I spent today with Julie and Jonathan.
Julie is walking around (slowly). Jonathan is still in the neonatal high dependency unit. They think he’s not making enough surfactant for his lungs. This should resolve itself fully in time, but until then they want to keep him on the CPAP machine.
We’ve been advised not [...]
It’s official, his name is Jonathan Henry Thomas Brazier. Thomas is in honour of my maternal grandfather who I sadly didn’t know well enough what with growing up in a different country. But a deep, strong man who I respected and loved greatly.
Julie is fine after the caesarean, but obviously not massively mobile [...]
It’s been a very long week, but finally as of 04:53 this morning, 28 June 2007, we have a little boy. Here he is:
Julie and baby are both fine, despite the mass of appliances he’s attached to. He weighed in at 3.2kg, or about 7 pounds 1 ounce.
We don’t have a name [...]
I went in for our final “growth” scan on Thursday.
It all looks fairly positive — their estimates put our little fella at pretty much bang on 3kg (or 6lb 10oz depending on your unit of choice for measuring babies).
So he’ll be coming out slightly on the smaller side of average (3.4kg) but he has done [...]
Turns out that Amazon stock some pretty cool stuff for babies…
People have been really generous to us in the way of clothes and baby hardware, but we’ve not really looked at any baby toys and books. So for those who like having a list to choose from, I’ve been having fun [...]
Doing the paperwork for when our 37 weeks are up:
Eek! It makes it all feel so final! :zipit:
This entry originally had the title “The longest week ever”. That was the predominant feeling as the Tuesday of my last week at work dragged to a close. Not because I was hugely uncomfortable at work, but all the mundane stuff to get through had each day feeling like a week long…
Then came [...]
