Superbaby has new ears!

Monday 28th May - Australian Hearing appt for fitting of new hearing aids. I'm not too sure what to say about this appointment...it wasn't particularly eventful, apart from the obvious. We were late (cos Superbaby filled her nappy to overflowing and I hadn't, against my better judgement, packed spare clothes so we made a quick detour home...then the audiologist was running late so our lateness didn't matter at all. We went in, got the hearing aids, audiologist checked to see if previous moulds still fitted, as the tube length might have been different, took impressions of Superbaby's ears for new moulds as the remaining one is getting a little small anyway (did I mention we lost a hearing aid? About a week ago? Lucky I knew we were getting new ones...), then they made some loud sounds to see if any of them particularly bothered her...which they didn't. So, everything pretty much as expected. It soon became clear that MissJ has in fact been missing quite a bit for a while. She spent the first 10-15mins making lots of low-frequency sounds - "Aaaaaah! Ooooor!" - then later in the afternoon I heard a few high-frequency squeals - "Aha, she's found the high frequencies!" She did take the ears out a few times in the first couple of days, might have been a bit intense at first, but she seems to be adjusting well. They're much bigger than her old ones (picture coming), but I am hearing a difference already. On Tuesday afternoon we came home and I said, "OK, everyone upstairs!" and she repeats, "up-air!!"... at that point i remembered that she had been saying "upstairs" a couple of months ago...but had stopped, and I hadn't really noticed. This evening I went to write something down that she said, and realized that I haven't written down anything remarkable for her since early March - about the time we noticed her hearing almost completely disappear. It would seem that she has been deteriorating but we just hadn't noticed... Anyway, they're here, they're pink, and they're big...but they're working! It's so nice to have good response from her again... Next appt: hearing aid follow-up (to make sure they're working well for her) Fri 8th June