Welcome Home!

Apologies for the blog silence. We've had a good excuse, we've had an absolute roller coaster ride since the last entry. Sylvie finally escaped the neonatal unit and came home yesterday afternoon - hurrah! It was touch and go several times whether or not that would be possible. Her feeding tube came out, then she stopped wanting to feed, she caught an eye infection and we were warned that it would take a miracle to get her home this week. Then with just a few days notice she and I were booked to room in for two nights in the Transitional Care unit. She was given the go ahead to go home yesterday by the Unit and the paediatric consultants after she fed well for 24 hours. Her weight is still up and down, not by much, around 60g, and her feeding is erratic but these problems should hopefully even out now that she's home. She will have to see the consultant before Christmas to have the once over but if that goes well she should then be treated like a normal child. We are now getting used to having a wee one about the place, passing each other on the landing in the middle of the night between doing feeds etc. Joe has been giving her lots of kisses and pointing out her nose for us, just in case we didn't know where or what it was. Simon had been very busy behind the scenes sorting out the cleaners to give the house a once over before we came back, balloons had been delivered and thank you presents ordered for the nurses.
The health visitor came today and we'll be visited regularly by them for about a month to make sure she's ok. We went into Kingston today to do some shopping and try out the sling and that trip went very well. I don't think I made it out of the house for a fortnight when I had Joe but after three and a half weeks of sitting in the hospital I've been craving fresh air, new clothes and shopping!
Simon has been trying to write his best man's speech through the middle of all this and has the wedding rehearsal tomorrow, followed by a rehearsal dinner in the evening. His wedding suit has arrived but he hasn't even had a chance to try it on yet. Phyllis and Gordon are arriving tomorrow to help look after Joe for the weekend so hopefully that will all go well too.