Hi infinity! Wow.. you sure did have a little bubba... glad she is doing so well for being so preemie!
Cannot believe we're on the other side now.. *lol*
DH goes back to work next week... we've been a good team this week and had some great bonding time. DH is such a great dad and I love him so much right now! I am a bit nervous about being by myself when DH goes back to work... but hopefully it all should be OK.
We got DS circumcised and his little plastibell ring fell off last night. His little penis is still a little red but it looks pretty good. Oh yeah, DS's cord stump fell off too so he's got a nice clean belly button... but it's still an outie so I'm hoping it becomes an innie soon!
Even though DS is only 9 days old I'm trying to get him used to night and day so that his sleep cycles are a bit more normal. At the moment he is sleeping like a dream during the day, but is up every 2-3 hours at night for feeds and takes ages longer to settle afterwards. Needless to say, Mummy sleeps in the afternoons when DS sleeps!
OK, time to make dinner while my little man sleeps.
Oohhh YAY, some more mummies and bubs in here! Congratulations on welcoming your little ones earthside!
Don't have much time right now to post but DD is still going really well, nice & stable and strong which is great. She is just over a week old now and everything is looking really positive. She is a tiny precious little girl that's for sure. We are fairly tired but managing ok all things considered.
Back in sometime soon to chat more. Enjoy those newborn snuggles xx
I miss out on being in this thread with all my wonderful buddies there are a couple of us in the early June thread
Infinity - best wishes to Heidi, yourself and your family, she sounds like a little trooper so here's hoping she stays strong xx
*Infinity* : i too read your BA and your little girl sounds like a fighter! i hope its a smooth road that you'll walk, she has the best mummy for her!
Erica: Ahh sweets, when your DH goes back to work it'll sort its self out. as for night and day - i know with DJ i let him sleep with the certons open in his room of a day and night closed them - so when he went to sleep it was like KWIM? also you'll find that when your little man was most active in the belly is when he'll be most active now!
Hello laides.
Mr Vic (0r monkey as he's known LOL) is in SCN. due to an infection which has the peads scratching their heads about. (trust, its my son who makes them wonder whats happening LOL) he's been there since he was about an hour and a half old. but doing well. shows no signs of being sick - other then the numbers from the bloods he's had done. they're mainly worried about meningitus at this point - as they did a Lumber Puncure yesterday and the pre-limb results showed white blood cells (i think the number was around 16 - or something so low) which means there is/was an infection but we'll *hopefully* find out what it was on monday (they need 48hrs to grow a culture) and depending on what it is he'll be home in 10days or upto three weeks (tendays starting from the day he was born BTW) so now we wait and see. other then that he's good. Ohh and has toung tie (again had that with DJ - so it was expected) but he's very, very good at breast feeding. the only down side is my nipple is a little mis-shapen but meh. its worth it. (the pumps the hospital hurt more then Vic do! haha) my milk came in yesterday so i was in tears on and off. but going good now. on monday DH, Vic and myself are *all* having a blood test to rule out any gentic flock up. but thats a maybe as the peads dont seem to think it is - i kind of would like not to have it - seeing as i get the short end of the stick and they'd need to take 50ml of blood from me (and 40ml from DH and 3ml from Vic) but we'll do it if need be. my feet...well my cankles are HUGE but thats due to the SCN and lack of ablity to "put my feet up" and my max 4hours sleep a night isn't helping also but hopefully it'll get better now Vic is on 4hourly feeds in SCN, so it'll give me more time between feeds to be at home (during the day - as next week DH will be back at work so night feeds will be EBM) now i better head off back to the hospital. as Vic will need a feed at around 9- 9:30.
i'll be nice having some other mummies to talk to :-D
*Infinity* : i too read your BA and your little girl sounds like a fighter! i hope its a smooth road that you'll walk, she has the best mummy for her!
Erica: Ahh sweets, when your DH goes back to work it'll sort its self out. as for night and day - i know with DJ i let him sleep with the certons open in his room of a day and night closed them - so when he went to sleep it was like KWIM? also you'll find that when your little man was most active in the belly is when he'll be most active now!
Hello laides.
Mr Vic (0r monkey as he's known LOL) is in SCN. due to an infection which has the peads scratching their heads about. (trust, its my son who makes them wonder whats happening LOL) he's been there since he was about an hour and a half old. but doing well. shows no signs of being sick - other then the numbers from the bloods he's had done. they're mainly worried about meningitus at this point - as they did a Lumber Puncure yesterday and the pre-limb results showed white blood cells (i think the number was around 16 - or something so low) which means there is/was an infection but we'll *hopefully* find out what it was on monday (they need 48hrs to grow a culture) and depending on what it is he'll be home in 10days or upto three weeks (tendays starting from the day he was born BTW) so now we wait and see. other then that he's good. Ohh and has toung tie (again had that with DJ - so it was expected) but he's very, very good at breast feeding. the only down side is my nipple is a little mis-shapen but meh. its worth it. (the pumps the hospital hurt more then Vic do! haha) my milk came in yesterday so i was in tears on and off. but going good now. on monday DH, Vic and myself are *all* having a blood test to rule out any gentic flock up. but thats a maybe as the peads dont seem to think it is - i kind of would like not to have it - seeing as i get the short end of the stick and they'd need to take 50ml of blood from me (and 40ml from DH and 3ml from Vic) but we'll do it if need be. my feet...well my cankles are HUGE but thats due to the SCN and lack of ablity to "put my feet up" and my max 4hours sleep a night isn't helping also but hopefully it'll get better now Vic is on 4hourly feeds in SCN, so it'll give me more time between feeds to be at home (during the day - as next week DH will be back at work so night feeds will be EBM) now i better head off back to the hospital. as Vic will need a feed at around 9- 9:30.
i'll be nice having some other mummies to talk to :-D
Dansta - Hope they come back with an answer for you quick so you can get your (not so little) boy home soon, it must be so hard being away from bubs, and there's nothing like being sleep deprived and having your hormone levels drop on day 4 to make you extra emotional at the best of times - but he sounds like he's doing well despite the infection and being such a nice hearty size can hopefully only help.
Poopie/Erica - Yup. Tell me about it, Lilah didn't sleep AT ALL at night for the first 10 days (well on the boob and for maybe 10 minutes after she came off before waking wanting more), so I got spits and spurts of ten minutes through the night and couldn't sleep through the day because it's day time + DD1. She's sleeping at night now and only waking for feeds thank goodness but compared to the first few week am on cloud 9.
Infinity - Are you in the boarding room at the hospy or do you live nearby so at home? Hope the nurses there are really great with you and bub.
dan- hope victor gets to come home soon. its nothing too serious and he can come home soon.
ah sleep, wats that again??
belle- def crash our thread, we wont tell
mr c is going pretty well, is already back up to his birth weight though he has had conjunctivitis but apparently its really common... doesnt make me feel any better about it. i expect mr c to self settle soon tho, both DF and i are both really heavy sleepers so whenever he wakes up he has to wait for a bit b4 someone responds. i no a couple of times it has been a while despite him being in the bassinet less than a metre away from our bed *guilty face*
my only sad thing is hes a daddy's boy already. at least once a day he wont stop grizzling until i give him to DF for a cuddle.
has anyone else's skin gone really bad since bubs was born? i swear its like ive just hit puberty again!!!
on a different note DF has taken 2 weeks off (goes back on thurs) but has had to go into work twice since mr c was born, has to go in again on tues and has been on his work laptop the rest of the time AND his work called him on thurs arvo despite knowing that i went into labour on wed night. freaking ridiculas, spesh since the new contracts have come in and the one they gave DF is bull, basically going from assistant manager of a small department to manager of the entire lab with a pay cut cos he will be on salary rather than hourly. he has to go in on tues when the managing director is over to "negotiate". god if i had anything to do with it..................
blah anyway im off to have a snuggle and stop being cranky
I am a bit nervous about being by myself when DH goes back to work... but hopefully it all should be OK.
there are a couple of us in the early June thread
i too read your BA and your little girl sounds like a fighter! i hope its a smooth road that you'll walk, she has the best mummy for her!
who makes them wonder whats happening LOL) he's been there since he was about an hour and a half old. but doing well. shows no signs of being sick - other then the numbers from the bloods he's had done. they're mainly worried about meningitus at this point - as they did a Lumber Puncure yesterday and the pre-limb results showed white blood cells (i think the number was around 16 - or something so low) which means there is/was an infection but we'll *hopefully* find out what it was on monday (they need 48hrs to grow a culture) and depending on what it is he'll be home in 10days or upto three weeks (tendays starting from the day he was born BTW) so now we wait and see. other then that he's good. Ohh and has toung tie (again had that with DJ - so it was expected) but he's very, very good at breast feeding. the only down side is my nipple is a little mis-shapen but meh. its worth it. (the pumps the hospital hurt more then Vic do! haha) my milk came in yesterday so i was in tears on and off. but going good now. on monday DH, Vic and myself are *all* having a blood test to rule out any gentic flock up. but thats a maybe as the peads dont seem to think it is - i kind of would like not to have it - seeing as i get the short end of the stick and they'd need to take 50ml of blood from me (and 40ml from DH and 3ml from Vic) but we'll do it if need be. my feet...well my cankles are HUGE but thats due to the SCN and lack of ablity to "put my feet up" and my max 4hours sleep a night isn't helping also but hopefully it'll get better now Vic is on 4hourly feeds in SCN, so it'll give me more time between feeds to be at home (during the day - as next week DH will be back at work so night feeds will be EBM) now i better head off back to the hospital. as Vic will need a feed at around 9- 9:30.
its nothing too serious and he can come home soon. 
though he has had conjunctivitis 
AND his work called him on thurs arvo despite knowing that i went into labour on wed night. freaking ridiculas, spesh since the new contracts have come in and the one they gave DF is bull, basically going from assistant manager of a small department to manager of the entire lab with a pay cut cos he will be on salary rather than hourly. he has to go in on tues when the managing director is over to "negotiate". god if i had anything to do with it.................. 
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