Hooking up the mp3 player...

Well, not really. this is actually the standard newborn hearing screening test. They have a couple of electrodes also attached to her head and play a few clicks in the little headphones, and measure how the impulses travel. So she doesn't need to raise her hand in response or anything (although she's pretty good at raising her hand!). The verdict- her hearing's fine!

Yesterday she did pretty well. Our frinds Tina and Steve arrived from Seattle (the original plan was for them to see us pregnant), so we left her for a few hours and Suzanne came out of the hospital and came home for the first time since Olivia was born. We had a nice dinner and then went back to the hospital, to discover she'd pulled her tube out again. And as I was changing her nappy and Suzanne was talking to her, I looked up to see her little fist wrapped around the tube again, and Suzanne trying to keep her from pulling it out. It's not fun to watch her get a new tube, as I'm sure it's not fun to get a tube stuck up through your nose and down into your stomache... We decided to try giving her a good breastfeed and see how that went. It was really nice to have the tube out and see her face without it. She fed really well, and since you can't put a tube in just after she's breastfed, we decided to see if she'd got enough. She wanted more an hour later, but then went right to sleep; so I think a pretty good success breastfeeding-wise. I had to go before she woke again (1 am was the next 'scheduled' feeding but if she woke up hungry we'd feed her), so I hope it all went well through the night. Now I'm off to see how it went!