Eugh!! Lochia!!
Every woman bleeds after having a baby. Postnatal discharge, known as lochia, is how your body discharges the lining of the womb after birth. It may come out in gushes or flow more evenly like a normal period. As healing continues and the womb grows smaller, the flow of lochia will slow and turn from bright red to pink and, eventually, to yellow-white.
Above is babyworlds description of Lochia… well this is the little beaut that 6 weeks after giving birth I am still suffering and no sign of any hold up yet!! Without going into too much detail (cos I’m sure u don’t wanna hear it) mine has not yet left the bright red stage and I have had some major bleeding at times so had to be referred to the hospital. Spent all day there on Tues which was an utter waste of time as they did sod all and left me in despair. So, I have a litle guardian angel at the hosp (in the form of the one of the Consultants) who I owe my life too and my precious little boys, and when he heard the probs I was having he got me seen today by one of the Gynae consultants who was excellent and reassured me… He advised that at the moment my bleeding seems manageable. If i have another episode of heavy bleeding I have to go straight in to the ward and I HAVE to go straight to theatre! Fingers crossed I’m on the mend though!
Apart from the delightful Lochia life is good at the moment! Oliver is doing really well and starting to smile which is just awesome and melts my heart everytime! It’s so nice to finally get some interaction back from him… he is clearly recognising me and Matt too which is lovely!
He is also sleeping really well at night and roughly going about 6 hours from his bedtime feed which I think is pretty mega for a 6 week old baby! He gets weighed tomorrow so I’ll let you know the outcome! He was 11lb 1oz last week!
Matt is still addicted to his PS3 and is downstairs playing Call of Duty 4 online right now! As long as he has done his Dad duty though I don’t mind!
Gonna plan a night out to the cinema in the next week or so I think, will do Matt and I good to have some couple time as this is something just doesn’t happen when a baby is on the scene! We are lucky though cos my mum is always willing to babysit… Perhaps I should start to take her up on this!
Think thats it for today… Can u believe how quick I have updated!!! Aren’t I good!!
I’m a Mummy!
My little boy arrived on 28th November weighing 8lb 110z so I’m now a mummy to Oliver John and he is just gorgeous:
<—- Oliver at 7 hours old
I’m not gonna lie to ya… Child birth was horrid and hurt like hell but maybe that was due to the fact that my lil man was not so little… He was quite a big boy (i thought i’d have a 7lb baby at the most) andI was in labour for 24 hours. My waters had to be broken and I had to have stitches so all in all it was pretty traumatic! Worth it now though! Everyone had told me that u forget the pin when u hold ur baby… NOT TRUE!!!! I STILL remember the pain now but I now realise what a little miracle my boy is and that he was worth all the pain. One bonus is that once u have delivered ur baby the pain stops… till the awesome pain killers they give u wear off!!! Then u feel like u have been kicked by a thousand horses! I’m pretty proud of myself though cos it is bloody hard work giving birth and i did it naturally with only pethadine and a lil gas and air for pain relief (neither of which I felt did much to be honest – still agony)!
I had a real tough couple of weeks after having Oliver. I desperately wanted to breastfeed my baby and be sucessful at it but after 9 days of sheer agony I had to stop. My nipples were bleeding, my boobs rock hard and Oliver wanted feeding every hour and a half… I just couldn’t cope. i was producing so much milk I had to express but it looked like strawberry milkshake cos of my bleeding nipples. The final straw for me was getting all feverish and getting mastitus and going on antibiotics, Matt literally had to trn me over in bed cos I was in SO much pain. Every part of ur body u don’t want to hurt was hurting me… I was stitched and had the worlds most painful boobs… I was not a happy girly! I ended up suffering major baby blues and dreading my boy waking up cos i couldn’t bear the thoughts of the pain of feeding him… soooo… on the bottle he went! And what a difference! I’m SO much happier, my baby is happier and that equals a happy little family.
Oliver is doing so well on the formula, he is sleeping well, gaining weight fabulously (he was weighed today and is 11lb 1oz) and is generally a happy contented little boy!!
Christmas has been different this year with a baby to look after… it came around so quickly and I was very unprepared for it all, I tried to get organised before Olivers arrival but then when he did arrive it all went to pot… especially with me feeling dreadful at the start. It all turned out well though and I was well and truly spoilt (as usual)!
Gutted Christmas day though when Christmas morning I begin straightening my hair when my GHD’s stop working!!! They died a death!! But all is well cos I’m such a lucky girl that Matt ordered me some new ones and they arrived yeaterday… my new GHD IV Styler…. AWESOME!!!! Loads better than my old ones that were bout 4 years old!
Not only that… I’m laying in bed watching my new 19in LCD, HD Ready, built in Freeview TV!!! MEGA!!!! Think Matt got this so I can hapily watch TV in bed whilst he plays PS3 online downstairs!!!
I would like to apologise for how long it has taken me to blog… I seriously have had no time! Oliver is beginning to get into a routine so I am starting to get a tiny amount of time to myself at around 10pm (not tonight though… he is with me as we speak) so hopefully I may get to update a little more ofen (don’t hold ya breath though but do keep checking)!
Happy New Year Everyone and All the best fo 2008!!
