My Family & Myself

Erin finally arrived on January 5, 2004 by emergency c-section. You can visit Erin's page on this site, which has her birth story in long form, or Erin's site at Babies Online, which has a summary, some pictures, and a guest book. I've added some video clips to Erin's page on this site.

See Erin

Videos

Pictures

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Development

As of June 11, 2004, Erin can:

• Make her door bouncer (Jolly Jumper) go.
• Roll over back to front, possibly also front to back but I've yet to see it.
• Laugh, especially at Antonia jumping around or throwing things.
• Make "raspberry" noises with her mouth.
• Complain when you take a toy away.

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Health

Weight, etc.

Date	Age	Weight (kg)	Weight (lb)	Length
05/01/04	Birth	3.42	7 8.5
16/01/04	11 days	3.75	8 4.5
23/01/04	18 days	8 14.5
23/02/04	7 weeks	5.25	11 9	58 cm.
12/03/04	9.5 weeks	5.42	11 15
26/05/04	20 weeks	6.72	14 13

6 Week Check

Added: March 12, 2004
Occurred: Feb 25 & Mar 10, 2004

Everything was fine at the check up on Feb 25 except for Erin's breathing. Everyone told us it was very noisy because newborns are like that, but my other babies didn't sound like that, so I wasn't so sure. The doctor also didn't think it was normal, though Erin does not seem distressed at all by it, so it's not a big deal. She asked me to bring her back in 2 weeks to reassess - that was yesterday. Well, she's still really noisy and there's no clear reason why, so Erin will probably have to see a paediatrician. The GP's best guess was that it's a "floppy larynx" (a.k.a laryngomalacia), which is almost always benign and outgrown naturally. This is what someone found for me about it:

http://www.emedicine.com/PED/topic1280.htm
http://www.pedisurg.com/PtEducENT/Stridor&laryngomalacia.htm

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History

Birth Story - Short Form

Added: Feb 18, 2004
Occurred: Jan 5, 2004

Erin was due on December 26, 2003. I had many signs of impending labour for weeks, but it wasn't until the early hours of January 3rd that my water broke. I was admitted to hospital then to wait for labour to begin because Antonia, my previous baby, had come very fast.

By the morning of January 5 there was little chance of labour starting spontaneously and I would have been induced by the next day anyway due to the risk of infection. So I decided to have them induce.

Late that afternoon it was found that she was a brow presentation (forehead first), which meant that there was no way she would fit through. Her heart rate indicated she also wasn't tolerating labour well, so they had to perform an emergency caesarean section.

Erin was born at 6:12 pm, very blue, limp, and battered. Before I could even look at her, she was whisked away to an adjoining room. A few minutes later we found out she was being given oxygen, but was breathing on her own. Fortunately, she recovered very quickly from her difficult birth.

To find out what really happened, see the full story.

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Pregnancy Notes

October 17, 2003

I had an antenatal appointment at the hospital on October 6. They did an ultrasound to check the growth because of my thyroid condition. We took that opportunity to ask if they could tell us the sex. It looks like we have yet another girl.

July 15, 2003

I am now 16 weeks pregnant. Everything is fine so far. I had an ultrasound scan at 12 weeks. I might put the pictures up here, but they're not very good.