Finally home, great result!

[clucks]

I have just posted on c-section thread about this. I delivered my DS2 early Friday morning after my waters going on thurs night whilst on mumsnet. After examination, found to be not dilating/effacing or contracting and with meconium in the waters again, I was advised to have another c/section. It was a very positive experience for me (as almost elective) and I am recovering well.

DS2 is gorgeous but was admitted to neonatal unit for a couple of days and I've been a bit stressed about that, due to v high bilirubin but he escaped a transfusion thankfully.

We are finally home and I should be resting as both DS's are asleep and things are starting to ache now.

thanks to everyone for listening to my whinges in the past few months.

Congratulations Clucks.

Well done and welcome home.

Well done clucks! Add mumsnet surfing to the raspberry tea and curry list as a labour inducer! Congratulations!

Very happy news - and sounds like a positive birth in potentially difficult circumstances - so coem on now - give us a name!!!

Many many congratualtions to you and ds2!!

well done Clucks.
Love to the new Cluckette

Congratulations and welcome to your little boy.

Congratulations to all the cluckses

Congratulations Clucks

Congrats....well done and welcome to the little one!

clucks, glad you are recovering well and your c/section was such a positive experience for you. Hope both your ds's let you have some peaceful nights sleep. Congratulations.

Congratulations clucks!

Congratulations clucks

Thank you all for the messages. The names have been whittled down to a choice of two, but I rather like cluckette/cluckie.

I am feeling a little unreal as really have been hyperactive and totally showing off. This brought on a severe headache and had to be rushed off to have BP etc checked with half-dressed babies and sleepy husband waiting in the car for me. I am now totally dependent on DH for outdoor mobility and he has commandeered my lovely car. someone here said that I could get a letter from GP about driving earlier than 6 wks stipulated by insurers.

I have had a couple of concerns about DS and his pathological jaundice that nobody knows much about and will try and get a paediatrician privately to give us a second opinion. If anyone has any recommendations they would be gratefully received.

Also he has a positional talipes which was missed and we were discharged untreated (probably got too excited about jaundice) and I will do a search for that also.

All in all, still very well but expecting a real anti-climax as still not sleeping day/night (me that is!)

Clucks, please do not worry about his postural talipes. Ds1 had this quite badly, it seemed to me, but a couple of basic sessions of physiotherapy and some advice from the physio was all it needed to sort him out. I was told it is very rare for postural talipes not to right itself with a little exercise.
Can't advise on the jaundice, hope you get some good pointers on that soon. I guess it goes beyond the "normal" jaundice common in b/f babies?

What do you mean by pathalogical jaundice Clucks? Might be able to help if you can give more details.

clucks - a belated congratulations from me too! I'm sure everything will be fine.

Ditto Fionn - hope you are all well Clucks. Does this mean you will be able to drink heavily the next time we meet up?

Lots of love and congrats clucks, if you do start to feel a bit deflated after all that excitement I recommend Sepia as a lovely homeopathic tonic, hopefully you'll carry on in such high spirits, lots of love E x

Thanks. Will try sepia, have heard of it from other people too.

Mears, the bilirubin levels were at exchange level within 24 hrs of birth so he was whipped into scbu for triple phototherapy and iv fluids/abs. they suspect blood group incompatibility (ABO) but I don't know as yet if antibodies have been checked. Although almost all signs of jaundice seem to have disappeared, it's just something else for me to think about at night..

Cluckes - Sepia has and still is helping with my PND. It's really wonderful for me. Hope you feel better soon.

Congratulations clucks ... sorry you and DS2 haven't been too well ... What is positional talipes??
Take care XG

Clucks - as it is now resolving try not to worry too much. As you may be aware, my last dd had 3 exchange transfusions and was under septuple phototherapy. She is now 9 years old and the picture of health.
If there was an ongoing problem then the jaundice would not be disappearing. Sometimes the cause of the jaundice cannot be found ie it is not due to infection of blood group incompatability. The antibody test would have been back fairly quickly. Some babies just have too rapid a breakdown of their haemoglobin after birth that the baby's immature liver cannot cope with it.
Try and put it all behind you and enjoy your new son

meant to say OR blood group incompatability. If that was the case they should have been able to tell you that.