by Z-Pup » Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:00 pm
Hey Sherri,
Sorry haven't posted back before now, but with the holidays it's been hectic!! I'm so glad they are over with!
Zach won't take a paci either, he has found his hands and they are now his soothers! He also uses the Pigeon bottle and has since birth, haven't even tried to give him a regular bottle because of his cleft lip he won't be able to get the suction he needs because the air would go in thru his cleft. It would be like you trying to use a straw that has a hole in it.
He is over 14 lbs. now so he has had no problem whatsover with using the Pigeon bottle! Lil piggie!
Yes he will have to be in the arm restraints. We still don't know exactly what time the surgery will be, they do the scheduling for Monday's surgeries on Friday, and it goes from youngest to the oldest. So we will know Friday aft. what time our surgery is, goodness it's getting so close. We are planning on going up Sunday aft., having surgery on Monday, staying the night in the hospital and coming home on Tues. Although Dr. John told us that if he was eating after surgery we could take him home that day, I think we will be staying so that someone else besides me can deliver narcotics to him! We will then have to go back to Chapel Hill the next Tuesday, the 16th, and he will remove the tape (He said there wouldn't be any stitches) and nose stints. He will have to wear the restraints until then, it's going to be a long long week!
OH you prob. won't find this out until your pre op appointment, we had ours on the 14th of Dec. She won't be able to have any milk/formula after 12pm on the day of the surgery, but will be allowed to have Pedilite. I went and bought some the day after the pre op so that I can start giving him some so that he gets used to it and to make sure he likes it. He likes the grape!! I'm going to start this week to give him some Pedilite a few nights after 12pm he usually wakes up about 3 or 4 to eat, so I'll give him that to get him used to that as well. But I will def. be filling him up the night before surgery all the way up til 12.
Hope all this helps.
Lots of Love,
Tia
Zachary 9-21-06 Unilateral Cleft Lip & Palate lovingly called Z-Pup after Daddy, who btw is O-Dawg.