Kate1985
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Well after reading many journals and never getting round to a pregnancy journal, I thought I would start a parenting journal.
I'm Kate and I'm 27. I got married to Daniel on 21st December 2011 and started trying to conceive straight away. It took just a few user months and in april I got my bfp. Due date was given as 27th December at 12 week scan. We stayed team yellow as hard as this was.
Baby had different ideas and on 3rd November 2012 I began getting sharp pains in my stomach. Thinking this was braxton hicks I called up triage who advised a nice warm bath and to see if they settle down in a few hours. They didn't! I rang back and was advised to go in. Triage checked me over said my cervix was nt open and diagnosed a water infection. I was sent home with antibiotics. The pains got worse through the evening and I rang triage back at 9pm who told me water infections were bad especially in pregnancy so to ride it out and drink lots of water. The pains were excruciating but I managed to to this until 3am on the 4th November. I rang triage again who advised that I went in. O arrival an internal exam was carried out and I was told I was 4cm dilated and in preterm labour. I was only 32+3. I broke down and my dh ( who is extremely laid back) was his usual self and told me everything would be ok. I was petrified but had little choice at this point. At 6am I was given a steroid injection to strengthen babies lungs and some medication to stop the labour. This worked and I spent Sunday on delivery suite with not much happening. My dh waited until the second steroid injection at 6pm and I advised that he went home for some rest as we were both shattered. I had a bath and watched a bit of tv. By 9pm contractions had started again and I called dh to come back to the hospital. The pains got worse and worse and finally it was back to the delivery room, I was having my baby. I was not good in labour towards the end I screamed the place down worse than the women on obem. At 2:45am on 5/11/12 weighing 4lb 3oz by beautiful son Harry Daniel was born. I was allowed a quick look before he was rushed off to scbu. He was born at 32+ 4.
Harry spent 3 weeks in scbu. This was the hardest 3 weeks of my life. Watching other people take calf your baby and doing things you should be doing crushed me. I had to ask permission to hold him and got about 2 cuddles a day. He was in and our of the incubator for jaundice and it felt like we were constantly taking steps backwards. The NKG thing that got me through it was looking at other parents and babies in there that made me appreciate how lucky we were and that there were people in there who were not as lucky and would spend even longer in there then we would.
Feeding Harry has been my biggest stress. I expressed while he was in hospital and managed to keep up. Harry was too small to latch and I got told he would probably struggle until he was a least at 36 weeks. I continued to try regularly and had a lot of support from the peer supporters in hospital. We were out of hospital when he reached 36 weeks and I think I just expected it to happen then but obviously it didn't. After a lot of stress and visit to the peer supporters Harry was diagnosed with tongue tie ( this was the second time as he had already hadit cut in hospital!) we finally got the tongue tie cut on December 18th. By this point I was still expressing but couldn't keep up with his demands and having to use formula to top him up. I was extremely stressed and expressing was ruling my life. I was not enjoying my baby boy as much as I should be.
Again after the tongue tie I assumed it would just work and he would latch on, but he didn't. Now I'm using nipple shields and feeding him myself with just one formula bottle at bedtime. I hoping to ween him off shields in the new year with support. He's a very hungry baby but also very sleepy. I love him immensely. H has completely changed my life but for the better. I'm a teacher and have always been a career woman, now the thought of returning to work crushes me.
If you have managed to read this far well done! Thank you for taking the time to read it and I look forward to writing Harry's progress on here. Will post a picture in a short while. Xxx
I'm Kate and I'm 27. I got married to Daniel on 21st December 2011 and started trying to conceive straight away. It took just a few user months and in april I got my bfp. Due date was given as 27th December at 12 week scan. We stayed team yellow as hard as this was.
Baby had different ideas and on 3rd November 2012 I began getting sharp pains in my stomach. Thinking this was braxton hicks I called up triage who advised a nice warm bath and to see if they settle down in a few hours. They didn't! I rang back and was advised to go in. Triage checked me over said my cervix was nt open and diagnosed a water infection. I was sent home with antibiotics. The pains got worse through the evening and I rang triage back at 9pm who told me water infections were bad especially in pregnancy so to ride it out and drink lots of water. The pains were excruciating but I managed to to this until 3am on the 4th November. I rang triage again who advised that I went in. O arrival an internal exam was carried out and I was told I was 4cm dilated and in preterm labour. I was only 32+3. I broke down and my dh ( who is extremely laid back) was his usual self and told me everything would be ok. I was petrified but had little choice at this point. At 6am I was given a steroid injection to strengthen babies lungs and some medication to stop the labour. This worked and I spent Sunday on delivery suite with not much happening. My dh waited until the second steroid injection at 6pm and I advised that he went home for some rest as we were both shattered. I had a bath and watched a bit of tv. By 9pm contractions had started again and I called dh to come back to the hospital. The pains got worse and worse and finally it was back to the delivery room, I was having my baby. I was not good in labour towards the end I screamed the place down worse than the women on obem. At 2:45am on 5/11/12 weighing 4lb 3oz by beautiful son Harry Daniel was born. I was allowed a quick look before he was rushed off to scbu. He was born at 32+ 4.
Harry spent 3 weeks in scbu. This was the hardest 3 weeks of my life. Watching other people take calf your baby and doing things you should be doing crushed me. I had to ask permission to hold him and got about 2 cuddles a day. He was in and our of the incubator for jaundice and it felt like we were constantly taking steps backwards. The NKG thing that got me through it was looking at other parents and babies in there that made me appreciate how lucky we were and that there were people in there who were not as lucky and would spend even longer in there then we would.
Feeding Harry has been my biggest stress. I expressed while he was in hospital and managed to keep up. Harry was too small to latch and I got told he would probably struggle until he was a least at 36 weeks. I continued to try regularly and had a lot of support from the peer supporters in hospital. We were out of hospital when he reached 36 weeks and I think I just expected it to happen then but obviously it didn't. After a lot of stress and visit to the peer supporters Harry was diagnosed with tongue tie ( this was the second time as he had already hadit cut in hospital!) we finally got the tongue tie cut on December 18th. By this point I was still expressing but couldn't keep up with his demands and having to use formula to top him up. I was extremely stressed and expressing was ruling my life. I was not enjoying my baby boy as much as I should be.
Again after the tongue tie I assumed it would just work and he would latch on, but he didn't. Now I'm using nipple shields and feeding him myself with just one formula bottle at bedtime. I hoping to ween him off shields in the new year with support. He's a very hungry baby but also very sleepy. I love him immensely. H has completely changed my life but for the better. I'm a teacher and have always been a career woman, now the thought of returning to work crushes me.
If you have managed to read this far well done! Thank you for taking the time to read it and I look forward to writing Harry's progress on here. Will post a picture in a short while. Xxx
