Ahh, fantastic news about Charlotte's weight and hearing
Why has Samantha banned you from skydiving?? lol It's nice of Samantha's colleague's to join in on the fundraising I really want to do some form of a fundraiser event to help the local SCBU where Anna was looked after when she was born, but haven't gotten around to any concrete planning yet - I have registered to run in the London Marathon 2009 for BLISS, though so hopefully I'll recover my fittness from pregnancy and birth and get through to doing it!
Can't wait to see the new piccies - when will they be up?
We shall definitely sponsor you for the London Marathon next year, its not an easy thing to commit to. Samantha banned me from sky diving becuase there have been a couple of news reports of sky diving deaths due to parachutes failing to open. One was another brit who sky dived above the same lake I did in New Zealand a few years ago.
we have just put her new photo's up. we will continue putting them up until July when we will finish updating the site . We wanted it to chart her first 12 months. the last photo's will be of her Holiday in Majorca June/July
You must be so excited to be taking her on holiday with you - bet it doesn't seem that long ago that you daren't even think of taking her home, let alone to majorca!
Will miss the updates to her site, but big congrats on approaching her first birthday! I'm so happy things are going so well for you all - you've both (samantha and you) been so strong and Charlotte's being so well is your reward....
Your story has really touched me and was a great inspiration and reassurance when my daughter was in NICU... because I knew what small babies were capable of and that even when all odds seemed against you you never knew when things might start to look up... I'm even thinking of becoming a neonatal nurse now, too so that I can help look after babies like Charlotte when they really need it.
Best wishes to you and your family,
Take care x
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Good for you! I've had to think long and hard on whether I will be able to cope with the job emotionally when the LOs don't pull through, but I believe that somehow I will - and it will be so worthwhile.
Hi, it is great to think of you all training to be an NICU nurse , it will have highs and lows but it will have its rewarding times, and we are so grateful to the kind Nurses whom looked after Charlotte. She is seeing a physio at the moment as she is not sitting up, it could be linked to her brain meningitis or just the premmie but we continue to keep everything crossed.
One always has to remain positive .
Good luck with the Physio. I really hope it's just a little slow development due to being born so early...
What's Charlotte's corrected age? When 'should' she have been sitting up by? Remember that every baby is different - My brother was walking by the time he was 8 months old, but my nephew (who was born overdue) wasn't even sitting up by himself until he was a little over 7 months old - now he's two and he's running around, talking, singing, playing at children's play areas, using the toilet, counting... everything you could hope for! I hope she starts to sit up soon for you...
All the best to you and Samantha
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Thanks , we hope and beleive it is just slow developing , she has really come on in the last few months, we think her water on the brain held her back for a while until it sorted itself .
She is really alert and responsive and the docs say she is at the normal level for a term baby in that department.
Good luck with the Physio. I really hope it's just a little slow development due to being born so early...
I hope she starts to sit up soon for you...
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