What a day. We've had the best part of 10 hours trying to get Thierry to make the effort to take milk from his mom. He's been very sleepy which may be an after effect of the opiates in Dominique's pain killers she had during birth. It should wear off within 48 hours.

However to get him to get some energy he's had a little bit of supplement. That said, we think he's now getting the knack of what to do ! Not sure he was totally into the supplement - it caused his first official puke of his life.

On that point he also filled his nappy today with a pretty gruesome tar-like payload called something like merconium.

At the moment it's just him and me in the room. Mom's gone for her first walk and fresh air since comng in here. He's fallen asleep and not too interested in listening to his first bedside read - an article from yesterdays Times newspaper about Arsenal's 2 - 0 win over Everton.

¶ 5:19 pm