Sophie Smith

recognize our voice and he'd try and move his head to see us and he'd look at us with any of this amazing expressions on his face like he was this real little boy that was um you know trying so hard and um and he he did really well he doubled his birth weight doubled his birth weight he was quite a you know comparatively a big boy after 58 days and then after 58 days

Yeah, his lungs.

He had a really good few weeks where they were able to take him off the ventilator, probably for a week.

And in that time, we were allowed to take him out of his crib, humidity crib, and actually hold him, which was just incredible.

How was that?

It was, yeah, it was just, it was amazing.

And there was one time, the only time I was allowed skin to skin.

The other times he was all wrapped up with blankets and tubes and all the rest of it.

But one time they said, okay, we'll do skin to skin where they just place him on my chest like this.

Now he was fed through a tube into his stomach.

He didn't have, you know,

He wasn't actually taking milk.

And he had... I don't think he was intubated at that stage.

But anyway, they put him on my chest.

And I couldn't believe it because I put him sort of on my boob, but I wasn't meaning to like feed him.

And he actually latched on to my nipple.

And...

and he took one little suck, and then he fell fast asleep.

And it was just such an amazing moment to think, oh, that he even knows to do that.

And that, yeah, so that we had some really...