Andrei Fagurel - English

I am doing great things! I learnt how to kiss mommy and daddy!!! Let me tell you about it.

Several days ago, I realized that our baby has no idea how to kiss, even though he is being kissed all the time, obviously. So, I decided that, everytime I give him a little kiss (and believe me I manage to find lots of opportunities through the day), I will tell him “Pup!”, whuch means “Kiss!” in Romanian, hoping that, someday, he will realize what it means.

Guess what! He actually got it! And it was really fast, I wasn’t expecting that. Well, he doesn’t yet know how to do it properly, but he got the idea.

So, now, I tell him “Do you give a little kiss?” and His-Sweetness comes closer to me and puts his sweet little mouth on my cheeck or, sometimes, if he really likes me at the moment, I actually might get a little delicate tongue..

What ca I say, I am really happy about this! Now, Dragos and I are kissing him even more, even synchronized. And it makes him sooo happy.

I have studied the growth charts.

Yupppiiii! He is very close to the average length for his age! The average is of 82 cm and he is 80 cm long. He is “a little” too fat, though. Hi hi. I know, I know, it’s not good that he is fat, don’t shoot me. This is what happens when he cannot regulate himself, what can we do about it. Before, he was too thin, now, he is too fat…

We have reached 80 cm in length and we are cvery proud. I am now going to check in the growth chart how much he is supposed to actually have at his age, but, no matter what they say, we are very pleased.

Several days ago, we have ordered a new baby-bed and today we received it. I can’t wait for it to be in place tomorrow (now, Buflitzel is sleeping, like a sweet, nice little boy he is. I hope he likes it. We had to make this stept because his current bed is 100 cm long and he almost doesn’t fit in it anymore.

About eating, we have made some slight progress. I managed, the past days, to always give him a little of what I eat to taste, and today he actually ate a little (very little, don’t imagine anything big, but it’s an important progress) out of a bottle with banana and apple. And he didn’t spit everywhere, which is very good.

We still haven’t received any news from the US. We know Dr Foker is really busy right now, he is traveling through Europe and operating children with esophageal atresia using his method and he is trying to teach other surgeons how to apply it. Lately, he obtained a practice license for operating in UK and, until the end of this month, two babies from Romania will be operated by him in Leipzig, Germany.

So, we maintain our patience,and we hope he will find some time to answer us between two travels. If he still hasn’t answered for a long while, we will try again to reach him through our surgeon in Bremen.

As soon as we will find out something, we will post the information on the website.

We are trying to start preparing for Andrei’s next operation. So, first of all, we have requested a quotation from Minnesota, from Dr Foker, for the esophago-plasty using jejunum.

Please stand by our side and pray that I don’t faint when I see it… After we receive it, we must start calculating; I don’t know exactly what we can calculate anymore, because a minus and another minus can only give a bigger minus…