Surgery Day

I am sitting at Primary Children's in Mataya's room. She is in and out of sleep. Kody is sleeping on the little cot in here. We drove up to Salt Lake last night and stayed at Kody's aunt's house. We got up at 3:00AM to feed Mataya because she could drink breast milk up until 3:30. Then my alarm went off at 4:30. We had to leave the house by 5:30 to get to the hospital by 6:00. When we got here they got us all checked in. Mataya got put in these little tiny scrubs. They are soooo cute. She weighed in at 12 lbs 7 oz. Then they started to prep her for surgery. They asked when she last ate and I told them 3:00am. They asked if it was formula and I said no that is was breast milk. Then I told them that I fortify my breast milk with a teaspoon of formula. Well apparently babies cannot drink formula past midnight the night before surgery. So because her breast milk had 1 teaspoon of formula in it, they had to push the surgery back an hour. That sucked because she was already hungry. So they took her into surgery at about 9:00ish. They said it would be about 3 hours. After about an hour and a half the doctor paged us. He came out of surgery and explained He had found that she had an additional defect that he went ahead and fixed. He put a stainless steel cork screw like thing into one of her holes in her heart. Then he put some other device into the other part where there was a defect. (If I explain it more I will get the facts wrong.) So they went back into surgery after explaining what they were doing. Anyway now her legs are bound together and she can't move for 6 hours. She is in and out of sleep right now. I will give a better update later.

Mataya's Update

People always post on their blogs their baby's stats from their doctor visits. So at Mataya's nine month appointment (in March) I thought I would post her stats. Then I got to the doctor and after the horrible visit I changed my mind. Her weight was still really low. So low that I cried. Then the very next day after her nine month well check we had to take her to the cardiologist. It was decided that if she didn't gain weight she would have to have heart surgery in April. So the cardiologist put her on yet ANOTHER medication to see if it would help her gain weight. I am still pumping out my breast milk four times a day and fortifying it with special formula to make it really high calorie milk. I take her in for weekly weight checks to monitor her very closely. She is now 10 months old. Her weight has gone up some since her 9 month well check. She is currently 12 pounds 2 ounces! Yay! (Sort of) YAY for her, but BOO when we compare her to other babies:( So right before Easter we were called by our cardiologist from Primary Children's and it was decided by a team of doctors up there, that she would have heart surgery on April 30th. That brings us up to date. This coming Friday my sweet little baby is going to have heart surgery to close up one of her three holes in her heart. They say it is a low risk surgery and that she probably won't be in the hospital very long. So we are praying that all will go well and that my pipsqueak little girl can get some pounds packed on her tiny little body. I will let everyone know how it goes.

She Wore An Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini!

Mataya's first swimming suit!

Two teeth! Woot woo! So beautiful! Tayzha and Mataya Easter was a great time! We colored eggs at my moms house. Then we did our regular family tradition. We went to Mesquite to swim and play. It was Mataya's first sleepover. (Besides our last trip to Primary Children's) The weather was much better than the snow that Cedar got. Tayzha is our best tender for bingo night. I almost won $100,00! Ok so I didn't almost, but I was only three away. Then it turned into two away, then one away. Then the pot went down to $300 and some little b$#%& won instead. I was so mad and as I left the bingo parlor my number had been sucked up into the machine to be called next! I almost won! But I lost $46 instead. My friend Malesha would completely understand my disappointment. Wouldn't you Malesha? McKoy and Mataya hanging together in the hotel room. Our redneck pool! When cousin Kobe went to see a man about a horse in the hot tub, the pool was shut down for some sterilization. Our family wasn't going to let a little poop ruin our fun, so we carried the pool furniture out to the lawn in the middle of the Oasis. What a bunch of hillbillies. The best part is that some old guy thought the chairs were just set out there on the lawn, and he came and took one of the chairs and laid out with us. We always get the party started! Can I get a woo woo?!

Mataya catching up on her reading. Is that The Huntin' Fool magazine? That girl has a lot to learn. I've got my work cut out for me.

Ahhh how darling! OK, that's enough cutsie stuff.

After Mesquite we went to Leeds for an egg hunt at Kody's grandparents. Good times! Then we went to St. George on Easter Sunday to my dad's house, and watched as my dad and Shelley gave my kids more presents than the actual Easter bunny did. We had an egg hunt there too. Then it was back to Cedar and over to Kody's parents for another basket. You can tell my kids aren't spoiled at all! I hope everyone had a great Easter!

Ahoy Matey!

We went to Pirate Island Pizza the last time we took Mataya to the doctor in St. George. We invited my dad to come eat lunch with us. He thought it was because we enjoy his company but really it was so my little sister could play with McKoy in the arcade, and my step mom could babysit Mataya! (Hey I'm no dummy)