Saturday, November 22, 2008
Update on Aramai
After our visit to the cardiologist yesterday it seems like our baby girl is not gaining any weight. She only weighs 5lbs 8 oz...not even her birth weight yet. She was put on yet another medication to help with her potassium levels. Since they don't see her getting to 10 pounds within the next month they will be moving forward with the surgery. We go to Children's hospital of Philadelphia for a second opinion the week after thanksgiving. We'll get a chance to meet a few surgeons and they'll schedule her surgery for sometime in December. Please keep Aramai in your prayers. She's such a little peanut to need heart surgery but we all know God will keep her little heart in His hands.
Monday, November 10, 2008
A New Baby Girl
We brought Aramai Loretta home Tuesday afternoon - election day. She was born 5lbs 10oz. She looks EXACLTY like Avalee! She's such a little peanut. Dan says she's very breakable and too fragile to hold ;) Labor and delivery could not have been easier. Sure, I was having labor pains for a week and they only got worse towards the weekend, but delivery was the easiest thing possible (I bow down to epidural's)
Avalee is adjusting quite well. She has not mastered being "gentle" quite yet, but loves her little sister and is quite curious as to why she just lays there all day. It will be a challenge with a 15 month old (soon to be 16 months) and a newborn in the house but who needs sleep and showers?? Thank the Lord for a wonderful church family, friends, and family who take great care of us!!!
Aramai was born with a hole in her heart. It's quite big for her size and they are assuming it won't close on its own and will require surgery to close it. She's been seen by the cardiologist twice already and many visits to the pediatrician in one week. Their watching her like a hawk and she has us all worried, but God is good and completely in control. We serve a higher physician who can do ALL things! They would like to see Aramai get a little older (at least a month) and weigh at least 10 lbs before performing the surgery on her. It's all a big waiting game right now, all we can do is love on her and pray for her to be safe!
I try to catch cat naps here and there. She actually sleeps more than I remember Avalee sleeping. I have to wake her at night for her feedings, otherwise she would sleep right through - I'm counting my blessings now because I know as she gets older, the sleeping all day and night thing will go away! We truly thank the Lord for another little blessing in our lives!!
Avalee is adjusting quite well. She has not mastered being "gentle" quite yet, but loves her little sister and is quite curious as to why she just lays there all day. It will be a challenge with a 15 month old (soon to be 16 months) and a newborn in the house but who needs sleep and showers?? Thank the Lord for a wonderful church family, friends, and family who take great care of us!!!
Aramai was born with a hole in her heart. It's quite big for her size and they are assuming it won't close on its own and will require surgery to close it. She's been seen by the cardiologist twice already and many visits to the pediatrician in one week. Their watching her like a hawk and she has us all worried, but God is good and completely in control. We serve a higher physician who can do ALL things! They would like to see Aramai get a little older (at least a month) and weigh at least 10 lbs before performing the surgery on her. It's all a big waiting game right now, all we can do is love on her and pray for her to be safe!
I try to catch cat naps here and there. She actually sleeps more than I remember Avalee sleeping. I have to wake her at night for her feedings, otherwise she would sleep right through - I'm counting my blessings now because I know as she gets older, the sleeping all day and night thing will go away! We truly thank the Lord for another little blessing in our lives!!
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