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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