Constantly moving goal posts.

As predicted the little champ made the 2.5 kilo mark (2.54 to be exact) and was consequently taken off her fortifier, and up to 59ml per feed.

Baby steps for a baby girl.

The waking for every feed thing has been put on hold and at the moment they are trying to get her to breastfeed every second time, so every 6 hours. Honestly the management of her breastfeeding seems to change with the day of the week, it is really hard for me to even keep up with what is going on. I think that what will eventually happen is a progressive change to demand feeding, sometimes waiting to see if she will wake up and cue for feeds by herself and at other times just giving her a tube feed (if she doesn't wake up) with the final goal of her being exclusively demand breastfed. Once that has happened and she continues to gain weight at an appropriate rate she can come home, oh Hallelujah and happy days, I am looking forward to that day so much I try not to even think about it.

Here is the video as promised on facebook:

This is what she does when she can find a break in her busy schedule of sleeping, weeing, pooing, sucking, hiccoughing, grizzling, sneezing and the odd bath.

For those of you not on facebook, here are the pics I put on today again.

Isn't she just adorlable? Well I think so anyway.

Finally I want just just give a big thanks to everyone who has left feedback and advice. I really appreciate you taking the time to leave your comments and your thoughts and experiences are of great interest and very helpful. At the very least it lets me know people are tuning in and taking an interest, which makes this whole exercise worthwhile. Keep up the good work. Oh and I have had three people recommend La Leche League so i will encourage Deb to give them a call once we are home, but I suppose at the end of the day it will be up to her. They might think it a bit odd if a guy gave them a call!

Till next time.....