Thank God for growth!

We are really thankful for a number of developments over the past few weeks.  Firstly, Jan's appetite has returned!  More importantly, she has been gaining weight.  The strange thing is that Jan drinks less than babies her weight.  She is 7.25kg now and she drinks about 700-800+ml a day; but as long as she is gaining weight I'm not too bothered.  My theory is that she is very energy efficient, so don't need to drink much to get what she needs and even gain weight.  Somehow makes me think of the inverter air-cons....

Definitely a big thank God that Jan no longer wakes up every hour at night.  We stll have not figured out if it was a virus or bug that caused her running stools and discomforts.  However, we are glad that it has lost its impact on Jan's diet and night sleep.  In fact, Jan more or less sleep through to 7am! Really thankful for that, else pt would go crazy with the little sleep she was getting.  More sleep definitely put both of me and pt in better shape.  Jan's stools are still mucus-y though, and sometimes with traces of blood (was considering putting those pictures online, but uh-hmm....I guess you understand). 

Anyway, also thankful that she was able to switch quickly from a 3-hour schedule to a 4-hour schedule.  We noticed she was getting uninterested in feeding, and those feeding sessions were getting increasingly violent (haha....a bit exaggerated, but well, there's some truth in it.  a note when you interpret the word "violent" though, the victim was definitely not Jan).  It was great when we made the switch, the feedings got easier, and this new schedule also gave us more free time.

Lastly, we have also been able to give her the last feed earlier.  Last time we gave the feed at around 11pm, and by the time we finished washing up, it would easily been 1am.  We have since been able to bring the feeding forward to about 10pm.  The worry  of doing that was the baby would wake up in the middle of the night crying for food, but thank God she did not do that.

Well, that's my list of thanksgiving now, definitely look forward to more stuff to thank God for.