Gideon day 13

10.45am Gideon slept through from 12am last night until we arrived. What a handsome boy! He's all Gideon again. Comfortable, well [...]

Gideon day 12

11.20h We slept well. And Gideon had a reasonably restful night. After 8 hours on the low flow to [...]

Gideon day 11 (kickback from morphine)

13.45h Last night just after we went to the RM house to sleep, Gideon had pooped all over his nappy. So [...]

Gideon day 10 (off the ecmo spot)

11.30am We are still at the hospital as of this morning as we have to get used to Gideon's new schedule again. [...]

Gideon day 9 (1st marsupial)

13.20h This morning had a slightly different morning than "normal", hence another slightly late update. We are now the [...]

Gideon day 8 (off the tube)

9.00h Gideon is one week old today! And how well he is doing!!! Last night he had another good, stable night. [...]

Gideon day 7

11.45h This morning we completely forgot to write an update. Just too chaotic in our heads probably. With Gideon, [...]

Gideon day 6 (diaphragm surgery)

08.10h We have just come from Gideon. He had another good night. Right now, his [...]

Gideon day 5

11.15am Today looks like the day! If all goes well, Gideon will have surgery on his diaphragm today around 3pm/16pm (subject to [...]

Gideon day 4 (1st time on lap)

07.20h We slept reasonably well. A lot of tiredness still needs to be slept out. We are tired, but we feel [...]

Birth announcement card Gideon

Here is Gideon's birth announcement card. Made it myself (again) 🙂 Special thanks to bizzprint for the fast (and good) service!

Gideon day 3

07.30h Gideon made it through the night well again. All his levels remained super good. And we remembered yesterday [...]

Gideon day 2

07.00h Gideon had a very good night. He was stable all night. This was at first [...]

Gideon is born!

08.00h I slept reasonably well. Marieke not so much. After a quiet night in terms of contractions, back on the CTG to check Ukkies heart rate [...].

Off to Nijmegen for delivery

10.00am By now we are already in Nijmegen. Called this morning and was told there was a place in obstetrics. [...]

Tomorrow we go! (probably)

We called Nijmegen to see if there is room for us so that everything is ready for our little one (spot on [...]

Whaa, 1 week and 2 days to go!

Tomorrow we go to Nijmegen for the last regular appointment. As it looks now, we may go next Wednesday (21 November) at [...].

3 more weeks

Been to Nijmegen again today and everything is stable with our Ukkie. We had a conversation with one of [...]

18 October

Nathanaël is safely back in the Netherlands. He had a super fun and good time in Mexico and enjoyed it immensely [...]

04-10-2012

Meanwhile, we are over 31 weeks pregnant.Ukkie moves an awful lot and Nathanael can enjoy it wonderfully. What is [...]

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