Karlah and I have the pleasure to let you all know we have finally had the new addition to Ivedmg family. He arrived at 9.09pm 12 October weighing 8.6lb (3.9kg).
Mother was resistant to Ice, Fire and Magic so the melee had to go to work and hack him out via C-sectiion. Both are doing well and I'll post some pic's when i have some.
X & K
Congratulations You Two! :D :D :D
Congratz! :d
:) Congratulations you guys! Now the real sleepless nights begin :D
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BRILLIANT!
Woot! Gratz you two. :D
Wooo Hoo Congrats Guys
Well X's Get Ready For Sleepless Nites
And My Personal Bane
((((((( Dirty Nappies )))))))))))
Congratulattions!
Gratz to both of you and my deepest sorrow for your loss as well....
Sleep that is
CONGRATS! And here i was starting to believe what Kar said about giving birth to a 5 yr old :P
Glad to hear all went well, hopefully he doesn't keep you up of a night ... at least for about a month or so ;)
Best wishes to you both.
YAY!!! Grats you two. Bring on those pics! We're excited to see them.
Congratulations, May all be happy and well for you.
/cheer
I am so happy for you guys! :D
Congratulations on your new bundle of joy... may you get more sleep than we are. :p
Hurry up with those pics, I can't wait to see the newest addition to the Keepers family.
/huggles!
Our little guy: 5 weeks
Aeld he is absolutely adorable :D
Very Beautiful Baby Aeld!!!
Hi folks,
Finally found a shot that wont crash the boards in size. Grandpa insists on using high pixel images when taking
photos.
Kar
I can't see it.. what am I doing wrong? :confused:
Its not you, I think its me....
Trying again
What a gorgeous baby Kar, you must be very impressed with yourself it looks like you baked him just right :)
Best wishes to you all.
And you did a good job too Aeld
Thanks heaps for your well wishes folks.
Time goes so fast, I cant believe he's 10 days old already.
Aeld, wow!, has it really been 5 weeks already, growing fast I presume? Cute photo, looks like Matthew does just after I've filled him up.
Off to bed now for this new mother, sleeping in <2 hour stretches is a new experience. It's party time if I manage to get a total of 4 hours sleep a night.
He's Gorgeous!
I'm so happy for you guys. :D
I turned around yesterday and realized that I've officially been a mom for 6 weeks and 3 days.... whoah.
He's grown out of most all of the 0-3 month clothing he has, and just keeps getting fatter. He was 7lb,9oz at birth, 11lb,10oz at 1 month, and we'll find out just how fat he is on Nov 5th for his 2 month checkup (feels like at least 20lbs after holding him for an hour though) :p
Do you have routine vaccinations in Australia? We waited on the HepB shot until his 1month checkup (they wanted to give it to him at birth, but I thought that was just a little too much to expect anybody to go through all at once- head squished, bright lights, cold air, stabbed in the foot and leg wrung for vampiric nurses, eyes glued shut, constant loud noises, learning to poop AND being stabbed with side-effects? nah)
I make Kil stay in the room when he gets his shots... he's looking at 6 vaccines in 4 shots the next visit *cringe* I just can't hold my baby while they stab him and make him cry... that's what daddies are for ;)
Keep posting pics of little Matthew.... It's fun to watch them grow (and expand) the first 6 weeks. :)
This was taken yesterday:
Yes, we have the routine vaccinations in Australia. Matthew had such a horrific start to life that we got him his Hep B straight away. The midwife took him away and was the nasty lady, I didnt even have to be in the room.
Unfortunately for the little fellow, even after 16 hours of labour we 'failed to progress' (I love that doctors term for they have no bloody idea why he wasnt comming out!!) 3 failed attempts to get the epidural in finally convinced the doctor to do a C-section and by then the wee chap had become stressed and drunk quite a bit of Meconium (sp). He only scored 6/9 at the first hour and spent his first 2 days in the special care unit on IV, O2 and antibiotics. That, along with my mother being a Hep B carrier, (thanks to a blood transfusion and poor screening procedures in the 70's) we thought it best to jab him early.
He looked so funny in the SCU with all the prem babies, although he was quite sick he was still huge in comparison. Hes very healthy now and I thank the powers at be that they decided to deliver him when they did. The 'what-if' scenarios still scare me now.
Daddies are also for dirty nappies, X is very skilled at these :D
Kar
Our recruits for EQ 6 and WoW 5 are shaping up nicely ;)
Wow Gratzi.......
Whats a nappie ? Here in Canada its Nap = short sleep
LOL a nappie is a very nice way of saying 'a super absorbent lower torso covering designed specifically for the age challenged that has become filled to capacity with biological waste'.
our family calls them 'poo-bombs' :p
Karlah- 6/9 is still damn good for that long of unprogressing distressed labor and meconium imbibing... I'm impressed. :)
Fortunately I missed most of the "what-if" fears due to consciencious if not obsessively over-protective sheltering by Kil and the quick and easy labor (he was in such a hurry to come out but lazy, lazy lazy ever since)... it was about 1 1/2 weeks later that we started to watch Jersey Girl and I bawled for half an hour... we did finish the movie the next night, but that was a "what-if" that had never occured to me. I'll just add death by aneurisms (sp?) to my list of things to dwell on next time around.
I wonder if X could give Kil some pointers with the poo-bombs... mainly remembering that they need to be wrapped up and disposed of after baby is changed. There's nothing quite like walking innocently past the ottoman in the living room to step on a half open full-to-capacity-and-then-some diaper! :eek:
Karlah,
He is such a cutie! Cherish the small poop drops you have now for they only get bigger! :p Along with updates here is my poop bomber, she is a year old already /sigh (well in 6 days).
LOL I love that picture BB!
Yes the poop is so nice when they are babies... smells sweet... now the stench is so bad I can't stand it, smells like Chardok on a very very hot day! :eek:
ACK no not another driver in the family
These pics are absolutely adoreable!!!
I'm glad to hear things are going well for you Karlah. Hey....with the failed epi attempts...what did they do for your C/S? General or were they finally able to get a spinal in? Hearing about the anesthia tech's "failed attempts" at an epi just make me cringe for you.
All the beautiful babies, BB & Aire, yours are growing so fast!
I agree with Kazaba, Sony will be very happy with us. Maybe we should ask for discounts on our accounts for providing them with new recruits.
Lei, the 3 failed attempts were to put the tube in my back for the epidural. They ended up doing a spinal injection for the C/S, I understand it is a one off thing that only lasts for about 1.5 hours, where as the tube would have allowed them to top me up and keep me going for quite some time. I ended up with 4 very visible holes in my back and a bruise about 5cm in diameter.
Although the poking around my back was definitely cringe worthy, the fun part was when they told me not to move while they were doing it and I was still enjoying fully fledged contractions.
All X can says is "I'm glad its the Sheilas that have to go through that"
AMEN to that!!!!!
...just UGH! Shame on that tech guy. Not only do they tell you to hold still but you get the "roll over and kiss your knees" thing and that's just a joke as well LOL. I had an epi once and that needle is bigger than most Asian countries. I'm glad it's all in the past for you =)
Now....give us more pics of your precious little one! hehe
*hugs*
looks like something you should be injecting a horse with imo...I was so scared I delievered the first one without it...only gave in with the second cause he was huge and breech and it was the only way they'd let me deliever him naturally...and agree on the kiss your knees and don't move while having constant contractions...like to see those guys do it if we attached a big ball to their fronts and a tez machine to their balls :)
LOL I'm starting to think that I took the easy way out by not having any pain killers.... :eek:
They don't do the humongous needle in the back unless it's requested or necessary for labors gone awry, right? :confused:
QuoteYes the poop is so nice
Out of context quote of the day.
yeah I think the best part is when they misjudge and scrape the needle against bone...you can hear the grind really loud I expect it echo's.
and yes it's volentary or necessary no ninjor jabs plus you get a little needle so you shouldn't really feel the big needle (is it just me or is having a needle to get a needle perverse somehow)
QuoteLOL I'm starting to think that I took the easy way out by not having any pain killers....They don't do the humongous needle in the back unless it's requested or necessary for labors gone awry, right?
WOW. Easy way? hehe. My sister just had her 4th...and last...at the beginning of October. 3cm to delivery in a 18 minute time period. She ended up going natural simply because no time to get anyone in there. She said had she had her first natural like she originally hoped for...it would have been her only. LOL. And yeah...at least here - pain killers or reducers are completely optional per mom's wishes.
Quote from: Leiyah...3cm to delivery in a 18 minute time period...
...She said had she had her first natural like she originally hoped for...it would have been her only...
OMG!! was everything ok? My mom had my brother at home and her labor was less than an hour... he shot out so fast he would have hit the wall if the midwife hadn't been there to catch him (although, that was the last time my brother did anything promptly in his life... other than knock up his 17yr old girlfriend 4 months after we got pregnant- Dad said he wanted me to have the first grandkid... I don't think he was meaning first by a few months...)
The downside was that he was delivered so fast that mom started hemmorraging and dad had to call the ambulance (6 cop cars, 3 fire trucks and 2 ambulances according to my dad) to take her to the hospital. The midwife rode with out of necessity (had her hand stuck up there holding up mom's belly button from the inside) and they forgot about the newborn :p
Anyways, that's my only good delivery horror story :D
Here's Ian at 9weeks