Julie's Boggle

I finally have a moment to post some pictures, but first the latest news. Julie is still at the hospital getting breast feeding worked out, and I’m running back and forth dealing with things at home and helping Julie to figure out the breast feeding.

As far as the doctors are concerned, Jonathan is now a normal little baby with no extra need of care. They removed all of the monitoring equipment from him today. The only thing left to do before he leaves the hospital is to teach him that food does not magically appear in his tummy via a tube and actually has to be collected with some vigorous sucking.

Here’s the latest parent-heart-thumping photo:

Lots has happened since the last blog posting. So much, in fact that we haven’t had time to update the blog.

Here’s a quick run-down:

• Julie came home on Saturday.
• Jonathan started coming off the CPAP machine on Sunday evening.
• We attempted to breastfeed on Sunday evening while he was still on the CPAP machine, but with no success.
• On Monday morning Jonathan came completely off all assisted breathing and moved to low dependency.
• Julie and I moved into a room in the hospital so that Julie could be available for 3 hourly feeds.
• Julie and Jonathan spent more time figuring out the breast feeding thing between them and they are getting the hang of it slowly.
• Jonathan is still getting supplemental feeds via his stomach tube until he gets good at breastfeeding.
• Mel, the nurse from Great Ormond Street is coming today to assess his cleft lip and how it affects feeding.
• Jonathan should be able to come home at the end of the week!

We have plenty more pictures of him off the machine but no time to put them up right now. Stay tuned…