Echobaby

Its amazing how much goes on in the NICU - every little thing is counted and measured. Wren's 'care' routine is 4 hourly so eve...

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Around 5am I woke with mild cramping contractions. They felt hard and a bit painful but nothing that kept me awake. After that I dozed thr...

Shannon holding Wren. Josh and Shannon visit Wren in the NICU.

This morning we spoke with Dr K, our primary cardiologist. She repeated the echo and had far better quality scans. She feels that the diag...

I was woken at 4am by one of the perinatology team with a consent form. They needed to put in a central line (a PIC line?) to delivery the ...

The cardiologist came to see us after they finished poking and echoing Wren. There was good and bad news. Good news: 1) Left heart looks no...

I am very happy to announce the arrival of Baby W, now known as Wren Ambrose Y. He was born after three pushes at 8.44pm. He weighed 8lbs ...

Our pediatric cardiologist (Dr K) called this afternoon. She has shown our echo tapes to a surgeon working at another regional hospital. H...

I am almost 38 weeks pregnant and just had my first consult with the cardiac surgeon at our Children's hospital. It was not what we exp...