Bernadette

Arielle was weighed last Wednesday and she was 2.5kg. Her weight gain is fantastic and far exceeds expectations! She is going to be a chubby bubby in no time at all!! Although she is growing she is still quite tiny as you can see in the photo of Arielle and dad. She continues to do really well at home and is still a little dream baby. She is well settled in a routine now of 4 hourly feeds overnight and 3 hourly feeds during the day. For most feeds she is having 20mls to 60mls more than she has to which is really great. Other than to let us know she is awake and ready for a feed she rarely cries. Even when she does cry for a feed she stops once you walk in the room and is quite happy to go through the normal routine for a feed preparation without crying. Tiernan still loves her to bits and is still a very proud big brother. He loves to nurse her and thinks that burping her is especially funny.

Unfortunately I have landed myself back in hospital. Last week I ended up with a slight throat infection and was put on some heavy duty antibiotics (as I was neutropenic (depleted immune system) they were being extra precautious). That has kept at bay however on Sunday I developed an infection in my caesar wound (suprising as it has nearly been 6 weeks since the caesar). My neutrophils had started to rise however they are back on their way down again and my blood pressure has dropped and remained low, so I am on two types of antibiotic by drip (to combat the infection), high volumes of IV fluids (to get my blood pressure back up) and injections to get my neutrophils and white cell count up - fun stuff!! I have gone back to being a woss about injections as well which isn’t good considering all of this!! So chemo is off for today and won’t be back on again until all of the infections clear and my white cell count improves which they are suspecting should be later this week or early next! Just to complicate life a little more, Tiernan has a tummy bug so I cannot see him and we need to try to keep him away from Arielle as she is still a little fragile. So Arielle is going to join me in hospital for a day or two until Tiernan is better. I am missing both children heaps so at least having Arielle here should make me happier too!! And it means Tiernan gets some one on one time with Cam so he should like that too.

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