All Seems To Be Well

Sorry i've not posted much recently, who would have thought that having kids takes up all of your free time. Last night was fantastic though! Little Niamh had a really relaxed evening and Gem and I sat down and ate a great bit of steak and generally relaxed! Superb!

Its All Gone Country!

Well last night I had my first night out after the birth of Niamh, and I went to a local bar to meet up with 6 other people that are going to form a new country & western covers band. I must admit it was strange leaving Gem and Niamh, but I had a great time and next week we are going to rehearse for the first time!

Mum & Dad Time

Now that Niamh has settled again, Gem and Myself got a little time together - so what did we do? No - not that you dirty people! We played Monster Madness Battle For Suburbia on the 360, call us sad, call us what you like - but it was bloody good fun - until we ran across the Granny with the Cat Shield enemy ... if anybody can offer us some tips it would be great cos we suck!

Happy Families (So Far)

Well, so far tonight has gone without a hitch! We picked up some Cow & Gate Comfort Milk to top Niamh up with (for when she isn't being breastfed), and laced it with Colief and at the moment she is asleep on the sofa with Gem looking very happy!

We did take Niamh back to the doctors again today, as she had another huge bout of crying and flailing limbs. Unfortunately the Doctor couldn't really give her anything as her stomach is not too distended ... and she told us everything we are doing is right! Which are always nice words to hear!

Anyways, I'll round this post off with a nice picture of Niamh! :)

Here she is watching television ... unfortunately she's getting into bad habits and watching Big Brother along with Gem ;)

Colief!

I can not extol the virtues of this product enough! I tried this with Niamh today upon recommendation from my sister and within 10-15 minutes Niamh had calmed right down and even went to the loo (don't know if I mentioned she was severely constipated too) ... whoever invented this piece of genius is a ... genius!

Niamh is currently asleep and things seem to be back to normal ... for now!

Hospital

It was about 11pm when Gemma and I decided that we needed to call the doctors, as Niamh wasn't settling and was crying at the top of her lungs for at least 3 hours straight! Not Good!

We were told we'd need to go to the Royal Infirmary (Local Hospital) so she could be examined - so we arrived and Niamh was poked and prodded (in some places where the sun doesn't shine). Gem was really upset through the whole thing and had a good cry in the doctors office, as its not nice to see your little baby upset!

We were then told we'd need to go to the childrens ward so she could be monitored, we were seen by a total of 3 different people - each of them asked the same questions. Finally a registrar arrived and he said it could be either acid reflux or colic (dur, thats what we said originally) ... but that they need to keep her (and us) in for another 5-6 hours while they took blood and inserted a catheter to check her pee.

Not happening! Niamh had finally gone to sleep, we were told it would be a quick visit so we didn't pack any more than a couple of nappies (which were used because every doctor and nurse asked us to remove them). So we decided we would discharge us and Niamh from the hospital.

We got home at 3:30am and Niamh stayed asleep pretty much until 10:30am which we were very pleased about ... and this morning she hasn't been nearly as bad as she was yesterday. The docs did give us some infant gaviscon, which may help ... we will see!

Ok I Lied

The colic definately isn't going! At the moment im sitting here and have just tried to console Niamh through 2 1/2 hours of crying ... something is definately upsetting her tummy as she keeps raising her knees and clenching her fists ... the weird thing is that she hasn't got wind or anything like that - so im guessing that its just tummy ache or something similar. She isn't running a fever or being sick so its nothing to worry about ... much

The other side of the coin is that when you have kids you have this strange idea that during the day & evening she is going to be a little bundle of joy ... that certainly isn't the case if your baby develops colic ... far from it!

If anybody has had a baby who had colic ... pass on some tips maybe, we could use them, before we tear our hair out! ;)