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Today Scott reached a milestone. He has now been at home for longer than he was in the hospital. Scott is doing very well. He is making new sounds every day, and his upper body strength is getting better. He has tried a few spoonfulls of baby cereal, and despite being a little puzzled [...] On Friday, September 10th, Scott went in for his follow-up appointment at Children’s hospital. He was weighed at 9 pounds (just over 4 kilograms). After growing slowly in August after his surgery, he has started to gain weight faster. His checkup included visits from several doctors, all of whom were extremely impressed with his [...] Scott has successfully completed his first half-year. On Tuesday, August 3rd, he went in for a checkup at Children’s Hospital, and they turned off his oxygen for a while to see how he would do. He was completely happy, and his blood oxygen level stayed high. The doctor said it was fine to send him [...] After a few more visits to the neurologist, it was determined that Scott was going to need his shunt operation to provide a permanent solution to the pressure in his head. He was booked for Friday July 23, and the surgery went very well. The operation involvs running a thin tube all the way from [...] New pictures are finally up! Scott is still doing fine. He has been to the hospital a few times for checkups and appointments, and the news has been generally good. There is still a very good chance that he will need to have a shunt placed in his head to help the fluid flow more [...] On Saturday June 12th Scott came home. After a week of strong feeding, and “good behavior”, Scott was deemed ready to make the big step. He will be on a bit of oxygen for a little while and will still need to be seen by the doctors regularly. We will also need to avoid [...] First of all, sorry for the long wait for new pictures and updates. Scott has been great this week and last. He is feeding very well on his own, and weighs 2850 grams (6 pounds, 5 ounces). The situation with the fluid in his head is also improving. The doctors have not found it [...] Today was the day that Scott was due to be born. He had other plans. At 111 days old, Scott reached his due date at 6 pounds (OK, we did not weigh him today, but he was just shy of 6 pounds yesterday). Scott is still doing well with his feeding, and breathing. He [...] Scott has had another good week. He is still doing fine off of the ventilator, and the equipment has been taken out of his room. He is breathing really well, and has had no problems at all getting used to doing all of the work himself. A large amount of babies that spend long [...] Scott did very well on the CPAP system over the weekend, but the CPAP needs to form a seal against his nose in order to provide him with pressure support. Since the seal was not working, they removed the CPAP (along with his astronaut head gear), and gave him a try without it. He still [...] |
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