Hi there,
I am a regular reader but don?t tend to post often on mumsnet. However, I am now a mum to my first child (aged 11 days!) and I have lots of questions for you all about newborns and c-sections (ended up with emergency c section after failing to progress).
- Overdue baby development
My daughter was 2 weeks overdue in the end and is now 11 days old. I think she is starting to do things a lot earlier than the books tell me ? i.e. smiling, holding her head up etc. Should I consider her to be closer to 4 weeks in terms of development because of the 2 weeks she was cooking in the womb or am I just being one of those ridiculous mothers who thinks their child is very advanced?!
- Tramadol
I am on Tramadol and paracetamol for pain relief after my c section and I am breastfeeding. Does anybody know if Tramadol has any effect on babies that I should be worried about? The doctors and midwives have just told me that it is fine and been quite dismissive of my concerns. I know it is highly addictive and I am going to start weaning myself off it on Monday by slowly lowering the amount I take each day ? do you think my baby will have any side effects when I come off it?
- Penicillin
My c section is now infected (oh joy) and I am on penicillin which is making her poos really explosive which she isn?t too happy about! I finish the course on Monday and am wondering how long it will take for it to get out of her system? At the moment I feel so guilty that I am causing her upset stomach and I hope that things get back to normal soon but I?m not sure it is might take a couple of days.
- Diet & Breastfeeding
The last couple of nights she has also had (I think) a bad stomach ache after feeding and I?m not sure if this is the antibiotics, something else I ate or just something that happens that I haven?t caused. If it is something that I ate, do you know how long it takes for food I eat to go into my breastmilk? I?m trying to work out if it was my lunch, dinner or bedtime snack of crunchy nut corn flakes that could have caused it and then I can alter my diet if need be.
- Passports
I am going to apply for a passport for baby at some point but I?ve just realised that getting passport photos for her might be difficult. In the past I?ve gone into Jessops or Supasnaps and had them taken in the shop but all of these places have now gone into administration. I know I can?t take her into a booth in a supermarket as I?d be in the background holding her! Any ideas of how to do this?!
I think that is all my questions for now. Thanks in advance for helping, I know some of these are quite trivial!