Laura Gorman

So that was the cholesterol harvesting at the start.

And I continued to do that when I was back on the ward.

All the equipment was there.

Every nurse that would come in would say, would you like a hand?

Can I help you?

Can I watch you?

To see if you're doing all right, to help you get a little bit more.

Because I was so emotional, as you can imagine.

And then I was afraid if I stressed too much, would my milk...

come in or would it stop so you've lots of anxieties that go through your mind and but it worked and with there and i got there and i'd bring down my little syringes proudly and the nurses would celebrate as well to say well done mama you know you brought this down this is amazing and and then there was everything then became a little bit easier as i learned and adapted to life in in here oh and how's baby luke doing now

I think it was day five or six was when he was on full mammy milk at that stage when he'd been weaned off his fluids and the rounds of the doctors that happen each day, they'd say, look at his growth and that's all you mammy, that's your milk, which made me really, really proud.

So he went from, I think he started on nine mils and he's now up to 42 mils of breast milk daily.

So that's a big jump.

And when I watch the syringes getting bigger and the milk getting poured in, extra milk to make sure that the exact measure based on his weight, it's just amazing.

To do all of that, as a mummy of a premature baby, you have to really think, you know, what do I need?

I went into panic mode.

I have no breast pump.

I have no bottles.

I have nothing.

Everything is provided through the Coombs.