23 April

Another nice day. We had some great 'awake time' in the morning - currently our aim is to get him to make more eye contact, and to smile. Max is 6 weeks past term now, and most term babies are consciously smiling by now. We need to ensure he's tracking these milestones as much as possible.
He was quite hungry for his 10am feed and took 60ml on the bottle - I was very pleased. The 2pm feed he had to be woken for, but still took 45ml. Mark did the 6pm feed, and Max took 50ml. His saturations stay quite stable now, with the O2 percentages almost always over 90%, even when feeding, asleep or full. His pulse is often around the 90-95 mark when he's fast asleep, but this is normal for a post-term baby. Generally he sits between 120-150bpm.

We had a surprise present left on Max (pic) - an All Blacks romper suit! Pretty huge (probably for a 12+mth old), but I had no idea who left it. After a few questions, it turns out it was from Dr Simon - also a kiwi. So cool! We are seriously instructed by all to bring Max back to the unit wearing it! We will.