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	Age: 31 Country: AU Province/region: Sydney City: New South Wales Partner: Michael Children: Yes, 3 Pregnant: No Due date: 24 Jun ,2008 Occupation: Office Manager
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My Story so far....

We werent trying for another baby but sometimes fate has other ideas. We have always wanted one more but the timing never seemed right to take time off from work etc

Well i did a test when i was a week late and much to my shock it was positive!! I was totally in shock and my fiance was over the moon! He has been asking for about 3 years when we were going to have another one and i was sitting on the fence. I already have a 14 year old son and an 8 year old daughter so to start again was scary.

We told the kids a week after we found out as i needed time to wrap my own head around the good news and they were ecstatic! After a trip to the Dr we decided to tell our family and friends. I figure if something bad was to happen then we would need our friends and family support so no point keeping the good news a secret while it was good news.

Everyone was shocked but very happy for us.

I then proceeded to have "all day" sickness from the day after i found out until about week 14 - 15 weeks. I work full time so i found this a little hard as i was never sick with my other two. The busy period leading into Christmas was hard as i felt so awful but i never took a single day off from morning sickness. I dont have anyone to fill in for me if im off anyway so that was incentive to go in.

I found brushing my teeth the hardest part of the day as it always (and still does at 20 weeks!) make me gag and sometime throw up.

I had the down syndrome test at around 12 1/2 weeks and the result was very low. The measurement of the neck was only 1cm (which is meant to be very low) and combined with the blood test the chance of down syndrome is 1 in over 10,000. I am very pleased with this result. I didnt have a feeling anything was wrong anyway but it is always nice to hear thigns are going well.

The baby was snuggled right up against my uterus so the picture came out looking like a skinned rabbit! I still love it to pieces but it is weird looking. Not sure what i was expecting as i have never had a 3D scan before.

I had my 18 week ultrasound at 19 weeks and the technician doing the scan was awful. She had no personality and made me feel depressed! It was great to see the baby kicking around and it kept kickinng where she had the doppler thing. My mum kept trying to see what sex it was but we are not finding out. We want the suprise when bub is born and we have one of each so it really doesnt matter what this one is. I think dad secretly has high hopes for a boy but will be happy with another daughter.

I have been able to feel the baby kick since about 16 weeks which is awsome.. It is the best part of being pregnant. It is getting stronger and my daughter was the first to feel it. Dad felt it for the 1st time this morning. (20 weeks tomorrow) It always starts kicking right after i wake up. I can get up through the night to pee (4 times last night not including before i went to bed!) and it stays asleep. As soon as my alarm goes off and i am awake it starts like clockwork.

I have started collecting baby things. I have laybyed my pram and carseat and have picked up a few things along the way. We have to renovate the garage into another room for my 14 year old son then we can get the baby's room ready. Until then i have nowhere to store anything.

All is well though, baby is healthy and all checkups are normal so i am very happy and content.

20 weeks 1 day

I had a work coaching sessionb that went all day today. The baby was kicking me ALL day long. Not more than 1/2 an hour passed where it didnt move. It did make it a little hard to concertrate on the coaching as i was enjoying the movement so much. I cant believe how much stronger the baby is in just a short time. I also noticed yesterday that my stomach has become really hard. It is much more comfortable as before my lower tummy didnt like any pressure on it fromm pants, undies etc. Now it is much firmer i am a lot more comfortable. I ahve only gained 3kg which is exactly on target. I only gained 1kg by 14 weeks and gave myself 3kg by 20 weeks. I now have 6kg i cann gain between 20 and 30 weeks. This is to be on track to only gain the minimum weight of about 12kg the whole pregnancy. After gaining 19kg with my son and 23kg with my daughter i am determined to not go there again. It is way too hard to lose after. And having a big belly makes you feel large enough. I am very proud of myself for doing so well. I have been eating constantly though and only really eating fresh veges and fruit and loads of water.

21 weeks and 2 days

This week i have really popped out. I can almost feel my stomach expanding! I have been so hungry too. Nothing seems to keep me full for more than 1/2 an hour, Im ok until lunchtime then i get starving! Bub must be growing.

My girlfriends are talking about organising me a baby shower in 2 months. this is exciting as i really dont have much yet. I have taken care of the big items but have no little bits and pieces. I wasnt going to have a shower as it is my 3rd and i felt funny having another one. But i agve most of my baby things away to all my friends and they all really want me to have one. I figure it will be fun.

This pregnancy is going so fast and i feel like the baby will be born and i will wonder where the pregnancy went! I am enjoying it though and if i could only sleep more nights i would feel great. Thr body pillow helps but i cant seem to shut my brain down at night.

22 weeks tomorrow

Well all that stretching and hunger last week was for a reason! My tummy is HUGE. I put a pair of my maternity pants on yesterday and i could not get the button to the hole by about an inch! I was wearing them just fine lat week! I couldnt believe it. So bub has definately done some serious growing last week. I weighed myself this morning and only gained 1/2 a kilo so i know its not "fat" i have out on. I am so sick of going to the toilet every 5 minutes (literally) and think someone should invent a pregnancy cathedar so we dont have to keep getting up. Not easy to keep getting up when your belly is so big.... It will only get bigger though.

Other than that everything is hoing very well and not really suffering many symptons or complaints. Thank goodness, very tired though but everyone seems to be tired about now so im sure its all normal. Will update again soon when something else changes...

BIRTH STORY

I had the pains on Tuesday, Wednesday and again Thursday night. I was at mums for dinner and the pains were regular and quite painful. My sister asked if i had not had kids before would i think i was in labour and i think i would have but i knew they would probably stop when i went to sleep which again they did.

I was then woken at 3.40am with the same sort of pains and i knew as i was resting that it must be the real thing as normally when you rest they stop. So i stayed in bed trying to rest until about 6am when they were getting too bad to stay lying down. So i got up and had a nice hot shower and thought mmm i better shave my legs and bikini line while im there! So i did that between contractions and Mick woke up about 6.30am and came and asked me if i was ok. I told him we would be having our baby today. He asked if i was sure and i said yes. i still told him to go to work though as long as it was local as i know things take time. He said there was no way he was going anywhere.

I stayed in the shower for a while and then when i got out the kids got up and Mick had called Julie so she could get organised. I called mum a little while later but told her not to rush. As soon as they got there about 7.40am i got emotional and started crying as i was realising it was all about to happen and it was very real. Mum started about going to the hospital and kept asking if i was ready every time i had a contraction! The pains were ok and when i got one i just held onto the tv unit and rocked and circles my hips ( this really helps)

All i wanted to do was tidy the house up and mum would not let me! She was worried as it was getting close to school time and we had to drive past a school ( 40km speed limit) we would get stuck in traffic and i would have the baby in the car. I was getting annoyed with her nagging and the pains were 5 minutes apart so i agreed to leave. I had already called the hospital and they said come when i was ready and not to leave it too long though as 3rd babies usually come quicker than 1st ones.

We got to the hospital about 8.30am and they took me straight to aa delivery room. My midwife was called and she came in a little later. They checked me and i warned them not to tell me if i was only 2cm dilated as thats why i didnt want to go to the hospital so early. Anyway i was 5cm so i thought that was great. I was coping fine and chatting between pains. A few hours later the pains were more intense and i was still coping ok with the gas. The gas is awesome if you start sucking it as soon as you feel a contraction is coming and then the midwife told me to let go of the contraction and not to hold onto the pain and i feel this really helped as the pain stopped sooner if i relaxed at the end and i felt almost drunk numbness from the gas.

They checked me again and i was still only 5cm and i was not happy. The pain was more intense by then and as i had been in labour for so many hours they said i should be further advanced and wanted to break my waters. They did that and the pain got a lot more intense. I was still ok but then after they broke my water i started getting contractions that would go 2 and 3 at a time with no break in between. If i had a break i would have been fine but no break was hard and they convinced me to try the pethadine first before the epidural. I got a contraction with 3 in a row no break so i sent Julie out to tell them forget the pethadine i wanted the epidural right then. They said there were 2 people in front and i said i has to go first! For some reason he was in the room in 4 to 5 minutes and was ready. I had the epidural which the only hard part was sitting perfectly still while getting contactions but it did not really hurt at all.

After another 2 contractions with the gas still the block started working and i was in HEAVEN. I was pretty tired by then and happy to have the rest. That was about 3pm and i pretty much went straight to 8cm after that. Her heart rate slowed down and they put the little electrode on her scalp and told me i was dilated and to push but to not take long as her heart rate was dropping and she was getting tired. I pushed for no more than 10 minutes and she was born at 3.58pm. I could not feel the contractions to know when to push but the midwives were feeling my tummy and told me when to push. I had watched enough birth shows to know to put my chin to my chest and to push like i was doing a poo. As the epidural was in i did not feel the burning or any pain at all as she was delivered.

They told me to feel her head and i reached down thinking i might feel a little bit but i could feel the whole top of her head! I started crying straight away realising i would meet her in a few seconds. Then Julie offered to get the mirror and i watched her head being born and then her body come out. I was a bawling mess! They lifted her onto my chest and i gave her a cuddle and looked between her legs and saw her little fanny. I cried and cried and cried. I was so full of love and emotion for this little angel on my chest i could not stop crying. She is so perfect. I was suprised how little she was as well as i expected 7pd 4 and she was 6pd 14. Not much difference but still so little. My placenta does not come away so they gave me an injection etc to get it to come out and it didnt so i was taken to theatre and had it removed manually ( for the 3rd time!!!) They knocked me out both times before but this time they topped up the epidural as before i only had the block put in as she was born so quick so i still had feeling in my legs. It meant i was awake for the procedure but i didnt have to wake from a general aneasthetic si i could go back up to her faster.

Mick went and got the kids when i got back and they came up to meet their little sister.

When i got wheeled to the room Mick walked out with her in his arms and i burst into tears again so he handed her to me. She spent the night lying naked ( minus a nappy) on my bare chest to snuggle. I didnt get more than an hour or so sleep as i was on a high.

She is absolutely perfect and we are totally in love with our princess.

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catsa79 - Monday, 21 July
Oh ya poor thing I hope you got an arvo nap!!
Ha, my luck ran out fed Cooper at 11pm-12, he woke again at 2am, dummy fixed that till 3am, then he woke up at 5am with pains and did big farts and poos, then woke at 7, 8, 9 grr!!! He has been unsettled all day I fred him at 12, 1 then I put him in bed with me for an hour he slept, now his in his own bed!!! Funny how it can literally change overnight!!

oldie44 - Sunday, 20 July
Thank you for reply. I felt guilty for using breastmilk, the way a nurse reacted when I told her. I actually got hold of the Dr and he gave me Rx eye drops, I will try it.
I started reading about clogged tear ducts and got scared, they even mention surgical procedure to open it up...
I am so anxious that I am doing something wrong and that it is my fault my baby has this infection. He looks so pitiful with one eye almost sealed with sticky yellow discharge...

catsa79 - Sunday, 20 July
its always the way u think i wont bother sleeping, then u could have had hours to sleep!!
Cooper is goo garing at me mainly when i change him and bath him and YES SMiled a real good one today when my mum was over!! heheh
have a good sleep!

catsa79 - Sunday, 20 July
Cooper has began sleeping 4-5 hrs at a time now so I havent seen 1 -3am for the last 3 nights! YAY
My nipples are healing VERY slowly, I sometimes still have trouble gettn him on but if his not on properly I take him off and start again. Problem is I am becoming full if between feeds is 4 hrs or more, so I have to hand express for a few mins, and hope he latches on. My milk supply is definately ok. But I HAVE to wear breast pads now as I seem to leak all the time.
I feel sorry for you with other kids, and not been able to sleep, I don;t know if I will ever hve any more after Cooper, but if I do I'll be in the same boat then.

I have just had a nana nap for an hour and 15mins hehe it was good ;-)

sexymama021 - Sunday, 20 July
I just feel frusterated. I know I have milk in there...she just likes to eat for 10-15 mins, fall asleep, and then wake up screaming because she hasn't burped ;( then she will burp, and want more milk. I'm like WOW..I am not an all day dairy LOL. I feel like a cow, literally. :P A while after I gave her the formula she spit up some of it..maybe her tummy isn't used to the heavyness of it. I feel like I have worked sooo hard to get bf to work, I don't want to give up. My sister bought me some thistle tablets so I am going to try that to enhance my supply. Hmm...well, she's crying, gotta go! :P

catsa79 - Sunday, 20 July
Oh you poor thing, I'm glad baby is feeding better too. Hope you feel better

catsa79 - Friday, 18 July
hey there i still have cracked nipples and i am persisting with the b feeding, it has been 2 weeks 2morrow that i have had a massive crack in one and a smaller one i the other, the smaller crack seems to be slowly healing but the other one isn't i am very suprised it's not bleeding.
andyway i tried expressing off the worst side for 2 days and fed about once a day i am now just feeding as i cant b bothered expressing. the last 2 days Cooper has been a crazy drinker and i have fed every 2-3 hrs for an hr or more on both sides, then 2-4 hrs during the night. the last 2 nights between 6pm-11pm he sleeps and i leak and become very veyr engorged, my breasts have felt tingly and very tight I ope i dont get mastisis, last night he only took one side and i was leaking that bad i expressed so i wouldnt go another 3 hours without relief!!!
after all that no advice, just wanted to say im sore too! hehe

MommaLogan - Friday, 18 July
I know what you mean about your nipple feeling tender. Mine had a little crack and it hurt when he would feed, but now it's better. What I did was after he would finish eating I would put some breastmilk on my nipple and let it air dry and then put on some lanolin cream and just continue to breastfeed and it got better after 3 days. Another way is what a lactation consulatant told me but I didn't get to do because I didn't have time to go to the store, but she said to put on the breastmilk and then some Neosporin without pain relief and then some lanolin cream and blow dry it with a cool setting 3-4 times a day and before you breastfeed wipe off your breast with water. Hope this helps.

babesinaugust - Sunday, 13 July
Thanks so much for the info. I have noticed some milk issues, but thought it was just me.

now we are free flowing with mild. And funny but I did take it easy and now my flow has stopped once again.

So much our bodies go through, before, during and after. Now my only issue is that my stomache still hurts when passing a bowl. Hopefully that will pass soon and I chaulk it up to just things getting back to normal.

***MDelly*** - Saturday, 12 July

That is so sweet!

***MDelly*** - Saturday, 12 July
Thanks for the info on breastfeeding/tubes tied. I am still trying to decide but glad to hear that someone has done it successfully! Thank you!

Congrats on your baby girl!

johna - Saturday, 12 July
Well I have heard that to. I asked my Dr. and she said anything after 7 days is not normal, and if it has been more than 4 days to do rectal stimulation. I don't know, all Dr's say different things. I am just glad she is ok now! Thanks!

kirra82 - Friday, 11 July
Because I couldn't see what she was getting I started pumping, some days I can get 120mls in 20min other days it takes 30min to get 60mls, why can't we just have breasts that are FULL of milk.... can't wait for it to get easier, I only wanted to feed for 12 weeks but if it does get easier then I will reconsider. I thought she was in a routine, for the first 2 weeks she was feeding every 4 hours until 10pm and then would sleep straight for 6-8hours and this was everyday but now she has no routine whatsover through the day and is sleeping 4-5 hours at night. I'm lucky that she at least knows night from day and gives me some sleep. This website has given me some sanity, I have only just started getting 'involved' although I have been following it for months just reading. I love being a mum but I don't like the stay at home part, does being a mum get any easier after your first???

kirra82 - Friday, 11 July
I didn't think it was 'normal' for my milk to come and go, also she has been quite fussy and gets a bit rough, she also feeds for over an hour. I have also been supplementing with expressed milk or formula. As of last week (3 weeks old) she had gained 150 grams above birth weight which is spot on but I don't get her weighed again until next week. I have a midwife visit so I'll speak to her then, I will keep supplementing. Thanks for the reply, I was also in Sydney but we just moved to the central coast. Your daughter is so cute, our babies are exactly 1 week apart :)

meggz - Friday, 11 July
mine burns... like litterally burns... but only when it's coming out. i didnt experience this with my 1st daughter, so i don't know how it could be normal. i went to a lactation specialist today and they think it may have to do with the fact that my daughter still doesn't latch on correctly. thanks for your comment!! good luck with your breastfeeding!! :)

zoey my angel - Thursday, 10 July

godsh i was afatty... still am lol

1stTimeMuM - Wednesday, 9 July
grats hun, glad to hear things are going better!!!

1stTimeMuM - Wednesday, 9 July
just read your post, hope you are feeling better about yourself sweetie... chin up, hugs

1stTimeMuM - Wednesday, 9 July
hope you got some sleep sweetie... my little sunshine has decided to stop pooping now, hehe! she's getting very niggly during the day, which i suppose is good cause she slept really well last night :) i'm with you on not giving much of a care if visitors come, our house is a mess at the moment, my man's doing what he can, bless him :P i help where i can (but i'm in no mood most of the time, hehe) i'm sure the grandmother was pleased to meet the new family member, my mom lives nearby and she pop's in every chance she gets, it's her first grandchild! anyhow, enjoy the rest of your day, or night :) hugs

christelle - Monday, 7 July
Yes I know about the too slippery thing. In fact, Jonah has more trouble latching onto the nipple that doesn't hurt- weird. Let me know how your appointment goes, good luck! (I see a lactation specialist on Wed. We can swap stories).

1stTimeMuM - Monday, 7 July
lol, i hear you about expressing! i have to do it to relieve some pressure every now and then and i freaking hate it!! i think what you're doing is best, i was told to wake her every 3 hours and it was hell now i let her sleep and she wakes up every 3 1/2 to 4 hours and she's a much happier puppy! i think at the end of the day your instincts will take over and you will know what's right for you and your baby! wishing you all the luck in the world, having a newborn and 2 kids to handle can't be easy! i've had the roughest weekend, i barely got any sleep, the little blighter just refused to sleep, so hats off to you and best of luck babes!

christelle - Monday, 7 July

What a cute baby! Jonah gets that same intense stare- I love it!

christelle - Monday, 7 July
Hey! I don't have a solution to the latching on problem, but I do say "open open" and open my mouth wide hoping in vain he'll try to mimic. Sometimes it seems like just when I get totally frustrated he does it right. Babies learn so much everyday, it might not be such a leap to imagine that they'll catch on to the "open open" cues. My right nipple doesn't hurt but my left still makes me "vocalize"in pain when he latches on- properly or not. And his little hands keep getting in the way and when they hit my nipple, ow!! But I know if I can just keep it up a little longer it's going to be so wonderful (cause the other side feels like that). And I really want to keep brestfeeding- I love that I am the only one who can do that and I love that he seems to like it so much and looks so happy and safe when he's doing it (I think he also uses me as a pacifier- he rarely lets go until I finally take him off). He looks so cute when he's feeding too, I love his little face!

~NyMom - Sunday, 6 July
You can get the mother's milk tea at an herbal or health food store... GNC carries it too..you can even go to GNC.com and order it online... it is great to have it while they are going through their growth spurts and even daily just to keep the supply up.

calileo98 - Sunday, 6 July
Yes, I know what you mean, we've been to the doctor once and the grocery store once, and other than that, we've been pretty much at home. Thankfully the girls are on summer break here, so I haven't had to deal with school on top of our new little baby, and I have found that our older girls are so much help! But yes, breastfeeding takes up my whole day and night, and I'm just trying to hang in there and remember that it gets easier too. It IS like you forget all the things you knew and started all over when there is 10 years between the last baby I had and this one! Thanks for the post - it helps to know others are in the same place as me. :)

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