up to 12 weeks corrected

8 weeks and 6 days
Jazz has been doing great this week.  She put on 200g this time, most impressive!  Lots of smiles and she talks to me lots.  She had a couple of really unsettled days, wind pain, really bad, poor thing.
Shes having 150ml every 4 hrs now and sleeps 7-8 hrs over night!  Very smiley and talkative first thing in the morning!
Saw respiratory on the 31st, Nick is really happy with her and still thinks she'll be off o2 by the end of the year!

Even though shes now 3240g (7lb 2oz), shes still in 4 0's!!  And can still fit some 5 0's!
Still does the man farts, Paul heard the man fart this week and was astounded!! and amused!

10 weeks and 1 day corrected

Jazz has do ne briliantly this past fortnight.  Last week she put on 260!!! Better than a full termer!
A couple of days ago she did her first real giggle, granted it was due to wind, but it was a real gigle nontheless!!  Wind can be very humourous!!
Still in 4 0's but can now fit into some bonds 3 0's

Had her audiology appointment on the 11th and did brilliantly of course! 
Shes smiling lots, particularly in the mornings and shes such a snuggle bum!!  She'd love to be held all day if she could!

10 weeks and 6 days corrected

Still brilliant! Put on 120g thisweek!
Shes awake more now and plays on her mat with her toys, and smiles, squeals and gurgles.
The maternal and child health nurse said to start giving her an occasional bottle of formula to get her used to it for when my milk runs out.  My milk is slowing down now, I've just been so hectic with everything there never seems enough time between her feeds, and running the house and looking after the other kids and appointments, to do a lot of expressing.  Im managing to express twice a day and only getting about 25ml, bugger.
  But Jazz has officially been breastfed longer than the other kids now, I've been expressing for 27 weeks!

12 weeks corrected!
What a shocker of a week!!  Talk about hectic!  Paul had a heart attack on monday. 
Jazz was very unsettled and only had little 5 minute power naps each time we visited Paul in hospital, but even though she was unsettled she still managed to gain 140g!!  Bringing her up to 3740g

Shes been having 1 formula bottle a day.  My supply reduced so much that I nearly stopped expressing, but I just cant bring myself to stop.  Shes been breastfed for 28 weeks now, but technically shes only 3 months old, if I can build up my supply and at least get her to 6 months corrected I will have reached my goal that I made when I first became pregnant with her!! Plus, I couldnt grow her properly inside me, the least I can do is see that she gets as much breast milk as she can!! 

Despite the fact that my supply was always brilliant with the other kids, I havent had a lot of luck with breastfeeding.  Storm fed 'til he was 3 months, then completely refused the breast, I have no idea why but I always wonder if it had anything to do with my arthritis coming out of remission.  Perhaps it changed the quality or taste of the milk, or maybe it was due to my being in so much pain, perhaps he wasnt being held comfortably.  Kai breastfed 1 hourly until he was 4 months.  It was hard work, he was constantly screaming for the breast and neither of us got much sleep, but he was putting on weight like a champ until 4 months when he started losing weight despite the constant feeds.  Again, I have no idea what hapened.  And Paige just never figured out how to latch on.  My nipples were a raw, bleeding mess and every time she'd cry for a feed I'd start crying because of the pain I knew was coming.  Even nipple shields didnt help, when I tried them they just filled with blood, very grose.  I kept telling the maternal and child health nurse, and of course the midwives when she was born, but they kept saying she was on correctly, I kept saying she wasnt.  If a baby is on properly I wont get blood blisters and shredded nipples!!!!  I expressed for a month, then gave up.  So I really wanted to breastfeed properly this time........oh well.

Ive begun expressing 3 hrly again, but am only getting 5-10ml each time.  Its hard when you're on your own and exhausted.