Today Massimo had a very active afternoon. Firstly, he had two out of the three injections he is due for his normal immunisations. The third will happen in the next couple of days as they are still waiting for it to come up from the pharmacy. I held him while the doctor tortured him (twice – once on each thigh) and the poor little mite cried for all he was worth. Straight after that I gave him a bath, my first time. Unfortunately between him being distressed, the nurse being difficult (she isn’t one of my favourites) and Massimo being on CPAP, it wasn’t as pleasant an experience as I would have hoped! 
I did try to encourage the nurse to let us do it later on when J would have come to the hospital, or maybe even tomorrow, so J could organise being there, but I think she had just decided that today was the day, and of course it suddenly became a really good thing to do to soothe him after his injections, etc. etc. The only argument that I agreed with was that it was better to have his bath before his feed. In the end, between the injections and the bath, poor Massimo was fed 25 minutes late and boy does he hate that! He was so tired by all the activity that he was sound asleep by the time 3/4 of his feed had filled his stomach!
He currently weighs 3.16 kg and is on 94 mls of milk every four hours.
The site looks fabulous and it is so good to see pictures of Max with his Mom and Dad. Gosh did he look cute in his bath.
The three of you are in our thoughts a lot. It appears that your little Max is not doing anything the easy way, huh? Poor little tyke. Still he is lucky to have such dedicated parents and I am sure that is what will see him far in life. From having a brother who has brain damage I have learned that a lot of love and support will help you go far, especially when ‘normal’ things are more challenging to you.
We are sending you our love and best wishes.