Look at my baby girl!
Jack is much better, and I haven’t picked up his tummy bug so I went in to see Kim and Annabel this morning. Annabel was having a long skin-to-skin cuddle with her mummy, which she really liked and she was very settled when I arrived. It was the first time I’d seen Annabel without a hat on (I was sure that she had been born with it on).
She has lost weight (she now weighs 1.36kg) in her first week, but she has been building up her feeding and was taking 9ml of Kim’s breast milk every hour today. 9ml looks like a huge amount when you really see how tiny she is. She’s still on and off extra oxygen but all the tubes have gone except for the feeding tube you can see in her mouth. She’s very active when awake, and keeps hunting around for a nipple to suckle on both in her incubator and when with KIm. She may have a go at breast feeding soon, but the gastric tube will remain important for feeding for some time yet.
There are more photos on Flickr, and I’m putting together her own website at www.annabelwebster.net.