What a day! Monday 30 April '07 that is.

Or maybe I should say: what a week!
Last We. Nadia had a bike accident and landed on her left arm, breaking it :-(
And today Tirzah got her right middle finger squashed in the door. Ouch!
We love to wear our 'babies' in our house, so that's what we did ;-)
I usually just wear Noah but Tirzah was so upset today, that I decided to put her on my back. It was surprisingly comfy! All 20kg of her...!
But Noah got jealous, so Nadia decided to put him on her back!!!

And to top it all off: Noah is cutting his first 2 molars AND he's taken his first few steps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yeah, what a day...

Transfer from carepages

Hi,

I started this blog last week by transferring all my posts from Noah's carepage on to here.
The carepage was a nice tool to keep people informed about Noah's health and progress but not everybody could access it and it was a hassle with having to have a username and password.

Then I found out about these blogs. Duh! I should have done that in the first place...!
Never mind. All the posts from the carepage are now on here. It might look a bit funny to start off with, because I only just transferred them. I have put the original dates on which I wrote the posts at the top of each post. Hopefully that will be clear enough.
Now I just have to put more photos on here and update it every now and then ;-)

You can leave comments on here too, like the message board on the carepage. Or of course simply email us on konakiwis@gmail.com

14 April '07:
Oh dear, I haven't been here in ages! Sorry!
Better give you an update, as Noah is only 3 weeks (!) shy of his first birthday.

He had his first checkup with his cardiologist in Feb.
He had to have an ECG, an X-ray and a heart ultrasound. Everything is well!!! He does have a slight murmur and the valve that was repaired has a mild leak but the doctor said it was nothing to worry about.

In the mean time, Noah started crawling in Jan. and he's now nearly walking. He cruises along the furniture and generally gets into EVERYTHING.
It's so amazing to think that when he was 3 months old, he could barely lift his head up.
He has the most beautiful dark eye lashes, his eyes are a sort of darkish blue and he has more hair than any of his siblings at this age ;-)

9 Nov. '06:
Time flies! Noah turned 6 months last Monday!!! Wow!
He's all better now, no more ear ache. Although I suspect he's teething again. The flow of endless dribble is worse than usual!

It's hard at times to believe he's been through so much in just 6 months. But then I look at him, at his beautiful smile and his scar and I know it wasn't a bad dream.
But we can never ever really express our gratefulness to God Who saved Noah's life and allowed him to be with us. We all enjoy our little man SOOOOOOOO much!
He's nearly able to sit up by himself and he's rolling all over the place, so we need to be prepared for when he get mobile. Oh no....! If you've been to our house, you know that's not an easy thing... Too much stuff for him to get into...
I'm going to have to do some serious packing away and tidying up very soon!
Noah is still fully breastfed. He doesn't seem ready for solids yet and as long as he's gaining weight, I'm more than happy to delay the introduction of solids. His older siblings never liked solids much as babies and Tirzah (his 5yo sister) was exclusively breastfed for over 11 (!) months. And she's healthy as!

Noah is very active. The more movement, the better. A few days ago, I took hom to a preschool music programmeat the church next door (Yes, we live right next door to a church, not our church though).
He loved it so much, it was so funny watching him. He wanted to join in with his whole body ;-)
I will try to take him regularly, whenever Craig is home to look after the other children.

25 Oct. '06:
Noah has been doing really, really well lately!
But right now he's pretty sick again :-(
He's had a cold for a while but it didn't seem anything major at all.
Yesterday he went downhill fast, so I took him to see the doctor. He was diagnosed with an ear infection in both ears. Poor little man...
Today he still has a high fever, doesn't drink much, vomitted violently and is asleep most of the time. I just took him back to the doctor and he still has very infected ears. So he's now on antibiotics.
He's starting to get a bit dehydrated, so I also have to try to keep his fluids up as much as I can. Otherwise we might have to go to the hospital tomorrow. And that's the last place we want to go!

This all brings back so many memories for me, from when he went to hospital... It's hard yet I'm thankful this is 'only' an ear infection and has nothing to do with his heart.

18 Sept.:
Well, Noah saw his paediatrician dr. Selby last Thursday. She was so pleased with him and with his progress!
He's now off ALL medication and fully breastfed. Yeah!!!
He's 5.7kg (12 and a half pounds) and 62cm (a bit over 24 inches). That means he's in the 10th percentile of the growth chart. He used to be in the 3rd percentile...!

He has a sticky eye at the moment. He was born with 2 sticky eyes and it took ages for them to clear up. I suspect a blocked tearduct. Been squirting breastmilk in it.

11 Sept. '06:
Noah is over his chest infection now!
He coughed for quite a while, but he's fine now. While he was sick, he didn't put any weight on for 2 weeks.
But last week he was weighed again and he'd put on 300 grams in 6 days!!! That's about 10 ounces.
He now weighs 5.56kg (or a little over 12lbs).

At the tender age of just 4 months he's also cut his first 2 teeth! He dribbles like crazy all the time and if I'm not careful, he bites me when he's feeding. OUCH! Hopefully he'll quickly learn to stop that.