This has been a good week for all of us. Teresa's parents came down the first part of the week. Last time they saw him, he weighed under 2 pounds and was really sick. Now he's a big boy with multiple chins and lots of chub. Baker loved his Grandparent time.
Baker had two appointments this week, one with the GI doctor and the other with the Ophthalmologist. Baker has acid reflux issues now so he is on Zantac. So far it looks like it's helping. The GI doctor also gave us the o.k. to bottle feed once a day and to slowly up the amount of food he's getting. At his last weigh in he weighed an ounce under 7 pounds.
The visit with the Ophthalmologist could have been better. The one that he was seeing was on vacation so a substitute came in. This was the original one that told us everything was fine with his eyes, and that there were no signs of ROP at all. His inability to explain to us what's going on drove us crazy. I'm not sure if it was a language barrier issue, or if he's just not used to talking to parents but it was really hard understanding what he had to say and some of his information conflicted with what the original surgeon had to day. Basically what we took from it is that Baker's eyes have healed well from the surgery and they are looking really good. What that means and how that equates to an outcome in the future is anybody's guess, since the more we asked qualifying questions the more he confused us with circular non-committal answers. He took a page from the same book that the first Neonatologist we spoke to prior to his birth read from. I'm sure it would be titled "Covering Your A**, How to avoid explaining the possibility of a good outcome for fear of a lawsuit if it turns bad…". So his eyes are good for now, we have an appointment with the original surgeon in a week – so we'll get more info then.
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Congratulations on bringing home Baker! He looks really good! I am so excited for all of you!
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