3 weeks old

Annabelle has noticeably grown, this is backed up by the extra weight she has put on – another 200grams. She has also become more alert, making different sounds and coordinated. Below is a photo of her enjoying her play gym. She is not so cute at night as she is not settling until after midnight.

Name and Weight

We have settled on the name Annabelle Audrey Carver. She was weighted yesterday - 3.75 kgs (8.3 pounds), she has put on 382gms in 9 days - we are told that is good.

We Are Home!

Our first outing as a family was on 13 July - a trip to the warehouse and to collect our wedding anniversary dinner - curry (no romantic restaurant dinner this year) but no way of geting out 10days after our little princess was born :)




















12 July her little bellybutton raison (Umbilical cord) fell off.
















We left the hospital on morning of Friday 7 July. She slept the whole trip.



Here is a photo of Grandad holding her at home.

1St bath today, the Midwife gives us a demo.

Thats a face of total relaxation on our wee girl, she loved the bath, especially getting her hair washed!!

Unfortunatly the Ward 12 Midwife Nazi wouldn't let me stay tonight, as our girls fine now they kicked me out, so home alone for me tonight while my girls are in the hospital tonight, hopefully we'll be a family at home tomorrow.

OK all normal now, neonatal staff delivered her to us at 01:00am this morning for a feed and to stay with us, so she's been ours ever since. Kinda scarry now as it was nice knowing when she was in Neonat's that she had primo care and people watching her 24/7. Now that she's in the ward wiht us its all upto us to keep her happy.

We're going off for the 1st bath shortly, so that will be cool, and nice for her to finally get a wash.

She sleeps a heck of alot and we even have to wake er up for feeds, I can see in a few weeks time we'll be begging for her to be as quite as she is now!!

All going well we get to go home tomorrow.

Tuesday night and all is well!

We've had a steady stream of visitors. Which has been nice, Amber got a good kip this afternoon and feels a bit more herself now. Today things started to get good. She came out of the incubator thingie and into a cot, had all the breathing help removed, and most of the sensors, we could hold and dress our little girl. She got straight onto 'the boob' and settled well into feeding which was great, has had a couple of huge feeds and I changed the 1st nappy! - Who'd have thought!!!

So now that we've finally got close to our girl and can hold her and Amber can feed her, its name time. She really feels like our baby now so we can get to work on naming her. Before she didn't look her best with the wires and tubes but now things are great.

Here are a few pics. My Queen and my Princess together!

Yes our little girl was bron at 3:42PM Monday 3rd July 2006.

In the end the labour was quite tough on her and she got quite distressed with a very low heart rate, she was rushed into theatre and cleaned up and suctioned off and given help breathing. Then off in an ICU to the neonatal intensive care unit for special help.

She's in the NeoNatal unit now and unfortunatly will be for a couple of days at least. She has alot of fluid on her lungs which makes her breathing very very fast. She's also on antibiotics as she may have an infection.

She weighs in at 3.48Kg's, so is a big girl. Its a shame being in the neonatal unit as we can't hold her, she's such a wee wrigler kicking her wee legs arround we just want to give her a big cuddle, hopefully soon.

Ambers doing well.

Baby born!

Baby girl (still unnamed) was born at 3:45pm. Mum and baby doing well. Unweighed at this stage.

Not long now..

Might be getting ready to push soon.

Things are moving along...

She's about 7cm dialated and doing awesome. Looks like it won't be too long now...

Off for a Spa Bath

10:30am - taking the laughing gas down the corridor to the spa bath.

In the Waiting Room

10.00am in the waiting room... Things are going well, Amber started contractions through the night - but is in established labour now.

Induction Day - Monday 3rd July!

Who'd have thought we'd be having a July Baby!!!!!

In at 6:00 CTG scans for 20mins then 2 ML of Prostagen Gel then GTG's again for another 20mins, then we just sit and wait.

Amber on our morning walk 12 days over due, looking like tonight we go in for induction unless nature takes it course.


I few picutres from the backyard of what could be the day our little girl is born. Possibly the best winters morning of the year. As the say "You can't beat Wellington on a good day!"

CTG Scan, 9 days over due

Once going a few days over we start getting a bit more attention, CTG scans which are monitoring the girls heart rate, her movements and Uteris movements. We got these at 7 days over, 9 days over and then an unltrasound scan at 11days over.

Inducement looks like it will start the night of 1st July.

18th June, the day BEFORE the due date!

Our little girl is snug up inside though, no signs of her popping out yet for us to meet.