When have you ladies brought your nicu premie baby’s home ??

I’m impatient and I just wanna know how soon or when we’re you able to take your baby home?? time in nicu seems like forever.. I know my baby needs to be here but just wondering

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My baby was born at 30+5 and was in the NICU for 6 1/2 weeks.

My daughter was born at 30weeks, and was 13weeks in hospital. She needed oxygen for 12 of those weeks. She came home tube fed, but is now a feisty though skinny, 3yr old.

My little lad was born 32 + 5 and spent 3 weeks in hospital! Xx

My daughter was born 6 weeks early with no complications just needed her to grow and she had some bradycardia while feeding so she needed to have no incidents for 5 days straight. She was in the NICU for 5 weeks.

Delivered at 29 weeks, brought home at 38 weeks. My son came home with a heart monitor bc of the bradys - best part is I was able to sleep knowing a monitor would go off if he didn’t breathe. Never had a scare!

Delivered twins at 24 weeks, brought my daughter home 128 days later (just over two weeks after due date) my son came home after 165 days (one week off being 6 months) but then ended up in for another week. It’s a super long journey but it’s all worth it in the end. Ones on oxygen the other ng tube, I think it depends on if there has been any issues.

My daughter was born at 27+4 weeks and we stent 82 days in the NICU

My son was born at 25week and 4days he came home at 4 and half mths... Every premmies r different x

My daughter was born at 24weeks and we were in the nicu for 5 months

23+6 we stayed in for 130 days so 4 1/2 months.

My baby was born 28weeks she spent just shy of 10 weeks in nicu x

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Oh my God, oh my God I hope this is not true!!!! I’m kind of scared

I’ve been throwing up and taking a shit all night!!! I just hope that it’s not what I think it is

Small head reported following 20 week scan

Has anyone else had it flagged that their baby is in the bottom 5th percentile for head size?

They said everything was fine whilst we were in the scan and then I got a phone call the next day saying that it’s on the small side and we’re being referred to a paediatric specialist at St George’s. Has anyone else had this and how did things go??

Would you bring 9 week old to a family party of 35+ people?

These are also people who will want to pass the baby around and get a turn to hold him. He just got his 2 month shots two days ago

Exercise 6 weeks after c section

What movement did people start to introduce? I won’t do anything too vigorous until I’ve seen the pelvic physio as I don’t want to compromise anything that may have been extremely weakened through pregnancy! But just wondering what types of classes/movement people started off with?

Induction experience

I just wanted to share my experience with being induced as I wasn’t sure what to expect and thought it may help others.

I opted for the foley balloon which was inserted at 8am Saturday morning, I had to stay in hospital due to hypertension and protein urine however usually you can just go home once this has been done. The insertion of the balloon was not painful, was slightly uncomfortable as there was slight pressure. I actually found having the cervix checked prior to be worse (again not painful at this point just uncomfortable) The balloon had little effect and after having it removed I was still only 1cm. Removal also was pain free and hardly even noticeable.

I then had my first dose of the gel and definitely noticed a difference, I started experiencing period like cramps almost immediately however they were light and manageable. After 6 hours I had another cervix check and although my cervix was soft it was still only 1cm and was only open at the front. I had another dose of the gel and felt an increase in pressure and more intense cramping where I now required pain relief (codeine). After another 6 hours I had another cervix check and I had now dilated to 2-3cm however was still quite difficult to get all the way through so a third gel was recommended which I agreed to.

Almost immediately I noticed the difference and was in considerable pain, I had paracetamol and codeine however the contractions had now become intense and a lot closer together (around 3 minutes apart). After a couple of hours I had my last cervix check and was 4cm and taken down to the Labour ward to have my waters broken and an epidural.

I had been in my room for approx 20minutes when my waters broke by themselves and I was now 10cm and actively pushing…. There was no time for the epidural and my beautiful girl arrived into the world within 2 minutes of pushing.

All in all I would say the cramps/contractions were manageable up until the third gel where it became pretty unbearable however it was for a very short time a gas and air helped take the edge off. The worst part about any of it was actually the later cervix checks where after stimulating the cervix my contractions were at their most painful.

If I had to be induced again I would skip the balloon and opt for the gels immediately as thy had a quicker effect and I would have been out a lot sooner if I had done this to begin with.

One more thing, I’ve never believed when people say “you forget the pain once they’re here” but I can honestly say this is true. It’s been 4 days and I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

Scan needed at 33 weeks

Hi ladies! I just had a midwife appointment (I am 33+5)..the midwife was different to my usual midwife. She's requested I have a scan within 72 hours as she said baby is measuring a little small, however, she did say that it's likely nothing to worry about and it's probably just her measuring me a bit different to my usual midwife. Has anyone else had this? Am a bit worried although babys heartbeat and movements are completely fine.