Day 26 26/7/2011 Midwife for real

We went to the midwife for real today. Both of our midwifes (Danielle and Rachel) were there for the final meeting. We'll miss them, they were both excellent.
Michael is now 3.44 Kg or 7 Lb 9. He is feeding more and more and Rocio is at the moment strufggling to keep up with him. We've been told that as Michael's demand increases Rocio's supply will increase too. It just might take a day or two to go up to the new level.




On a similar subject. We have been investigating Rocio becomming a breast milk donor. Well, this was before Michael picked up demand. This looks like a wonderful thing to do. Often Rocio has had so much milk comming from both sides that a lot has been wasted and there are many babies, especially premature ones, who for various reasons can't get milk from thier mums. Cows milk is really not the best for very young babies so there are various organisations around the country who arrange breast feeding mums to express, freeze and donate their extra milk. This can be truely life saving for a little baby.
The shocking thing for me to find out was that this doesn't happen in every hospital with a baby unit. In fact there is no milk bank nearer to us than Birmingham. I don't understand why this service isn't everywhere. It can't be that expensive or difficult to set up and run and it saves lives. Still, I know the Bham people are willing to collect from Nottingham. I guess that means the milk is valuable to them, right? Well, no reply from them yet. We will see what happens.



Rocio tells me they had a nice afternoon, messing about in the house and sitting in the sun on the patio and that Michael said "Ma" today too. I guess that's how it works. Babies say the things they can and parents teach them which sounds mean "Mum" and "Dad" and "Milk" !