When we came home, I was still exhausted (we missed a nights sleep on the night he was born and obviously the broken sleep to feed him 3 hourly at night). Alfie continued to sleep a lot so I did too. When we first got home, Daddy got to work putting our little mans swing together and I took Alfie for a nap in our room.

Because we left the hospital early, we had a midwife visit our house to check on us before we were officially discharged. She was happy with everything except his colour, so she did another blood test (that Daddy had to take to the lab straight away).She weighed him (he peed everywhere) and he had put on 130g in 2 days which she was very pleased with. We just had to go to the hospital 2 days later to get his results from the blood test and weigh him again. When we returned, they said he had lost 45 grams and I got a lecture from this horrible midwife about how to feed Alfie. She kept going on about feeding him a banquet with meat and potatoes instead of letting him snack (because he was having lots of short feeds-which is all he needed). She was so condescending to men to saying that he is a typical boy trying to pull the wool over my eyes and I have to take control. So we had to return 2 more times to the hospital and he was steadily putting on weight. They did another blood test and he was still under the limits for bilirubin levels so we were finally discharged a week after we left the hospital. We figured out afterwards that the midwife who visited us on day 5 must have written his weight down wrong because she got flustered when he peed everywhere and we went through all the stress for nothing.

Great aunty Woochie and Great Uncle Jenner were in Perth for Great Uncle Sean’s birthday and they came to visit us to see Alfie during our first week home. Aunty Kira was dying to come and meet Alfie too but she had to wait until her family was healthy again because they were sick.

Daddy had a total of 2.5 weeks of work and we had a lovely time together. Alfie slept a lot still due to the jaundice, so we had a lot of gaming time (Diablo 3). Daddy did most of the nappies while he was home and Mummy continued to feed on demand.