Well the surgery is over. Baby boy is still asleep but the surgery was a success. Here is a link to go to that explains kinda what they do during the surgery. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2040493-overview if you do not want to go there and want a quick overview...
They take the opening that is on the back. They cut it and push it all back into the back and then cover it with a skin graft. The spine is involved in all of that so sometimes it can be very tricky. Some of the time the spine is not intact. But with our babies it is. They will continue to have to monitor his head for hydrocephalus which is the liquid on the brain that could occur. They should know within the first 2-4 months whether he has that and if he does we will have to get a shunt in his brain to relieve the liquid. When I can get a picture of his repaired back I will post that.
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