Daddy's birthday

Today is daddy's birthday, and along with some awesome presents from mummy and Jensen, daddy and mummy both received the best present ever......little Jensen has now gained residency in High Dependency!! One day short of 12 weeks in intensive care, little man has been packed up and wheeled across the hallway.

I tried to keep it a surprise for Phil, as I picked him up from golf. I told him I had forgotten about another present I had left for him at the hospital and for him to give me a few steps lead to hide it from him. Totally went for it with his boyish curiosity, until one of the doctors said to him 'your boy is in HDU today' as we were making our way down the hall. I whipped my head around with a disappointing glance.....my chance for a surprise however, soon returned when grandma and grandpa turned up and headed to intensive care only to be redirected to high dependency..

This morning on rounds they mentioned lowering his pressure to three and moving him, as yesterday's eye check proved inconclusive in regard to surgery, so now it's a case of should he end up needing the surgery, he can pop back in to intensive care to be ventilated for 48 hours and slide right on back to HDU afterwards. The ophthalmologist will come again on Friday for another look and if he thinks surgery is necessary, will be done the following day. Or if not, he will keep checking until he finds what he's looking for. He says Jensen is on the border of requiring laser as his blood vessels haven't quite gone far enough but are perhaps on their way. Bottom line is, he won't let him go blind, and that's all I'm concerned about. If he ends up needing glasses or has a lazy eye, so be it, and we can sort that out if and when, its no big deal in the scheme of things.

Little man has been very tired and a little grumpy today. This morning he had done a poo so large it was all over the sheets, his legs and back. It was a mission to change him and he required a top and tail bath before having a little breastfeed. By this time he was exhausted and had been awake for quite a while so wasn't really that interested. He had a couple of braddys and went a bit pale, which worried me, but the nurses say it was just a big morning for him and also could still be the side effects from the eye drops he had yesterday. They often cause desaturation, braddys, vomiting etc....in other words the babies don't particularly like having them.

Daddy had lovely birthday cuddles this afternoon in our new room and cuddle chair, as mummy unpacked, and tried to settle in to our new 'home' for now across the hall...

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