Put me in, coach!
If you think Amelia's batting helmet looks a little like the container they serve cheese fries in at the AA Bowie Baysox stadium, you'd be right.
If you think perhaps Amelia's mom is getting a little punchy, you'd also be right.
She's smiling but a little low energy, and whining more than usual, but all things considered, she's taking everything very well. She's off OxyContin and on Motrim instead right now for the first time, so we'll see if she gets perkier or crankier. That will certainly tell us if it's working.
Recap, since I'm not sure I got a chance to tell anyone much of anything:
Just before Halloween, a NICU follow up clinic found Amelia had a dislocated hip, best guess was since in utero. She wasn't in any pain and was having a grand time practicing standing and had begun to soak her socks by sucking on them, and her toes.
We got in to see Hannah's orthopedist, the head pediatric guy at Hopkins, and then this past Tues (it was originally scheduled for tomorrow & things changed quickly), we brought her in for a procedure to pop her hip back into the socket (under anesthesia). Alas, her muscles were too tight for that to work so we are now on Plan B, which is the presidential suite at the Johns Hopkins Ritz Carlton (seriously: corner room, 11th floor, looking over the port and the entry to Baltimore Harbor) where she is in traction, getting her leg hopefully stretched so it can pop back in. We've been told that they will know within a week if this is working and if it is, we could be here for a couple weeks. If it's not working, then we go to Plan C which is surgery. We'd really like to stay with Plan B for Twin B, thankyouverymuch!
We're hanging in, Ben and Hannah are coming to visit tonight (woohoo!), everyone is saying nice things about Amelia and she's about the only non-cryer on the unit. I am managing to breastfeed as well which is about as comfortable as you'd imagine it would be to squish onto a bed and feed a baby lying on her back who is unable to roll sideways and has almost half her body weight constantly pulling on her legs. But no one is complaining.
She's in fact so good that one of the med students came by today and asked if he and some of his classmates could come in with their instructor and do a clinic on her, just getting practice, because she's so copacetic. Proud Mama. This med student stayed back the first day to ask about Captain Legoland's "Carleton Rugby" sweatshirt -- he did his undergrad there -- a. Little Minnesota liberal arts college also attended my Ben's brother, his mom, and a colleague of mine. And like people from small communities who find a connection to that place in the big city, he waves when they do rounds, smiles, and seems to find a kinship here. I've left the sweatshirt hanging up.
There's a white board in the room for use by whoever and I have co-opted it for quotes. Today:
Xposting this to their page....
If you think perhaps Amelia's mom is getting a little punchy, you'd also be right.
She's smiling but a little low energy, and whining more than usual, but all things considered, she's taking everything very well. She's off OxyContin and on Motrim instead right now for the first time, so we'll see if she gets perkier or crankier. That will certainly tell us if it's working.
Recap, since I'm not sure I got a chance to tell anyone much of anything:
Just before Halloween, a NICU follow up clinic found Amelia had a dislocated hip, best guess was since in utero. She wasn't in any pain and was having a grand time practicing standing and had begun to soak her socks by sucking on them, and her toes.
We got in to see Hannah's orthopedist, the head pediatric guy at Hopkins, and then this past Tues (it was originally scheduled for tomorrow & things changed quickly), we brought her in for a procedure to pop her hip back into the socket (under anesthesia). Alas, her muscles were too tight for that to work so we are now on Plan B, which is the presidential suite at the Johns Hopkins Ritz Carlton (seriously: corner room, 11th floor, looking over the port and the entry to Baltimore Harbor) where she is in traction, getting her leg hopefully stretched so it can pop back in. We've been told that they will know within a week if this is working and if it is, we could be here for a couple weeks. If it's not working, then we go to Plan C which is surgery. We'd really like to stay with Plan B for Twin B, thankyouverymuch!
We're hanging in, Ben and Hannah are coming to visit tonight (woohoo!), everyone is saying nice things about Amelia and she's about the only non-cryer on the unit. I am managing to breastfeed as well which is about as comfortable as you'd imagine it would be to squish onto a bed and feed a baby lying on her back who is unable to roll sideways and has almost half her body weight constantly pulling on her legs. But no one is complaining.
She's in fact so good that one of the med students came by today and asked if he and some of his classmates could come in with their instructor and do a clinic on her, just getting practice, because she's so copacetic. Proud Mama. This med student stayed back the first day to ask about Captain Legoland's "Carleton Rugby" sweatshirt -- he did his undergrad there -- a. Little Minnesota liberal arts college also attended my Ben's brother, his mom, and a colleague of mine. And like people from small communities who find a connection to that place in the big city, he waves when they do rounds, smiles, and seems to find a kinship here. I've left the sweatshirt hanging up.
There's a white board in the room for use by whoever and I have co-opted it for quotes. Today:
Xposting this to their page....