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[krissie328]

Jess- that is good things are feeling better. Fx they improve or at least don't get worse.

Social work can be a hard job but I am sure it is very rewarding. Our school social worker is amazing. I have a friend currently going for his MSW and plans to do counseling with veterans. I think he will be fantastic when he is finished.

Thanks for the support ladies. It has been so rough. DH got moved back to second shift instead of day shift and so I am just so emotional spent. I cannot believe it to be honest. But nothing I can do to change the crap situation.

 

[cupcake.]

Hi ladies..
We got released from hospital yesterday only to be back today she has lost too much weight and seems weak in general, couldn't even keep her awake long enough to feed.. so we went to children emergency and got admitted.

She's running a bit too cold as well and we're hoping it's just that she needs to gain weight to be strong enough to keep her temperature and eat regularly etc, rather than maybe an infection or something..

I'm pretty much an emotional mess right now. Seeing my baby all hooked up to monitors and in one of those warming beds from the hospital is seriously by far so much more painful than childbirth was

 

[krissie328]

Heike- remember to take care of yourself. Every time ds is sick it breaks my heart.

 

[Angel5000]

I went and got a massage today. He literally spent the whole hour working on my hips and lower back and glutes, nothing else. Thnakfully afterwards my hips weren't hurting anymore and I could walk again. Still have the pelvic pain but it was a little less, and I could tolerate it a lot easier without the combination of pelvis + back and hip pain!

Friday we went and toured one of the local daycare centers that I'm strongly leaning toward using. We won't have to worry about it until September because between my mom and sister and me having summer break off, I've managed to wrangle care until then. I'm really happy with this center, we had a lot of referrals to go there and they have a great educational curriculum that they use, starting as early as infant care. Plus they are breastmilk friendly location (a lot of places are not!) and even encourage moms to come in on lunch break and breast feed in the infant room if they want to. Plus their fees are very reasonable compared to some of the other places around. I'm very happy wiht this place I think.

We're looking at hospital tour, and the hospital we will deliver at has some pics online which make the birthing suites look pretty nice. I think I've decided to go ahead and sign up for a childbirth class, but of course I'm too late to do a 5-week class so I think we'll do a 2-day class. It'll be a long weekend but they cover all the same info as the 5 week class, just a little quicker. I'm also going ot sign us up for infant CPR. There's ALSO a breastfeeding class that's available that I am going to look at since I am so new to everything. I'm the kind of person that likes to overprepare (helps with my anxiety) so I think I'll be doing a few of these. I had thought about it before but honsetly most of this pregnancy hasn't felt "real" until right about now!


Heike - I'm so sorry, but hopefully the hospital can figure out why she's losing weight and not staying warm. Like Krissie says, make sure you're taking care of yourself too.

 

[krissie328]

Heike- my son lost 25% of his weight by 2 weeks. He couldn't gain and was very lethargic and cold. It was due to me having virtually no milk supply. Once I started supplementing with formula he was a new baby. It wasn't what I wanted but in the end was our only option. But that fear and trauma still haunt me. What you are describing sounds just like what I went through. And I'm so so sorry because it was so scary.

 

[cupcake.]

It turns out she does have an infection and needs a week of antibiotics.
It's so so hard seeing her with a needle in her hand and hooked up to all those monitors.
I hope she feels better within a few days of treatment and i hope i get to finally take her home for good after that week of anribiotics.
I'm so heartbroken

 

[krissie328]

That's good they figured it out. I hope she gets better quickly.

 

[lvksa]

Heike - congratulations! She's beautiful. -- Thanks be to God that they know what is wrong and are doing what they can. Keep your head up, it will all be okay.

Shan - Congrats! *high five*

Krissie - take that time to relax for sure.

Jess - glad the massage seemed to help. That's good news for sure. -- I have no idea what I am going to do for childcare...I get 35 days paid leave and then I will try to get another month unpaid...after that I have no clue. We have no family here in this city and childcare isn't easy to come by. God willing I find a solution.

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I have a doctors appointment this afternoon. I'll have an ultrasound to see how everything is going. I'm still having the hourly contractions, but thankfully I sleep like a rock and unless I'm already awake I sleep through them unless it's a particularly strong one.

 

[krissie328]

Sam- I'd start looking and get on some waitlists.

Jess- great news on finding a daycare you're happy with. Ds will be going to preschool/daycare next year and I have it narrowed down to two. Basically whichever one has an opening first.

Fx the pain doesn't come back.

 

[cupcake.]

Thanks for all the support ladies
I'm sorry i can't really keep up with everyone right now, but i wanted to update:

From other blood tests it turned out that it isn't an infection after all!
Antibiotics have been stopped, we are staying another night though. She is drinking so much better already and i got my milk in today so i pump and give her formula if she's still hungry after. It's going really really well!
Her temperature is still not 100% stable but i think she's just about there!
If things keep going like this we can definitely go home tomorrow and have a happy healthy baby at home, finally!

It seems it was just a combination of everything. Her being small anyway and losing weight, not being ablento drink much during our hospital stay and her jaundice being not extreme but just a tad bit worse than most babies, she just wasn't strong enough to thrive.

I hope once her weight stabilizes i can go back to breastfeeding (i could obviously do it now but i rather she gets her food without much effort so she can use all her strength and energy towards gaining weight and holding her temp). It was so so important for me to breastfeed but seriously after this experience i do not care how she gets her food, just that she does!

seriously, it just was the best news ever this morning!

 

[todmommy4568]

That's great news heike! Now that your milk has come in she should be able to get plenty from you, even if she is attached to the boob 24/7 haha. Either way I'm glad things are working out!

 

[lvksa]

Krissie - I wouldn't even know where to start. Two women I work with use a daycare inside a compound but it's so far from me. Most places I've checked about online only accept 1 year and up. I need to ask around more..

Heike - glad to hear the good news ��

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Went to my appointment. Everything is good with baby, but my amniotic fluid is quite low. I got a sick leave note and will not go to work this week. Next week if my fluid is still low I might need to consider being induced and trying to deliver.

 

[Kaiecee]

Cd1 for me but having the worst Ov pain from the clomid feel like I'm dying

 

[Angel5000]

I only have one more day of work this week and then I get the rest of hte week off! Yay! I'm so excited. Of course that will make the next 3 full weeks after Thanksgiving (before Christmas break) extremely long. I can't believe how close we are to December, which means how close I am to being less than a month away from baby!


Heike I hope she is feeling better soon! I can't imagine how that must feel!

Sam - Good luck finding childcare! Are there not many child care facilities there? Perhaps you can find a nanny for the first few months until you can get her into one of the places that only take a year up? I don't know much about what's available for that sort of thing over there though.

I'm so sorry about your amniotic fluid!! I hope it fixes! I have seen that with a couple other ladies, what do they recommend for fixing it?

Kaiecee - Ooh I'm sorry about all the pain from the clomid. Is this your first cycle on the clomid?

 

[cupcake.]

We are finally back home again. She proved she she can hold her temperature though we obviously have to make sure she's all snug and warm and check her temperature every time we change her nappy.
And she has already managed to almost be back to her birth weight! We're so proud of her and are so happy to be back home!

 

[Angel5000]

That's so great!! I'm so happy for you and LO!

 

[cupcake.]

Guess who's back to her birth weight
Also she's a week old today, i'm sad she had to spend most of it in the hospital but it still went by so quick!

 

[lvksa]

Hi everyone

I gave birth to a baby girl on the 22nd at 4:50 am. Her name is Fajr and she is 20 inches -- 6.4 pounds.

 

[krissie328]

Sam- congrats on your little girl.

Heike- that's fantastic she is already back to her birth weight.

Jess- how are you feeling?

Happy Thanksgiving to all the ladies in the US. I am cooking today so a bit nervous.

I'm still waiting to o. At least I expected it to take awhile so I'm not surprised this is the case.

 

[todmommy4568]

Congratulations Sam!!

Happy Thanksgiving!! 🦃🍁