Update
Visit Liviana’s Page. It looks like she arrived yesterday.
Our thoughts are with you Amy. Hoping for the best news possible.
No worries just yet…
I spoke to the doctors office a few days ago. The doctor said that babies who spend weeks in a NICU tend to block things out. The doctor was satisified with the results from her hearing test a few weeks ago. Before speaking to her I had done a test of my own. I had to go and wake her up from a nap, I stood a few feet from the crib and clapped my hands together as hard as I could. I received the startled baby hand and arm wave as my response. I did it two more times with the same result. Now, Heather took her to the physical therapist yesterday for a followup. They did some sound tests there and her reactions were normal. Everything else went well and the therapist does not need to see her again unless any concerns come up.
She seems to have changed in the last week. As if she has woken up in some way. Tossed aside the curtain of being a baby lump and turned into a non lump. I tried to put her to bed last night. She smiled at me. I smiled at her, causing her to smile at me even more. At this point I broke out laughing and turned away from the crib saying, “I can’t put her to sleep, she keeps smiling at me.” Each time I looked at her, she grinned big and giggled. It’s hard to take bed time serious when she won’t stop with the cute stuff.
Story time…
I have a story to tell. It’s about a boy and his two grandfathers, two grandfathers who think that they are funny. We bought the boy kitchen toys for Christmas. He likes to pretend he’s cooking so we decided to help him out. He was in the basement playing with his new toys Christmas afternoon. He took a wooden tomato, that he received in a set of fruits and vegetables that are held together with Velcro and can be sliced with a little wooden knife, and put it in a pot to make soup. My father-in-law, tells him, that tomatoes are good for his prostate. At which point, he turns to my father and says, “This is good for yourpwostate “. To which my father, a survivor of prostate cancer, replies, “I don’t have a prostate.” The boy countered with, “I have apwostate.” Now when he cooks he can occasionally be heard to say, “This is good for your pwostate.” Thanks Papa Jim. I won’t even go into poo stew… Thanks Papa Steve.
The above story was not what I was originally posting, I was going to comment on how gassy babies are. I was going to comment on how the boy likes to tell us “Daddy, Sabrina tooted.” But then I remembered that today is her three month birthday and I decided to change the topic for her sake. Here’s to at least 1000 more months baby girl. Happy three month birthday. (1000 months would get her to 84, not a bad run in life)
We are having some concern about her hearing. Hopefully we are overreacting. There are times that we think she is reacting to sound, but she could also be reacting to other stimuli. She received a musical toy for the side of her crib for Christmas that she seems to enjoy, however it also has flashing lights and we know that she likes light and light up things. I clapped loudly next to her head when she was looking away from me last night and got no response. So I have a call in to our doctor to see if our concerns are justified. It’s also just as possible that she was being a daughter and ignoring me. The baby book seems to say babies will tune out sometimes, so perhaps that’s the problem. Overreacting or not, we are going to get it checked out. If there is a problem, it is probably a limited loss that can be corrected with hearing aids. If we wait, we could be looking at developmental delays. It may be nothing, but if this is our lot and we have a perfectly healthy little girl with some hearing problems, we got off easy. Sometimes Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia babies don’t make it to their third month, I don’t get to complain.
New Pictures
There are 7 new pictures of Sabrina and 2 of Douglas on their websites. Take a look at this big girl. There are pictures from the gap between mid November and the holidays, they will find their way here eventually. Things have been a bit busy lately.
Sabrina had her second RSV shot yesterday, she was not thrilled, but if we can avoid RSV or at the very least limit it, it’s worth the needle stick. We have been seeing statements from the insurance company trickle in for the last several weeks. They have been pretty impressive. With the one that arrived this week we have jumped well past a “half million dollar baby”. I am not sure if this will be the last one, but it looks like it included the bulk of her stay at the hospital.