Uterus Didelphys

Cowboyboot recently posted a link to this website by a young British(go us brits) girl. If you have a UD or any other kind of Uterine anommaly then check it out.

6 hours!

Can I just say that Noah slept for 6 hours without a feed last night!! That doubles his previous record, this is the boy often only going an hour between feeds at night. It was so good, although a little strange too, I kept waking up and looking at him to find him still contentedly asleep.

The only thing about his big sleeps, is that all of his longest sleeps have been when we've been co-sleeping. I don't think he has ever gone beyond 2 hours in his cot. I never intended to co sleep, but he is such a cuddly baby that he just settles better and sometimes I just can't be bothered getting back out of bed after feeding. Will persevere with the cot as I don't want him permenantly in our bed, but there is something lovely about sleeping next to him, and today I am just happy in the fact that he slept!! Yay!

Growth

And not of Noah this time.

Having a c section hasn't exactly helped me with my gardening, and obviously just feeding and sleeping currently takes up a lot of my time, but my garden hasn't been forgotten. A lot of work has gone into it this year, and although it is currently overgrown and in serious need of attention there has been some really good stuff come out of it.

These are what I have just picked and just photgraphed.



Ok so my sprouts, cabbages, kale, pakchoi and brocolli have practically all been eaten by an huge army of cabbage white caterpillars, and some of my herbs and salad leaves have bolted, but I also have still growing red onions, carrots, beetroot, an array of herbs and some tomatoes. All in all I'm quite impressed by how much can be grown in such a small space with so little human intervention.

So many potential blogs

So few of them actually process in my brain to become actual posts though.

I just want to say that being a mum to Noah is completely wonderful. I love my little family of me, hubby and Noah and feel so incredibly blessed to have them both. Hub is the most doting Dad and is soo good with our little man and I am so grateful to have someone who is not only a wonderful husband but also a fantastic Dad.

Anyway soppyness over for now.

One of the thoughts that has hit me over the past couple of weeks is how strong the woman that used to own our house must be. I'm sure I've mentioned before that they fostered loads of kids. Anyway one of the things that they sometimes did was look after newborns for the first few months of their lives until either they were adopted or the courts decided that they were safe to be returned to their birth families. To look after and bring up a baby from a few days old until they are several months old, knowing you have to then have to let them go into the unknown never to see them again must be an incredibly hard thing to do. I have a lot of respect anyway for all that this family have done in terms of giving children homes until they can be found permenant famlies, but having Noah has made me realise how incredibly hard it must be at times and remember what a precious gift it is they give to all the children they do care for.

He eats how much?!

Now I know that Noah feeds a lot, I know I'm up feeding a lot of the night, but I didn't expect what I heard from the midwife this morning.

When he born last tuesday he weighed 7lb 12oz, when he was weighed on sunday morning he weighed 7lb 10oz. The midwife was impressed that he had lost just 2oz as they expect them to lose up to 10% of their body weight in the first few days. So this morning, just 4 days later I took him to be weighed, expecting an increase but not what I heard. He now weighs 8lb 9oz!!!

That is basically a whole pound in 4 days! I am stunned! Go Noah go!

Noah's arrival

While he is contentedly asleep and having a cuddle with Daddy, and I'm waiting for the midwife I thought I'd do the whole 'how he actually got here' post.

Things kicked off at about 11.30pm on 15th when my water started leaking. By about half twelve I had to get up and out of bed as I was too achey when lying down and I didn't want to disturb hubby too much with the constant trips to the toilet. So I went and did what all sensible women in early labour might do and came and plonked myself in front of the internet for a while. I know some people also recommend shopping, however given the time and the fact that would have involved moving, the internet had to suffice.

By about 2.30am I had contractions coming thick and fast, every 5 minutes or less which I thought was fairly good going for a first baby, from nothing at all a couple of hours earlier to increasingly regular and painful contractions. Got to the hospital at about 3am and got hooked up to the monitors etc to measure babies heart rate and contraction strength. It was at this point I was gutted to be told I was only 1cm dilated. Given the strength of the contractions I was hoping for a couple more cm then that! She said that although they often send people home at this point they would probably keep me in and try and speed things up with some drugs as the baby's heart rate was dropping a bit more then they would like with each contraction. They left me for a bit longer though and went to find a doctor to see what they thought. At this point I hadn't had any pain relief and my contractions were getting increasingly more and more painful and difficult for me to deal with. Noah's heart rate started dropping more and more as the contractions got much stronger, I'm sure I saw it was down to mid 50's during some of the strongest contractions, but at least it was going back to normal inbetween! At this point the doctor examined me and decided as because I still wasn't dilating and the heart rate was now dropping significantly every contraction they would take me through for an emergency c-section.

Then it was all go. The room suddenly filled with people, one person stripping me off, another putting a cannula in my hand, while someone else explaining and getting me to sign consent forms. Then I was whisked off to be prepped and have a spinal, before Noah was officially born at 5.52am on 16 June 2009, weighing 7lb 12.

Stitching up took longer then I anticipated, ended up losing 1000ml of blood and was then sick several times through out the morning, turns out he had been back to back too which would of not helped the pain, but he is completely worth it all. Despite it not being the birth I anticipated I think it was a really positive birth and the main thing is that he is here and we are both fine and healthy. Recovery is going really really well, and he is such a good and contented baby.

I'll finish with a picture our little family a few hours after he was born
And one of him from friday when we came home

Introducing Noah

I'll do a proper update at some later point, but just to say Noah was born on 16th June by emergency C-section at just before 6am. He is absolutely gorgeous and we are completely in love and so very grateful that we have him, that he got here safe and wel, and that we are both doing so well and are home again.