six week check

I had my six week check up last Friday, and thanks to my dry run the week before we made it on time ;o)

I fed Evie at 7.30 in the knowledge that if the doctors surgery was running on time (I think that you can see where this is leading) that she wouldnt need feeding until we were finished.

So we arrived at the doctors 10 minutes early so that I wouldnt be all het up and signed myself in found a seat.  I then took Evies coat off as it was really warm in there before taking my coat off.

My appointment time (10:20) came and went and I wasnt called in, it the got to 11am and as suspected Evie started getting hungry - so came the dilemma do I risk starting to feed Evie and then annoy her by stopping mid feed or do we try to hold her off until I have been seen?

So I asked the receptionist how late the doctor was running as Evie needs feeding - she then asked wgat my name was and I told her and she said that I would be seen after the next person to go in - hurrah!

So I did have time to feed Evie ;o)

Just after I had winded her it was my turn to see the doctor.

I told him that I was there for my six week check up and he looked at my notes and saw that I had a cesarean because Evie was breach and I told him about the pooling blood too and he said that it sounded like I had a bad time of it...

...I never thought of it like that as I have heard of far worse birth experiences from my fellow NCT mums ;o).

Anyway I told him how my carpal tunnel syndrome still hasnt completely gone and he said that it can take upto 8 weeks to go!  It is gradually getting better so fingers crossed ;o)

He then asked what we were going to do about contraception?  I felt like telling him that we were far too knackered out for anything like that!  Still he has given me some options to think about ;o)

He then looked at my stitches and said that they were healing nicely which was a relief ;o)

I then got weighed and had lost another two pounds ;o)

last home visit

Yesterday saw our last home visit from the Health Visitor.

She weighed Evie and she has put on another 7oz and now weighs 7lbs 9oz ;o)

She also carried out a postnatal depression check luckily I only scored 2 points out of a possible 13...

The next time that I get Evie weighed will be at her 8 week check and then after that it will be at the Health Visitors clinic every 2 to 4 weeks (depending on how Im feeling).

dry run

I finally got around to doing a dry run of walking into town in preparation for my 6 week checkup at the doctors this Friday coming.

Evie finally woke up just after 8am and I fed her and changed her nappy...

...while she was sleeping I then got her changing bag ready (just putting in 2 sterilised bottles), and got her out a hat and some socks to wear to keep her that little bit warmer.

I then had a shower got dressed and had some breakfast (I had my breakfast inbetween putting the pushchair together...

...we finally got out at 10.10...

the findings from this tell me that I will have to either get Evie up earlier or put all of the stuff together and get myself ready before she wakes up for her feed!

LOL no wonder my Mum was always running late ;o)

hip scan

Because Evie was breech we were told that she would need to have a hip scan when she was 6 weeks old....

...well we had the scan done yesterday.

I was a bit worried about what the process involved as while we were waiting for our turn we could hear a lot of crying from a baby :o(

The scan involved Evie having to lie on her side (with me holding her still) in a makeshift cradle and I had to undo her babygrow and vest and nappy and they ran a wand over her hip to check that it wasnt harmed in any way.

As it was the ladies doing the scan said that as far as they could tell her hips were fine and that she was the best behaved baby that day ;o)

my mid afternoon nap was that good

Yesterday when James got home from work I dumped Evie on him (as the little rascal wouldnt go to sleep after her feed) and went up for a nap...

I woke up at about 5.40 and was convinced that it was Wednesday morning and I was trying to work out when Evie was due for her next feed.

It then dawned on me that it was still only Tuesday and that I should get up so that I can do my dinner ;o)

Incidentally Evie decided to have her long sleep between 9pm and 3am as opposed to between midnight and 6am which was what I would have preferred :o(

And I coudnt get back to sleep after her 6am feed!

Did I just look fat then?

We were in the supermarket on Sunday doing our shop...

...I had just got the handheld scanner and put it on the child seat on the trolley when one of the other regular Sunday morning shoppers came upto me to ask if Evie was my baby and then said that she didnt even realize I was pregnant!

She did say that Evie looks cute ;o)

I am guessing that I either looked really fat or that she is a person who doesnt notice someones appearance.  Hopefully it was the latter ;o)

weeing on the scales

The Health Visitors nursery nurse came today to weigh Evie...

...she has done really well and has put on another 11 ounces in the past 10 days ;o)

Evie did however leave her mark on the scales by having a wee ;o)

She told me that its not the first or last time that it will happen...

...Im just glad that it wasnt a poop ;o)