"Gastroschisis refers to a (full thickness) defect in the abdominal wall, adjacent to the umbilical cord insertion, through which extrusion of the fetal bowel has occurred."

She had a 6mm whole in her belly, and when she was born all of her small intestine and part of her large intestine was out.
Her bowel may come normal, it may not. Its better than it was.
If you thinking of your bowel, its like a big tube. And the movement of the bowel is like it being squeezed from one end to the other.
Hannah's bowel, although it rarely does it anymore, tends to get 'confused' at times, and will go backwards for a little bit causing her to vomit a large amout if its just after a feed.
And there's always a chance that there may be a small blockage, too. Which is why we need to keep an eye on her nappies. And always checking her stomach to make sure its soft.
Because it gets bulgy more solid and theres no poop it means there's a massive problem/blockage where the bowel isn't working and its swelling up.

So little is known about gastroschisis, which is amazing because its occurs in 5-10,000 live births. Nearly always in a mother under 20. No cause is known yet.

Hannah's basically normal now, just people keep thinking she's a newborn until she smiles and starts talking to them.
Or they ask how old she is and I say 3 months and they don't believe me.
Gastro-babies have a slow growth rate, and are generally small forever. So, although DP and I are tall people, Hannah may not be. She's fairly petite now. Small body, but with long legs.
She's recently moved to OOOO clothes, but Targets clothes are too small for her now. Massive size difference when compared to Kmart. Kmart 0000 are just starting to fit. But she tends to wear alot of pants. She's taken to wearing 000 pants because she needs the length.