It’s been a very eventful 6 weeks since my
last post. Almost 24 hours after I finished writing my last entry, my waters
broke and I went into labour. I’d booked in for a planned caesarian on the 19th
April so I never thought I’d experience contractions. [To all those women out there who have endured hours of labour, I take
my hat off to you. My contractions were 7 minutes apart and only lasted 2 hours
and that was definitely enough.] A few hours after my waters broke I was in
hospital having an emergency caesarian.
Then entered the world Jack Angus Turner at 1.31am on Tuesday 27th
March, 5 weeks before his due date and weighing 2.34kg (5.1 lbs).
Being a premature baby he was taken
straight to special care to help regulate his temperature and I was stitched up
and sent back to my room. It was heart breaking not having him with me and my
first cuddle wasn’t until the next morning.
Jack remained in special care for 2 weeks
while I commuted to and from the hospital delivering expressed milk and doing
breast feeds. It was a very tough few weeks. You feel so empty going home
without your baby, especially when you still need to wake every 3 hours
overnight to express milk on a machine!
It was a very exciting and daunting day
bringing our little man home from the hospital but 6 weeks have flown by and I
love being a mum. I can’t imagine life without him. Jack now weighs 3.3kg (7.2lbs)
and is healthy and happy.
I’m starting to get back into blogging in-between
feeds/sleeps and look forward to sharing some inspiring posts with you soon.
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