As promised, some baby snaps.

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Well after 42 weeks and 27 hours of labour, our son Hugh was born on the 4th of March at 3.92kg / 8.6 pounds and 55cm long. Bub came out facing the wrong way up (head first though) so he was vacuum assisted out, but was a little trooper throughout the long labour. The senior ob said he really thought we’d end up having an emergency c-section, (we had every other intervention they could throw at us – despite me being generally quite anti-intervention, I’m very thankful for it!), but because Hugh was such a strong little fella, we made it through without one.

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We’ve had a little drama since: two days after leaving hospital, we were back in. My milk hasn’t come in so Hugh had lost a fair bit of weight (but it’s all back on again now). At the moment I’m taking all sorts of milk producing medications, expressing what little I can and hoping each morning I wake up looking like Dolly Parton. I never thought I would have to worry about formula and sterilising and bottles and breast pumps and routines and all that paraphernalia, but that’s exactly what we’re doing…every three hours. It’s such a hassle, so I’m hoping that breastfeeding will still be an option eventually (sooner rather than later).

DSC03012-2 Intellectually I knew beforehand that I wasn’t going to get much sleep or have much time to myself, but you don’t really know until afterwards. Also, I thought I was pretty prepared beforehand…we’ll be more prepared if there is a next time round.

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I’ve still got plenty of posts scheduled for the next couple of weeks, but I will be taking a bit of time off during that time to catch up on some sleep! Thanks for dropping by to read and leaving comments, I haven’t replied to any yet, but I’ve read all of them. Will catch up soon.

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