the time so apparently he whipped his I-phone out to take a few happy snaps of my messy uterus ;)

Hi Bella

I'm sneaking in to hang out in here even though my little Miss was born 29 November :)

Congrats on your little man, gorgeous name. How big was he? Any news on your fibroid, will they remove it? Hope you get to go home soon or are home by now.

My little miss C.hloe E.venlyn arrived at 4.05pm on 29.11.12 after AROM because of my threatened preterm labour at 34+4, extensive prelabour and being at 3-4cm dilated for two weeks, reduced movements & bulging waters so Ob was of the opinion at 39 weeks we were getting to better safe than sorry stage.

My milk came in day 4 and seems to have settled, well the big rock hard melons are only occurring when it's feed time and not a constant. So far she seems a very content and laid back baby but time will tell.

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My money's on PZ!

I'll butt out now :)

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Awww OP! I wish. I'm in a very impatient place right now. I'm keeping up my mantra of "43 weeks, 43 weeks..." Can't be feeling overdue when I'm not even at my edd!!

Hi Pheonix, congrats on your lil baby girl! Sounds like you would have had an exhausting stressful few weeks prior to her birth :(. How much did she weigh? K was 6lb12. I think my milk only came in yesterday (first timer here, I've got no idea!!) K lost more than 10% of his birth weight so the paed told me to top up using formula. It's been a bit emotional, I know my milks being delayed due to the c section but its still not a nice feeling but I've started expressing as well to help and it seems to be doing the trick. We are still in hospital, stitches out tomorrow and hopefully if they are happy with Ks weight gain and his jaundice doesn't get any worse we will be able to go home. They have all been great here but I find it really difficult having so many different midwives with differing opinions on what I should be doing, it does my head in!!! But I guess that just reiterates that you need to do what's best for you and bubs, not what someone else tells you to do. This mothering business ain't easy!!

Basically with the 'fibroid', my doc admitted he really doesn't know what it is!! Which doesn't bother me as I've been told different things about it so I figured no one really knew. He did say it was all mushy like so maybe it's degenerated with the pregnancy but we will keep an eye on it and see what happens!

Hey ladies!

Even though my little man was born on 30/11/2012 I am hoping like Phoenix that I can hang around with you ladies in here...?

Bella - Sorry to hear you are still in hospy an finding it overwhelming with all the midwives and them telling you all kinds of different things! I was lucky to only have the same midwives looking after me during my stay in hospy. Hope your little man gained back some weight and is over his jaundice now. My DS1 had bad jaundice too and needed to go under the lights and DS2 was a bit jaundiced too this past week and still a bit yellow but is getting better. Hope the fibroid goes away and doesn't cause you any further or future problems.

Hi Phoenix and MotherGoose! :) If you ladies are all happy to have me stay with you in here I'll pop in a list if our bubs born. :)

For any other ladies that join the thread and don't know yet, our gorgeous little boy Joshua (Josh) was born on 30 November 2012 (at 38w5d) at 12:39pm, weighing 3.73kg (8lbs 4oz), 50cm tall and head circumference 35cm.

I'm so in love and my heart grows more and more for my boys with each new day!

Have a great night ladies! xo

I didn't realise we already had a thread going, so looks like I've graduated to here now too :)

Ava Susan was born 6th December at 11:09am by caesarean, due to IUGR, low fluid and breech presentation. She was delivered at 36+6 and weighed 6lb 4oz, 48cm long and 34cm head circumference. Not as small as we expected, but still very petite and dainty!

We have recovered well, I have not needed much in the way of pain relief, and Ava has been an excellent sleeper during the day. Night time is a bit hit and miss! She is a bit disinterested and pulls off the nipple and is a slow sucker but once she gets going she does really well. I had lots of expressed colostrum, so we have been topping up with that. Today she became a bit jaundiced so they are keeping an eye on that too.

Milk isn't in yet... Today is day 3 (c section being day 1), sounds like it normally takes a little longer with a c section? Do you get any clue that it is going to happen soon or does it just happen? I seem to be producing plenty of colostrum and have had some tingling and sharper pains in my nipples but I don't know whether that is because of the nurse from hell rough handling them or not!

So excited to see who will join the list next... We have made a big start to the month already! Hope everyone and their bubbas are well and recovering nicely :)

Afternoon everyone

Our little group is slowly getting bigger :)

Bella - Hope by now you are home and settling into home life with little K. It does get so confusing in hospital because every midwife has different advice. Although I was scared to leave when I had DD1 because I had no idea what I was doing, it really was a relief to get home and find my own groove with things & I"m sure you will be the same. C was 6lb 12.5oz, 80gms smaller than her big sister was but with a much bigger appetite. DD1 was a shocker to try and get to BF and took me three days & many thoughts of formual feeding before she started feeding properly. This little one latched on soon as she came out and is a real b**bie monster.

Pretz - Of course you can hang out in here, if I'm here you should be too :D How is your little man going? Settling into being a mum to two?

Frog - Was so happy to hear your little girl made it safe and healthy after the last few weeks you have been through. Hope you too are home or close to going home with your precious little bundle. You will know when your milk comes in, they kind of feel all warm & *****ly & rock hard to the point of them aching and being sore to touch. I'm sure you've probably already had this now though :)

As for us - my little girl is 12 days old already, can time slow down. She had slotted perfectly into our crazy little world and I'm too scared to say it out loud in case I jinx myself but so far she is more placid than her big sister was a newborn. Overnights she averages 3-4 hours between feeds and a couple of nights I was lucky enough with 5 hour stretches. Last night she fed at 10.30, 2.30 & 6.30 which if she keeps up I can more than manage :) I will go and get her weighed on Thursday to see how far off or whether she is now past her birth weight.

Hope you are all enjoying your newborn snuggles xox

What about me??? Really developmental wise she will be a December baby :)

Sparkles - You should be staying right here where you belong - with us!! :)

I'm here :) DD2 was born on the 12th. I feel like she's been with me my whole life.

:bluecheer: Babies Born December 2012 :cheer:

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Sparkles - Baby #2 - Mahli Jaye born 11/11/2012 (34w2d) at 10:27pm W 2.2kg (4lbs 8oz), L 44cm, HC 29cm.

Phoenix - Baby #2 - Chloe Evelyn born 29/11/2012 (39w1d) at 4:05pm W 3.08kg (6lbs 12oz), L 48cm, HC 33cm.

Pretz - Baby #2 - Joshua (Josh) born 30/11/2012 (38w5d) at 12:39pm W 3.73kg (8lbs 4oz), L 50cm, HC 35cm.

Bella12 - Baby #1 - Kobi James born 03/12/2012, W 3.06kg (6lbs 12oz), L 49cm.

Frog - Baby #1 - Ava Susan born 06/12/2012 (36w6d) at 11:09am W 2.84kg (6lbs 4oz), L 48cm, HC 34cm.

RockingBaker - Baby #6 - Finn Alexander born 07/12/2012 at 8:41am W 4.4kg (9lbs 11oz), L 59cm, HC 37.5cm.

PumpkinZulu - Baby #2 - Amelie Hope born 12/12/2012 (39w2d) at 3:05pm W 3.91kg (8lbs 10oz), L 50cm, HC 35.5cm.

MummyDuck - Baby #2 - Brody born 15/12/2012 W 3.71kg (8lbs 3oz), L 51.5cm.

MotherGoose - Baby #2 - Baby B born 17/12/2012 at 8:08pm W 3.45kg (7lbs 10oz), L 49cm, HC 35.4cm.

EssTee - Baby #1 - Noah James born 18/12/2012 at 7:07pm W 3.55kg (7lbs 13oz), L 51cm, HC 33cm.

Rach83 - Baby #2 - Brooke born on 19/12/2012 at 9:08am W 3.0kg (6lbs 9oz), L 50cm.

Meercat - Baby #2 - Lewis born on 20/12/2012 at 1:34am W 3.37kg (7lbs 7oz), L 54cm.

Bubba - Baby #3 - Jackson William born on 22/12/2012 at 10:10am W 4.08kg (9lbs), L 52cm.

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Congratulations and well done to all our Mummies! :)

Please let me know if there's any details that need changing/editing/adding. ;)

Bella - Could you let me know all details of your little mans birth and I will put it in on the list. Hope you're going well. ;)

Hi ladies, wondering if I can pop in here? I was due on January 10th but my twins came earlier on the 19th Dec :D
Eloise Violet Fay 5 pounds 6 oz ( 2432 grams ) and Mason Timothy Aaron 4 pounds 12 oz ( 2166 grams ) and both are utterly gorgeous!!
We had an elective c section at 37 weeks gestation, which has been fabulous. It hasn't given me any trouble at all! I struggled to put on weight through out my pregnancy and am now lighter than what I was pre-pregnancy.
Congrats to you all on the arrival of your little blessings, I look forward to chatting to you all :)

Of course you can Aries! Congratulations on your twins! How exciting that you have one of each. Are these your first? My DS1 is now 4 weeks old and I must ask, how are you managing two?! DS1 has been a really good feeder, sleeper etc. but I still have zero time to do anything, I can't imagine what it must be like with twins :)

As you can probably tell its pretty quiet in here. The December belly buddies group have a FB group that most of the girls use, I'm sure one of them can pop in with the link if you wanted to join in on the chat there as well.

Are you all recovered from your c-section?

Hi Bella12!
My babies aren't home yet, they are in special care nursery hopefully for only another week we are just working on putting on weight and doing all feeds via breast or ebm in a bottle. We are at the hospital every 3 hours to feed but they are how on the same times so it makes it a little easier. Im sure the tiredness I feel now will be nothing compared to what I will feel at home lol!
Congrats on your baby! These are my first babies at home ( I lost my angel boy at 21 weeks in 2009 ). I'm still getting my head around the whole twins thing! It's hard with our lifestyle at the moment lots of travelling but hopefully once we are home I can feel a little more settled :)

That's great that you are able to breast feed and use EBM. No formula top ups? I had to give formula top up while in hospital as he lost more than 10% but I stopped as soon as we got home and he's thriving. You must feel like a milk truck with all that feeding and expressing!!! It will be great to have them home and get settled into your own routine. I think I cried almost the whole afternoon when we got home from the hospital, I found it so overwhelming but by the next day we were all sorted and back into routine. Thankfully!!

Keep up the good work and those beautiful babies will be home in no time :)

I'm so sorry to hear about your angel baby :(

Yeah the expressing is full on! They get a formula top up from a bottle if they are still hungry after a feed, breast feeding is going well so far.
We look like we are going home on Friday! Nasal tubes came out last night - well Eloise pulled hers out! So they said they would leave it out and took Masons as well. One step closer to home now :)
I'm scared but eager to go home now.

Yay for going home!! Sounds like Eloise is the cheeky one :) have you got lots of family and friends locally you can call on if you need help? I was pretty determined to do everything for myself when I first got home and am now spewing that I didn't get my mum to do more for me as she lives interstate and was only here for the first two weeks. We actually just said good bye to our last lot of interstate visitors and as great as it was to see everyone, it's been even better to see the back of them!

Hi everyone

I hope you don't mind if I join. My little boy was due in January, but he was impatient and was born on 29 December by emergency C-section. I went natural labour, but when it got time to push, the midwives discovered that my baby was breech, so when I couldn't push him out, I went into the theatre. Overall, it was a good birth experience. :)

Name: Viktor Stanley
DOB: 29/12/2012
Time: 3:28am
Weight: 2922g
Length: 51cm
Head Circumference: 33.5

I look forward to talking to you all. :)

Hi everyone - hope you all had a wonderful Christmas & New Years.

Welcome Aries & Starfish - A huge congratulations on your little bundles of bliss, seems like the January group had some impatient little ones like the December group did. Only one one bub went past dates & most were born early with the last born on the 22nd Dec - think they all wanted to be here to have their first Christmas :)

Aries - Great to read that nasal tubes are out, hoping you get your babies home very soon.

Starfish - Wow, was it exhausting to get that far and find out a C-section was needed?

Bella - how is little K going?

A big hello to anyone else who is reading.

AFM - My little princess is 6 weeks today - where has that time gone! She was weighed yesterday and is now a whole 4.190kgs and 51cm long - the little pipsqueak lol. She is still proving to be chilled out little baby. We have wind issues later at night because she is a guts & gulps down her feeds but nowhere near the colic that her big sister suffered from but once we managed to get the wind out she's happy & fingers crossed a good sleeper. I'm not getting to excited because DD1 was a fabulous sleeper from 6 weeks but hit 5-6months and turned into an absolute nightmare up 1-2 hourly feeding, so I'm praying it doesn't happen again, especially as DH works away for two weeks at a time.

Hello??
How's everyone doing? It's very quiet in here...

Thanks for the welcome Phoenix. I still haven't written up my birth story, but TBH, I think that the whole birth experience was good overall. Call me strange, but I always think that the labour, painful as it is, is an important part of the birthing process, so I was glad to go through it. I did try to deliver naturally, but the position that DS was in made it too difficult as he wasn't moving at all when I pushed...

How are everyone's babies doing in this heat? I must admit that I am getting kind of bored. We only have air conditioning in our living room, and the options for things to do (as well as looking after DS, I also have to entertain 5 year old DD) are limited... For those of you who have older children too, how are they adjusting to their new siblings?

Hi girls, subbing for now. Sorry haven't been on but its a crazy house here!!!

Hello ladies! Hope you're all having a great day so far.

Welcome Starfish and Aries! Congratulations on your babies. I will add your bubs details on the list next time I pop on the computer.

Hi Bella! How are you and your little man going?

Hope its going well with everyone.

AFM, I had a few rough nights late last week but since Saturday night Josh has slept better. I guess it was the 8 week wonder week (even though he is 9 weeks now) but hit right on time as per his due date.

Hope everyone has a great week!

xoxo

Hi it's me (rach83) I opened a new account and pop in randomly:)
How's everyone?

Oh my goodness I haven't been in here for ages!! Sorry!!
I hope everyone's babies are doing well :) we are fabulous here. Growing really well and no trouble at all really. They think sleep is optional during the day, but sleep thru the night so I can cope with that! We started swimming lessons three weeks ago, expensive but if its the only thing I do for the twins for a while then I'm happy with water safety.
So all in pretty good. Tired but extremely blessed!
Hope to hear some updates :)

I haven't been here for ages either.
How is everyone doing?
DS had his 4 month check-up today. He is growing and doing really well.
He is smiling and starting to talk (well, to make sounds anyway... :) )

I haven't been here for ages either.
How is everyone doing?
DS had his 4 month check-up today. He is growing and doing really well.
He is smiling and starting to talk (well, to make sounds anyway... :) )

That's awesome that the twins are sleeping through Aries! You're very lucky.

Kobi is almost 5 months and I think he's teething. Nothing coming through but I think after today's grumpiness and temps that there's some moving going on. He generally wakes twice during the night for a feed, but sometimes (like last night) wakes every two hours. I don't feed him every time he wakes, just try and resettle him. He's had the runs as well which has given him painful looking nappy rash and has blood in his poop at times too. Off to see the paed at the start of June in relation to the blood so hopefully we get some answers. But apart from all that he's just beautiful. Full of smiles and starting to giggle. He naps well during the day and is in a semi routine which is nice.

Glad to hear your little one is doing well starfish.

Would love to hear from everyone else :) I can't believe how quick the time has flown!