Matt update

This pic was taken just after Matt was weighed, bathed and fed. When the nurse was feeding him and he wouldnt take his eyes off her, so now he has a full tummy and looking up at me. I just love those eyes wide awake and very alert. We can just sit there for ages just looking at him, well i do most days anyway. The nurses are preparing us that he might be moving bays soon. Matt is the 2nd wellest baby in our room so he will be moving bays soon if they need a bed for any reason. He is wearing clothes now and 5 zero's are still too big but i think we will get good value for money as he will be able to wear them for a little while longer still.
I think gets weighed and bathed now every 2 days which will be good. He got weighed today and lost about 10g but he does have to work harder now.

First Bath !!!!

Matt had his first bath yesterday he seemed to like it, just floating around in the water. He looks so big and like a normal baby now not a preemie which is nice. His hair is getting darker and more of it we don't get to see it that much now cos he is wearing a hat most of the time.

Dad's first hold!!!!

This was Darryl's first hold of his son, i think father and son are very happy. I have another picture of Matt just looking at his dad while he was holding him very cute indeed. It was so nice to finally see my two favourite boys together for the first time and there will be many more to come.

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Matt Update

Matt has progressed to an open cot. He got weighed on Monday and is 1698g. You are supposed to be over 1800g to go into an open cot but Matt likes to be swaddled and you cant do that in an isolette so we made the decision to put him in a cot and he is keeping his temperature nicely so well that now he doesn't even have a warmer going and doesn't have many blankets on just a swaddle and 1 blanket and just a singlet. He did have a jumpsuit on but a new nurse took that off instead of turning the bed warmer down but he is coping well. He looks so small in his bed but so cute i have been trying to upload a photo but it is hard on the laptop wireless so when i go home on Thursday i will try to upload as many as i can from home.

Cuddles, i have had my first really long cuddle and loved it and so did Matt he coped so well on Monday. I had some tears but the wait was really worth it. It was a shame that Darryl wasn't here but he had to work. A nurse got all excited with our new camera and took some lovely shots of me and Matt and then i took some of him in his new bed with clothes on. Darryl will be back on Friday so hopefully we will get some nice shots of Father and Son it will be nice to see my two favourite boys together.

Matt is coping well on CPAP IMV he was breathing too fast for the first few days but i think he has slowed down a bit now and is being really good. They are even thinking of trialling him on full cpap. The machines go off all the time cos he needs to close his mouth so he doesn't loose pressure with machine so i am constantly putting his dummy in his mouth.

He has a dummy now and likes it we are even putting milk on his dummy when it is feed time if he is awake and he loves it, we first did it on Monday when i was having my cuddle it was so nice he is becoming a real baby and not a preemie now.

We are on CPAP

Yesterday our little boy graduated to CPAP IMV. Breathing with nasal prongs and so far he is coping very well. His oxygen levels have been coming down but it is still early days just hope he doesnt get too tired. Normally they need more oxgen then they did on the othe machine but so far Matt is coping with the same or less. The nurses took some pictures with our disposable camera so we will have to wait till its all finished to see what he looks like when they did it. I think he was giving them a helping hand on taking it out.

We got back yesterday just after he had the tube out he was a little distressed but i managed to calm him down he is now getting wrapped in a muslin wrap and i think he likes it cos he slept all afternoon and only made his little lamb cry when he got his temp taken. Yes he has a little voice at the moment but im sure it will get louder soon. Dad was the first hear his little voice.

I think we are getting him weighed today hopefully upto open cot as now he likes to be wrapped he gets too hot in the isolette but he will loose tummy time in the open cot. He will be able to wear clothes.

Matt's way of getting attention

Matt is back in his isolette for now he will be back out when he is over 1.8kg i think. He looked nice and cosy today in there and he is doing so well on his ventalaitor settings that they are thinking of taking his tube out tomorrow and putting him onto cpap. Then all the hard work will start for him but i think he will be ok cos he is breathing on his own a lot now anyway. Its amazing the amount of difference we can see from last week we have have one fiesty boy now ready to start breathing on his own.

How to get our attention!!!....... lay there nice and cosy and pretend you are just sleeping.......then mum notices lots of blood near his foot...... our sweet innocent boy had pulled his canuala out of his foot and there was blood everywhere poor baby needed to have another one put in his arm this time. When we left this afternoon he was back asleep hopefully not working up more ways to scare us. Its lucky he is so cute that he gets away with it at the moment......