I have some great news to report today :) Blake has been promoted from the isolette to a perspex cot - YIPPEE!! It is so great to see him out of that box and in a real baby bed. He is managing to maintain his temperature and is wearing a little five 0 romper that I took in from home. He needs to wear a hat all the time and is well wrapped and rugged up but he is doing great. The second piece of good news for Blake was that I have been told we can start to introduce him to breastfeeding. Today I put him to the boob for a few minutes when he was due for a tube feed but he didn't really know what to do. The idea is to introduce it slowly to him and see if I can get him interested at all so we will try again tomorrow - it is just exciting that he is at that point (finally!)
Max is now on full feeds (14ml) continuous and I think he will stay there for about 24 hours before they start to grade him up to two hourly feeds. They have also begun to wean him off the isolette by lowering the temperature in there by half a degree every hour. Hopefully he won't be too far behind his "little" brother
I feel so pleased by their progress tonight. I am sooooo anxious to get them home now! I am sick of that hospital and more than ready to be their mummy now.
On a negative note - Lachlan is really not well :( He has spent the last few hours with is head in a bucket (not actually being sick but choking when he coughs - yucko!) he is really warm and miserable as anything :( He really doesn't do "sick" very well, poor little guy. I just really hope he feels better tomorrow!
3 comments:
Great to hear things are looking up Marnie. So happy 4U. To read your updates it seems Max and Blake have made good progress on a daily basis - but 4U it must seem like it takes ages.
Hope Lachlan gets better soon.
Hopefully we will catch up 4 mothers' group in the school holidays.
Thinking of you & your babies,
Ness
what wonderful news marnie...i have a great big "i'm so happy" grin on my face.
thanks for the pics too.
i hope that blake gets the hang of BFing soon...will probably help you bond with him (and eventually max too). and let's face it....they are males...won't take them long to get interested in that side of things...LOL (i hope that wasn't too naughty to say)
hope that lachlan is much better today...nothing worse than a little guy feeling so miserable.
can't wait for the next update xxoo
Congratulations on your two little miracles. You are so very brave, thank you for sharing your thoughts so openly so we may catch but a glimpse of what you must be going through. Wont be long before you're refering to those two as cheeky little ****s, can't wait!!!
Lots of love to you all
Kristie
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