Weigh in day today and 4120grms 9lb11/2oz and everyone is happy with Gracyns weight gain. She is gaining weight in leaps and bounds.She is in sort of a routine and only sometimes wanting to party from 1am to 4am, i rekon thats her mother coming out in her as she use to be the same in her younger years.
Its hard to believe we have had her home for nearly 4 weeks if time keeps on flying by like this i,ll be coughing up for her 21st in no time.Hopefully that scottish restaraunt located in every town is still in business when the time comes.
Angela is slowly getting better and seems a bit more confident on her feet, she is still not driving but hopefully soon. We have had some great help from some cool people with school drop offs and pickups ansd i thankyou all.
Not much else to report outher than Gracyn is feeding/ sleeping, pooing/ and on the odd ocassion giving up her burps, thats me coming out in her as im the scottsman when giving up things, hehehe!!
Steve,Ange,Tegan,Gracyn
Monday, February 23, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
17 th Feb 2009
Well i,ve been back at work for 2 days and i feel like i have never left the place,it,s funny how you just slip back into the old routine like nothing has ever happened.
Gracyn is now 3674grms (8lb10oz)a right little buddha!! Her feeding is going great and she is giving us some good long sleeps during the nite. Sometimes going down to bed at 11pm and not awakeing until 5.30-6.00am.Which is good for us as we don,t feel like you have been up all nite.She is changing every day and i can, wait till i get home at nite to get my quota of cuddles.Sometimes i have to pry her away from her mother and Tegan just to get one.
She has graduated to once a week visit from the home care nurse which is another step forward.Gracyn is growing out of her super prem clothes before our eyes and we have a big pile to distribute throughout our freinds at the Neo Nates and Scbu upon our next visits.
Angela is still Numb and awaiting the dose of steroids to work, after a week we thought we mite see some differance but no,The Doctors seem to think we should just be patient and see what happens as this treatment will take time.Easy for them to say as all Ange wants to to is get on with it,be a Mother and enjoy Gracyn at home.
more soon.
Steve all round good guy,Numb Bum Ange, Toothless Tegan,Gracyn da budda!!
Gracyn is now 3674grms (8lb10oz)a right little buddha!! Her feeding is going great and she is giving us some good long sleeps during the nite. Sometimes going down to bed at 11pm and not awakeing until 5.30-6.00am.Which is good for us as we don,t feel like you have been up all nite.She is changing every day and i can, wait till i get home at nite to get my quota of cuddles.Sometimes i have to pry her away from her mother and Tegan just to get one.
She has graduated to once a week visit from the home care nurse which is another step forward.Gracyn is growing out of her super prem clothes before our eyes and we have a big pile to distribute throughout our freinds at the Neo Nates and Scbu upon our next visits.
Angela is still Numb and awaiting the dose of steroids to work, after a week we thought we mite see some differance but no,The Doctors seem to think we should just be patient and see what happens as this treatment will take time.Easy for them to say as all Ange wants to to is get on with it,be a Mother and enjoy Gracyn at home.
more soon.
Steve all round good guy,Numb Bum Ange, Toothless Tegan,Gracyn da budda!!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
14 Feb 2009
Gracyn had a check up at Hutt Hospital with Dr Leadbetter and passed every test thrown at her.Her PDA valve shows no sign of a murmer, which is great news and her blood test came back all clear and normal,So it was good news on Friday the 13th for us.
We took her for a visit to the SCBU to catch up with the staff, they could,nt believe how much she had grown in such a short time,and were impressed with her progress.
i have to go back to work next week and try and get some normality back in life.I have enjoyed the time off and the hands on approch with Gracyn,she has progressed so well and i can see the differance in her every day.She is our wee miracle and we love her to pieces.
Now we have Gracyn,s health sorted we have to get Angela rite,(as if she had,nt been through enough) as her Mutiple Sclirosis (MS) has raised its ugly head again leaving her with numb legs and a bit unstable on her feet.This makes her a bit unconfident to drive so getting Tegs to school and back may be a bit of a logistics mission.We will manage as we always do with great support and help from our friends and family.I supose this is just another mountain for us to climb, they seem to just keep comin and we keep on conquring them and i,m sure we will get over this one too.
They are treating Angela with some oral steroids but as we told the Doctors this is normally not effective and a intravenious drip method is normally better.So next week she will probably get this treatment and hopefully we will see some improvement so that Angela can enjoy her wee girl at home a bit more.
I have added some cooL photos of Gracyn,s first weeks a home "AIN,T SHE SOO CUTE"
More Later
Steve,Angla,Tegan,Gracyn
We took her for a visit to the SCBU to catch up with the staff, they could,nt believe how much she had grown in such a short time,and were impressed with her progress.
i have to go back to work next week and try and get some normality back in life.I have enjoyed the time off and the hands on approch with Gracyn,she has progressed so well and i can see the differance in her every day.She is our wee miracle and we love her to pieces.
Now we have Gracyn,s health sorted we have to get Angela rite,(as if she had,nt been through enough) as her Mutiple Sclirosis (MS) has raised its ugly head again leaving her with numb legs and a bit unstable on her feet.This makes her a bit unconfident to drive so getting Tegs to school and back may be a bit of a logistics mission.We will manage as we always do with great support and help from our friends and family.I supose this is just another mountain for us to climb, they seem to just keep comin and we keep on conquring them and i,m sure we will get over this one too.
They are treating Angela with some oral steroids but as we told the Doctors this is normally not effective and a intravenious drip method is normally better.So next week she will probably get this treatment and hopefully we will see some improvement so that Angela can enjoy her wee girl at home a bit more.
I have added some cooL photos of Gracyn,s first weeks a home "AIN,T SHE SOO CUTE"
More Later
Steve,Angla,Tegan,Gracyn
Monday, February 9, 2009
Feb 9 2009
We have just had the homecare nurse arround for Gracyn,s weekly check up. She is pileing on the weight ad is now 3810grmS, 8lb4oz.Her feeds are going well and are now upto 120ml every 4-6hrs.She s in a good routine now and we seem to get some solid sleeps so far. Christine,Brett,Emma,Hannah were up from Dunedin in the weekend so Gracyn was fussed over most of the time.Uncle Brett was a hit with Tegan teaching him how to drive a Hiace van during his stay.Good on ya Brett i better start saving for his first car.
We had our first family outing with a trip up to Auntie Heather, s place in Newlands for Jared,s birthday.Gracyn took it all in her stride sleeping for most of the afternoon and only awaking for her scheduled feed.She sure has found her voice these days as we were running a bit late getting home and boy did Gracyn let us know busting her phew! phew! valve(having a big cry) for the first time and possible not the last.
We sure are enjoying having Gracyn home,i,m also enjoying my time off and bonding with my wee girl.Back to work next week and start a new routine with school drops etc.
more soon
Steve Ange,Gracyn,Tegan
We had our first family outing with a trip up to Auntie Heather, s place in Newlands for Jared,s birthday.Gracyn took it all in her stride sleeping for most of the afternoon and only awaking for her scheduled feed.She sure has found her voice these days as we were running a bit late getting home and boy did Gracyn let us know busting her phew! phew! valve(having a big cry) for the first time and possible not the last.
We sure are enjoying having Gracyn home,i,m also enjoying my time off and bonding with my wee girl.Back to work next week and start a new routine with school drops etc.
more soon
Steve Ange,Gracyn,Tegan
Friday, February 6, 2009
week 1 at home 6 feb2009
Gracyn has been at home for over a week now and things are going well. She has gained 60grms since being her and now weighs 7lb15oz.After a re-count in the family sweepstake it was found that Uncle Mark was the winner not Nana!! Sorry Nana!!.
Gracyn has had her first nite in he own room and thank goodness for that as she is a noisey wee mite when sleeping.She seems to like having a party arround 2am in the morning,wanting more feeding and being wide awake and if thats not enough she is stingy at giving up the burps.So it all makes for an interesting nite,you can actually learn alot off the discovery chanel at that time of the morning.I,ll be a weath of knowlage by the time she sleeps through.Last nite i learnt how to build a supertanker, it mite be my next project!!.
No oxygen and no big beeper monitors so far, only a small aponea monitor and a Angel care Aponea one for backup in her cot giving us piece of mind at nite.This detects movement and breathing.
So its full steam ahead here in Wood Grove and finally a complete Family.
more Later
Steve,Ange,Tegan,Gracyn
Gracyn has had her first nite in he own room and thank goodness for that as she is a noisey wee mite when sleeping.She seems to like having a party arround 2am in the morning,wanting more feeding and being wide awake and if thats not enough she is stingy at giving up the burps.So it all makes for an interesting nite,you can actually learn alot off the discovery chanel at that time of the morning.I,ll be a weath of knowlage by the time she sleeps through.Last nite i learnt how to build a supertanker, it mite be my next project!!.
No oxygen and no big beeper monitors so far, only a small aponea monitor and a Angel care Aponea one for backup in her cot giving us piece of mind at nite.This detects movement and breathing.
So its full steam ahead here in Wood Grove and finally a complete Family.
more Later
Steve,Ange,Tegan,Gracyn
Monday, February 2, 2009
2nd Feb 2009 "Gracyn,s due Date"
Hi ALL
Today is Gracyn,s due date but we all know she is 16 weeks old officially. Today we had the homecare nurse visit and here is her official birth weight (if she was born today) 3500grms 7lb7oz.
We have had since thursday putting up with the bings and bongs of the monitor that the hospital supplied and this was driving us mad.It is questionable on how accurate this machine is because she would only move and it would go off, the home care nurse has changed this to an apnea monitor which is a bit quieter and monitors the chest movement to ensure she is breathing, we will go back to the oldfashion way of checking on her complection and colour to make sure she is ok.We will use the old one three to four times a day just to check her stats. Gracyn is off the oxygen for now, we will keep an eye on this and see how she goes.
The official results of the family sweepstakes for guess the birth weight are not all in yet but it looks like Nana Dawn mite be the winnner.(sorry Matty)Congratulations Nana.
Gracyn is right on time with her feeds every 4hrs, the Scbu and Wgtn Neo Nates have sent us home with a well trained and ready to go baby thanks guys!.
Please excuse the typos and grammer sleep depravation set in a long time ago, I suppose its only going to get worse.
Steve,Ange,Tegan Gracyn
Today is Gracyn,s due date but we all know she is 16 weeks old officially. Today we had the homecare nurse visit and here is her official birth weight (if she was born today) 3500grms 7lb7oz.
We have had since thursday putting up with the bings and bongs of the monitor that the hospital supplied and this was driving us mad.It is questionable on how accurate this machine is because she would only move and it would go off, the home care nurse has changed this to an apnea monitor which is a bit quieter and monitors the chest movement to ensure she is breathing, we will go back to the oldfashion way of checking on her complection and colour to make sure she is ok.We will use the old one three to four times a day just to check her stats. Gracyn is off the oxygen for now, we will keep an eye on this and see how she goes.
The official results of the family sweepstakes for guess the birth weight are not all in yet but it looks like Nana Dawn mite be the winnner.(sorry Matty)Congratulations Nana.
Gracyn is right on time with her feeds every 4hrs, the Scbu and Wgtn Neo Nates have sent us home with a well trained and ready to go baby thanks guys!.
Please excuse the typos and grammer sleep depravation set in a long time ago, I suppose its only going to get worse.
Steve,Ange,Tegan Gracyn
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