Jessica’s latest check-up with the community nurse was
encouraging – she is gaining weight well and staying above the 25th centile
which is great and her sats are still up in the mid 80s which is really good
for Jessica. We have now registered Jessica’s place at
preschool and she will be starting in January and going for two mornings a
week. She looks very grown-up in her
preschool jumper!
Jessica’s story has been featured in the Big Tick – a campaign
by the charity Tiny Tickers to raise awareness of early detection of congenital
heart defects by providing expectant mums with information so they know what
questions to ask at the 20 week scan. If
you are expecting a baby or know someone who is, pop along to their website and
request a card – we were very lucky that Jessica’s heart condition was picked
up at her 20 week scan as we have no doubt that she would not be here today if
that hadn’t been the case.
Jessica’s photo was also featured in this month’s issue of ‘Let’s
Knit’ magazine as Little Hearts Matter are their featured charity of the month.
We celebrated Sophie’s first birthday last week and Jessica
enjoyed seeing friends and family and playing with her cousins at Sophie’s birthday
party. She also thoroughly enjoyed
helping Sophie to open her presents and cards (or more accurately, opening most
of them for her!) and was quite excited at having new toys to play with (not
sure if she thinks most of them are for her but thankfully Sophie is quite
happy to share!) Auntie Maxine came to
stay for a few days after Sophie’s party and then we had a trip down to visit
family again when Auntie Maxine went home so both Jessica and Sophie have had
lots of time catching up with family lately, which has been lovely.
We had one final trip to Legoland yesterday as it was the
last day before it closed for the winter and Jessica enjoyed seeing the pirate
show (her favourite part of Legoland)and going on all the rides in spite of the
rain (which just meant having lots of puddles to splash in which is always
fun!)
