Born Oct/Nov 2015

She is a tiny gorgeous girl! Beautiful! Enjoy each precious moment HVDB.


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Oh HVDB! She is gorgeous! Love those little hands reminds me of my little one, always had open fingers! Keep us updated with lots of photos and if you need any advice we are here!

I take it you are breast feeding? How is that going? As for the stem cells do they now refund you?

By the way congratulations you are a MOMMY!!


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Hi there!

OK we are home! And yes, I have all the time on my hands as DH can not take his eyes or hands off our darling daughter! The only time I am busy with her is when I am feeding!

What happened? Well, it all started as a normal Monday morning, MTN delivered my new phone and I started setting it up. Left to go to my parents about 13km from my house to fetch them to go shopping. As I arrived at their house, I noticed that my panties are a bit wet, and every time I got up from sitting a little more wetness will happen. I told them that maybe we should skip the shopping but I think need to just go and have the wetness checked out at the labour ward. So I left my parents... 26km drive there and back for nothing... so I just stopped at home to make a wee and I drove to the labour ward. I arrived there and as she asked me to take my panties off for a examination, my water broke! I was not in active labour as I had no contractions what so ever and I have not started dilating. This was about 13h00. My Dr then said that seeing that she is still very small, we are going to try and keep her inside, and she will give me some steroids for her lungs and some more Adalat to stop contractions. So we rescheduled C sec for Wednesday the 23rd. So I was admitted to hospital and as I started getting comfortable in my room the first really painful contraction started. This was about 16h30. The previous contractions only felt like strong Braxton Hicks. As the painful contraction started I told the nurse that I need to go to the loo for a number 2... and she said no... it means that baby is on its way. They started rushing around getting my catheter in as I had to be in theater by 17h00. YES and then Cara was born 20min later.

There was no time to stress or to be scared. It all happened so fast. My Dr really struggled to get my uterine out as it was so enlarged due to the fibroid. So there was a lot of pushing and pulling. We could not recover any stem cells from the umbilical cord as there was nothing left of it. It seems that the fibroid fed off it and that is why it grew bigger and not disintegrated as we hoped.

But all is well that ends well. My precious was born and she is healthy and doing absolutely fine. NO issues what so ever.

@ZandriT, you can honestly look forward to having your baby at Kloof, the service was brilliant, the nurses and staff really know what they are doing. We were in great hands from the word get go. All the assistance with EVERYTHING was brilliant, from nursing, bathing, moving around etc.... it felt as if we were in a hotel and not a hospital.

So there you have my whole story! And here is our forums first baby pics!

Argh i know the feeling @Lauz!! Its like once you have it you just can't shake it off for good!! I had such earache last night I wanted to cry!! Thank goodness for "ou boererraat"!!
Hope you and lg feel better soon!! Need to get better before lb comes!!!

Have a good heritage day everyone xx

Wow I missed a lot yesterday!
@hvdb Congratulations!!! So excited for you!


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Good morning Ladies,

HVDB, that is such wonderful news! Congratulations!!! Who cares that it wasn't a boy (even though I was secretly hoping you would join us) her name is beautiful and the fact she is healthy that is all that is important!

How are you feeling though was it an emergency c-section?

AFM, sorry I have been so scarce, I have had such an aweful sinus flu again, I even got pink eye and a stye and now it looks like my Lg is getting flu all over again! I just feel like I can't win with getting rid of this flu for both my LG and myself!

Hope you all have a lovely day off!


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Congrats hvdb!!!! So glad you and baby are doing well and going home tomorrow!!!!

Next i think will be PP or Candipops??! The race is on