Kid's corner

Somewhere around 5 AM this morning. Rain had been pouring down hard the past hour, and we were slumbering and gently falling back to sleep again after Elias had woken us up because he removed his bandage from his finger and wanted a new one (that was somewhere around 4 AM).

Suddenly a noise, footsteps in the hall, shuffling toward our bedroom door. The door creaked open, and lo! there stood Elias, asking if we wanted to read him a story :-)

Luckily, after some encouragement, he shuffled back to his bedroom and tucked in again. Needless to say, he was too tired to get up this morning.

The first night was not that hard as I had expected. I slept at least a few hours, and so did Veerle. Nathan got his last feed at 02:00 AM. He is a slow drinker, who likes to suckle, but does not really drink all that much. So he has lost quite some weight over the first day, more than expected. He now weighs 3.560 kg, which is still good, but he must not lose much more. We hope that he will rebound once the milk production comes up to speed. His bilirubin level is too high as well, so he will spend some time under an UV (?) light today.