Jasmine Stalker-Firth

Today we took Jasmine down to the Costa Coffee place in the hospital on her first trip out of the ward. It was such a lovely feeling to be doing something normal. I had Jasmine in the sling and went and sat down whilst Neil and Grandma and Grandpa Firth went for the coffees and paninis. It was fantastic, but odd to be sitting without monitors, lots of equipment and nurses to call on at any given moment. I panicked for a second or two but then relaxed – after all surgeons, consultants and nurses are walking through the cafe every couple of seconds – and enjoyed holding my baby girl so close to me until everyone else came back.

Before lunch, Neil and I did more dialysis training. I set up the machine in the way we learnt yesterday and then we practised connecting and disconnecting the patient (a rather large teddy bear) to the dialysis machine using teddy’s PD catheter.

Later on Greg popped in for a visit and Jasmine demonstrated how she sometimes vomits after her medicine. It was just a little bit, so not too bad. She had been sick this morning after guzzling her food. She soon recovered to take the rest of her medicine and her feed. She is so clever! She was also sporting her new dummy which is now connected to her blanket by a nice ribbon so we won’t lose it. Neil braved Mothercare this morning but Jasmine didn’t seem that bothered about sucking on her dummy today even though we dipped in it glucose sugar.

The milk room told me to stop expressing so much as there is no room left in the freezer. I must say I am a tad relieved as I do seem to spend a lot of time with my breasts out, attached to machines.

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