Lil Ryan Update

15. July 2008 by Julie.

Well Ryan continues to do well.  Both the doctors and nurses continue to tell us that its a matter of time for him to get everything coordinated.  He saw the speech therapist to help with some feeding issues.  We changed bottles because the one he had he had to suck to hard to get anything out and it was too much work for him.  He eats well for Tom but not for me.  We are still going twice a day.  Once in the morning and once for his dinner feeds.  Its getting harder to leave him.  I’m no good when I do feed him because at night he’s all tired and usually won’t wake up but I don’t try very hard either becuz all I do is kiss him.  Even the nurse laughed at me.  Today they brought up Occupational therapy and I laughed.  Come on..the poor kid is a week old and already they want to see if OT has anything to say.  Just add another charge to the bill.  Can we please get him to stop having his “brady” spells (his heart rate drops for a few seconds which is normal for preemies) and get his feeding tube out before we bring OT into this. I refused that advice.  Sorry!!  We’ve been there done that.  In the mail, we got a certificate stating that we have helped another person by donating our cord blood [http://www.givcord.org/].  It was a good feeling to know that they got it and it will help , hopefully save someone else. It was important to me to do that.  In fact, I made my sister run the packet over to the hospital quick before I went into surgery.  Luckily we got it just a week earlier.  Thanks everyone for all your nice cards, flowers, and balloons.  Our neighbors Kendra and Jeff  through a bottle of Champagne tied to a ballon into our pool.  Very clever idea.  Thank you for that.  I’m feeling much better today.  I could walk up to the unit without being hunched over or in pain.  But I am still taking it easy.  We have more pictures, I just need to see if Tom is willing to put them up tonight.  Sometimes I look at the pics and I’m still amazed that Ryan is mine.  The name alone sometimes baffles me.  Everything happened so fast its weird.  But both Tom and I agreed that we are happy it was a boy. Tom said with both girls being so sick he feels better we had a boy.  No recessive genes in this one.  So again, thank you all for keeping up with us.  Until next time…….

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