We learned when he was in recovery that he is allergic to morphine. We knew this was a possiblity since both Eli and I have people in our families allergic to it. We figured no better place to find out if Preston is allergic than here at the hospital. Sure enough they gave him some he started breaking out and his legs looked blotchy. They flushed his IV out and gave him something to counteract the reaction and within 20 minutes his skin was back to normal. They wrote off the morphine from his chart and instead are giving him Loratab. I am NOT a fan of pain medicine, but I don't want my baby to be in pain. He has had to have one dose since coming out of surgery.
He acted like he felt great up until about 1:00. Then I guess the meds they gave him in recovery had worn out. He got very fussy and we learned just how sore he really is. That is when they gave him Lora tab. He has drank 10 oz of formula today and 12 oz of pedialyte. We tried to feed him some baby food diced carrots which are normally his favortie but he couldn't sit up long enough to eat them. Everytime we sat him up and turned around to the grab food he would fall over back asleep. The nurse said as long as he is drinking he is fine. We are going to let him rest as much as possible and hopefully tomorrow he will be feeling better and we can go home.
For months we thought this would be an outpatient procedure, but after the doctor reviewed the charts on Monday they called to let us know Preston would be staying. I am really glad they made that call. He has been a fussy little man today and I was not comfortable with cleaning him without them showing me and helping a couple of times.
After talking to Dr. Harmon (who is wonderful) I got much more information on Preston's "condition" as they call it and the surgery. Preston was born with what is called Hypospadias. It is VERY common and there are 3 levels. Preston is between the 2nd and 3rd level. They do think one surgery was all it would take to fix it. It does take about 6 months to fully heal so we won't know for certain until then. I was under the impression that this was caused by him being premature which could have something to do with it. Today we learned that it is also caused by women who take Progesterone during pregnancy. It is also more common in women who use IVF to become pregnant because of the amount of Progesterone they are exposed to. It makes sense why Preston would have developed this since I took Progesterone shots from 14 weeks until 33 weeks of my pregnancy. I took them because they are suppose to prevent preterm labor. Although Preston was still premature he was not as premature as Jordan. I fully think it was because those shots are miracle workers for people like me that can't keep babies in the whole time.
Preston will likely be sore for a few days, but can return to regular activity once the swelling has gone down. He can not use a walker or stradle type toy for a few weeks or swim. We asked and he will be fine for Florida in July so our vacation is still on. They are going to give us more information in the morning about the do's and dont's and when we have to come back.The doctor should also be around later so we are hanging out waiting on that. Preston will get more pain meds in about an hour and get settled into bed.
Before surgery
After surgery
after pain meds! He fell asleep holding onto his Mickey balloon Memaw and Pappy brought him.
Also notice the paci. I am very sad he went an entire week without it but this morning he was sooo hungry and he has been so fussy today they said the recommend we give it to him to keep him calm. Hopefully we can hide it again once we get home.
I will update again tomorrow once we get to go home.
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