Well baby boy is home. Carter got home on Wednesday the 15th which was a big surprise for us. We didn't think he would be home until Friday or Saturday of that week. I was ecstatic to have them home. Not having my family around was extremely hard. Adjusting to having him has been a little different then most children.
Because he had surgery on his back you can not lay him on his back at all. They want all the blood flow to his back so that it will heal well and not get infected. It makes it challenging to change diapers, get him dressed, and holding him. When he put him in the car he has to ride in a special bed car seat so that he is on his stomach. It is kinda different and makes it a little more challenging to take him places because he isn't just in his car seat to take into places. We have to measure and check his head every day for growth because he could develop hydrocephalus. What is hydrocephalus? To put it simply the fluid that is around the brain has to have a place to drain. If you have hydrocephalus yours does not drain which means you have "water on the brain." He would then have to get a shunt. So far so good. We check his soft spot on the top of his head and measure to make sure there is not significant growth that occurs. He has been measuring good and his soft spot is still flat.
His bowels may or may not have issues. So until he is old enough for them to test his bowels we have to use a catheter on him every night. Right now he is going pee on his own all day. So when we empty him he barely has any in there. This is extremely good. If he continues on this path he may not have any bowel problems at all. This is the hardest part for me. As a guy it is extremely hard to stick something up there. Even if I know that we have to and it is helping it makes me cringe every time its rough.
His feet are the only thing that we are waiting on seeing what we have to do. We have to go back up on November 7th to Salt Lake to figure that out. They wanted to do casting but if they do that we have to go up to Salt Lake every week for 2 months. This is obviously very hard since he live 3 hours away. After that he would get braces for 4 months and then he will have nighttime braces until he is 4. So this will be something that will take an adjustment and we will need to get started. Right now we are hoping we can find another option so we don't have to drive to Salt Lake every week for two months.
The girls have done very well with adjusting to him. They love him so much. He has three moms as my wife likes to say. Sometimes they love him a little to much and don't understand he isn't old enough to play just yet. So far the adjustment has not been increasingly hard. As we continue to figure out everything that needs to happen with him it will become easier and easier.
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