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kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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we're doing a virtual baby shower so our apartment has been completely taken over by a variety of boxes

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kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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i suppose this is good practice for our home being taken over by a variety of child paraphenalia

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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President Beep posted:

how much explosive gender reveal powder did you buy?

i'm shipping every attendee an exploding package of bees

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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whoever decided that cribs should be assembled with the worlds flimsiest Allen wrench should be trapped in a weird saw situation where they need to escape armed only with a tiny Allen wrench and one of those stamped wrenches made of aluminum

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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i have a dewalt set

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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Kenny Logins posted:

yeah i tell my kid stories from my childhood too

:thurman:

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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I’m a dad now

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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my kid is starting their life like all good red-blooded Americans, with massive hospital bills for NICU stays :911:

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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my kid is in the NICU and I gotta say it really sucks!

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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rotor posted:

just like jaundice or something really bad?

they had to intubate once they took her out, her airways hadn’t fully opened up yet. they came back today saying some of her screening tests for weird genomic stuff were indicating some thyroid issues, so they ran more tests and we’re waiting on results. idk other than the breathing she seems fine to me but I’m not a doctor.

worst thing is just not knowing

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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rotor posted:

oof thats tough

hows the wife doing? this is hard on dads but its worse on moms cause they're comin down off all kindsa crazy hormones and drugs

only a couple of breakdowns today, you know how it goes.

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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man this NICU poo poo sucks. wife was having breakdowns at the hospital because she had been in there for a week total (they offered a courtesy stay thing where she could sleep in an extra room after discharge), she was missing meals because of how the cafeteria hours worked, just a mess. she decided to come home because at least she could have a breakdown in a more comfortable bed.

the kid seems to be getting better but they think there’s some thyroid issue where her thyroid isn’t working right, so they’ve got her on meds for that but it takes a while to kick in. she’s not under the jaundice light any more at least and is starting to bottle feed, so that seems good. I guess we’re both just terrified that she’s gonna have some permanent developmental problems because of all this. :/

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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well I’m pretty sure this at least puts a fork in the “what about two kids?” convo so I’ve got that going for me

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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im getting so tired of driving to the hospital every day

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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one of these days I need to go off and have a real good mental break because This Was Not The Plan

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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as someone that was extremely skeptical about kids I can say that there's some little synapse that fires off the femtosecond you hold your own child that rewrites your brain into doing literally anything for them so imo you'll figure it out

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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gettin real fuckin sick of the NICU

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Jan 13, 2008

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Stringent posted:

just want to go home or is there something wrong with it?

it’s just a weird catch-22. kiddo is on very light supplemental o2 because she had respiratory distress when she came out which was compounded by the hypothyroidism. she can’t tolerate sitting in a car seat long enough to pass the car seat challenge (90m), so she stays until she can, and none of the docs really has a plan other than “keep on keepin on”.

it’s more irritating because the specialists for the underlying condition are at the _other_ hospital and can’t come to this one, but we also can’t transfer her because there’s no “medical necessity”

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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it’s just frustrating not really knowing when she’s gonna get to come home

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Jan 13, 2008

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evil_bunnY posted:

I'd try talking to a patient advocate or something like that. If the hospital is willing to take her then surely medical transport can be loving arranged.

they don’t seem willing to take her because their treatment plan is the same as the current treatment plan

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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Workaday Wizard posted:

how did human babies survive in the wild anyways? weak, slow, noisy, curious, and delicious. and they stay that way for a long while too. just how?

got some bad news about infant mortality rates in the olden days

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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tbf it’s pretty shocking how good neonatal medicine is these days, given how many babies I’ve seen go through the NICU over the past few weeks. even 40, 50 years ago a lot of these kids would just not make it at all (or their mothers)

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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despite having read the words “human milk” like a billion times over the past month it still sounds weird

I wonder what would happen if you put it in a carbonater

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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gotta say it was kinda funny to watch the kid vomit up a fountain of milk on my wife yesterday. I assume it'll be less funny when it happens to me.

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Jan 13, 2008

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Kenny Logins posted:

it's funny if it happens in a way that's relatively easy to clean up

yeah I think my tolerance for bodily fluid explosions is gonna go way down when they're happening to my nice new carpets and walls rather than the hospitals.

kid update: seems likely that she'll be coming home this week on a bit of oxygen. idk if she actually needs it that much but it seems to help. the NICU doctors are kind of just going in circles at this point, but a developmental pediatrician came by yesterday and said she looks great given the hypothyroidism and is making a lot of progress, so I think the kid is just a couple weeks behind where she "should" be and it'll all come out in the wash over the next month or two. best thing we can do now is get her home because it'll be a lot more restful here (for her, at least, our long national nightmare will just be beginning)

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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hobbesmaster posted:

rip your nice new carpets and walls

there’s a reason we haven’t painted yet

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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President Beep posted:

when our youngest son came home he was off oxygen but still had to wear a monitor for a few weeks. after that came off we were still paranoid so we got one of those little oxygen monitoring socks for him. beware: in our experience it didn’t fit the best on tiny premature baby feet. had a number of false alarms.

yeah we got one of the monitoring socks too. idk if it’ll have fit problems, kid is getting bigger - 7lb4oz now! she’s really putting away the milk

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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also it seems like she did indeed pass her car seat challenge so kiddo should be comin home once we sort out some logistics :toot:

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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time for lovely anxiety sleep to be replaced by lovely "baby waking up every 4 hours" sleep, kiddo's comin home today

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Jan 13, 2008

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Kenny Logins posted:

pick a song like fly me to the moon that you can easily fake lyrics to

I only remember the moon jiu-jitsu class version of that song now

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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so you just don’t really sleep when you have an infant huh

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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right now we’re both waking up with her which isn’t great, but hopefully babby will sort her poo poo out with nursing so mom can just breastfeed rather than have me bottle feed while she pumps overnight

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Jan 13, 2008

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hobbesmaster posted:

are your parents sending you coffee or energy drinks yet

my dad seemed a little too gleeful with the “your turn now!!!” stuff

no, I don’t really have a great relationship with my family. MIL is in town helping out for now and it’s not too terrible though.

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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it’s honestly amazing how much poo poo can be in an infants body and how loudly they expel it

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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they didn’t mention the “babies will just inconsolably cry for like four loving hours at night” thing in the brochure

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Jan 13, 2008

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i spent the past four nights pointing out to my wife how this was probably colic, we went to the pediatrician today and he was like “oh yeah it’s 100% colic”

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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colic aka “idk babies just sometimes be like that tho”

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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I tell myself this would be less frustrating if the kid wasn’t on oxygen and this fuckin o2 monitor so schlepping her around makes me look like a fuckin tier 1 operator

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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I just walked her around the neighborhood wearing like 30lbs of kit between my backpack, the oxygen tank, the monitor, the baby Bjorn, and the kid. even better if I stopped moving at any point while strapping all of this on she went apocleptic

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kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

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Stringent posted:

what's the oxygen tank dealie, i've never seen one of those before.

it’s just a portable o2 tank, like an old person would use. the actual concentration of oxygen is low (21%), there’s a little regulator on it, she’s supposed to be hooked up to the tank or to a freestanding concentrator. it makes everything more exciting because now there’s a little oxygen hose running all over the house, or you have to carry all this bullshit around to do anything with her

she seemed to like the walk so I guess that’s gonna be my plan until she decides she likes something else

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