It hasn't even been 24 hours since her surgery and Felicity is doing awesome!!!
Thankfully I swaddled her when she was first born so she finds comfort in it, which is how she's being comforted now. In doing so, we've been able to use pain meds as a back up vs as a dependent. She actually went from midnight to 8am without any pain medication and had no discomfort during that time.
All of her vitals, urine and color have been normal and her temperament fantastic. Even with being tended to every two hours, she has only whimpered and/or showed discomfort a few times and was immediately comforted and taken care of. She's my precious sleeping beauty, healing wonderfully!
At midnight they took her catheter out. At 7am Dr. Moss and Lindsey came by and said she looks great and said because she doesn't have the typical increased swelling, they don't have to give her the medication to help remove the extra fluid to help reduce the swelling. He also gave me the hair he shaved to do the incision, her first haircut (he even put a Tinkerbell sticker on the little baggy). At 8am they removed her IV lines. Also at 8am the doctor on shift came by and said she looked great; he was impressed by her size saying she looked like a 6 month old lol. He also said she's doing so well that she can move out of the Intensive Care Unit and now they'll monitor her every 4 hours vs every 2 hours like they have been.
I got to hold her and they were actually surprised nobody had told me I could sooner. As much as I want to wrap her up in my arms and not let her go, at this time she really needs to be swaddled and in her crib where she can have as little movement as possible to sleep and heal.
7th floor Penthouse baby!!! And, Mommies favorite number 13 is where we have moved. They almost had to keep us in the PICU room because everything seemed full. This is actually the cancer and blood disorder floor, so they said for us it means it's the most sterile which is great since Felicity is only 4-1/2 months old and hasn't had all of her immunizations yet. They are monitoring her oxygen level because it was surgery on the head and with the swelling they want to make sure her airways don't get blocked.
About an hour after getting to see her for the first time after surgery, I gave her a bottle of Pedialyte and since then she's been on a regular schedule with breastmilk. I'm still only feeding her by the bottle just until I feel she won't be in an any pain when she's laying in my arms in the position to feed from the breast. The nurse is going to call Dr. Moss to make sure he's okay with it and once I'm given the okay I'll breastfeed her... I know it will help her and me.
