MY GIRLS
(how cute are they??)
Well we are settling in at home, getting to know Lexi in a non-hospital environment, and it's been great!! She seems alot more settled than Mia ever was at that age, but that might be because I'm more confident this time round! She has a big cry when it's time for a sleep, which random people down the street seem to think means she is hungry, but she's not! It's funny how people give you thier opinions but alas do not know your baby!!
Recovery wise she is going really well, her chest scar has taken a long while to heal, which has troubled us quite a bit, she has has one visit to A&E at the WCH in Adelaide and one visit to the Dr here over it, other than Drs appointments aswell.... I have not been keen to take any chances with her and if I have felt that something is not quite right, I have not doubted myself for a second! But last night Brenton and I changed her dressing and were really pleased with what we saw. It is by no means totally healed BUT it is looking great!
Lexi is back to her birthweight and putting on weight really well, she is breastfed and bottled topped up at feed times and this seems to be working well in fattening her up! She is almost smiling at us now which is just precious.. I really was expecting her to be a bit 'behind' after surgery as she was in an induced coma for almost a week.... I have felt she is doing really well but a home visit from the Child and Youth Health Nurse confirmed that she is meeting her milestones for her age! ALL GREAT NEWS!!!
Mia has seemed to cope really well with the big upheavel of the last couple of months and also with the last half of my pregnancy, when I just was not myself.. We left her with our parents while we were in Melbourne which originally I was NOT going to do, but in the end it turned out for the best, she has a great 'holiday' with all of her grandparents and did so much more 'fun stuff' with all of them than could of been achieved if she were with us.... She talks about the time we were apart, and I am honest with her and tell her why, and she seems to cope really well with the honesty of it all... She is a lovely big sister to Lexi and likes to have lots of holds... was a bit of bad timing on Wednesday, I had topped Lexi up and then gave Mia a hold of her and then bubba had an upheavel all over Mia, which she thought was YUCKY!! I did tell Mia that this might happen sometimes!!
And me...
I am feeling pretty good, there are no further surgeries for Lexi and I know that we are very lucky in this regard. There are alot of kids whose journeys last for a long long time.. it is heartbreaking. Hospital is a very unreal environment but also saying that it is amazing at what becomes normal in a very short time...
I feel 'lighter' than I have for many months now, I feel excited about life, Lexi's future and our future as a family with her. I NEVER thought we were going to lose her, you can't allow yourself to think that, but it is a relief to be the other side of surgery. She will have her check-ups on a regular basis of course but I am confident that it is full steam ahead for her.
It is HOT HOT HOT here today, supposed to be getting to 48 degrees. We were up and out to the supermarket early this morning, I NEEDED to go shopping pretty urgently and Brenton has worked every day that we have been home, so I haven't felt confident to take them out to shop until now, and also it has been very hot. Lucky for me when we arrived home on Monday, my beautiful friends had stocked me up with a Shepperds Pie and Salad in my fridge and my fruit bowl had fruit in it, so we could keep going for a while on that. There were flowers on our table and pink balloons and streamers hanging from our letterbox. More tears!!! Didn't think I had too many more to shed but at least there were happy ones!!
One HUGE ramble later, I had better go, I had the photos uploaded for about 3 days before I came back to add the text and I rekon I could keep typing and typing away!!! That's the chatterbox in me!
Here's hoping that I might have some scrappy stuff to show in a week or two, I'm feling like getting right back into it again! Now it's just a time issue!
Thanks for reading my dribble!!
xxx
Mia and Lexi having early morning cuddles, check out Mia's bed hair!!!! It is turning into an early morning ritual, Mia hops on our bed for cuddles with her little Sis!! Sweet!!!
