Pictures from Stage 2, the Glenn
Pictures from Stage 3, the Fontan Please note - these pictures, for the most part, are "safe". If you're interested in post-op pictures from the Norwood, please email us at us@babysamson.com for access.
Doctor Visits
Fontan
General Updates
Glenn
Life with Sammy
Norwood
Other HLHS families
Support
Surgery & Recovery
Surprises
Test Results
Worrying
Four years old
Happy holidays!
Home, home, home!
Recovery
Unexpected Open Heart Surgery
Fenestration-closing cath
One year post-Fontan!
NSTAR's Walk for Children's Hospital Boston
3 years old & cardiology visit
Wild Man
Update and Santa
Blue episodes and a cardiology appointment today
Ellie's Fontan
Post-Fontan Cardiology Visit
"You've gotta just let him be."
Sammy's Recovery from the Fontan
Life Post-Fontan
Bump from home
We are home!
Fontanized - Day 6 Update
Day 4 Post-Op 2:30pm Update
Fontanized, Day 4 Post-Op
Bump #2 - Pneumothorax
Little Bump
Fontan Post-Op, Day 2
Extubated!
Fontan Post-Op Update
Fontan Day
Fontan Pre-op Done
Checking in
Update, 2 years old, Fontan date, more
And we're free!
Pre-Fontan cath DONE.
Cath Day
Day 1, Pre-Fontan Cath Prep
Pre-Fontan cath
Twenty-three months: chatterbox, the holidays and the cath
Twenty-two months
Cardiology visit
Eighteen months
Seventeen months
Early Intervention Assessment
Fourteen month update
Miles for Miracles - Together in Heart.
Sedated echo
Look who's one!
One year.
11 1/2 months old!
Almost 10 months old!
Cardiologist Visit
Just about nine months!
Who is this kid, and what did you do with my baby?
Eight months old!
7 months old!
Coming up on 7 months
Six month update
Post-op Checkup & Life post-Glenn
And we're outta here!
Waiting to go home & a few firsts...
Truckin' along
Step-Down!
And the lines are OUT!
Happy updates
Post-Glenn, Day 4
Post-Glenn, Day 3
Post-Glenn, Post-Bronchial Spams, Day 3
Not fun - post-Glenn, night 2
Post-Glenn, Day 2
Post-Glenn, Day 2 - morning
Post-Glenn, Day 1, part 2
Post-Glenn, Day 1
He's out!
In surgery - updates
the wait
The night before the Glenn
Preparing for the Glenn
Update & Surgery
Milk Allergy Fun
Chatty Sammy
Cath Hospitalization
Catheterization
Gasmonster!
Teaching Sammy about the world.
Miles for Miracles
First bath!
Gassy infant prodigy
Rockin' Sammy
Revelations about mamahood
Babymoon, Part 2
Babymoon, Part 1
Home Sweet Home
Discharged!
Rumor has it...
Stepdown, Day 2
We have step down!
Today was pretty mellow
No step-down for you
Time to buy stock in St. Joseph's
One step closer
Extubation!
One step at a time
Done with the closing
Chest Closing
Birth story
Chest Closing & Mama in Triage
Recovery
Out of Surgery
Welcome, Sammy!
Samson Arrives
Labor update
Of due dates and inductions
Baby Grace
Snow baby?
Welcome to the jungle
Getting closer...
37 1/2 week update
Fighting the bad thoughts
Getting bigger - and closer!
31 weeks with Dr. Brown, CHB
31 Week Appt. w/ Dr. Johnson
One big monkey!
Starting to Get Ready
30 Weeks and Full-blown Panic
Silly Pregnant Lady
27 Week Visit
Fears
EFO Shout Out
Weird Pains & an Early Morning Trip to the Hospital
Fetal Echo at Boston Children's Hospital
DiGeorge's - Negative!
Evil Genetics Counselor
Full amnio results
22 weeks and Life Now
Pediatric Cardiologist
Redefining Normal
FISH Results
Embarrassing the poor boy already
The Baby's Name
Post-Amnio
Pre-amnio, Baby痴 name riddle
Reiki energy, and not being alone
Friends and Tarzan
Trying to get through the day
The diagnosis
Trying to stay positive
Pre-Diagnosis
Wow. We're less than two weeks away from Sammy's first birthday.
He is just amazing.
He's cruising like a champ, though no real desire to walk on his own yet. He stacks blocks, puts things inside other things, makes the motion for "choo choo" and "pinch pinch" (crab), barks when asked what noise a dog makes - and occasionally meows for the cats, too. He dances a LOT, and does all the motions to the Wiggles' "Hot Potato".
He is insanely active - part of the reason, they believe, that he wasn't gaining any weight. He just does not stop! He crawls up AND down steps and climbs up on everything! He's really quite bright - and I'm not just saying that because I'm his mother. ;-) He says a few words - mama, dada, done, koom (vacuum), more and ba (ball or bottle). He also does the sign for "more" - we're working on "please" and "thank you" as well.
He loves the bath still, though freaks out in elevators and public restrooms. LOVES avocados - put away a whole one today!. We're still working on his soy/milk/egg protein intolerance, but got the okay to give him a real cake at his birthday. If he can feed it to himself, he's happy with it. He's starting to use the spoon on his own, and can drink out of a cup (no sippy!) if we don't mind cleaning up some spilled juice along the way. :-)
Oh yeah - and he learned how to throw temper tantrums. That's been fun. Heh.
Seven teeth - three on the bottom, four on top - and we're certain by the drool and gnawing on EVERYTHING that there are more on the way.
We had a bit of a battle with an upper respiratory thing WHILE teething, which led to some weight loss, which bumped up against a pretty nasty stomach bug, which led to even MORE weight loss. He had spent the past three months just at the 18lb mark, and with the winter virus fun, managed to drop down to 17lbs, 11oz. Ack! Though he's feeling MUCH better, eating like he's never eaten before - and put on almost a pound in a week! Yay!
I can't believe he's almost one. He's so independent and so interactive - and still just as smiley and outgoing. And aside from the toddling part - which we expect soon - he's becoming more and more a toddler and less and less a baby every day. It's crazy to think that this time last year I was begging to be done with the pregnancy - yet at the same time so afraid of what the future held. I still am - but I never could have expected that the last year would have gone as smoothly as it did (really, compared to how it could have been, this was smooth), or that we'd have such a fantastic, amazing little boy to show for it.
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