Brock Had Surgery

When Brock was born, the doctor told me that he had an enlarged scrotum and that he may have a hernia and I would need to have the pediatrician take a look at it. The nurses were awesome and had a nurse from the NICU come over to look at it before the pediatrician had a chance to come over and they found that it was just fluid. When the pediatrician came, he just confirmed that it was fluid and that we would just need to keep an eye on it. Since then, every appointment we've had, they make sure it's just fluid. We also have had to have his weight checked because he's been underweight. He spits up often, but is developing fine. While in the process of trying to get that under control and finally having to be referred to a GI specialist, they checked his fluid and found that it had turned solid, which meant hernia surgery. So, we were referred to yet another specialist at the Children's Hospital in Madera. We went to see the GI specialist first and had to put him on special formula to add to his food. At that point, my milk started to dry up anyway, so we put him solely on the Nutrimigen (which is super expensive times everything we have to put it in!). But they have been so good about giving us free samples whenever we are in the area. We then took him to see the surgeon for the hernia consult where we found out that there was definately something on the left side, but he wasn't sure about the right side (our pediatrician in town thought there was a hernia on both sides). After hearing all the risks and options involved with surgery, we decided to take care of the left side and make an incision on the right side to make sure there wasn't anything on that side and to repair anything if there were. We scheduled surgery for December 13 and he was one of the first to go in, which means we had to be there by 5:30 am, and had to leave by 3:30 am! I didn't sleep much that night (mainly because I didn't want to oversleep). As you can see, Ron was pretty tired!

This was Brock before going back. The gown was so cute! They even gave him those little blue hospital socks, but they were huge and didn't stay on! It was pretty sad when I had to give my baby to the nurse and go to the waiting room. I had complete confidence in the doctors, staff and my Heavely Father, but it's still scary not knowing what will happen. They took him back around 8:00 am and by 9:30 am, the doctor was in letting us know that everything went great and he was in recovery!

This was just after they wheeled him in to the room so we could see him. It was pretty crazy because he was just laying on a hospital bed. Not a crib or anything. Just a regular bed! He had had a lot of fluid from the IV in him, so he was swollen and looked like a normal baby! He wasn't able to eat food yet, so we just gave him a TON of pedialyte! We were out of there by noon, but stopped at Chili's for lunch because we were starving! He slept most of the day.

He has been doing great after the surgery and only has 2 little insisions on his groin area. For an update on his weight, he is still going to see the GI specialist, but has been putting on weight, which is great! He is FINALLY on the growth chart! He still spits up, but as long as he's putting on weight, I'm happy. He does have to take a medication every morning. They haven't specifically said what he has, but think maybe it's acid reflux (which is what Ron has). I hope he wont have to do this for much longer, but we will see. The doctor wants to see him when he turns 1 and run some more tests. I just love that little boy! <3

Feeding my baby! :o)