On Friday we had an appointment with Dr McGowan whose area of expertise is Child Development. Although J and I are both very pleased with Massimo’s various achievements, his smiling, his playing with his hands, his finding his face etc we know that we are doting parents and certainly not impartial observers. Dr McGowan basically told us that as far as she can see Massimo is developping normally and that there is nothing she can add to what we are obviously doing already and that she will see us again in 3 months time! Isn’t our little boy just a little star?!?
This weekend Uncle Toio and Leanne came to stay and we had a very relaxed and fun time. Today we had our first lot of day respite care and Lara looked after Massimo from 11 am to 4 pm. I was unsure of what to do with myself and felt quite out of sorts but luckily two other Neonatal Unit mums suggested meeting for lunch and that helped getting through the worst of the worrying! I came back to find Massimo had had a great afternoon and did not seem to have missed me at all.
Tomorrow at sparrow’s fart we are off to St George’s for the MRI scan. We probably won’t have the results until Wednesday (if we get them that quickly) but I will update you as soon as we have any news. Both J and I are feeling quite anxious about what the scan will reveal but until we know it is pointless to speculate.