Mum and Dad spend the day with Natalie

Mum has given up her room in the hospital for the weekend so that a another couple with a greater need can use it, so she got to spend the night at home for the first time in 3 weeks. This was good for both of us as we are at this stage both utterly exhausted. Not that it helped a great deal as Dad spent a frantic afternoon trying to find a breast pump to buy, and Mum had to get used to the new pump. we also had to work out how to sterilise everything at home. Luckily we had bought a microwave steam steriliser some weeks earlier, which was good forward planning! Mum and Dad were up for 1.5 hours in the middle of the night trying to sort all this out. Dad prepared everything while Mum was still asleep, and then made some bread for breakfast while Mum expressed her milk using the new pump. The cat slept on the bed throughout and enjoyed a bit of attention from Dad in the wee hours!

Dad overslept in the morning and had to rush to give Mum a lift back to hospital (via Mothercare for some essentials!) so never got to have any of the fresh bread he made! We did get to spend the whole day with Natalie, which was the first time Dad had been able to do so. Nappies were changed, feeds given and plenty of cuddles for Natalie, who remained a bit grizzly all day. Ah well!

Natalie still has a drip in her foot as she had to go back on antibiotics

Little fingers, big finger

Back to sleep again