041207 - UK

We try a new approach from today. We let Mary Ann have all the milk by the tube. I’m afraid she doesn’t get enough nutrition by sucking. She spills a lot and sometimes she does even get all the milk she is suppose to because the nurses find it difficult to measure precisely 44ml as she should have now. If she’s not totally ready and eager for sucking her milk I rather wait onto she has more strength and ardour for it. So we let her have it by tube the next days unless she shows ardour for sucking. If she is wide-awake we would also try to let her have the bottle.
Today the nurses guessed that she might come home for Christmas. I don’t care about Christmas this year and I just want her home when she’s ready – no matter the date. Another nurse said that Mary Ann still has this typical premature look, so you could tell that she’s not on her way home just yet. Strange since I don’t think she looks premature anymore. I think she looks like me. Ahem, does that equals that I look unmature?
We had visit from my colleagues today. It was so great to see them and hear news from work.
The other day I found a little funny hole on the lower part of her back. The nurse said it was a survival from older age where we all were fishes or apes, as I had guessed. Some people have it and it will stay there her whole life. Many times it is genetic. But I don’t have it nor does Neil. I did a little search on it on the internet. It looks like it’s what they call sacral cyste. But hers is closed, so it shouldn’t do any harm. They write about it as it might have been a twin. I will ask tomorrow.
Bring you back to the planet Earth again: she needs to have her nails cut, but not by me. I wouldn’t dare!