Saturday, March 21, 2009

Tucker's Heart

We had an appointment with the Cardiologist yesterday and everything is on track. Tucker's rhythm is good, and the small holes they found during his ECG (which a lot of babies have and they tend to close up on their own....we wouldn't have even had any reason to know about them if they hadn't done an echo) are getting smaller, but still present. So we follow up with him wen Tucker is around 6 months old to make sure the holes are closing, they might even be gone by then and if that is the case we won't have to see the cardiologist again. Tucker is still on medicine to keep his heart rate down, just as a precaution, but when he finishes the bottle that we currently have he gets to be done with that. So all is going well. The cardiologist said that out of all the heart problems babies can have/develop, although he picked 3, he picked the best three you can get. We have another appointment with our regular doctor on Thursday, to listen to his lungs and make sure he's getting bigger (although he weighed in at 8 lbs, 4 oz yesterday!) and doing well. Still not cleared to have him out and about, but we saw one of my coworkers at the hospital yesterday and she said his pictures don't do him justice, he's even cuter in real life. We'll share him as soon as safely can.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

your co-worker is correct. the pictures don't do him justice. He is a beautiful baby and I say that totally without prejudice and with years of experience cooing over beautiful babies!! gram

Anonymous said...

I am so glad. Soon this will all be behind him and he will join all the other babies doing all the baby stuff in public. And I need you to keep doing the pictures as I miss both of the kids tremendously.

Unknown said...

You guys have had quite the month. You're in our prayers; and Tucker is a Beautiful baby (in a boy way;))!