Bernadette

Now that Arielle is in the “fattening farm” our contact with her is no longer limited. We are free to cuddle her as we please. So I am continuing to do her kangaroo cuddles (I don’t think I have explained the purpose of these – the idea is skin to skin contact which allows Arielle to maintain a good body temperature without using any energy and also her heart rate tends to slow down to try to match mine which also conserves energy – plus we both just love feeling so close). There are some photos of mum and dad with Arielle as they went in with me on Friday. Today, Cam, Tiernan and I went in and Tiernan helped us bath Arielle – they both seemed to enjoy the experience. Our little darling is continuing her fantastic growth and is now 1965 gms – not far to go to reach the magic 2 kg. Arielle started bottle feeding today – for her first bottle she drank half of it (20 ml) from the bottle and for the second bottle she drank all of it from the bottle. The nurses are very impressed with her as she seems to be tolerating everything so well.

I had my PET scan yesterday but I will not know the results until Monday or Tuesday. It looks like my boobs had performance anxiety. 18 days after Arielle’s birth they finally decided to wake up and realise they were supposed to produce milk. As life would have it though I can no longer breastfeed so the 100 mls I expressed tonight in one sitting (I usually get a sum total of 50 mls for all the expressions I do in a day) has to be discarded due to having the PET injection yesterday – what a waste!!  

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