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Thursday, November 30, 2006 Really being tested I tell you I am really being tested at being a parent this time around. Not only was I having feeding problems, Sunday Caitlyn woke with conjunctivitis. Got her to the doctor on Monday, got drops for her and that finally started to clear Tuesday morning. Tuesday night, however, I was rushed to hospital with servere stomach pains and fever. Quick examination showed I had retained products from birth that had got infected. Was admited and yesterday had a D&C to clean me out and have just now been discharged from hospital. Pete was great. He took care of both girls the whole time I was in hospital and as Caitlyn was already on formula we just continued as I didn't want any of the drugs I was on to effect her and I just didn't have the energy to sit up, let alone express any milk. So now she is no longer having breast milk. I tell you it hasn't been the best first 2 weeks of being a new mum. This is just going to be a quick entry for today, just to let you all know what was going on with me. Lets hope things can only get better from here. Right?!?!?!?! 
Here I am Yes, I am still around, just trying to settle in. I think I may have come home a little bit too early and the baby blues hit big time Tuesday night and Thursday night but now the fog is starting to lift. It hasn't helped that Caitlyn seems to have a problem with my breast milk. 48 straight hours of the runs (to the point of running through her nappy legs and top and out onto her bed, the floor and at one point her daddy's jeans!) and the poor little thing was awake and feeding every hour. I spoke to my visiting midwife as the only thing I had eaten in the 2 days was Weetbix, salad sandwiches and meat and salad for tea. I had been really good so couldn't understand why it was going straight through her. Spoke to hubby and decided at 4am this morning to bite the bullet and try formula (I know, some people won't be happy with me!). Now after a feed a 4am, a feed at 7am and a feed at 10.45am, she has settled down so well and is sleeping at least 2 & 1/2 hours before stirring and hasn't had a poo since 4am but has had 3 good wet nappies. Am expressing to keep my milk going and will still look at giving her half formula feeds and half breastmilk and see how that effects her. Want to keep the good stuff going as long as possible and if that means express, freezing or whatever I will do it but is amazing to see the difference just 3 feeds makes. Now must dash off, it is Bethany's end of year dance concert in 2 hours and must get there and get her ready. Hope she does OK. Will leave you with another 2 pics.   Oh and have spent this morning catching up with all your blogs so I am still in contact, eventhough I am not saying a lot.
Some quick pics Hi guys We are now home and about to start trying to settle in. I have a couple of quick pics for you, the first of Caitlyn, not the best pic, expect a better one to follow, one of Pete me and bub taken about half an hour after being delivered and the next couple of Bethany and her new sister.     Just a quick update tonight, am feeling very tired now, a bit overwhelmed and am starting to feel like the third day hormones are hitting hard so will log off and aim to settle in for the night.
Another quick update Hi again Have tried to email a photo of bubby from my mobile phone but it hasn't worked so will post one tomorrow as I am going home after lunch. Oh and just for everyone's info, bubby is now... Caitlyn Pamela Longden This name took a lot of debating, spell changing and compromise but we think it suits her perfectly. You'll see when I post the pics. Catch you all later.
Hi... it's me Hi everyone, its me updating from a internet thingy in hospital. Well got to hospital at 10.30pm last night, was checked at 10.45 and told I was 7cm dialated. Midwife broke my waters and sent me to labour ward. At 11.15 was told I could push and at midnight on the dot our new daughter was born. We were asked if we wanted 1 minute to midnight or 1 minute after and we took 1 minute after so she was the first baby born for the day. She was 54cm long and weighed 8pound 2onces. As yet hubby and I are still to decide a name but will let you know as soon as we do. Well this is just a quicky to let you all know that she is finally here, officially 5 days late. Love you all, must go, legs are starting to shake. Bye
Latest News from Lil Sis Hey Everyone, its Kelly here Kim's little sis, just letting you all know she's just left for hospital. Pains are about 3-5 minutes apart so things are going really well. I'm at home with Beth so if your on i'll be keeping you updated as soon as i know any news. So excited right now. Kim is too. I'm surprised Beth's asleep haha. Be in touch soon :)
I don't want to keep going on if I'm wrong but I did promise to keep you all updated. Today at 12.58pm I actually started getting contractions. They were coming every 7mins and lasting about 45 seconds. It happened for about an hour and then I went to the loo and I have also had a show. So I rang the hospital and they told me I was in the early stages of labour and to stay home until either my waters break or until they contractions get shorter or the pain becomes unbearable. I called my mum to let her know so she could be on standby. So I kept active and busy, getting things ready for Bethany for tomorrow for her dress rehersal and things like that and then things slowed down totally. I was only getting 2 or 3 contractions an hour. In fact I even managed a quick 20min power nap at one stage. Once I woke up Pete had a nap too. At about 5.30 I rang mum to let her know things had slowed and to drop her alert status. Since that call until now, I am back to regular 7min contractions again and they are getting stronger and really hurting through my back now too. And here I am now, actually I am having another one right now, hold on, back again, so hopefully by tomorrow sometime I might finally meet our little bub. Everyone send me your positive thoughts that this is finally it.
Disappointment!!! Well sorry to have got peoples hopes up but it looks like last night was a false alarm. Pains continued off and on and I finally went to bed around midnight. Was so tired feel straight asleep. Got up every hour or so for the loo and have woken up this morning with nothing to show for the whole thing except a really sore back. All tummy pains have gone! So it's back to waiting again! I was so excited yesterday, thinking that maybe today would be the day and now it's like "so when?" Even when Bethany woke up this morning the first thing she asked me was "have you been into labour yet?" So now you all know that I am still sitting here, heavily pregnant and annoyed.
Maybe....Maybe not? Just a quick note to let you all know that about 3 and a half hours ago I started getting some serious pains. They are not regular at all so they could well be my first real Braxton Hicks but man some of them have hurt and I have had to walk around until they stop. So just letting you know that something is changing, whether anything comes of it or not is another question. Will let you all know tomorrow if anything happens. Wish me luck.
Well now I am officially 6 hours and 56 mins overdue! I thought I would wait until my visit with the midwife yesterday before updating and then got so busy last night that I forgot, sorry if I panicked anyone. Yesterdays visit was a waste of time. She did the same old checks and told me if I don't have bubs before next Tuesday I come back and then they make my appointment for induction, maybe 1-2 days later. So on the good side, I should have bubs by the end of next week. The bad side, next Saturday 25th is Bethany's dance recital. If I don't have bubs till Thursday, I'm gonna have to try to get out of hospital by Saturday morning. I told the midwife this and she was really nice, one of the nicest I have had this whole time. We went through some natural ways of trying to get things started (sex, curry, walking) and I mentioned raspberry leaf and she said to definately give that a go. Then she said she would recommend me to come back on Friday instead of Tuesday and that way they could book me in on Monday or Tuesday and I would be out in time. Unfortunately as this appointment is with a GP not a midwife, the receptionist refused to do it, saying that no doctor would see me or do anything until I was 41 weeks, not 40weeks 3days. So I am going to ring up Friday and make my appointment for Monday, sure 1 day early won't hurt, then maybe I can be booked in for Wednesday and that would be better. But then again, hopefully it all happens naturally before then anyhow. I went and bought some raspberry leaf tablets and I have to take 2 pills, 2 times a day. I took my first lot last night and believe it or not have had little cramping pains since 3.30am so maybe it IS doing something. I mean for something to happen after just 2 pills is plain ridiculous, but maybe after today and tomorrow, you never know. So there you go, that's my progress at this stage. If anything does change I will let you know and if I can't get to a computer first, I'll leave my details with my sister and get her to update for me. Fingers crossed something happens soon.
2 days to go.... lets hope Well that's to my expected due date anyhow. Am trying to take it as easy as possible but it is very hard to stay comfy after a whole 10mins of sitting or laying. Bethany was quite annoyed yesterday morning when she woke up as I hadn't had the baby. She said "I was wrong, the baby didn't come last night". LOL I actually had some photos taken today, as close to my due date as possible. I only ever had one taken when I was pregnant with Bethany, at about 32 weeks. At least this time I have had photos taken at 2 different stages. I saw them after mum took them and was horrified at how big I look (I have only put on about 19kg) but I will post them anyhow. Everyone hold your breath now and prepare to gasp.....  And one of the excited sister to be.....  So that's my update for today. Am off to have a nice hot shower and try and get drowzy (yeah right!).
Still pottering on Unfortunately I am still around. Yesterday I felt like it may have been the day as I had a lot of pressure and pain around my pelvis and just walking Bethany from the car to her classroom was a task. To try and help things along and even went and did the grocery shopping but alas, nothing helped. Have been wearing my brace 75% of the time and it seems to be helping. Am not getting the nerve pain down the back of my right leg anymore. I didn't wear the brace at all this morning and it started up again at lunchtime so I put it on immediately and it went away so it must be doing something. If this pregnancy is anything like my last one, then I am scheduled to go into labour during tonight or the early hours of tomorrow morning (I started at 3.30am with Bethany, 3 days before she was due) but this pregnancy has been so different to hers that I highly doubt it. In fact I have been reading all the blogs on the Babes in Blogland site and quite a lot of women are having their babies early or exactly on their due date so I am starting to think I must be the one to go overdue. Bethany is even now starting to get impatient about it all. Especially today. She keeps saying that it has to come tonight and even told the checkout lady in the supermarket that it has to come tonight. She is so excited about it. We have installed the baby seat next to her booster seat and the first thing she said is "If the baby gets hungry can I feed her" (she's still adament its a girl!) So that's about the latest with me. If my waters break or contractions start I'll do a quick update to let you all know. Fingers crossed (she says while rolling on the floor with laughter knowing full well that she will still be up the duff tomorrow) Catch you all shortly
What a waste of time! Well so much for physio! Got a phone call Monday morning, 20 mins before my appointment, telling me the physio I was booked in to see had called in sick and my appoinment was cancelled. I explained that I was in a lot of pain and my husband had even taken time off work to take me. They called me back 5 mins later and said that they had worked some things around and to still come up. Got to the hospital, was taken in to a general like ward with about 8 beds with curtains around them, kind of looked like a mini emergency ward. A lady came in, asked me questions about my pain, got me to do some leg lifts to see how far I could raise my legs before the pain set in, got me to stand and bend over, told me to lay down and went and got me a heat pack. When she came back she spoke to me and told me about 2 exercises I could do at home on my hands and knees to ease the pain a little, gave me a pregnancy support belt and then told me to just keep what I have already been doing by using hot showers and panadol for pain relief and to sleep on my side with a pillow between my knees. Thats it, goodbye, have a nice day! I was there for a whole 15 mins. It was like they had just got an assistant to one of the physios to deal with me because, as she said to me, I only had 8 days to go anyhow. So here I am, still in pain and just grinning and bearing it. Am doing very little around the house, which is helping my back, but geez it looks like a pigsty. I so want to get the vaccum out but just moving it into the room hurts, let alone actually using it. Bubs is really active at the moment, especially at night. As soon as I go to bed it starts rolling and kicking and stretching, no joke for hours. The last three nights I have had to get back up and have not got to sleep until 2am, 1am and 1am again last night. I am soooo tired. My mum says that maybe it is trying to get into position. So that's my whinge for today. I am sorry it is not more of a happy, positive post, but that requires energy and at 8.15am after just 6 hours sleep I am still to find some. Hopefully tonight will be a better night and tomorrow will be a better day.
Very sore, but still going I know I said I would do daily updates for you all but am having some serious back issues that make sitting, standing and walking, even for short periods very painful. After visiting the midwife on Friday, was told that everything was fine babywise but she was concerned about the increase in pain I was getting in my back and hips, especially with my right leg giving way at times. I told her that I have been mentioning it at every appointment but nothing was done, so she sent through an urgent referral to the physio and I have an appointment at 11am tomorrow. Which I think now is a really good thing, consider the last 2 hours have been horrible. I used to just get the pains when I was standing, but now it is even hitting me when I am sitting and in the last half hour I have started getting it in my left leg as well. My mum thinks it might be increasing because the baby is moving further down and pushing on my nerves, which if it is the case, is a good thing but geez it hurts. I am really eager to meet this little one, especially after seeing the pics of Karen and Carla's little bubs. They are so beautiful guys, you've done well. Well that's about it for tonight, really must go and lay down. Will update tomorrow after my physio appointment and let you know how things go.
Just a quicky Just a quicky update for now as I didn't do one yesterday as promised. Was flat out yesterday, shopping, getting Bethany ready for her school photo, taking her to school, picking her up, more shopping, cooking dinner, dealing with trick or treaters (geez had heaps this year, about 20. Never had any before, glad I bought a cheap bag of lollipops), shower, then bed. But then laid awake for over an hour so got up again. Have had real annoying tummy and back pains over the last couple of days (actually thought I was going to go into labour Sunday night) but it must just be my body starting to get things ready. Anyhoo, was up til half past midnight and decided to try again. Went to bed, took another half hour to at least get to sleep but was then awake probably every half hour, 45mins because the pains kept waking me up. And then Pete was up at 5am to get ready for work and Bethany at 7am, so woke up feeling very grumpy indeed. And now it is 8am with the rest of the day ahead of me and me just wanting to go back to bed! It's going to be an interesting day.
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