The Circle of Life...

Great G & Great A finally got to squeeze in a visit with Anna today! We were especially proud to see how the long circle of life is continued...from the eldest all the way to the smallest member of our family. We have been waiting quite a while for these days so it's especially treasured when the time comes.

In the meantime, Anna is doing great, it's as if nothing happened. I will be enrolling in First Aid CPR, it's always good to have and after yesterdays scare (even though it was an isolated incident), we don't want to take any chances.

She is taking her feeds well, somewhere between 30-60mls per feed, so every 3-4 hours. I'm not sure but I think she is packing on the pounds. We forgot to weigh her tonight after her bath but we'll do that tomorrow morning after her change.

Daddy is returning to work tomorrow so it'll be our first day alone as Mommy and Daughter, hopefully the transition will be smooth! Unfortunately, I think I'm coming down with a cold, so it's going to be tough trying to limit our contact together. I can't believe after all this time we finally get her home, and here I go getting sick. I'm going to try and keep her in the nursery, she sleeps pretty much 22 out of 24 hours of the day so that won't be hard. So hopefully she won't catch what I have, but we'll see, only time will tell.

Anna also started her diuretic tonight so we have to keep a close eye on her so that she doesn't dehydrate. There will tons more poopy and wet diapers to take care of for the next 2 weeks as well!

Her appointments will start next week, first on Monday at Lakeridge again to check her electrolytes from the diuretic, then Tuesday she will have a routine head ultrasound as she was due for one the day before discharge but someone dropped the ball, and lastly Thursday will be her first of many weekly appointment with her Pediatrician. That will only leave her hearing appointment which we have yet to book, and her follow up appointment with Women's College in December.

Which reminds me, I went to the St. John's car seat clinic and after lots of maneuvering, sweating, yanking, pulling, pushing, and swearing by both Daddy AND the St. John's crew... the car seat is installed and approved by an MTO supervisor! So Anna will be driving around to her appointments not only in fashion but safe and sound as well!

So that's it for little Anna today! :)

Marta & Arthur