Nil by mouth

Been a tough start for Henny and we still haven't given her a proper hug due to the tangle of tubes and wires attached to her. Even worse for her is that she hasn't been allowed ANY food for the first days of her life so far. Until the surgeons see that the intestine is healing she is on intravenous menu only, something which she hasn't been best pleased about at times.
All looking good though, she has come a very long way in a few days as more and more of her life supporting tubes disappear.

Slept for almost 24 hours after the operation, plenty of tubes keeping her afloat.



'Don't sit on the tube that feeds you' isn't that how the saying goes?



Plenty of life in her today, the worst hunger pangs seems to have gone and she is content to stare into our eyes and wonder why we are being so mean.
Surgeon and doctors are very happy with her progress and they say they might, just might, consider letting her taste mothers milk in a day or two if she continues to recover so well.





People are saying, now that the swelling has gone down, that she looks more like me. Dunno but hopefully she'll grow out of it and start to resemble her mother too. There's always hope