Mother's Day

Today is Mother's Day, my first Mother's Day. The extra one Jensen gave me by arriving so early in the year.

Phil and I had planned to go somewhere for lunch, but unfortunately, this meant spending Mother's Day lunch away from my baby. We ended up spending the morning, afternoon and evening at the hospital with little Jensen having cuddles, and snuck off for a few hours for a quick lunch and a little more shopping.

When we arrived this morning Jensen had a couple of cards in his cot. He had given mummy a voucher for a much needed massage and a lovely poem with some footprints. In comparison to the footprints on my birthday card, his little feet look massive.

He got naked and was weighed today, weighing in at 1882 grams, and daddy gave him a bath. Things are so different here in Low Dependency or special care as some call it. The purpose of this part of the unit is mothercraft, so the focus is bathing, feeding, settling, sleeping etc. It's also very hands on. We can pick Jensen up whenever we like, wheel him to the bath (minus his oxygen) on our own, dress him, feed him, bathe him, whatever we like. This is taking some getting used to, after months of asking permission to touch or cuddle our son and when allowed, only minimally.

Jensen is at a weight where we can take him home, he can also come home on oxygen, so here our aim is to work on feeding. He's doing three suck feeds a day, which he is now taking all three offered, he needs to be doing eight, and having minimal top ups. The top ups need to be with bottles, not the gastric tube. This is what we need to work on, here in Low Dependency.

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