Yesterday Felix turned 1 month old. One month of new life for us both. What a blessing. He was supposed to have his surgery to close his PDA yesterday morning. They rescheduled it for today. I'm glad he didn't have it on his birthday. I made him a little "birth-day" present Wednesday night. It's a tiny little blankie. It's huge on him, but it really is very small. As of yesterday, he's 3 lbs 3 oz., but some of it is just water weight. That should go away real soon.
This morning Felix got his PDA ligated. I will be able to go back and see him very soon. They said everything went well. I will believe that when I see him. I hope he's comfortable. I don't want my baby to be in pain. I was TERRIFIED that he was going to experience the same thing that I did during delivery. Total blood loss. He didn't, not at all. I will never be able to view surgery the same again. It will always terrify me. I hope there aren't a whole lot of surgery's coming our way.
Hopefully, now that the PDA is ligated, I will be able to hold my baby soon in kangaroo care (skin to skin). It's been almost 2 weeks since I last held him. Monday he will be 31 weeks gestationally. I can't believe it! He's going to start getting bigger really fast, and hopefully his suck reflex will come in the next couple of weeks. We shall see.
Signing off from the NICU at Johns Hopkins. I will post pictures later.
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Just catching up on your blog. I really want to give you such a big hug! He is so sweet and I know God has special plans for him and you. I really wanted to visit with you this week and I never even called. Sorry. It just seemed every day I had some obligation. My week looks empty next week. I will call you.
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