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I'm here Mel! How's the handsome Jack doing (hmm typing with a baby is more difficult than I thought - lol.)
Maddison wasnt born on the 7/7 but we went home on that day
Flossie's beautiful Olivia was born on this lucky day though - Flossie, just saw her photos, she is just gorgeous!
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Jordan Walter was born 10.42pm on 6th July - 39 wks 6 days via emergency C section, after a 25hr labour, and no progress for 15hrs of that. Bubs was posterier with head stuck, hense the CS.
Birth Wieght: 3800g
Length: 51cm
HC: 34.5cm
Yay can't wait for all the other July bubby people to join.
My bub is technically a June baby, but since her EDD was in July I have gotten to know the ladies in the July Belly Buddies thread and would like to keep up to date with how they and their bubs are doing. So if you guys don't mind I would like to poke my head in here every so often and say hi. Hope that's not a problem. Let me know of it is...
Anyway, here are the details of my bub.
Name: Diana Lidia
DOB: 19 June 2007 (35w4d gestation)
Baby #: 1
Time: 1149
Weight: 2.485kg
Length: 47.5cm
Labour: 10 hours
Yay Isiss and congratulations on the birth of your beautiful boy Jordan. I hope you are settling at home and getting lots of cuddles from you little man!
Zofia - of course its fine for you to stick your head in here and to let us know how Diana is doing - cant believe she is 3 weeks already!
Hello ladies, its so good to be on the other side, congrats to all who have made it and good luck to those who are still waiting.
Tyler Jackson was born on the 6/7 at 7.45pm after a 5hr 15min labour, weighing in at 7lb7 (3375gm) and mesuring 50cm, HC was 34cm.
He is a little brother for Riley who is already very protective of him, going as far as to tell the midwife trying to do bubs cheak(sp?) a short time after the birth that she wasnt to touch his baby.
Roudysmum, how cute!! My little girl I don't think is old enough yet to really understand what Jack is or who he is. But she does kiss him which just melts my heart and calls him bubba.
Zofia, of course you can be apart of this thread. How is your little girl going? Did she spend any time in the special care unit? I nearly had Jack at 32 weeks, and I can tell you it scared the hell out of me, I hope Dianas birth wasn't too scarey for you. Did they try to stop the labour or let you progress? So many questions sorry
Kristy, Jack is doing really well. He is just a loud sleeper though. It's hard to know most times when he is asleep, stirring or awake. We want to take him out of our room, but there is really no where else to put him. Can't put him in the lounge room as DH is up for work at 4am most days, so that would wake him. And we only have one other room that Charlee is in. There is the sun room, but I'm afraid if we put him in there we won't hear him as it's the furtherest point away from us in the house. But other than this, he is just perfect. I'm so in love with him. How is little Maddison going? I just love that name too. How is the C/S healing? How long does it normally take to heal?
Isiss, how is little Jordan doing? You poor thing having to cope through labour for that long. I couldn't imagine it.
I know this must sound stupid, but just out of curiosity. Of those of you who are B/F I'm just curious to know how often your bubbas are feeding. With Charlee I was feeding her every 2 hours during the day, with longer gaps at night. Jack is similiar too. Does this sound similiar to your patterns?
Hi Roudysmum, I cant wait to hear all about Tyler. What a wonderful strong name!
Mel - Maddison is doing beautifully. She is still quite yellow in colour, I think its improving though. Have a mch appt on Thursday so I guess I will get an update then. I am bf, but Maddison is still quite a placid little one (if you can remember me freaking out because she was rather quiet in my tum!) She seems to still be quite quiet - not that I'm complaining, but know it could be cause she was small and born at 38 weeks, and is only just becoming herself. Today she actually stayed awake for over an hour after a feed which is amazing. Usually I definately have to wake her to give her the other side by changing her bottom (it is a cute bottom though - lol.) As for how ofter, she is only having 6 feeds a day - sometimes 7, roughly 4 hourly, but sometimes she will wake after 3 hours and I have done a couple of feeds after only 2 hours. My boys fed alot more regularly, definately 3 hours, if not 2, so Jack's feeds sound quite normal. Maddison is having one bottle (around the 6-7pm feed) a night of EBM since coming home from hospital. Jacksen gave it to her tonight, he was so excited.
Tomorrow will be Maddison's EDD, and I'm a little sad knowing that I wont experience this ever again so I am trying to soak up every minute. Kinder also goes back tomorrow so it will be a huge wake up call, as atm I have been feeding Maddy her morning feed then going back to bed and sleeping till 9:30am. I will have to ensure I am organised the night before. I have recovered really really well from the c/s, in fact my recovery in hospital was amazing. I was on less pain relief than with the boys, and came home feeling hardly any pain which was really lucky cause the poo hit the fan at Chris' work and he worked everyday last week except Friday. There was no way he would've been able to do that after the boys. Little frustrating I cant drive still with how good I'm feeling but I wont jeapardise(sp) my recovery as I know internally may not be as healed as I feel.
Ok, with kinder back on, I should manage to get back on here more often and I should have photos up on Maddison's website tomorrow finally. Will let you know.
We will have to start a list going, with our July babies and their mummy's names soon. So far we have 3 boys and 2 girls (of those who have joined us in here so far!)
Just noticed I havent done Maddy's details so here they are (I just copied your format Mel - hope thats ok?)
Name: Maddison Lea Sealey DOB: 02 July 2007 (38w gestation, C/S).
Baby #: 3 (2 boys and 1 girl) Time: 2:02pm
Weight: 3020grms or 6lb 10ozs
Length: 47
HC: 33.5
labour: C/S
Hope you dont mind the intrusion. My little princess was due on 24th June so I was part of the June belly buddies group but she decided it wasnt her time to enter the world until I had a c-section on 1st July. If you dont mind I'd love to check in here every so often to see how everyone is going.
Welcome Tina and Mikayla. Of course we dont mind you popping your head in!
Now we have 3 boys and 3 girls - yay!
Mel - I completely jinxed myself with the feeding comments. Maddison did a 3 hourly then a 2 hourly last night!
I have put some photos of Maddison on her webpage (link at the bottom of my signature.) Have do I go about putting a photo of her next to my ticker? Help?
Wow, this thread is quiet compared to the belly buddies one! (No surprise there, lol.)
Diana is doing really well. At 4 weeks she weighs 3.25kg, which apparently is excellent. Yay! She was 2.485kg at birth.
Mel – My labour was okay, more painful than expected but not too scary. After my waters broke they didn’t try to stop the labour, in fact I was part of a trial where they induced it. The only scary bit was right towards the end, after I had been pushing for nearly one and a half hours and it turned out that Diana’s head was facing the wrong way, which was why she wasn’t coming out. The doctor asked if I wanted “help in getting the baby out”. For a moment I thought that I might need a cesearean or that there might be complications, so that was frightening. What ended up happening was that I got an episiotomy (which I had been scared of before going into labour) and they pulled Diana out with forceps (which I had also been scared of before). Funny how both of the things that I had been frightened of while I was pregnant ended up being okay during the birth. And I am extremely grateful that Diana didn’t need any time in the special care unit. All she needed was three nights treatment for jaundice on a billi bed (which she hated, but got through okay).
Re feeding – I am breastfeeding Diana and she is getting EBM once a day when I am at work (twice on Mondays when I work the whole day – I am thinking of negotiating a half day as I do for the rest of the week) and another bottle of EBM at night. Overall she feeds on average every 2-4 hours. If we are lucky, she has one stretch of 5-6 hours sleep once a night, but unfortunately this hasn’t happened too often yet. I am hoping that as she gets older, she will get better at sleeping for longer.
Rebecca – I’m sure that you will be welcome here no matter when your baby arrives.
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Babies Born July 2007
Still can't believe our little man in here. Can't wait for all my BB girls to join this group. Here is my little guys details
How is little Maddison going? I just love that name too. How is the C/S healing? How long does it normally take to heal?
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