After another long night expressing milk and visiting Alfie we eventually got up at 10:30am… At least something in our lives had stayed the same! Alfie was cold and hungry, it was great to see him wanting some warm milk so badly but he would have to stay off it and on the drip until Sunday night! The cooling procedure was going well and would eventually prove to be beneficial. Cooling is used on adults undergoing brain operations as the coolness lowers the potential for damage, it’s a little like someone drowning in very cold water and being resuscitated without damage… the cold causes the body to hibernate switching off the bodies ability to shut down its natural instinct to attack damaged tissues. His condition had remained stable, but then it was already as good as it could be! We were delighted when we were asked if they could give him a dummy to keep him quiet! We also took strength from the fact that he removed his own airway tube after being resuscitated!
Beth was given her final Anti D injection so that any future pregnancy (!!!!!) will be a safe one; although Beth is negative Alfie is Rhesus Positive like me. We went up to see Alfie in the evening his last one on ice. He seemed very settled and his condition was stable. The condition stable thing became a worry over time, because he made so much progress so quickly he was already as good as he was going to be. As concerned parents there was always the feeling and concern that he couldn’t get any better … only worse. This started to play on our minds. It was also interesting to note that Beth was very much the positive strong one of us, with me being down; we went through a role reversal over the coming days… with Beth starting to feel that he might not pull through.
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