laureen @ 5 months

I haven't been able to blog for a LONG TIME many things have happened since. Last february we went to agen to visit the relatives of my husband. It was great but on our last day of stay we found out that one of his uncle was terribly sick. He had cancer. 3 weeks after we went back again to agen for the funeral. last week my husband's cousins and aunt came to visit us for the weekend.

Now laureen weighs 6kg :D not too big but not too small either. She begins to grab everything she can get her hands on then puts it in her mouth. :D She still doesn't sleep through the night. I hope she'll do so soon. I applied for her passport and i also registered her in the philippine embassy for the report of birth.

We are going to manila and we are staying for almost 2 months yey. I just hope she wouldn't get sick during our stay there.

New pics of laureen

update and some photos :D

Photobucket Album

Happy New Year everyone !

it's been more than a month since i last posted an entry here. well of course there is the holiday season and then there's laureen who is already 2 months old. Time surely flies fast :D well she doesn't sleep long hours at night yet in fact she doesn't have a rythm yet plus the fact that she need to take a gel for the "fungi" called muguet boccal. i don't think she have it but the pedia say that she should take the gel anyway.

We had my husband's aunt and uncle visit us after christmas so i am a bit busy preparing food going out etc.

update about laureen
She smiles a lot now and likes to talk she also can lift her head and body for about 3 seconds. I have a problem with her she doesn't want to drink too much from the bottle because normally i do breastfeeding and bottle. she also doesn't want to sleep in her own bed during the night. and she likes to sleep on her stomach. any suggestions and opinions on how i can make her sleep in her bed are welcome :D

i have some videos of her i just need to know how to modify because the file size is too big any suggestions? I also put her photo in a bebe casting in kiabi :D i hope you'll vote for her. I don't have a link yet but i'll post it as soon as i have it.

laureen @ 1 month

Time sure flies fast. I am now a mom for about a month and 2 days to be exact. I have been busy with laureen, house chores which keep on piling up talking with my sisters in the philippines. more on laureen she weighed 3.060 kg last monday when we had our first visit with the pedia. we changed her milk it's now Nidal 1 before it was pre nidal for premature babies. for a month now i still don't have a night where i slept well. she always wakes up every 3 hours to eat. the pedia told me that she will sleep straight at night when she would weigh around 4.5 kg which is 1 and half months of not sleeping for me.

my day consist of feeding her every 3 hours, cooking and house chores in between. I am in the process of finishing her faire part. I know it's late but i did it myself so it's a bit long. i try to take pictures of her when i can. I also go out with her in the village if the weather is good. she has a bit of rashes on her face but as the pedia said it's normal and it will go away. i hope so. I am always tired during the night when i am on the bed i sleep right away. It's hard during these times but i know it will be better. and anyway just one smile from her makes it all worthwile :D

you can see more pictures here: http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f239/mitchijomi/laureen/

la petite crevette

She's here!!! she was born 5th day of November she weighs 2.160 and measures 41.5 cm long. she was born a month earlier than expected. I just came home from the hospital yesterday. so here's my birht story.

Nov 3
a midwife came to our house for monitoring. she usually comes 2 times a week to check for contractions. this day though there was a power black out in the department cote d'azur so we didn't finish the monitoring but she did check my blood pressure and did some urine test. she found out that i have high blood pressure and also there is high level of albumine in my urine. both symptoms of preeclampsia. so i was confined the same day. they took some blood tests and i needed to urinate in a big bottle to control the protein.

Nov.4
They woke me up at 6 am to take my shower so that they will put a gel to dilate the uterus so i can give birth naturally. i was lying in the delivery room for 3 hours before they allowed me to go up to my room.

Nov. 5
again at 6 am without eating anything i took a shower before they brought me to the delivery room to start the contractions. They put a dextrose on me so they can put the medicine to start the contraction they check every hour or so if there is a change in the uterus if it's opening or not. I had contractions but not painful ones. at around 12 noon they increased the dosage of the dextrose i had contractions but still not painful and the uterus is not yet open. so finally the doctor decided to have a cesarean. 1:50 they brought me to the operating room it was really cold there my butt hurts i was hungry and afraid at the same time. they gave me an an anesthisia similar to peridural but stronger. after 16 minutes they took out laureen and showed her to me she was in a sitting position and a really small baby but she is healthy. I didn't feel the pain but i can feel them pulling her out of my body. They closed me up and brought me to the recovery room and put laureen on me to increase her temperature. I was brought to my room 3 hours after the operation but laureen remained in the incubator for a while to keep her temperature stable. after that we ha a problem again to feed her as i want to breasfeed her and she is a small baby we need to combine bottle feeding her and breast feeding at the same time. i needed to use a electric breast pump and it really is painful more painful than my cut. hahaha

She needed 7 days before sha had a stabilized weight gain. I am hoping that it will continue. It's been a struggle since the beginning but when i look at her i know it's all worth it :D

you can see more photos here
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=48191&id=757296588

False Alarm!!!

I spent the last weekend in the hospital. Why? It's because last saturday night my stomach was very painful at first i thought maybe i have air or the baby is moving but then when it lasted for 2 hours with my stomach becoming hard at times i asked my husband to call the emergency number in the hospital to ask if we should go there or not as i am just in my 35 S.A. the baby is not supposed to come out yet. so the mid wife or sage femme told us to come to the hospital and check. and then it is confirmed i am having contractions. They said they want to keep me overnight just to make sure i have enough rest and to make some tests so they put a dextrose on me but not after trying 3 times with a big needle and finally being successful in their fourth try using a needle for kids. The mid wife asked me if the contractions hurt i said no but the needles do hahaha. everything is ok for now I just hope she doesn't come before the end of the term.

Mushroom hunting

last saturday we went to Frejus to shop for baby stuff suddenly my husband said that he'll show me where they used to get wild mushrooms. when we arrived in the place i took a small plastic bag just in case we found some. Well let's just say we weren't disappointed we got a lot almost 6kg for just 30 minutes that we searched. The only problem is that we are not equipped and there are plants which stick to my ankles and it's itchy. another problem is that i can't bend too much because of my belly. It's a secret place and not many people go there. and finally we arrived in the store with just 30 minutes left to shop. the only consolation is that we have a bag full of delicious mushrooms.



it's a kind of edible mushroom related to cèpes.