We headed over to the new women’s hospital in Melbourne. Olivia was born there but in the old building. We visited Olivia’s neonatal specialist, Dr Sue Jacobs. She took such wonderful care of Olivia as a premmie baby and saw us through many of our highs and lows during that difficult period of our life (hang on, when haven’t our lives been difficult??). Sue was kind enough to take us on a tour of the new hospital. We visited the NICU and Special Care Nurseries. Both areas have new specialized equipment and were much more spacious and modern than the nurseries at the old hospital. We even had the opportunity to see some incredibly tiny babies, a couple of them were no more than 600 grams! Our girls were fascinated to see such small babies. We also saw one who was about the same size Olivia was when she born (about 1.5kg or 3lb 6oz). Many memories came flooding back to me though I didn’t find it as difficult as I thought I would. Mind you, there is absolutely no way I could watch video footage of Olivia when she was in NICU – those memories have been made even more difficult for me handle given what has since happened to Olivia. My goal is to sit down with Olivia when she’s older, maybe 8 or so, and view the footage with her and look back on these years as a distant memory and reflect on our amazing journey, how far we’ve come and how we overcame an epic battle and made it through to the other end, happy and healthy. We are going to do it. We are going to get our happy ending.
 
After visiting the hospital, we decided to spend the afternoon at Melbourne Zoo.