My pregnant wife

[scooter]

You bloody beauttttttttyyyyyyyy

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

Re: distributing the greenies, Gumby missed it but I'm sure he'd be glad to collect them for everybody

All the very best to the Waldron family for the future, and what a great early Chrisssy present.

Cheers.....................Sean

[Captain Chaos]

Congrtatulations Chris, Kylie AND Sarah, ( Little Miss Waldo )? This is the best news that I've had today by miles. 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.

[graemet]

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.

[Waldo]

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.

[Tikki]

She's GORGEOUS!!!!!!

Congratulations to you all

Cheers
Tikki

[ele__13]

She is so cute

and so much hair

[ian]

Sarah Elise Waldron was born at 7:56 pm 05/12/05 weighing 1680g.

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.

Congratulations and best wishes to the three of you. The time Sarah stays in hospital will pass in a flash.

My own son was 5 weeks early and was able to leave hospital after less than a week, so don't despair.

ian

[Greg Q]

Waldo:

I have been holding my breath for you since the first post. Congratulations.

Greg

[Clinton1]

Hello Sarah Elise Waldron.


Job well done to you both Waldo and Kylie. Congratulations.

[Studley 2436]

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

[ptc]

Sent Kylie a card this morning.

[Trav]

Congrats waldo and family. All the very best.

Trav

[2817741]

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

[TrevorOwen]

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

[Waldo]

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.