11th October

The battle of the female wills within the Chaffin family begins....

After a minor set-back on Friday evening (Briony had exhausted herself feeding) we are now moving onto the final issue that needs sorting before we go home....feeding. Briony has been pretty good at bottle feeding but pretty rubbish at breast feeding. Basically because it is easier for her to bottle feed and during the day if she doesn't feed effectively from me we still top her up using the tube, which is obviously even easier for her. So today we started to demand breast feed her during the day with no top-ups. This means that I literally sit by her cot and wait for her to wait up and want a feed. Well, that's the theory. Eventually she should be hungry and desperate enough to take a feed from me. But Briony being Briony things are not that easy. Her first feed was due at 11am this morning, and at the time of writing (4.30pm) she has shown very little interest - I reckon she has probably had about 1/10th of what she should have had. Theory goes that she should be screaming and happy to eat anything in sight, but what is actually happening is that she is fast asleep, perfectly happy and even saturating at 100% (virtually unheard of). Apparently this is what the nurses call "The treatment" and it usually breaks either the babies or the parents, so place your bets now!

Other than that everything else is moving slowly along. Pretty rubbish weight gain of 15g between Wednesday and Sunday. Another bath last night which was great fun and Briony does seem to really enjoy them which is great given we are already starting to think about family scuba diving holidays.

The visit to the family with teh baby on oxygen was good, but they seem to have not really left the house for the last 4 months which will drive me crazy.

Still no home broadband...