May 4th
Slept in a little bit today. Joe and I figured we'd head up to see Matti at noon time.
9am my phone rings.
It's Matti's doctor.
"Bring your car seat with you. Matti's going home today."
WHAT!?!?!!?
Frantic clean up at Mom and Pa's. Pack, stuff, bag, box, cram, toss in cars. Clean bathroom. Make bed. Jump in pool to cool off. Shower. Let Mom and Pa know we won't be there for dinner tonight. Or tomorrow. Or the next night.
Make plans for our car to be brought to our house. Make plans for Khaleesi to stay another week at Casa de la Fish (Mom's) then be brought up to meet the new baby.
Mama and Daddy head out in our new SUV to get our Mattigan!
Friday, May 16, 2014
Fun In The Sun
May 3rd
Spent Saturday relaxing. Visited Matti and then bbq'd and swam in the pool with Khaleesi, Oma, Opa, and Molly (the yorkie). We aren't fully relaxed, with Mattigan in the hospital we're always on alert, but it was a good day spent in the sun. Lots of splashing!
Spent Saturday relaxing. Visited Matti and then bbq'd and swam in the pool with Khaleesi, Oma, Opa, and Molly (the yorkie). We aren't fully relaxed, with Mattigan in the hospital we're always on alert, but it was a good day spent in the sun. Lots of splashing!
Vroom! Vroom!
We did our car seat test! Mattigan passed, no problem. That means we are very close to going home!
Counting down the days
April 28th - May 2 Updates
Feeding tube stayed in a couple days.
Matti's echo showed she has two holes "in her heart", not surprising as we were already aware of the one. They are "small" and "tiny" (yeah, that's the medical terms used). We mentioned before that many newborns have these holes in their hearts when they are born and they close soon after birth on their own. They aren't causing her any trouble so we're playing the wait and see game. She'll have regularly scheduled echocardiograms to keep an eye on them.
No hearing exams again until she's two. Unless we feel she needs one earlier.
Third eye exam showed no ROP (the thing that caused blindness in premies) but still immature blood vessels so she's still at risk for developing ROP. So regularly scheduled eye exams every 2 weeks.
Mama came in this week to see that Matti had lost a BUNCH of weight down to 4# 6oz. The conversation with the nurse went like this:
Mama (said with concern) : "So are we [the doctors, nurses, etc] concerned about her weight?"
Nurse (said with enthusiasm) : "Yeah, I couldn't believe it!"
Mama (said with confusion) : "That was like a half pound difference."
Nurse (enthusiastic still) : "Yeah! That was great!"
Mama (puzzled as hell) : "I'm confused. She went down half a pound."
Nurse (puzzled as hell) : "WHAAATTT?"
[Lightbulb goes on]
Nurse (much calmer) : "Aha! The night nurse miscalculated from kilograms to pounds and ounces. She went UP half a pound."
Mama (needs a glass of wine) : "Aha. Ok. So we probably didn't lose weight the last couple days. She probably was mis-weighed and now is almost 5 and a half pounds. Whew."
We are getting closer to going home. We're talking days now instead of weeks!
Feeding tube stayed in a couple days.
Matti's echo showed she has two holes "in her heart", not surprising as we were already aware of the one. They are "small" and "tiny" (yeah, that's the medical terms used). We mentioned before that many newborns have these holes in their hearts when they are born and they close soon after birth on their own. They aren't causing her any trouble so we're playing the wait and see game. She'll have regularly scheduled echocardiograms to keep an eye on them.
No hearing exams again until she's two. Unless we feel she needs one earlier.
Third eye exam showed no ROP (the thing that caused blindness in premies) but still immature blood vessels so she's still at risk for developing ROP. So regularly scheduled eye exams every 2 weeks.
Mama came in this week to see that Matti had lost a BUNCH of weight down to 4# 6oz. The conversation with the nurse went like this:
Mama (said with concern) : "So are we [the doctors, nurses, etc] concerned about her weight?"
Nurse (said with enthusiasm) : "Yeah, I couldn't believe it!"
Mama (said with confusion) : "That was like a half pound difference."
Nurse (enthusiastic still) : "Yeah! That was great!"
Mama (puzzled as hell) : "I'm confused. She went down half a pound."
Nurse (puzzled as hell) : "WHAAATTT?"
[Lightbulb goes on]
Nurse (much calmer) : "Aha! The night nurse miscalculated from kilograms to pounds and ounces. She went UP half a pound."
Mama (needs a glass of wine) : "Aha. Ok. So we probably didn't lose weight the last couple days. She probably was mis-weighed and now is almost 5 and a half pounds. Whew."
We are getting closer to going home. We're talking days now instead of weeks!
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