Today was Summers latest check up at Southampton Hospital - Childrens outpatients. They were very impressed with her weight gain - nearly two pounds since they last saw her 5 weeks ago. She is now 9lb 10 oz and nicely rounded all over!
The skin over her exomphalos continues to grow well and they anticipate it will be fully covered in another months time. The doctor in charge of Summers care simulated what they will do in her operation and pushed the exomphalos back down into her abdominal cavity for a brief minute. It was amazing to see what her tummy will look like when completely flat and gives us something to look forward to. The fact that she was able to do this is means she is fairly positive that they will be able to perform the closure when Summer is older as there will be plenty of room for everything to go back in!
On a practical level the doctors are now happy for Summer to go into her normal car seat as there is less risk of her exomphalos rupturing and it is also much smaller then when she was first born. This means we do not always have to take her carry cot in the car giving us room to take passengers!
A very positive visit!
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