6 months old!

Can you believe it? Our baby Brody is 6 months old as of September 13th! He is doing great. His incisions from the surgery are healing fine. He is still on oxygen and might be for a while. He likes to smile and coo.

All wrapped up in his blankie from CM.

Found my thumb!

Brody went to the doctor yesterday. He weighs 11 pounds, 11 ounces. The incisions are looking good and the bruising is going away. He seems very comfortable now that his hernias are fixed.  He is a very smiley baby and is starting to interact much more.

Monday, August 29

Hello,

Baby Brody is doing good. He seems to be in some pain from his surgery, but we are giving him Tylenol. We follow up with his pediatrician tomorrow.

Going Home

Brody was discharged from the U of M today at 5:00 p.m. and we are on our way home. His hernia surgery site is looking good and we worked out some eating issues. He was coughing and sputtering during eating, so we are thickening up his formula with some rice cereal. This is working really well. We also got some reflux training which showed us how to prop up his bed at a 30 degree angle and we got a sling to keep him from sliding down to the bottom of the bed. So it was a really good day for information that will make things better for Brody.

Wednesday night

Good news! Brody's breathing tube is out and he is back on his regular oxygen amount. He ate 45 mLs at 7:30. Now all he needs to do is keep eating and we can go home!

Wednesday

It is Wednesday afternoon and Brody is still intubated. His pain medicine drip was discontinued so that he will wake up and start breathing on his own. The tube will be removed when he starts breathing over the ventilator. He will be put on a high flow cannula and then weened to his usual low flow cannula. If he is not ready to be off the ventilator, they will re-intubate him and leave the ventilator on for two days while he recovers. We knew the surgery could set his breathing back, so this is not entirely unexpected. His hernia site is swollen and he has two big cuts that are bruised up. But the hernia site is good (as expected). We'll post more as the day goes on...