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Bella Grace was born naturally on Monday 14th July at 1pm after 12+ long hours of posterior labour, which was brought on 9days after her due date with an induction involving Prostin Gel and later the drip...
We left hospital 25hrs after she was born on the 15th July, which happens to have been my birthday. We are all still a little overwhelmed that Bella has finally arrived, and can not seem to find much time without her being the centre of attention, which is just fine by us.
Can not wait to see who is going to join us here - seeing that many of us went early/late and are still holding onto our belly buddies threads... I figured that it was time to move forward... So here I am!
I am sure that someone will join me soon.... Just as soon as their arms are free of a baby and their eyes will stay open long enough to post.
Hi Naomi
Our little boy Jackson arrived on the 2nd July 08, one day after my birthday, and 8 days after his due date.
We were supposed to be induced on the 1st July (my bday - i know!!) but they were short of staff. So after a week of getting our hopes up that we would have our bub it wasnt meant to be. But after all the stress of the day I went into labour about 11pm that night, ending up at the hospital about 5 the next morning. Little Jackson then arrived at 12pm on the dot so all in all a pretty short and sweet labour.
He is a very calm baby and sleeps a lot, hence me having time to write this!!
We staying in for four days as it is our first and we needed a little time to adjust!
Anyways must go - washing to be done etc etc
hope to see more mummys in here soon.
case xo
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..
Hi Ladies
I'm pretty new to all this forum stuff, so bear with me.
I am a new mum to Riley 5 weeks old tomorrow. He was born on 5th July after a 30 hour labour. But who can remember all that gory stuff now.
He is sleeping like an angel most days, and a monster at night.
But hubby is still home from work, and helping out a lot.
So I am still pretty sain, I think.
Riley has put on 1.25kg since birth. He is on the bottle and a little pig.
Look forward to chatting to you all. I'm trying to add an image, but having some techo problems, will keep tyring.
Hi all, been missing in action for a week as we had paed appt and gyno appt in Mackay (3 hours away). Just a fleeting visit sorry, so sorry for no personals. I am following the Tizzie Hall routine for Riley and just started so trying to get it all happening. Really need a routine this time and a good one at that, having a toddler and all!
My appt went well, wound is had healed really well this time. Had a papsmear and find out results in 3 weeks. So hopefully it is still only low grade or even disappeared - NOW WOULDN'T THAT BE GR8.
Riley's appt didn't go so well. I have just been told by paed he has a heart murmor. This has really put a good run to a negative spin. Not only has he got a belly button hernia, tongue tie, hyraceal (fluid on the testicals), but now a god dam HEART MURMOR. Poor tyke. I need to do some research to find out if I should be worrying or not! I guess I am just guilt ridden atm! Wondering what I did wrong when I was pregnant. And also wondering if other things are going to pop up with his health in the future. I know I should be positive, but I just feel ordinary - like I have caused these things. Sorry for the downer gals, just needed to vent!
Have had a few hectic days with Lachlan, he has been a very hungry boy, i ended up giving him a bottle of formula yesterday afternoon as he was on the breast every 2 hours and he was still taking an hour to feed. In the end he drank 160mls the little piggy. Since then though he has settled back down and today we have had 3 hourly and 4 hourly feeds. It seems he just has days when he is hungry.
Life is haze of feeding and dropping kids of at school and kindy but we are doing better then i expected with us only being late to school once and that was only as Hamish had a bout of vomiting. Arghhhh he is good now but has a touch of the i am 4 and i have a new baby brother so every one pay atention to me now.
Emma has been fantastic, even changing a few dirty nappies.
Dh is good and loves to have his cuddles, he has recently started doing overtime again at work so im on my own from 6:30 am to 7pm and then half a day on Saturday.
Shereejoy: I hope Riley's heart mumour is nothing to be to concerned over. I have a heart mumour that only shows up when i am sick or pregnant, other then that it doesnt bother me, so hoping Riley's is similar.
Rachelle: It sounds like Grace is doing well.
Karen: Hi and welcome congratulations on the birth of Riley
Naomi08: I know what you mean about them growing, Stewart and i put a 000 outfit on Lachlan today and it fitted him, when he came home from hospital he was in 00000's. Time has flown.
Me. Well after a week of Reaghan sleeping in her bassinet that came to an end last sunday so back to co sleeping only, gonna try the bassinet again this weekend. Had some good nights were she has slept for 5 hours but others were she feeds evey 2 hours and takes 30 min to feed so averaging 1 and half sleep inbetween. Durring the day she is starting to settle better.
Missy to answer your question of 7 how does that work.
I have 4 step kids, DSS 20, DSD 18, DSS 16, DSD 13, then my two DD's 8 and 5 and then an ours which is Reaghan 5 weeks. They don't all live with us my two and bub pretty much full time. My two see there dad every second weekend and we get the 2 younger step kids every third weekend and half the school holidays. The two older ones come for visits as they are at uni.
My first week home was hectic as had 5 kids here including bub so full on. Settled down now school is back and all.
Tan32, I wish Reaghan had started out that small to be in 00000's but she started in 0000's for 2 weeks but mainly in 000's and still is she fits them and some are still big, I have not had her weighed since she was 11 days old though I stood on the scales with her the other day and I would say she is 5 kilo or so now and has grown 2cm we measured her at home. Not looking forward to her growing up she started out so much bigger than my other 2. Hoping that she wont grow to quick lol.
Cheers
Last edited by sweetpea678; August 9th, 2008 at 09:56 AM.
: add info.
I'm migrating to this page from our other July one - it's only taken me a month! I guess I was never good at jumping into changes!
My partner (known to all as Bondy) and I had our darling girl - Jessica Lily - on 8th July at 7.19am. Can't believe she's over a month old now!
Our weekend is going pretty well - got MIL up for a week and it's already driving me insane! don't get me wrong - she's a lovely lady, but we had been "warned" by one of Bondy's sisters that she's getting dementia and although we have experienced it on the phone, we haven't seen it in person til now!
OMG - there are only so many times you can repeat answers to the same question before you do your head in!! Poor Bondy is copping it pretty bad at the moment, and because it's his mum he's struggling a bit! but, he was at work on Friday and then has a course to go to tomorrow and Tuesday so it's just me and MIL!
Jess is going super well. her smiles are as gorgeous as ever and I love getting them! She's a month old now - where did that time go??? She's doing better now with the constipation too - for those of you who may experience it in future, I have tried Coloxyl drops (get them over the counter at the chemist) and when that didn't work, the doctor suggested prune juice mixed in with her bottle. That didn't work either so I gave her prune juice diluted in water - still nothing. THEN I got told about a magical thing - 60ml water and 1/2 tsp raw sugar. Put sugar in bottle, add boiling water to dissolve the sugar and leave it til it's cool, then give it to the baby!
It's the **** (literally!!!) Within an hour Jess was all unblocked and happy as again! I'm going to finish this tin of S26 for babies with reflux, and then I'm putting her on the normal S26 and see how we go there!
Not much else to report this end. I'm going to be visiting this page as well as the other July page so you'll see me round!
Hi all,
thought id take the opportunity to hop on while the kids are playing out the back and Lachlan is asleep.
Sweetpea678: Lachlan is the smallest of my babies, his big brother was a bruiser and started out in 000's then piled on 500grams a week for the first few weeks , he really didnt seem to be a baby long at all.
So we are really enjoying having a little baby, although looking at Lachlan today his checks have filled out.
Locchie is having some times were he gets really grumpy on the breast and groans and carries on, i find i have to take him off , hold him up and then try again. I think he will have a bit of a temper if things dont go right, a bit like Hamish really.
I am hanging out for him to start smiling, i can see his eyes change(light up) but no smile there yet.
Stewy(DH) thinks he is wonderful and grabs cuddles as often as possibkle, its great to see as he didnt seem as involved with Hamish.
Well back to watching the olympics for me, take care all.
Alyssa has been doing alright... feeding every 2 hrs during the day and then every 3-5hrs during the night.. feeling so tired. Alyssa hates sleeping in her cot, by herself.. her big sister being noisy in the hall or her bedroom doesnt help much either..
Alyssa still fits in her 0000, and the 000 are still small enough that she can kick her legs out of the legs bit. I weighed her at home and she is bout 4800g now, 1.1kgs in 5 weeks!!
Decided to drop the MCHN and go with our GP.. I didnt like that the MCHN blabbed on about her medical opinon when it came to alyssa's tongue tie.. so thankful we got it snipped as it has been a godsend for my nipples! Not to mention in the home visit she totally ignored tia, who then tried even harder to get her attention..
Havent used my breast pump in ages, i lost the darn white valve and just got a new pack of them so now i have spares.. i just dont know how i could find time or milk to pump seeing as im feeding every 2hrs from the start of each feed to the next..
Tia starts kidnder/preschool this week on thursday for a 5hr session. her first 5hr session away from home in aawhile. Im looking forward to it, just dont know how on earth we will be out the door and arive there on time at 9.15am (walking!!)
also i dont know what it is but alyssa is addicted to looking at our blinds (when shut).. not even i can get her attention for that long, yet she will quite happily lay on the change table for 10mins just looking at the blinds! thinking of moving her cot closer to them.. lol.
Hi All
well I have been MIA since page one of the new tread - sorry about that - i have been reading but as soon as I get ready to write a reply Jackson seems to wake up and want to play or have a bottle!
He is doing so well, sleeping like an angel - he doesnt wake up until about 4.30 (we put im to bed at 10 - 10.30) and we have even had some 6.30 - 7.00 wake ups so cant complain on that front!!
He is now on the bottle full time. I had issues with no milk and then medication to bring it on more and then as soon as I went off the meds it went away... not to worry - now that I am over the fact that I cant feed him myself I feel a lot better about things, I think it was more worry about what other people would think/say than anything else though. there are still a lot of people out there who think bottle feeding is not good for bubs but hes doing fine so to hell with that!!
Glad to hear that everyone is enjoying their babies, Jacksons going up so fast - hes in 00 growsuits and not far out of 00 clothes. Hes 60cm long and weighs 5.36kg - very long and lean.
Well I will try and write more often, and do some personals next time.
O and about the step 2 formula - maybe you can give to a friend or neighbour?
Hi Ladies - Not sure if this will be coherent as i have had a grand total of 6.5 hrs sleep in the last 72hrs and even that was not in a solid block.
Unfortunately I have been covering some night shifts as a staff member is away on leave and I stupidly agreed to covering for her way back before Bella was even born.
For some reason Bella has decided that at 7wks of age she is too grown up to sleep during the day - therefore I can not sleep either. So finishing work at 2:30am and getting home by 3:30am to fall into bed only to get out of it again at 6am when both girls seem to wake up.
Bella seems to have grown one heck of a lot in this past week. We had 3 nights in a row last week where at 5pm (almost on the dot) the poor little thing started screaming for no apparent reason - and continued to scream for 3-4 hours straight each time. No gas, no explosive poop just inconsolable. And suddenly she seems bigger?! So could it have been growing pains?
Me - well not much to report. Darren is in the dog house and I am not yet sure how I am going to deal with him sans violence. LOL Really am not happy with the father of my 7week old offspring - but what can you do?
Well, I have FINALLY managed to get onto the computer to drop in and say hi.
Things here are going pretty well. I'm working a few hours a week - just enough to pay for groceries etc - but I'm getting over it very quickly. I know that as a PA, it's meant to cover all sorts of jobs, but one that I have been putting off for a while now is weeding. I don't weed our garden at home (Bondy won't let me!) and don't see why they can't just get someone else (as in the lawn mowing man) to do their gardens.
Oh well, not long to go now til we move and then I won't have to worry about that sort of stuff.
Jess went to the dr today and had her first lot of needles. I got Bondy to come with me since I'm petrified of them and didn't want Jess to scream when it was just me there. She was pretty good. She cried a bit, but Bondy held her and gave her a bottle straight after so she was fine. She slept pretty much all afternoon from when we got back and she's still full of smiles now!
The midwife weighed and measured her - she's now 5.1kg (round down to 5kg as she was still dressed!!) and has grown over 8 cm - not bad considering she's only 8 weeks old! I really don't think there is any hope of her NOT taking after me and being tall ... shame really!!!
Jess is great. She's full of smiles, and we don't think it will be long til she starts laughing - she's got the noises happening!!
Naomi - like Bella, Jess has gone through a stage of just screaming for no apparent reason. We'd try and feed her and she would cry through the bottle too. Very weird. Hope things sort themselves out at home.
Hope everyone else is doing fine with your little ones.
After much debate about spending more money on bub, I brought a second hand Amby baby hammock, it arrived this morning so I put it together and waited till Reaghan woke after being in bed with her Dad this morning before he headed to work. Well after she woke and feed, played and feed again, I put her in there awake and 15 minutes later she was asleep, she only winged a little bit no full on crying first time ever unless she was in a swing or the car. She has now been asleep for 30 min and stirred ones and put herself back to sleep.
All I can hope is that she keeps this up tonight too.
I hope everyone else is going well and that all the bubs are healthy and feeding well, and growing well.
I hope that everyone had a lovely Christmas with their new additions.
Bella definately got spoilt rotten by the entire family this being her first Christmas, so I am now thinking that we need a bigger house to accommodate her growing number of toys, clothes, furniture etc.
At work again today and I was just pondering the fact that my little bundle is almost 6 months old. She is rolling from back to front and front to back but is not a fan of tummy time. We find that she will wriggle into all sorts of interesting places, but there is no sign of crawling happening in the near future.
At more than 70 cms in length, she no longer looks little and has worked out how to take up more than a third of our bed space by sprawling her limbs into areas which were once comfortable to sleep on.
Solids are something that have been introduced, but we are finding that Bella is far from starving, and she is quite happy with bottles. Funnily enough, breastfeeding when out the window when I started working on site 4 shifts per week. Wish that it was not the case, however I just could not keep up my supply.
Anyway, hope that everyone is well and looking forward to 2009 as much as they did 2008!
Babies Born July 1st - 15th 2008
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