pixiejo · you!
Posted 31/12/09
Hiya lovely nov mummies! Hope you and your gorgeous babes are well! Hoping I can pick your brains a bit :) since ivy came home from hospital violet has been a bit of a pain, she's fab with ivy and is getting over the attention jealousy now but she's still being a nightmare at night!! Every couple of hours or ( Read more... )

Posted 14/12/09

Hiya all!

Ivy's going in to have her inguinal hernia fixed on thursday morning, eeeeeek!I'm terrified and trying not to think about it already! Does anyone have any advice for coping themselves until the surgery, and while the surgery is happening most importantly! And afterwards I guess, I'm assuming they'll give her some kind of ( Read more... )

9/12/2009·public·184 visits · notify me ?

HOw are you all?

I know I see a lot of y'all on fb, but thought I'd pop in here and say hi, for once Violet has gone to bed early and DH can feed Ivy and play bloody Bloodbowl at the same time, so I get a few mintues to play on the computer hooray!

Ivy is mainly nocturnal and is knackering us out! She is ( Read more... )

How Preemie Moms Are Chosen
(Adapted from Erma Bombeck)

Did you ever wonder how the mothers of premature babies are chosen? Somehow, I visualize God hovering over Earth, selecting his instruments for propagation with great care and deliberation. As he observes, he instructs his angels to take notes in a giant ledger. "Beth Armstrong, son. Patron ( Read more... )

24/11/2009·public·275 visits · notify me ?

Hooray! Ivy made it home last night, and to celebrate she kept us up til 4am straight and was up at 7! Ouchy! Currently she is aleep on my shoulder
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pixiejo · you!
Posted 23/11/09

Last night I got to room in with ,my gorgeous, noisy, snoring beauty!

But I've had to come home to look after my big girly as it's my hubbys last ever day at work so he couldn't really skive off! So paranoid now, wish I was there for the last ward round just in case!!!! Wah, I'm jumping every time the phone goes in ( Read more... )

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip to Italy.

You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Colosseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondalas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You ( Read more... )

pixiejo · you!
Posted 19/11/09

Sorry , I am so super overly excited!!!!

You guys are the first apart from my OH to know that Ivy shoudl be coming home ON MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they're reintroducing her jaundice meds one a day til then and providing she tolerates them all without blowing her belly up again on Monday she gets her ' ( Read more... )

18/11/2009·public·191 visits · notify me ?

Everytime we seem to take a step closer to the door something else holds us there, Ivy will be 100 days old on Tuesday.

On Friday she had her first newborn hearing screen and had no response from her left ear at all, so this monday off we toddled across the hospital racing past the prying fingers of old ( Read more... )

10/11/2009·friends · notify me ?

still no word on when Ivy may come home! Seems like an eternity ago I was pregnant, I miss my bump loads and wonder how she would've felt still moving about in there now...though I suppose she'll be 42 weeks tomorrow so I'd have either been sectioned or induced by now anyway. Meh. My SIL phoned on Ivy's due day in ( Read more... )