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Day four: Starting to gurgle

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Last night, well the small hours of this morning really, Marcail made her first noise that wasn’t simply a cry.It’s hard being adorable She was in her bed and made a little gurgly baby type noise.  It’s a tiny thing, I know, but it’s another little step forward.  She is getting the hang of feeding, and of demanding to be fed!  We had the first sign of frustration tears this afternoon when she couldn’t get latched on quickly enough.Continue reading→

Day three: Family fun, another first and … disappointment

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It was a big day today.  Marcail’s first recreational car ride, and it was to go on a shopping expedition. I really hope this Set for a car rideis not a long term, major, strategic error!  If we get a few years down the line and all she ever seems to do is shop, shop and shop, then maybe this post should be passed to the psychology community for the future health of society.  But dear reader, there is a lesson to be learnt here too.  This was Marcail’s first experience of the bitter taste of consumer disappointment.Continue reading→

Day two at home

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We’re starting to get the hang of this job a little bit and it seems a little less daunting than it did yesterday.  The midwife came to see us this morning, and we’re not in jail and Marcail isn’t in care so we can’t be doing everything wrong.  Although, it turns out we did try to melt her in bed last night.  Put fewer clothes and blankets on tonight I think. Other than that, not a lot to say today, but I’ll put the latest portraits up.Continue reading→

Going Home

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Debs was pretty tired by this morning.  I’d been able to get a good 8 hours solid sleep at home; once I was done with all the blog updates, emails, phone calls and Skype…  Debs was pretty wiped out though having been able to get very little sleep on the ward, which was actually quite noisy with crying babies, call alarms and constant staff rounds.Continue reading→

New Direction

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So, it’s official, I’m now in charge of iSLI until at least July of next year.  It was put to the board on Friday and they ratified my position as director.  I’ve actually been in the role now for a month, and whilst it is a lot of work and there is a definite feeling of responsibility I am really enjoying it.  News had already been oozing out on the (rather compact!) grapevine that exists here, to the point that I was being asked or congratulated by about half the people I knew at an event last week.  You really know you’ve arrived when you start getting company director junk mail – NOT!

So, lots to do between now and a year in July.  Universities to bring more closely on board, funding applications to build consensus around, write and have approved oh and a company to run from day to day.  It’s certainly not the sort of job that is lacking in things to push forward.  There might even be, dare I say it, some making up for lost time…

Open wide!

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We had growth scans at 28 and 32 weeks with the result that the head circumference was somewhere just about the 50th percentile on both occasions, but the abdominal measurement was above at 28 weeks and below at 32 weeks.  As a result we were asked to go back today for a further scan, carried out by the obstrician, to make sure that the baby wasn’t suffering from some inhibition in growth.Continue reading→

Alien Inside

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It’s getting to that stage where Debs is a different shape every time I look at her.  This morning she woke up, then a short while later lifted the duvet followed by a shocked exclamation.  Turned out to be nothing to worry about, just some stray limb that was attempting to leave her abdomen by an unauthorised route.  No danger of doing a John Hurt though; thank goodness, we’ve got dark walls but a light carpet that would never recover…