A week at home

Well it's been week now since we all arrived home and we are all settling in nicely. Mummy and daddy have split shifts in the evening for feed times so we can both manage a reasonable chunk of sleep at some point, which seems to be working well. Apart from one or two evenings where Jensen has had his 'awake alert' session between 3am and 6am, he is sleeping nice and quietly throughout the night.

Little fella has been getting used to his new environment, different smells, and surroundings, carpet, cooking smells, noises. We are sleeping with the hall light on at the moment, as Jensen has never really slept in the dark. He's also always slept in a somewhat noisy environment, and the constant hum of traffic outside our place seems to be satisfying him in that regard.

So our first day out was on Friday for a trip back to the hospital to see Jensen's Paediatrician. He'd like to see him weekly at this point, this I am happy with, particularly for hernia monitoring. Although I'm not too confident getting him in the car with all of his attachments and so on by myself, so I may have to leave myself a whole heap of prep time. Phil and I did pretty well for timing though, and considering it was our first go, we were quite happy with ourselves arriving at the hospital 10 minutes ahead of time. We are seeing Dr Sinn, a Neonatologist, Paediatrician, Paediatric Allergist, and a leader in all things baby. He has undertaken research on car seat safety for premature babies, and was monumental in the reformation of baby formula in Australia. We are more than happy he has agreed to take us on as his patient, particularly as he knows Jensen so well.

After our visit to the baby clinic on Friday we have gone back on to 3 hourly feeds, as little man is not putting on the desired amount of weight. So we are back to 8 feeds and having to set alarms in the night for feeds rather than having a little 2.3kg blue eyed alarm wake us up. We prefer four hourly of course and I believe so does Jensen, but we need to get him fat fast.

This little outing was a bit much for Jensen. He then slept for 12 hours, absolutely zonked, needing to be woken for feeds, bless his little exhausted heart. We've since had a couple of other small outings in the pram, just a short walk, and to the GP today for 4 month immunisations. We've found a new GP for Jensen, one a little closer to us. She came recommended to us and after today's visit I am happy with our choice. They even have a waiting room designated for special babies like Jensen to keep them isolated from other poorly patients, although today was under renovation....

So far Little man seems to enjoy motion. He settles and sleeps quickly in the pram and the car, so we know what we'll be doing should we have a night of unsettledness....grab the keys and out we go! Mum says I was the same, but hopefully we won't be doing too many kilometres in the wee hours.

Speaking of mum, grandma and grandpa James finally had their first special cuddles. I had to do a bag check when they were leaving to make sure they weren't sneaking off with their little grandson in tow. Uncle Brett and Aunty Lishi also had cuddles, which was special. Grandma and grandad Jackson had virtual cuddles via face time on our first night at home, with many many more cuddles for all to come.

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