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3/12/08 19:43
3/12/08 11:16
Morning all.... hope every one is well, its quite quiet in here lately
are all your little ones and christmas keeping you busy ?? am sooooo glad i bought all my presents before Lexie was born and yesterday i made a good start at wrapping, going to do some cards today i think 
I had real good morning today, she slightly changed her pattern, ( last night settled a lot quicker than normal) so it meant her feeding times changed and she was then up at 7.30, yes it meant i missed out on an hours sleep ( but feel ok for it - at min anyway) but she then settle back down at 9am ( during this time though she was feed / top and taled and changed) but then i could have a bath potter about have breakfast etc plus come on here
expect her to wake round 12 now Vik, yes am nicly on the mend now thanks... Lexie gets weighed again tomorrow i reckon she easily topped 8lb now and she will only be 17 days lol... her little cheeks are filling out... and u had sun !! its soooooooooo cold here at min, and apprantly snow tomorrow.....
Lynn, hope you are better now hun...
Cat, how is the TTC doing ??
Claire / Ruth hope you are little ones are well
Take care all... H x
2/12/08 12:28
Hi all,
SOunds like you are on the mend Hannah - thats good and Lexie is doing well re sleeping. We have done the same re christmas - bought some things that we would have bought anyway and called them xmas presents. How much did Lexie weigh?? Had fatty - i mean Harry weighed last friday and he weighed 12lb 13.5oz - thats a gain of nealry 1lb in 10 days - so def not worried about him sleeping for longer at night.
Cat - are you on the TTC waggon again??? are you mad???? still i suppose Laila is a lot older than our lot and you don't know how long it will take this time. Good luck hon - sure you will let us know.
Well....we have started the new routkine. Going well expect the night time bit of trying to get Harry to fall asleep on hid own. Feed him and put him down slighty awake at 7ish and he instantly pings his eyes open and starts to cry. Wind him etc and then we have to leave him for at leazst 10 mins. He has never had to do this before - used to feed him onto sleeping coma and put him down very gently when he was asleep so it's our fault really. He has to learn to get himdelf to sleep esp as will be going into own room soon. It's so heartbreaking tho - PJ came home to me in tears last night and sunday ngiht as he was wailing his head off - as soon as i go up there he stops so i know there is nothing wrong with him. Last night i was really naughty and fed him a bit again - which he didn't want but instantly started to fall asleep on my boob -so had to take him off and put him down again and he was so upset. Trouble is he has a really loud heartbreaking cry - like someone if poking him with a hot poker so it's awful - have to persevers tho.
Right have to run off - off for a nice walk around the village - sun is coming out - hoorah.
vic.xxx
30/11/08 18:51
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27/11/08 11:52
Morning all, hope every one is doing well.....
Vik, Lexie is really good really and i now get more sleep now than i did when i was pg
I had quiet a good night last night, she as usual only woke her twice, yeah the first time we was up just over 1.5 hours but the second time she went back down after 30 mins... then this am, we all woke with her about 9.15 and i managed to feed / change her, and get dressed myself and be downstairs for about half ten :O midwife just been and that was her last visit
she has had another look at my birthing wound and has said even though it has come open she can see its knitting together and will just take longer to heal,she says i wouldnt have to go back in to have it re-do which pleased me as that was worrying me she reckons just take a bit longer to heal maybe another week or so.. (said if hadnt come open it would have been healed by now, but its due to it coming open) she also said to stop looking lol.... health visitor due this afternoon and she will weigh Lexie, i reckon she put on as her little cheeks seems chubbier heheAm deff looking forward to christmas, and hope am nicely expressing by then so i can have a drink hehe.... not sure we will buy her anything though she has loads !! and will get loads lol... might get something personalised with first christmas on as a bit of a keep sake and to say we got her something lol....
Hope everyone and there little ones are doing well... Cat hows the TTC doing
Take care all, Hannah and Lexie x x
26/11/08 22:18
Hi all,
DOH silly me - got my baby brain on re 0-3 months - glad sopmeone is on the ball Hannah.
Poor Lynne - hope you are feeling better soon hon. Try and get plenty of rest - easier said than done i'm sure - bad enough with just one child.
Hannah - weight gain sounds good. We never had any probs with Harry. He was 8lb11 when born and when weighed 10 days later was 9lb 3 - now approx 12lb so weight never really been a worry - well i worry but i'm a neurotic paranoid feeder mummy - convinced he might not be eating enough all the time even tho he is the size of a house and in 3-6 months baby grows already and size 3 nappies - chuffer.
Lynne - we may well try the formula feed. We are contenplating a routine change - have bought rachel Waddioloves book and routine in there looks goood and would help to cut out a night time feed nd set up some nap times during day. Also we need to get him used to his own bed room rather soon an really is out growing moses basket - can't move arms around and sure he keeps waking himdelf up by hitting side in sleep. so this week we have started to put him down in basket when he is still awake after feed and trying to get him to settle by self - not proving popular but only day 2. Last night he fed at 8, eventually went to sleep about 9-9.30ish but then slept untill 2.30 and woke for food - hardy ate anything and just went back to sleep (on me - whoops) untill 5.30 when woke and had bigger feed. Then unfortunaly didn't really settle back again but think my fault as went to use pump and when came back up think i smelt milky and woke him.
So we shall see what tonight holds - no pumping me thinks and if he wakes at 2ish again i shall try and get him to eat more and go back to sleep - hopefully till about 7ish. New routine will start at weekend - eek it's gonna be all change completly and sure he will be murder for a week or so but will be good in long run and will get him settled in naps i hope. Also having jabs on friday - eek. Figured we might as well get routine change over and done with when he is grumpy anyway and might be good as he will prob have an extra feed or so to get him on new feed times so will make him feel better after jabs.
Anyway i'm waffling on again and not asked how anyone is. How is everyone???
Sorry to hear about stitches Han - my c section wound got a bit weepy and had a little haematoma rupture so demanded antib's from very easy to persuade doc - she was a right pushover. Cleared it up in no time. Hope they don't have to re stitch - ouch. How is Lexie doing at night - are you managing to get some sleep?? - get plenty during day as well - i never rested enough during day and was bit weepy/less able to cope cos of it i think.
How are Ruth and Ems, Claire and Molly - and Tom and Cat and Laila and Jasmine???
Hope everyone looking forward to Xmas - just bought Harry's present - nice warm polartec snowsuit from Jojo maman bebe - cosy. Also bought him a pooh dream show thang for his cot (not really xmas presents as he needs them but we'll pretend and it's a good way of getting purchases past PJ - heheheheheheh)
lots of love
vic.xxx
25/11/08 16:05
ahhh Lynn big (((hug))) does seem you are having a bad run... i don hope you get better soon.....
Am also looking forward to christmas, hoping am nicely expressing by then as well so i can have a drink, didnt drink too much last year as we were TTC (well i was actually pg but didnt know - the one that ended in mc)
Ladies am still really really suffering though and soooooo sore, doc been round today and has confirmed my fears that the wound has opened but she said its not infected and can still see stitches so we just got to keep an eye on it and if need be left mw look on thurs, but for min i dont need to take any antibiotics, i get really tearful over it as hurts so much and soooooo scared they going to make me go back in and want to re-stitch as all i can remember is the pain of them doing first time ( think that was worse than the actually labour) So my question is, did you ladies ever had sttches ?? and if so did they go ok and how long to heal ??
Hope every one else is well, take care, Hannah and Lexie x x
25/11/08 13:56
hey all, i am easy too about the move just keep me informed, well guys i have another viral infection called viral flu, in me bed again i am not having a good run at it at all!
my body better sort itself out soon and i am like a spring chicken by xmas as i want to enjoy it as with being pregnant last xmas and throwing up all over the place i had a terrible xmas day and new year last year.
taylor away to nursery and my mum has isla as yesterday my dad came over and picked taylor up but i still had isla and she was unsettled yesterday so it was torture.
vicky you should deffo give formula milk for night time feed as this should put him through the night give it a try well a few nights anyway. i cant wait till i give simon his new laptop for xmas so that i can go on and see all the piccies and upload isla's and taylor's piccies.
hannah thats good about not loosing too mush weight i can remember taylor she was a terrible eater from day one and she weighed 7lb 3oz when born and when we went home two days later from hospital she was 6lb 9oz so she dropped a little too much isla lost 35 g but she was only in 1 day.
well hope all is well with everyone else and i am too looking forward to xmas cant wait will catch up with ou all soon xxxxx
23/11/08 17:04
Hi all, just a quicky, hope every one is well....... am still suffering quite a bit and got to keep an eye on things down there as we arent sure the stiches are holding everything together as nicely as they would like :S and its soooooooo sore, struggle to sit at times
Lexie was 5 days yesterday so mw came and weighed her, she was 7lb 2 1/2oz that works out she lost just over 3% so they were happy with that they back out on thurs ( 10 days) to weigh again....
And Vik most are out of the 0-3 months now lol... least in here is not mega busy and we always will be "general" ??? but am easy, just let me know if we move lol......
Speak soon, H x x
23/11/08 13:30
errrrr just thinking shouldn' we move to 0-3 months now??? seems a bit strange us being in baby on board given that no we have all popped????
shall we start a new thread???
xxxxx
21/11/08 14:50
hi all,
have found time to myself to log on - hoorah./ PJ has taken Harry out with him for a couple of hours to be a little delivery baby - yippeeeee and all it cost me was to office watch for PJ whilst he was away.
CONGRATS HANNAH. Sounds like you had asimilar time to me but i went a bit more extreme with a section. Can sympathise re back to back it;'s awful esp when your waters go as all the buffering fluid goes and it's just baby pressing on spine during contraction. Well done for getting thru it without epiduiral hon - you must be super woman as they made me have one at 3cm cos was in such pain (was induced tho so worse maybe - well thats my story anyway hehe). Will have to check out the photos in a min but i'm sure she is gorgeous. Get yourself an inflatable ring to sit on - a kiddies swimming ring thingy is good. My freind had one to sit on as she had stitches and she said it was th best present enyone bought her.
Lynne - period sounds horrid - not looking forward to starting them again but will do now im back on the pill. Not sure if can take packs back to back lik used to with combined pill - didn't ask doc which is silly cos know nothing about it really. Still better than playing the gambling game re not getting preg when BFeeding.
Well Harry had a couple of awful nights at the beginning of week but now has settled again - prob due to the huge poo he did on Wed afternoon. He has had this befoe - doesn't do a poo for a day or so anf gets uncomfy and grumpy. Gave him some gripe water and not ure if that helped to move things along o now giving one dose each day to see if helps. Also have started giving cluster feeds at 4pm, 6 and 8 before bedtime. Not sure which helped on wed as gave gripe water and extra feed but something sorted him out so shall continue with both.
Was thinking about giving formula feed at 12-1ish feed to try and take him thru untill morning and miss out 4am feed but didn't in end and he woke up as normal at 12-1ish and then 4ish for feed. Really want to cut out 4am feed soon tho so may think about trying formula or even jus expressing other side at 12am so PJ can give bottle at 4m if required. Thing is, want to cut out 4am feed before he goes into own bed/room.
Speaking of that- when did all your lot stay in your room untill. I know they reccomend untill 6 months but here is no way he will fit in moses basket at xmas at the rate he is growing and hiscot won't fit in our room. Think he might be waking for normal feed times and smelling yummy mummy milk when not actually needed cos he is in sme room - i know a friend said that at 6 weeks she had to put aughter on own room cos she wouldn't settle in same roomas her cos could smell food all night.
Also, who is/wasa breast feeding cos want to pick brains about feeding/sleeping - your right Lynne - breast fed babies need more feeds so not sure how old he sould be before we can exprect sleepin thru night.
love to all - hope you are all doing well and looking forwad to xmas.
vic.xxx
20/11/08 20:43
OMG hannah well done you chick! congratulations on the arrival of lexie, when i was reading your birth story it reminded me when they were saying come back when having 3 within 10 mins and i was like need some pain relief bring it on i did not want any epidural but with that pain i had when they told me cervix just opened i was like give me epidural now!!!!!!!!
well i am glad she is here how many stitches did you get and why did you have the blood loss? thats weird?
i am sorry for not getting any of my piccies on yet i have got simon a new laptop for his xmas well a family gift so that we can have our own house computer rather my work one. so in 5-6 weeks time i will deffo get the pictures on.
well not much else for me period started last friday just brown blood then wham on sunday it is heavy i was changing every 2 hours and could feel it all running out of me it was disgusting, not finished yet but it is dying down thatnk god, i tell you i wished not being pregnant with this period i hope with being my 1st since isla thats why it is bad if it is like this next month then i am off to docs! well chicks away just now and speak to you all soon xxxxxxxx kisses to new baby lexie xxx
20/11/08 20:16
in the end they said they would use a drip to help me out, they struggled to get that in a senior mw had to come and do, and they had to put monitor on to keep eye on baby... drip still didnt seem to work so they decided to get me in differnt postions and with every contraction for mw to do and internal and try and move the final 1cm.... this was agony
then all of a sudden it went mental and i didnt know what was happened... the room was full of people and bit of panic had set in apprantly babys heart beat had dropped and they were concerned and needed to get her out, doctor was called and said they had to use kiwi, also brought baby doctor in on stand by to check her over... soon as they did say i did push with all my might... but she still have to have a slight hand and i had to be cut but all of a sudden she was on my chest crying her little heart out....
they then took her to be weighed etc and passed her to steve as i was in a bit of a mess and loosing a lot of blood, doc then made me get back on gas and air and starting stitching, this bit was worse, can remember just asking for my baby as i wanted to fed her....... once doc thought she had finished every one left the room, and i was just in with student midwife, all of a sudden i felt more blood gush and doctor had to come back in and find out why, i started loosing real big clots and blood was all over, i wasnt very happy with the doc and i was high on gas and air and started laughing mw asked why i was laughing and i said its cos i could just kick the doc in the head and that i was a black belt.... but finally i got to take my little girl and BF...... so little alexandra ( think she will be known as Lexie) came into the world monday 17th at 5.32am weighing 7lb 7oz... shes amazing.......
So at the min am still in a lot of pain, am really swollen round my flu (and last night a stitch actually came open) mw checked today though and said seems to be ok, i jsut cant si very comfortable .... but shes worth it.... BF wasnt very easy at first but we are improving even though nipples are really sore......
Right i best not send u to sleep any more lol.....
Hope every one is well, take care all H x x and Little Lexie...... x
20/11/08 20:14
Thanks ladies for the well wishes on here and face book !! i know why you lot all went quieter once the little ones arrived... where does the time go lol....
Claie, yes i discovered back to back contractions more painful lol...
right my storey, (took me nearly all day to write lol)
Not sure what the last stage i was at when i posted, but basically early hours sunday i woke with stroonger contractions, so from 3am i was up, let DH sleep but at around 8am phoned labour ward and went in for them to check me over they did say i sounded to calm to be in labour, upon arriving they did me a check and said i was only 2cm so she gave me a sweep and sent me home, for the rest of the day i had contractions between every 7 - 10 mins, 8pm came and i thought a long stronger so went back to hospital, they checked me over again and said id only just moved past 2cm
made me a bath up which didnt help in the slightest..... so got out and mw had changed hands then and the student one i went to school with, didnt bother me though lol... they gave me 3 options, go for walk round hospital, stay in labour room or go home, i said if i wasnt getting no drugs might as well go home......they did ask waht drugs i had in mind i said i wasnt keen on injections due to side effects so prob go straight for epidural ( as i knew at this point i couldnt handle it been any worse lol, i felt such a wimp lol ) i said when should i come back and they said when you feel u cant cope ( i said i wasnt coping then lol) and really needed to be having 3 / 4 contractions within ten min..... we had a long walk back to car but said i would do it rather than steve fetch the car to help me along a bit more... got home thinking might get little rest inbetween contractions... ha that wasnt going to happen !! i was in agony..... told steve to try and sleep but he couldnt cos of my screaming, i was constantly watching clock and praying they would come close enough for me to go back in and have drugs lol....... i managed 2 hours at home and then said to steve we got to go back so i phoned them again saying i wasnt coping and coming in and would they deff give me drugs lol....We made it back to hospital at 1.30am and soon as they saw me they knew i had advanced, they gave me gas and air while they examined me... i was little high with it so thought she was been sarcastic with me when she said " so u want to come back when you ready to have baby" i looked at her to say what u on about, think she was going to say you know reached 3 / 4cm... and she then said Hannah your 9cm !!! no wander i was in pain lol... they said how well id done not coming back sooner, but epidural was now out of question really and did i want deamophine, i was going to take owt so said yes... her telling me i was 9cm chilled me a bit though as i knew it was happening............
So we sat like that for couple of hours but i didnt progress as nicely as they would have liked, waters still hadnt gone though so think it was about 3.45 when they said they would burst to help me out with the last 1cm..... this still didnt help but them popping my waters brought all the pain back on with a vengance as contractions came back faster and stronger.... good job i had the gas and air to hand..... in th
20/11/08 15:18
CONGRATULATIONS HANNAH & FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the world Alexandra!!! I know i have said it on Facebook but wanted to put it on here for you as well!!!!
She looks soooo beautiful and cant wait to here your birth story! Heres hoping she eventually turned for you and it wasnt to too bad!! Well chuffed for you!
Lots of love Catherine, Christian, Jasmine & Laila xxxxxxx
16/11/08 21:41
Hiya Hannah, just a quick one, hope this reaches you before you have bubba. Have you got a gym ball? If so lean over the ball and rock backwards and forwards this will help with the pain and also try and turn bubba for you.
Don't want to scare you but b2b birth is alot more uncomfortable with contractions, as you've probably gathered already.
Get on all fours on the floor and rock backwards and forwards as well, that's another good position to ease some of the pains.
Good luck hun, hope everything turns out ok for you and the pains don't get any worse.
Just remember.....the only trophy you get at the end is your gorgeous baby, so don't say NO to pain relief if you need it.
xxxxx
16/11/08 10:40
ive been to hospital as the pains got bad
seem as soon as i walked in though they eased, they checked me over and and gave me a sweep but am only 2cm so they advised i came home, she said i looked and sounded too ocmfortable and how labour is painful and i wouldnt look like that...... and now am home am in soooo much pain when they come again, am soooooo not going to be able to cope just hope it all hurrys up and going to be knackered in a bit and cant see me getting much sleep................. oh and to top it off baby is still back to back !16/11/08 05:57
morning ladies.......well am hoping this is it for me...... friday i started with just period type pains come 6ish i started timing they were coming every 5 mins and were like that for about 6 hours, but i also couldnt get off the loo and was been sick felt shocking *** src="http://my.bounty.com/smiley/msn/sad_smile.gif" alt="" />
and i was sooooo tired though tried to sleep, as all i could think was if i start in labour i wont have the energy - well still didnt sleep well woke ever hour was worst nights sleep ever...... then yesterday day i had odd pains but nothing regular, well from about 3ish saturday afternoon they became more regualr and i was getting between every 7 - 10 mins, really painful as well, more painful that fri night.... well again thought i would try and sleep and come 11 i finally nodded off woke at 12 then again at 2 and noticed at 2 i was still getting the pains, tried to have a little longer and managed till 3 but then ive been up ever since the pains are now really strong and last about a minute and am getting every 6 mins.... i really hope this is it...... oh and also think i mentioned about the "shows" ive had this week, well early i also had a proper show was quite but and was slightly blood tinged....... am going to leave dh in bed and have another nice bath shortly........ jody i know how you felt now getting these pains for days, i really hope that doesnt happen for me....... i just need them to get closer....... lets hope am at hospital later..speak soon x x
13/11/08 14:34
Afternoon all... hope all your mummies are well......
Yesterday i went to MW and my blood pressure had increased, there is no protein in my wee but she has made me an appointment at hospital for today to have my blood pressure profiled ?? so got to go and be monitored she has mentioned them keeping me in, starting me off early, but then said not to get too worried as if she was that concerned she would send me straight away...
... then today ive been sat at hosptial all morning, they took my blood pressure as soon as i arrived and that reading was fine, then they took every half hour and each time it came down
they also took some blood and checked various things including my liver ( due to itching ??) and all came abck clear, so they think i just had a blip yesterday - midwife coming to see me monday just to double check all still ok.......Am just hoping it wont be long now...... hope the little one doesnt keep me waiting long... Speak soon, Hannah x x
11/11/08 11:39
Morning all.... glad to see you all settled more and can get 5 mins to say hi, i do apprecaiate you are all busy been mummies am on so much as soooooooo bored, jsut so ready for little one to make an appeance now 8 days until due date, just hope the little mite doesn't keep me waiting.....
i just seem to sit round with not much to do, i know every one says i should relax and chill these last few weeks but its just not in my nature, but when i try and do anything i jsut get so tired....
Take care all, H x x
omg vicky 12lb 13.5 oz that it brill isla will not be weighed until she gets her next set of jabs which is when i think about it should be now or tomorrow in her case as it is usually the 1st thursday of the month she is 14weeks and 5 days now so will call health visitor tomorrow to see what he says taylor is at docs tomorrow 830am as her cold and temp is not settling at all and she has been on calpol and nurofen solid for 5 days now so see what he says and i cant believe that isla has not caught it, just wait and see she will be ill on xmas day just my luck.
hannah, lexie looks beautiful, just wait till i get this new laptop on xmas and will be downlaoding isla baby ones and present cant wait, isla and taylor are wearing the same xmas dress will get some piccies of that one too.
well chicks hope all is well with all our other frieds and come back on soon xxxxx