28 October 2010

Overnight you have been moved into an incubator because you are quiet little and the doctors want you to stay warm until you are able to maintain your own temperature. We weren't expecting to see you in there when we came to visit in the morning so it was very sad to see you this way. You had some fluid on your lungs so they put you on a machine called C-Pap, not sure what it does but you didn't have to be on it for more than half a day.

This is what you looked like on the C-Pap machine..

Its so sad to see you in there, especially because we are not allowed to snuggle you at the moment, but we know that it is for you own good. We are only allowed to touch you through the little portholes in your incubator for now. The nurse showed us how to change your nappy - thats about all the interaction we get - its rather difficult with all your wires and monitors - occasionally one gets moved or falls off during the process and all your alarms start going off!

Dad saying hello through the incubator

You are very small so you have to wear clothes from the hospital that are hand made for little babies. They are a bit like dolls clothes and unfortunately theres not a great deal of variety or selection so you are wearing a little bit of a girly shirt today! Just look at your lemon beanie and your pastel green shirt!

Special nursery size clothes and a whole lot of wires!

This evening, the doctors decided to stop feeing you glucose and to start giving you formula. You get 25mls through the nasogastric tube that goes in your nose and down to your tummy because you do not know how to suck yet.

Dad bought you a Halle cat to look out for you when we are not with you - she sits on top of your incubator and protects you. We are also using her as a measuring stick at the moment, and you are about two Halle's long!