Babies Born August 1st ~ 15th 2009

[tk1999]

♥ Babies Born ♥
♥ August 1st ~ 15th 2009 ♥

1st Aug - *noni*e*- William (Billy)
1st Aug - Ellee05 - Zahli
1st Aug - Larne80 - Chloe Jacinta
3rd Aug - CassBlob - Eloise
3rd Aug - Willow - Dean Ryan
5th Aug - Saffi - Imogen (Immi)
6th Aug - RhiaMaree - Daniel
6th Aug - salboo - Max
8th Aug - MeganH - Emily
9th Aug - tk1999 - Caitlin- born at 34+1 (EDD 19/09/09)
11th Aug - CheezelMonster - Peter
11th Aug - MegsMum - Emma Jade
12th Aug - misty - Sebastian James
20th Aug - Koru - Orla
24th Aug - Trish - Alana
24th Aug - Happy Mummy - "DS"
30th Aug - Issy - Lochie

[~Hestia~]

Hi girls & bubs!!

My 9 pound son Peter arrived on August 11th after a 22 hour labour. He was named after my dad who passed away 21 years ago on the same day - some things are meant to be. I am so in awe of the fact he picked this particular day to arrive

Peter is really difficult to settle during the night & poos twice everytime I feed him!!

[tk1999]

hi everyone - hope you don't mind but I put together a list of our treasures! If you would like to add any info please let me know.

Saffi - can you please let me know what date Immi was born and I will fix up the entry for you. Thank you for your message re Caitlin. I have included an update below.

Cass_blob - Eloise is such a pretty name - simply stunning

RhiaMaree - Daniel

Saffi - your DSs nickname is so cute. My youngest sister called me Sissy for the first three years of her life because she couldn't pronounce my name.... and it is not even a difficult one lol

Noni - hope your DD settles down once soon.

Misty - Sebastian shares his birthday with my best friend - it is a great day to be born!

Salboo - yeah for being awake during the day!

Cheezel - golly... I remember the day you got your BFP!! Congrats on Peter... he sounds like a special lad to pick such a significant day to meet you!

I have loved reading your stories on where you are all up to... I am a first time mum and all these experiences are new to me... I cannot wait to get Caitlin home so I can go through these experiences as well!

My milk came in overnight of day 4 (Thursday 13/08/09) and I have been busy expressing 4th hourly so that when Miss C has her tube feeds they can be of EBM rather than formula - I don't have anything against formula but I am so glad that I am able to give her EBM for the majority of her tube feeds and then BM for her feeds from the boob. She is doing so well and is having 3 feeds from the breast per day (the other 3 feeds are done via her tube) so I am travelling to the hospital for her 8am, 4pm and midnight feeds... it is tiring but I would move heaven and earth to do whatever needs to be done for her.

Keep up the good work mums

xox

[Catastrophic]

Tk - Congrats on the birth of your little girl Glad to hear she is doing well. Hope she is out of NICU shortly. Sounds like your doing a great job hun

Cheezel - Congrats on the arrival of Peter. wow 9p great size I hope he starts to settle for you soon...

Salbo - Congrats on baby max. Hehe I'm glad Eloise isn't the only Poo machine

Saffie - Congrats on the arrival of your little girl Speakin of naughty toddlers my DD1 is doing the same thing, being quite naughty at the best of times! I'm glad i have DF here for another 3 weeks paternity leave

Rhia - congrats on your DS.

NOni - Hope you have had a better couple of days nights...

Misty - Congrats, 3hours sounds great

I hope i got everyone... A little distracted as Eloise has got some bad wind, Dad's having a turn of trying to settle her at the moment. I hate hearing her with wind pain.

I have written up my birth story in the birth story section if anyone wants to read... Small version is - was admitted in hosp sunday morning with breathing difficulties due to respirtory infection from swine flu, went into labour sunday night 5hours later Eloise Paige came into our world Perfect as. Came out of Hosp 35hours later.

Eloise has been doing really well, She feeds every 1=2hours during the day, and goes 3=4hours during the night. I had to keep her feeds every 3 hours due to being a little yellow, but that has passed now. So just letting her demand feed. My boobs are coping really well this time around. She poo's like a trooper at least 4pooy nappies a day

Ok miss Eloise has settled now so we're going to go to bed, Night all

*if any one has a manual on getting them to sleep in their own beds i'd like to know about it lol*

[misty]

Hi everyone,

well my milk finally came in (YAY - thank god!). I have only had about 10hrs sleep in the five days since Baz was born, and had a complete breakdown at 2am this morning because of it (poor DH copped the worst of it). Hopefully now my milk is in and Baz is not starving, he will sleep in his cradle and let me have a sleep. I was tempted to start formula feeding, just to give myself a break, but I knew from experience with my other two that it takes about 4 or five days for my milk to come in. The only reason I prefer to breastfeed rather then bottle feed is the cost of formula. If it weren't for that, I don't think I would have perservered.

The midwife will be visiting tomorrow to weigh and measure Baz and formally 'discharge' me from hospital (which is funny considering I only spent 24hrs actually in hospital).

Thankfully my mum took the other kids for the weekend, so DH and I haven't had to worry about trying to look after them at the same time.

RE: the chaffing, I haven't had it this time, but after DS#1 I had this problem. try and let it air when possible, wash frequently, change pads frequently and use a good nappy rash cream. (I tried all the different creams on the market - gotta love samples - it also give you a good insight into which will work best on bubs nappy rash ).

[Saffi]

TK - thanks for doing the list. Immi was born on 5 August. Wow, you are doing a great job expressing. I can imagine it would be really exhausting having to express and all the hospital visits. Any idea on when she will be out of NICU and going home?
Chow - he was obviously meant to be a Peter.
Misty - I wouldn't have thought of Baz as a nickname for Sebastian. How cool! Yay for milk coming in.
Cass - you had swine flu??? Wow! Hope you are on the mend now.

AFM - things are plodding along. Mum went home yesterday so now it is just our little family alone. DS is at daycare so we are having a cruisy day so far. Going to go out soon to do some shopping and have some lunch. I'm finding it easier to go out with DD as a newborn rather than an active toddler!

[Willow]

Hey all, hoping to join in here when I can but life is busy with 3 (and 2 under two!!) so I'll do my best to keep up.

Our second son Dean Ryan was born on 3 August and weighed in at 10lb 4oz much to our amazement Labour was horrendous, well not so much the labour but the delivery - DS turned and was posterior and then his shoulders got stuck as he was coming out. My ob did an amazing job to deliver him without forceps, vaccum or stitches for mummy

He spent the first 4 days in special care as we were having trouble stabilising his blood sugar levels, a common problem with big babies apparently. I fought them for 2 days but in the end had to do 24 hours of formula comp feeds which was devastating for me (nothing at all against mums who formula feed but I am passionate about bfeeding and Dean is the first of my children to ever have formula). I expressed my brains out to bring my milk in quickly so managed to do a lot of the comps with EBM instead which was very tiring but totally worth it to limit the formula he had to have.

We've been home over a week now and despite a minor set back where DS had a nose bleed in the middle of the night which required another trip to the paed and vials and vials of blood to be taken we got the all clear last Thursday. He is a pretty settled baby so far which is nice.

Our 20 mo is proving to be a huge handful at the moment though...

Saffi - L is being a total terror, so a bit of naughty behaviour from your L sounds nice! LOL (Saffi and I are baby buddies for our little boys too which is pretty cool )

Best be off, today is my first day home alone and I managed the pre school run OK but want to try and get dinner sorted too before DH gets home, bub has been asleep since lunch time though so will probably wake for a feed soon!

[~Hestia~]

TK - I can't imagine how it feels having to leave your baby in hospital. I'm so glad she is well, you're doing a great job just being there for her.

Cass - lol yes how do we get them to sleep in their own beds? Peter hates his basinette b/w the hours of midnight & 5am. I hate having him in bed but it's the only way anyone is getting any sleep

Misty - hearing you on the minimal sleep, could count on one hand the hours sleep I had in the first few days. Yay for your milk coming in!!

Saffi - hope you had a nice time out shopping with bubs!! Been out a couple of times with Peter - can't believe how long it takes to get out the door. Then of course he poos again lol!!

Willow - sounds like your labour was about as good as mine!! Well done with all the expressing for Dean's feeds.

Have not had one day without visitors yet which is getting tiring but I'm loving showing Peter off. Peter has put on 200 grams since Friday so I'm pretty happy about that today. MCHN coming Wednesday & for some reason I'm abit nervous!!

[Saffi]

Willow - you did an amazing job to push Dean out with no assistance. Did you have an epi? L was posterior and only 3000gr and he was vacuumed out so I can only imagine how hard it was to get D out. Good to hear that he is alright now.
Cheezel- seemed to spend most of the afternoon in the parent's room. Thank goodness they have tvs in them. Nice to get out tho. WTG Peter on the weight gain. I have to weigh Immi in the next few days too.

[misty]

Well, I was intending on spending the day downtown with DH and the kids. HHHmmmm... I wasn't counting on my little DD turning into a screaming banshee. We got downtown, DD started winging and screaming and crying and generally acting up. That in turn set off DS#1, who decided to add hitting and hair pulling into the mix - so we turned the car around and drove the 20 mins home again, with Baz being the only child not screaming (somehow he managed to sleep through it). DS#1 had a sleep and woke up happier, DD continued her tantruming from her bed for 1.5 hrs and has only just fallen asleep exhausted. And I am dissapointed that I am once again stuck at home and there isn't even anything to watch on TV. I'll take a newborn over a toddler any day.

Oh and Baz managed to dirty his nappy in such a big way - it leaked all up his back and his front. But that is all right because daddy had to clean him up and bath him, not mum.