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day 9 was great, extubated!!! day 10 chest tube is taken out, ng tube out and feeding tube in, mekhaai has his first meal of breast milk, lets hope he tolerates it well, they will be doing by tube and by mouth just to see how he does. I get to hold him all day If I want now, the nurses he has are great, he has had the same nurse for a while now and she was here 12 hours yesterday and then had to stay another five due to a staffing mix up, then she back 7 hours later to do her next regular shift, ...

Yesterday and today were good days, the baby recovered well from his surgery and the scare we had with the lung, I guess they nicked it during surgery and then he was on high pressures after surgery and that is what caused the air to leak out into his chest area. It seems to be healing nicely and they have turned the drain tube off that is in his chest and are just watching it, the xray showed no signs of air building back up, so that is good news. He is now on 24% oxygen and we breathe 21%, they ...

I GUESS I HAVE BEEN FEELING A LITTLE TO HAPPY AND BRAGGING A LITTLE TOO MUCH. THE BABY WAS DOING AWESOME FROM BIRTH, THEN LAST NIGHT HE WENT IN FOR SURGERY AND THEY CALLED TO TELL ME THEY WERE ON THE LAST STITCH OF HIS DIAPHRAGM WHICH WAS THORASCOPIC SURGERY, THEY SAID, IT WAS SMALLER THAN THEY THOUGHT AND HE HAD STOMACH,SPLEEN,SMALL AND LARGE INTESTINES UP IN HIS CHEST AND THERE WAS MORE LUNG THAN EXPECTED AND IT ACTUALLY GOT IN THE WAY, SO WE WENT IN TO SEE HIM AND WE WERE HAPPY AND ON TOP OF ...

mekhaai was born 3/17/10 at 3:12 pm by c-section. He was 8lb 12.1 oz. I will never ever forget the moment he was born, they walked past me with him, he was dripping wet and they paused for second to show him to me and then the started working on him. He was breathing on his own but I didnt know it at the time. I didnt hear him make a sound and they were working on him right in front of me so I could see everything and I was trying hard to listen to them talk, it seemed like forever, I heard ...

:? its almost time to have little Mekhaai, any day now, we will be starting our battle with the CDH monster. I am excited to meet my little man and get this first battle over and then on to home with him so we can start the next battle, toddlerhood and then teenage years. March is a good month and full of new beginnings. Thanks again to all of the support that I have gotten from this site, you all have really helped me through this journey. I can't wait to log back on after Mekhaai has come ...