12 weeks old

Initially, today was supposed to be my first day of maternity leave. It's also the day daddy was supposed to be banned from beer, in case I was to go into labour early (ha!) and need to be driven to the hospital. Instead, today little man is 12 weeks old, and today he moved into a big boy's bed. Yep, Jensen is now in a cot.

I was a little bit nervous about it when first mentioned this morning, but talked myself  around. Jensen can now maintain his body temperature consistently and is over the required weight for a cot, weighing in this morning at 1599 grams. Reasons he will enjoy his cot include: he can finally wear clothes, he can be wrapped now and sleep so much more soundly, not wake himself up with his arms flailing about the place, not pull his prongs and gastric tube out, and feel very warm and snuggly. Reasons he may not enjoy the experience.......he is wrapped up and tucked in soooooo tightly (something mummy hated her grandma doing), he'll now have to get himself used to sleeping without a cover over his head, noise from the baby next to him, and people ogling him and possibly touching him way too often.

Little fella hasn't put on very much weight this weigh in, just 23 grams, so his calories are being increased to 26. As he can't have the fortifier in his milk any longer, this is just a bigger dose of MCT oil. This can, and has made his poos loose, and I'm hoping won't worsen even more with the increase.

 Dressed in my 00000 and ready for my new house

Vaccinations were suggested today, but Jensen nor mummy like too many changes at once, so we have postponed them a week. He's only just been lowered onto Optiflow of 3, and should he get a temperature or feel unwell from the vaccines, he may need more respiratory assistance, and would then have to go back across the hall. Also, I would like to give him a bit of a chance to increase his weight a little more. As babies often need some respiratory support with immunisation, I won't wait until he's in Low Dependency, as that'd mean moving backwards, but I would like to just give him a break and let him grow a little. He has another eye test on Friday, and that has to be taken into account also. Should we have had the vaccinations today, he would have recovered by Friday....just in time to feel awful again with the eye drops and perhaps surgery....no thanks!

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