Great News !!!
You should copy all of this forum and pass it on to your new Daughter when she is old enough to understand.
And tell her she was a Celebrity( Famous)
Wife and I feel very Happy for You both.
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Great News !!!
You should copy all of this forum and pass it on to your new Daughter when she is old enough to understand.
And tell her she was a Celebrity( Famous)
Wife and I feel very Happy for You both.
I hope mine doesn't do that when I tell her, she'll go straight through the floor. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Termite
Waldo
Congratulations to you and yours.
Well done. :D :D :D :D :D
When they come home you will know what family life is really like.:rolleyes: ;)
Waldo, Kylie and Sarah - Congratulations. Haven't been posting but have been watching. Wow. I'm a little speechless - sitting here waiting for words to come. Can't think of anything sensible to say so will just type what I've been thinking. Awesome - she's out. There's a lot of love around here. Life is such a journey. Still, one day at a time. 1.6 - so tiny! Hope there's not too much plastic between you and her. Still thinking about you all. Thanks for keeping us posted. Didn't even know you existed 3 months ago when I joined up...seems such a long time ago now. Best wishes to the family, Chris H
Wonderful news. Congrats to you and Kylie.
But it will still be a tough time for both of you for a while whilst Sarah has to stay in hospital untill she is able to come home.
So show us some pics and keep telling us how Sarah is progressing.
Peter.
You bloody beauttttttttyyyyyyyy :D:D
Congrats Chris Kylie and Sarah. Great news.
Chris, for her dark side apprenticeship, you had better buy Sarah a wooden mallet to chew on and fump things with when she can lift it :)
Tough luck mate, you'll now have Mother's Day to forget each year also :D
Re: distributing the greenies, Gumby missed it but I'm sure he'd be glad to collect them for everybody :D:D:D
All the very best to the Waldron family for the future, and what a great early Chrisssy present.
Cheers.....................Sean
Congrtatulations Chris, Kylie AND Sarah, ( Little Miss Waldo )? This is the best news that I've had today by miles.:D The road just got a whole lot smoother, I hope that you will be back on the bitumen very soon. Wishing you all the very best from here on in.
Take good care all,
Barry.
More congratulations, Waldo! Enjoy your family and (in about 15 years time) remember that "grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.
Cheers,
Grandpa Graeme.
G'day,
Strueth! You're out for 1/2 a day at the hospital and I come back and there's two more pages of congratulations from you all. I'll have to print out pages 11 and 12 for Kylie to read tomorrow.
I can't remeber the stuff too well as to all the complications that the doctors found when they delivered Sarah, not complications that she has but what they found that Kylie had.
• Some were a huge blood clot like a shawl covering Sarah's shoulders;
• blood vessels in front of the placenta;
• a lot of blood mixed with the embryonic fluid, which meant internal bleeding; and
• something about a growth of fat that is normally pushed up by the placenta but wasn't in the right place and had grown to 3 times it's original size, so the docs operated on that. (I think I got that right :confused: )
Kylie will be coming out of the hospital on Saturday which she can't wait for and to get home and enjoy the simplest of things like her gardens and the backyard and my shed (I added that one in ;) ) It's like being on Survivor and missing the things we take for granted.
Well here she is, Sarah Elise Waldron.
She's GORGEOUS!!!!!!
Congratulations to you all
Cheers
Tikki :)
She is so cute
and so much hair
Congratulations and best wishes to the three of you. The time Sarah stays in hospital will pass in a flash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waldo
My own son was 5 weeks early and was able to leave hospital after less than a week, so don't despair.
ian
Waldo:
I have been holding my breath for you since the first post. Congratulations.
Greg
Hello Sarah Elise Waldron.
Job well done to you both Waldo and Kylie. Congratulations.
Congratulation Waldo! Very good to hear that you got to this point all OK, all three of you that is.
It is pretty amazing how well so many premmies make it through these days. I know of births at 20 weeks that were able to survive and do well. One of my customers gave birth at 20 weeks the baby was 590g not much more than a block of butter.
That makes it 28 weeks by my counting and 1600g which is small compared to full term but sounds like bub will make it through OK
Congratulations again
Stephen
Sent Kylie a card this morning.
Congrats waldo and family. All the very best.
Trav
Hey Chris,
I dont check the post for two days, and you go and let Kylie have little Sarah. Now my swmbo is going to FLOG me for not finding out sooner....Cheers!
Seriously, Congratulations champ! We'll both be bouncing of walls once she calms down a bit!
Congrats again,
Greg and Anne-Marie
;) ;) :) ;) :) ;) ;)
Congratulations Waldo and Kylie. I'm glad that everything has turned out OK for you both and that you now have little Sarah safe and well. We were in Melbourne at Kensington over the weekend staying with our son and his fiancee and helping out with house renovations and during a quiet moment away from the internet I found myself thinking of you and wondering how things were going. We will be grandparents in January and so are beginning to relive special moments. The pictures of Sarah are terrific.
Regards from Adelaide
Trevor
G'day,
First up a big thanks to Rob and Meg for the card and to PTC also. It's great the support we're getting and it's been a big plus for Kylie as well.
Sarah was taken off the ventilator on Thursday which goes to show how strong and healthy she is. Today she had some feeding tubes taken out and is now fed orally via a tube down her throat. Her sugars were real low on Tuesday and her sodium was down too. Sarah was 1680 at birth and she has dropped down to 1480 after putting on 18g in the last 2 days I think.
She kicked the hell out of Kylie pretty much without stop from the 11th week and has been much like it since she was born, although today she has settled down for the moment to be a lot quieter and not so restless.
Kylie saw Sarah for the first time on Wednesday night which was real moment for her. But the real moments came when she went down to see her on Thursday night. She got down into NICU just as the nurses were changing over which meant that they had to take Sarah out and weigh her, so the women looking after her asked if Kylie would like to cuddle her. It was really special to her and emotionally too - she loved it. I've got that moment as a movie. And tonight when we went down to see her Kylie got to hold her again which made Kylie's day from what was a hard day for her physically and emotionally.
So now Kylie is getting a bond with Sarah and feeling like she really is a Mum.
FIL and DIL are down. MIL has been down now for the last 5 weeks and really helping Kylie out and when Kylie gets let out she'll come around here to help out (has been staying at SIL place). She has been a huge help, to the point of comng around here and washing the dishes, my clothes and some ironing and getting one round of groceries for me.
Kylie was going to be released tomorrow but the earliest she'll be out now is Monday. I've beeen really looking forward to hugs in bed at night.
So that's the update and more will follow.
Thanks everyone for your support etc. :)
:D :D :D :D
Good news.
:D :D :D :D
G'dat DavidG,
Thanks.
Great legs. :D
Thanks Waldo and Kylie for sharing ur news with us all over the country and os as well
its wonderful news that Sarah is breething on her own and kylie is a able to cuddle her ...
makes life a bit more rewarding ...
cheers from us here in Bundy jules n the slug
Only just caught up with the great news Waldo, she's a li'l ripper mate :D .
Me too, excellent to hear(err read).
Congrats too your family.
Roll on Monday
Not to many Hugs.
Can't believe I missed this thread the past few days - been checking it so frequently till then with all quiet - just like fishing really as soon as you put the rod down BANG.
At about 7:40 Kylie went in and about 8:10 last night a nurse came out and said I've got a little girl. Sarah Elise Waldron was born at 7:56 pm 05/12/05 weighing 1680g. She needed some help breathing at first which was expected and not long after going into ICU she was taken off ventilation and breathing on he own.
It's all a bit surreal right now that all of a sudden I've gone from being a married couple for 9 years to now having a family.
WALDO and MRS WALDO she looks beautiful, so happy for you and would like to welcome you to a whole new world - you'll love it :) :) :)
A family is the meaning of life Waldo welcome to the holy grail.
Bless you both - really this is wonderful.
Cheers
Oh bugger I'll have to go and grab a tissue :o
Cheers
Like Teejay, I've been following the thread and thought all was quiet, plus been a bit slack over the past few days and only been on here and there, anyway, congrat's to both of you and your little girl, I can see she will become a "Daddy's Girl" my first one did, couldn't go anywhere without her wanting to come along, lots of fun!:) :cool:
Congratulations to you and Kylie. Now you will have to make sure you and your wife dont burn out with the trips to the hospitial when she is discharged. The hosiptial may have accomadation for you and Kylie to stay in so you are closer to bub. My wife is still hanging on much to the amasement of her Dr.
G'day,
Thanks Aussiecollector and Savage. No real news to report.
The Docs have been a bit worried about her blood pressure which was around 100, so today they put her on some medication to lower it and has dropped to 90 now. Her heart rate was around 150 - 180 which has now lowered to around 130 - 140 which is good.
They are concerend that she is urinating quite a bit so they will do some tests to see how things are with her kidneys.
Kylie has been very emotional the last two days because as much as she wants to come home she'd rather stay at the hospital where she can go down to see Sarah when and as often as she likes. So tomorrow when she comes home will be hard for a few days with the separation bit.
Thanks for the 13 pages of support guys and girls.
No worrie's all one big happy family around here!(yes OZwinner is the black foil wearing sheep!)
G'day,
Rather than a PM to thank Termite, I thought I'd make this a public post and thank Termite and his wife Pam for sending the card of congratultions on Sarah's g'day to the world.
So Termite and Pam a very appreciated thank you to you both. :)
Hope all continues to go well for you all.
Can I suggest that in a couple of years time, you make Sarah a rocking horse a la Wongo, with a screw opening under the saddle that allows you to use the body as a time capsule. Print out this thread as well as a WIP of you making the horse & put them in the capsule. Some generations later, when they have the harness restored, your great grandchildren will discover the story.
G'day AlexS,
Yeah not a bad idea at all. I probably should look at making stuff for girls too (rather than just the planes, trains and trucks that I currently do) especially now as I have one.
Just caught up on the news. A big 'whew', and congrats. Have a cigar!
Dennis
G'day TassieKiwi,
Thanks, I will. My BIL sent me a Cuban cigar which he got from an importer to smoke in celebration. I don't smoke but in the circumstances I'll try it out. He told me it'll take a couple of hours to smoke and so SWMBO has confined me to the shed if I want to smoke it. ;)
So how's it all going?
Any idea yet when you're likely to be able to bring Sarah home?
Best wishes
ian
G'day Ian,
At this stage it looks like it'll be late February before she gets to come home. Her birthdate was meant to be 22nd February and it might even be a couple of weeks after that which may take us into early March.
In the meantime my wife and MIL make the daily pilgrimage into to see her and take in the expressed milk. Sarah is drinking about 12ml a day now.
I go into see her when I have meetings in town. Tomorrow being Saturday Kylie and I'll go in and say g'day.
If you just keep lighting it and don't puff on it you may get a couple of days out of the thing in the shed. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Waldo
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Waldo - be good when bub is home but all is well with the world there really :)
Cheers