Monday went in a blur we decided to have a really chilled day and catch up on rest, so weird trying to get your head around being home with Macy, whilst feeling sort of post-festival surreally exhausted. We’ve felt like we’ve been wondering around in a trance, a good trance.
Tuesday we went back to hospital to have Macy’s weekly checks. We bumped into the midwives that helped Jen in labour they were so sweet, loving seeing Macy. Then we went to the ward and bumped into a few of the ward staff, sort of weirdly felt like coming home. Macy had her head measured to check the haematoma wasn’t increasing in size, all well there. She had various other tests and all fine. We’re so excited that she seems to be totally healthy even though she has had such traumas to her brain.
Later in the afternoon a very proud father pushed his babe to a funky café in the sun on Gloucester Road. We had a half in the sun and felt great.
Last night we were a bit naughty and we slept in shifts with Macy in bed with us..it is so sweet, she just curls up in your arm and kips for 2 hours a time, it feels lovely….guess we got 6 hours each which feels great… can’t believe I’m saying it but it does… not sure sleeping with us is going to be a winner in the short medium term…trouble is if we put her down in the Moses basket she wakes up in 10 mins max..we’ve been given lots of advice, put the Moses basket on a tilt with books under the legs at one end, wrap a towel in a sausage and lay it round her so snug, warm the mattress, put a t shirt of yours in so she smells you and the best yet … put a ticking clock in which imitates a heart beat..still got to try the last few.
It’s so funny, you just have to work it out steadily…it’s great.
Wednesday - Bathed her today, still trying to get the glue out of her hair from when they stuck the brain probes on her head in NICU. She wasn’t overly impressed with the bath but think she was more thinking about food at the time, just like her dad!
We headed down to IKEA to get a few bits, bad idea, Jen started to burn out half way round whilst Macy snoozed on oblivious, think we’ll stick to some slightly more chilled low key trips over the next few days!
Our church group have started the food rota now. It’s amazing we get two weeks where a different person brings us food every night. We’ve had some delish stuff including homemade pizza’s tonight. Thanks guys you’re awesome!
Tuesday we went back to hospital to have Macy’s weekly checks. We bumped into the midwives that helped Jen in labour they were so sweet, loving seeing Macy. Then we went to the ward and bumped into a few of the ward staff, sort of weirdly felt like coming home. Macy had her head measured to check the haematoma wasn’t increasing in size, all well there. She had various other tests and all fine. We’re so excited that she seems to be totally healthy even though she has had such traumas to her brain.
Later in the afternoon a very proud father pushed his babe to a funky café in the sun on Gloucester Road. We had a half in the sun and felt great.
Last night we were a bit naughty and we slept in shifts with Macy in bed with us..it is so sweet, she just curls up in your arm and kips for 2 hours a time, it feels lovely….guess we got 6 hours each which feels great… can’t believe I’m saying it but it does… not sure sleeping with us is going to be a winner in the short medium term…trouble is if we put her down in the Moses basket she wakes up in 10 mins max..we’ve been given lots of advice, put the Moses basket on a tilt with books under the legs at one end, wrap a towel in a sausage and lay it round her so snug, warm the mattress, put a t shirt of yours in so she smells you and the best yet … put a ticking clock in which imitates a heart beat..still got to try the last few.
It’s so funny, you just have to work it out steadily…it’s great.
Wednesday - Bathed her today, still trying to get the glue out of her hair from when they stuck the brain probes on her head in NICU. She wasn’t overly impressed with the bath but think she was more thinking about food at the time, just like her dad!
We headed down to IKEA to get a few bits, bad idea, Jen started to burn out half way round whilst Macy snoozed on oblivious, think we’ll stick to some slightly more chilled low key trips over the next few days!
Our church group have started the food rota now. It’s amazing we get two weeks where a different person brings us food every night. We’ve had some delish stuff including homemade pizza’s tonight. Thanks guys you’re awesome!
Her feet are already as big as mine!
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