The Johnson Family

I took Oliver to the clinic to get him weighed and the same nurse that saw him at 3 days old saw us and said that his jaundice is looking the same, or even worse. She recommended I go and get Oliver a blood test to check the levels out. The next day we had the test done and the dr called me as he was a bit concerned. His levels at birth were 218 but had come back at 350. I rang the hospital and let them know and they wanted us to come in the following morning for another blood test to see if the levels had dropped at all. So we went in and they took the blood, but this time instead of it being a heel prick test, they actually had to put a needle in his arm as they were testing for other things as well. It was pretty horrible to watch, as are all blood tests done on a baby :) I then hung around a bit and a few hours later the levels came back at 340. The pediatrician came and saw me and said we could leave it and let it go by itself but the fact that he is looking quite jaundice he woul...

Can't believe my little man is 2! The time has just flown! On Sunday we met up with everyone at Beenleigh Tavern for lunch. Originally we were going to go to the Bearded Dragon but it had been raining so was extremely soggy there. In my sleepiness I had forgotten to txt Naomi to tell her we were now meeting in Beenleigh instead and so after sitting at the tavern for half an hour Naomi rings Leah to see where were all were and she told her they were at Mount Tambo! Oppps so sorry Naomi! After they arrived we all ate a nice lunch and then came back to ours for a gorgeous truck cake Janette had kindly made. Samuel absolutely loved it! It was a bit hectic with everyone in my small house but it was nice to have us all together. We even got a photo of all the grandkids together! Samuel got a ride-in-car, play truck and cleaning set from El and I, a huge cubbyhouse from Naomi and Leah, $35 each from Mum and Nan and $70 from Vicki. Mum is up from Sydney and had been staying at mine for a w...

Wednesday 22 nd September, 2010 I was booked in to be induced at Redlands Hospital . I spent the day doing the last of my packing, cleaning and writing up ‘instructions’ for my neighbour for when she had to look after Sammy. At 4.15pm we packed the car (Samuel with us) and headed off to the hospital. We arrived at 5pm and were taken to my room where I was set up on the bed with the heartbeat monitor. For the next 45 minutes bub’s heartbeat was monitored and I had to press a button every time I felt him move. El and Samuel stayed with me for 45 minutes and then said their goodbyes (bedtime for Sam). Next it was gel time. At 6pm they did an internal and the cervix was quite soft but still posterior and high up. They inserted the gel and left me on the monitor for another hour. After this it was taken off and I was told to get some rest and they would be back around 9pm to give me some sleeping tablets to try and get some rest. They said at 7am they would take me down to the bir...