June 2012 Babies

Agh! Indigestion!!!

Ajay - hope the scan went/goes well... look forward to reading your update.

I saw my midwife today, all went really well. Good BP, clear urine test, etc. She thinks he is a rather long baby.... Really looking forward to meeting the little guy now

That was me yesterday! Was miserable!! Today is another story though - slept well, & feel great. Just about to take the dog out of a stroll.... she has been sooooo neglected lately - poor thing!

Hope that your feeling heaps better soon Dneyn, rest up if you can

Ajay - how'd your scan go? Was it reassuring that all is ok you just carry in a neat bundle?

Hey all

Yay 37 weeks this weekend Bubba is welcome to come any time from tuesday as i have plans Monday night. lol

feels so sureal now that there will b another baby in the house and i will have 2 kids to look after so soon.

Managing to keep heartburn at a minimum with my ranitadine at the moment which is good as the other week was horrible felt like being sick when it wasnt working.

the babys will all b arriving soon. as long as my birth goes like last time i will b able to let you know within 24hours but if it doesnt i dont have access to FB or here when away from my own wifi connections

That's great news Ajay! Scans at fullterm are surreal, I had one with ds at 2 weeks overdue and there was just small pockets of fluid, which was a bit freaky.

A stomach bug has hit our house, ds was up all night with it, poor thing. We had to sleep with him because he was vomiting in his sleep. Though, he's chirper this morning, thankfully.

Fingers crossed I don't get it!

Just realised my ticker says 18 days to go, eeeek!

13 here but I'm trying not to get to caught up on date now

I haven't been on the net properly for ages (use FB via my mobile phone at hospital, and not much time at home).

As those in FB know, Niamh came home from NICU on Tuesday 15th. She was 36 weeks 4 days gestation, or just short of 3 weeks old. But since being home, she's not gaining weight as she should be, and my milk supply is tanking. My MW came to see us for first weight check on Thurs and again today, and the gain is minimal. I had suspected it may be partly my supply, which was going up when I was just pumping, but when we went to demand feeding, it tanked. The midwife has diagnosed Niamh with a tongue tie, (though why it wasn't investigated while she was in NICU I'm not sure), which is impacting on her ability to feed properly. She'll only latch with a nipple shield, and that doesn't stimulate enough to make me make more milk. So we need to see the lactation consultant at the hospital and hope she can fix it, if not, there's a dentist in Hamilton who can do it. Then hopefully she'll be able to latch properly, and we can lose the nipple shield.

But in the meantime, as she's not quite "failure to thrive" but not gaining well, we need to top her up after every breastfeed, and I need to pump after as many as possible to build my supply back up. We don't have many frozen bottles of expressed milk, so I think at this rate the supply of frozen stuff will only last a few days, and I'm only able to pump barely 5-10 ml after a feed. Feeling a bit despondant about it, as I really didn't want to have to resort to formula supplementation this time, as I did use it with DD1, and hated doing it.

Ajay, regarding the movement sensor monitors, yes we have a Tommee Tippee Ultimate Reassurance monitor, which we had with DD1. It has a sensor pad that goes under the mattress, and it alarms if there is no movement detected for 20 seconds. It alarmed 3 times in DD1's first year. The first time, when I got to her, she was taking a massive gasp of air. The other two times, the alarm must have woken her enough to breathe again.

There's also a portable type that clips to their nappy, called Snuzza? Which means you can use it on baby wherever they may sleep, (as in when they fall asleep in the buggy or car seat, etc.)

Glad to hear your scan showed bub all happy and healthy in there Ajay!

Oh Oh OHHHHHH..... just realised my ticker says 18 days to go tooooo!! Yipeeeee!!!!

Wow - babies are all arriving/due so soon now, we've still got a wee while to wait until the end of June to meet our little boy.

The Dr's told me to slow down though as he has already 'dropped'/is engaged and quite a way down, that was at 34 weeks - so who knows he might arrive earlier.

For any Wellington people - I went to a Mamalicious breast feeding class in Island Bay - I know it also depends on how the birth goes, but I do feel more confident now - I'd highly recommend it.