Thierry is still tired and was a bit slow overnight with feeding. Today we've had the feeding specialists in to help. Boss Vicky, did a wonderful job to help Thierry. One of her staff, Norah now has Dominique, somewhere in the hospital hooked up to an electic pump! Norah makes me smile. She's been with us since yesterday and can't seem to get Thierry's name right. The last rendition she called him Terrine !
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What a day. We've had the best part of 10 hours trying to get Thierry to make the effort to take milk from his mom. He's been very sleepy which may be an after effect of the opiates in Dominique's pain killers she had during birth. It should wear off within 48 hours.
However to get him to get some energy he's had a little bit of supplement. That said, we think he's now getting the knack of what to do ! Not sure he was totally into the supplement - it caused his first official puke of his life.
On that point he also filled his nappy today with a pretty gruesome tar-like payload called something like merconium.
At the moment it's just him and me in the room. Mom's gone for her first walk and fresh air since comng in here. He's fallen asleep and not too interested in listening to his first bedside read - an article from yesterdays Times newspaper about Arsenal's 2 - 0 win over Everton.
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What an amazing night. Thierry eventually fell asleep wrapped up in my arms at about one thirty. He'd had a hearty meal from mum but was a bit tetchy until I'd got him burped and winded.
Its now nearly eight and the little nipper is still asleep. Which is more than can be said for the parents who have spent the last ninety minutes awake waiting for him to start yelling. All a bit ironic given the undoubted sleepless nights we have ahead of us.
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Length is 57cm ! Wow !
And just done an almighty black poo !
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Mother and child doing great. Born at 2:15pm. Having his first feed at the moment. Just fantastic.
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I've been asked to get the baby clothes ready ! We're getting into place
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We have both Jennie and Charlotte here now. Dominique is on the air and gas again. Baby heartbeat at 125bpm and we're getting ready for the final push. My heart is racing. Now 12-40
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Domnique is hooked up to a multitude of drips and now in bed. The epidural is working wonders so she's very relaxed and in no pain. I've tried the air and gas when no one is looking. Pretty heady stuff if you takes enough deep breaths. But I need something stronger. With my iTunes playing in the background, I'm just going to take the first coffee of the morning.
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To quicken up the dilation and contraction process the consultant has just recommended another kind of drip. They have also topped up the epidural fluid.
We're also in our third room of the day. I'm missing the view of Wormwood Scrubs prison that the last room had !
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Toast, cereal and tea in a styrofoam cup heading our way! But there's a starbucks just around the corner at the BBC and given Charlotte just said that we're in for the long haul they'll be a starbucks run later this morning.
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Charlotte just explained that we should be up to 4 contractions a minute so once she does the next dilation check at nine she will talk to doctors about another kind of drip to move things along. The baby is currently posterior so the drip will help it turn.
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6-35am and Dominique has just had her epidural and feeling a lot more happy with herself.
She's just cracked a joke about the baby arriving on it's due date being a sign of German punctuality.
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We caught about every red light in west London on the way to the hospital.
Now we're here and it's five thirty. Dominique. Is just about 3cm dilated and contractions every 5 minutes so quite some way to go. In fact Charlotte our midwife says another 7 hours to go.
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What a shame. I was so hoping to hear someting different.
Anywy, what can I do? I wait and wait and try to make best use of the time, doing nothing....!
Luc just told me that a friend of ours, Olga, from Madrid is pregnant too. Her due date is the 26th of September. Funny. I did not know. Good reason to contact her and see how she is. Antonio and Olga got married 4 years ago and they have invited us to their wedding in Madrid. We had a great time. Unfortunately we lost contact more or less, but this is now a good reason to get in touch again.
I wonder what sex their baby has....??? All the girls I know from my Antenatel Classes, who recently had their babys, they all had boys, even Britney Spears and Heidi Klum had boys.
So the odds of us getting a girl are quite high, aren't they?
But according to old women tales and everybodys comments, the shape of my belly looks like I'm getting a boy.
Well, you have still a chance to place a bet!!!
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I know, the due date hasn't even arrived yet, but I just don't want to wait any longer. I'm getting inpatient, my belly is in my way for all the things I'd like to do and I also can't wait to see if there you for the first time.
Who are you? Are you a little boy or a girl? Are you ok? ¶ 3:14 pm 0 comments
