Well, if we were in any doubt that Lucy was not going to be a fan of feeding, we needn't worry anymore! She's a right little guts, smashing as much breast milk as she can in record time at each three-hourly opportunity. One time last week the nurse asked me if I had spilt any of the bottle, as clearly someone so small couldn't have finished the whole lot in just 5 minutes. Once she's latched on to the bottle (with expressed breast milk in it) or the boob (straight from the source) she gulps it down as if she's trying to create a new personal best. Then she lays back basking in that post-milk-feed-drunkeness until she's sound asleep. Good girl!

She's also now ready for baths. She wriggled around a bit at first but is now quite content laying back and letting Mummy do all the work, as you can see below.

Progression towards discharge seems to be continuing smoothly. The oxygen being delivered through the nasal prongs is being weened at an appropriate rate, and she's up to about one 'sucky' feed for every one tube feed. Once she's strong enough to allow abolition of the tube feeds, she'll be ready to come home and meet everybody.