April 19, 2008...1:12 pm
Not a Peep
On Tuesday my little muffet went to Children’s and had her little extra bit removed. Since Nina also has a slight tongue tie, they were recommending that we have her frenulum clipped while she was under. After much research I decided that it would be best to wait. But you know how surgeons are. They are knife happy. When we got in the office DH stared asking questions about it. The doc was very much for having it done (of course.) I took more of a lets wait and see if its a problem- we can always do it later stance. Her argument was that ’she’s going to be under anyway’. My answer to that is: well since she’s going to be under anyway, we might as well take out her wisdom teeth too… they might be a problem some day! (she is 1 BTW). I decided that I probably can’t win them all(natural non-intrusive care measures) and let this one go. I cried about it but I accepted it. Seeing her after the surgery, I immediately saw a difference. Her cute little tongue was still cute and little, just a little longer.
Children’s is so awesome. Of course they deal with far more serious cases on a daily basis but I thought they were very empathic, warm and thorough with us and our little angel. When it was time for the anesthesiologist to taker her away for surgery he came in with a warm blanket outstretched. I put her in his arms. At that point I thought that he just wanted to take a look at her. It wasn’t until she was half way down the hall and I saw her sweet little bobble head looking this way and that way that I realized he was taking her to surgery. My initial reaction was: where’s the gurney? It was so nice that they took her in such a soft way.
When the doctor brought her back (again in a warm blankie) she was still very groggy and her tongue was swollen. She kept licking her lips. Her tongue kept getting in the way. It was so cute. By this time she was really hungry as they had me stop feeding her at 1:30 in the AM. So, while she was still sleepy-eyed and partially drugged I breast fed her and she latched on beautifully. She never had an issue with her tongue from that moment on. I’m so glad.
The anestheiologist said that when he took her back to the OR she never made a peep. She just looked around and even smiled. That’s my girl! He mentioned what a sweet personality she has…..we know! She’s awesome! She did have a bunch of needle marks where they tried to put in the IV so I’m sure she had some big tears over that, poor baby. The surgeon said it was because she is so well fed (she is 50% percentile and 80% breast milk too) so I thought that was pretty funny.
We took our little bandaged angel home and she slept in her car seat downstairs where I could see her from 10:30 until about 2:00. When she woke up we had some snuggle time and I took her upstairs to maybe take a nap with me. she just wanted to snuggle more (poor me! LOL!) After some great quiet time she was back to her old Roo tricks of smiley happy play. What a sweet girl.
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