Meeting Oksana

Pictures and video first and then I'll talk :). I will say briefly that after interacting with Oksana while the orphanage worker held her, they let me hold her and before Larry had a chance they whisked her away for a nap. He did get to have fun interacting with her though!








This video shows her looking at the photo book of our family with the orphanage doctor, then it goes into her singing a song, and last you will see her rocking with her mama :)!

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When we got to the orphanage we met with the doctor and she went over the most recent medical information she had on Oksana. We learned that she was born at 31 weeks gestation weighing 2.2 lbs and she was 15.7 inches long! She grew very fast after birth though and was at the orphanage by 2 months weighting just over 6.6 lbs and she was 18.9 inches long. She does NOT have microcephaly. She had surgery on her eye in 2008 because it was crossed (you can still see this a little bit). She also had the tendon release back in March. She can not currently stand on her legs because of the surgery. She needs to get AFO's and they do have some ordered for her but they won't be in by the time we leave.

When she came in they warned us that she might be in some pain and had not been in the doctors office often so we needed to be prepared that she might be scared. That was not the case at all. She was very intrigued. The doctor has all kinds of fun toys including a big pink ball that she was so intrigued with that they eventually took it out and told her they would bring it to her groupa!

She was very sweet to us. She saw Larry and immediately commented that he was a man! She doesn't see them often and she reached to touch his hand and smiled at him! She has a precious big dimple in her left cheek :). Then she leaned forward and touched her nose to mine and then to Larry's. She interacted with both of us quite a bit and talked and talked and talked! What speech delay are they talking about?! Even our translator was shocked at how much she was chatting away. Of course, we had no idea what she was saying! Then they let me hold her. It felt so good to hold her! She is precious. Next thing we knew they said it was time for her to take a nap. They had been keeping her up from her nap to let us meet her. We asked for a picture of all 3 of us and then off she went.

We will finish up paperwork tomorrow so we will not be able to see her but we will see her on Friday. We can't wait!