October 2011 - weaning here we come!

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Oh bilblio :( crossing fingers that Seth gets better soon, poor little lad

Exciting fuzzzy - how are you storing it, freezing in ice cube trays?

biblio get well soon to Seth, and hope you get a rest soon, so hard taking care of a sick baby.

You lot have been chatty :o RL takes over or a few days and I'm way behind!
Not really caught up properly yet, more marking my place, hope everyone is doing ok, W is very grumpy and screaming lots had his 4 month jabs on Monday on top of teething.

[bilblio] hope Seth is doing alright and is back his normal self soon

biblio that must be really scary; hope you're ok and that Seth is feeling better soon.

mama interestingly I went back through my labour notes with a midwife last week. I found it really interesting and learned a lot like why i was moved to the consultant unit, that both my babies were back to back, Alex had the cord round the back of his neck, how long it took to recussitate him, how old he was before he was given to us, and discovered that if I ever have another baby I will

Not be allowed near the mlu. Any future deliveries will be in the consultant unit. I do pregnancy well and I do breast feeding well but I'm rubbish at labour.

That's interesting, iv always wanted to read through my labour notes. So much happened towards the end, I was completely out of it and feel I wasn't given much advice at times. I think they knew it was going to end in either a section or with forceps as her heart was dropping really low. I didn't know that I would have to have epidural if forceps were to be used so I feel like I should have been offered it much earlier rather than having to wait hours and in the end to only get 20 mins from it before she was born!! Maybe I'll look into getting them.. It's not put me off having more children but think I would be very scared of labour as it wasn't a great experience!!

I'd love to read through my labour notes do you think I'd be able to get hold of them for both births? I'd really just like a nosey neither was particularly bad actually I quite enjoyed the experience with mhairi and would love something to help me remember it.

How do you go about getting them?

You should fuzzy, mine are a facinating read - esp in terms of the times between stages, and knowing how long I pushed for etc. DH also got a print out of A's heart rate which is interesting, altho am glad I didn't know at the time how much stress he was under (hence the forceps). I wasn't really aware at the time about how the cord was wrapped around his neck either

Anyone can access any of their medical notes, just write to the hospital, there may be a slight charge for admin but they have to provide them within so many days 28 I think. I have to do training in this stuff but it's very boring so I forget it all.

Seth is okay, not great but better. We're all in bed, shattered, feeding, hoping for sleep soon.

I'm glad Seth is going in the right direction, fingers crossed that a good night will help him too.

L is sleeping, DH is sleeping and I'm in my pjs watching the Brits to try and spot my DSis! She works in the music industry in London. What different lives we lead!

I think I will. I honestly don't remember much after a certain point but I do remember at the point of delivery, the alarm button was pushed and suddenly there was about 10 people in the room!! My mum was in tears and I could hear all the doctors talking but I wasn't taking anything in, IYSWIM? Don't know what the hell was coming through my drip

bilbilo glad Seth a bit better and hope you have a good night

I was consultant led care, just unlucky with mw that was on. J has finally fallen asleep, phew

Golemmings - ds1 and ds2 were OP. bloody painful, dd wasn't op and tho I'd say almost as painful, it was much much quicker. I feel daft going over it but really not happy with how we were cared for. Paranoid about raking it up as had to go over ds1 post birth care and actually had PND which I think was in part due to this.

I have to say my care was fantastic, it was just all quite traumatic and I just had a lot of unanswered questions. Our hospital offers a talkabout service from 6 weeks after birth where a midwife goes through your notes with you and can explain what was recorded.

I didn't bother doing it with dd but I found the aftermath if Alex's birth really hard to deal with.

biblio glad Seth is doing better. You still in hospital?

Crossing fingers for Seth, poor little boy :( hope you manage to get some rest too x
My hospital notes would be incredibly dull- along the lines of "rang midwives at 2am with contractions. Advised to come in as baby was breech. Arrived 2.45, on a monitor 3am. Definite contractions, breech, 1cm dilated. Theatre free so signed risk assessment forms and epidural at 4am. Baby chopped out delivered at 5am."

"Patient then vomited fish and chips after operation, narrowly avoiding newborn"

Lol sch. I was talking all sorts of nonsense due to the gas and air . At one point I even thought there was a cat in the room and asked the mw if I could stroke it

Bilblio hope Seth is ok?

Ooh everyone talking about births is making me cross my legs, I have no desire to go through my notes I think I'd prefer for the labour to disappear into the mists of time in my memory otherwise E is likely to be an only child

So today was ok, had a meeting to get full brief on role and then did a but of research nothing too strenuous but I was very glad when it was over and I could snuggle E!

Sorry forgot to say, yes we're out of hospital. His SAT's were borderline for admission when we went in but they improved enough over the day without treatment for us to come home. Apparently days 5 and 6 are the worst with bronciolitus, and we're there now. We've been given 24 hour open access, so just phone the ward is we're worried and a nurse is visiting at home today.

I've brought hum downstairs as he woke for another feed but then started coughing and wouldn't have anymore. The problem is he's such a drama queen, huge sighs when he coughs which wakes dh. I'm too soft, dh is a sahd, so he should be up too, but he annoys me when he's tired so i'm going to get Seth to sleep and put him on his mat, and I'll sleep on the sofa. Then dh can look after us without being grumpy and annoying me.

So glad I was in bed for 9:30. Feel refreshed.

Oh he was weighed at the hospital too. 18lb 4oz at 18 weeks! Just realized he was 9lb at birth so that's 1/2 a pound a week. No wonder my back hurts. I need to take up weights. I'm envious of all the cute little babies. We're in 6-9 clothes now.

Glad you're home bilb and S :)

A cat in the room FD

I have no desire to read my labour notes, not because there was anything horrid or scary but as I don't really have any idea what time the mw turned up at home (could have been 7am, could have been 10am) and the rest of the timeframe is much the same I kind of want to keep a bit of the vagueness. Because I was doing my breathing and had my eyes closed the only time I know is when she was born because it was recorded!

Does anyone have any thoughts on this, I have posted in Sleep too but trying to get as much opinion as possible....

As P hardly ever sleeps well for the second half of the night I started last night more actively trying to not pick her up the instant she cried for a feed. Surely if she fed 30-45 mins before she cannot be hungry?

Last night has meant a lot of crying but then it only seems to be for a couple of minutes at a time. I don't know if I am doing the right thing, she has just been really loud crying but then stopping then starting again.

Now she is yelling her head off and is clearly wide awake but usually she would be asleep - I presume because she would have fed. Anyway am going for a shower and leaving her to shout at her mobile.

I feel a bit of an evil Mummy this morning (and confused).

Have mixed feelings about going back to work penelope. On the one hand I love being a mum and Monday morning I won't be feeding M in bed and snuggling up in our pyjamas (preferable to teaching teenagers anyday), but on the other hand I'm ready for a bit more adult interaction outside these four walls. DH and I have also been spending a lot of time together since M was born as he's been home a lot more with his depression. I think it'll be good for him to have some time alone with M (he's on daddy duty one day a week).

Am also hoping that my MIL having M one day a week will stop my FIL coming round to my house every sodding day (though I'm not holding my breath). Sent him off with a flea in his ear yesterday as he was peering in through the kitchen door because I didn't answer the door within one minute. I KNOW that he's crazy about M and just wants to see him but he really needs to learn to give us some space or we just won't let him in (a tactic which has been employed in the past). I don't want to sound like an evil DIL...I took M round on Mon afternoon when we got back from England to see them while DH was sleeping on the sofa.

cheshire sometimes Max cries when he wants a bit of attention. The last two nights back in Holland he has slept through with a few whimpering cries at 3 or 4am. I ignored him and he went straight back to sleep.

bilblio am trying to cram M into all the nice clothes we've been given before he grows out of them but he seems huge! he's 7.5kg now....16lb7?? brain won't convert properly! Hope Seth is on the mend.

Cheshire, it sounds like she is using you as a dummy. You could try giving her a bottle in the night, to see how hungry she actually is? That happened to us last week, he was waking up all the time for boob, but when I made him a bottle he only had one oz so clearly not hungry!

If c wakes up and I know he's not hungry I just switch the mobile on and he's usually asleep by thr time it stops. Does p take a dummy?

I couldn't be bothered getting up this morning so we've had a play in bed and now I think he's getting tired so going for a nap soon, so more sleep for me, woo!

bilbio glad you are home and S doing well. That must have been so scary for you!
I would also like to see my labour notes as I was admitted to hospital with bleeding initially, but noone explained where it had come from and I bled through the whole process. I read somewhere that you go through PALS? Or do I just write to the hospital directly?
Rubbish night here again L awake almost every half and hour to an hour just wery windy and stretching and crying lots. he doesn't feed during the night, he has his bottle at 6pm then again when we go to bed around 10-11 and then he goes through the night, but is constantly stretching and moaning through the night. This is a third night in a row and I am shattered!!
Hope everyone else is ok and had a better night than me!

Seems these babies are up to their games again!! S is sleeping well, but it gets to 5am and she starts to become unsettled. I am just not ready to get up at 5am so I'm often up and down giving dummy back. Got to 6.30am and I brought her in beside me but I turned my head away as I find that if I'm laying looking at her, she stays awake. But she proceeds to kicking my back, grabbing my hair etc. I turn round and she just goes . Was funny but I'm just not a morning person!! Maybe it's my sleep that needs sorted

No real advice cheshire. Does sound though like she prob isn't hungry but just not falling into a deep sleep therefor waking up so much. Have you tried a dummy?

It's a horrible day here. Quite morning then off to visit some friends. I'm wondering, are any babys showing signs of sitting unaided? I try with S but she just keeps throwing herself back!!!