Friday - 01Jun12
Dylan is now over 4kg!
In other news, we met the luckiest small mammal thing yesterday.** Clearly I must have been tired on Thursday as I slept through the early morning feeds and the cat bringing in a small mammal. Given that this was mid-feed, the Mother separated what appeared to be a now dead mammal and the (now uninterested) cat so that she could finish feeding and then clear up the mess. Except when it came to clear up, the mammal had disappeared. Oops. Clearly the cat is losing it's killing instinct.
The next evening, after a long afternoon afternoon of a fractious Dylan the Mother swapped the sofa and child with me only to discover that she'd been sitting on the very much alive mammal. Which seemed remarkably unbothered and equally unfussed about being extracted from the sofa and taken outside into the garden - past the cat - where rather than making a bid for freedom into the shrubbery ran\bounced across the lawn until I picked it up again and lost him under the berberus....
The cat hasn't found it again. Yet.
** it was small and mouse-like but it jumped as well as scurried. I need a mammal recognition chart clearly - obviously this also needs internal as well as external views...
Monday - 28May12
Looking back over the contents of the blog - particularly the photos - it is incredible how far Dylan has come in such a short time (and how poor some of the English is!). Ignoring the difference due to the lack of medical support we find it quite difficult to tell how much he's actually grown and changed until an external factor shows us: such as a change in size of baby clothes and not just due to the length but he's also starting to fill them out a little better. He's still scrawny, obviously!
We had an appointment with the physio this afternoon and she was very impressed with how much he'd changed since she last saw him which was within a few days of him arriving in Musgrove Park. His physical development (so ability to support his head and have control) is behind given even his compensated age (so taking into account he was a month early which makes him 2 months old rather than 3 - most of his measurements do this which is handy as it keeps them within almost "normal" bounds"). But she did say that given he was in hospital for the first month or so then that is what would be expected - ie you could take another month his compensted age to give an estimate of his physical dvelopment age. So he's doing very well all things considered. Although the fact that he prefers lying in the banana shape is something to ask questions about when we next see the consultants.
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