Hello lovely ladies
Thank you sooooo much for your wishes 🥰🥰 it really means a lot 🥹❤️
Little update for me and George 😊 have had zero time until now. God that stay in the hospital feels like ages ago now. George is 5 weeks old now 😊 Life was pretty wild back then. Like everything got worse before it got better. I wasn’t worried about him at the time tbh because he always looked super healthy thank god and his hair was growing well and I always thought if he didn’t get enough milk his hair would be the last thing to grow 😅
So we spent one day and night in hospital when all we did was skin to skin and feed feed feed and he gained 60g! Pretty amazing. So we were able to go home the next day and were put back on the triple feeding plan with pumping 8 times a day god that nearly killed me. Those were the worst days. I think we did that for another week and he continued to put on weight and a week later had regained his birth weight. The pumping then got cut to 4 times, 2 times, once and then stopped. That was such a relief. We are now fully self sufficient yay 😊 I was super proud that we got there after the battle we or I had been through. Didn’t supplement once, refused when a midwife suggested it and battled through, had two very hard weeks, but it all paid off in the end. I’ve been to a breastfeeding support group twice for advice and to socialise and there are mums 4-5 weeks in that still struggle to breastfeed for various reasons like giving a bottle too early. So I’m very thankful we ‘only’ had those two hard weeks and now we’re all good 😊
We had our latest weight in this Wednesday and he was just under 4kg and 54cm so growing well. He looks and feels heavier too and is out growing his first lot of clothes 🥹
We’re doing really well I think. He wakes up about 3 times every night and around the same times too so we have a pretty good routine for 5 weeks I think. I get 4.5-5.5hrs sleep and then OH gets up early and takes him for a walk every morning and to see his nana while I get another hour or so 😊
he’s feeding loads but I guess that’s normal. And he screams a lot when he doesn’t get booby straight away after waking up 🤦♀️😅 OH has to run home regularly when he’s out for a walk with him 😂
Last week my parents came to visit from Germany. They are so in love with George 🥰 first grandchild 🥰 I think my mum loved him more and more every day 😅 we had a lovely week. They helped a lot around the house but it was also a bit hectic at times with four people. They’re always late and never ready when we want to do something or leave the house which drives OH nuts 😅 but all good fun. We also attended the graduation of OH’s eldest daughter last Friday. It was a full day out, getting up early, getting there for 9, lunch after and a few drinks after in the sunshine ☀️ George was very well behaved and slept well that day thank god and we managed to breastfeed okay everywhere we went - something I have to get used to 😅 funny how you think “oh yeah I’m gonna breastfeed” but you never think of what that means. And now I have to get used to getting my boobies out everywhere 😅 and feeding whilst eating. My shoulders are killing me lol.
Oh his sisters are absolutely obsessed with him! Two live further away with their mum but they came especially the day after he was born, driving two hours just to see him briefly when we came home from hospital. They loooove him. They’ve been down a few times since so we see a lot more of them 😅 the eldest lives close by with OH’s mum so she sees him most days. And she misses him when she’s away for a few days. It’s very cute 🥰
Oh another thing I wanted to share with you - the day after he was born, when we had all these examinations before we could go home, one of the doctors that came around to look at him had looked though our file and said “ah he’s a “precious” baby” referring to him being an ivf baby. I thought that was such a lovely and great acknowledgment of the journey we’ve been through to get him and how wanted and special he is! Of course every baby is precious and special, but I’m sure you know what I mean. Such a lovely way of putting it by the doctor I thought 🥹🥹💝
We’ve also applied for his passport two weeks ago and we got it already 🥳🥳 it’s amazing how quickly you get a passport in the UK and all online. We’ll have to fill in a long application and go to the embassy in London to get him a German passport and then it takes 10-12 weeks 🤦♀️ anyway we got one and we’ve booked flights to see my parents in Germany end of August. And we’re planning a holiday with my parents in October. I want them to see George as often as possible so they build a relationship and he learns his German well, not just through me 😊
@Decaffe aw I know little George still doesn’t like being changed. He seems to like it hot. He’s got poor circulation in his hands and feet and gets cold very quickly. And he sneezes straight away when he gets a chill 😂 he’s got that from me 😂 so funny 🤣
@Imisscoffee2021 I know I never thought about all the things you don’t know yet as a first time parent 😱 and how you’d do a lot/everything different/better with your second child (which we won’t have but just saying 😅) bit annoying George gets to be the one and only Guinea pig 😕 poor boy 😅
And yes skin to skin in hot weather is no fun. He gets sweated all over by me and gets spots bless him. Last weekend’s heat really wasn’t fun. I’m glad it’s not usually hot in the UK when it comes to having a baby!
@KLM25 I know I can’t believe nobody tells you how tough breastfeeding is. And why is it so tough? Most things in nature are designed to work super efficiently and perfectly. But not breastfeeding?! Unless we’re doing something wrong these days? I find it mad 😅 it’s the single most difficult thing I’ve had to master in my life 😂
Oh it was very funny in the hospital with my private en-suite room - I was in a north facing and so the coldest room on the ward. Everybody that came in to check on us was saying how lovely and cool it is in our room while the rest of the ward was roasting. We probably had more people coming in than we should’ve just so they could cool down 😂
@Spin101 yes I’m recovering well thank you. Again the first two weeks it was all quite sore and tender but feeling okay now 😊 scar is healing well. But I don’t like how it is all numb 😬 again I never knew this would happen. It’s so strange. I hope I get some feeling back. Planning to book a c section scar massage and hope it’ll help 🤞
Sending lots of love and hope everybody is doing well 😊❤️ xx