Sunday 10th March 2013 was a day that Lily made sure I will not forget.

This will only be a short post but wanted to take the time to share with you  number of small (but to me significant firsts) that happened on this day.

1. Lily is transferred to a cot.  This may seem a small victory to you but to us it marked the day where she lost two more of the wires that have been attached to her in recent weeks and is now classed largely as a “well” baby.  Being in a cot also means that she is now able to maintain her own temperature and we can get her out for hugs more easily 🙂

2. First day in her own clothes – that fit!  Being in a cot also meant that as much as we loved her as a semi-naked fashionista she needed to start wearing actual clothes to keep her little tootsies warm.  We have had some difficulty finding clothes small enough for the little lady but this (pic below) is one of the few things we have that does fit her…as you can see she is not at all amused by our attempts to dress her. Have you ever tried to dress a baby who has a stoma bag and wires on her feet?! It’s fiddly!

3. As per picture above, she chose Mother’s Day to have her first proper screaming fit – she’s found her lungs everybody! The picture above shows her mid-yarl……maybe its because she’s out of her pod now but she sounds very loud all of a sudden…

4. First day she breast-fed properly – I am not sure who out of me and Lily were more shocked at this one – we both seemed surprised when after a week of fighting boob-mountain she suddenly latched on and when she came away had milk all over her chubby little face 😉

5. First weigh in on the proper scales.  Until now, all Lily’s weigh-ins have taken place in the confines of her amazingly intelligent incubator but now she’s in a cot she needs to be weighed the traditional way on a set of scales that look like you’d find in an old fashioned sweetie shop.  Quarter of jelly babies anyone?

6. First mother’s day.   Now this was special mainly because I wasn’t expecting to be a mother this mother’s day.  As Lily is in hospital she couldn’t do the obligatory breakfast in bed thing so instead I was treated to a lovely breakfast out in route to the hospital.

In other news I got very emotional when a card appeared for me that the amazing NICU nurses had made….it contained a lovely (if smudgy) footprint of my beautiful little girl.  This is just one of the amazing things that have made our time at St Mary’s so special – not only do the nurses provide exemplary care to all the little ones but they also look after the parents.  I cannot thank them enough for all they have done and this little touch on mothers day just tipped me over the edge and I cried like a Lily-Pad 😉