When we received Wei We’s file on Jan 28 2020, it was a little overwhelming. There were pictures, videos, and lots of past medical checkups with blood test results to look through. At the time I just remember reading and looking up all the test and definitions of anything that was written down about her health. It told us where she was found and when she was found. At that time and up till a couple of hours before starting this blog I had thought she was around a year old when she was found and taken to the orphanage. They were guessing her birthdate and I wondered how they came up with that date.
Today I was thinking about her and decided to look at the original files. I was reading her physical examination reports and test reports and I was about 8 pages in on a development report. It had info from the day she was taken to the orphanage and I was wondering what her weight was then. It was 2.2kg and I was thinking that doesn’t seem like much for a one year old so I pulled up a conversion chart and typed it in. The results was 4.85 pounds. I knew that they named her Wei Wei (Tiny Tiny) because she was so small and I had read about her being premature but that can’t be correct. Then at the end of the same sentence it didn’t read that she was probably premature at birth like I had in my mind for the last year and eight months. It read she was a premature infant. Still it was not making sense to me because I was still thinking she was found a year after her birth. Looking back to the top of this report to her birthdate and then read her found date. Only 9 days between them not 1 year and 9 days like I had in my mind and had told so many before now. I know I am not a mathematician but dang that’s pretty bad.
Not that any of this info would had changed our minds about adopting her but now we definitely know her birthday month is correct and the date is within a couple of days at worse. That makes me happy for sure. I close my eyes and I can imagine how Tiny she was at 4.85lbs. Her length at 16.92″ long is not far below of the average baby height though.
Days keep passing by and we hold onto Hope. Nothing new to share about the wait but I would encourage you to pray for the kids that are waiting and now especially for the families. I am in several FB groups and some are starting to give up hope I think. Not because they don’t care but I think it is a struggle for them to deal with the emotions that come with the wait and lack of information that is being shared. Waiting, truly is a hard thing to come to terms with. Shelly and I have accepted it will not be this year. Hopefully we will be wrong but reality sure is tough to ignore.
