Well, it's been a week since Lathen had his syndactyly surgery. He also had hypospadias surgery(I won't go into detail about it, but you can look it up if you want). He is doing great and trying to figure out his world with two, big "clubs" for arms. The first few days (especially the first night) were rough. He needed pain meds around the clock and just wanted to be held and loved on. I kept him by myself the first night at the hospital (since their wasn't room for Blaine to stay) and I was ever so grateful when morning came and Blaine showed up to take over. You don't realize how tired your arms can get after holding a crying baby all night. The next day after his pain meds started working well, he finally started smiling and wanting to play a bit. It was actually quite funny when he realized he couldn't use his arms and started using his feet to play with some toys. Once we got home he started trying to crawl and get around. He would get frustrated not being able to use his hands, but soon learned he could use his casts to crawl and hit everything. My face has taken quite a few hits. The last few days Lathen has been doing really well. We even managed a trip to Wal-mart, where every person in the store asked how he fell and hurt himself?!?! Lol :) We are just glad his recovery has gone so well and that we are one week closer to having his casts off. THANK YOU for all your prayers and well wishes!! Blaine, Lathen and I felt those prayers! One of those tender moments was when Lathen woke up from anesthesia. We had been told to be prepared for him to scream and be very upset. I was so nervous and worried how to handle him when he woke up, but when he came out of surgery and woke up he barely even whimpered and let us hold him and rock him. They only allowed one person at a time to go back so I went in first and he was doing fine but he wasn't responding to my voice or touch. They wanted him to start looking at us or grunting or moving to our voices before they would move us to a room. Then Blaine came in and from across the room said "Hey Lathen, it's DaDa!" Then Blaine made a smacking noise with his mouth that him and Lathen used to do. All of a sudden Lathen turned his head (eyes still closed) in Blaines direction and made the smacking noise back. Blaine did it several more times and each time Lathen made the sound back. It was seriously the sweetest moment ever. I knew then that he was going to be ok!!! I love you my sweet boy!
Waiting to go into surgery.
He kept trying to pull his hospital band off.
He finally fell asleep. Thank goodness, because our surgery got pushed back 4 hours and he could not eat during that time. He was NOT happy when I wouldn't let him nurse.
Coming out of surgery! He just wanted his daddy! Seriously the sweetest daddy/baby moment ever!!
First night after surgery. He was not a happy camper. He slept, cried and whimpered all night long.
The morning after surgery. Finally got my first smile.
He started wanting to play a bit. He would use his feet to make the toy start playing music.
He was happy to be home and started trying to crawl around. He looks like a gorilla! Lol :) Funny story as to why he has two different wrappings on his casts. We had just got home and I gave him some pain meds (they made him sick to his stomach) and he throw up all over his cast. Before I realized it he had crawled across the floor smearing throw up all the floor, his cast and him self. Since he can't take a bath yet it was a mess trying to clean him up. Thankfully they had his cast covered with an ace bandage so we could just throw the ace bandage away and rewrap it to keep it clean.
Happy watching me get ready in the mirror. Showing off his "cast muscles" in his muscle shirt. We found it really hard to get his casts into shirts with sleeves so Blaine bought him some sleeveless muscle shirts! ;)
First trip out of the house, no pain meds. He did great!
Big boy riding in his new carseat. We had a hard time getting him in and out of the baby carseat with his casts so we went ahead and switched him to a bigger seat.
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