Role reversals

A strange thing happened this morning which left me slightly bemused, Deb said to me "are you ready to go yet". This has never happened in the history of our relationship, it is a phrase often uttered by me, but never by Deb. Safe to say that she was fairly eager to get back down to the hospital as early as possible, and so thats what we did.

We came in to find that Sophie was on a new monitor, they had decided after her bath last night not to put new electrodes on her and so the monitor that she was on was now redundant, she still has the oxygen saturation one on her foot, which can also give a heart rate and she also has a little pad under her mattress that will alarm if she were to stop breathing. This is great because it means we have more freedom to get her up and put her down, we can take off her foot thing and then she is wireless! We are also getting pretty good at positioning her, we were complimented on it by the nurse today. It is not as easy as you would think either, she has to sort of be in the recovery position with a snake pillow or rolled nappy down her front, between her legs and up her back. This is to give her boundaries, to keep her mostly on her front which helps with breathing but to keep her off her direct front which helps her hips.

Cutesy pic for the day, this was before her electrodes came off.

One thing that I have neglected to talk about so far is Sophies weight, when born she was 1680g, a few days later she had dropped to 1540g, nothing too much to be worried about there as most parents will know. She stayed at about that weight for a wee while and as of Friday had gone back up to 1610g. So the main point here being that she has started gaining weight, meaning she is getting enough nutrition on her fortified milk alone.

She does the most cute little sneezes you have ever seen, I have been trying to get one on video but it is much harder than you might think. She seems to sneeze a lot, which I have been attributing to the fact that I sneeze a lot but in reality is probably because she is being irritated by the tube in her nose. So unfortunately no vid today, sorry.

Another interesting factoid: A good way to settle Sophie if she is a little bit upset is to gently cup her head and but and put gentle inward pressure on both. We are told this simulates the pressure and boundaries they would have in utero, and it really works! Jo also tried it on Lilly with some success.

There is one thing I know for a fact. Sophie is hands down the most beautiful gorgeous and cute baby in the world ever. I know this for a fact, the only problem is that I suspect that every other new parent in the world knows it for a fact about their baby too. I walk past the other baby's in the NNU and each time I see one I think, 'Sophie is much prettier than him/her', but I have seen the looks on the other parents faces thinking the same thing about Sophie.

I am right and they are wrong.