Day 8

This afternoon our original midwife came around to do her routine check-up. If I havent' previously mentioned she had a few days off after she delivered Raniera. She asked Kiri how baby was feeding and that he should have been drinking at least 90 mls of breast milk every 4 hours. This was a relief to us because we had been feeding him about 50-60 mls every 2-3 hours which was about the same. Kiri was also worried that we were overfeeding baby.

She also said that his jaundice was subsiding and to now let him sleep longer during the night but to get him up more during the day. This was good news for us.

After she had left Kiri and the girls went to do some clothes shopping for baby - to use the vouchers people had gifted.

Later on in the day, he had become quite unsettled so Kiri put him close to her chest and he slept there half the night. Kiri is very attached to baby, as any mother would be. I do what I can - heat bottle up, get treasure and wipes during the night, do the washing, but the girls do alot of running around for us too.