First paed appointment

Riley had her first paed appointment yesterday since being discharged from hospital.

She is doing really really well, so well that we do not need to see him again for 6 weeks. Generally he likes to see them more often but she is far too well to be seeing him all the time (yay a Dr who doesn't see $$$ signs!)

Her new stats at 5 weeks old (38w6d corrected) were

Weight - 2960g (she was 3kg on our scales)
Length - 48cm (she has grown 6cm in 5 weeks
Head circ - 33.5

He gave her a good check over and since she is doing so well and looks nice and pink he isnt going to take any bloods. There is no point taking blood from a pink baby to check for anaemia....yay because i was really dreading taking her at this age to have blood taken. That being said if she does start to look pale/show signs of anaemia then we are to go back and get a bloods referral.

So it is all good....am very happy to get a clean bill for the first appointment - i was doing my head in worrying that all wouldn't be good!

5 weeks old

Time is flying and Riley is now 5 weeks old! Thought it was about time i got my act together and took some photos of our little girl so we can finally put her birth announcement in the local news paper....now i just have to figure out which one to send to the paper.

Riley and Brady the Born Early Bear

AustPrem have the most gorgeous teddy bear. We bought him for Riley while she was still in the hospital but we decided to keep him at home until Riley came home too...cant exactly trust that he would have still been there after we left him!

So here is Riley at 3 weeks old with her Brady Bear (and a token cute baby shot)







You can buy a Brady Bear from here http://www.bornearly.org.au/shop/

Coming Home

At exactly 3 weeks old we were able to bring Riley home! It felt like forever, even though it was only 3 weeks and 1 week less than when Ethan was born this time the whole journey was much more stressful and exhausting. Fighting all the way thorugh SCN probably didnt help either and of course we left on a really high note (LOL). Once again we had to fight to get her home, one nurse decided that she HAD to be on 4 hourly feeds. There is no protocol on that, she just decided that was what had to happen. Apparently they spoke with Rileys paed who apparently said she had to stay for another 48 hours to go to 4 hourly feeds - now i say apparently a lot because we are not so sure that he would have said that. Anyway, after a very blunt phone call with the NUM we received a return phone call saying Riley could come home and the paed didnt need to see her for 2 weeks! Major turn around, if he was cioncerned i am sure he would have wanted to see her much sooner than 2 weeks down the track - well actually 16 days but who is counting ;-)

But this is a positive entry. We have brought our little girl home to be with her family where she can thrive and be loved!