We are all doing well, and thank you all for your warm wishes. Rory feels lots of love from people near and far...!
CRYING
When she cries, sometimes she sounds like The Count from Sesame Street. For those of you without this public tv show, when he counts he says ONE, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh....TWO, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, THREE, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, . And so on. She does the uh, uh, uh, uh, uh part.
LOSES WIEGHT!
She was 6 lbs, 7 ozs at birth and then PLUNGED to 5 lbs10 ozs a few days later. That was scary for a bit, and the community health nurse was quite concerned and told us she would return daily to see how Rory was doing (I feared take her away!).
They loaned us a electric breast pump to "top up" her feedings. So we fed, fed and fed her early and often and with in 24 hours, she ballooned up 100 grams! (usually daily increase is about 30 grams).
The nurse was pleased. We relaxed. And we did not have to employ my suggested method of taping pennies to her butt to tip the scales.
CUTTING FINGER NAILS
She was born with long and slender nails -- and proceeded to slice and dice her sensitive face to shreds. So, we glued on a pair of mitts to protect her. Then I got advice from my sister and when Rory was deep deep asleep, I bit the nails off. Worked great. Face is re-beautiful-ized again!
EXPLOSIVENESS
She fills her pants vigorously! The sound is loud and is usually followed by smaller aftershocks.
Once when Colleen was feeding her, she was simultaneously swallowing, hiccup-ing AND farting at the same time.
