Hello all, my name is Kate and I would like to join your group.

I was hoping for a complication free pregnancy/birth but bubba had other plans and due to a major bleed at 33 weeks, scary rush to hospital and me going unconscious and my BP crashing in the ambulance I was admitted to hospital and stayed there on bed rest for 2 weeks, steroid injections the works and then just confined to hospital for the next 4 weeks until our daughter Avaleigh Grace was born on the 16th of June via planned c-section (due to bleed)

Avaleigh weighed 2.6 Kg at birth and was discharged at 2.4 Kg (although they wanted her to go in to the SCN unless she got formula top ups) She was to little to breastfeed, so I expressed but not quickly enough and my supply has been stuffed up ever since. I tried everything based on docs etc advice but now I am going to try things one at a time and see how I go. I am on motilium 3 tabs 3 times a day. Avaleigh is feed top ups after each feed. they are mostly formula top ups with some EBM. At birth her head circ was 33cm and she was 47cm long. She weighed at 6 weeks 3.4 Kgs, her height is 53cm and head circ 36cm. We will be going for her 9 week check up this week. I hope she has put on more weight.

She was feeding 2-3 hourly for the first month round the clock, the she went 3-4 in her second month but inthe last two weeks she was awake not wanting food for hours on end, from 12pm-9pm sometimes, she was hardly getting any sleep so I decided to try the SOS routine and so far so good today was only our second day and she has gotten a cold so the routine stuffed up a bit

Sorry for so much info but I need to catch up with you guys, you all sound so lovely, hope to share this journey with you if you will have me.