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George is 6 weeks old today (31st March) and we've just measured him. He's clocking in at 61cm (which puts him at the 98% percentile?!) and his head circumference is 38/40 cm (which puts him at 50%). It sounds like if this continues, he'll be really tall, like his dad!! how exciting.
ok - gotta go sleep now.
night night!
p x
Monday 31 March 2008
Spot George...!
We had a gathering of our NCT (http://www.nct.org/) antenatal classmates at our house yesterday - and it was a lot of fun. We invited our teacher along too as she'd not seen all the babies since we ended classes in mid-Dec (earliest baby was born 30th Dec) and G was the latest on 18th Feb.
There was alot of laughter, alot of food (we've got enough to feed us for the next week!), and crying (from babies, honest!). Here's a classic picture...:). The babies were placed in chronological age order, so from left (Ella Louise Kennett the oldest, Thomas Samuel Guest, Sienna Olivia Langiano, Oliver John Fleming, Pheobe Rose May Rowan, and George). Typical, my son decides to sleep through it all. He woke up about 10 minutes after all the photos were taken... hmph.
ok - going to brave it and wake the babe up...! Time for a nappy change and a feed! Such is life.
p x
Friday 28 March 2008
He's smiling!!
I think this is such a cute picture... actually, no these are 2 very cute pictures...:)
The one of the right, taken about 3 weeks old (7th March), the one on the left, about 5 weeks old (25th March)! :)
p x
some cute photos!
Hi!
Taking the opportunity of a quiet moment (G's asleep...!), I thought I'd upload some photos which I think are quite cute (well, they all are cute - but to upload all I think would be rather too much!).
I do wonder what G was thinking in the last picture... perhaps he was rather upset about being removed from his warm and cosy habitat of the last 9 months...!!!
ok - he's twitching now...gotta go!
P x
Wednesday 26 March 2008
Baby is 36 days old!
Happy Man Yue for last saturday!!
Haven't had time to update the blog - looking after baby is really, a full-time 24 hour job. The only time off I get is when he's sleeping or not crying - right now, he's sitting in his little bouncing chair and that's keeping him occupied for a little while. Ordinarily I'd be rushing around doing the laundry (I've taken it out of the machine, just not hung it up yet!), and sterilising bottles etc, but thought my blog needed some attention!
We had him baptised when he was 4 weeks old, on 15th March 2008 (saturday). Photos are here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31958&page=3&l=a7b84&id=575881955. Colin and Audra came over to the UK and made a little holiday before stopping at ours for 5 days for the baptism and for them to see the baby. Audra apparently cried/teared when she left our house for the airport - she was that attached to the G-master. So... Georgie Porgie made his first girl cry!! :)
There have been many near scares and frights... I still wake up in the night wondering if he's breathing and poking him to see if he moves. When we go out for an extended period of time, and he ends up sleeping in the buggy or the car, I worry that he's not eating enough. But, thankfully, at yesterday's health visitor's check, he's put on 1 pound and 1 oz and that brings him to a grand weight of 9 pounds 2 oz!! I'm really pleased. According to the measurements and growth charts, he's at 25% - but I think that's fine, as long as he's growing and developing. His height however is at 91%! We reckon that he's got a slim build (from both me and Dan - Dan's tall but he's not chunky)!
I get to drive from next week (6 weeks). I can't wait to have my independence and freedom again. But first, I'll need to master the collapsing of the buggy!
Till then...
Love
P and G (5 weeks 2 days!) xx
Haven't had time to update the blog - looking after baby is really, a full-time 24 hour job. The only time off I get is when he's sleeping or not crying - right now, he's sitting in his little bouncing chair and that's keeping him occupied for a little while. Ordinarily I'd be rushing around doing the laundry (I've taken it out of the machine, just not hung it up yet!), and sterilising bottles etc, but thought my blog needed some attention!
We had him baptised when he was 4 weeks old, on 15th March 2008 (saturday). Photos are here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31958&page=3&l=a7b84&id=575881955. Colin and Audra came over to the UK and made a little holiday before stopping at ours for 5 days for the baptism and for them to see the baby. Audra apparently cried/teared when she left our house for the airport - she was that attached to the G-master. So... Georgie Porgie made his first girl cry!! :)
There have been many near scares and frights... I still wake up in the night wondering if he's breathing and poking him to see if he moves. When we go out for an extended period of time, and he ends up sleeping in the buggy or the car, I worry that he's not eating enough. But, thankfully, at yesterday's health visitor's check, he's put on 1 pound and 1 oz and that brings him to a grand weight of 9 pounds 2 oz!! I'm really pleased. According to the measurements and growth charts, he's at 25% - but I think that's fine, as long as he's growing and developing. His height however is at 91%! We reckon that he's got a slim build (from both me and Dan - Dan's tall but he's not chunky)!
I get to drive from next week (6 weeks). I can't wait to have my independence and freedom again. But first, I'll need to master the collapsing of the buggy!
Till then...
Love
P and G (5 weeks 2 days!) xx
Tuesday 4 March 2008
George is 15 days old...
We are home from the hospital and George is 15 days old!! :) I can't believe how time has just flown past. Have not had time to update the blog (apologies) since we only got back from the hospital last weekend (23rd Feb) and George was born on the 18th. Let me start from the very beginning...
18th Feb 2008
We woke up at about 4.30am and started to get ready to go to the hospital. It's quite surreal to actually know the birthdate of your child before he's even born - and I think we were extremely lucky and blessed not to have had any emergencies before so that we actually made it to the date arranged by the consultant! We got to QEQM hospital (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, in Margate - home of Tracey Emin!) at 7am and when we walked in, the midwife said that we were going to be the first c-section of the day! That was shock no. 1! We went in thinking that we were going to be second since apparently there was another woman booked in for a c-section and she was diabetic, and so we assumed (and we were told!) that she'd go first. Plus I had the added 'complications'. Oh well, maybe Mr Belgaumkar wanted to sort the complicated case out first!
So, we went into a room where we sort of got ready - I changed into my hospital gown (started to feel nervous about it) and Dan was given his hospital clothes to change into, including a hair net thing, and special wellie/boots to wear! Then all the people who were going to be in the operating theatre trooped in one by one to introduce themselves and tell me what was going to happen - which was really nice, because it helped me identify with them. Midwife, Aneastetists, Surgeons, their assistants, operating theatre staff...
9am - I walked to the theatre - I started to get really nervous at this stage but they were really nice and very gentle with the spinal. The feeling was really weird - it felt like I was having pins and needles but not really. Felt all warm and fuzzy too. By 0917, they started the first incision and by 0925, George Noah Kai was born. :) and I only knew that because the music we had chosen (Hallelujah - by Rufus Wainwright) was playing at that moment, and the anaestatist started to let the green curtain screen down and said to put on my glasses and lifted my back up so that I could see George emerging from my womb!
His umbilical cord was cut and he immediately let out a huge yowl (something which we are trying to get accustomed to at the moment!)!! He was then taken to the respiratair where he was checked through and given an APGAR score of 9 at 1 min and 10 at 5 min! :) His daddy went straight over to the machine and took photos of him and the midwife then brought George over to be placed on my chest for a little while whilst they sewed me up. I didn't feel a thing (of course, it hurt like mad afterwards!)... it was such an experience.
George weighed in at 8 pounds 1 oz (3.650 kg), and 50 cm long. His head circumference was 35cm (which is spot on average) and everything's fine. Within the hour, (by10am) I was wheeled out into recovery where Dan and George were both waiting for me and George was placed on me for his first breastfed moment - he latched on very well and very quickly, and we will be posting pictures up here soon.
We spent the next couple of nights at QEQM and were discharged on Wed evening (we thought he might have jaundice - but the blood tests said he was fine - rather on the high end but still ok) and went on to stay 3 more nights at Kent and Canterbury Birth Centre. This was a preferred option as it meant that Dan could stay with us in the room (it was almost as if we were in a private hospital!) and we could get help with breast feeding - which was invaluable.
As all new mothers are, I was constantly fretting over him. Was he feeding enough, was he feeding too much? Was he sleeping enough, was he sleeping too much? Was he pooing enough, was he pooing too much? What is the perfect poo? Has he wee-ed? How do we know he's wee-ed? and so on...
We survived the few days at hospital and made it home on saturday night. We've now been home for 10 days now and we've had our sleepless days and nights but it's all been worth it. He is the most perfect and cutest baby ever (of course, we are biased!)...
Dan's gone back to work as of yesterday and I had my first day alone with him then. It was scary - not having an extra pair of hands to rely on is incredibly daunting... but we survived it. Today has been extremely good so far (fingers crossed) and hopefully we'll survive again till Dan arrives home at 6pm!
Lots of love
P and G xx
15 days old!
18th Feb 2008
We woke up at about 4.30am and started to get ready to go to the hospital. It's quite surreal to actually know the birthdate of your child before he's even born - and I think we were extremely lucky and blessed not to have had any emergencies before so that we actually made it to the date arranged by the consultant! We got to QEQM hospital (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, in Margate - home of Tracey Emin!) at 7am and when we walked in, the midwife said that we were going to be the first c-section of the day! That was shock no. 1! We went in thinking that we were going to be second since apparently there was another woman booked in for a c-section and she was diabetic, and so we assumed (and we were told!) that she'd go first. Plus I had the added 'complications'. Oh well, maybe Mr Belgaumkar wanted to sort the complicated case out first!
So, we went into a room where we sort of got ready - I changed into my hospital gown (started to feel nervous about it) and Dan was given his hospital clothes to change into, including a hair net thing, and special wellie/boots to wear! Then all the people who were going to be in the operating theatre trooped in one by one to introduce themselves and tell me what was going to happen - which was really nice, because it helped me identify with them. Midwife, Aneastetists, Surgeons, their assistants, operating theatre staff...
9am - I walked to the theatre - I started to get really nervous at this stage but they were really nice and very gentle with the spinal. The feeling was really weird - it felt like I was having pins and needles but not really. Felt all warm and fuzzy too. By 0917, they started the first incision and by 0925, George Noah Kai was born. :) and I only knew that because the music we had chosen (Hallelujah - by Rufus Wainwright) was playing at that moment, and the anaestatist started to let the green curtain screen down and said to put on my glasses and lifted my back up so that I could see George emerging from my womb!
His umbilical cord was cut and he immediately let out a huge yowl (something which we are trying to get accustomed to at the moment!)!! He was then taken to the respiratair where he was checked through and given an APGAR score of 9 at 1 min and 10 at 5 min! :) His daddy went straight over to the machine and took photos of him and the midwife then brought George over to be placed on my chest for a little while whilst they sewed me up. I didn't feel a thing (of course, it hurt like mad afterwards!)... it was such an experience.
George weighed in at 8 pounds 1 oz (3.650 kg), and 50 cm long. His head circumference was 35cm (which is spot on average) and everything's fine. Within the hour, (by10am) I was wheeled out into recovery where Dan and George were both waiting for me and George was placed on me for his first breastfed moment - he latched on very well and very quickly, and we will be posting pictures up here soon.
We spent the next couple of nights at QEQM and were discharged on Wed evening (we thought he might have jaundice - but the blood tests said he was fine - rather on the high end but still ok) and went on to stay 3 more nights at Kent and Canterbury Birth Centre. This was a preferred option as it meant that Dan could stay with us in the room (it was almost as if we were in a private hospital!) and we could get help with breast feeding - which was invaluable.
As all new mothers are, I was constantly fretting over him. Was he feeding enough, was he feeding too much? Was he sleeping enough, was he sleeping too much? Was he pooing enough, was he pooing too much? What is the perfect poo? Has he wee-ed? How do we know he's wee-ed? and so on...
We survived the few days at hospital and made it home on saturday night. We've now been home for 10 days now and we've had our sleepless days and nights but it's all been worth it. He is the most perfect and cutest baby ever (of course, we are biased!)...
Dan's gone back to work as of yesterday and I had my first day alone with him then. It was scary - not having an extra pair of hands to rely on is incredibly daunting... but we survived it. Today has been extremely good so far (fingers crossed) and hopefully we'll survive again till Dan arrives home at 6pm!
Lots of love
P and G xx
15 days old!
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