Babies Born July 1st - 15th 2008

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Alyssa Grace was born 1 day before EDD on the 14th july. pretty easy labour and delivery. got my wish of delayed cord clamping and delivering the placenta naturally did have the shot after that to shush the midwife up tho.. 8 mins pushing the bub outt, 15mins waiting for the placenta! happy happy!

Left the hospital after 24hrs... glad i left.. wish i had ear plugs for everytime the midwife told me 'the ones who go home early ALWAYS have feeding problems' (how they figure that when its early days, what bub n mum dont have feeding probs in those first few days anyways?! plus bub was tongue tied)

Alyssa was smaller than her big sister weighing 8lb 2oz, 50cm length, 35cm head circ. Was born tongue tied which gave my nipples absolute HELL!!! Had cracked and bleeding nipples by day 2! got some hero nipple shields and used them off/on till they both healed up. Got the tongue snipped a week ago and feeding has been bliss since. Feeding sometimes every hour or two or three or four or five(rare but at night its lovely) She seems to do a bit of a squirt of poo in each nappy i change.. she seems to like to save them up for a complete nappy and all job!!(even with huggies it goes everywhere)

With bub and i coming home early i opted to have 3 home visits by the visiting midwives and then had one with the MCHN. The visiting midwives were a bit nicer than my MCHN.. i think im fine on my own, went thru the GP with tia when she was little.. So wondering alot of whether its worth it.. (my GP is only a short walk away) hubby says shes just concerned bout Alyssa and i should go.. but if im fine with how Alyssa is going why do i have to go to convince someone else? MCHN has said shes fine if i want to go GP... i asked if i could do one of their come in and weigh days and apparently i have to go to one of their formal appts before that.. (sorry bout the rant) If its one thing i hate its inflexibilty and 'procedure'. whats everyone else opted to do?