Another lengthy break in communication = another good trot for Lucy! She's 9 weeks and 5 days old now.

Body weight:          1660 grams

Continuous PEEP:  6cm H20

FiO2:                     30%

Lucy's sats have been good on these numbers, so there's a chance that she may have a go on additional oxygen only nexk week, which would be a huge step forward. She's looking more and more like a 'real' baby now - meat on her bones (nice fat legs!) and a good healthy colour. Robs was even able to have a go at breast feeding today. At first Lucy wasn't really sure what she should be doing but towards the end she had a couple of effective sucks which was nice. Other than that, she gets 30mL of breast milk every 3 hours, a far cry from when she was getting half a mL every 6 hours.

As of tomorrow I'm off on school camp, so Oscar will be Man of the House. At least when I get back it'll be school holidays, so on top of the jobs to be done around the house and the garden, there should be plenty of time for cuddles just like the ones we got during the week!