Bernadette

Arielle Jessica Martin was born at 6.45pm on Tuesday 22nd August 2006 at the Mater Mothers Hospital, Brisbane at 33 weeks gestation.

Weight - 1563 gms (3 pounds 7 ounces)

Length - 41 cm

Head Circumference - 30 cm

She has amazed everyone as not only did she breathe on her own when she was born but she has not required any breathing assistance since. She spent one night in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and has since been transferred to the Special Care Nursery. She is currently in an isolet which is a temperature controlled crib. Her only problem is her lack of body fat. She will have to remain in hospital until her weight passes 2kg. She has a drip in with a Dextrose (sugar) solution for nutrition and she has just started formula feeds today - 2 mls per feed every 2 hours initially. If she tolerates this then she will be able to have more formula and have the drip removed. She had a few nuzzle feeds from me yesterday and hopefully these will progress into full breastfeeds which I will be able to continue until chemo resumes. She has had blood tests done and she is totally normal which hopefully means the chemo did not pass through to her very much.

Tiernan met Arielle yesterday and it was the most precious moment you could imagine. I have never seen Tiernan looking so happy and proud. He told everyone he saw that Arielle was his little sister and how much he loved her. Seeing him meet her was one of the happiest moments of my life!

I am recovering well from the caesar however still in a considerable amount of pain. The next pain management option is a morphine injection and I am not sure if that is worse than putting up with the pain itself!! Hopefully it will settle soon. The plan for me now is to get better and then chemo will resume (and breastfeeding will have to stop).

Hopefully every day or so I will be able to put an update about Arielle with some photos on the blogg - so please continue to check it if you would like to watch her progress.

Bernadette

3 Responses to “Arielle”

1. Tiel Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 4:31 pm

   wow. brings tears to my eyes. And look at the size of that tissue box! having that next to Arielle really helps me to visualise her size. Well done to all of you. Tiernan looks so proud. xx

2. SLR Says:
   August 24th, 2006 at 5:09 pm

   Arielle really is a little miracle. After all you have all been through, it is simply amazing that she’s with you and going so well. Can’t wait to meet her. Special congratulations to the very proud big brother - gorgeous! SLR XXX

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