October 2008 Mum’s and bub’s

here's little Sonya having playtime :)

Aaaww cute photo!!

I will be cheeky and cut and paste this from the other forum

So Ash is out of theatre, it went really well, but now is the hard part - recovery! They say the first two days are when they have to watch him and make sure nothing crazy happens. He is totally zonked out with tubes coming out of everywhere and on so many drugs its not funny as you can imagine. When we first saw him he jumped a bit when they did something and opened his eyes and looked at us, but he was totally out of it so it was terrible to see. I was kinda expecting him to be completely asleep like last time. But they gave him some more *something magical* and he is back asleep. All the nurses were having a spazz coz he wasn't doing what they expected and had to give him a balloon thing to bring up his saturations and they called all these people in, so for a while it was totally scary. But when the surgeon came in she set them all straight and said he is doing fine enough. Phew I feel so much better now. He ended up having a shunt put in and they did it through his ribs so this time it wasn't in his chest, he just has a gnarly scar on his side. But as people tell me chicks dig scars so thats fine :P It was all pretty much as horrible as I expected, he is sooo little and too cute to be all cut up!! BUT he will be out of here in no time!!

Hi I thought I might post in here since I have been lurking on the due Oct board for a while. And I figure I would appreciate the support you guys give to eah other. My name is Jo, I had my 9lb 3oz baby James on Tuesday 14th october after a 24hr labour ending in an emergency c-section, pretty crazy this whole birth thing and I can't believe that I had this whole person inside me, we finally got let home today so are stoked to be at home, was going to meltdown otherwise. have some pain, and are still tired. but it is great having DH there to carry the unsettlled load instead of going home at night leaving me, my MW told him that I wasn't to do anything but sleep and feed, which currently is almost every hour. Anyway look forward to sharing this journey with you guys if thats ok

Hey, we live in Te Puke, My DH is great he's still in awe of me after the birth where he felt a bit useless, so he will do anything for me. I actually wonder whether my dates were a little bit out, cause I was 12 days over and got induced, there will always be that wonder if I could have done it my self. James has now slept 1 1/2 hours which is a bit nerve wraking, but I really dont want to wake him for a feed

Hi Jo - welcome. It's great to have a supportive DH. Mine is off back to work tomorrow which is a shame. He is making me lunch as I type - which I guess I will have to sort out for myself as of tomorrow. He has even said he will do the ironing this afternoon :)

Fi - I find it really hard to sleep in the day as well. I only have a nap about every 3 days - when I am so exhausted that I just have to.

The MW came around to see Sonya this morning and everything is going really well. A couple of times we have had to wake Sonya for a feed at night after about 4 hours but since she is putting on good weight the MW said we can leave her as long as we like at night. I have this dream that she will sleep for 7 hours or so if we leave her but knowing our luck she will be up every two hours tonight. I guess we just have to remember that there is no routine for at least another month

Hi all, well we had a pretty good night, Finley went down around midnight and got up at 3 then that was it until about 6 and i managed some sleep too, so feel pretty human today, amazing what you get used to.

Quick query, if you express a bit and put that in the fridge can you add more to the same mix later, i need to express a whole feed but can't do it in one sitting at the mo.

Had some 5 day blues last night, dh made roast dinner and just as i started eating i just started to cry, so we had a good cuddle, dinner got cold and then i felt fine again - weird.

Emma that's great about Lily gaining weight. MW weighed DS yesterday and he has only lost 100g or 2oz since birth which she is thrilled about as he barely fed for the first 3 days.

Jo, thanks for that, I thought you must be able to. I need to express a bit anyway since my milk came in, my boobs just leak and leak and leak and he can't latch on unless i get rid of some.

The emotional bit for me comes at moments i least expect its weird.

How long does a baby feed from each side. Finley happily spends 30 mins on each side, sometimes 1 side is enough but its always 30 mins, i wondered whether he is comfort suckling but i can hear him swallow all the time so he must still be feeding.

DH is trying the evening feed tonight - wish us luck. For some reason it makes me nervous.

Chonny with David being past his birth weight it sounds like  you are doing a great job, which is awesome considering the pain you must be in.

Does he sleep 6 hours without needing a feed - wow.

Finley can manage 3.5 or 4 hours sleep in one go but that's about it, still i'm happy with that.

Dh did the late evening feed last night, i went to bed at 9 and thought I would never sleep through but i just passed up and only woke at 2am, when Finley woke up for his next feed, 5 hours sleep - i feel like i could run a marathon now.

Oh yes, how much pain should i still be in, i had a big tear and a perineal tear and many stitches but my tail bone feels so sore, it still means i am walking round very slowly. My mw said not to walk any great distant for 10 days or so, but just wondering how sore others are?????

Just thought I'd catch up with things in this thread. Suppose everyone will move over here properly once all babys are out!

I am amazed at these babies sleeping for so long! Avivas longest sleep since the first day (when she slept for about 6hrs) has been 3hrs, mostly only 2hrs! But I'm not complaining - I have to go check on her if she doesn't wake up to make sure she's still okay!!

For the record Fi, I was told I had no tears & still was sore for a couple of days, weeing is only just becoming okay after nearly a week because of grazes! Hope your tears heal quickly. Not to diminish yours, just to let you know I think there is pain however you go!!

I have Aviva in a wrap at the moment because she didn't want to sleep (she has these 2hr 'awake' periods which she will not cut short!!), she has gone to sleep now and is so cute to have sleeping on me!

good luck with the grandparents Fi (these are the in-laws aren't they?). Mine were pretty tiring!