We were called by GOSH Wednesday morning to tell us they had managed to get an appointment booked in for Friday at 1pm. They have also managed to get his kidney check booked in at the same time, which is good news as they didn’t think they would get it booked in for 2 weeks. …
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Bad day today
So the Health Visitor came round today and seemed to have tried to get a grasp on what needed to be done for our little one. She had called GOSH to chase up our referral and also ask for guidance on what is needed locally. They basically said they only received our referral this week …
First Week at home
Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet lately. My world has been a whirlwind of midwives, twins, feeding and changing. We’ve been home almost two weeks now!!! We’ve even been discharged from the midwives into the health visitors care now. When I saw the midwives they picked up on a haematoma on my stomach, they thought …
We’ve been discharged!
It has been a massively manic few days. With bubby feeding every hour on Sunday, and managing to calm him down a bit and get more regular 3 hour feeds established on Monday/Tuesday. My husband went home on Sunday as he needed to pick up some bits for us and baby. It was the first …
Day 4
We had breakfast with my family this morning as it is my mums birthday. Given everything else it was difficult to get out of the hotel and back to our baby with the twins, the wedding and other family stuff so we decided we would stay with them until 11am and then head back into …
Day 3
Sleep was not great. Two babies on the ward and they just seem to be left crying rather than picked up, fed or cuddled. Not really sure why. But meant I was awake a lot. Got out of bed at 6am and went downstairs to see little one. But my wound started to bleed so …
Day 2
I woke up bright and early this morning, managing to get in the shower and dressed. Down to baby by 7 to have a cuddle and breast feed. Then back up for breakfast and a nap. All before my husband got back! We then went back down to see him again and spent most of …
Day 1
I didn’t sleep a wink last night. My husband decided to sleep downstairs with our monkey, but again got next to nothing sleep wise. They also didn’t come to do my bloods and I asked for pain relief and had to wait an hour for them, despite hitting the call bell 3 times and being …
Baby has arrived!
At 36+3 and weighing 6lb 12oz our little boy decided he couldn’t wait any longer to get here. He was delivered by the amazing team at UCLH who all came in especially and stayed ridiculously late in order to be around. Could not have asked for better people around me. The caesarean was really straight …
Final FMU scan before D Day!
I am having my final scan at UCLH FMU before the cesarean section today! Very, very excited and the husband is really starting to get excited too, even talking to the bump! This morning I had a little minor freak out that bubba wasn’t moving as much. I started to try and move him and …
Spina Bifida Baby 