Thursday, 30 June 2011
Womb Mosher
It would appear that Little Lady likes nothing more than moshing to some Metallica, looks like she takes after her Daddy already!
Monday, 13 June 2011
Luke Comes Home!
Whilst on holiday in April I got a very big shock from a friend. She'd sent me this message on Face.book:
"Hey, here's a wedding present for you, I had my baby boy at 7am this morning. Love you"
Short, sweet and to the point but also a huge shock! I started panicking as she never said if he was alright. Luckily Dad let me phone her to check all was ok. She told us her waters had gone on the Saturday night, she never realised what it was, she only thought she'd had an accident. Through the night she had really bad tummy pains and called the midwife who told her to come into the hospital on Monday morning to get checked up.
The pains eventually stopped/got less painful and she managed to get her check-up on Monday. All was ok, her cervix was still closed, she wasn't in labour. By Monday evening the pains started again so she called the midwife who told her to take some paracetamol for the pain as it was probably Braxton Hicks. This continued all the way to late Tuesday evening when the pain became so bad that paracetamol wasn't even working. Another call to the midwife who said to take some more paracetamol and have a hot bath. Once she tried that and it never helped she called them back again and was told to wait until 7.30am to come in and get a check-up again. Luckily her sister was staying with her and wasnt comfortable seeing K in such distress so she drove her to the hospital straight away.
Another check-up and the midwife says her cervix is still closed and she's definately not in labour. Then they strapped a monitor to her belly and realised she was having contractions. When K told them she had the urge to push they got her onto the bed and her little boy Luke was born at 7.01am Wednesday 13th April weighing only 2lb 9ounces. He was 12 weeks early.
Luke then had to stay in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit as his lungs weren't strong enough to cope with breathing by himself, nor could he feed normally. He was put on a monitor to record his pulse, an oxygen tube to help him breathe and a food tube was inserted into his tummy to feed him.
Over the past 8 weeks theis little fighter has come on leaps and bounds and K finally got him home on Saturday! He's feeding normally from a bottle and no longer needs oxygen to help him breathe. He's also put on a lot of weight and is now 6lb 4ounces of terribly cute baby chubb!
So I'm off to go see him today and get my very first cuddle off him!
"Hey, here's a wedding present for you, I had my baby boy at 7am this morning. Love you"
Short, sweet and to the point but also a huge shock! I started panicking as she never said if he was alright. Luckily Dad let me phone her to check all was ok. She told us her waters had gone on the Saturday night, she never realised what it was, she only thought she'd had an accident. Through the night she had really bad tummy pains and called the midwife who told her to come into the hospital on Monday morning to get checked up.
The pains eventually stopped/got less painful and she managed to get her check-up on Monday. All was ok, her cervix was still closed, she wasn't in labour. By Monday evening the pains started again so she called the midwife who told her to take some paracetamol for the pain as it was probably Braxton Hicks. This continued all the way to late Tuesday evening when the pain became so bad that paracetamol wasn't even working. Another call to the midwife who said to take some more paracetamol and have a hot bath. Once she tried that and it never helped she called them back again and was told to wait until 7.30am to come in and get a check-up again. Luckily her sister was staying with her and wasnt comfortable seeing K in such distress so she drove her to the hospital straight away.
Another check-up and the midwife says her cervix is still closed and she's definately not in labour. Then they strapped a monitor to her belly and realised she was having contractions. When K told them she had the urge to push they got her onto the bed and her little boy Luke was born at 7.01am Wednesday 13th April weighing only 2lb 9ounces. He was 12 weeks early.
Over the past 8 weeks theis little fighter has come on leaps and bounds and K finally got him home on Saturday! He's feeding normally from a bottle and no longer needs oxygen to help him breathe. He's also put on a lot of weight and is now 6lb 4ounces of terribly cute baby chubb!
So I'm off to go see him today and get my very first cuddle off him!
Thursday, 9 June 2011
I'm Slacking...
...with posting on here. Sorry!
Well, just to update, we are currently 28wks + 4days and quite comfortably into the third trimester :)
I had my 28 week midwife appointment on Tuesday for bloodworks (they really are vampires!) to test for Gestational Diabetes, Anaemia or any infections. If we don't hear back from them by the end of next week then we've to assume that all is well, so fingers crossed!
Miss J also measured my bump and I am happy to announce I am only measuring 29cm at 28 weeks! The rule of thumb is that you measure 1cm per week of gestation, so I should be measuring 28cm. I'm just so glad I'm not any bigger as bump is quite big and a lot of people have said we're going to have a big baby because of my size - well they can all stick it because our little girl is average size and we're just fine with that! At least I am, as it means I won't have to push out a ginormous baby!
In other news, we've settled very nicely into our new home :) It really feels like we've never been anywhere else. All our boxes are unpacked, we have our own photos on the walls, it's just so much easier being here and having everything sorted. The next big venture is doing the nursery room up for our Little Lady! I've started building the small things, her under-cot drawer and changer unit are done, it's just the cotbed, drawers and wardrobe that needs done. I probably won't start this until I'm on maternity leave, which by the way, starts in three weeks! I can't wait to put my feet up and relax for a while before Little Lady is here :)
Oh, we've decided Noodle is not to be called Noodle anymore, we kinda went off the name when we found out she's a little girl. So now we're calling her Little Lady. She seems to respond to it now that we keep calling her it when we're playing with the bump, so it's stuck.
Anyway, Little Lady is doing great. Kicking away as I type this. As she's gotten bigger she's started to reach my ribs and I've had a couple of sore jabs lately but I wouldn't change the feeling of her moving and kicking for anything. It really is my favourite thing in the world right now :)
Well, just to update, we are currently 28wks + 4days and quite comfortably into the third trimester :)
I had my 28 week midwife appointment on Tuesday for bloodworks (they really are vampires!) to test for Gestational Diabetes, Anaemia or any infections. If we don't hear back from them by the end of next week then we've to assume that all is well, so fingers crossed!
Miss J also measured my bump and I am happy to announce I am only measuring 29cm at 28 weeks! The rule of thumb is that you measure 1cm per week of gestation, so I should be measuring 28cm. I'm just so glad I'm not any bigger as bump is quite big and a lot of people have said we're going to have a big baby because of my size - well they can all stick it because our little girl is average size and we're just fine with that! At least I am, as it means I won't have to push out a ginormous baby!
In other news, we've settled very nicely into our new home :) It really feels like we've never been anywhere else. All our boxes are unpacked, we have our own photos on the walls, it's just so much easier being here and having everything sorted. The next big venture is doing the nursery room up for our Little Lady! I've started building the small things, her under-cot drawer and changer unit are done, it's just the cotbed, drawers and wardrobe that needs done. I probably won't start this until I'm on maternity leave, which by the way, starts in three weeks! I can't wait to put my feet up and relax for a while before Little Lady is here :)
Oh, we've decided Noodle is not to be called Noodle anymore, we kinda went off the name when we found out she's a little girl. So now we're calling her Little Lady. She seems to respond to it now that we keep calling her it when we're playing with the bump, so it's stuck.
Anyway, Little Lady is doing great. Kicking away as I type this. As she's gotten bigger she's started to reach my ribs and I've had a couple of sore jabs lately but I wouldn't change the feeling of her moving and kicking for anything. It really is my favourite thing in the world right now :)
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