Christmas went good. Leila liked it, but wasn't overly thrilled. She's getting better, but she still doesn't really know how to play with toys. We think it's because she probably never had any before. She has a few that she likes, but for the most part - she'd still rather play with paper than toys.
We went to Columbus yesterday for her 1st appointment for her mouth. It went much better than I expected, and I feel much better than I did beforehand. I was very impressed with them.
We were only there about 3 hours. (They had said to plan on all day.) One dr would go out and another would come in. It didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would.
They're supposed to call us to set up her surgery.
AND, I don't have to have her off the bottle. I thought I was going to have to take that away before the surgery. It's not that she's so overly attached to it, it's just that with not being able to suck, she would have to have a sippy cup w/o the no-spill thing in it. I think she would make a terrible mess, and I was worried about her getting enough to drink that way. I've tried the cup a few times, and she does NOT like it. But our dr said it didn't matter, the bottle will still be okay. Now, I can wait until after her surgery and then go to a regular sippy cup gradually.
AND, she doesn't have to be on a complete liquid diet afterwards - just soft foods for 2 weeks. He said nothing more than stage 2 baby food. We can do that. She won't be thrilled, but she'll survive. (I'm telling you, this kid LOVES to eat - anything and everything.) If she'd had to go with only liquids, she would have thought she was dying! We may have to hide from her when we eat, but so be it - at least she'll get to eat.
They also mentioned doing a lip revision at some point down the road - not sure when, but sometime in the future. I don't think her mouth looks bad, but they said they could make it look better. That's okay too. I'm sure when she hits those teenage years, she'll be glad.
I asked about the fact that she's not even attempting to talk yet. They said that it may be because she's been doing SO much catching up with her motor skills, that she's not able to totally concentrate on both that and the other at the same time. (Remember she couldn't even sit up when we got her in Sept - now she's walking.) She understands us and all, so now that she's sort of caught up with some of the other, she may start some with the speech. They said that if she isn't trying to talk in the next 3-6 months, we'll look at that again then. Otherwise, not to worry about it yet.
When they do the surgery it will only take about 2 hours. That's just amazes me. She's got a huge hole in her mouth. I mean, almost the whole roof of her mouth isn't there. And they're going to fix all that in 2 hours! Wow! She'll be in the hospital for 1 or 2 nights. Not too bad either.
I do feel better about it all - for now anyway. When they actually get ready to do it, that will probably change though. I know they do these all the time, but it's not MY baby then - this one will be.
We’re David and Lois McBeath. We live in Point Pleasant, WV – a small town along the Ohio River on the western side of the state. We have 2 sons. Austin is 15. He’s a sophomore at Pt. Pleasant High School. Darrell is almost 12. He’s in the 6th grade at Roosevelt Elementary.
We actually began our adoption journey more than 10 years ago. I saw an ad in the newspaper about Chinese babies. We called about it, but it just wasn’t even feasible at that time in our life. All these years, it was always there, stuck somewhere in the back of our minds. I don't know why exactly – it just was. The thought never completely went away.
We also talked off and on about having another child. Our house was only 3 bedrooms, and we know the boys could have been in a room together, but we didn't want to do that if we didn't have to. In the spring of 2006, for some reason (I don't recall exactly what) - it came up again. We started thinking and talking - why not? So we started checking into it more. We did a lot of research online. The more we found out, the more we felt a calling, a desire and even a need to do this.
We started the adoption and added onto the house all at the same time. It took about 6 months to get the paperwork together. Then about another month after we sent it to China for them to translate it and 'log us in' (11/6/06). That's when we started to officially wait.
We finally got "THE CALL" on 7/13/08. It was a Sunday afternoon! After 2 ½ years, we are finally going to get our baby!
We actually began our adoption journey more than 10 years ago. I saw an ad in the newspaper about Chinese babies. We called about it, but it just wasn’t even feasible at that time in our life. All these years, it was always there, stuck somewhere in the back of our minds. I don't know why exactly – it just was. The thought never completely went away.
We also talked off and on about having another child. Our house was only 3 bedrooms, and we know the boys could have been in a room together, but we didn't want to do that if we didn't have to. In the spring of 2006, for some reason (I don't recall exactly what) - it came up again. We started thinking and talking - why not? So we started checking into it more. We did a lot of research online. The more we found out, the more we felt a calling, a desire and even a need to do this.
We started the adoption and added onto the house all at the same time. It took about 6 months to get the paperwork together. Then about another month after we sent it to China for them to translate it and 'log us in' (11/6/06). That's when we started to officially wait.
We finally got "THE CALL" on 7/13/08. It was a Sunday afternoon! After 2 ½ years, we are finally going to get our baby!
Leila Ann McBeath, formally known as Shun Xi Yi, was born on Oct 29, 2007. She had a cleft lip and cleft palate. The lip has been repaired, but not the palate. (We'll have to do that when we get her home.) She's in the Children's Welfare Institute of Shunde District of Foshan City, which is located in the Guangdong Province, in the southern part of China.
Shunde, the hometown of flowers, is one of four cities under the jurisdiction of Foshan City. Covering an area of 806 sq meters and with a population of 1.05 million, Shunde City is situated in the middle of the fertile Pearl River Delta, between Guangzhou and Hong Kong. It was set up as a county in the 3rd year (1452 AD) of the Jintai reign of the Ming Dynasy (1368-1644), and conferred with the administrative status of a city in 1992 by the State Council.
Foshan City is also where the actor Bruce Lee was from.
Shunde, the hometown of flowers, is one of four cities under the jurisdiction of Foshan City. Covering an area of 806 sq meters and with a population of 1.05 million, Shunde City is situated in the middle of the fertile Pearl River Delta, between Guangzhou and Hong Kong. It was set up as a county in the 3rd year (1452 AD) of the Jintai reign of the Ming Dynasy (1368-1644), and conferred with the administrative status of a city in 1992 by the State Council.
Foshan City is also where the actor Bruce Lee was from.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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