Much Love to Steven, Nicola, and Little Ruben

Best wishes Steven, nothing worse than seeing something that should be one of the most joyous moments of your life turn into the biggest nightmare, glad things are looking up for you all.
 
So pleased it has ended well. Now, stop mooning about and get back in front of the camera, pronto.
 
twosips said:
I wasn't expecting to pop on here and see this thread this morning, but it's reduced me to tears when I saw it earlier. I've spent the day with Nicola and the little guy, but I wanted to come back to it when I had a little time to pass on my thanks to you all.

Firstly, today has been a lot like yesterday. A good day! There was initial disappointment after the consultant told us he'd like us to stay in for a few more days to complete a course of antibiotics to be on the safe side, despite everything looking very good and his health seemingly excellent. It of course makes sense, but in the earlier hours of the day, operating on basically zero sleep in days and fighting a huge, primal urge to be at home nesting, it was a little disappointing. I defo got a little emotional when the consultant left the room.

We quickly calmed of course, and given we had nothing to do other than sit in our room, we basically spent the day just holding little Ruben, lovingly gazing at him sleeping and taking about a billion photos to send to the grandparents ha. He felt a lot more alert too than the other days. It was great fun watching him be wide awake, following us about with his eyes and treating us to a billion and ten odd little cute facial experiences. It's all so new, but given everything we've been through, it feels like a lifetime so I found it surprisingly easy to forget that he's literally just five days old. Keep having to remind myself! Ha.

Hopefully we'll be home by midweek, but anyway, the real point of this message. I just wanted to say thanks to each and every one of you in this thread. You're all lovely, wonderful people. I'm a firm believer of the old saying 'a problem shared is a problem halved'. I think it's an important truth, and an immensely powerful viewpoint that can change and fix things for the better. Threads like this are great examples. The messages we've had from people we've never met before, likely from all over the world too, are just ridiculously lovely.

It does help. Truly. It honestly reassured us reading the replies on here and Twitter, that others have gone through the same. We go through a lot as parents, people, friends whatever...and knowing that so many have fought through similar horrific times and come out the other side even more in love with the people around them does give you an extra little push of positivity and solidarity exactly when you need it. So once again thank you. You're a wonderful bunch and you make me even prouder to be a blue! ha.

As I'm sat typing this, my wife is to my side getting some much needed rest (quick aside, fuck me, childbirth is intense isn't it? how she's managed to deal with all this despite everything she went through physically is a minor miracle. women are absolute machines ha) and little Ruben is opposite me wiggling away slowly rousing for another feeding session. He's fucking beautiful. I can't stop staring at him, but I also can't stop thinking how we'll be home soon and how before I know it he'll be at the Etihad watching a City game with us all. I can't wait. Thanks once again all. Lots of love, Steven, Nicola and Ruben :) x
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Delighted to hear that things are getting better, hope the pressure is off now and you'll both be able to enjoy the little man. Good luck Ruben
 
twosips said:
I wasn't expecting to pop on here and see this thread this morning, but it's reduced me to tears when I saw it earlier. I've spent the day with Nicola and the little guy, but I wanted to come back to it when I had a little time to pass on my thanks to you all.

Firstly, today has been a lot like yesterday. A good day! There was initial disappointment after the consultant told us he'd like us to stay in for a few more days to complete a course of antibiotics to be on the safe side, despite everything looking very good and his health seemingly excellent. It of course makes sense, but in the earlier hours of the day, operating on basically zero sleep in days and fighting a huge, primal urge to be at home nesting, it was a little disappointing. I defo got a little emotional when the consultant left the room.

We quickly calmed of course, and given we had nothing to do other than sit in our room, we basically spent the day just holding little Ruben, lovingly gazing at him sleeping and taking about a billion photos to send to the grandparents ha. He felt a lot more alert too than the other days. It was great fun watching him be wide awake, following us about with his eyes and treating us to a billion and ten odd little cute facial experiences. It's all so new, but given everything we've been through, it feels like a lifetime so I found it surprisingly easy to forget that he's literally just five days old. Keep having to remind myself! Ha.

Hopefully we'll be home by midweek, but anyway, the real point of this message. I just wanted to say thanks to each and every one of you in this thread. You're all lovely, wonderful people. I'm a firm believer of the old saying 'a problem shared is a problem halved'. I think it's an important truth, and an immensely powerful viewpoint that can change and fix things for the better. Threads like this are great examples. The messages we've had from people we've never met before, likely from all over the world too, are just ridiculously lovely.

It does help. Truly. It honestly reassured us reading the replies on here and Twitter, that others have gone through the same. We go through a lot as parents, people, friends whatever...and knowing that so many have fought through similar horrific times and come out the other side even more in love with the people around them does give you an extra little push of positivity and solidarity exactly when you need it. So once again thank you. You're a wonderful bunch and you make me even prouder to be a blue! ha.

As I'm sat typing this, my wife is to my side getting some much needed rest (quick aside, fuck me, childbirth is intense isn't it? how she's managed to deal with all this despite everything she went through physically is a minor miracle. women are absolute machines ha) and little Ruben is opposite me wiggling away slowly rousing for another feeding session. He's fucking beautiful. I can't stop staring at him, but I also can't stop thinking how we'll be home soon and how before I know it he'll be at the Etihad watching a City game with us all. I can't wait. Thanks once again all. Lots of love, Steven, Nicola and Ruben :) x
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Fantastic news Steven, I suspect that little Ruben will have so many City kits waiting for him that he'll have outgrown half of them before you've managed to rotate through them all :)
 
Amazing news @twosips, not long now till you can get home and start making happy memories to last for a lifetime.
 
twosips said:
I wasn't expecting to pop on here and see this thread this morning, but it's reduced me to tears when I saw it earlier. I've spent the day with Nicola and the little guy, but I wanted to come back to it when I had a little time to pass on my thanks to you all.

Firstly, today has been a lot like yesterday. A good day! There was initial disappointment after the consultant told us he'd like us to stay in for a few more days to complete a course of antibiotics to be on the safe side, despite everything looking very good and his health seemingly excellent. It of course makes sense, but in the earlier hours of the day, operating on basically zero sleep in days and fighting a huge, primal urge to be at home nesting, it was a little disappointing. I defo got a little emotional when the consultant left the room.

We quickly calmed of course, and given we had nothing to do other than sit in our room, we basically spent the day just holding little Ruben, lovingly gazing at him sleeping and taking about a billion photos to send to the grandparents ha. He felt a lot more alert too than the other days. It was great fun watching him be wide awake, following us about with his eyes and treating us to a billion and ten odd little cute facial experiences. It's all so new, but given everything we've been through, it feels like a lifetime so I found it surprisingly easy to forget that he's literally just five days old. Keep having to remind myself! Ha.

Hopefully we'll be home by midweek, but anyway, the real point of this message. I just wanted to say thanks to each and every one of you in this thread. You're all lovely, wonderful people. I'm a firm believer of the old saying 'a problem shared is a problem halved'. I think it's an important truth, and an immensely powerful viewpoint that can change and fix things for the better. Threads like this are great examples. The messages we've had from people we've never met before, likely from all over the world too, are just ridiculously lovely.

It does help. Truly. It honestly reassured us reading the replies on here and Twitter, that others have gone through the same. We go through a lot as parents, people, friends whatever...and knowing that so many have fought through similar horrific times and come out the other side even more in love with the people around them does give you an extra little push of positivity and solidarity exactly when you need it. So once again thank you. You're a wonderful bunch and you make me even prouder to be a blue! ha.

As I'm sat typing this, my wife is to my side getting some much needed rest (quick aside, fuck me, childbirth is intense isn't it? how she's managed to deal with all this despite everything she went through physically is a minor miracle. women are absolute machines ha) and little Ruben is opposite me wiggling away slowly rousing for another feeding session. He's fucking beautiful. I can't stop staring at him, but I also can't stop thinking how we'll be home soon and how before I know it he'll be at the Etihad watching a City game with us all. I can't wait. Thanks once again all. Lots of love, Steven, Nicola and Ruben :) x
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So glad things are progressing positively! You, Nicola, and Ruben will be home in no time!

Feel free to reach out via PM on here or Twitter any time, mate!
 
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