Update and Sickies

Well it's been awhile since I've done an update to say we've been busy is an understatement. Everyone in our house has been sick, Sweet Pea had pneumonia and then Little Man got sick and was sick for two weeks and then it was my turn and I'm still recovering.

To update on Sweet Pea just before she had her pneumonia I had heard the skip in her heartbeat come back, I hadn't heard that since my non-stress tests 3 weeks before I had her. So naturally I was kind of concerned and called the cardiologist, he up'd her dose of propranolol to 10mg every 8 hours since she was only 1 pound from her next dose increase anyways. Then she got pneumonia shortly after which she ran a 103 fever for 4 days and freaked me out, I don't think I've checked her heart rate so much since her episodes first started in February! But we survived that and she's up to par now.

We had our check-up with the EP last Monday and got some great news! First of all they did a sedated echo, the first since her fetal echo unless they did one the first stay in the hospital I didn't know about and everything still looked great. It was nice having her sedated because they did the EKG and blood draw while she was asleep which was nice because the lady doing the blood draw was an idiot! She finally called in two other nurses and they got it first time. It makes me mad that they poke her so many times before admitting they can't do it! Anyways, we met with the EP and he said they no longer see the delta wave on her EKG meaning one of two things, either the extra pathway has stopped conducting electricity or the WPW has become concealed. So we are cautiously optimistic that the extra pathway no longer conducts electricity meaning her WPW has resolved on it's own. We are going to not up her dose at all and reassess at 9 months when we will try to wean her off the propranolol. I'm scared to death of all this because it's been great not having any episodes for months now, almost like she's a normal baby. :) Anyways, that's our good news I hope, guess we wait and see what the next few months brings.
Daddy, Mommy, Little Man and Sweet Pea