Isaac is finally making some noise

Sorry I haven't posted videos for so long. The memory on my laptop was running low and I finally got around to clearing and backing some stuff up. I have some older videos I will share a little later but I wanted to share a video from this morning. Isaac has been almost a silent baby up till recently. He is finally making some noise. Its basically yelling. He would yell if he has something to complain about. Most of the time is if we leave him in his crib or his play yard and don't pick him up when he wants to.

Also, just a little explanation. I unfortunately butchered Isaac's hair in my attempt to give him his first hair cut. I am hoping that it can be fixed a little by a professional tomorrow. But you will see his butchered hair cut on the video.



Sonia

Infertility

I wanted to share this music video. Its by a new country music singer called Kellie Coffey called "I Would Die For That".

According to RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, today there is a 1 in 8 chance you either know someone with infertility or you are experiencing the challenges of infertility yourself.



I also want to share the following article from RESOLVE about Infertility Etiquette.

ISAAC IS FREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although Isaac no longer needed supplemental O2 during the day, we have still been putting his nasal cannular on at night when he sleeps. We recorded 2 nights of Isaac's SpO2 levels a couple of weeks ago. One night with his nasal cannular on and one night without. Well the nurse came to visit us this morning and told us that Isaac no longer needs his nasal cannular and we don't need to keep monitoring his SpO2 levels either. So Isaac is free!!!!! No more tubes!!!! No more wires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are praying that Isaac will continue to stay healthy and grow so even if he gets sick once in a while, he doesn't need O2. Praise, praise God!

I had some fun with an online day count caculator so here are some stats:

Isaac on the ventilator - 95 days/3 m 4 d
Isaac on CPAP/O2 Mask/Oxygenated Incubator - 17 days
Isaac in NICU - 186 days /6 m 3 d
Isaac on nasal cannular - 356 days/11 m 1 d
Isaac attached to some kind of tubes or wires - 448 days/1 y 2 m 2 d

Oh and can you believe Isaac has been home for 262 days / 8 m 19 d? Sometimes I can't believe it!

God bless,

Sonia

p.s. I know I am really behind in posting pics and videos. Will hopefully be able to do that soon!

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Isaac's heart surgery

I can't believe it was almost one year ago when Isaac had his heart surgery on 6/22/2006. It was a turning point for him as I highly doubt he will still be here with us if the surgery did not go well -- so much blood was flowing through into his lungs, his heart was enlarged and he had also developed a PFO on top of the PDA he had. The surgeon told us that there was a 30% chance of fatality for the open surgery he was going to perform on Isaac. Although that was much better odds than the odds for Isaac's survival we were told after Rachel's water broke (1%) and when he was born (I think we were told he had a 10% chance), Jong and I were still so scared. He was still so tiny - he just got to 1.2 kg (2.64 lbs) right before his surgery. So many of you prayed for us and it was your prayers that carried us through.

I went back to read my posts from last June - June 2006 Posts - and felt so loved reading comments from some of you around the time of his surgery.

Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts.

Sonia

Picture update

I will try to write more later.