By the way, the reason for the slow blogging and relative quietness (family) is that the girls are still in hospital. It's an irritating formality -- Em had tested positive for 'group B strep' at the end of her pregnancy, a routine condition that means she needed penicillin twice during the birth, but it was so quick (about 4 hours from starting to time contractions to waaah) she didn't have time for the second shot, which means they have to do bloods and antibiotics for Angharad, and the results take 24-48 hrs to come back, and blah blah blah. There's clearly nothing wrong with her, everyone's in agreement, but we still have to wait for these damn culture results to prove it, which means another night there when we'd rather be back here feathering nests.
It's annoying, and made more so by the fact that the birth centre's organic outlook clearly clashes with the more technical medicos', and we've felt at times caught in the middle of surprisingly open mutual suspicion. The birth centre have been absolutely brilliant, and I'm inclined towards their more personal, caring methods, but I'd still rather they kept their politics to themselves.
Anyway. Could be back home tomorrow (we'll push for it), but Friday at the latest.
(It's worth a final note that A had her bloods done up in baby ICU, being where the paediatric registrar lives. That was sobering. Seeing the needle go in her tiny hand was quite manageable compared to what the parents of those poor unfortunate kids up there must be experiencing. We can cope with a couple of days of annoyance.)
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