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<blockquote data-quote="FingersCrossed" data-source="post: 1988244" data-attributes="member: 479877"><p>Hello everyone. Just checked my phone for the first time in days, so quickly replying as I feel in another time and zone right now, ha ha. </p><p></p><p>I had a gorgeous little girl, Jasmine Florence, on Monday, weighing 8.7lbs. She's just lush. </p><p></p><p>The section was quite a tough one and I lost 2 litres of blood, but I'm overjoyed she's here and the I've-just-been-in-a-train-crash feeling should hopefully start to ebb soon.</p><p></p><p>So, I was given the 1ml breastfeeding syringes from my midwife and every day when I got a ml, I'd attach an NHS sticker from my notes to the purple part of the syringe and add the date I'd collected it. I then popped into a plastic see-through bag and kept adding to my freezer supply. On Monday, I took a little cool bag into hospital with an ice block in, my stored 10mls and gave to the staff when I was taken to my room pre op. I labeled everything. </p><p></p><p>I fed Jasmine in recovery, then the midwife gave her 1ml of my colostrum. She had a blood sugar taken before her second feed and it was 2.6, so they recommended I gave her another 3mls. Unfortunately, before the 4th feed, her l levels were 1.7, so I had to feed her and give her 20mls of top up formula each time to get back on track as I didn't want her admitted to special care. So, my milk came in yesterday and she's back to normal levels - 4.1 - so exclusive feeding from me is going well now and no need for further testing for her, hooray.</p><p></p><p>I'm so pleased I did the harvesting before though as my milk came in on day 2, but didn't until day 5 for my son when I didn't try.</p><p></p><p>On the day of the op, I had a bg of 5 before breakfast at 7am. Annoyingly, my bgs rocketed to 28 after one bagel and a cuppa (never once in 6 months had they been so high) so I walked my son to school quickly and corrected, which then resulted in a hypo at 10am to which I had to have a carton of orange and cereal bar. Not sure if I had a kink in my cannula or the anti-acid tablet you are made to take affected my bgs. </p><p></p><p>My levels from 11am were low at 3.7, so I disconnected my pump and just about managed to beat another hypo and potentially risk having the op cancelled. </p><p></p><p>I thought I better reply now as I'll forgot if I leave it.</p><p></p><p>Apologies if this is all over the shop. </p><p></p><p>Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FingersCrossed, post: 1988244, member: 479877"] Hello everyone. Just checked my phone for the first time in days, so quickly replying as I feel in another time and zone right now, ha ha. I had a gorgeous little girl, Jasmine Florence, on Monday, weighing 8.7lbs. She's just lush. The section was quite a tough one and I lost 2 litres of blood, but I'm overjoyed she's here and the I've-just-been-in-a-train-crash feeling should hopefully start to ebb soon. So, I was given the 1ml breastfeeding syringes from my midwife and every day when I got a ml, I'd attach an NHS sticker from my notes to the purple part of the syringe and add the date I'd collected it. I then popped into a plastic see-through bag and kept adding to my freezer supply. On Monday, I took a little cool bag into hospital with an ice block in, my stored 10mls and gave to the staff when I was taken to my room pre op. I labeled everything. I fed Jasmine in recovery, then the midwife gave her 1ml of my colostrum. She had a blood sugar taken before her second feed and it was 2.6, so they recommended I gave her another 3mls. Unfortunately, before the 4th feed, her l levels were 1.7, so I had to feed her and give her 20mls of top up formula each time to get back on track as I didn't want her admitted to special care. So, my milk came in yesterday and she's back to normal levels - 4.1 - so exclusive feeding from me is going well now and no need for further testing for her, hooray. I'm so pleased I did the harvesting before though as my milk came in on day 2, but didn't until day 5 for my son when I didn't try. On the day of the op, I had a bg of 5 before breakfast at 7am. Annoyingly, my bgs rocketed to 28 after one bagel and a cuppa (never once in 6 months had they been so high) so I walked my son to school quickly and corrected, which then resulted in a hypo at 10am to which I had to have a carton of orange and cereal bar. Not sure if I had a kink in my cannula or the anti-acid tablet you are made to take affected my bgs. My levels from 11am were low at 3.7, so I disconnected my pump and just about managed to beat another hypo and potentially risk having the op cancelled. I thought I better reply now as I'll forgot if I leave it. Apologies if this is all over the shop. Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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