This ward aint big enough for the both of us...

Sylvie was moved from the intensive care unit into the high dependancy room on Thursday evening. The NeoNatal Unit is completely full at the moment, none of the babies are particularly sick but they all need various degrees of extra help at the moment. Sylvie is being fed at three hourly intervals and they are trying to avoid using the tube. The tube was taken out on Friday afternoon but the nurses put it back in on Friday night as she was so sleepy they couldn't really wake her to be fed. The antibiotics courses have now been finished and she's being monitored for the next 24 hours to make sure that her infection markers don't rise. I've been feeding her three times a day and she seems to be taking to it quite well, doing it at her own pace as all newborns do but because we're still in hospital you can sometimes feel that you're being checked up on and that their standards are way higher than it might be were you at home on your own getting on with it. She's going to be weighed tomorrow and that will also play a part in decisions about her future care. Fingers crossed but we've learned to take each day as it comes and not to get carried away with the H word.
Mum arrived on Thursday and has been a great help entertaining Joe while we've been going in and out to the hospital. Simon took him to a Dads only playgroup this morning for the first time, I've been chuckling imagining them all singing Twinkle Twinkle in deep voices!
Our new cleaners started on Wednesday, hallelujah! They work as a pair so they're finished even more quickly and it was so nice to come home to a spotless house. Tomorrow we're going to the Richmond NCT fair to have a mooch around.
Big thank you's to Meg and Claire who babysat for us this week while we went to see Miss Sylvie. We feel so lucky to have met so many kind people since we moved to Teddington. Funnily enough with the postal strike the first bits of post to arrive came from Australia and Hong Kong! The prize must go to Ez though who despite being on the other side of the world in Sydney managed to have a box full of delicious cakes hand delivered from St Margarets just as I was making a cup of tea! It truly is a case of who you know Ez, thanks very much! Thank you to all of you whose cards and presents have made it through the postal chaos! Its very kind of you to think of us and we really appreciate all your support.