Victoria

Updates on Victoria Lily Joy van den Broek, born 120705.

Monday, August 22, 2005

Weighed again

Moving on from the last post (a couple of hours ago) the midwife came back and brought the scales with her. Victoria has put on 100 grams since last time she was weighed and is now above her birth weight at 4.14kg. We are all pleased about that.

Hopefully it will not be necessary to admit her back into hospital if the trend continues.

Monday, August 01, 2005

Invalid update

Invalid because since labouring at the following my Mother, a quick typist, wrote all the same things and more below, but in more words. So this is now a sort of edited preamble and summary to the (pink) post below. If you have lots of time skip this and go straight on - you will be benefited more that way.

There have not really been any major technical advancements recently but there is an appointment due tomorrow (just for weighing and suchlike as I understand it) and also probably with the consultant on Thursday. Meanwhile there are no obvious problems other than getting her to feed. She is not exactly thin though.

She really is a very contented baby, and cries but rarely. She also sleeps a lot and personally I am better at holding sleeping babies so it suits me. At least on the rare occasions I get to hold her.

Lucy went back to Leicester on Sunday afternoon so things are a little more stretched here, but Lucy gave us a menu for this week so there is not complete pandemonium. Next week gets a bit busy with my Father having an operation and Philip leaving for Borneo. Someone has very kindly offered to come and stay (and help) for the week though.

Thank you for your continued prayers for us, my Mother and Victoria especially.
 
+ Raising Down Syndrome Awareness -