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Nearly half a million babies (1 in 10) are born premature in the US each year which is higher than that of most other developed nations. This is the journeys of our first born son, Finnegan, who was born 14 weeks early and weighed only 1 pound 15 ounces at birth. Of our daugher, Korrigan, who was born a healthy 7 pounds, 7 ounces at 37 weeks. And of our second son, MacKeegan, who was also born at 37 weeks at a whopping 8 pounds, 13 ounces. Our continued adventures reminds us daily how good God is.

Saturday, March 21

Surgery rescheduled for Monday!

Things are looking like Finn will be having his surgery a little earlier than we first thought. A baby that was scheduled for surgery on Monday, ended up having to have it today, so Finn is supposed to get his allotted surgery spot. We won't know for sure until Monday morning, but as of today, Finn will be having his hernia surgery on Monday at 12:30pm. I didn't ask a lot of questions about the surgery (I wish I would have thought a little more about it), but it should take about an hour. Finn's doctor doesn't think it will be an issue, but if he needs to be put back on the ventilator, he will need to go back in the NICU. Hopefully all goes well and we won't have any issues. I didn't hear on whether he will have the circumcision at the same time or not, though.

Other than that, Finn is doing really well. He ate like a champ today. When I got there, his nurse was trying to get him to eat, but he was working on filling his pants instead. So she handed him over to me and he started eating really good and then filled his pants. I changed him and then he went back to eating really good...and filled his pants AGAIN! He felt much better after that! Yesterday and today he has started spitting up a little bit. I was hoping we were going to avoid that, but that isn't very realistic. Nothing major yet, but I'm sure as he eats more, more will come out!

Here is a picture from last night:I just can't get over how good he looks without the tubes! I love it. He really is the sweetest baby (and I'm not biased or anything!).

Grandpa Ron and Grandma Lynn (Jim's mom and dad) visited Finn this week. Today, Grandpa Greg (my dad) and Great-grandma Walsh (my dad's mom) visited him. He wasn't a very good host today, as he slept almost the entire time...but woke up just as they were leaving because he wanted to eat and wanted to eat NOW!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It makes me smile every time I read your blog. Finn is doing so well and is such a little cutie! :)
-Amanda

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