Hey, ladies!!
Do I need to PM a moderator to close the other thread, or do you think they'll do it automatically?? I know they like to close the longer ones down.
...oh, and we have a name! Owen.
Love the name Owen!!
Hi! I was on the moms to be thread. My little girl Penelope is 2 weeks and 1 day old today and still in the NICU. Are there any NICU moms here?
Piecey-I love love love the name Owen. It was our top choice for boys names.
Welcome..
As Patsy (Piecey) mentioned, I'm an NICU mom. My youngest will be 1 2 weeks from today, he was a sick little dude. He was born at 36.5 weeks and was 9 lbs 14.8 oz. His lungs weren't quite ready and being such a big boy, he ended up w/a partially collapsed right lung and pneumothorax. He had chest tube place and he was put on a vent. He was born at 5:40 pm and team from Mass General was at my hospital before midnight to transport him. We tried the hood, etc, but it didn't help. MGH team came in and diagnosed everything, the also did the intubation and chest tube. Wasn't expecting chest tube, as it was the collapsed lung at first, then the pneumothorax was diagnosed. He ended up having feeding issues and lost a good % of weight. He was on feeding tube and oxygen for a good amount of his stay. I believe o2 came out a day or 2 before he could go home, but he was on feeding tube for a weekish.
Anyways...he had 10 nights between the 2 NICU's 4 in boston 6 in concord ma. I didn't get to hold him until the night before he came back to me in concord. they gave me a cinderella pass to see him. I could leave for I believe 3 hours, which gave me about an hour with him. He was 4 days old at this point. My hubby spent days in boston with him, as I was recouping from csection. You would never know now he was a nicu baby. They told me he'd probalby be about a month or so behind devolopmentally cuz he was a month early, nope. He's kept up his pace and is over 25 lbs! He has some other medical issues, but I have been reassured by his specialist that they have nothing to do with what happened at his birth.
Today has been a "Clean out the wardrobe" day. We are getting Jake into 6-9 months now (Hes 7 months) and gotta get him some cooler outfits! Im excited about the change!
It's so warm and sunny here. We are in the process of opening up our pool and I cannot wait. We are wrapping up all the backyard projects we started earlier in the year and things are grand.
Any advice for a crawling baby who wants to get down so bad outside? I have a big picnic blanket i have put down but he crawls off of that in seconds. Do they make big yard blankets (When i say big , i mean giant?).
Hope everyone is doing well
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I'm sooo jealous. I was suppose to clean out some closests today, but I had too many errands to do!
CJ update: We went to allergist yesterday. We believe he has a milk & or banana allergy. He seems to have trouble w/both. We don't want to poke him, so next time he has labs to check his mastocytosis levels, he'll draw extra to check for bananas, for now...I'm cutting them out of his diet. We are doing a "milk challenge" in about a month. They will have him drink milk in his office and see if he pukes or if his hives swell up. He seems to have trouble w/milk based products, but milk protein came back fine from last labs. I got the ok to slowly introduce soy to him. He did vomit when he had so when he was in the nicu, but he, also, was just starting to eat on his own after having feeding tube removed. And he was losing so much weight, we changed to premie formula. so he wants me to introduce slowly and see what happens. Looks like I'll keep him on his alimentum until we see the allergist next month. Until I get work him up to a good level on the soy.
I can start to introduce eggs slowly, too. He already has some in eggos, pancakes, etc. He wants me to bake some things and give those to him. This poor kid hasn't even had one of my cookies! If he does well, give him a little more. See how he tolerates and I can give him a small piece of egg in a few weeks if he does well. Nuts...those are a no no at this point. I just need to keep that epipen nearby! Which of course it always is.