Hi girls, I am finally catching up online so thought I'd seek you out!

My boy, Ben is six days old - in fact this time last week I was in labour! He's doing so well - sleeping four or five hours at a time and feeding really well when he wakes up. We had a reasonabally rough labour and he was suctioned out in the end, but his head has completely healed now and you would never know. He had a touch of jaundice, but it cleared up with bfing and a bit of (indirect) sunlight. He got weighed today and has put on a little weight which is good.

I keep thinking about the hospital and how disappointed I was with my brief stay. My midwife was fantastic and the doc and other mw who ended up helping with the birth were really good too, it's only once I got up to the ward where things fell apart. I was forgotten about and on my first night I didn't see the mw at all, even though Ben was unsettled for quite some time (I know I could have buzzed if it got too bad, but I didn't really want to do that for some reason). At 5am, the midwife came in and actually told me that they thought my room was empty! I wanted to go home anyway on Early Discharge, but that confirmed I'd made the right decision. I'm just so glad that Ben didn't have any problems and I didn't completely freak out. After such good care during pregnancy and labour, I was really disappointed and was so glad to go home the next day.

Anyway, Ben, DH and I are doing good. We went for a nice long walk today with the dog and Ben slept the entire time LOL

That's it for now, I'm looking forward to getting to know you all and swapping stories, I don't really know any mum's IRL.