My daughter arrived the day before my birthday and 9 days after her due date.
I actually had the option of holding out for the induction on my birthday, but decided that I could not wait the additional 24hrs due to just being totally exhausted.
Bella is also a fantastic calm baby. Will no doubt be spending more time on here over the coming days and weeks, just trying to get through all of the visitors at the moment.
Look forward to hearing more about you and little Jackson over the coming weeks and months.
I thought I would come in here and introduce myself. I started in the June 16-30 thread by my dd Reaghan arrived 9 days post edd by induction, on the 4th July.
She is a fairly setteld baby though the past few days she has not been, I think she has a stomach bug as she has been throwing up after every 3rd feed and realy windy.
On the sleep side of things she only sleeps in our bed at night, during the day in her bouncer or on a pillow she wont have a bar of her bassinet at all.
hey sweatpea
nice to see you in here - we both started in the June 16 - 30 thread - but we both went over!!
funny that Reaghan hates the bassinet! picky lil things arent they!
jackson won't feed properly if he has a wet mouth.. i have to wipe it for him before he'll go back on..
Our gorgeous baby Etta arrived on July 6, two days after her due date. She weighed in at 3.57kg (7lb 14oz) and 51cm long.
We had a dream birth after a 4 hour labour. We called the hospital after 2 hours of contractions at 5 minutes apart. We were told that as it was our first that I probably wasn't dilated enough and that they'd send me home. So I stayed home until I was 3 minutes apart which happened within ten minutes. The car ride was just awful. At the hospital everything went in slow motion as they didn't think I was very close. After faffing about they finally examined me to find I was 8cms dilated. Off to the labour room and into the shower. Everything in me was saying push ... the midwife threatened to put me on gas and she just wanted me to breath through it. I was 10cms before the bath had filled and next thing Etta is coming through. The obstetrician made it for the third stage without syntocin which he didn't endorse. Still after it all and with no intervention Etta and I were calm, alert and of course incredibly happy.
We did a fair bit of preparation which included doing Calmbirth - the midwives were amazed at how in control I was and how the baby was just simply breathed out.
I feel so lucky to have had a great birth ... She's been a joy to date and we are looking forward to seeing her grow up before us.
Last edited by Ells; September 20th, 2008 at 10:09 AM.
Im meant to be in the 16th - 30th July and will go back and forward as all my friends are in there from bellybelly group. I hope I can do that and you all wont mind.
I was Due to have my son on the 22rd July and was booked in for a c-section on the 15th July but Liam Matthew decided he wanted to come on the 14th. I went into nat labour and had him by spinal block c-sec at 6.09pm, 14th July, weighing 7lb 2oz, 49.5cm long and HC 35cm.
Liam is my 3rd child. I have a 14 1/2 year old DD Melissa and a DS Callum 2 1/2. Melissa was naturally concieved and Callum and Liam were IVF.
Anyway nice to come in and see you and look forward to meeting more ladies
How is everyone going? I have finally got Reaghan to sleep in her basinete which means I have had better sleep to. At night she goes in there at around 9pm wakes up around 1am for a feed I put her back in after that and when she wakes for the next feed she stays in bed with us. First night meant she did not get into our bed till 4am so was happy with that though last night she feed at 1am. 2 am, 4am, 6am and then 830am so a bit tired now. But she is settling better.
Hope everyone else is going ok and there littles ones are sleeping for them at night.
Bella is in her basinette at the start of the night now too. Unfortunately she refuses to go back to sleep after her 2am feed without loads of cuddles and I find that I do not have the energy to remove her from our bed because I am resigned to the fact that she will be wanting another feed at 3am (10mins comfort suck) and 4am (10 minutes on the other side) followed by a real feed at 6am before sleeping until 8am.
I was looking for info on sleeping patterns for babies and basically have come to the conclusion that until aprox 12wks this is just going to be how it is..... little sleep and demand feeding.
Bella is 2 weeks old today. It feels sureal. I wish that I could stop the clock and have a few extra moments to simply gaze at her, she is growing before my eyes.
Back to working a little during the day (I work from home) and Bella loves snuggling in the baby bjorn at the moment and listening to the keyboard chatter.... Just hope it lasts for a little while.
House work is not getting done - but i do not really care!
Hope everyone is well. I wonder when BellyBelly will close off our Belly Buddy groups... Figure we will have an influx of people posting once we are kicked out of our initial groups.
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