18th-19th August

A good couple of days for Miss Chaffin.

She seems to have settled in pretty well to her new home and is coping quite well with the change. She even seems to have settled into the CPAP a little more now, although is still trying to pull it off at regular intervals, which is quite an achievement if you look at the pictures!

They don't weigh her as often at Stoke Mandeville as they do at Oxford - only twice a week. However, the weight that they did yesterday showed that she had put on 40g and is now 1045 grams, so another step in the right direction. Today they have switched her from 50% formula and 50% breast milk to full breast milk as the policy is different at Stoke from Oxford! The volume gone up very slightly because of her increased weight to 7.8mls/hour, which she seems to be tolerating well.

Oxygen requirement continues to be between 22% and 29%, although seems to be getting slightly better. Her respiratory rate seems to have pretty much calmed down too, so it looks like things are going in the right direction. The flow rate on the CPAP is still pretty high at 8 litres, but this will hopefully start to come down in the near future when they feel that she can tolerate it.

Briony had her first introduction to the tales of Beatrix Potter today and seemed to quite like it!

Stoke Mandeville don't provide nappies, so Mum spent a very fraught 2 hours yesterday scouring the shops of High Wycombe and Aylesbury in search of premature nappies - eventually after trying Mothercare ("We usually have loads of them but seem to have had a run on them today), Morrisons, Boots and Tescos, Sainsburys finally came to the rescue......

Briony is allowed small toys in her incubator now, so has one from her Daddy (pink hippo) and one from her Mummy (teddy blanket). Currently the pink hippo seems to be flavour of the month - when I arrived this morning she was holding on to him!