[blparent] Baby P has arrived

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Three cheers for Declan!  Thirty hours without oxygen support is awesome. 
I'm so glad you all are doing the kangaroo care thing.  I firmly believe the 
skin-to-skin contact will make all the difference in your baby son's 
healing.

I went through the wringer trying to get my milk supply up, and I think I 
must have tried every home remedy and medical intervention in the world.  If 
you are interested in suggestions about producing more milk, feel free to 
write to me at jopinto at msn.com.  To start with, I hope you have a good 
double-sided electric pump available to use as often as you can, preferrably 
every two hours.

Good luck, be well!
Jo Elizabeth

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's 
brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and 
died in cotton fields and sweatshops.--Stephen Jay Gould
-----Original Message----- 
From: Bridgit Pollpeter
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:23 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] Baby P has arrived

Thanks for all the well wishes. I'm glad to have more people on our
growing prayer chain, smile.

Declan is doing better even within the last 24 hours. He was able to
spend 30 hours without oxygen support, which is how the weening process
begins. His ECHO, which is an ultrasound of the heart, came back
negative, not showing anything significant that is causing problems with
the heart, and the heart I now a normal size, having been enlarged after
birth. It's all a matter of his lungs continueing to gaim stamina and
heal. Declan has been introduced to nipple feeding from both a bottle
and nursing, though I'm barely producing milk, so if I can't get things
going, I have a donor in the wings, smile. Over-all, he's making strides
and getting better; it' just a process, and he has to get to certain
check marks which will happen in time, there's just no way to determine
how much time it will take.

Declan is an Irish name meaning the good one. Most noteably, Declan was
an Irish saint who proceeded St. Patrick in Ireland. We wanted something
unique but not crazy. His middle name is Ross, my husband's first name.
He's doing so much better, and he loves, loves to cuddle especially when
he kangaroos with both Mommy and Daddy, grin.

Thanks for all the support and keep everyone posted.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/

"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan


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