On Thursday 30th Sept 2010, at 9:37am after only 5hrs of labour, we welcomed Jonica Arwyn Harbottle into our family. She weighed 3.69kg (8pd 3oz), was 49cm long and cried nicely very soon after birth :-)
We were visited by the Paediatric cardiologist that same evening, who took Jonica off to do an echo/ultrasound to check her heart situation. His words upon their return were, "Well, there's good news and good news!" Apparently he was entirely happy with what he saw, so happy that he didn't feel any follow-up was necessary. Hooray! One less complication!
On Friday we were visited by Healthy Hearing for a hearing screen. I was very up-front about my expectations for the test, ie. that i didn't expect Jonica to pass, and i think that surprised the Healthy Hearing person a bit. She in fact didn't pass the screen (called "Refer", cos it doesn't guarantee a problem) so a repeat test was scheduled for Sunday morning prior to discharge.
Sunday morning rolled around and the hearing screen was repeated. Jonica again didn't pass the screen, so we've been referred to Audiology and are waiting for call to arrange an appointment for a more in-depth test. I'll post about that test separately...
In the meantime, Jonica is doing very well - surpassed her birthweight by 7 days old and sleeps like a champion, even with 2 noisy brothers running up and down the hallway outside her room :-)
1 comment:
Hugs and welcome to the world Jonica!! So the kids' hearing loss is definately genetic?
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