yesterday morning.
i woke up ... as usual...
i went to the bathroom- while the shrimpy one was screaming at me for her milk but there are things that she just has to wait for!
i peed on a stick.....
and ....
Siân Louise is going to be a little BIG SISTER!!!
I'm due around Oct 12th... booked my first appointment with my GP for next thursday. I *want* a home water birth this time- that was what i booked last time!
I'm still in shock!
Friday, February 04, 2005
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
why oh why
when i need to find an inhaler i cna't? yet there are FIVE in my bathroom cabinet and one in my nappy bag. ah well. i'm getting used to hearing th ewheeze now. not that it's a good thing!
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
signing
my shrimpy one's almost asleep again.. but first let me say i'm a proud mama :o)
she can sign a 2-word sentence- is there such a thing? any way. she signs "milk, please" or "all gone, thank you"
words she can sign (BSL)
she can sign a 2-word sentence- is there such a thing? any way. she signs "milk, please" or "all gone, thank you"
words she can sign (BSL)
- milk
- hello
- goodbye
- all gone
- please
- thank you
admittedly hello & goodbye are the same sign, so are please & thank you
we'd better work on
- more
- food
- biscuit (cookie)
*yawn*
shrimpy girl is 1 year & 2 weeks. i feel like she's 2 weeks! i think she's all settled for the night and next thing i know *waaaaah!*
so, i sit here at 1am with a baby on boob, nursing at keyboard (nak). you'd think i'd be a nak pro by now, huh? it was sooo much easier when she was a relatively still shrimp. now she's a big wriggley shrimp who's making mama's wrist/hand go numb
i'm going to see if she'll let go of the boobage... wish me luck!
so, i sit here at 1am with a baby on boob, nursing at keyboard (nak). you'd think i'd be a nak pro by now, huh? it was sooo much easier when she was a relatively still shrimp. now she's a big wriggley shrimp who's making mama's wrist/hand go numb
i'm going to see if she'll let go of the boobage... wish me luck!
Thursday, December 30, 2004
bringing you up to speed
this will be a longish entry i guess. it's gonna start right back about May 1 2003. the day i got that elusive BFP on a pregnancy test. clive and i had only been trying 3.5 years.
shrimpy started measureing sga at about 32 weeks. i held off a c-section with the blessings of all the midwives- "bodger" as she was then known was not in distress at any time. clive had some holiday coming up and was entitled to 2weeks paternity leave as well. so i went into the OB and told her wehn he was off and asked if she wanted to try and induce me- can you tell i was sick of being in and out of hospital for CTGs at this point?!
i went in on the monday before christmas.. and nothing happened right up to christmas eve so i asked my consultant to let me home for christmas day- which she did :o) i went back in boxing day and at 05:12am on Dec 27th 2003 Siân Louise entered the world weighing in at 3lbs 13oz and measureing 45cms- see how she got the nickname "shrimpy"?
for the first two months it felt like ALL i did was breast feed. i've been told this is good lol. then suddenly at 8 weeks old shrimpy started burbling. it was lovely. and her smiles were even more so. it takes alot to get one out of her, but it's SOO worth it!
on March 21st 2004 (mothers day UK) shrimpy slept through the night in her crib for the first time. what a mothers day present that was! she kept up a 7.30pm-5.30am pattern till she hit a growth spurt at about 9mos. then she started to wake up just once in the night. extra solids didn't change the pattern of this so we went back to co-sleeping some of the night. it kept me warm too!
mobility of a sort came right at 5mos when she could roll around a hwole room in under a minute. she also started to walk holidng onto her daddy's fingers, we didn't think she'd crawl at all after that. then at 6mos or so she army crawled, and just got faster! at 7mos she crawled properly and at 8mos she'd sit up for a few minutes wtih out going to explore- she suddenly realized she could explore things just sitting still.
we started going to baby sign classes when shrimp was 4.5mos old. she signed 'milk' at 8mos, waved 'hello/goodbye' at 10.5mos and 'all gone' out of the blue the week before her 1st birthday. in 2005 we're going to work on 'please/thank you', 'more', 'food', 'drink' 'mama' and 'daddy'
it's christmas time again now. and it's our first as a family.. there was a HUGE pile of gifts for shrimp from her friends, god parents and family. then two days after she had another huge pile of gifts for her birthday. the girl doesn't really need much in the way of toys in 2005, clothes now, they're a different matter!
at 1 year & 2days.. weight: 14lbs length: 69cms
the computer clock tells me it's bed time in england. i'll come back to you during the week wiht more about me and the family.
shrimpy started measureing sga at about 32 weeks. i held off a c-section with the blessings of all the midwives- "bodger" as she was then known was not in distress at any time. clive had some holiday coming up and was entitled to 2weeks paternity leave as well. so i went into the OB and told her wehn he was off and asked if she wanted to try and induce me- can you tell i was sick of being in and out of hospital for CTGs at this point?!
i went in on the monday before christmas.. and nothing happened right up to christmas eve so i asked my consultant to let me home for christmas day- which she did :o) i went back in boxing day and at 05:12am on Dec 27th 2003 Siân Louise entered the world weighing in at 3lbs 13oz and measureing 45cms- see how she got the nickname "shrimpy"?
for the first two months it felt like ALL i did was breast feed. i've been told this is good lol. then suddenly at 8 weeks old shrimpy started burbling. it was lovely. and her smiles were even more so. it takes alot to get one out of her, but it's SOO worth it!
on March 21st 2004 (mothers day UK) shrimpy slept through the night in her crib for the first time. what a mothers day present that was! she kept up a 7.30pm-5.30am pattern till she hit a growth spurt at about 9mos. then she started to wake up just once in the night. extra solids didn't change the pattern of this so we went back to co-sleeping some of the night. it kept me warm too!
mobility of a sort came right at 5mos when she could roll around a hwole room in under a minute. she also started to walk holidng onto her daddy's fingers, we didn't think she'd crawl at all after that. then at 6mos or so she army crawled, and just got faster! at 7mos she crawled properly and at 8mos she'd sit up for a few minutes wtih out going to explore- she suddenly realized she could explore things just sitting still.
we started going to baby sign classes when shrimp was 4.5mos old. she signed 'milk' at 8mos, waved 'hello/goodbye' at 10.5mos and 'all gone' out of the blue the week before her 1st birthday. in 2005 we're going to work on 'please/thank you', 'more', 'food', 'drink' 'mama' and 'daddy'
it's christmas time again now. and it's our first as a family.. there was a HUGE pile of gifts for shrimp from her friends, god parents and family. then two days after she had another huge pile of gifts for her birthday. the girl doesn't really need much in the way of toys in 2005, clothes now, they're a different matter!
at 1 year & 2days.. weight: 14lbs length: 69cms
the computer clock tells me it's bed time in england. i'll come back to you during the week wiht more about me and the family.
the begining..
or even a year later! it's been 1 year and 2 days since my daughter was born. only now do i think i'll get the chance to post even once a week about our goings on and her acheivements. but she's achieved so much since she was conceived- managing to stick out 38 weeks in utero was a good one as they wanted to deliver her early due to her shrimpy stature.
this will have to go backwards for a little while i recount her first year. then we'll go forwards into 2005 :o)
this will have to go backwards for a little while i recount her first year. then we'll go forwards into 2005 :o)
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