Hey everyone,

I meant to update on Adele. It was last Saturday her poos were black. Sunday morning when I changed her they were still a very dark brown. I called the 24 hour parent helpline to ask what they thought. The woman I talked to was lovely, but basically said in these situations it is best to assume to worst and she advised us to take her in to emergency. We dropped DS with my parents and DH and I took Adele into emergency. Being a Sunday it was very busy. We had to wait in line for ages to even get to the window to check in. We explained to the nurse there what was going on and about how we called the 24 hour line, to which she made a knowing face and said they tell everyone to bring their babies into emergency.
We sat and waited for a while - Adele was very good and just slept in the carrier, then woke for a feed. Apart from the weird poos, Adele had always been completely fine, so as I looked around at all the other much sicker people I began to see we wouldn't be seen for quite a while. I went and changed Adele's nappy, and her poos were starting to get more and more yellow and back to normal each time. So, after talking to DH and then talking to the nurse who checked us in we decided to leave. A bit of a waste of 2 hours, but it's so hard to make that judgement on how cautious to be. I was pretty paranoid about Adele catching something from someone in emergency anyway!

As the day progressed Adele's poos got more and more back to normal, and by Monday morning they were completely normal again and have been ever since. So, as best we can tell she just swallowed heaps of blood during a feed (must have damaged my nipple or something) and it took a couple of days for her body to get rid of all the excess iron or something.

I had a MCHN appointment on Tuesday and talked to her about it then, and she basically said that if it's a random one off thing like this, she wouldn't worry. She's otherwise fine, and she'd only be concerned if it kept happening or Adele became unwell.

So, that was our big drama for the weekend! Adele of course was happy and healthy and completely oblivious to her mummy and daddy worrying about her!

We had Adele weighed on Tuesday too - she is a hefty 6.06kg, which meant she had again put on over a kilo in 4 weeks, and over 2 kilos since birth! She's such a big bubba, on the 97th percentile - yikes! She's pretty average length though.

Adele and I have had a very busy week this week. We went out to dinner with my mum's group on Tuesday night, then out to a chocolate party on Wednesday night. Tonight we are going to see my little sister's production of Aida. I'm hoping Adele just sleeps through the whole thing!

I better go as Adele has woken up. I'll try and get back to do personals soon!