Apparently last night was New Parent Initiation. Matt and I thought we were doing so well, changing Owen's diaper and getting him all ready for bed. Matt's been the diaper guru the past few days and has had no problems, until Owen decided to pee on him last night. Matt didn't immediately figure out what was going on, so he ran from the changing table in bewilderment, nearly tripping over a footstool, yelling loudly, and letting poor Owen pee all over his face....and the floor....and the changing pad....etc. etc. I cleaned things up, and then asked Matt to take the cover off the changing pad so I could clean up the baby, and he whips the whole pad off, leaving me a bare table. He looked a little confused, but was really trying hard to help! We were laughing so hard by now I was crying, and we were trying to dress Owen, who is screaming bloody murder and not finding our comedy routine nearly as funny as we did. I had almost gotten his clean onsie on, when Matt tried to help by taking it OFF, thinking it was the dirty one.....ok, maybe you just had to be there, but it was hilarious to see how very incompetent we are. The stitches from my c-section were killing me by the time I was done laughing.
Anyway, what you probably really WANT to know is an update on Owen's skeletal dysplasia. After such a difficult pregnancy, we got nothing but good news this week. The neonatologist was in the room when Owen was delivered, and he looked him over really carefully, as did our pediatrician later that day. Both of them agreed that if they didn't know the history, they wouldn't have any reason to think there was anything wrong with Owen. They took x-rays as well, because apparently the ends of long bones look different in kids with skeletal dysplasias, and everything looked very normal there too. I am just so stunned to learn about all this. After months of being told, "Yes, this is definitely what this is," to be told otherwise is just amazing. I know that so often babies are misdiagnosed prenatally, but after seeing Owen's growth charts, even I had a hard time thinking positive.
I guess I don't really understand how there can be such a huge discrepancy between the ultrasounds and reality, and the doctors don't seem to have a very good explanation either. At this point though, I'm not interested in figuring out why this all happened, I'm just thrilled to have a healthy baby. We still have an appointment in Madison on March 24; I just want the peace of mind of having a specialist look him over and give a final decision, and maybe explain why Owen would have had such unusual growth patterns. For now though, Matt and I are very happy that all we have to worry about is getting peed on!
Of course, I have to show more pictures of our adorable little guy. Here are some of my favorites:
He already loves to suck on his hands and is working on finding his thumb. No nuks for this guy!
Having his first bath at the hospital. What a cute little butt!!
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