congratulations to all the new mummies!
hi all checking in and will need to do some serious recapping on both threads
wee George Cosmo is now a week and 2 hours old and I'm celebrating with my much needed skin to skin time.
I feel more like he was born today than last week. Ill give a proper birth story another time - despite the 'emergency' bit I found the whole thing very positive. what I found harder the deal with was his weight - 5lb 2 oz - at 42 weeks. I sort of was in shock all week, on top of the physical shock my body was in as it was not at all predicted from scans e.tc though I'd noticed measurements hadn't increased for the last few weeks. anyway, despite my worries it was my fault/some sort of syndrome/illness etc he is now more than fine. I feel I've had some bonding issues as a result of the section and worry. my placenta was small though oddly they said very healthy for 42 wks. I feel he either just didn't lay down fat stores as he's long but v skinny or started to loose them.
the best thing is my milk supply was freaky, talk about feeding the 5000 with the colostrum and the transition milk may as well have been proper milk! and wee Cosmo came out ready to guzzle - the nurses were hesitant but then so impressed with him when I finally poo pooed their 3 hourly feeds with top ups (worried more bf was too tiring for him) and went to demand feeding, because basically he was really demanding it (doesn't really cry air it tho) - in 2 days he put on 140g!
so he's now 5.lb 5oz so fingers crossed he can keep it up :) I've learnt a lot about yellow and green poo today from the la lech league and breastfeeding support line. the hardest thing in hospital ( apart from attempting to hand express colostrum 30 hours post op bent over a cup in the dark as the light didn't work with my glasses falling off my nose trying to hold my mobile in my teeth for light) - was the mammoth amounts of conflicting advice about bf! drove me nuts!
sorry big me post and I'm looking forward to reading all the stuff I've missed!