Hi everyone, Lisa and I have decided that a Blog would be a great way to let all our friends and family know how our little girl is progressing in her first few tough days, weeks and months.

This is Olivia Grace Earp's story and we would love you to enjoy the highs with us and keep her in your thoughts during the lows.

I apologise for the rambling nature and somewhat thrown together appearance of the Blog but I don't have much time at the moment!

********You need to read from the bottom up with Blogs so the newest post is always at the top. Look to the right of the page and click on "Olivia's Story Post Archive" for the earlier posts***********

We are proudly supporting the Cots for Tots appeal to raise £1 million for vital equipment at St Michael's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Please have a look at the website and donate a few pounds if you can.

http://www.cotsfortots.org.uk/

James and Lisa xx

Saturday, 29 January 2011

Day 12- Pootastic

Well after 3 days we finally got what we wished for in terms of a dirty nappy which was great news!  Olivia's aspirate levels have been very up and down for the last few days and today they were still running fairly high by time we left.  It's very frustrating because she wont be allowed any milk until they fall right down and change to a much lighter shade of green.  She will be two weeks old in the early hours of Tuesday and it would be brilliant if we could celebrate with her first feed.  She grows more hungry by the day and has a vast store of milk waiting that Lisa has been expressing every three hours since she was born.

Nanny Earp came to visit today with Alex, they were both thrilled to see her again and she opened her eyes for a good 30 mins whilst they were there. Not much else to report, steady progress but we feel we are stalling slightly on the feeding front and this is such an important stage, until she is feeding consistently without any major problems we can't take her home.  Her neighbour with Gastroschisis is still throwing up a lot of his feeds and has been there 6 weeks and counting....the baby next to him (not gastro) celebrated his 100th day in NICU today, I do not want to be celebrating that milestone in hospital.  

I managed to miss her with her eyes open but here are a couple of pics from today:


Night all, more tales from NICU tomorrow!

J x
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  1. Pam Clark31 January 2011 at 18:36

    Dear James, Lisa, Olivia Grace
    Just to say its great keeping updated like this through the blog.
    I spoke to Janet on the phone on Friday. She was looking forward to holding her grand-daughter again. It is real progress that family visits are happening, along with dirty nappies!
    lots of love from Auntie PamXXX

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