A wee bit of progress

Jules and I both made it to the hospital this afternoon. It was really unbelievable to see will without any wires, tubes, pipes etc. attached to him. Its the first time I've seen that in person, so I was quite pleased. Jules fed him for about 45 minutes. One of the nurses had mistakenly defrosted a bottle of milk for Will, so after the 45 minute feed we decided to see if he'd take any of the bottle as a supplement. He wolfed down an 80ml bottle! Clearly nothing wrong with the appetite. This is the second time he's done this in the last couple of days, so Jules has gone out and bought some formula as a reserve and is planning on calling the Chinese herbal breast feeding person to try to help increase capacity (so to speak). Just as we were leaving the nurse decided to change Will's nappy (thanks to a wopper of a poo that I had politely ignored). She was going to place a little bag on him to catch the wee (test the volume or something). As she opened up the nappy he decided to demonstrate how strong his stream was. Jules and I were both pretty happy to see this as it gave us comfort that its definately getting better. When we asked the nurse whether this constituted a strong stream, she answered that it was ok, but that it turned to a dribble at the end. Hmmm. I couldn't help but say "that's the way it works isn't it?". I wondered if these nurses had in fact ever seen a boy do a wee before. Have they never wondered how those drips get on the toilet floor? I guess they're not going to teach him to shake are they? Anyway, the latest news is that if the stream continues to be ok he will be discharged from hospital on Thursday - 1 day before his initial due date.