Gosh we are here already, my little one needs to get a wriggle on. I wonder who is going to join this group? I am definitely not going to wait for full moon and miss my friends. Hello and congrats to all our new little bubs that have arrived.
I was due on the 14th of August but little miss decided to come 6 weeks 4 days early!! But in the end she will probably be more inline developmental wise with the August bubs, and I want to keep up with my Belly Buddies anyway!!!
Can't wait to see the rest of our mums and bubs in here!!!
Last edited by *Beema*; August 2nd, 2008 at 03:59 PM.
How are things going since you've come home? Settling in well?
Nakita put on 280grams this week - woohoo!!!, so she is now 2760grams
She is doing really well with the weight gain!! But her Jaundice isn't looking as good, it is back on her arms and leg, so my MW called her Paeditrician and she is now going in for a series of blood tests tomorrow and to get her levels done again. Then we are off to see the paediatrician on Friday rather than next week, he wants to check her out. They think that the Jaundice may be related to the fact that she is solely BF'd. Nakita has also been an angel today, sleeping a lot, yesterday hardly at all, so I hope she sleeps tonight as well - I need it!! And she hasn't chucked since her 10am feed - woo hoo, she must have been off for the day or so!! I would love more than a couple of hours sleep tonight... please.
Mountain Mummy is also going to be crashing this thread as we love our girls and Nakita will be more inline developmental wise with these bubs!!!
I think we are only waiting for a couple of girls now, been a crazy couple of days, babies everywhere!!
Settling in ok, first day home and all that. My mum cooked up some chicken soup and did a shepherd's pie for me so I didn't have to worry about dinner when I came home - plus she paid some people to clean our windows, and DH made sure the house was pretty clean so all is pretty good here!!!
DD is sleeping at the moment, conked out after her bottle. She has a touch of jaundice too, so have to keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't get any worse. I didn't know that being solely BF makes a difference to jaundice? DD has been FF from day one.
Glad Nakita is going great guns with weight gain. DD has only lost 90gm from her birth weight - so is obviously feeding well. Glad yours is sleeping well, cos mine doesn't really want to most of the time.. ahh I hear snuffling from the bassinette. that will be the angel (cos the monster boy is in the cot.. hehe)
I look forward to getting to know everyone here too - although time will be short I would imagine for me (cept on thursdays and fridays when DS is in day care!!)
Hey Mel, I thought some of the others would have made there way in here by now
Hehe about the windows getting cleaned, ours were done while I was in hossy, it was a nice surprise to come home to them clean!!
Now me....
Just to update you with our progress, Nakita started putting on weight, at 3 1/2 weeks she got back to her birth weight (after going backwards our first week at home - which was very disheartening), but we then followed with gains of 170grams, 130grams and the last week to Wednesday she put on 280grams.
We had however both noticed that her jaundice was returning to her arms and legs, so my MW called her Paediatrician and we had to get her bilirubin levels redone. That was a nightmare, the nurse didn't want to do the heel pr!ck, instead she went in the arm - OMG her arms are very tiny, I had to hold her down and her arm our straight, by the time she started getting blood she had drawn the needle almost all the way out and only got 1/2ml, so had to do the other arm, she poked and prodded, blood everywhere outside of the needle, none in it, Nakita still screaming. She blamed me for not getting the blood, I held her arm damn still so we could get it over and done with. Eventually she did the heel pr!ck and got a good flow, poor little tike, 15minutes it took I was in tears and she had her first tears, not happy!!
Our appointment with the Paediatrician got brought forward to Friday, and he did the full 6 weeks check up. Her Bilirubin levels were 169, the exact same figure as they were when we finished the phototherapy at WCH, the levels went back up after we finished it, so it too her 4 weeks to get the levels back down herself. It is referred to as Breast Fed Jaundice, which is caused by the same thing that breaks down Breast Milk, breaks down Bilirubin, so they are competing, there is no concern as her direct levels were only 5, it may take until she is 3 months for it to go completely. All her other BT's were great. Which I am thrilled that we don't have to go through the BT's again, for hopefully a long time!!
The Paediatrician is still astounded by her development, one of the best performing prems he has seen in a long time. He gave us the all clear!! Woo Hoo!!!
So as we approach her EDD, we have a fit and healthy, 00000 wearing, solely breast fed, not MCN wearing yet (needs to be a bit bigger to fit them!), and gorgeous (albeit a bit yellow still) little girl, we are thrilled!!
Glad Nakita is doing so well and got the all clear!!! Must be so weird to have her EDD arriving so long after her birth eh?
Mel - mums are great eh? Mum cooked lasagne and brought it over tonight, soo yummy. Man has food ever tasted so good to you after giving birth? I've got such an appetite too.
I've had a bit of time to get on top of my emails and catch up with BellyBelly today. Still need to do my birth story/announcement on here too!
Eli had his first checkup yesterday, he only lost 100g from his birth weight which my midwife was really happy with. He's really easy to feed, yay! My milk came in on Sunday night but today has come in major quantities and I got really sore rock hard leaky boobs this evening before he fed. Mum suggested warm flannels and expressing to help ease the pain. I'm typing this as he lies sleeping against my chest, soo cute
I had a major cry this afternoon too.. I was trying to be so strong and not get the cliche baby blues but I just ended up bawling my eyes out over nothing really. Feel heaps better for it now.
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I was in tears and she had her first tears, not happy!!
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