It's hard to believe that it has been nearly 5 weeks since I last posted an update. Bad blogger!!
We have now got Mackenzie into a good routine, she is 10 weeks tomorrow and has been sleeping through the night for nearly 2 weeks, not that she was a bad sleeper before but it is awesome not having to get up for the middle of the night feed especially since Mark is away at work for a week and then home for a week.
Mackenzie is growing like a weed, there is no stopping that girl!! We have been to see the paediatrician to have to repeat blood test to check her thyroid and it all came back fine. Our paediatrician was in awe of our journey, he has had surrogacy patients before but never any overseas. He asked lots of questions and made mention how highly trained the doctors are from India, of course we are already knew that. We chatted with him for nearly an hour, he is a really nice guy and we will continue to take Mackenzie to him for milestone checks.
Mackenzie has also had her 8 week vaccinations, we had an small delay in getting them done though, on the day I went in she had a slight temperature and the GP was concerned that maybe she had a UTI or virus, I was pretty sure that she was just hot as it was 35 degrees outside but better to be safe than sorry, so after getting a wee sample and sending it off to the lab, waiting for a day and half for the results we went back, everything was fine and the GP sprung it on me that we may as well do the vaccinations then and there!!! Now most of you have probably read posts about my phobia of needles, I know it wasn't me who was getting jabbed but I still needed to mentally prepare, not today!!
So went went to the treatment room and the nurse ran through the different things that she would be vaccinating for and reactions, then 1 oral and 2 injectable vaccinations later and we were done. Mackenzie cried for about 3 secs and went back to sleep, I felt like I needed to go home and have a drink! She had a slight fever later that night but apart from that she didn't skip a beat.
Here are Mackenzie's stats:
Birth Weight: 3.51kg
Birth Length: 50cm
9 weeks Weight: 6kg
9 weeks Length: 59cm
She had outgrown all of the clothes we bought in India and she is making short work of the clothes she received as gifts too. She is such a happy baby, she started smiling around 6 weeks and her face lights up when she sees us, it truly melts your heart. I can't believe she is 10 weeks tomorrow, time is going too quickly!! I said to Mark the other day that she will be in high school before we know it.
Now what you have all been waiting for, so pics of our girl, enjoy!
We have now got Mackenzie into a good routine, she is 10 weeks tomorrow and has been sleeping through the night for nearly 2 weeks, not that she was a bad sleeper before but it is awesome not having to get up for the middle of the night feed especially since Mark is away at work for a week and then home for a week.
Mackenzie is growing like a weed, there is no stopping that girl!! We have been to see the paediatrician to have to repeat blood test to check her thyroid and it all came back fine. Our paediatrician was in awe of our journey, he has had surrogacy patients before but never any overseas. He asked lots of questions and made mention how highly trained the doctors are from India, of course we are already knew that. We chatted with him for nearly an hour, he is a really nice guy and we will continue to take Mackenzie to him for milestone checks.
Mackenzie has also had her 8 week vaccinations, we had an small delay in getting them done though, on the day I went in she had a slight temperature and the GP was concerned that maybe she had a UTI or virus, I was pretty sure that she was just hot as it was 35 degrees outside but better to be safe than sorry, so after getting a wee sample and sending it off to the lab, waiting for a day and half for the results we went back, everything was fine and the GP sprung it on me that we may as well do the vaccinations then and there!!! Now most of you have probably read posts about my phobia of needles, I know it wasn't me who was getting jabbed but I still needed to mentally prepare, not today!!
So went went to the treatment room and the nurse ran through the different things that she would be vaccinating for and reactions, then 1 oral and 2 injectable vaccinations later and we were done. Mackenzie cried for about 3 secs and went back to sleep, I felt like I needed to go home and have a drink! She had a slight fever later that night but apart from that she didn't skip a beat.
Here are Mackenzie's stats:
Birth Weight: 3.51kg
Birth Length: 50cm
9 weeks Weight: 6kg
9 weeks Length: 59cm
She had outgrown all of the clothes we bought in India and she is making short work of the clothes she received as gifts too. She is such a happy baby, she started smiling around 6 weeks and her face lights up when she sees us, it truly melts your heart. I can't believe she is 10 weeks tomorrow, time is going too quickly!! I said to Mark the other day that she will be in high school before we know it.
Now what you have all been waiting for, so pics of our girl, enjoy!
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| All dressed up for her first party |
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| I think she was almost laughing |
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| Cute as a button! |
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| She started out being swaddled but wiggled her way down and this is how I found her in the morning! |
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| Sleeping beauty |
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| The latest pic taken a couple of days ago |
