Jessica had another check-up at Oxford this afternoon and
the echo has shown that her heart function is good at present. Her sats have been stable in the low 80s and
thankfully we have not had any more trips to Wexham Park with various winter
bugs! She is gaining weight brilliantly
at the moment – her latest weigh-in showed that she is now 9.56kg (21lb) – a gain
of more than a pound since she was last weighed a month ago!
We seem to be finally having a break from teething and
Jessica has managed a couple of nights of sleeping most of the night (Mummy and
Daddy have so much more energy as a result!) – we had a grand total of nine
teeth making their appearance over a seven-week period, five of which appeared
in the space of ten days! With teething
as in many other things, Jessica likes to do things in her own way – the second
top front tooth was the last to appear which is definitely not the ‘usual’ order
suggested in the books.
Jessica is getting very confident cruising around the
furniture – she isn’t quite standing unsupported yet but is definitely getting
much steadier on her feet. She has
started using the baby walker at Grandma’s house and has worked out how to get
around quite quickly on that! She is
also starting to work out how to eat with a spoon – getting a pre-loaded spoon
into her mouth is easy enough but she hasn’t quite worked out how to get food
from bowl to spoon to mouth!
In the last few weeks, Jessica is becoming more and more
chatty which is just delightful. We have
yet to be fluent in Jessica-speak but it is lovely to watch her chatting on the
phone or ‘reading’ her books aloud.
We have also received a few more donations for Friends of
PICU from people who were unable to come to our fundraising concert due to the snowy
weather so the total raised as a result of the concert is now up to £740 which
is absolutely amazing. A huge thank you
to everyone who supported this.
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