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Update on Nate
- By nathaniels_mommy · Posted yesterday at 10:28 pm
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- Just an update on Nate. He came home on August 11 and is now 13 lbs 1 oz. He is learning how to push up on his on now. The pulmonologist says he should be off O2 by Christmas. He is cooing up a storm ...
can i give her something for a cough....?
- By Tinkerbellas_Mama · New reply yesterday at 9:01 pm
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- Hello ladies! Well - we have a sick household. We were tested yesterday, and it is not H1N1 - thank God. Izabella has a persistant cough. When we left her doctor's office he said if it becomes worse it's ...
In the hospital:-(
- By sshuckhart · New reply yesterday at 3:56 pm
- 1 reply
- Both of my little ones have been fighting a cold on and off for about a month. They both seemed to be on the mend, and then started getting congested again. On Thursday evening Ethan was really coughing ...
relationship stress..again
- By emmaandme · New reply yesterday at 12:05 pm
- 8 replies
- Ok so I just need a moment to vent. I am so stressed out, and I know I brought up relationship issues again, so forgive me for revisiting the subject. I am just wondering if it would be better to be a ...
What do Goldman Sachs employees and prisoners have in common?
- By katek · New reply yesterday at 11:58 am
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- ANSWER: If in the high risk group, they have received privilege over the rest of the high risk public in getting H1N1 vaccines See: http://www.sphere.com/2009/10/28/fury-er upts-over-h1n1-shots-for-prisoners ...
Eating Solids/Not Loving Her Bottle
- By Kaedyns_Mommy · New reply yesterday at 10:19 am
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- So with the OK from Kaedyn's ped we've started her on vegetables. We started her off on Sweet Potatoes for 4 days to be sure she didn't have an allergic reaction and now we are on carrots and doing the ...
Delays in Fine Motor Skills
- By chandralynn · New reply yesterday at 9:14 am
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- Amanda just had another visit from IFS (Infant Family Services) yesterday, and her physical therapist has concerns about Amanda's fine motor skills. Amanda isn't grabbing for toys or holding onto them ...
gagging on soilds....? Ideas please....
- By kiarasam06 · Posted yesterday at 8:30 am
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- Hello- So Noah's ped said to try to start him on baby rice cereal. she said a taste here and there, well I do and when the spoon is on his lips he starts to gag. It's not even in his mouth yet and he ...
Torticollis?
- By mrileyoct1 · New reply yesterday at 12:11 am
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- One of my twin daughters born at 33 weeks isd thought to have torticollis or twisted neck. The muscles in her neck and back are very strong and she archs her back. She is only 4 months actual and can ...
plagiocephaly/torticollis
- By meggs2003 · New reply yesterday at 12:02 am
- 5 replies
- Hello everyone! The last time we went to see the Neurosurgeon(sept 29th) i told him that Everest favors his right side, we will lay him with his head facing to the left and he immediately turns it to ...
"Surgery" Day
- By jonathan24weeker · New reply November 6, 2009
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- Todays's the day ! Jonathan is having laser surgery for ROP stage III with Plus Disease. I'm absolutely terrified, I know the chances are very good that this will take care of it but I can't stop my head ...
Glasses
- By katek · New reply November 6, 2009
- 21 replies
- We took our son (2.5 years old, born 25 weeks 2 days) to his annual ophthalmology appointment today. I called this morning to make an appointment and it was today or wait until January. Fortunately, I ...
what you expect in your ped visit?
- By Fozia · New reply November 6, 2009
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- What do you expect in ur ped visist if your child is not sick? I asked my ped to check the BP of my daughter and he replied NO we do check at 4 yr old only. Also he told me that blood work will be done ...
H1N1 nasal vaccine
- By meggs2003 · New reply November 6, 2009
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- Has anyone gotten the live nasal vaccine? I just got it today through my work, and was wondering if anyone who has gotten it had any side effects ...
No more apnea monitor
- By yani2 · New reply November 6, 2009
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- I just checked my voicemail and I had a message from the neonatologist(I guess) telling me that my Leah won't need the monitor any more. She was born at 25 1/2 weeks on June 13.She came home on September ...
2 synagis shots at a time?
- By quadmomma · New reply November 6, 2009
- 15 replies
- So we took the fab four for their first round of synagis and I was surprised to find they got one shot in each leg.....? Is that the way it is all the time? I always just assumed it was one shot.... hmm ...
one nap a day?
- By Tinkerbellas_Mama · New reply November 6, 2009
- 14 replies
- At what age did your babies wean themselves down to one nap a day ...
Been trying for a year now
- By kneecoal79 · New reply November 6, 2009
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- My huband and I have been trying for a baby for a year now. I was dignosed with having a Bicornuate Uterus in January of 2009. Since then I have been on Basil Body Temp charts, and taking 50MG Clomid ...
Happy First Birthday Lakai
- By LakaisMom · New reply November 6, 2009
- 20 replies
- I can't believe a year has already passed, it doesn't seem real in so many ways. But in so many good and bad ways, it is. It was a year ago today you were born. If I said your birth was a thing of pure ...
low heart rate
- By yani2 · New reply November 6, 2009
- 5 replies
- My 25 1/2 weeker has been home for 1 month and half. She is still on the apnea monitor and she was doing good till three weeks ago. She has been having low heart rate episodes, at least twice a day. Last ...
