Jan 2012 - Higgs Boson Gang pt1

[Oeisha]

Link to antenatal thread for convenience

Not a very good title, but it will suffice 'til we fill this one in record time!

Congratulations to all that have popped so far!

Congrats on your engagement kelli

I am suffering with the farmers too have been back to docs for two different lots of creams (proctosedyl first to no avail but now got sheroproct which is doing tge trick) and thankfully seem to be on tge mend! If you've tried anusol and it did nothing, defo go to docs. Mine got so painful I couldnt sleep or sit down!!!!

Congratulations kelli x

Congrats Kelli! Hope he did it properly and got down in one knee!

Pleased to say the iPad Womb Sounds app seems to be helping in settling our lil Jimbo, he's not grizzling as soon as we put him down in his Moses basket, he'll just lay and listen for a while and starts to nod . Gives us chance to have our meals together in peace for ten minutes!! Only problem is DH is iPadless whilst its in use (I may start an "AIBU to get my one week old baby his own iPad?" thread)

I also have piles now to add to my list of woes...............I had a CS why the hell have I got them?? Thrush, piles infected scar and carpel tunnel!!!! I just want to be normal again!!!!!
On the nice side though Meg was much more settled during the night waking at 1am and 4am for feeds then going back down nicely :)

Congratulations on your engagement kelli

Hi everyone

I have finally had a chance to come over to this thread! Hope everyone is well, and congratulations on all our lovely new babies!

Our lovely little boy Joe arrived on the 17th, he was 8days late and after a 12 hour labour where I dilated to 9 cms - I had my 2nd emcs. After a bit of a tricky start with the breast feeding, it was agony, it has settled down - although he seems to prefer one boob to the other! I got some great help from the breast/bottle feed board on here

I also have 3 yo dd who is great with him! I'm really surprised though she'd be really jealous as she's a bit on the spoiled side [embarrassed], but he's been lots of cuddles and kisses! But we are having a hard time when leaving her at nursery in the morning, hopefully will settle down.

I managed to get out of the house for a walk yesterday - first time I'd left the house since coming home from hospital!

Congrats Kelli xxx

Congrats buzz

Abigail Susan May born 0649 Tuesday 24th January. 7lb3oz. Finally got home last night! :D

I got form waters breaking to 5min contractions VERY quiclky (40mins). Back pain was god awful so went in with the whole "you'll be hours yet". Quick check at 6cm, then 20mins later, 8cm and leaving me only with pethidine and entonox. Got her to the head crowing phase after about an hour and then NOTHING for 3h despite birthing stool, (couldn't stand), hanging on to back of bed, on side, whatever. Ended up with forceps and it was utter bliss to have her wee head pop out. She was very alert immediatly. Ended up wiht a retained placenta so got my spinal eventually!

As for now, she's not BF yet. Tying to. But not yet. She's got all the componenets bt just won't string them together. I'm expressing about 100-130ml every 3h, so she's got plenty to eat when she does want to feed.

Oh, I keep faling asleep with her in my arms at night... . She had a brilliant 3rd night, but lastnight was back to yelling and wanting to suckle on the bottle, but not feed. Gonna have to suffer it out aren't I and just be harsh and not let her suckle...

Midwife's just been and we're good.

We're off in to town later...I broke the toilet seat lastnight...

Just to sicken you all, I'm in my pre-pg jeans today...

Welcome to any newcomers, congratualtions to any other birthers and apologies if I've missed anything exciting!

Congrats Oeisha we've been eagerly awaiting your update

Congrats Oiesha, Buzz and Kelli.

Nice to "meet" you all!

Everything going ok here. Thea is still very sleepy and jaundiced, so I'm having to wake her to get enough feeds in. I wish the Jaundice would clear up, as it's such a worry. I am making the most of the sleep though as I know it won't last!!

I'm feeling sore, my cellulitis (skin infection) is clearing, but leaving very bruised skin, which is worse than when it was infected as then it was numb. That combined with the clexane injections (did anyone else have to have these post section, or just my hospital?) means that my tummy looks and feels horrendous.

Otherwise ok. Ds is being a little "challenging.." but at least is sleeping through again which in the last month of my pregnancy was pretty rare. DH is realising how much hard work it is looking after DS which is no bad thing!!! I don't think I will be getting many of the "have you not managed to empty the wading machine/dishwasher etc" comments for a while!

Anyway, I hope you all don't mind me joining the thread? I sort of lost track of the ante natal one (was due in feb..) .

Ahh MN ate my post!

Anyways...

Congrats buzz
Congrats oiesha, Ds was also a fussy/lazy eater at the beginning. He got the hang of it after a few days and then tried to feed off of everything ie Breast, Bottle, Dora the Explorer etc. We however have had to close down the breast shop as it couldnt keep up with the demand of the hungry horace.

Ds is 2 weeks old today, where has the time gone?!

Another night of solid sleep from midnight to 5am, I could get used to this. The rotten cold I woke up with however is free for the taken if anyone wants it....

Also back in my pre-pregnancy jeans too, big surprise as it took a few months after dd was born.

Evening all,

well were doing ok-i'm still wibbly-my blood count is still low despite transfusion and iron supplements coming out of my ears. had some pretty good nights from the boy but his poor tummy does get very windy and it makes me sad to see his poor little uncomfortable face. BF is going great guns-i am just about to try expressing using a medela electic jobbie that someone has lent me. The boy was taking top ups of formula but he has decided that he likes booby best now so formula gets spat out with a scream of rage.

Dreading dh going back to work-makes me want to cry. 3 more days :( It's taken me so long to even spend a whole day upright that I feel I have missed any bonding time we could have had. He's been an utter super star and I am so in love with all my family right now...whee happy hormones :) which makes a huge difference to how I was last time.

wow oiesha :)

i'm so chuffed almost everyone is here and safe and well. Everyone is doing so well xx

I'm worried that peanuts has been totally off radar though. If youre lurking lovely, I'm thinking of you. xxx

Is there a breast feeding section on MN? I can't find one - which seems odd.

Yep, if you go to All Topics it's under Feed The World and then Breast and Bottle Feeding X

Excellent - thanks

Congratulations oeisha buzz and Kelli, all fantastic news!! And whoever called their baby phoenix love, I am so impressed, what a gorgeous exotic name. My OH vetoed everything along those lines!

Hello all. Sorry for my temporary absence. I was very emotionally wobbly after the c sec and how far the birth had been from my hopes and expectations and didn't feel able to join in the conversation in a positive way.

Look forward to moving on from the birth and focusing on all our lovely babies now :)

ps - anyone else got a scabby, spotty baby atm?

No but Thea has a red mark on her eyelid that doesn't sleeps to be fading. Also milk spots on her chin.

Cameron had spots on his nose and cheeks. DD had them too and they cleared up after a couple of weeks. Apparently dabbing a bit of breast milk on can help them clear up quicker.

Parsley could it be a stork bite birthmark? DD had one on the corner of her Eyelid. They fade off after a few weeks.

Parsley try putting vaseline on her chin before feeding. My niece was really bad with milk spots and doing this cleared her chin up.

Welcome back Cakes x

So managed to go 42weeks of pregnancy with constipation issues. The mw put me on iron tablets and they are strongly disagreeing with me. Not amused.

Had to buy Ds a snow suit size 3-6months today!

Took me 5 days to go after the c-section sho. Resorted to my friend Lactulose in the end (which I can now have again as the GD has gone)

I was doing alright in the loo department before these tablets, which iv since stopped. Have drank loads of cranberry juice tonight so hopefully will feel better soon. If not Il be looking for an introduction to your friend parsley

Hello ladies,
So, I gave birth to William Wilbur Treat aka Wilbur at 08h19 on 18th January, by c section, weighing 7lbs 13oz and all was wonderful. He was a very healthy, calm content little babe.

On Tuesday night and the early hours of Wednesday morning, he started to be sick. Very badly. So, as not to scare anyone after a very long and traumatic day, he underwent life saving surgery at 21h00 that evening. After a terrifying and bumpy few days in NICU he has now been moved to the baby ward and is doing really well and gaining strength every hour.

His bowel was malrotated and upside down and moving the wrong way, so his body had filled up with bile Anderson ad septicaemia too. His appendix was under his heart.......
Poor chicken.

Anyway, I am completely freaked out but so incredibly relieved he is improving and am feeling much, much more positive. Until today I hadn't seen my other two little darlings since Wednesday and we didn't have sleep, clean clothes or wash bags until Friday night so you can imagine how it's been. He was so, so very sick it was terrifying. It was touch and go at the end of Wednesday and we were frozen and helpless. We couldn't do anything. If I had got him to the hospital an hour later.......Lord knows.

Anyway, I couldn't let you know until I felt that he was ok and recovering and we are today feeling very positive and have every confidence he will make a full recovery. He "Wilbur" fine, he "Wilbur" absolutely ok......hence the name.....Wilbur.
He is gorgeous and we are blessed and lucky and eternally grateful to all the staff and to our family - especially my Mum who actually moved in to our house and has been looking after both our babies who are baffled and at home poor darlings.

I hope that everybody is well and their lovely little lamb chops are too and im sorry if this post freaks any of you out.

By the way, I am looking for a night nanny BIG TIME if anybody knows one! Even if when we get home he sleeps from 19h00 to 07h00 without stirring, I would still be checking on him every 30 mins so I'm going to need a lot of help and a lot of reassurance!

Oh and he hasn't had anything to eat (nil by mouth) since Wednesday 04h00........Dummies are my friend!?! never thought I'd say it.....my milk dried up within the first 48 hours and I'm expressing round the clock to try and get it back...........

What's happening Mummies? Tell me all x

Oh peanuts you and Wilbur have had such a horrendous time. I'm so glad he's on the road to recovery now though and I very much hope every day sees him getting stronger and stronger. I can't even begin to imagine how scary the last couple of weeks have been for you!

Big hugs x