Babies Born February 2007 #2

[smylie]

Hi
No poo for a week is scary!!! I dont want to think about what it is going to be like when it happens!!! Especially if it goes on for the three weeks that can be normal?!! LUCKILY we have paederctian appointment on Tuesday so I will be able to find out about the real deal not what the books are saying. I think maybe she is getting a little uncomfortable or maybe I am imagining it.... she had a beauty spew today so i'm thinking she is running out of room in that body of hers.

I know exactly what you mean Ryn about your labour... I feel exactly the same way, I was told things in the middle of contractions that made me think I needed drugs, i had them all, I keep thinking of extra things I didnt want that i ended up having that I had forgotten about too!
"having" to have a c-section is going to play on my mind forever, i thought the fact the cord ended up around her neck twice meant that the c-section may have saved her life so that made it all ok... but occasionally i get people saying "only twice around her neck" and tell me they have heard of babies being delivered with cord round neck fine.... but then I remember that in our situation we didnt know that was what the problem was and we just knew she was in distress.... i have not read your birth story (i had a little look today and couldnt see one there... is it in the birth story place?) BUT it sounds like you did what you needed to do in your situation at the time to get a baby that was alive... didnt it take a while for him to work out the breathing thing?? there are so many what ifs you just have to be thankful for your healthy little boy and just imagine the bad what ifs at the same time you are thinking of the what ifs that make you wonder if the drugs were the right thing to do...
All medical people have different opinions... ie every midwife had a different way to do everything when I was in hospital... you just have to take it all in and decide what is best for your baby... and that is what you would have done and what DH did too, remember he was there and it is his baby too so whatever he decided on your behalf he must have thought was necessary as he would have DEFINATELY known your opinion on drugs and being cut and what not....

Jemima doesnt play up for anyone in particular, when Daddy leaves for work he gets lots of big big smiles, when he gets home we can be in the middle of witching hour when we are unsettled but never for long.

Oh Ryn, have you tried playing Liebling music when he is sleeping?? or getting to sleep?? we bought the peacebaby cd and think it may be calming, maybe it signals to her we are not going to be doing anything exciting until daytime?? and to just relax and chill out?? we dont rock her to sleep she often just falls asleep and we put her in her bed... we hear her awake in her bed all the time through the night but she doesnt make any noises at all, sometimes we can tell she is hungry and sucking her fingers but she doesnt call for me. i just wait until she does (she doesnt cry she just kinda calls out.....)
Last night was so funny she was almost resting her legs on the edge of the bassinette just kicking her legs about.... she is a squirmy worm!

I just won a baby bjorn on ebay!!! so excited will be heaps better than the dodgy pouch i have at the moment... Benji is going to pick it up for me on Tuesday.
AND I won a highchair too - shabby chic painted red with a cat on it... very cute only $15 so that will suit my house heaps and if it doesnt suit jemima we will just sell it again.