'December 2011' - 3 left! <dejected pompommery>

[LittleMissFlustered]

mmm I was a mess earlier when they mentioned cpap and ng tubes but bizarrely feeling ok ish about it all now. We're I'm a different ward to the neonatal unit which is good - they have beds for parents here with sprung mattresses.

F keeps having breathing so shallowly that he sets the apnea alarm off scaring the shit out of me and making me leap out of bed 9 days post caesarian. Hmmm not too sure that is what is meant when they st take it easy.

Hope babybel continues to improve.

Sorry forgot they think it is a virus which means we just have to sit it out and wait for him to fight it on his own. Blergh

Also, I'm a bit worried about my c section stitches. I've had a bad cough and it has pulled and hurt whenever I've coughed and left me feeling very sore around the incision site. I had stopped bleeding but its started again now. Could I have done something to the internal stitches? The outside wound looks OK but am worried all the coughing could have pulled or ruptured the uterine stitching.

aethel-yup, moses basket rejected here too. Squirm, squeak, plaintive wail...and SNORE the moment picked up and allowed to sleep on the mummy bed. Am so looking forward to getting back into bed with him tomorrow night.

missree hope it is all happening, how exciting!

hawthers- sounds like they've stabilised him swiftly. Let's hope this is but a brief, if utterly terrifying, spell in ICU and that he starts to perk up. Keeping everything crossed for you.

03:35

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More later x

That's fantastic hawthers, so glad Farley is stable, sleep-deprived prayers coming your way with a big ((((hug))))

We're pootling through the night with 30 min dozes: DS has been really windy and sicky with the slight change in milk and keeps bringing bits up in between feeds plus only settllng when bolt upright (so can't leave him there and get any sleep myself.) current comprise is sitting him up for 20 mins then lying him with me so I can sit him up/mop up when he possets. He still seems freaked oit by the milk, bless: it's so reassuring that he's been latching well initially so i lnow he can do it (and this is the 3rd child I've BF, they are all so individual!) i'm sure he'll get used to it soon.

Yay for misree good luck!!

Lots of us up tonight then...

I'd get it checked mmm, but I'd think if the incision itself isn't bleeding it should be OK. Mine still tweaked quite a bit at day 9.

Oh god hawthers, the alarms, beepings and other noises of ICU. Of course as they're designed to get attention they do a fabulous job of said shit-scaring. Glad you're feeling a little better, and it's going as well as poss. Crap that you have to sit it out but hope it should be a couple of days and you'll see real improvement.

Yaaaaaay!!!!

Confratulations LMF, you didn't hang around when it all got going!

Well done you, and see you later (((hug)))

WOOOOOO! LMF that's fantastic and speedy news!
Congratulations and can't wait to hear more.

Ooh and just saw your message hawthers about it being viral : that's great news as it just means supportive treatment will get him better and much less risk for him than a nasty bacterial cause of sepsis would have. Phew.

Mmm, intetnal stitches will have been absorbing over the last few days so what you can probably feel is the soreness of the healing tissus being stressed by the coughing rather than things actually tearing, theres quite a lot of tissue healing by day 9. If the outside wound is happy that's a really good sign as internal
Infection will usually track out, plus you'd feel fluey and really crap. So all sounds Ok: if it keeps going or feels worse or your lochia changes or pain increases ask the midwife or gp to check you over.

northern, I think we should campaign for honest labelling on moses baskets:
"buy this. Your baby won't sleep in it for the first 2 weeks, will grow out of it by another two months, and it'sa bugger to get puke out of, but you know, it looks pretty and lets us flog youn4 more sets of bedding, so what's not to like?"

With you on that one aethel!
The longest he's ever slept in it is an hour or so during the day- we have it in the front room more in hope than expectation and as somewhere safe to plonk him for toilet trips/sarnie-making, etc.
I'd never DREAMED of bed sharing but whatever works .

Can we campaign for babies to come with labelling that says 'you are now my servant, feeding unit AND bed, so don't think you can escape mwah hah hah ha ha!' as well?

Big hugs to everyone in/recently out of hospital with LO's, hawthers sending many positive vibes your way, hope you're out of hospital soon. x

out for you MissRee!

I'm giving up on breast milk, he's a milk monster (120ml every 2-4 hrs) & I can't look after him & express at the same time, so rather than waiting until DH goes back to work (next week), thought it would be better to do it now.

Crap, just realised I didn't look at the last page of thread; congrats LMF!!

First timer question; when do I switch from moses to cot? DS wriggles his way from the bottom to top of moses each sleep & normally rolls onto his side too, cot time?

Hiya AWCH, good to see you, it depends where you put the cot and your preference really. It's
Recommended baby is in your room
If possible for the first 6 months from a cot death prevention thingy. Our house is quite small and we can't really fit a cot in our bedroom so I'm planning to keep DS in a moses basket by the bed for as long as he fits it so that we're in the same room (I bedshare too when breastfeeding but as the night feeds drop down, or when I need deeper sleep, he's going in that basket!) babies and basket sizes differ, usually by 3-4 months their arms are longer and hotthe sifes or their length looks squashed in it. Otherwise whenever you fancy putting the cot up really.

Congrats LMF

It's all come to a standstill here again

Awch I applaud your decisive decision making on the BF I am still wrangling with it and will be got a few weeks more I expect. I am realising this week jmhow lucky I am with DH working from home he can help a little in the day and we get to have lunch together which will go some way I sure to alleviate boredom or isolation once I'm more into a routine.

Feeling very lucky listening to some of your ladies issues danny sleeps in his basket no problem and as he seems to have settled into a 4hr feeding routine he sleeps around it means we get anything between 6 and 8 hrs sleep a night. An sure it will all change he's only 2 weeks old but To be honest I'd take problems with feeding over sleeping any day don't you with sleep deprivation

Congrats LMF!

Thanks aethel, great advice as always.

Hawthers I wonder if its the same virus that Hope and my DD are in hospital with - RSV?

DD now waking frequentlyfor feeds, hence all my nightime posting! Which is great as means she's improvingbut I'm so shattered!

Apparently its entero virus (sp) although all blood cultures not back for another 24 hours so there might else something else going on as well.

Watching and waiting

Morning (again)... misree, some people have shy babies who run away when they see pompoms-I had three false starts and loads of random twinges before DS got going. So we'll just.....put...those...pompoms....away....

:)

Morning chaps.

Hoping mini-Hawthers and Hope are on the mend soon.

Still bit tired, just waiting on blood sugars for octopus boy, then we might have another nap. He seems to like sleeping thus far do I'm taking advantage while I can!

MissRee and hopeful I hope things get going soon.

Congrats LMF!

Congratulations lmf!!! great news! (and quick too!)
Good luck MissRee!
hope the poorly LO's get better and stronger soon. (hugs) xxx
We're doing ok here. Ali must have been unsettled by the house move as he's feeding more frequently, so I get less sleep at night and can't get anything done during the day. I know we should sleep when they do, but I've got a house full of boxes to unpack!
He's been sleeping in his Moses basket ok, but it'll probably only last a few more weeks , he's so big. At first he had the basket downstairs and a crib upstairs, but the crib rocks and we kept waking to find him on a slant, pinned to the edge, with one arm stuck out of the bars, so we've been putting his Moses basket inside the crib. It's handy to rock if he frets a bit, but we'll have to try to fix it in place when we put him back in it.

LMF congratulations

Hawthers Mmmm Hopefully babies will be better & home soon.

Sky I've discovered will sleep in her Moses basket but only on her tummy - like she does when on me - so I've decided if that's the way she will get some sleep and means I'll get some sleep then that's what I am going to do. Darcie slept on her front and is fine so all good.