1 month visit

It is hard to believe that Isaiah is 1 month already! But amazingly enough I can't imagine what our life was like before him. He is such a precious baby.

He had an appointment today in bridgeport with his peditrician. It is official... he now has reflux and is on medicine for it. They will increase it as he grows. Hopefully he will be off it by the time he is one.

We have another visit in Pittsburgh tomorrow. We will see how much he has grown. We are so blessed to be there. God sure put us in a great place with great doctors.

I will update tomorrow night.

Amy

Praise God!

We had another follow up today! We saw the surgeon as well. He believes that it is the hematomia. He said that it is common for that to happen during difficult births. He said it was a skull fracture that the bone never broke completely in to. Blood collected under neath. It will go away in 4-6 months. We all noticed that it did go down since last week. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!! We are claiming a complete healing!

As for growth...
He was 21 1/4 inches long when he was born. Now at 4 weeks and 2 days he is 23 inches long. He gained 10 ozs since last Thursday. He now weighs 10lbs and 7 oz. I can't believe how much he gains each week. Same scale, same nurse, no clothes! He goes to the peditrician on Monday. We will see what he says about his growth!

It was snowing last night so we went ahead and came up here last night. The girls didn't know it til last night. As an early Christmas present we bought them concert tickets to see the Cheetah Girls. I bought them each a Cheetah Girls purse and put the ticket in each. WOW they were so excited! Dave just called and said they are on their way back to the hotel. He said the girls had blast! Isaiah and I hung out at the hotel and took a nap, boy was it great!

We are heading home in the morning to get Devon and Elijah. We have dinner reservations at 3pm at the Hilton in Bridgeport. Dinner with just the nine of us. That will be nice.

Let me take a moment to say HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!! We have truely been blessed this year. God has blessed us with our health, our family, and of course our miracle baby!
Let us never forget to give God the praise for all our blessings!

With Love from our family to yours,
Amy

Update from Pittsburgh

We had a good visit in Pittsburgh yesterday. He gained 9 more ozs in oly 8 days. That puts him at a whopping 9 lbs 13oz. I will tell you I think he is ready for a steak. I gave him 5 oz at church last night and he got very upset because he wanted more! It had only been a little over 2 1/2 hours since he had eaten before.

They deceided that the would have the surgeon check his head next week. Along with his peditrician they think it is a something hematomia (or however you spell it). They think it happen during the birth process. They said it may take months but it should go away eventually. The surgeon wants to see him next week just to make sure.

He has been spitting up a good bit this week. They seem to think he may be starting to have reflux issues. He has had some fussy issues and arching his back some. They say those are all signs of reflux. Most babies with cleft have it to some degree.

They also said that the NAM device looks good. His mouth is adjusting to it well. It looks like if all continues to go well then his first surgery will be sometime around five months of age. We will know an exact date Jan. 12.

As for the rest of us, the girls are passing the bug back and forth. Elijah has an ear infection. Talk about little sleep in this house.

I will be getting things ready to do a family portrait for Christmas.

Well Elijah is in need of something so I gotta run.

Amy

another visit to pittsburgh tomorrow

We have another visit to pittsburgh in the morning. Tomorrow they will deceide on the scan of the knot on his head. They may choose to do it tomorrow. Say a little prayer for us.

He has been spitting up a good bit since yesterday. I don't know if it is a bug or if it is just normal. We are battling the bug around here. Dana came home yesterday with a fever. Kearstyn got the stomach ache last night. Devon came home from school todaywith a stomach ache. Elijah has an ear infection. Thank goodness no one is throwing up, knock on wood! I pray it stays that way. So I guess you can say that Audrey and MaKynzie are the healthy ones right now.

I will post an update tomorrow when I get home tomorrow night.

Amy

just wanted to add a picture that I took of all the kids today.

correction

ok so I am still trying to figure this whole site out. I guess I have to load the pictures in the opposite order. So they are in backwards of the post but I think everyone can figure them out..

It's 12:15 am and I am signing off to go to bed, good night!

November 15

I can't beleive that it has been three yrs ago today since I had my Tubal Reversal surgery. Dave and I went to Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Gary Berger andhis staff were great! We will always hold a special place in our hearts for them! God has truely called each one of them to do great work.

I wanted to include some pictures. One is of Isaiah in his "I'm a Berger Baby" onesie. I can't believe how snug it was on him. Elijah could wear his for months. Another picture is of his NAM device in place. It helps his cleft not to look so big but most of all it helps him to eat so much better. I can't believe how well he is doing. A couple other pictures are just of his random cuteness! He is so alert!

OH AND BY THE WAY IF YOU COULDN'T TELL I AM SO IN LOVE WITH HIM!!!!

and the last picture for the day....

I walked into the bedroom to fall into bed last night and this is the sight I saw. As any mom would say to herself, "this is a picture perfect moment" so off I ran to grab the camera.

You know you are completely exhausted when you don't care where the kids sleep as long as they JUST SLEEP!!!