Babies born~January 16th-31st 2010 #1

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Hi all
Hope I am not to late to join this group, my beautiful son, Max William was born on the 21.1.10, he was 8 days over due and eventually decided to come on his own, even though we were booked in for an induction that same day!

My labour was pretty textbook apparently, 10 hours of 'true labour', delivered naturally, used gas but no other drugs. I almost wore holes in the floor with the pacing I needed to do during the contractions. I was so amazed once it was over, I just could not believe that we had 'done' it!!!

For me the labour has seemed like the easy bit as things went a bit downhill after that. Max didn't suck, so breastfeeding got off to a very slow start, and had to be fed formula whilst we worked out how to teach him to suck. By about day 4 he got the hang of it, but my milk had not come in, so he wasn't getting much and we had to top him up with formula.

5 days after we came home from the hospital I developed a high temp and fever, sweating, pain in the abdo, tingly all over. We rang the Obgyn who readmitted me to the maternity ward, apparently I had a rare sepsis infection. I was in hospital for 4 days on an IV drip. Thankfully Max was able to stay in hospital with me so we could continue trying to breastfeed.

When I got out of hospital the second time, Max had developed a staph infection so he was put on antibotics. Just as things were looking good, I started having pain going to the loo for #2s (sorry to much info??) and couldn't sit down for hours after going. So back to the Drs we went where they diagnosed a Perianal fissure (tear in the anus). Great!!!

To top it all off, my dear husband went motorbike riding that weekend and broke his arm. So picking up and bathing Max is a bit difficult.

Thankfully I think we are finally all on the road to recovery, I hired a lactation consultant who helped us sort out breastfeeding (we've had no formula or top up feeds for 1 week now!), my health is good (except for the fissue thing), Max's heath is great and hubby is doing the best he can with one arm in plaster.

So hopefully that excuses my lateness for joining this group

Our lactation consultant suggested taking Max to a Chiropractor - Do any of you have thoughts on babies and Chiro treatment - Croc or not?