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New mum of premature baby born at 32 weekd
Hi there I'm a new and first time mum who gave birth at 32 weeks after my waters broke my little boy is now 3 months old since his original due date 5 months since I gave birth he is thriving now but had a rocky start in life I would love to hear from other mums of premature babies especially if you spent alot of time in a special care baby unit.
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I am mum to a 34 weeker. Isla was delivered by c sec early as she had stopped growing. She weighed 3 lb 10 then went down to 3lb3. She was poorly and on a ventilator and spent 4 weeks in scbu all told. She is now 17weeks from birth and is 9 lb 7. Her social and cognitive skills are as a 17 week shoukd be but her physical regarding her head lifting is about 7 weeks behind. Isla suffers from reflux.
How are your twins doing and how are you coping?
Lovely to speak to you
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I havent been to any classes yet and was talking about this only last night. There is a baby time class just up the road from my house but when i went last week to get isla weighed all the babies there could at least push themselves up on their arms so i kind of feel isla wont get much out of yet until she is a bit more physicaly capable. What do you think? X
Do you still worry about your little one? Every cough or sneeze isla does i worry will land her back in hospital x
I had twins at 32 weeks and it was very hard in the early days, I worried about everything, but they are now 19 months, and apart from being a little bit smaller than some babies the same age as them they're totally fine!
Good luck with your little one. Try to enjoy it as much as you can because it really does go in a flash x
I weaned them once they were 6 months - they couldn't even sit up so I felt it wouldn't be right to do it sooner. so basically, I did it cos that's when I believed I had to, and I felt it was OK because they were 4 months corrected and that's the minimum age for weaning any baby - but I checked with the health visitors and pediatrician too.
They enjoyed their food at first, but I struggled with my daughter til she was about 10 months, eg not wanting the spoon in her mouth. I tried a combination of home made purees, baby lead weaning and then pouches like Ella's Organic who do some simple pure flavours - you can open a pouch and freeze it in cubes (saves soooo much time, wish I'd known it early on).
I bought really expensive highchairs which were suitable from birth to give them the support they needed (chicco polly magic) but I wish I'd not - I hate them! So many nooks and cranies for the food to get in, a real nightmare to keep clean. I wish I'd simply fed them in their bouncy chairs until they could sit up and then got a very cheap basic (like Ikea) chair which is easy to clean. Sure it's not got the padding, recline etc, but so what - they're really not in them for long.
Feel free to ask any more Qs if you have them (although I only log on about once a week)
Lovely to hear from other mums of prems.
Isla sleeps from 11 ish til 7.30 and is still just about in her moses basket!
Do you do tummy time? I am trying so isla can get more head control but she is really not that keen. X
Don't worry too much about the tummy time, I thought they'd suffer if they didn't have it, but they've developed just fine. Guess it's easier with just one to maybe put the baby over your knee, on your tum with you led down, on your chest etc so they're still having to lift their head, but it's not as stressful for them as being on the floor x
The health visitor came yesterday, isla is now 10lb 5!
She told me to try weaning at 6 months corrected age(4.5 months for isla) . Have you looked on the Bliss website? That says to wean at 6 months corrected sgo too and they have a factsheet on weaning.
I am thinking of going to rythmn time classes after whitsun holiday then my mum in law will continue to take isla in sep when i go back to work.
Do you know anyone locally who has a prem baby that you meet up with?
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I live in redditch, midlands and keep in touch with 2 mums that were in the scbu with me and isla.
I cant wait for her to be 13lbs. She still seems so small. (:
How heavy was harry born?
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It is a shame we are such a long way(:- i am sure isla would love to introduce harry to her friends.
she was 3 last october and is now a typical 3 yr old, good and bad lol.
i had another baby in december and after a few escape attempts at 31, 32 and 35 weeks i finally went into labour at 40+3 and delivered at 40+4.