Another week


I cant believe almost four weeks has passed since buttercup was born. She is now 1.5kg, and looks bigger than she was. The doctors tried to move her into a cot a few days ago, but she found it hard to maintain her oxygen levels, so that night she went back into the humidicrib and onto oxygen, but now she is off the oxygen and breathing the equivalent of air in her 28 degree celcius environment.


Me with Buttercup.

She is also trying to breastfeed twice a day at 11am and 11pm, she gets exausted in about one minute but she is so clever for trying.

She is set to transfer hospitals tomorrow on her 4 week "birthday" from the intensive care unit at Royal North Shore to the Special Care Unit at Hornsby hospital, so instead of a two hour round trip (which we make twice daily) it will be a 15 minute round trip. Hornsby is our small local hospital and the doctors seem to think she is stable enough to be moved. I am slightly concerned, as with all changes, but it will be lovely to be able to pop in and see her at any time.


Zoran with his little girl.


Jessi and Supratim came up to see her before travelling back to Melbourne. Only parents are allowed to touch these little neonates but family can come and visit and talk and sing to the babies.

Jasper has had a lovely week playing with Jess and Sup, and also coming into the hospital most days to visit his sister, play on the floor around her cot, chat with the nurses and help press the feeding syringe to feed his little sibling.

Now that her oxygen levels are a bit better, we are exhausted but glad things are looking up after a wobbly start to the week.

Tamx