Moving forward...

Throughout the afternoon yesterday, she had moderate contractions on the half hour. Tuesday night she did have some "more severe" pain, and they countered that with some pain medicine. As of this morning, her contractions are now about 20 minutes apart, thus the girls may be with us soon! The doctors seem very optimistic and both of the girls vitals are doing well. I am looking forward to their births.

Into a room

J.M. has been moved into his own room. It took a while, but one on the floor where they wanted the neurology patients finally became available (we are thankful). He has been taking his pain meds at regular intervals and had a dose of Tylenol at 9 PM. The pain meds are now as needed. He had another does of Zofran at around 7:30 PM and a pop sickle at 8 PM. So far so good. I am staying the night to keep him company and help out.

Some background on why we are in Alabama:

J.M.G. is a forcep delivery baby with birth trauma. Mom was in labor for about 12 hours and she and J.M. were not showing any signs of stress. We were informed that insurance would not pay for a C section, thus the option was use of a forcep. We preferred the C section route at the beginning. He then spent the next ten days in Children's Mercy recovering from a fractured scull, needing a blood transfusion, and jaundice. We have done all of the medical follow up and at two years of age they pronounced that he was doing well and meeting normal milestones. That is when we started to notice the muscle tone issues with his left leg and the neurologist scheduled an MRI on August 11 for follow up. The MRI professionals found the syrnix and he was diagnosed with the chairi 0

At the PICU

Here is a picture of J.M. resting comfortably last night with Stanley. I want to see and comfort him and let him know that his Mommy and Daddy LOVE him VERY much.

Update #1: We were in with him from 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM and he is still somewhat nauseous. He spent part of the night dry heaving and we believe he equates the pain meds with the bad feeling in his tummy. We have encouraged him to take the pain meds so his head will feel better. The 4 mg's of Zofran does seem to be doing the job. He is now the "healthiest" kid in the PICU and on the top of the list for a room (a GREAT sign and relief). What Dr. Oaks did not tell us is that the area where he performed the surgery may cause some nausea. Dr. Oaks wants to see him keep everything down for a day before he will release him from the hospital.