Tuesday, July 5, 2011

6 weeks 4 days



Well it's been a busy little week for us so far!



Monday we had our weigh and measure down at the community health nurses. Bub is now 4.1kg, 54.5cm long & head circ of 38cm! The nurse had a little cuddle afterwards and he was talking and giving her big smiles - little charmer he is!

We went and visited Tanja and Damien on Monday afternoon. Was funny - he was doing a loud fart, and after he was done Damien copied the noise! Funniest thing EVER!


Tuesday we had our 6 week check up at the GP. Her measurements and weight were different... apparently off that he's 4.3kg (but he had clothes on) and his length was like 55 or 56cm.

Kyle came with us as there was no way I could be alone when he got his needles. While I was getting my pap smear Kyle had to take him up to the nurses to get his needles, but they were busy down there so it didn't get done til way after I joined them.

Kyle held Riley while two nurses got on either side of him and put a needle in him at the same time in each leg, it took a few seconds then out came the howling scream of pain, I thought I was going to be okay, but I just lost it, started bawling my eyes out. I think it's just the fact that he was sitting there like a good boy, not sooking or anything, had just woken up, and he was given 2 needles which would have hurt him so much :( One of the nurses came over to comfort me, and I just felt like the biggest idiot.

We took him up to the square after as we needed nappies - big mistake, he was in his pram and screaming the place down, all he wanted was cuddles. Which I gave him plenty of when we got home!

We didn't get to bed til 11pm that night as I went up to a friends to borrow some children's panadol off her, as he had cried out in pain a few times and was whimpering in his sleep.

He woke a few times in the night, but only to grizzle or have a little sook...didn't wake to be fed til 6:30am!! and all day he's been sleepy, and hasn't been feeding as often.


Tomorrow Gammy is going to be looking after him so I can go get a haircut & find something nice to wear to Kerry's Hens Night.


Friday his Dad is gonna mind him so I can go out Shopping for food/decorations for Kerry's Hens.


Then Saturday he is sleeping over at Gammy's while I am AT Kerry's Hens night.


Busy Busy week! Missed out on mothers group this week because we had the vaccinations, so back to that next week... And I will start going back to the gym soon as I am really wanting to start to try and get back somewhere near my pre pregnancy weight! I am still WAYYYY over it.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

5 weeks 1 day

What a crazy few weeks since I last posted. I should really update alot more often as bub changes everyday with his personality and quirks, and just everything. Gosh I love him, even when he's screaming his head off. lol





Managed to catch some of bubba's FIRST SMILES!! How awesome is that!! Although the poor little bubba looks like baby me in these pictues haha they were taken at 4 weeks!



Also have had lots of visitors still! We had aunty carmel and dad come down, we've had Leesha down for 3 days, Lisa and Ella came for a visit, Tanja has come for a visit, Kerry has come a few times, and Jess H has come a couple of times aswell, She took lots of photo's of bub with her camera, and that one above is just a sample. :)
Aswell as visitors we have done lots of visiting ourselves!

We've also joined a mothers group! Every tuesday afternoon 1-3pm since bub was 3 weeks and 3 days.


We got our twinkle toes done aswell!! How good does it look!?! Well worth the $160!!


Past 3 nights bub has slept from 10/11 to 3/4!! So we've had 3 nights of 5 hour gaps!! Loving it and hope he keeps it up!


He also plays a game with his dummy! He'll suck it, spit it out, then cry for it, you put it back in for him and REPEAT! lol, he wants it, he just loves spitting it out aswell!! haha as terrible as it sounds I would love to attatch a ribbon or elastic band to it and just put it around his head so it stays on!!!! LOL


He also loves to fall asleep in your arms rather than in his rocker throughout the day, hates sleeping in the pram! Night time he is fine, feeds then goes straight back to sleep in his bassinet.

And he is definately not as floppy anymore, has better head control, although he can still fling his head around a fair bit.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

2 weeks 3 days old

Thought I would share some of the professional photo's we got taken when bub was 13 days. Cheeky bub was only asleep for 10mins out of 3.5 hours, so I can't wait to see what she did manage to get in the small amount of time he was asleep!

Will be putting one of the photo's into his twinkle toes frame which we will get in a few weeks - we went down and got his moulds done on sunday!



So the past 2 weeks and 3 days have gone so fast! and my little bubby has grown up so much already since he was born, I'm still getting used to the lack of sleep... kind of can't wait til he sleeps through a bit more, but I don't wanna wish away the time I have with a little newborn bub.


We've had the home visit from the early childhood centre nurse. She did his check, everything is fine, except he is still under his birthweight... so we have to have longer feeds, and I have to express 2 feeds a day to top him up. If he's not up to birthweight by friday she's gonna get us to give him formula to help him gain weight - something I reallllllllly do not wanna do, so fingers crossed!! it's only 40g he has to put on so hopefully we should be right.

Also hadn't been attatching him to the boob correctly :( I find the right way alot more uncomfortable!

All in all I am having fun with my new bubba, love all the faces he pulls, noises he makes, love it when he falls asleep on me after a feed, and I love the new baby smell!


I will try and update here as often as I can, as I would like to have some sort of record of bubs life early on to look back on. Not just the pregnancy! :)

Thursday, May 26, 2011

The Arrival of Riley James.

Well I guess it technically all started on Thursday morning. (19/5) I was having breakfast with my friend Bec when I got some sharp period like pains, and started getting hot flushes, and freaking out. It only lasted 10 or more minutes but it was enough to make me paranoid it was going to happen then and there. Spent the rest of the day out at mums, had the odd bit of pain here and there but nothing too serious.


Friday was pretty much uneventful and I started getting worried thinking bub was going to be really late, so I was thinking what else we could try to move things along, so I got Kyle to go and get some spicy Indian for tea. Had that, went to bed around 11:30pm, but pretty much as soon as I layed down I started getting period like pains again, at midnight I realised they were getting pretty constant and I wasn’t going to get to sleep so I got up, and spent the whole night pretty much online, grinning and bearing through contractions every 5 minutes, when they got bad I was on the floor on my hands and knees or walked to the kitchen to lean over the counter.


At 5:30am I called my midwife to let her know what was happening, she told me it was best to stay home as long as I could, and to wait until the contractions were 3-4 every 10 minutes, and I couldn’t handle it anymore. So I struggled through the next few hours, woke Kyle up at 8am telling him he wouldn’t be playing soccer today, bawling my eyes out in the process. Managed to have some brekky, but it was getting so bad and closer together I thought I definitely needed to go in, so at about 9:20am I called the midwife back again telling her they were worse, and closer together and that I couldn’t do it at home anymore (all the while bawling my eyes out over the phone) so she told me to come in and she’d meet me there.


On the way to the hospital the contractions started to ease off, and further apart – I think I was relaxing knowing I was on the way to the hospital and it was all going to be ok. We got into our room at 9:45am, and were left to wait it out. She checked me out around 11am, I was 4cm dilated at that time. She told me she’d definitely say we were having a baby today, but she didn’t think it would happen before 3pm, and it would probably be good if we went for a drive to get a coffee, or go for a walk around the hospital grounds, just to get out of the room. She assured me I was checked into the hospital, the room was ours, and we could do what we wanted.
I tried a couple of times to get changed back into some normal clothes but as soon as I did I would get the worst contraction and thought there was NO WAY I was going outside with pain like that. After an hour or so I just got changed and MADE myself go outside – just to get some fresh air. Kyle went downstairs on the way back to get some food while I made my way back to the birthing suit.


Around 2pm I decided to try the hot shower, which worked wonders, I was in heaven, then thought I would try out a hot bath which was just as nice, I could feel contractions coming and going but they weren’t painful.... after a few of them they started to get painful again and I got out, and went back to my usual positions of leaning over the bed.


At 3pm Cacey came in to tell me she was going and to introduce me to the midwife that was taking over – HUGE RELEIF to see it was the lady who ran our antenatal classes! I was sooo happy! And Kyle was only saying earlier how funny it would be if we got her.


Karen ended up staying with me the whole time! We discussed pain relief and decided I would start on the gas. With the really painful contractions I couldn’t concentrate on breathing in the gas so I would throw it away and breathe in the gas between contractions LOL.
I found contractions so painful, all I could do was hold my belly and scream out “oww, owww, owwwww!“ And “I can’t do this anymore!”
After an hour of working through contractions Karen got me up on the bed to check me out, but as soon as I layed down a contraction would start, so she’d have to wait...when they passed she told me I was 7cm dilated, and thought I’d still have a few hours to go.


Karen was very helpful massaging my back and helping me rock through the contractions but at 4:30ish I decided I wanted the pethidine as I just couldn’t do it anymore, but I had the feeling I needed to push so she was hesitant to give it to me but she did anyways. Soon after I got the shot she moved me up onto the bed on my knees, leaning over the back of the bed which she raised.


At 4:45pm my waters broke, HUGE relief, and it was almost instantly that I could feel his head moving down. Kyle had to push the nurses button, but the midwife pushed the emergency button soon after as she didn’t think anyone was in the birthing suite office and she needed to get help over. Cacey was still in the building and ended up coming over to watch! And another midwife came over to help with the birth.


Kyle was up at my side giving me the gas and telling me I was doing good, and it would almost be over, and to slow my breathing down (I was like hyperventilating between pushes and screaming like a bush woman during each push)
I think it took about 3-4 pushes to get his head out! Just before he crowned I was warned that it might sting a bit but to just breathe through it. Yes it stung but it only lasted seconds, and was NO where near as bad as the contractions. Once his head was out the midwife said hello baby, are you a boy or a girl? And someone told me to reach down and touch him but I insisted I didn’t want to! I just wanted to concentrate on getting him out!!


Kyle said that while his head was out, and during the next contraction bub turned his body and with the next push he just flopped out! Followed by ALOT of blood. Turns out I lost about 500ml.


Riley James Chaplin was born 5:09pm May 21 2011.


So bub was out and no one was telling me what it was, so I’m like is someone going to tell me what it is?? They told me to have a look myself, so I slowly leaned back and looked down – first thing I saw was a penis, IT’S A BOY!!


Soon after they cleaned up underneath me I was given my bub and had to carefully move around and lay down...and got some cuddles! The cord stopped pulsing pretty much straight away and Kyle cut the cord.. which turned out to have a knot in it!! Got given the injection straight away as well, took the placenta a few pushes to get out but that didn’t take too long either.


Ended up needing stitches too they were only small ones though, they were almost not going to give me any but decided it best they should, the lady doing it ended up finding a spot that the midwives missed. It hurt and REALLY stung getting the anaesthetic. Took her forever to put the stitches in but that’s only because she was teaching Karen how to do it. Bub was happily having a feed while it was happening.


Once that was all done Karen took bub to check him out while I had a much needed shower.


Bub was weighed at 3.4kg or 7lb 8oz which Karen guessed exactly right before she weighed him.


Around 7:30 – 8 we were transferred over to the wards...and I guess that’s where the birth story ends!


Tuesday, May 17, 2011

40 weeks ....

..... and you're still not here!! Time is up bubba! Time to come out into the big wide world!! We are all DYING to meet you!! And I REALLY don't want to be induced!!



Nanna came up today with due date presents for you too! I think she's got her crazy pants on though by buying you a 00000 sized onsie!


Was just looking back at the 12 week videos, made me a little teary!! The little bubba in there is no longer that little, it's the size of a baby and I will get to meet you soon!!


So come on little Jelly, I want this to be the last pregnancy related blog I make! I want to be updating the people on your birth next week!!



Monday, May 16, 2011

39 weeks 6 days

Back from my midwife appt :)

Bub is 3/5ths engaged... which is more than last time! Hooray! So atleast bub is on the way down!
Plan of action is, that if bub hasn't come by next tuesday then I am going to get a Stretch & Sweep, and see if that brings things on. Only thing is, is that my midwife has the 4-5 days following off! So if I don't go into labour on or before next tuesday I am going to have my backup midwife! She was there when I had the bleed and the kidney infection, so yes I have met her before and she's lovely and all, I was just really hoping Cacey would be the one who delivered Jelly coz she's been there the whole way.
Latest day I can possibly have Jelly is May 30 - which is the day Cacey will be back. (which is kinda funny coz she thinks my EDD is May 16, but its May 18, oh well I dont mind, gives me my bub sooner).

So I am thinking I should start going for walks everyday, and doing other "recreational" activities to hurry bub along within the next week!! Spicy foods was another thing but I HATEEEE spicy foods with a passion... she even suggested accupuncture which kinda freaks me out a little!!

So everyone start sending Jelly "BE BORN" vibes! lol!! I'm thinking the cold snap has scared bub off coming out! LOL

Saturday, May 14, 2011

39 weeks 4 days



Dear Jelly,

As you can see above, your bassinet is made and ready, and as you can see below your cot is made and ready. You may come whenever you like now please.

Love Mum. xoxo