We’ve been through a roller coaster of emotions, there are no words to describe what we’ve experienced. Every day in the NICU there’s more and more information thrown at us and being overwhelmed is an understatement. You try to process the information you’ve been given and before you can finish, more information is crammed downContinue reading “8 days old.”
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Valentine’s Day.
We have an English Bulldog named Ozzie (pictured on our home page) so naturally Dax’s first holiday gift had to be one from his brother. Tyson teased me and said that he didn’t get me flowers for Valentine’s Day, and I told him it was okay, he gave me a baby.
5 days old.
Waiting for more answers.
The 24 hour brain monitoring ruled out the seizures. The doctors then recommended that we do an MRI and meet with a genetic specialist to discuss what was going on (Dax’s results for the Trisomy’s came back negative). We waited another day for the neurologist to read the results and to speak with the geneticist.Continue reading “Waiting for more answers.”
Our first day in NICU.
Dax had to spend the first night he was born in the NICU. Monitoring his brain activity was recommended to rule out seizure activity. We were hopeful that the symptoms the doctors were concerned about were from the delivery; Dax had twitching/contractures, hypertonia (very tense muscles), and rocker bottom feet. Sometimes if there’s trauma duringContinue reading “Our first day in NICU.”
The Story of Dax Wilder 