The New Hope Lynn

Yaya looks very different. I mean like a different child different. I was shocked at the change…I’m still in shock. I am putting the pictures we took right after we got her up on the blog now. So preview the page before showing little ones. I am putting them on the end of the post. They say right out of surgery is the best time for “after” pictures on the first day in that the swelling won’t begin till a little later in the day.

Okay so to say Yaya was mad as a hornet would be an understatement. She (as many of you know) doesn’t like being messed with or having anything on her except diapers, clothing and shoes. She has a blood pressure cuff on her right leg and and IV and O2 sensor on her left foot…not to mention the 2 ID bracelets wrapped around her right ankle. And let’s talk about the arm restraints…oh. my. word. Loathe is a good word. She dislikes them so much we may just not let her know they can come off and then she just will learn to deal with them. She screamed herself to sleep when we got her. It was about 30-40 minutes of screaming and arching and flailing about…very reminiscent of Gotcha Day. However, the nurses and doctors assure us that almost all their kids wake up like that from anesthesia, which I know to be true from Noah and Eden. So we really won’t get a feel for how she feels until sometime later. She is sleeping right now comfortably on her Daddy’s chest where she pretty much passed out. Dr. Grant stopped by already to check in on her, he is very pleased with how everything looks and said she was acting and responding like normal. So I’m going to try not to freak out and think we have undone all our attachment work. He brought by a cute stuffed bear, it has stitches over it’s newly repaired lip too. I only wish Yaya liked stuff toys…maybe one day she will like this one.

She will be on IV morphine for the next several hours until we can get her to eat / drink something and then we will move to Tylenol w/ Codine for the night. That is the goal at least. They Tylenol apparently works better and longer since we have to give it orally, so we hope she will eat and drink later. Plus, eating and drinking equals going home tomorrow. The big one is breathing though and since she is snoring some serious logs right now I don’t believe she will have too many problems with breathing. But you never know. Keep the prayers coming and pray that she will allow us to comfort her and that this process will aid in our bonding not undo it. Also pray for sleep for all of us. On to what many of you have been waiting for…the pictures. I was the most taken aback at her nose…her nostrils right now look like sqinched up slits but Dr. Grant says they will round out in time. She was so mad that her eyes also looked like little slits, when she calms down and really is able to open her eyes and look at us, I think she will look more like herself. However, there still is the whole getting over how much she looks like someone else’s kid…without further ado…