Update

[grainger]

Another update: we are due to move rooms out of icu and into high dependency! This is v exciting for us.

I also gave him his first ever bottle this morning.

Happy Easter everyone - today is going well so far!

 

[Kaylz]

Another update: we are due to move rooms out of icu and into high dependency! This is v exciting for us.

I also gave him his first ever bottle this morning.

Happy Easter everyone - today is going well so far!

Aww this is fab news!! So happy for you guys, Happy Easter my lovely! xx

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

Excellent news @grainger, what a fab Easter present for your family x

 

[ukjohn]

Hi Grainger, Happy Easter to you and your family, glad to see everything going well. I bet you felt fantastic feeding him his bottle first time. ( He will soon having you running around demanding it soon )
Take care of yourself as well

John x

 

[Wirrallass]

Great news grainger ~ thanks for your update ~ and for sharing your gorgeous photo of Nate 🙂 I do believe you have the most handsome little Prince there ever born ~ he looks healthy & content and I love his eyes. I'm so very pleased for you that he's been moved to High Dependency, one step nearer to being discharged ~ I know exactly how you felt when you gave Nate his first bottle feed🙂Wishing you all the best that you'll soon be home all together as a family. Good to hear you're healing well too grainger, take it easy now ~ don't do too much too soon hun. (((Hugs for Josh))) lots of love xxx

 

[trophywench]

Major milestone grainger! Whoo hoo - and hope you can all be at home for Josh's birthday.

 

[Nikki35]

Wow, he's a cutie! So glad to hear that things are improving and that you are doing well! (Ive had 4 sections, they are not easy to recover from at the best of times!)

Hope you reach the goal of being home for a birthday! 🙂

 

[Katieb]

hey all

Just a quick one, Nate is doing well and we are hopeful to go home sometime next week. But for those who have asked, here’s one of our favourite pics - the first time he opened his eyes. View attachment 7656

He’s beautiful!, x

 

[SB2015]

All sounding good Grainger.
A great Easter presi.
Who needs chocolate when you have Nate.

 

[grainger]

Hi again,

Sorry looks like I got it wrong - Nate has just been moved to the scbu (special care baby unit)! Means we’ve skipped high dependency and we are in the final room before either going to a normal ward or being allowed to go home.

They want to monitor his breathing for 48hrs to ensure it’s strong enough then it’s literally a case of how long it takes to get Nate fully bottle feeding - at the moment he’s every 2 hours and this is predominantly through tube so obviously we have a way to go to get to every 4 hours bottle only.

Whether we will get home for Josh’s birthday we don’t know but we should get home this week sometime. I’m praying for Wednesday but think Friday may be more realistic.

Either way, we will get home with a complete family. Happy doesn’t begin to cover how we feel at this precise moment.

Happy Easter everyone!!

 

[Kaylz]

@grainger that is fantastic news! xx

 

[Cleo]

Great news grainger ! So happy for you x

 

[SB2015]

It sounds like if Nate is not home for Josh’s birthday. It will be an excuse to have a double celebration. One at the hospital and another when Nate gets home. If n
Nate makes it home in time for the birthday celebration then that will also be a double celebration.

Happy Easter to you all.

 

[Wirrallass]

I'm absolutely ecstatic upon hearing your good news grainger. Tears of joy for you. So pleased that Nate is holding his own bless his darling heart, he's trying his best🙂 Its evident that the close contact he's having with his mummy is giving him the boost he needs. So happy for the grainger family🙂x

 

[New-journey]

Hi again,

Sorry looks like I got it wrong - Nate has just been moved to the scbu (special care baby unit)! Means we’ve skipped high dependency and we are in the final room before either going to a normal ward or being allowed to go home.

They want to monitor his breathing for 48hrs to ensure it’s strong enough then it’s literally a case of how long it takes to get Nate fully bottle feeding - at the moment he’s every 2 hours and this is predominantly through tube so obviously we have a way to go to get to every 4 hours bottle only.

Whether we will get home for Josh’s birthday we don’t know but we should get home this week sometime. I’m praying for Wednesday but think Friday may be more realistic.

Either way, we will get home with a complete family. Happy doesn’t begin to cover how we feel at this precise moment.

Happy Easter everyone!!

Amazing news, so happy for you all.

 

[Grannylorraine]

Hi again,

Sorry looks like I got it wrong - Nate has just been moved to the scbu (special care baby unit)! Means we’ve skipped high dependency and we are in the final room before either going to a normal ward or being allowed to go home.

They want to monitor his breathing for 48hrs to ensure it’s strong enough then it’s literally a case of how long it takes to get Nate fully bottle feeding - at the moment he’s every 2 hours and this is predominantly through tube so obviously we have a way to go to get to every 4 hours bottle only.

Whether we will get home for Josh’s birthday we don’t know but we should get home this week sometime. I’m praying for Wednesday but think Friday may be more realistic.

Either way, we will get home with a complete family. Happy doesn’t begin to cover how we feel at this precise moment.

Happy Easter everyone!!

Fantastic news, I am so pleased. Can I ask why he has to go to 4hr bottles and not 3hrs because I know none of my kids,all bottle fed, ever did 4hrs between bottles until they were a few weeks old, I am pretty sure my granddaughter didn't either

 

[Flo15]

So pleased for you, he is just gorgeous btw. I had to write something today as it bought back memories of my son in scbu 17 years ago now and who was tube fed, I do know what it was like doing that first feed with a bottle. He too had to get to four hrs and then could come home. Hope it won't be too long now before you get him home x

 

[grainger]

Fantastic news, I am so pleased. Can I ask why he has to go to 4hr bottles and not 3hrs because I know none of my kids,all bottle fed, ever did 4hrs between bottles until they were a few weeks old, I am pretty sure my granddaughter didn't either

I think because it’s a lot of effort for them to be three hourly especially after having gone through what he’s been through. I get the impression though if he manages three hourly well they may let us leave but we shall see.
He managed half his bottle just now and the rest via tube which is a great start as we are now starting three hourly feeds so it was a big jump up in quantity. Hopefully he’ll manage more and more as the day and night progresses. Everyone in the unit is hoping we’ll get to go on Wednesday afternoon but it’s all down to Nathaniel really!

 

[Grannylorraine]

I think because it’s a lot of effort for them to be three hourly especially after having gone through what he’s been through. I get the impression though if he manages three hourly well they may let us leave but we shall see.
He managed half his bottle just now and the rest via tube which is a great start as we are now starting three hourly feeds so it was a big jump up in quantity. Hopefully he’ll manage more and more as the day and night progresses. Everyone in the unit is hoping we’ll get to go on Wednesday afternoon but it’s all down to Nathaniel really!

Pleased to hear that he is taking more by mouth. I will keep my fingers crossed for you that you get home on Wednesday. But little Nate is doing really well by the sound of it, hopefully once he goes the idea of those bottles there will be no stopping him.

 

[Maz2]

Beautiful baby. A lovely picture to see on here.