Pregnancy after our preemies support thread!

[AP]

Oh and she was lying on her front so I couldn't check out the nipple situation

and the Medela's are wicked hun, I had a noisy Mini with Alex and I have a Swing with Tori.

Pretty embarrising when you're in Mothercare cheking them out and D goes "Oh thats the one that plays music then?"

 

[Lottie86]

I've got the Freestyle just in case I have to exclusively express again.

Dave's been down to see Iona Orlaith this morning and she's had to have the O2 levels on her CPAP turned up and she's now under the lights for her bili levels. I know you shouldn't compare but she seems very lethargic compared to Findlay (and he looked like an extra in a Tango advert with his jaundice ) and she hasn't opened her eyes or anything yet.

The only bit of me that's sore are my cannulas and my catheter but they wouldn't take either of them out last night when I was asking and kept lecturing me that I'd had major surgery blah blah blah. Dorset take catheters out 6hrs afterwards but Aberdeen want me to have it in for 24hrs!!!

I want to go home tonight but they've got a 3 day policy so depends if I can drive them mad enough to get early release I'm not sure how I'll feel when it comes to going home without her as part of me thinks 'it's all I've ever known so it won't be as bad this time' and part of me is worried it will be just as bad as last time. Can't cope for much longer hearing/seeing other people's newborns in here though

 

[Lottie86]

Pretty embarrising when you're in Mothercare cheking them out and D goes "Oh thats the one that plays music then?"

PMSL

 

[AP]

Lottie xxxxxxxx

 

[Lianne1986]

lottie xx

 

[Lottie86]

Thanks for the hugs. Just really shocked as wasn't expecting anything like this to happen today. I'm just sitting on here and FB to pass the time until we're told we can go back down and see her as they sent us back upstairs whilst they tried to put more lines into her as they need to get some long lines in for TPN etc as well as all the other stuff. Might try and see if I can manage a nap in the meantime as I'm exhausted.

 

[Mumof42009]

Congrats Lottie xx

 

[you&me]

Lottie

Have the doctors stabilised Iona now?

Thinking of you all xx

 

[Lianne1986]

i'm thinking of u too xx

 

[Lottie86]

She is more stable now thankfully although her chest drain is still bubbling away as her lung is still leaking. They've said the next few days will be critical. It's so hard when we haven't even been able to touch her today.

She is currently 3lb 3oz and 39cm long

Hope everyone and their bumps and babies are doing well xxxxx

 

[Marleysgirl]

Thanks for the update, hun

I had my catheter in overnight, but they happily removed it the next morning for me. I reckon that was the most horrible bit, despite my wound not healing! And yes, I'd agree, the cannula in the hand is flippin' painful.

 

[Marleysgirl]

Thanks for the update, hun

I had my catheter in overnight, but they happily removed it the next morning for me. I reckon that was the most horrible bit, despite my wound not healing! And yes, I'd agree, the cannula in the hand is flippin' painful.

 

[Tasha]

Massive hugs Lottie, I am thinking of you all so much and really hoping these next few days are as gentle as possible on you all.

I had mine out two hours after my section

 

[Agiboma]

Congrats Lotties, wishing you all the best Iona is a beautiful name

 

[dawnmc]

morning Lottie

how is Iona doing today, hope she had a stable night, and that you got some sleep. xx

 

[bumpsmum]

congratulations Lottie, hoping little Iona is doing well xx

 

[Wantabean]

how is iona doing? massive congrats!

my numbers came back in at 1169 so def looking good. getting scanned on thursday so im looking forward to it. usually i dread ultrasounds but im feeling fairly confident this time round. started panicing about how i would cope if anything goes wrong again with having Cam. im worried about having to choose between leaving baby in hosp or leaving Cam in house. i dnt know what i would do. with Cam it was easy to refuse to leave the hospital without him but i dont know what i will do. im still really doubting my bodies ability. does that make sense?im more worried about the end of my pregancy instead of the start this time. i think if i had been giving some def concrete answers then i wouldnt feel as bad about this. guessing this is normal?

how is everyone doing? xxx

 

[mummy3]

Just read through, been thinking of you guys so much just been hard here lately.

Tasha Riley-Rae

Lottie, big big congrats, hope all is going well and you get out soon.

You and me congrats on a probable boy

Nic congrats on Marlow

Sandi, hows Tori and Alex doing?

Lianne, hows things with you? Still broody?

Wantabean that awesome with your numbers

Eilidh is having some problems here, for some reason she's not growing very well, 3 months in and we are still not at 7lb, she also cant poop unless she has the suppository. She sees a developmental specialist on thursday.

 

[dawnmc]

hi there.
sitting in a stupor just now having given birth to my son at 25+2. all happened so quickly in the end. hes stable at the moment in neonatal in simpsons but this is a whole new ball game to a 28 weeker...

 

[Agiboma]

dawn congrats on you LO i also had a 25+3 baby boy, he came home around his due date, sending you lots of love and positive energy