I had a baby boy on Nov 2 by emergency c-section as my blood pressure went up and I started to develop pre-eclampsia. He was only 2.2kg and had to spend some time in the special care nursery being tube fed so I ended up staying in hospital for over 2 weeks. It nearly drove me nuts, but thankfully we're home now. We named him David Robert and his two older brothers ( Mitchell 7 and Adam 4) seem pleased with him so far . He's been a little bit erratic with his feeding/settling, sometimes he goes for 3 hrs between feeds and other times only an hour.
I went and hired an electric breast pump yesterday and expressed some milk so my husband fed him last night so I could get some sleep which was good. The caesarean was a bit of shock because I had both vaginal births for my first two, plus I had a chest infection so every time I coughed it was agony where I had my cut/wound. I'm feeling better now just tired but thats life with a newborn isnt it?
Had a burst of energy this morning and started trying to tidy up/vaacuum and now I feel completely buggered and I know David's going to wake up any minute for another feed. But I know its all worth it when I'm having a beautiful cuddle/smooch with him.
Nessie - sorry to hear about ur c-sec, hopefully you'll heal nice and quick and your chest inf goes away.
Hope every1 else is well, Charli has been good last couple of nights, although sun night she was so unsettled and all she wanted to do was feed, fairly certain she had a pain but nothing but the boob would settle her. She's been feeding every hour today and im wondering when she'll get into a better pattern, midwife says its normal for her to feed so often but i wonder...
she was weighed on thursday and had lost 270g, weighed again on sat and she'd put on 290g so she was 20g abover her birth weight, so proud of her but not really suprised considering she's a vulture. lol.
Hi everyone, I hope you are all recovering well and big hugs to all the new bubbas.
I haven't posted for a while as i had been enjoying spending time with DH - he is now back at work. Logan is feeding well and is up usually twice during the night for a feed. The feeds are the easy part, but getting him back to sleep is very draining. He seems to have more wind at night and last night took about an hour to go down after feeding! We have our 2 week MCHN visit tomorrow, so I will be interested to see how much he weighs. He was back to birth weight in a week of being discharged, so like Charli he is vulture that loves his milk
Nessie - sounds like you have had a tough time but you must be so glad to be at home now - hope you are feeling better soon. Our babies share a birthday
OMG OMG - I put Logan on the floor for some tummy time and he rolled over onto his back. I am very excited, is this normal for a 17 day old???
Last edited by kylieb77; November 19th, 2008 at 03:52 PM.
Hi all,
my mum went home today after spending the last two weeks with us. In the past I would have been ready for her to go within hours of her arrival, but this time she's been fantastic and I'm really going to miss her, I even shed a tear...that's never happened before...maybe motherhood has mellowed me.
Me and Kate and Jeff are on our own now...just a teensy bit scary.
Hi all,
Just popping in quickly to say hello before i head off to bed.
We have our first home visit tomorrow from the MCHN, can't wait to see how my baby girl is growing. Had a bad night with alyssa tonight, she pulled out all her toys today and we told her at 5pm to pick them up. 8pm i went in to put her to bed (which was half hour after i told her it was bed time and to hurry up an clean up her room) and she hadnt cleaned anything up off her bed, only the floor so i put it all in a garbage bag and told her it was going in the bin, boy was i not happy. To make matters worse DP sat on the comp all night so i had to feed charli and deal with alyssa. Thankfully they are all asleep now and i can get some rest..... oh and to top all that off my washing machine broke yesterday, its all electric so it looks like its gonna cost a fortune, last thing i need with a baby and baskets and baskets of washing. The repair man is coming in the morning so hopefully he can fix it then, otherwise i'll be spending the day at my sisters doing washing.
Enough of my whinging....
Kylie- so good to hear logan rolled over, its def normal for baby to roll from tummy to back so early, alyssa was 9 days old when she did, charli hasnt had much tummy time, although that will hopefully change tomorrow when i get her a lil kick and play gym thingo.
Fussyboots- lol @ motherhood mellowing you, it does do that to you. hehe. I'm sure you'll be fine without your mum, it does get a lil easier. lol
Well im off to bed to get some sleep while charli does.
Night
We had our 2 week appt yesterday and Logan has put on another 415g in 9 days. He has put on a total of 800g in the two weeks since leaving hospital. He is now 4.75kg - what a chubba
HI!
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