Happy Birthday!

Friday, July 14, 2006

Hard to believe time has flown by so fast...

Happy 1st Birthday Dashiell!

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Gnasher

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Last week, on Thursday, and finally after 10 months, buckets of drool and lots of gumming and gnawing, I felt the tip of a tooth poking through Dashiell's lower gum.

Today I can feel pretty much the top of an entire tooth, and a bit of the one next to it (the center two on the bottom).

I can also see the buds of his top two teeth behind the gums, so it'll be interesting to see how long before they descend enough to start cutting through too.

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Progress Is His Middle Name!

Monday, May 08, 2006

On March 28th, the day of Dashiell's catheter procedure, he weighed in at 14lb1oz. A week later on April 4, at his cardiologist check-up, he weighed in at 14lb6oz, which for him is a good gain as he had been slowing down a bit.

Today, on May 8th at his cardiologist check-up, he weighed in at a whopping 15lb13oz!!

So in the past 5 weeks he's put on a pound and a half, and close to 2 whole pounds in the past 6 weeks/since his surgery!

It's safe to say that fixing his heart murmur is a Very Good Thing &tm; for his weight (aside from all the other reasons of course). His therapists and the cardiologist have all noticed that his legs are a lot more chunky, and that he's looking meatier all over. And while it's hard to accurately measure a squirmy infant's height, he's about 1 1/4 inch taller than when the cardiologist last measured him (28 1/4 inches).

Whee! I'm so happy that he's doing so well since his surgery. It makes all the crappy sleep due to lots of feeding (somewhat) worth it.

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Monthly Newsletter: Month Nine

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Dear Dashiell,

April 14 marked 9 months. Amazing that at that point you'd almost spent as much time out of the womb as inside of it.

The big news was that you finally had your heart murmur fixed. After an unsuccessful attempt back in January the various planets such as FDA approval for the plug, insurance, time and all those things aligned and we were able to reschedule and get it all over and done with.

Actually going to the hospital and waiting for you to get through the procedure and recovery and all that was a tedious process, and for you to lie there looking like a little mechanoid octopus with all the wires and tubes hooked up to you and coming out of you it couldn't have been much fun either, but you handled it with extreme good humour, which was good all around. The day after your procedure we had to wait endlessly for a bunch of diagnostic tests before we could take you home, but finally we were on our way and we could put it behind us.

A week later we had a follow up with the cardiologist and you had already put on a couple of ounces which was promising, seeing as that was one of the main things we hoped to change/fix with your procedure. You also made Dr. Crowe envious of your little skeleton tracksuit, which is very cute if I do say so myself.

The spitting and raspberry blowing continued unabated, along with the drooling and lack of teeth. Maybe fixing your heart will finally help them "break on through to the other side". But nothing so far.

Therapy went well, and you continued to get stronger during the month. Occasionally you could sit unassisted for a few seconds, before forgetting that you were sitting unassisted and just falling over. Sadly at your age we can't just tell you to pay a-bloody-ttention, because it all sounds like gibberish to you I'm sure. Hopefully your attention span will lengthen, and as a result your sitting-and-staying power.

Looking forward to the next month...

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Prepare For Crawling

Friday, April 21, 2006

Saturday was the first time we witnessed Dashiell getting up onto hands and knees, by himself, complete with belly off the floor.

Life is going to get scary now... we have an almost mobile infant. Eep!

He's getting so much closer to crawling all of a sudden. It's so weird how he starts doing things in leaps and bounds... one week he's not doing all that much, and all his therapists are trying to get him to engage his arms, and the next week he's doing the push-up of all push-ups, by himself, in order to emulate yoga's Cobra pose, or to get in that hands-and-knees-almost-crawling pose. Watching him rock back and forwards on hands and knees, or whatever the "I've still got my belly on the floor so I'm not really off the floor" equivalent is, is amusing. It looks more like he's dry-humping the carpet :D

Not only did he get on hands and knees a few times on Saturday, he's been doing it every day since, lots of times. He's unstoppable. And he seems to have figured out how to roll from belly to back again, something he seemed to have forgotten for a few months.

I'm so proud :D

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