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Showing posts with label NYU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYU. Show all posts
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Lucky
We had an afternoon of St Patrick's Day celebrations with some friends from my NYU Mom's group. Our host Anna is one heck of a picture taker!
Friday, February 1, 2013
Just another weekend
Last weekend was a pretty fun filled weekend for us, so I thought I would post a few pictures from it.
First up, it was my first Friday working from home without Barry there as well. I'm not going to lie, it was really, really hard. I had 4 conference calls - most of which I had to stay on mute bc Sloan was noisy - and a ton of emails to send out. She is a great napper, but nobody can sleep the day away!
Saturday was full of errands, but a few pictures into our world:
Sunday was super fun for us. We had a reunion with all of the moms/babies from our New Mom Group.
That wasn't the best part of the day though, this was:
First up, it was my first Friday working from home without Barry there as well. I'm not going to lie, it was really, really hard. I had 4 conference calls - most of which I had to stay on mute bc Sloan was noisy - and a ton of emails to send out. She is a great napper, but nobody can sleep the day away!
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| Sloanie Bear helping me with my work early a.m. I took this picture mostly to show off the crab butt in her PJs. |
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| Tummy time in the mirror |
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| Our new Bumbo seat! (I originally bought a different brand of seat, but she is too tiny for it) |
Later that evening Cousin Emily came over to babysit Sloan so we could go to a Cowboy Mouth concert. Cowboy Mouth is a crazy band whose lead singer is also the drummer. He puts on quite a show. Everybody brings plastic red spoons to the show and throws them at the drummer/singer during one of his songs.
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| Drummer/Singer |
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| Red Spoons |
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| Lounging with Dad |
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| We dressed her like a biker chick. Her socks say "Dad" on the hearts |
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| Hey Warby, that's my chair!! |
Sunday was super fun for us. We had a reunion with all of the moms/babies from our New Mom Group.
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| Getting ready in the morning. Collar popped! |
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| The whole crew L-R: Kerri/Sloan, Emma/Vivian, Sam/Oli, Anna/Lulu, Suzette/Lucia, Thao/Ava |
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| Baby Flower! You wouldn't know it here, but Sloan is the third oldest. Only Ava, to her left, and Lulu, directly across from her, are older. |
That wasn't the best part of the day though, this was:
Friday, September 28, 2012
De Ja Vu All Over Again...
We went to our regularly scheduled check up Tuesday, only to have the Dr send us back to the hospital. She noticed Sloan breathing quickly and laboring rather hard to do so, so she sent us to the ER. Not really what first time parents want to hear. (and on top of it, they almost had us take an ambulance up there because the UN General Session causes crazy traffic.) We had noticed that she was not eating as much the last 18-24 hours either, so off to the hospital we went...
Our Pediatrician is affiliated with Cornell-NY Presbyterian Hospital on 68th & 1st, not NYU where she was delivered, so this was kind of a new experience for us. Cornell does have a Pediatric Emergency Room which was a huge blessing - we showed up and they saw us right away. Preemies have more sensitive respiratory systems than full term babies, so it was important that they do all sorts of tests to make sure her labored breathing wasn't indicative of a larger problem. They hooked her up to an IV, took x-rays of her lungs, drew several ml's of blood for cultures, put her on a catheter for a urinalysis, and performed a spinal tap (of which we are told she was a model patient). Our little girl was put through the ringer!
Most of the test results take about 48 hours, but the good news is that the initial test from the spinal tap showed that we were negative for meningitis. That meant we could go to the regular pediatric floor as opposed to Intensive Care, but she was put on precautionary antibiotics in the event it was bronchiolitis or some other sort of virus/infection. We had our precious girl home for a full week before she was back in the hospital...
We spent the next two days by her bedside waiting for the results. The pediatric floor is so much different from PICU/NICU. This time she was not hooked up to beeping monitors, just a simple IV. She was not under constant watch either, so one of us was there the whole time. Despite her diminutive size, she was a regular ol' patient at the hospital...
Finally, after two days of waiting our test results came back negative. There was slight bacteria growth in one of the cultures but it was a contaminant and nothing to worry about. In the end, she likely had either bronchiolitis or the common cold. Either way, she is getting back to her cute little self - eating and pooping up a storm. Mom and Dad are so happy to bring her home again...let's hope it sticks this time.
Our Pediatrician is affiliated with Cornell-NY Presbyterian Hospital on 68th & 1st, not NYU where she was delivered, so this was kind of a new experience for us. Cornell does have a Pediatric Emergency Room which was a huge blessing - we showed up and they saw us right away. Preemies have more sensitive respiratory systems than full term babies, so it was important that they do all sorts of tests to make sure her labored breathing wasn't indicative of a larger problem. They hooked her up to an IV, took x-rays of her lungs, drew several ml's of blood for cultures, put her on a catheter for a urinalysis, and performed a spinal tap (of which we are told she was a model patient). Our little girl was put through the ringer!
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| Our little patient... |
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| Yes, they wheeled her up to her room in that big ol' bed... hospital procedure! |
Most of the test results take about 48 hours, but the good news is that the initial test from the spinal tap showed that we were negative for meningitis. That meant we could go to the regular pediatric floor as opposed to Intensive Care, but she was put on precautionary antibiotics in the event it was bronchiolitis or some other sort of virus/infection. We had our precious girl home for a full week before she was back in the hospital...
We spent the next two days by her bedside waiting for the results. The pediatric floor is so much different from PICU/NICU. This time she was not hooked up to beeping monitors, just a simple IV. She was not under constant watch either, so one of us was there the whole time. Despite her diminutive size, she was a regular ol' patient at the hospital...
Finally, after two days of waiting our test results came back negative. There was slight bacteria growth in one of the cultures but it was a contaminant and nothing to worry about. In the end, she likely had either bronchiolitis or the common cold. Either way, she is getting back to her cute little self - eating and pooping up a storm. Mom and Dad are so happy to bring her home again...let's hope it sticks this time.
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| Taxi ride #2 |
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