Hunter's !st week at home.

We came home Friday night and Monday Hunter went for his first doctor's appointment to get a referral to go see the doctor at the Children's Hospital that was supposed to give us the results of Hunter's Echo cardiogram and EEG that had been done in the nursery at the hospital.

When we took Hunter home he was weighing in at a big whopping 5 lbs 15 oz. When Hunter got weighed on Monday we were told that we needed to work on getting our little guy to gain some weight. Hunter was spitting up quite a bit so it was near impossible to get Hunter to put on the weight that everyone wanted us to. 

We got the referral to the Children's Hospital and we saw Dr.Ty Hasselman.  Dr. Hasselman read the results of the EEG and the Echo and had said that he wanted to keep and eye on Hunter's heart murmur. Hunter had 2 small holes in his heart.  Hunters heart was working properly even with the 2 small holes. The heart murmur was not affecting Hunter. We were told some things to watch for and if we saw anything in Hunters behavior that concerned us to just give his office a call and leave a message and we would get a call back and if doctor thought it was a concern he would have us bring Hunter back to see him. Doctor wanted to see Hunter back in November to do another EEG and Echo cardiogram to see any changes. Dr. Hasselman had said that he expected the holes to close up in just a matter of months.

I had been worried about the results since the Echo was done at the hospital and it was a week later that we got the results. I was glad that Dr. Hasselman didn't think that the heart murmur was going to be a problem. Hunter threw a little crying fit in his office and he did say that there was no problem with hunter's breathing even when he was throwing his fit. I was glad to hear that the doctor expected hunter to grow out of the heart murmur.

 Hunter got to meet some family and was a big hit in his first busy week at home! Hunter even surprised all of us with sleeping basically for the whole night. He might go to bed late and wake up early but still he was sleeping all night long!! Yippee!!

Brent and I got really lucky!! Hunter was a really good baby and even with the heart murmur he is a healthy little baby boy!!