Day three and we are all clear

So here we are, I and Max. We are sitting in a lovely comfy chair in a 'sitting room'. It's fantastic, tv (off at the moment but America's next top model is on 3e soon), radio (news at one) and almost no noise from the busy hospital outside. Ciara is sleeping and recovering. She is finding moving around still a bit of a pain so the less the better until the physiotherapy takes its effect. Young Ann the Physiotherapist was at pains to point out that soon she'd be better. However if pain is added to lack of sleep and the result further added to hourly feeds, a very unhappy mother and baby combination we will have.

Max is asleep too, he is having some startling dreams. Just now he took fright at something, probably a dream of a suction cup, loud noise or being dragged out of a nice place and into a confusing world of noise and colour. His arms flew up and out and he grabbed hold of my hand with his. Each one of these little things is just magical.

Good news. Antibiotics for mother and child have stopped! They are both free from any infections and cannulas. This is a very good thing as Max kept being distracted by the yoke on the end of the cannula. It wasn't a good nipple substitute. He has just started in his sleep again. This time I'm sure it was a dream of the suction cup, the Prof. Is outside doing his rounds and Max's hearing is very acute. Also his suction cup head is nearly all healed and his umbilical cord stump is progressing nicely, thank you very much.

For the fashion conscious, he is in a baby gap baby grow which caused me no end of confusion this morning. It has different clasps to the M&S ones that he had on yesterday. Top tip; start at the neck and work down.

The end of the antibiotics means that we are all definitely going home tomorrow. My parents have sorted out a lovely feeding chair which I will assemble tonight and that will make the apartment complete. Well done them!

Swaddling is my new best friend! It turns out to be the most comforting thing in the world for Max and I'm getting better at it! Its quite like origami and I love a good crane.

Steps for good swaddling;

1 Lay out blanket diamond fashion and fold down the top corner (enough for baby's head to rest on).

2 Take the left corner (your left, baby's right, ara jaysus, you know what I mean), tuck in the left arm so that it's right down along his side and bring the blanket around underneath his right side.

3 Repeat with the other side and then fold up the bottom until you have a snuggly wrapped baby burrito!

4 Add salsa and sour cream to taste!

We are back in the room now and Ciara is still sleeping like her son.

Soon it will be time for another feed and the cycle continues. Unless I'm very much mistaken though, he needs a nappy change and he is currently farting like an elderly Labrador! Being a baby is guilt and manners free!