Well I'm home from hosp, we have a beautiful baby girl Holly Matilda she weighed 2.4kg which was a pleasant surprise given we thought she was going to be smaller.

Everything at birth went well and she performed wonderfully, however, over the coming days she got weaker and weaker, she just didn't have the energy to feed, so while I am home Holly has remained in special care to working on her feeding. The problem has been her size and Dr say some 37weekers do start well then just start to fall in a heap. We abandom BF (for the moment) because it was taking too much effort but even bottle feeding EBM was taking over an hour to get the required or less into her. So that is when she went into special care.

Anyway she will be fine just needs to the strength to endure feeds but obviously a vicious cycle needs food to gain strength but it is the feeding that makes her so weak, all she does is sleep. It wasn't until day 5 we heard her cry for food before that she just slept and had to be woken for feeds of which she never opened her eyes.

Anyway they think a week in care and she will be ready to come home.

Stellasmum hope everything is going well with you, look forward to continuing hear your story.