Finally home with our Little Man

Lachlan Connor Mackay is our new addition to our family. He was born Thursday 11th November 2010 at 1012am.


He was born by an emergency C-section. I needed the c-section as the medication that they put me on to my contractions regular made him distressed.

When he was born he weighted 8p2oz (3696gms) and was 51.5 cm Tall and had a head circumference of 36cm.

On his 3rd day he lost 14% of his body weight (babies should only lose 10% or less of his body weight) and it was found that due to my c-sections and the complications that happened with me during the surgery my milk was not coming in. Due to this i needed to breast feed him (to stimulate the milk) formula feed or use expressed milk to feed him (so that he was being feed) and then express milk (to also stimulate milk production and to feed him). This was a lengthy process and caused both him and me to become very distressed and then it was decided that he will continue to be formula feed as it was taking too long for my milk to come in. Although it was not really what i wanted to do, i was putting the health of my baby first. He has now been putting the weight back on slowly and is now weighing 3845gms.

I am now home (THANK GOD) after beening in hospital for 7 days and am so glad, i am still really tired and sore from my surgery and am going to need to take it easy for a while. My Husband and family have been awesome and so supportive through this all and i don't know what would have happened if i didn't have them.

I would also like to give a big congrats to Lambchops who also had her baby on the 11th i hope you and Ollie are doing well and enjoy every moment with him.