19/10/2009·public·171 visits · notify me ?

we are. we have not moved anywhere at all yet. 12 days of being packed and ready to drop everything and go. Suppose I can't really get much sympathy from a load of pregnant women approaching their due dates though haha!!! Well at least one aspect of the last bit of my pregnancy I'm still getting to ( Read more... )

14/10/2009·public·133 visits · notify me ?

Yup we're still in sunny Cornwall, for the time being.So thought I'd pop up here and say hi!

After all I was saying about giving blood the other day; I had blood taken yesterday by one of the neonatal drs, they did it with a butterfly thing instead of the usual vacuum things the midwives use. Sorry that' ( Read more... )

12/10/2009·public·219 visits · notify me ?

Humpf. There hasn't been a cot, though in fairness ivy has still been poorly and the consultant didn't want to transfer her until she's stable. When I last posted her blood sugar was really high, it then dropped far too low and didn't recover even after various dextrose top ups, poor chick. Seems to be ( Read more... )

11/10/2009·public·190 visits · notify me ?

Ivy seems to have perked right back up,  she was fairly quiet yesterday while I was there until they gave her a blood transfusion, I swear it'd only been going 5 minutes when you could see a marked improvement in here. Oxygen sats when straight up, her heart rate came back up to what I think of as normal ( Read more... )

10/10/2009·public·237 visits · notify me ?

she is grumpy! Hurrah!

Ivy woke at 1 and demanded to know why she had not been fed for 12 hours, she's been sucking on her dummy clearly hoping that sucking harder will produce milk! (yeah I thought dummies were evil too, amazing how a screaming baby changes your mind no?!) She's looking a lot pinker ( Read more... )

9/10/2009·public·208 visits · notify me ?

gah what a super lame day! Yesterday I hovered over the phone and while it rang repeatedly, it wasn't the hospital once. We're all packed, all our babysitters are poised and ready, well as ready as this lot will ever get anyway!

I was updated by doctors, they hope it's just a plug of meconium still; not ( Read more... )

7/10/2009·public·184 visits · notify me ?

Hahaha! Well my hubby may be right all I do is rant, so please ladies excuse yet another rant taking up space on the right of your page! I rant in this journal too much I konw, but well, Violet doesn't listen she just gets me to pretend to drink from her tea set, bless!!!

Anyway, Martin and Violet are ill ( Read more... )

I daren't go for a huge Hooray in case somehow I celebrate too loud and break it... But for the last 2 days ivy has returned to high dependency! It is so much nicer there, they have a radio, comfy chairs and everything! Just don't quite believe she's back there, it's fab but just don't quite feel comfortable really celebrating it a second time ( Read more... )

pixiejo · you!
Posted 24/9/09

Ivy has been breathing all by herself!

They're confident enough in her ability to breathe that they've taken the CPAP machine away altogether! And today she should finish her antibiotics - I never did ask what type of infection she had, I'd rather not know I think!

We would be up the hospital right now, but she's ( Read more... )

pixiejo · you!
Posted 18/9/09

Hiya ladies!

Thank you so much for yuor PMA yesterday, it really helped! I feel like I'm still clinging to some semblance of sanity by the skin of my teeth, but still clinging!

Ivy is having a better day today, her platelets have stayed at a number they like after yesterdays transfusion and, more importantly the ( Read more... )