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Stage:20 month old
Baby's Name: Jakob(01/03/2008) Emily (01/03/2003) Jennifer (30/01/2005)
Area:Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Member since:24/06/2008
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Hi To start with we knew nothing of how we were going to look after our first baby, So we went to the classes that were held at the hospital over about 4 weeks. We thought they would teach us the important things, ie how to feed & clean our baby, & change it's nappy. But "NO" we were told. "they will show you that on the ward!" Then they asked us what we already knew & even laughed at us when we got the answers to their questions wrong. They did show us all the machines & tell us what they did. I will always remember the knitting needle they used to break the bag !! We still don't know what this heavy breathing bit is, we always see people doing on TV before they start pushing? They didn't tell us & we forgot to ask! Anyway the delivery was OK if a bit long at I need stiches, but later on the ward it was not until the 3rd day almost on our way out, we got someone to show us how to wash & clean our new baby. Everything else we learnt as we went along. Why didn't they tell us our baby girl may start having a period & producing milk, caused by the change in the hormone levels.( Now that was a shock). And the different colours of poo green, black & then yellow coming out. Tracy had fainted when she tried to walk & now felt very light headed every time she stood or even sat up.( we quickly found it was a combination of a low iron level & a low blood pressure was causeing it) but it still took them 3 days to get her any iron tablets. The staff did not seam to like helping her walk to the loo & never waited to help her walk back. Oh my yes I do remmeber the giant lumps of blood clots that came out. That we should have been warned about, it totally freaked Tracy out seeing that lot down the loo And when she got out of her first bath the blood made it looked like someone had just been murdered in it. On visiting Tracy and new baby Emily in the maternity ward. I was upset to find our baby laying in a pool of vomit and had not been looked at for sometime.