Fabulous news Bekz, so thrilled for you, I hope this is the end of their hospital journey and they can relax and grow together at home. xxoo

Must admit I thought it was early to let them go home too, I thought they liked to keep them until they were close to 37 weeks?
I thought that too until I had a prem, the WCH (where i had her as I was too early to go to any of the Private Hospitals in Adelaide) wanted her for 4-5 weeks which would have made her 37-38 weeks, but we transferred to our Private Hospital only because a specialist Paeditrcian agreed to take on her case and monitor her daily (they would only accept them from 36 weeks she transferred at 34 week 2 days, we brought her home at 35 weeks 1 day old, was only 10grams above her lowest weight (which she lost that again her first week home). But as soon as she had been on all suck feeds for 24 hours, they are generally happy to have them go home, where as it wouldn't have been possible to do that at the WCH. I boarded which allowed all suck feeds, with at least 50% on the boob. I would have been comuting a few times a day into the WCH if we didn't get the transfer.

mind you having the head of the NICu at the WCh as your paeditrician certainly has a lot of pulling power!!

But even so, every prem is different, we have a prem playgroup with the bubs ranging from 24 weekers to 35 weekers, it is amazing to see the differences, especially of those that are the same gestation. Most look like normal babies, others are on oxygen, NGT's, quite underweight etc I have learnt sooo much becoming a mum of a prem, but there is soo much more to learn!!