New Year Update

William has settled into Cabrini well and was very spoilt for Christmas. He is feeding well and has had the nasal gastric tube removed from his nose along with all of the sticky tape across his cheeks. It took Paul and I at least 5 minutes to notice that he had nothing on his face anymore - funny how we had become so used to them we didn't notice them when they were gone.

The family photo was taken on Christmas Day - William slept through the presents being opened. One of the nurses made me a birthday card from William using his hand print and the photo of William sideways in his cot was taken on 1st Jan.

William now weighs 3070 grams and tomorrow the monitors which be switched off in favour of a "grasby" or apnea monitor - one lead on William's abdomen connected to a machine the sounds if he stops breathing for more than 20 seconds.

Over the last week or so we have been disconnecting William from his monitors for cuddles and feeding - it is amazing how liberating it feels!!! we can concentrate on him rather than listen the the machine go off at times when the reading is obviously wrong because we can see he is breathing!!

William has moved to 4 hourly feeds today and is starting to wake and demand his feeds which is great - he is having a mixture of breast and bottle until he learns how to breast feed properly - as technical he still shouldn't be born yet - he is 38 weeks gestation this weekend but 12 weeks old.