JourneyWithTheCrosiers: Thursday "Flip" Day

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Thursday "Flip" Day

If everything goes according to schedule, and Beckett is a good boy, Thursday (as in the day after tomorrow) should be the day for him to flip to his back! That will be day 14. That will be the day Rodney and I get to hold our baby boy for the first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rodney and I will arrive at the hospital around 8, the nurse will page Joy, the neurosurgery nurse clinician, and she will come to flip him over! Shortly after that we will get to hold him. We will get to hold and snuggle our sweet Beckett. FINALLY! Can you tell we are ready!?! Dr. Stevenson (our neurosurgeon now since Dr. Moriarty is on vacation) said we can hold him all day Thursday if we want to, and you can bet we probably will! Any visitors planning on coming Thursday...you better wait until the afternoon because there is NO way I'm giving him up for quite a while to anyone except Rodney, maybe!

After he is flipped, they will do a renal ultrasound, VCUG, a hip ultrasound, and whatever other newborn screenings they usually do but haven't been able to because he has been on his belly. He will be circumcised. After all of that is complete, we should be coming HOME! Hopefully by the weekend or beginning of next week.

We are very READY!

6 comments:

Jill said...: YEA!!! Congratulations! Oh, I'm all teary just remembering how amazing that first snuggle was, the weight of him in my arms FINALLY! Enjoy every second of it and good luck with all the tests and stuff!; July 13, 2010 at 8:34 PM
A Whole New McAfee Crew said...: YEAH!!! I am so happy to hear that!!! I'm Leslie Elder's sister-in-law. I read your blog! I guess that classifies me as a blog stalker!! ha!; July 13, 2010 at 9:56 PM
JourneyWithTheCrosiers said...: Don't worry Alicia, I have stalked your blog too for quite some time! Guess that means we don't have to "stalk" anymore...it's all out in the open!!!; July 13, 2010 at 10:34 PM
Whitney said...: so glad to hear everything is going sooo well! have the best time thursday...snuggle up!; July 14, 2010 at 9:07 AM
The K Krew said...: SO Very Happy for you! Can't wait to see that baby boy being held! Congratulations to you all and thank you for the visit! Much love to you all.

-The Kowalski's; July 14, 2010 at 8:11 PM
Lisa O said...: I am so excited for your family. Give him a snuggle for me!!; July 15, 2010 at 9:56 AM

Beckett's Beginning

6/30/10: Born at 1:20 pm, 8 pounds 7 ounces, 20 inches long
7/1/10: Myelomeningocele repair surgery and insertion of EVD (exterior ventricular drain) to temporarily drain fluid from the brain. 2:45 pm-6:45 pm. Off the ventilator in recovery room. We saw him around 7:30.
7/2/10: Lots of waiting and staring at our beautiful boy! Finally ready to eat for the first time around 5:00 pm after the anesthesia wore off. What a relief!
7/3/10: Beckett was in a lot of pain as the anesthesia was completely gone by this point. Pain meds/Tylenol today!
7/4/10: Bandages from back incision removed.
7/9/10: Removal of EVD and shunt placement. 1:15 pm-5:30.
7/15/10: "Flip Day!" Beckett was given the okay to be on his back today, which means...we finally got to hold him! Lots of snuggling! :)
7/19/10: VCUG-normal. :) Hip Ultrasound-normal. :) Renal Ultrasound-normal. :) Circumcised.
7/20/10: HOME!!! After 20 days in the NICU. Discharge weight: 8 pounds 6.7 ounces.
7/23/10: First visit to see Dr. Nassim. Weight: 8 pounds 6.7 ounces.
7/29/10: Suture removal and wound check with Joy at Dr. Moriarty's office. No problems.
Weight check/One month check-up with Dr. McMonigle. 8 pounds 12 ounces (30th %). 21 1/4 inches long (75th %). Head circumference 37 cm (50th %). All looks great! :)
8/9/10: No more weight checks needed for this big guy... 9 pounds 7 ounces!!!!
8/11/10: First Steps Case Conference...Beckett will receive PT once a week for one hour. There is no real concern with his development at this point, but he qualifies for services, so he might as well get them!
9/1/10: Head CT...all normal. A little fluid. Back Dec. 15 for an MRI.
12/15/10: MRI. Fluid in the ventricles similar to the day the shunt was placed on July 9. Shunt revision on Friday. :(
12/17/10: New shunt placed by Dr. Moriarty. New location...behind the right ear instead of the frontal location! :) In Kosair Children's Hospital until 12/19/10.