Hamish is now three months old and weighs around 6 kilos and has settled into home life after a two month stay in hospital and in the last month he has amazed us all. We have been enchanted watching him trying to remove the clear plaster that holds his feeding tube in his nose by directing his arm to his face and rubbing the plaster away! His hands are still clenched into fists and there is little or no movement in the fingers but Jacqui gently exercises them daily and places toys and rattles within in them to hold them open for short periods of time.

His head turns to seek out voices and when laid on his stomach he can lift his head very well. Laid on his back he can almost roll over. He can move his legs and toes and he has begun to vocalise. He rarely smiles and looks very serious. When Jacqui tube feeds him, she holds him as if she were breast feeding and he gazes directly at her.

He has come far in the last three months. For a baby with sever brain damage to the motor region of his brain he is developing beyond our expectations and those of his doctor.

It is still too early to predict just how badly he will be affected but for now each small step he achieves for us is a miracle ...