Month: November 2007

  • Day 5

    —

    by

    Sam
    in ,

    No photo today. Why? Jack woke me up at 6am this morning with the sound of him puking into his bed. Poor little boy had picked up a bug going around at school and was really poorly this morning. The bug is clearly very contagious, so no visits to Annabel or to Kim for Jack…

  • Jack’s sister

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    DSC00371.JPG, originally uploaded by samwebster. It goes without saying that Jack is loving having a tiny, little baby sister. He has had much advice from his classmates who already have sisters, and I would love to have transcripts of those conversations!

  • Annabel on the sunbed

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    DSC00370.JPG, originally uploaded by samwebster. Day 4. Annabel continues to progress well. She has a little jaundice, but you may notice from this photo that she has had her oxygen tubes removed from her nose. She’s been coping ok with this, but was puffing a bit when I went to visit. She will get the…

  • Day 3

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Yesterday (day 3) mummy had her first cuddle with Annabel. This cheered Kim up a lot, and made all the recent events seem less dream-like. She says Annabel seems real now that she has been able to hold her.

  • Annabel

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    After giving Annabel a clean and changing her nappy, I took a little bit of video of her and Jack. That’s Jack’s hand in the incubator, not mine. She is pretty small. She really doesn’t like being handled much, and would rather stay asleep. She has a tiny, squeaky cry, but was very good for…

  • Annabel Beatrice Webster

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Annabel Beatrice Webster, originally uploaded by samwebster. (aka Baby No. 2) So much for making plans. Kim had some bleeding yesterday night (morning of 25th) so we went to the labour ward to get Kim and baby checked out. The bleeding stopped, restarted, stopped, and baby seemed settled. As the day went on Kim started…

  • Stem cells from human, adult skin

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Students have asked me about the ethical difficulties of embryonic stem cell research a number of times in the past, and it’s a great question to pose at candidates’ interviews. That topic may now have become mute though, as work published by two groups in Science and Cell suggests that you can dedifferentiate your own…

  • Zzzzzz

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    I’m so tired. Jack’s been poorly with a dry, painful chesty cough and a temperature since we got back to Swansea on Sunday night. He hasn’t been very well or very happy, but he’s feeling a little better this morning. When he eventually sleeps any coughing wakes him up and upsets him, so we wake…

  • Red Lightsaber

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    alex5thparty_waun_svw_020, originally uploaded by samwebster. Guess what sound Jack’s making.

  • Fog driving

    —

    by

    Sam
    in

    Holy cow, this must be what it’s like to drive with cataracts. We drove back to Wales at night in thick fog the other week, and really couldn’t see to drive any faster than 35mph. It’s actually quite nice to drive slowly, and the whole trip only took us an extra 15 minutes. The fog…