One week checkup

Sam had a little outing this morning back to hospital for his first checkup. It was a great success - he weighed in at 2720grams (up 240grams on a week ago). Paul and the nurses were very happy with his progress. It's hugely encouraging for us that all these long hours of feeding are paying off in the form of good weight gain and staving off infections.

So far we've been almost 100% successful in maintaining the quarantine of our house and our hands are beginning to feel like crusty old leather from all the handwashing going on. Thankfully we have all been fully healed of our colds.

We're dealing with what seems like a milk catastrophe in that every bottle we are defrosting is tasting a bit off. So we've probably thrown away 20 bottles before I stopped to consult the Internet on this and lo and behold the first Google hit for "frozen breastmilk tastes sour" was a gem - see http://parents.berkeley.edu/advice/nursing/grosstasting.html As you will see a number of pumping moms from the Berkeley (California) Parents Network have been engaging with this problem and conducting all sorts of experiments with their milk. Some of it's very amusing if you have ever experienced the joys of long term breastpumping. Given that we're sitting on around 30 litres of frozen milk we are VERY interested to know how to play this one and the hospital staff don't know of the problem. If anyone has any other ideas out there please post a comment.

Here's a shot of the Berry Boyz the morning after their first night at home together.