Keeping up the good work...

I've been breathing for myself for over 24 hours now - I'm amazed, even if I do say so myself. You see, they didn't make the decision to take me off of the ventilator - my tube got blocked and they thought they'd 'give it a try' and it worked - how fab is that?!

I know that I look odd, a great big tube over my nose and a little hat keeping it all in place, you can't see my face very well. Today my hat wasn't so far on my head, and I do look better than yesterday - I'm a trendy CPAP'er and there's no more girly pink bits on my hat!

I've said that I'm not on morphine any more, there is still a little in my system but I was very wriggly earlier today so they've given me some 'Chloryl' which is a relaxant - and it works. Daddy still put his hands on me though and that works well too, my TV tends to beep less and I don't wave my arms around as much.

The nurses have figured out my little game today, you see what I've been doing is wriggling around and squirming about and having a few beepy moments... all because I don't like being half naked to the whole world. They've worked out that I like a blanket over me, how cosy! They've reduced the temperature of my incubator and have given me a fluffy blanket - Mummy thinks I'm like Daddy as he has to have the covers over him to sleep.

The doctors did their rounds this avo, as they usually do between 5pm - 6pm; they told me to carry on doing what I am doing, so I will.

I'll keep on breathing on my own, I'll keep on reducing the amount of oxygen I need, I'll keep on sucking my dummy (to help with my sucking reflex as babies only get this going at about 32 weeks gestation - so I'll be ahead of the game!), I'll keep on reducing the size of my tummy (which is pretty much back to normal apart from I'm starving as they're not feeding me), I'll

keep on producing number 2's and when I'm feeding again I'll keep putting on proper weight. I'd better try working on that voice thing - Mummy says to Daddy that she thinks she heard me make some sort of noise and Daddy said to Mummy that he thinks he heard me say 'Daddy' - I haven't peeped a thing yet so they must be going a bit loopy!