Kaitlynn's Mommy
11-10-2007, 05:28 PM
Hello ladies, I thought I'd post our story for you! :)
It all started when I went into labor 2 days before our scheduled c-section. I tried all I could to get the contractions to stop, but of course, my little girl didn't want to wait! (Neither did her sister! LOL!) When we got to the hospital I was monitered for about an hour when our doc came in and said well let's do this thing! LOL! He said I'll see you in the OR in about an hour. So at 9:59am on Sat. August 25, 2007, little miss Kaitlynn Elizabeth made her entrance into the world. Our nurse staff noticed her lack of soft spot before I'd even been sewed up and brough back to the room for my recovory. I thank that nurse every single day! She informed my husband and the other nurses on staff. We had to wait until the next morning of course before our doctor was informed because he had an emergency and left the hospital shortly after our c-section.
So thus began our wait! He came in on Sun. morning to tell us that indeed he couldn't feel a soft spot either. He said that he was ordering X-ray's be done first thing Mon. morning, and he gave us a name of what he thought could be wrong. Of course our minds were so blurred from everything he'd said before I don't even remember what he said it was. We couldn't even tell our family what they though she had. So we waited some more!
The nurse came in about 7 am on Monday morning to take Kaitlynn away for her X-rays. DH wasn't even awake yet, and he didn't wake up until after she'd been back 20 minutes! LOL! So then we waited to see what the radiologist said and we didn't hear from him until about 2:30 again when they said they wanted to do a CT scan to confirm what they thought. About 6 that night our doc came in and told us that her sutures were closed and she had Craniosynostosis. ( I couldn't spell that for ever, but now I've gotten the hang of it! :))
We then were refered to a Neurosurgen and told they would call us, and sent home. About a week later we were sitting in Omaha in the Neurosurgen's office. He said that infact she did have Cranio, and she had Saggital Craniosynostosis. We have since been to a Craniofacial Clinic and meet with our plastic surgon. We do not have a surgery date set yet, but we do know it will be shortly after christmas and new years!
(I'm at the inlaws, and don't have any pics so I'll post them when I get home ! :))
Here are our pics I promised!
A few days old
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w317/jacastfamily/KaitlynnElizabeth102.jpg
Almost 1/2 mo old
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w317/jacastfamily/October2009.jpg
It all started when I went into labor 2 days before our scheduled c-section. I tried all I could to get the contractions to stop, but of course, my little girl didn't want to wait! (Neither did her sister! LOL!) When we got to the hospital I was monitered for about an hour when our doc came in and said well let's do this thing! LOL! He said I'll see you in the OR in about an hour. So at 9:59am on Sat. August 25, 2007, little miss Kaitlynn Elizabeth made her entrance into the world. Our nurse staff noticed her lack of soft spot before I'd even been sewed up and brough back to the room for my recovory. I thank that nurse every single day! She informed my husband and the other nurses on staff. We had to wait until the next morning of course before our doctor was informed because he had an emergency and left the hospital shortly after our c-section.
So thus began our wait! He came in on Sun. morning to tell us that indeed he couldn't feel a soft spot either. He said that he was ordering X-ray's be done first thing Mon. morning, and he gave us a name of what he thought could be wrong. Of course our minds were so blurred from everything he'd said before I don't even remember what he said it was. We couldn't even tell our family what they though she had. So we waited some more!
The nurse came in about 7 am on Monday morning to take Kaitlynn away for her X-rays. DH wasn't even awake yet, and he didn't wake up until after she'd been back 20 minutes! LOL! So then we waited to see what the radiologist said and we didn't hear from him until about 2:30 again when they said they wanted to do a CT scan to confirm what they thought. About 6 that night our doc came in and told us that her sutures were closed and she had Craniosynostosis. ( I couldn't spell that for ever, but now I've gotten the hang of it! :))
We then were refered to a Neurosurgen and told they would call us, and sent home. About a week later we were sitting in Omaha in the Neurosurgen's office. He said that infact she did have Cranio, and she had Saggital Craniosynostosis. We have since been to a Craniofacial Clinic and meet with our plastic surgon. We do not have a surgery date set yet, but we do know it will be shortly after christmas and new years!
(I'm at the inlaws, and don't have any pics so I'll post them when I get home ! :))
Here are our pics I promised!
A few days old
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w317/jacastfamily/KaitlynnElizabeth102.jpg
Almost 1/2 mo old
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w317/jacastfamily/October2009.jpg