Our poor little Briggs had to have surgery when he was only 10 days old! He had 2 hernias in his abdomen that were leaking fluid into his scrotum. This is fairly common in boys and the surgery has a 98% success rate.
We had to have him at Presbyterian Hospital at 5:30am on Thursday October 1st. He wasn't supposed to eat anything after 11:30pm the night before. We cheated a little and fed him a full bottle at 12 and then 1 oz at 2am to put him to sleep. He then slept until they took him back for the surgery. I was so grateful for this blessing.
For his surgery he had to be put to sleep, get an iv in his foot and an epidural in his back. It was so pitiful. Needless to say, he was not happy the next time we saw him in recovery. He actually wasn't a very happy baby until the next day.
His 3 incisions are all healed up now and it is looking like there is no permanent damage but we will find out at his follow up appointment on October 20th.
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I'm glad to see he's smiling in the more recent pictures!
When the twins were 7 months old Caroline had to be put to sleep for an MRI, (she had/has a cyst on her brain. They never told us if it went away, they just said she was okay) it was the day after Christmas. I was so scared. She was actually about his same size when she had it done.
But I thought I had added you to my blog list, but I guess I didn't. I just though you were too busy to be blogging! I'll add you now though!
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