Finn's Page

Well, we got so carried away with Finn's twin, Breana, and all her heart carry ons, that we clean forgot about Finn!

Last you heard Finn had been discharged from NICU at 36 weeks, weighing a grand 2.3 kgs (5lbs).

Well to us he was enormous and fed like a champion. He came home having half his feeds by bottle (expressed breast milk - EBM) and the other half he was breast fed. That very quickly changed to full breast feeding as he started to get very gassy on his bottles.

Well of course Bree was still recovering from her heart surgery, so every morning at 9am Finn and I would trundle off to hospital to spend the day with Bree. Dean was back at work by now. Finn had a cot set up in Bree's room and he basicly spent the time just feeding and sleeping. We would get home (or try to!) in time for Finn's 5pm feed.

Looking back Finn wasn't the huge baby we thought he was, and probably (in the perfect world where he didn't have a twin in hospital recovering from heart surgery, but I digress...) shouldn't have been traipsed all over the place, but there was no choice and Finn handled it perfectly.

Finn had become THE most easy going baby, he was absolutly delightful.

Well things just continued merrily for Finn he continued to feed well and grow. Really the only hiccup we ever had with Finn was when Dean attempted to give Finn his first bottle of formula (I was out on my first outing away from the twins, they would have been around 5 months by now) Well Finn spent the next 24 hours projectile vomitting.

He ended up being admited to "Starship Childrens Hospital" as they were concerned there was something major with him. They couldn't figure out what had caused the nasty episode and they said categorically that no way hosay was it caused by the fact that he'd just had his first bottle of formula.

Well hey presto we again gave him a bottle of formula a week later and what do you know, the vomitting episode was back!!

Finn took a good 2 months to be weaned onto full strength formula.

Finn continued on his merry way. We started to notice that Finn seemed to be quite "driven" it started when he learnt how to roll, he would practise and practise till he had it perfect then onto another feat, crawling (he was only 6 months when he started his body drag), then he realised he could pull up to a kneel (7 months) then pull up to a stand (8 months) and now he's started to cruise around furniture (9 months)

Finn just doesn't let up, he practises and practises till he can literally do it in his sleep. He has banged his head so many times that it doesn't even faze him. And it has to hurt as we only have hard wooden floors.

Well Finn is now 8.5kgs (18lbs) and is 11 months (9 months corrected) old, he has been such a joy and such a good baby. We've been so very lucky that Finn is as he is. I think if he'd been at all a difficult baby that Dean and I would have been comitted!