Mud and cuddles

We've all had a great weekend, especially Samuel. The sun shone bright in the middle of winter and the girls covered themselves in muddy sand on Saturday and today they played with friends at the park on the beach.

While Samuel didn't get to enjoy the fresh air, he is doing really well on low-flow oxygen and mum and dad both enjoyed long cuddles with our boy awake and alert. The doctors are pleased with how quickly his breathing ability has recovered from the operation and he's had the most settled weekend so far with long periods of sleep and coping much better when the nurses need to move him.

The plan for tomorrow is that Samuel will have the normal 6-week immunisations and no doubt there will be the regular visits from the various surgical/specialist teams wanting to check on his progress since the operation and plan the next steps. We don't have any further medical reports to share but wanted you to know (and see for yourselves) that Samuel is doing well and we're looking forward to a week without major surgery.

Thanks for remembering Samuel over these past few weeks as he's been in and out of surgery, we are sure that the hundreds of prayers prayed from across 44 countries have all played a part in the success of the surgeries and post-op recovery.