Charlie was born in Canberra by surpise I was here on holidays and to send my furniture up to Townsville as I use to live here.

Charlie has had 6 blood transfusions sor far and today is his fourth attempt on CPAP as he has been ventilated for 6 weeks. He suffers from Chronic lung disease but nothing else major. There have been two infections one in his chest and one in his stomach which both have been treated and I hope are gone. When he has his stomach infection they stopped feeding him for a about 5 days and hes just started feeding again hes upto 6 mils every two hours and before his infection he was at 12 mils every two hours.

He was born at 700grams and went down to 580gram and now weight 1170grams....I am so proud of my boy.

Things are tough but Im coping very well with the support of my family up here unfortunately his dad is still up in qld and flys down to Canberra approx every two weeks.

I look forward to hearing about your premature baby stories.

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