Hi Ladies,

Well here I am, taken a little while to come back...had a dramatic couple of weeks!

Little Henry was born on the 11th at 6:01pm, after 11.5 hours of labour (10 of which I managed to do with only a tens machine and a bath), ended in his heart rate plummetting and having to have an emergency c-section...scariest part of my life. He came out all perfect except for a raspy breath which meant he had to go to special care and because of the stress of the labour he'd used up all his reserves and had really low blood sugar levels.

A few days in special care (with me feeding colostrum like crazy and being milked by the midwives to get even more) he came out and joined me in my room which was great.

I ended up having an oversupply of milk (I think cause I was being pumped like crazy for colostrum before my milk came in) and on top of really damaged nipples I also have mastitis!!! All of which I only discovered after I came home and ***** hit the fan a few days later and I headed back to the lactation consultants. I should have had a fever from the mastitis but the pain killers from the c-section masked it!

I am on anti-biotics and have nipple shields which makes feeding so much better and I think me and my little man are becoming a good little team.

All the previous drama's aside, I am recovering well from the c-section and it's great watching the belly get smaller instead of bigger I am besotted with my little man and is it wrong to be sad already that he's growing up too quick???

Being a first time mum I am not really sure where I stand with dummies, DH would rather never to go there but knows we might have to, though we've caught Henry's thumb in his mouth a couple of times so we may be heading down that road sooner rather than later because I think it's much hard to break a dummy habit than a thumb sucking one, but will see how we go.

OK I think I have rambled on enough, I am heading upstairs for a nap and will catch up on personals with you all later.

xxx