Congrats to all the new amazing mamas!!!
It’s amazing to see all the pictures and hear the birth stories.
I thought I’d update that I had my little boy on 3rd September at 37+4 via elcs. His name is Dexter!
He weighed 7lb 5oz so a little chunk considering he was 2.5 weeks early.
His blood sugars were perfect after birth and even got a perfect 10/10 on his apgar score.
I had him at 9.50am, the section itself took a while, mostly sorting me out once he was born, I was sterilised at the same time, and lost a lot of blood, but all turned out fine. We were back in recovery by 11.30am and he was feeding like a champ. No need for the colostrum I’d managed to collect.
Back up on the ward by 1.30/2pm. My partner could have stayed the night with us but we have dogs that he needed to get back for, so he left at about 10.30pm and returned the next morning around 9am.
We were given the ok to go home after the doctors had finally done their rounds to check on the baby, so we ended up leaving hospital at 5pm on 4th.
10 days old today and he’s just a dream! Feel so unbelievably lucky. He has to have an ultrasound scan at 6 weeks as I was born with clicky hips. My other children all had to have the scan too, but we’re all fine. There are no indications that Dexter has it, but they have to scan.
He only lost 7% of his birth weight so that was good. He had looked a little jaundiced on day 3 but his levels were still well below the level for treatment so we had plenty of walks in the day light to rectify that. His levels are much better now.
Basically to sum it up, he’s a dream, I’m fine, and my partner and I are just enjoying every second in our little baby bubble!