This is going to sound weird but when Abigail is awake now...she is just more awake. She is aware, and engaged with her surroundings and people. She wants to play with you more, she looks you in the eye more, and she is expressing herself more with works. She can sit at activities longer now as well.
Due to her low blood sugar she is still very tired. This could take a few weeks to go away, but for right now she is sleeping very well at night and several naps during the day. Her blood sugar will continue to be low but her body will get used to the lower blood sugar and she will not be so tired.
She slept in till 7:40 this morning, as did we. She has been our alarm clock for ages now. She always woke up at 5:30 on the nose every day. Looks like we are going to have to pay more attention to setting our bedside alarm.
It is very nice to hear her expressing her needs verbally:
Sit down abigail daddy. (translation: sit your fat butt down and play with me old man)
Water more milk cup pleeeeeaaassseee (does the sign for please as well) (translation: stop what your doing and give me more darn fluids)
Abigail go bye bye car now. (translation: I am bored...I want to blow this Popsicle stand)
It has only been a few days but with the noticeable reduction in seizures and her being more aware I would say all the work we have put in and all the work to come has and will be worth it.
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Hooray! Those are very encouraging observations!
Jade did very well seizure-wise during her initiation, too, and slept well. She stopped sleeping well a few weeks into the diet, but that may have been caused by all the other major changes in her life at the time, all related to the birth of her little sister.
We've seen ups and downs, but overall we keep inching forward... you're right that it makes all the hard work worthwhile.
I'm interested to know if you and the rest of the family are eating your meals a the same time? We had such a hard time getting my daughter to eat ANYTHING at the beginning and my heart wanted to break when she kept asking for cereal, bananas, bread... We didn't dare eat at the same time. Now we do sometimes, and we've even been out to a restaurant and over to friends' houses. But I still get nervous when we get an invitation!
I'm caught up now and really glad you're keeping a blog about everything that's happening. You and Melinda are doing such a great job. Isobel sends hugs and kisses to her cousins.
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