11th February 2012.


Today I gave my Mummy the biggest fright of her life, I stopped breathing and went really stiff. This was because I had some amniotic fluid left in my lungs, Mummy turned me upside down and rubbed my back, she shouted at Daddy to go next door and ask the neighbour for help (an ambulance would be no good we are 45 minutes from the city.) Luckily our neighbour was for some reason in our kitchen - my parents never thought to ask why til after she'd gone, apparently it's something to do with living in the country! When the neighbour came up and Mummy thrust me into her arms I gasped and started breathing again.

An hour later the midwife came and said there was nothing to worry about and I would have started breathing again eventually. The midwife also told Mummy off for doing too much and said she had lost more blood than she was meant to and that if she didn't stop doing things and running around we'd have to go back to hospital. that scared Mummy and she sat down but was everso jittery because she said she felt great and wanted to do stuff.

In the afternoon my Nanna, Granddad, Auntie-S, Auntie-H and Auntie-R came to see me, they live over 400 miles away so it was very special that they came. Mummy has another sister Auntie-C but there wasn't room in the car so she stayed behind and I'll meet her next time.

Nanna helped Mummy feed me and we did really well, by 9pm I knew exactly what to do and Mummy said we'd cracked it, which was brilliant! I fed really well because I was starving and by 10pm Mummy was starting to make real milk for me.

Grandma came over in the evening (Grandpa wasn't feeling too good) and we had a bit of a party with all the grown-ups (and Auntie-R) eating Chinese food and drinking champagne and beer. Mummy said I'd get drunk on my milk but she only had a tiny glass of each so I didn't taste it much!

I decided to cry for most of the night because Mummy's boobs went too big and hard and by the time she had squeezed some milk out to help me fit the nipple in my mouth I was too angry to drink very much. Mummy was worried because she said Granddad had to sleep because he had to drive 400 miles in the morning but I didn't care, I just shouted louder.