Babies Born August 1st ~ 15th 2009

[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!