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After 4 and a half months of Parker living a less than stellar life (have we posted before that we figured out recently that he’s spent more of his life so far in the hospital than out?) Julia and I are so afraid to even say out-loud that we are basking in the light at the end of the tunnel.. but I think in the back of our minds we are both thinking it!

After expecting to be in the hospital for 10 days, we were so stoked to be able to roll home a meager 2 days after his surgery. Of course we got home to a mountain of snow at our house (after not having been home about a week)… but after about 2 hours of shoveling we at least were able to get our cars off the streets to comply with Lakewood’s snow ban.

After getting home Sunday, and now it being Thursday we are ecstatic to say that Parker is doing so awesome! In the first 24 hours he had a few issues with spitting up, but we think this was partly due to him being on regular formula (we have since switched him back to hypo allergic Elecare and that seems to have cured that). He also had a bit of a choking cough, but after confirming with our more than awesome Rainbow Dr.’s we stopped his Previcid doses and that seems to have licked that too.

Parker’s been pretty happy. His vomiting has stopped. His pukeiness has normalized, and his constant leakiness is a thing of the past! He is handling a normal feeding schedule of about 4 to 5 ounces every 3-4 hours with 6 ounces over night. His sleeping schedule is a bit mixed up but slowly but surely we are trying to get back on track and into a normal routine. The only obstacle in our way of that now: Teething.

Yup, Parker has started teething, and although its parental side effects are dealign with sleepless nights due to his crabbyness, we are pretty happy about it becasue it means all his problems haven’t sidelined him from maintianing a normal-to-advance development curve.

We want to give a huge thanks to our Rainbow Dr.’s: Dr. Todd Ponsky, Dr. Robert Parry, and Dr. Judy Splawski… all of which provided Parker with the support, care and miracle attention he needed to beat his Pyloric Stenosis! Thank you!