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09.30.07 | News | By Corine Tran |
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Hanging w/ Dayna and loving my bouncy!
| I just love my Auntie Dayna! |
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09.27.07 | News | By Corine Tran |
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Our 1st doctor appointment & Baby Dyle gets picture taken!
We had our first appointment today with Dr. Mike Heller at Napoleon Pediatric. We liked Dr. Heller. He was really nice and answered our questions about Ethan's apnea monitor and the acid reflux. He wasn't very concerned about the monitor and told us Ethan is fine and healthy.
Ethan now weighs 7lbs 7oz and I cant remember (bad mommy) but I think he is 20.5 inches.
The only thing we were concerned about was that we never saw Dr. Heller at the hospital while Ethan and I were there. He never visited Ethan in the NICU or checked on us. Some other lady doctor from his office had originally seen Ethan because Dr. Heller was off that day. When we asked Dr. Heller he said it was because he didn't even know about us until yesterday. So I guess the other doctor didn't tell Heller what happened? I dont know what the deal is, or why the communication is so bad. The other doctor also failed to communicate to me that my son had been moved to the NICU. Since my OB, who I love and respect highly recommended Dr. Heller, we are going to continue to see him a few more times. But I had really been hoping that when he walked into our room he would have apologized or said something to make us feel like we would be well taken care of from here on out. Im not saying we dont feel good about seeing him, but it still upsets me how things were handled at the hospital and lack of anything from our ped.
Check out Baby Dyles pictures! http://www.babydyle.com
Dayna and Chad had their 4d ultrasound and got some really cool pictures. We can't wait to meet Baby Dyle! |
More Pictures of Ethan
Things have been going well. I am still healing but have been feeling better. Ethan is doing well. Grandma calls him Mr. Squeaky.
He is a really good baby, hardly making any noise. But he hates having his diaper changed. You would think he was being tortured the way he carries on. But as soon as his diaper is on and he is wrapped up, he is happy and quite again.
Here are some pictures we took today. We have been letting the dogs get to know Ethan better. For the most part they are not really interested in him.
Here is Ethan in the baby blanket my mom brought. It was mine when I was a baby. |
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09.24.07 | News | By Corine Tran |
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Ethan is 1 week old
Today Ethan is 1 week old. It doesn't seem like its been a week already. I think that is because we spent so much time at the hospital. This is only our 3rd day home.
Things have been going pretty well. Ethan is a really good baby, he just sleeps, eats and poops. haha! He seems to sleep the best during the day so we need to work on getting him to have these longer naps at night so mommy and daddy can get some sleep.
Bee & I took the CPR class at EJ today. It was pretty good though its still scary to think about performing cpr on a small infant like Ethan. I'd be worried about breaking him! But I am glad we got the training. Ethan has not had any apnea episodes.
I am still in a lot of pain. I know other people who have had c-sections and they never complained about the pain that way I do. I have only made it upstairs twice since we have come home. Climbing the stairs is just too difficult. The burning pain has gone away for the most part, unless I move in certain positions. Bee & I have been sleeping downstairs which hasn't been that comfortable. But I cant climb in and out of our bed because it is so high. |
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09.22.07 | News | By Corine Tran |
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We are Home!
It feel so good to be home, but what is even better is I didn't come home alone. I was able to bring Ethan with me.
Ethan was born on Monday. Tuesday I had him sent to the nursery so I could try to get some rest. No one has ever told me how painful a c-section is. Maybe its just my pain tolerance but I have been so miserable. Getting out of bed to pee the first time was excruciating. I think I cried for about 10 minutes while trying to decide how to get back into bed without it hurting. Its this burning feeling that spreads and makes me to just stop in my tracks. Any other c-sections mom in a lot of pain? After getting some rest my mom and DH went to get Ethan from the well nursery. It was about 330. When they get there they are told Ethan has been sent to the NICU. Panicked they quickly walk to the NICU Step Down Unit, which isn't as bad as the real NICU. They get let inside after using the phone outside the door.
The nurse caring for Ethan explained he had a little episode where his skin tone looked bluish. The Well Nursery doesn't have monitors so he was sent to the nicu to be put on a monitor to make sure he was breathing. My mom and DH asked what time this occurred. The nurse said Ethan was sent to the nicu at about 130. It was 330 when they went to get him from the well nursery. So he had been there for 2 hours and no one contacted us about this. Then rather casually the nurse says, "Oh he is fine. We have already fed him and he is sleeping now" My mom asked what they fed him. The reply, Formula. My mom explained to the nurse that I was going to be very upset as I was breastfeeding. And if there was no emergency or medical need to immediately need to feed him formula, then they shouldn't have done that. So my mom came to get me.
Even though I was in a lot of pain, I jumped out of bed, dressed and went down to the nicu. It is located on the same floor as me, literally about 5 doors down. There is absolutely no reason I shouldn't have been informed immediately of his transfer to the nicu. The nurses in the well nursery knew I was breastfeeding, why wasn't this information passed on? The whole ordeal was so frustrating. Everyone thought someone else told us. Why didn't the peditrician tell me, why didnt Ethans nurse at the well nursery tell us us, the nicu nurses assumed we knew. Eventually DH & I were apologized to from many different levels and the only thing I was told was that the ball was dropped on communication at every level. Did that make me feel better? No. But we were not going to dwell on it, our little boy was having problems and we were terrified.
Ethan had several episodes of apnea. They had done bloodwork and started him on antibiotics while they waited for the culture to come back. They check out his heart and lungs and did a ultrasound of his brain. It wasn't until Thursday night they finally did a sleep study. I am not sure why they didn't do this the first night. It would have saved so much time! All the tests he had came back fine. It was the sleep study that also watched his acid reflux and it was determined that he was having acid reflux and that was blocking his airway. His last real episode of getting a dusky color was 2:30 on Wednesday. He has not had another episode since. Every night that he was in the nicu I would go and breastfeed when they called me, so about every 2-3 hours whatever the time I was getting up and going. Despite everything he is great at breastfeeding. The lactation nurses at this hospital were wonderful and so helpful. They really were really a blessing to have.
I knew I was getting discharged Friday. It should have been Thursday but my doctor wanted me to stay one more night because she knew I wanted to be close to Ethan. So Friday we got the good news they were letting us come home with Ethan on a monitor on Saturday. The neonatologist wanted us to room in with Ethan so we would feel comfortable with the monitor.
Ethan is on zantac and is doing great. We do have the monitor at home too. Its nice to finally be home. We feel blessed and fortunate that this wasn't a more severe problem and that he'll outgrow the acid reflux. |
Pictures taken 9.21.07
Auntie Rebecca |
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