She'd not had a very happy night and morning, keeping wailing until breastfed, then giving up after a while and wailing again - in the end, the nurses fed her from a bottle of formula milk, which she guzzled down then slept. The same happened in the day when I was visiting, but after much more failed attempts to breastfeed, so she was really worked up and miserable by the time we tried a bottle - and after having been wailing for hours, she then slept like a log for many hours, which was worrying in itself; I had to kept checking her breathing...
But then we got to take her home! So we're now settling in at Sarah's parent's place. She's annoyed with them since, a month after she first moved in here due to having to leave the flat but not being able to come with me, there was still only one room nearly ready. She's worred that the midwife, who will visit tomorrow, will think the place is unsafe to raise a child and - horror of horrors - invoke Social Services to Take The Baby Away.
So I won't be getting much sleep tonight as I continue to help clean up somebody else's house. Sigh.
Today was really hot, so Jean was a bit miserable. We took off all of her clothes apart from her nappy, and had her sitting in Sarah's crossed legs so she felt secure to cheer her up, but wasn't getting much of Sarah's body heat, and had a fan going and the windows open. After a while of this (and it took some trial and error to find that combination of cooling effects), she cheered up again and started taking an interest in the world once more.
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Well, Jean's second day of life went well - she passed the hearing test, after a few attempts which were spoilt due to her or other babies in the room making too much noise for the test to work.
I seem to have roughly mastered changing nappies:
Alaric and Grandad Pym changing Jean
And Sarah is finding nursing chairs very helpful in breastfeeding with her shoulder problems:
Sarah and Jean in nursing chair
Jean Rose Pym was born at 6:50pm on the 29th of August, weighing 8lb 10oz and measuring 21+5/8" long - in sensible units, that's 3.9kg and 55cm.
Which is quite large for a baby; Sarah had an awful time pushing her out, but managed it!
Here's the photos:
Sarah and Jean just born
Jean wrapped in blankets
Jean and Michelle
Jean, Michelle, and Uncle David
The afterbirth (not for the squeamish)
Latest baby news is that if Sarah's not gone into labour by the 31st of August, they will induce her!
Yay!
Jean | alaric | 
Fri 2nd Sep 2005 1:12 pm | 
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