Day 1 19/06/09
Tristan Riley arrived at 10:04am on the 19/06/09 at 34+3 weeks gestation.
Weighing in at a whooping 3090 grams (exactly twice Brendan’s weight) HC 33cms and L 50cms. Apgars of 6:6:8

Labour…
Stage 1: 7 hours
Stage 2: 34 mins
Stage 3: 7 mins
Admitted into SCN 3 (NICU)
Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Ventilated -
CPAP – until 6:15pm
Incubator at 6:30pm
One dose of Caffeine
One [...]

23rd Feb 2007
I spent most of the day out of the room, due to the newborn and all the family visiting them. It’s coming up to DP’s 21st Birthday, and I had gained permission from my Ob team to go out for dinner between 6 and 8pm on the 24th of Feb, a Saturday night. [...]

I started writing this yesterday and will continue to add to it over the next 2 weeks.
I was meant to write this last night, but I actually forgot which isn’t such a bad thing…
Anyway Two years ago on the 10th of Feb I was 28 weeks exactly. I had a quiet day, sitting on the [...]

Since Friday the 16Th of Jan, Brendan has been sleeping in a toddler bed.
My expectations were that we’d have to keep putting him back in it, that he’d cry and whinge and basically not go to sleep.
BUT… I have had NONE of that! Except the very first night, but that was because he hadn’t seen [...]

Stats last weigh… 4 days shy of 21 months
21 months: 10.56kg 82.5cm
Stats today… 5 days shy of 23 months.
23 months: 10.88kg 85cms WAHOO!
So for %iles Brendan is….
Length is just above (the dot is right on the top of the line) the 25th %ile!! which is up from just below the 25th %ile.
Adjusted age he is [...]

This morning while Brendan was watching tv I took the opportunity to grab his comfort blankie of the floor in the kitchen and threw it in the bathroom, to be washed after the load thats in now.
It smells, it smells REALLY bad. It’s also filthy, it has chalk and all sorts on it from being [...]