Kai's update

Sunday, Kai had seven episodes of forgetting to breath and turning bluish-grey in a matter of seconds.  Her Oxygen saturation would drop to as low as 45% during these episodes (your oxygen saturation is most likely >99% while reading this.) This was a very frightening time for Mom and Dad.  Sunday night, they did an EEG to test for seizures.  Thankfully, this test was normal.

On Monday, they decided to do an MRI. As they were concerned for things like structural anomalies of the brain, strokes, and brain bleeds.  Waiting for these test results was a gut-wrenching time for us. We went for a walk to the local Panera (or 'St. Louis Bread Company' if you are a local who has never left St. Louis, even though we all know it is really Panera) to get some lunch.  Litterally as we are sitting down to eat, we get a call that the neurologist would like to "set up a meeting with [us] to discuss the results of the MRI."  What did this mean?  Why would he want to set up meeting, unless there was something bad that needed a long explanation and discussion!?  We return to the NICU as fast as Kim's post-op legs will carry her.  The neurologist (who happens to be a former medical school classmate of Wyatt's) brings in the computer and starts going through the images.  He slowly and painstakingly scrolls through each of the images, one by one, explaining what each structure is and what it does.  (Remember Daddy is a Radiologist and all reads MRI's all day.)  This whole time Daddy resisted taking the mouse from the doctor, and scrolling at his own pace. Daddy knew that the brain structures we were interested in were at the bottom of the stack.  Why was this neurologist starting with the cerebral convexity?  "Get to the thalamus and brainstem, already!  Why are you stalling!?", were the words that Daddy was saying to himself, and fortunately didn't let out of his mouth...  After a 10 min (felt like a lifetime) monologue, not dissimilar from the one Daddy gave in one of his lectures to first year medical students back in Cleveland, the neurologist concludes with "This all looks normal." Daddy then lets out a big sigh and says, "You could have lead with that."  The Neurology fellow couldn't help but to laugh at the remark. "Looks normal" is the sweetest sound parents can hear. We are so thankful for those 2 words.  

Wednesday 4-11-12

Kai had a big day and so did her mom. Kai got a bath:) I have never given a baby a bath and was not quite sure how to start this task. Lucky enough for me I had a wonderful NICU nurse at the bed side to help me along. When bathing a preemie it must be a quick task because they have a hard time holding their temperature.  I feel for my fist attempt it went pretty well despite  the fact she peed and pooped on herself during the bath. I quickly cleaned her up with the wash clothe and realized that I can no longer clean any more of her body because now I have poop and pee on my wash cloth. Oh well, she was almost done anyway.  I guess officially I have given my first 'half-bath'. Kai also got the wear some NICU cloths today and has graduated to a big-gril crib. All this is good news. 

Story time

Bath time

New Crib!!