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Country: Australia
Birthday: 8/30/1974
Gender: Female
Interests: Skydiving, bushwalking, mountaineering, rockclimbing, kayaking, canyoning, relaxing with a good book near a roaring woodfire whilst sipping on a glass of red wine!
Expertise: Hehehehe wouldn't you like to know!!
Occupation: Government
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Member Since:
5/14/2002
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| Time goes by so quickly!
One moment he's a newborn, so tiny and fragile, next moment he's becoming his own little person smiling and cooing - staring at you with accusing eyes when he has his needles! One thing that doesn't change is that overwhelming love - the feeling of oh my god this is real! He's my little boy, my son. My partners son, the girls brother, my mothers Grandchild.
Today I could officially say he slept through the night - from 7:30pm to 5am - he's been sleeping from 7:30pm until 4am for about a week which was still absolutely amazing - but this morning I had to double check the time - 5am YAY.
My mum has been over and loved meeting her first grandchild. I think she came at the best time, just as he was starting to smile and laugh more, creating that individual character that will be Samuel Charley. Also we could all go out together and do things which I wouldn't have had the energy to do had she come right after the birth. She experienced a few more firsts with us - the first bushwalk, first night out for dinner. He has been the most perfect baby!
Yesterday I went to my first parent group and met a bunch of amazing women and their bubs - plus one of the dads aswell. They are all around my age which is awesome. They had already all met the week before which I had to miss because of the school holidays and the girls had friends staying over. The parent group is great, like minded people, bubs all around the same age - Sam already has plenty of girlfriends lining up!! After the parent group we went out for lunch - it felt great to get out with mums and bubs. There is at least one of the ladies that lives near me so Im trying to organise to go walking with her and her bub.
Its starting to get cold now and the jumpers that Mum knitted for Samuel Charley just about fit him perfectly - I just have to roll the sleeves up. He looks so cute in the jumpers with the matching hats - and he is so warm!! He's fast asleep at the moment on his playmat just next to the fire - Im still in my dressing gown on the lounge looking out on the day. The sun is shining, and all the autumn colours are coming out strong in the trees. The sunlight beeming down on them makes the reds and oranges even warmer - I feel nice and snug where I am right now. Before I put bub down on the mat he had been a little grizzly but as soon as I picked him up and held him to me he snuggled in burrowing his head into my chest and arm and just fell deep asleep - he's like a little possum - I love him so much.
And again for some pictures - heres some of my favourites for the last few weeks; 
           
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| Its amazing how content my little man is!! He doesn't cry much, just to let us know he's hungry, dirty, tired or just needs a hug. He seems to be settling into a routine and is only waking once throughout the night. He loves the mornings cooing and playing with his toys. He loves his sheepskin rug on the playmat where he can stare up at the TV listening to music. Occasionally he goes through a grizzly phase, this normally means he wants feeding more often and he'll only take naps for 10 to 15 minutes during the day, and he'll only sleep on me! But this is just bub going through a growth spurt, building my milk supply and comforting himself knowing that his Mum is close by.
We went for his big hearing test and didn't manage to get the whole test done as he wouldn't settle fully and they needed him to be in a deep sleep. I told the lady that was doing the test that the time of the appointment just happened to be when he was most awake during the day - but they only make appointments for this test at that time. However from what she did get it appears that he doesn't have a problem hearing. She had said that we might need to come back to complete the testing but she was going to speak with her collegues about the results to see if it was really necessary. So instead we will go back when he is about 10 months old to do the reactive testing - the lady recommended this test to truely confirm there is no hearing problems.
I have my Mum coming over from NZ next Saturday to meet her first Grandchild for the first time - she is so excited and so am I, I cant wait. Gary's family have been awesome aswell. His step brother John is now Samuel Charleys Godfather - he actually actively sought the position!! He kept telling us all his good qualities and why he would make a good Godfather before Samuel Charley was born. Now he's here John just loves him and always seems so proud of him when he comes to visit. He always comes in give me a big kiss and say's "Now wheres my Godson?" He bought him his first car - I've kept the car in its wrapping and will keep it for his 21'st.
I've decided on two Godmothers, but haven't asked them yet so wont say who they are until that is all sorted.
Gary's step sister Leanne and sister inlaw Karen (Johns wife) came over last Sunday to springclean my house for me - they decided they wanted to help me do a big clean before Mum got here - it was absolutely awesome. Leanne got stuck into the Bathroom, got a drill out and fixed up my toothbrush holder and soap dish that had fallen off the wall. She then dusted, swept and steam cleaned throughout the whole house. Karen and I got stuck into the kitchen pulling everything out of the cupboards, scrubbing the cupboards inside and out and then put everything back in. While we were doing this Gary, John and all the kids all went down to Hartley where they swam in the river and played with the dogs. Bub just cruised, laying on his playmat being totally ignored by everyone, vacuum cleaners, brooms and steam mops going past and he just kept staring at all the action, cooing and kicking.
Samuel Charley is 7 weeks tommorrow and I cant believe how fast the time goes. He is getting bigger and becoming more aware of everything going on. He saw the doctor last Wednesday and weighed in at 4.73kg (10lb 4oz) he is averaging 340gms per week!! He is starting to smile and coo now and even does this funny little laugh in his sleep - I love seeing his whole face light up. I love being a Mum it is an amazing experience and I dont even mind being sleep deprived - somehow it just seems so right and I am coping really well.
So now for some more pics!! See how much my little Man has grown!
   
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| He is 18 days old today - and has changed so much already. The Community Nurse came on Wednesday and weighed him - he has put on 300 grams since birth which is awesome. Birth weight was 2695 gm, now 3040gms (thats 5lb9 to 6lb7) His head has grown 3cm!!
There has been so much happening since his birth - so many visitors, lots of sleepless nights, sore boobs but thank goodness for the breast pump. The girls love their little brother to the point that it drives me insane - all their arguements are now over who's turn it is to hold him. I have taken heaps of photos and love watching him change day by day. We chose Charley as his middle name - which is what we had decided before the birth but Gary had second thoughts for a while. He thought Charley sounded too woggy????? I just told him that any name sounds woggy with his surname - hehehehe
Mum (Grandma) has been ringing every day - she has his photo as her desktop photo at work and is doing a really good job of being a proud New Grandma. She cant wait to get over here to meet him in person.
My brothers and sisters are all excited at being Aunties and Uncles - Uncle Frewin is coming to visit this coming weekend. Gary's family all came to visit the Sunday after his birth and it was awesome to have them all here. Samuel has lots and lots of doting Aunties, Uncles, Cousins, Grandma, Grandpa, Bestemor, Bestefar, Oma, Opa - the list goes on and on. And thats not including all of the surrogate uncles and aunties out there!! We've had the big red fire truck pull up outside and all Samuels surragate uncles coming in for a visit. I've had one of my friends turn up with a lasagne, frittata, banana loaf and smartie biscuits!! Another friend who has a 3 month old coming with all the clothes he has grown out of - toys, blankets, books - you name it I have it - it is just so awesome.Plus all of the big things people have given me before he was even born - the change table with a pull out bath - awesome - play mats, rockers, bouncers.
Gary keeps telling me that I am doing amazing as a new mum - he expected to be woken up a lot more than what he is - he told me that his ex used to make him wake up to his three girls and he had to go and change them then bring them to her for her to feed, then he had to put them back to bed. Basically if she was awake then he had to be awake too. I just dont see the point in this - why should both of us be awake and sleep deprived when its really only me that can feed him. Gary has been awesome though, changing nappies, bathing Sam, burping him and letting him sleep on his chest when he just wont settle. We have even started going on evening walks now together which Sam is loving - he just stares out at the sky, clouds, trees - stays awake the whole walk and the crashes when we get home.
The only bad thing that has happened so far is Samuel failed his hearing screening test on his right ear so now we are booked in for a specialist appointments at the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind children to do a full on hearing test - the test takes about 2.5 hours - Im hoping that he just had a blockage from birth and will be fine at this test.
Ok and now for some photos - I just took a whole heap of his expressions and they just crack me up!!           
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| OK when I said I was ready to pop - I really wasn't expecting it to happen so soon!!
I wrote that post on the 14th Feb, then on 15th I started getting contractions at 9pm. They were like period pains and coming every 5 mins lasting about 30 secs to a minute. I thought, "Well if this is what a contraction feels like I can handle it!" I had rung the hospital and they were fine with me staying at home and see how I progressed. By this stage I was thinking I might just be having false labour signs. Then the pain started getting a bit more than just period pains - they would actually take my breath away and I had to concentrate on breathing through them. Gaz was asleep at this time, he just said, "Wake me when you need me." so around 1am on the 16th, I woke him up and ww slowly made our way up to the hospital.
I had not been expecting to go early and hadn't even packed a bag for the hospital, so when the pains started getting worse I had to run around and chuck a few things together in a bag.
So we got up to the hospital and they put the monitors on me, I wasn't progressing ... to be cont. have to feed Samuel
OK Samuel is fast asleep and I have some time now to finish my story!! (Busy last few days with visitors etc)
So im at the hospital and not progressing all that fast so we got to wait in one of the maternity rooms. The midwife said, "Try to get some sleep in between contractions if you can." Yeah right!! No I didn't get any sleep, but Gaz lay down on the couch and tried to get some sleep. He really didn't have a chance either as the contractions started getting a lot stronger and I was starting to do the gutteral groan as each contraction hit. I was leaning over the bed, on my tip toes groaning through each contraction. It was a natural kind of grunting groaning breathing and seemed to help a lot. The midwife came back in and suggested I try having a shower. At that time I had just gotten used to my position of leaning over the bed and a shower seemed a silly suggestion, but after a while a shower sounded like a great idea.
I went into the shower and it was awesome, just having the warm water running over my belly or over my lower back made the pains more bearable. I stayed in the shower for quite some time. Then when I was feeling water logged I dried off and came back out to the bed. Again the contractions got stronger and closer together until they seemed like they were constantly there. One starting immediately after the last one finished. My groaning started to become more scream like and I was starting to feel like I could not handle it.
I didn't have a birth plan, I had decided to just go with it and see what happened - I wanted to have as natural a birth as I could but wasn't discounting any painkillers so when the gas was suggested I immediately said I want it!
I love the gas!!
To have the gas we had to move into the birthing suite, the gas was just amazing, each time I felt a contraction coming on I would suck on the mouth piece and breath through it. It didn't take the pain away, just numbed it, made it more bearable.
The midwife suggested I take a bath, I remembered how the shower worked and jumped at this idea. She ran the bath for me and got the portable gas ready. It was around 7am at this time and I was due to start work at 8am. It was kind of funny really because I had intended on having a sickie - just didn't feel like going to work - but now I had a really good excuse. For the first time ever Gary rang in sick for me. He rang whilst the bath was being run and Im sure I was probably moaning and groaning in the background but I remember him saying, "Kyla wont be in today, shes in labour!"
Later the midwives told me they reckon the whole police station must have rung throughout the morning to see if I'd had the baby yet.
So the bath was ready and Gary and the midwife helped me in. It was wonderful, plus the portable gas didn't have a valve to adjust the strength so it was nice and strong - did I say how much I love the gas!!! Every time a contraction came I ended up leaning over the side of the bath, Gaz put a towel in the water as my knees were getting sore from leaning on them. Gaz was sitting on a big exercise ball and rubbing my shoulders just being there, he was great. The midwife came in every now and again and at one point I almost pulled her in with me when a big contraction hit and I just grabbed her hard. Gaz actually pried my fingers away from her.
Again I started feeling waterlogged so it was time to get out of the bath. OHHHHh the pain once the weight is back on!! My waters had still not broken and I could really feel the pressure of the waters with each contraction. The midwife said she could break my waters for me if I wanted, she let us think about it for a while and when she came back in I said "Yes" I wanted her to break the waters. The relief of the waters breaking was awesome, but then things started happening really fast. The contractions became consistent, no start or end, I started having the feeling to push and was helped into position for pushing him out.
My friend Bibs who I had asked to come to the birth arrived around this time. She had driven up from Sydney as soon as she heard and Im so glad that she made it in time. So now I had Gary, who was massaging my back, the midwife Julie, and my friend Bibs. Lots of people to grab and hang onto for dear life - and grab and hang on I did!! Both Gary and Bibs told me later that I was really funny with the gas as I started to get confused, blowing through the mouth piece instead of sucking.
I ended up laying back on the bed with the back raised upright and pillows propping me up. The midwife said, "When you feel the need to push I want you to put your chin on your chest and bear down, when you feel like breathing again take a deep breath and then put your chin on your chest again and push." While I was pushing they took the gas away - but by this stage it was a different type of pain and the need for the gas just wasn't there anymore. It was like now the pain had some kind of reason behind it and I could take back some control. Dont get me wrong - it still hurt like hell - I could feel his head pushing through and then moving back inside me, kind of disheartening but then making me more determined that the next push would get him out of me!
I was doing one really good push where I think I stopped breathing for ages and I could feeling him coming out, it was working, when the midwife said, "Ok stop pushing, dont push, start panting" she made panting noises and I started panting and then all of a sudden he was out. I found out later he had the cord wrapped around his neck and I stopped pushing just in time for her to quickly unwrap it.
He started crying straight away! I heard him before I saw him and then they lifted him up to me - OH WOW - what a feeling. He came into this world at 10:28am on Monday 16 February 2009.
I was exhausted, but overjoyed. I could hardly muster enough strength to smile, but wow - he was here. They wiped him off a little and placed him straight on my chest, in my arms. WOW WOW WOW.
Whilst I held him in my arms they helped me deliver the placenta. I remember this slightly and it did take a little while but came out no problems. Gary then cut the cord while he was laying in my arms. Bibs was just amazed, I remember seeing her face as I was pushing him out, she had a look of absolute amazement when his head started appearing. I did tear a little and received a few stitches, this was the only time I saw a doctor, whilst he was stitching me up. The time from when my waters were broken to when he came was about about 45 minutes - not that I had any concept of time!
Then the doctor and midwife left us alone to recover for a while. They came back in later and took Samuel off me to weigh him and measure him. I went to have a shower and Gary got to hold his son.
We the moved back into the maternity room with our brand new addition.
Samuels sisters were at school and had no idea that he had come into the world so early - later that afternoon, Gary left to go and pick them up. When they came in that evening it was just so awesome. They love their little brother with all of their hearts. Bibs took a photo of us all as a family. This shot was taken within minutes of them meeting their brother for the first time and it is the most amazing photo - the happiness and love on everyones faces just shines.
I love my baby boy, Samuel Charley Bajada!
born 10:28am, Monday 16 February 2009, weighing 2695 gms (5lb9oz) 47 cms, HC 32.5cm, apgar 9/9
And now for some photos    
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