Her echocardiogram showed that the vessel responded to the medication!
It's now a pinhead size and she should out grow it.
We're relieved but cautious, but this means nothing further needs to be done.
She (and MH and I) appreciates all the good thoughts sent her way. ❤️
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2/22:
BB took her first bottles today! I was able to feed my baby! She sucked it down like a champ. I'm so proud!
She isn't taking every feeding by mouth still but this is a big step.
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We're home! I'm snuggling my sleeping baby in my arms on my own couch!
The last month + has been a blur but MH and I are so touched by the support and love we've received. I sound like a broken record with saying that but it is so true. Love to you all from BB and her eternally grateful parents. <3
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BB now weighs an even 6 lb and is almost 18.5 inches long. She's getting big you guys!
She's also started to be more awake fur the day and we "played" together a bit yesterday. She isn't find of tummy time but we're working on it
Also, as a fellow blizzard baby, I love that you call her that. My birth wasn't quite so dramatic, but the National Guard was a suggestion and distinct possibility of getting my mom to the hospital.
Love of my life baby boy born 11/11. One and done not by choice; 3 years of TTC yielded 4 MMC and 2 CPs, through 4 IUIs and 2 IVFs. Focusing on making the world a better place instead...and running.
Also, as a fellow blizzard baby, I love that you call her that. My birth wasn't quite so dramatic, but the National Guard was a suggestion and distinct possibility of getting my mom to the hospital.
Whoa really? That's crazy! You gals can share stories when she is older
Also, as a fellow blizzard baby, I love that you call her that. My birth wasn't quite so dramatic, but the National Guard was a suggestion and distinct possibility of getting my mom to the hospital.
Whoa really? That's crazy! You gals can share stories when she is older
Yup, my mother had preeclampsia, and though they did some tests earlier that day to confirm suspicions, they sent her home. Though I suspect, my mother insisted on going home, as my older sisters were home alone at the time. Anyway, they call and say yup, you've got it, come back to the hospital, that's way cross town. My father was working way across town in the opposite direction.
Somehow, he finally got home and hard to park his car on the main street and walk up the hill to my mom. They walked back down to the car and slowly made their way to the car and proceeded to get lost on the way to the hospital that he's driven past to and been a million times.
They got there, while my dad went to get coffee, they ended up doing an emergency c-section, and I was born by the time he came back. All 4lbs 7oz of me.
Whoa really? That's crazy! You gals can share stories when she is older
Yup, my mother had preeclampsia, and though they did some tests earlier that day to confirm suspicions, they sent her home. Though I suspect, my mother insisted on going home, as my older sisters were home alone at the time. Anyway, they call and say yup, you've got it, come back to the hospital, that's way cross town. My father was working way across town in the opposite direction.
Somehow, he finally got home and hard to park his car on the main street and walk up the hill to my mom. They walked back down to the car and slowly made their way to the car and proceeded to get lost on the way to the hospital that he's driven past to and been a million times.
They got there, while my dad went to get coffee, they ended up doing an emergency c-section, and I was born by the time he came back. All 4lbs 7oz of me.
Omg that's crazy and hilarious! I read your story to MH and we're cracking up (all as I hold BB). I hope your mom didn't let your dad live that down!
Yup, my mother had preeclampsia, and though they did some tests earlier that day to confirm suspicions, they sent her home. Though I suspect, my mother insisted on going home, as my older sisters were home alone at the time. Anyway, they call and say yup, you've got it, come back to the hospital, that's way cross town. My father was working way across town in the opposite direction.
Somehow, he finally got home and hard to park his car on the main street and walk up the hill to my mom. They walked back down to the car and slowly made their way to the car and proceeded to get lost on the way to the hospital that he's driven past to and been a million times.
They got there, while my dad went to get coffee, they ended up doing an emergency c-section, and I was born by the time he came back. All 4lbs 7oz of me.
Omg that's crazy and hilarious! I read your story to MH and we're cracking up (all as I hold BB). I hope your mom didn't let your dad live that down!
Happy you got some laughs out of it. No, my mom didn't let him live it down. She had a much better sense of direction than him, really, all of us to be honest.
I tried to give up GBCN for Lent, but I kept thinking of all the people I wanted to keep up on and I couldn't do it. So instead I am restricting posting to when I'm pumping at work, it is my reward for a kind of tedious task.
Speaking of, how are you doing with feeding? Are you still working at the pumping routine? I've been thinking of you and wishing you good things.
Susie I'm still trying to pump but all I get are drops. I have often gotten to the point of quitting but I read that even drops of BM have millions of antibodies so I hold on to that. And ironically when I'm about to throw in the towel, I get more.
I always said I would give it a month and so I have a week to go. If nothing else, I have a story of determination to share with her.
poundcake That's so scary! To be both worried about your father and then also having contractions. They do say stress can induce labor and you were in quite a stressful situation!