Quick update on Lisa and Francis

What a week...

It's now 3 days since Francis was born, and both him and Lisa are doing fine. He had a little episode on wednesday night where he started having a little bit of trouble breathing, so they put him on a ventilator to give him a hand. He was taken off it at 8pm on thursday and has been doing fine ever since. When we went in to visit him tonight, they'd put him in a little sleep suit which made him look even more like a proper little baby. We spent a lovely couple of hours just holding him, and watching him squirm and snort. Hopefully, he'll get along well enough over the next few days that they'll move him into one of the lower dependency nurseries, where we can get involved even more!

Lisa has been moved onto the normal maternity ward now, and is hopefully going to be discharged on monday, provided her bp and blood tests all come showing that she is on the mend. We found out that what she had actually had was HELLP syndrome, which is a potentially fatal form of pre-eclampsia. We were so lucky that the community midwife sent Lisa into the hospital when she did, as Lisa had only the slightest of symptoms for pre-eclampsia, and it meant that we were in the hospital just as it started to turn ugly, and so the doctors could get the baby out just before any damage was done to either of them.

She's still in a lot of pain from the c-section, and is having all the usual emotional struggles which go with birth normally, and also the trauma of the speed of what happened, and also the way it happened. Today was a good day for her I thought, with her seeming quite happy at the end of it, after spending several hours happily with Francis.

I've added some more pictures to Francis' gallery, so have a look!