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Lotus flower it isn't envy it's sadness and worry about your own little guy xxx
Don't feel bad about it you have been through enough already!
Lots of kisses from your guy how cute!!
CRC doing Physio starting weekly, stiffness is all over and a few other issues the paed wants looked at
Know it will help him hugely
But it's a difficult one
We went through this 9 years ago with our first guy who has cp
So I know the difference the therapy makes
But I can't believe we are back in CRC again
Iykwim!?!

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"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene D.

Well it's one thing you've been prepared for this with your other lo but sad that you have to go through it again, but you know yourself once the therapies start the huge improvements you see in them it will make it all worth while.

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BBM, hope your little babs can hang in there as long as possible. Can't imagine what the worry is like. You'd wonder are you better off knowing what's ahead of you in terms of the whole ICU thing or is it one of those things you're better off not knowing about. Anyway, I really hope it won't end up that way for you.

Hi slush puppy. No help to you re the solids. I'm sure I'll be on here in a few months with the same questions!

Doodlebops, great that you are dealing with someone you know and trust. Hope the physio helps your DS. Must be a bit surreal that you are back in CRC alright. You never expect these things to happen to you, you hear and read about them happening to other people...that's how I feel about having a preemie anyway iykwim.


Lotus, hope you're enjoying all those kisses I get what you're saying about comparing babies. I know I'll compare DS2 to DS1 and I know I'll feel sad if he doesn't do the things that DS1 did even though I know I shouldn't be comparing them in the first place.

Well DS's due date is tomorrow and here I am with my little almost 15 week old sleeping soundly on my chest! He settled in great at home and DS1 is mad about him. Finished with night feeds now, he's sleeping 12 to 6.30/7am which is great, though I'm usually lying awake from about 4.30 waiting for him to wake Had an appointment for eyes last week and they were happy with him which is great and he's a right little puddin now-I'd say he's over 7lb!

Waiting on a date for an op for an inguinal hernia. Will be glad when that's over. Doesn't seem to bother him but it was gurgling all night last night and it was bothering me!!

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That's great news Littlebaba, great he's sleeping through the nights. Woooo for sleep lol
DS had his hernia surgery at 10 months I think it was, recovery was fast and his scar is small and nearly faded now. I think it's just the thoughts of surgery on the size of them is a horrible thought

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That's exactly it lotus flower. I just keep reminding myself that it'll have more of an effect on me than on him-he won't know what's going on and he won't remember a thing.

How's your little guy doing?

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He's grand, he's discovered the joy of bottles...17 months later lol can't get the bloody thing out of his mouth! Teething like mad, think it's 12 teeth he's on but wouldn't risk putting my finger in there he's a snappy fella!

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Wow little baba isn't it amazing how far he has come!
Sl glad he has settled in well at home for you
How is the feeding going?
Lotus Flower 12 teeth that'd brill
My guy just got his first two!

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"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene D.

Wouldn't be putting my finger in there either Lotus!

Doodlebops, it is really amazing how far he has come. Had a check up in the Rotunda yesterday. We can start weaning him off his meds now as he's up to 7lb 6oz and his lungs are as good as they could possibly be for a 25 weeker, though the doc did say he'll never be an olympic athlete! Feeding is going great, and I know how lucky we are with that. he has been much more awake and alert the last few days, almost like his due date arrived and he woke up!

So cute, your DS and his first two teeth I love when they smile with those first few teeth, they look totally different!

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There's actually hormones released on their due date littlebaba, like in boys there's a testosterone surge to help them with the birth. I noticed that in Ds too, nature is amazing when you see it working like that, against the odds & still follows the path

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Hey guys.
I'm with BBM, I'm on another pregnancy after a preemie. DD was born 1.29kg at 30+2 after I got PET. She was born by EMCS after I deteriorated quickly. I had already been in for a week with high BP and protein in my wee, had stabilised but got really bad at 5am-ish and was CS at 12.50pm!
DD was incubated and then CPAP and did fine until 8days when she got cellulitis and it ran through her. She got v sick again, back on CPAP but rallied almost immediately and did great after that! She had one transfusion and bradys and desats galore and finally came home after 51 days at 37+4.
She had rotten silent reflux and i weaned her early at 9wks old corrected (19wks).

Isabella is now 4yrs old and apart from being a smart arse and an awful eater (it has to be fried, covered in ketchup or spag Bol) she's perfect. Small for her age but not hugely so. She talked, walked and crawled and sat and rolled over and got teeth and clapped handies and all that a few months late but she took over her peers by around 3 and hasn't looked back. She's magic.

It was really hard, i wont lie! there was guilt, envy, frustration you name it. I outright lied to the docs to get different meds, treatments etc. I read up on here and other forums with preemie boards (bliss, damsels etc) and changed her formula and put thickener in and added gaviscon and took her to see homeopaths and aura cleaners. You name it, I did it.

But she's four now and her birthdays don't upset me anymore and tiny babies are beautiful miracles and not horrid reminders anymore. I can look at her ICU pics and not feel sick. So I went and got myself up the duff again. 24wks today, scared shitless and hopin against everything that I don't have to post here again!!!

But I do know how scary it all is. All I an do at the moment is to do my best to send hugs and support to my two pals who are having tough, potentially preemie pregnancies (BBM being one) and hope to fuck my Bean has a good healthy placenta that won't try to kill us both this time.

For those of you who had PET or HELLP there are things that can be done if you want to go again. I've put a link in the pregnancy complications section or if anyone wants to PM me. It's a new, VERY new treatment, only one tablet and one injection a day and it'll be bloody worth it if I get past 34wks!

Time for Bed peeps, I PROMISE you it gets easier!!!

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Mammy to the Monster, born 30th December 2007 at 30+2, weighing 1.29kg

Mammy to the Farticle, born full-term on 11th June 2012, weighing 4.14kg

I'd well believe it lotus flower! We had a little "zero party" for him on his due date and he was awake the whole time!

I keep saying it-these preemies are amazing

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Redb, best of luck with this pregnancy. I can only imagine how scary the thoughts of another stint in ICU would be and I hope that doesn't happen for you.

Great to hear about Isabella. I love smart arses

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Ah littlebaba we have a zero party too gave the cake to the nurses and they were so happy! DS no longer looks so startled or tiny though!
Redb best of luck with this pregnancy of course she's going to be a little miss, I don't think anyone could know how fiesty a premmie is til they have one!

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Lotus flower that is the cutest picture

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"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene D.

Doodlebops I started my 365 that year and looking for that photo I came across my blog, Jesus I thought I was over all this but some photos just tug on my heart strings. DS has had a photo taken and documented every day of his life and I love the fact I can look at them and see how far he's come

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Ah lotus, look at him! he's adorable :inlove

Had a quick look at your blog. That's a pretty amazing thing to do. Does it take much time? Probably not if you know what you're doing! Tried to put a photo up on buy and sell once, took forever and could only do it through photobucket

IKWYM about some photos tugging on your heartstrings. Saw a photo on your blog of your gorgeous DS with his cpap mask and hat on. A real tug on the heart there for me. Find it very hard to look at photos of DS with that mask on and have seen a few shots on tv of a baby on cpap and it breaks my heart. I reckon they are the photos that'll get to me as the years go by-the cpap ones. But hey, cpap helped get them where they are today and I do have a photo of the cpap machine when it was switched OFF for the first time-I like that one!

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I use fb now and make a photobook at the end of each year so it's not too much work now.
Ds wasn't on cpap too long but photos of his tiny arms hooked up to needles the same size as his arm upset me, he'd have none of it now. Do you know to this day he won't let me hold his hand & I think it's because of all that!
Littlebaba you can get such funny photos for size comparison now! Ds was the siZe of the sky remote when he got home so lots of ones with him beside it, then when he got bigger Dh is holding him &!a tiger loaf both the same size lol

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I haven't looked at it yet Lotus-Flower
a tad bit emotional at the moment!
but I will do and it is an amazing thing to do

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"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene D.

Lotus, we have a photo of DS2s first vest beside the sky remote. That vest was way too big for him!

Doodlebops, hope you're ok.

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Oh I have a pic too - of DDs first dress on my laptop. From top to bottom, it didn't cover the keyboard!

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Mammy to the Monster, born 30th December 2007 at 30+2, weighing 1.29kg

Mammy to the Farticle, born full-term on 11th June 2012, weighing 4.14kg

Mind if I join? My DD was born @ 27 weeks, weighing 900 gr (just under 2lbs), she spent 11 weeks between NICU & SCBU, she's doing really well now, had an appt with her paed yesterday & she now weighs 14.5 lbs - a little buster !

Hope all your premmies are well, they are amazing little fighters !!

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Hi kazzy!! How are you? That's amazing growth for your lo, shes going to sprout now and you won't be able to stop it!
Our news is at his 18 month weigh in with the dietician hes 18.12lbs, a lb for every month lol and his speech therapist was fascinated at his attention span. Well ya, he just can't talk hes not stupid!!

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Thanks L.F. your DS is doing great, they are just wonderful aren't they, we're so proud of our little woman!!

Your DS is gorgeous in the pic, we never even thought of a "0" party, ah well, we'll make up for it for her 1st birthday big time, it'll be like my supersweet 16th on MTV !!!

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Hi kazzzzy, just replied on your other thread about the twins-amazing!

Great to hear your DD is another little buster!

Lf, your DS is definitely not stupid, he already looked like a wise one at his zero birthday! I keep coming back on here to look at that photo! What does the speech therapist think about his lack of speech at this stage? Are you worried? These things could all be ahead of us and DS...

Still waiting on a date for the hernia op

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