Tuesday 7 December 2010

Tuesday 7th December

Woke up in our temporary holiday home (at Willow and Stanley's Nanna and Grandad's house). We're staying here while our bathroom is being kitted out with a replacement for our much-loved avocado suite. (Thank you, Mr and Mrs S - next time we'll bring the grandchildren).

Didn't really want to be at work today - we have too much to do and two babies to see. But someone's got to, I suppose. I called NICU from the office for the morning status report, over a stale muffin and a cuppa. Probably didn't need the muffin after shoving a big bowl of Coco Pops down my neck before I left - but desperate times call for desperate measures. Anyway, there was good news all round. Both the kids had been sensible overnight, and had remembered to breathe the whole time.

Eventually I decided I'd had enough at work so made my way to Poole to see the family. Stanley's doing really well today - he's now on his nasal prongs for 13 hours a day, and for 3 of those hours today he was on no oxygen at all. Willow's coping well with 5 hours on prongs twice a day; her oxygen requirements coming down slowly. However, it looks like she will certainly be coming home on oxygen; so we'll have to get our house converted into an O2 machine and we won't get away from those bleeping monitors for a while yet. But we don't care, as long as those babies are home with us.

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