Babies Born May 2006 #48

[widdly]

kim - OMG!!! you poor things, i take it that she didn't do any damage with the scissors?? What a clever girl to be able to unlock the door for you! I don't even reckon Arch would manage to turn the door handle let alone unlock a door. Your house would be covered in dirt i spose, we drove home from Melbourne in the storm, was a bit hairy! A few trees down, and had to drive fairly slow through the thick dust. When we got home we turned the news on ad heard about pile ups and a crash that happened not long after we passed through, someone was looking down on us.

Just went to playgroup, was the end of term party and they always get a little jumping castle for that. For the first time Archie was brave enough to have a go at it. Had to get up at 5:30am to drive jay out to the airport, not happy Jan, Arch and i have been tired and grumpy all morning, he is in his bedroom trying to fight sleep atm.

[~Kim~]

Feeling a bit bad this morning. Darcy bumped her eye on the corner of the table yesterday afternoon....she has a black eye this morning.....I don't feel bad cos she bumped her eye, but because I brushed her off.....oh well she knows to tell me if it's bleeding, I guess that's a good thing.

How did Jay go yesteerday Elissa?

[~shazz~]

hi all i just had to pop on and tell you i got my next lot of assignment back maths i didn't do to well on 32 out of 44 and english 97 out of 100 and 95 out of 100 so i am pretty happy with that they released my exan dates today now that is scary ok back to it

hope you are all well
oh and i forgot my DH's birthday today so i must be extra kind to him this week

[shereejoy]

Just got home and we had our 3d scan today. My boy is so gorgeous. His cyst on his brain has disappeared as they expected YAY................... The senographer also made comment of how much of a live wire he is!!!!!!! And his head is measuring considerably bigger then his gestation. Appears I have a boof head on the way lol. I kinda knew it was big as I compared Lachlan's and his scan at 18 weeks and there was a 2cm difference. Eek!!! He is also head down with his bum on my top left side and his feet on my right and my placenta is in a nice high position on my right in the front.

Anyway have my GD test in the morning, followed by my midwife appt and then my nail appt an hour away (in Emerald) in the arvo. Then Thursday we head off on our trip, so talk to you all at the end of the month.

[shereejoy]

Eek!!!!!!!!!!!

I am just looking at the pictures from the ultrasound that I was given on a disk.

The senographer told me that my baby boy had a big head, but it appears all of his measurements are big!!! I have just turned 28 weeks today and yet the scan shows his BPD (Bilateral head measurement) as 30 weeks 1 day, his HC (Head circumferance) as 30 weeks 2 days and his AC (Tummy measurement) as 29 weeks 5 days. There is a measurement of FL (not sure what this is) as 27 weeks 6 days - which is technically correct.

What does this mean, now I am concerned about gestatational diabetes, or could this just mean a big baby?

His weight is 1.440kg, which is huge for his gestation, they have given an approx figure of 361g too much. This weight shows him in the 96% percentile.

At my 18 week scan his measurements were on par with his gestation, but for some reason he has really kicked on atm.

Can anyone offer any information? I never had a problem with GD with Lachlan and he was born so small at 6lb 5.5oz and to this day is a real little fella, only weighing 10kgs at nearly 2 years old.

Gosh I won't know what to do with a big baby LOL!

[Tannis]

Hope Darcy's eye is ok Kim, our kids will have many bumps and bruises over the years...If Darcy wasn't too concerned over it I wouldn't worry either. Chris is a real panicer when Jayden falls over....even on carpet! Whereas I don't worry too much until there is blood.

Shazz: English you went well on ....well done! Maths wasn't too bad....A lot better than what I would have got! Well done on your weight loss too, I hadn't noticed how much you had lost!

Sheree: YAY for your scan! Things may even out with Riley and he may not put on a lot of weight between now and birth. I was on borderline with GD with Jayden and haven't gone for my test yet this time but I have been told I should have nothing to worry about this time. The only thing I can suggest with having a bigger baby is....Buy bigger clothes LOL and hope he doesn't come early, although a guy at work his wife just gave birth naturally to a 10lb5oz baby and she isn't much bigger than me, so it can be done.....I saw her 12hrs after bubs was born and she looked like she was ready to go back to work! She looked fantastic!

I have friends coming up from Melb this arve so I won't be around, then Sheree & Lachie here on Tuesday! I can't wait...except for having to go to work on Monday haha.

Oh an update on my SIL's niece, apparently her DD may have been put into an induced coma and they have taken her out of it now, so she will live but she has to learn everything again - walk, talk, eat etc. Not sure if she has any brain damage or not. I hate getting info 3rd and 4th hand as people get their wires crossed badly! Seems she may have had the bleed since birth too. Have a great week all and a good weekend

[shereejoy]

Just had my gd test. I won't get the results until Friday morning. But she did a standard blood glucose prik test and my reading was 6.1 and that was after my glucose load up (the drink), so feeling a little more confident that maybe my gd test will come back ok and I am just having a big boy!

Tania - good news on your SIL's niece. Hopefully all works out ok for them. Makes you appreciate how lucky we all are hey? See you on Tuesday.

[widdly]

shazz - well done on the great marks!

kim - Hope Darcy is okay, they are constantly hurting themselves! Jay is feeeling much more confident about the up coming interviews after having the interview training, thanks for asking, maybe this time he will finally get the job, not holding my breath though, have ben through this process so many times, and always let down, so now i just tell myself he won't get it, then im not as disappointed.

sheree - Fantastic that Riley's cyst has gone! Glad the scan went well, Archie was measuring 5 weeks ahead at the stage of pregnancy, and boy was i panicking! I didn't have GD, he ended up being 9lb6oz, i think he ust had a super growth spurt at that time as he just grew slowly after that. I think big babies are fantastic, you don't have to worry when they lose weight in hossy cause they are so chubby to begin with and they are easier to handle too.
tania - great news about that poor little girl.Enjoy your visit with Sheree and Lachlan, im jealous!

Arch has been getting up at 6 every morning since daylight savings, which is aking him a very tired and grumpy boy, he's been waking many times at night too so we are all a bit sleep deprived. he is in his bedroom screaming out at the moment.....

[shereejoy]

Elissa - for me it just sounds so weird, having had such a small baby and then possibly such a big baby. Two opposites ends of the spectrum, but hey as long as I don't have Gestational Diabetes, it will actually be nice to have a big healthy boy really. It is funny I went and bought all of these 0000 clothes as Lachlan's were all unisex and I wanted Riley to be in blue right from the start and now he possibly will only be in them for a short while - IF AT ALL!!! Beats a big change to my boy that was in 0000's till he was 3-4mths old.