One month

At 11:44pm it will be a month since Jensen's hasty arrival. He's come so far in that time, and is such a little trooper. Still a very long road ahead of us all, but we are getting there gradually. He's such a beautiful little superstar with so so much love surrounding him.

Today Jensen started his course of steroids to help him get off the ventilator. He's also increased his milk to one ml two hourly and is doing well with digesting it. He has grown in length from 30.3cms at birth to 36cms. His weight this morning was 1126g, although this is a large weight gain, it is mainly due to fluid and the new blood he got last night. Apparently he may continue to weigh more while he's on steroids, but the doctors have agreed that the pros far outweigh the cons with the steroids. He also had his follow up head scan today at 28 days and his next one won't be until he is discharged.

There have been a lot of crying mothers around today with some very sick babies, so we decided to head home a little early today for dinner. The NICU hasn't been a very nice environment today and I have had to take many walks outside to get away from all the goings on with other babies...it's just such a sad sad place for some.

Thanks Aunty Gemma for my cute new attire, I will be wearing the hat for daddy's cuddle

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