Today we had a plan. It was to go over to a friend’s house, Laura of the Mummy Life for a newborn photo shoot. Before that I needed to see a health visitor to double check tigerboy’s jaundice.
However, tracking down a health visitor proved slightly more complicated. The midwife who discharged us on Monday had tried to arrange a home visit for today, so before I headed out to a clinic I thought I’d better check there wasn’t anyone coming here. Turned out that “please visit on Friday” had somehow translated to “pop in next week” and there was definitely no one on the way here today 🙁 So I headed down to the clinic that’s held in the library, to find a total of three health visitors sat without a single baby in sight. That’s cost effective then!
Tigerboy is doing fine. He’s put on another 9 oz since last Friday (guess he’s on the gold top then 😉 ) and while he’s still a tiny bit yellow, it’s well within breastfed norms. He does awake, he does asleep, he does feeding, he wets, he poos, all is well. Take that, hospital doctor who next to never sees exclusively breastfed babies. (Don’t get me started on norms, averages and all the rest of it, I can rant for Britain, and frequently do.) So I stuck him back in the wrap and headed home, picking up a tiny bit of shopping on the way, and then we packed ourselves into the car and headed off to see Laura.
Lovely afternoon. Laura took lots of pictures, mainly of tigerboy, and the other children played pretty well together, even the two toddlers. It was nice to spend time irl with someone that I usually only get to tweet with. And then home to do swimming run – Big swam a mile for Sport Relief tonight 🙂
And that was Friday.
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