Hello Everyone,
The thread is running too fast and i cant catch up!!! I fast read thru some of the posts..welcome all the new mummies and babies!
Bannyeng,
Glad to see you here again! You are a tough mummy!! Hope you will recover well , take good care!
Nikki and Keann,
Congrats on Luke's discharge and Emma's successful PDA ligation!
Back to your questions earlier on, I only have my little Xavier now, as his brother Issac passed away 46 days after he was borned. Issac went thru a lot, stomach operation, multiple infections, PDA, brain damage, and we were advised to give up treatment, which we did after a week of consideration. It was really painful as our hopes were so high after he survived such a long time, but life is just unpredictable.
Xavier is doing well now. He eats well, he acts normal (we were scared that he wouldnt be since he was scanned to some abnormalities in his brain). He spent 139 days in NICU, and had a PDA ligation surgery. He used to have ROP stage 2 for one eye, and talking about those eye tests, I watched it before. It was really painful, my boy would have swollen eyes for one whole week, and before they recovered, there came the eye test again (it was done weekly). It went on for almost 2 months! I hate it big time, but fortunately it regressed fully after he discharged and we could stop going to these terrible tests again...
The only problems now are his constipation..and not gaining weight. At near to 18 months actual, 14 months corrected, he only weighed at 8.3kg, which is similar to half a year ago. Oh, and he also has Chronic lung disease, but it seems to be still stable so far, though he had an episode one year ago which he ended up with o2 support at home for a month.
We are very blessed with this little warrior, he was borned at 650g, but he really has strong wills. very cute little boy, bring lots of joy and courage to us every day in our life
Afcai,
NO, poking needles didnt help to clear the ducts. I was out of my mind to let the LC did that, and i guess she was too! It bled, and still blocked
Lilac,
Such a beautiful letter you wrote, bring back all my memories in NICU. Time flies, Nate is ONE! I still remember last year when we shared experiences in this thread, one year had passed...wow...3 cheers to our warriors
David,
Wow you are still active here, getting more and more like a permenant COnsultant in our thread, hehe..Good job David. Like what Sam said, you must share your tips with our hubbies...They just dun get it?
Well, send my regards to Diana, and little Danya. Hope they are healthy always!
Cindy_candy,
hi there. If your freezer is the normal type freezer, you could keep up to 3 months. If you are going to breastfeed for a while, and your supply is always over demand, maybe you should consider getting a chest freezer, it could keep EMB up to 6-12 months. I did that, and I breastfed my boy for 14 months, mixing old EBM with fresh when my supply startd to drop after half a year.
Hi Sam, Gingal, Shellow, Precious One, xbliss..
Long time no seee, hehe...Hope you and your little ones are all doing welll!!!