Here you can keep up to date with little izabelle and how she is getting on!

Izabelle's Birth story part 1:

Jan 10th 2008
Izabelle has had a tube put down her nose as she has stopped drinking. She is in hospital at the moment as she had a temp of 40. At the moment we dont know whats wrong. Sometimes when izzy is in hospital the Doctors dont manage to find out what was wrong with her.

Jan 19th 2008
Izabelle has coem home today, she's still not 100% better as she still has the tube in. But hopefully she will pick up her drinking again soon.

Feb 19th 2008
One month on and izzy still isnt even attempting to drink her milk or any other fluid. We have tried all sorts of things but at the moment none of them are working. We have been feeding her via the tube since January.

5th April 2008
We where finally able to remove Izabelle's tube today as she is now eating her milk from a spoon, with a little added banana milkshake.

8th April 2008
Izabelle has her 3rd set of imunisations. The 1st time Izzy had these she had a fit so we always have to keep a close eye on her for 24 hours.

17th April 2008
Izabelle had recentley started to become scared of everthing, even her favoroute toys, her bed, her highchair ect, I dont know whats caused this but she is terified, she tenses her body and screams and its very very difficult to get her calm again. (if she gets to stressed and we cant calm her down she could fit)

22nd April 2008
Izabelle is a little better now, i have been using one word to desribe each thing she is doing so now when she hears that word she is a bit calmer. Eg, when is dinner time i repeat the word chair to her, and she knows she is going to sit in her high chair and have somehting to eat.

Izabelle's story part 3:



15th August 2008:
Izabelle has started to move around in her walker now!! its fantastic!!

22nd August 2008:
Today Izabelle had some more Photo's taken as she is going to be in The News on monday, She was a very good girl and did some beautifull smiles!


26th August 2008:
Izabelle made the front page of The News today!!! thats great!! click the link to visit the page >> The News


27th August 2008:
Izabelle was in The News again today, click the link to read the article >> News Article


3rd September 2008:
Izabelle has a check up at the hospital today, Usually when we go there she has to have blood tests done. This usually upsets her for the rest of the day and she dosnt sleep as well as she is hard to take blood from and gets very stessed out. She hasnt been sleeping to well anyway these past 3 nights as she has 4 teeth coming threw and they are hurting her quite bad this time. Yesterday morning i was up with her from 2.45am as she was moaning and crying about her teeth so i put her in my bed and played Disneys films for her to listen to all night long.



1st October 2008:
Izabelle can now finally sit up by herself, after alot of hard work.


10th October 2008:
This morning Izabelle said muma for the very 1st time!!! yay!!!


3rd December 2008:
Today is Izabelle's 2nd birthday. She had a small party with a few of her friends.


25th December 2008:
Izabelle enjoyed her christmas this year, she was able to open all her prezzies with just a little help from us. as last year the noise of all the wrapping paper was to much for her and she found it very very scary and cryed alot.

January 2009:
Izabelle had a few fits over the christmas and new year period, she was thought to have epilepsey so will be haveing and EEG scan to find out.

January 2009:
The results are back from Izabelle's scan and they are all normal, so this means she dosnt have epilepsey, But her medicine levels have been made slightly higher now so this should help her not to fit.


Febuary 2009:
Izabelle now has her own standing frame, so she can learn to stand. At the moment she can only sit by herself and that is when you have placed her in a sitting postion, if she falls down she cant sit herself back up. Izabelle has also started to roll over by herself which is great!!! as we have been trying for months and months to help her to be able to do this!!!



Izabelle's Story Part 4





August 2009 :

Hello everyone, We haven't been able to update Izabelle's website in a while now as we have been so extremely busy these last few months. As you can now see from Izabelle's home page, we have reached our target!!! we would like to say a HUGH THANKYOU to everybody who has helped us in someway or who has made a donation. If it wasn't for you then we wouldn't be where we are today without you! So thank you so so much!
Well Izabelle has been getting on great these last few months! she has started to stand and even take her first few steps! she has also become alot more aware of what is going on around her. She also drunk threw a straw for the first time the other day!!! so now she can drink all her liquids that way as up till now we had to thicken them and spoon feed her all liquids, so this means Izabelle has slightly more independence now, which is great for her! although she has to learn to take a break from drinking as we have to keep reminding her of this.
Izabelle has also been accepted at our 1st choice of school for her!! We are so happy about this as it we thought Izabelle will benefit a great deal from this school and they also have an on sight nurse for all medication that she has to take daily!! She should be starting on our return from china! Speaking of China, we are now in the process of waiting for Izabelle's & James' (Izabelle's dads) passports to return, also just need to get a health check for Izabelle sorted out and we can finally book our date for the treatment!! I will let everyone know as soon as we have a date for our trip and will make a separate page on the website that we will try to update daily of our china stay and how it is all going.