13 Sept - Feed me!!!

Sammy B continues to push forward, riding the wave of love and prayers from so many. He's the most prayed for person I know, second perhaps to George W. It's working guys. He's onto 6.5ml of breastmilk an hour (up from 4ml on the last post) and if all continues to go well will be onto 2 hourly feeds in a few days. Like a proper baby! Thankfully there is no shortage of breastmilk as a quick shot of the freezer revealed on the weekend - go Michy!

Today's further excellent news was that intravenous the antibiotics were stopped this afternoon and are now administered directly into his gut with his Mom's milk.

He is having his first bath on Friday - in an ice cream container! Mich continues to kangaroo care him skin to skin for a couple of hours every day.




Excerpt of recent conversation with Matt:

Matt: "Where's Mommy?"
Me: "You tell me where Mommy is"
Matt: "In the kitchen"
Me: "No I think she's somewhere else"
Matt: "In the breastpumping room"

Breastpumping is big in Matt's life. At the drop of a hat he'll conjure a makeshift breastpump from the nearest funnel, rip up his shirt and pump his boobies for all he's worth. The other day he generously added the pump's imaginary contents to my tea.