Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Seraphine's update

It is Angel's 2nd week already. We had a mini check-up at the doctors yesterday and she's doing really well. All her tests results came back negative, and she's slowly gaining weight, though she's still not at her birth weight yet. We've discovered that she's got a 'short tongue' or is slightly tongue tied, and is probably one reason why she's not breastfeeding well. We're going to have a very minor 'operation' this Wednesday, just a couple seconds procedure to snip the ligament slightly. Apparently, this is heiritary... and Mahmah reminded me that I had it too when I was young. She said that we had the procedure done when I was 5 years old and it was a very quick thing and that I didn't even realize that it had done. (Although I do remember vaguely that I was being tied down!! hmmmm). Well, hopefully the procedure will help Angel feed much better now.














She is eating a little better now, though it still takes up to an hour to feed her each time, c'oz she falls asleep all the time on her breast. I am trying all the tricks in the world to keep her awake! But she is eating a lot more now (but still relies on a bottle of expressed milk at night). She is a very determined little one though, and will scream for her milk and can't wait for 1 second if she wants to eat. She is a very good burpy AND pooper! She lets out these VERY loud burp each feed. She poops at least once or twice after each feed, and the naughty little angel always prefers to poop or pee in a new diaper, or as SOON as the old one is taken off. We've already had some very interesting pattern on our carpet already. She's quite strong, kicks well and cna hold her head pretty well too.
Oh here are some videos of her :

and this is her in what I call 'being in her zone'. She gets like this when she's 'gassy' and has this cute smile when gas passes through her. Bibou was exactly like this too.



Just as a comparasion, here's an old video I managed to dig up of Bibou when she was in her zone. You've gotta tilt your head to see her! She was really funny!

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