one step closer again!

Hooray for little Max!! He has now graduated into an open cot like his brother :)

They shifted him into a perspex cot at about 4pm and when we left there tonight he had been holding his temp quite well. They are now also grading him up to 3 hourly feeds so hopefully (all going well) tomorrow night they will both be on full feeds every three hours. If Max continues going well with is temperatures we might be able to give him a bath in the next day or so too.

Something else I am really happy about is that once both boys show stability in the small perspex cots they will put them in together in a larger cot side by side!! I can't wait for them to be reunited but I think at this point it is probably more for my own benefit than theirs because they seem to have gotten quite used to being alone :( It makes me sad to think that they don't even know each other now because they have been forced to spend the first month of their lives apart - it should never have been like that and I sort of feel like something special has been taken off of them now, like that bond has already been broken a little! Maybe I'm just being silly but it makes me cry to think about it!

Blake had another breastfeed attempt tonight and he fed like a champ for about 10 mins. When he was finished he had a little chuck and overflowed a little bit so I am pretty confident that he got a full feed from me for the first time. Now he just needs to get a little stronger and be able to make more and more feeds suck feeds. Hopefully in the next few days Max will be allowed to attempt his first suck feed too!

We have been told that soon we will be able to transfer them back to Murdoch if we want to. We are just trying to figure out if we actually want to do that because there are some pretty significant costs associated with having the babies there (even after what HBF will pay out). I will make some phone calls tomorrow and see what I can figure out.

So all in all - GOOD NEWS!

M.