Jasmine Stalker-Firth

So, I am 10 weeks pregnant. This is a lovely surprise, totally unexpected and now we are over the shock, we are really excited and pleased. Our nurse clinician said that we had done really well to fit that in on top of dialysis, which made us laugh for ages.

Last Friday, I went to the antenatal clinic for a scan to see what was happening. It was a bit of strain as all the memories of Jasmine’s scans and birth came flooding back. I gave up trying to put on a brave face and was a bit weepy through the scan and the bloods and talking about my previous pregnancies to the midwife.

I have morning sickness (or should that be all day sickness) which doesn’t sit well with dialysis. I have to breathe long and hard when I have clean hands ‘cos I really don’t want to wash them again. And when I don’t have things to do, Jasmine and I are spending a lot of time lying on the settee eating marmite rice cakes. Jasmine likes them and they stop me feeling sick.

Jasmine was really funny earlier as she was sitting on top of me and I was a bit tired and was sighing and yawning. She would stare at me for a bit and then yawn and sigh right back at me. Now, she is lying on the floor chewing her sock. I have lost count of the times I have put it back on her foot.

Today is the first time for over a month that Jasmine is struggling with her milk. She keeps refusing it and screaming if I try to press it on her. I think she is teething again and even let me put some bonjela on her gums, so she must be in pain. I guess we are going to have to put the NG down this evening. I am a bit sad, but she has done so well to drink all of her milk everyday for 30 days and eat food on top of that. And as long as she gets what she needs to grow, that is the main thing. She has been sitting round 6kgs (13lbs) for a while now, but I guess that is in part because she had to go on antibiotics again. We have clinic on Monday, so hopefully they will push her food quota right up.

Here is, probably, the last picture of Jasmine without her NG for a while in her winter woolly hat:

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