Ooh good luck Pug! How exciting! I hope baby can hang on for a bit longer but sounds like your little man may be the next to join Zach. Hope it all goes really well and induction doesn't take too long. Can't wait to hear all about it and see pics (but not too soon!)
Welcome to mat leave to all those of you that are joining me (I've forgotten what work is it's been so long, lol!) I hope you are managing to rest/nest/eat chocolate/cope with your other DC if you have them/cope with your crazy dreams/pregnancy health problems.
We are hoping that in the next week Zach will be home. He had a bit of a setback as they found his eye problem - ROP - had progressed so on Wed he was transferred to another local hospital and on thurs morning had laser surgery. He had to go back on the ventilator and under general anaesthetic and hooked up to all the monitors etc again which was really hard to see after him being free from all tubes and wires for a couple of weeks. Thankfully after over 12 hours he came round from the anaesthetic enough to start breathing on his own and be taken off the ventilator. He has another eye scan this week to check that the treatment had halted the progression of the condition and if it has hopefully he will be discharged! It should have been today if he hadn't had to have it done, I'm
So ready to take him home now.
He is feeding like a trooper now, on demand which is awesome. I've been sleeping in a 'transitional care' room on the unit now for four days and getting up in the night when the nurses call me to say he's woken. Last wed night, before we knew he had to have his eye surgery he spent the first night in with me...it was alternately terrifying and lovely. Neither of us got loads of sleep. He's used to sleeping in a room where the lights are always on and there's always noise so taking him into a dark, quiet bedroom and expecting him to sleep was a bit much! We both got a couple of 2.5 hour stretches from 3am but it was so great to have him next to me to feed (although I did feel like I was 'stealing' my baby when I first wheeled him off down the corridor to my room, a very weird feeling!)
Last night he fed at 9, 11.30, 2am, 5 and 7.30 which isn't too bad but takes so much longer as he's back in the intensive care bit now which is at the far end of the unit from where my room is so by the time the nurses have called me to wake me I've locked up, alcohol jelled my hands, wandered down squinting in the harsh lights, thoroughly washed my hands, changed his nappy, washed hands again, fed him, burped him, got him back down again it's a good hour or so. I was soooooo tired today. It is great to be feeling like a proper mum and wonderful he is feeding so well (although he's been really pukey today which the dr thinks is due to him being really greedy and me having a great milk supply and not any other issue thankfully). Now I just want him home. It's almost 3 months of spending part or all of every day in a hospital and I'm over it! I'm looking forward to sharing all the trials and tribulations of having a newborn with you all when yours all arrive (although technically Zach isn't a newborn anymore as he's 11 weeks old!)
I can't wait to see pics of all your massive babies - my view is totally skewed now after spending so much time with Zach and other tiny tiny babies so when a term baby comes into the unit they all look abnormally big, even the 6/7lb ones! I look at then and think there is no way they should come out so big!