Summer update

Hi everyone,


I'm sorry that I haven't been updating the blog - it's partly down to the school holidays and partly because there has been mercifully little to report on Anna.

Anna has been doing really well and everyone keeps commenting on how healthy she looks these days (as you can see from the photo). Her new regime of meds really seems to be working and I also think that the damp summer has helped - I may be the only woman in England who was grateful for all that rain.


Andy and I are starting to relax, finally, and to believe that the worst is over. Anna is going to try out a couple of sessions at playgroup next month and I am starting to do some work from home (as a market research transcriber if anyone needs one!). We are enjoying a social life together, which is something of a novelty.

We has a real treat last week as we finally got to meet an exomphalos baby other than Anna! Her name is Grace Campbell and she lives in Edinburgh with her lovely parents, Gen and Mike, who are Australian. Grace was treated in the same way as Anna (conservatively) and is almost the same age, so they have an awful lot in common. It was also really great to finally meet Gen, who has been an enormous support to me via Geeps.

Anna is coming on really well developmentally. She's still very small for her age and very slim, but she is chatting away happily and is a very sociable little thing. She can count up to twelve thanks to tutoring from her big sister. Ella and Anna are very much in love with one another and have lots of fun - long may it continue!

Janie
xxx