Pictures of my Daughter

[ZokesPro]

She is cute, but she's tiny.

My heart goes out to her and her family.

[az]

OK, this is the last one I'll post. These are way too many already

[Indiana]

Well, at least looking at those pictures she HAS made quite some progress.
Was it a congenital heart/vessel disease?

[az]

It was her mother's IGA nefritis, which has caused, among nearly non-working kidneys, very high blood pressure (in the end it became uncontrollable, and despite medication got over 210/130 mmHg sys/dia). Also her haemoglobin of between 8 and 12 (normal is 16 to 18, IIRC) caused the fetus to have trouble getting enough oxygen.

The doctors say we were EXTREMELY lucky. They expected her to die..

AZ

[Laurie]

She'll wonder what's wrong when they finally get all those tubes out of her.

Wish I had all that beautiful hair.

[az]

*LOL whose hair do you mean now?

She is not intubated on all but the earliest pics. She will have to undergo it once more for her third OP. Well, we'll see what becomes of it.

AZ

[thop]

to be honest the first pics were a bit scary. in the last pics though she looks like a beautiful girl. you can already tell she got style & class, that haircut makes every figaro jealous!

[az]

*LOL

Sure the first pics are scary! I didn't realize back then, but when I look at them now I'm amazed that she could live (not on her own, but still), and that I really didn't see how she looked. To me she was my baby, and I loved her. Just goes to show that love does indeed make you blind (though this is a very good mechanism in this case)

And she really is cute. I know I'm her father, but when I sit there with her on my arm, and the nurses come and talk to her, play with her, and won't go, I'm the proudest man alive

AZ

[ZokesPro]

AZ, that's beautiful man.

[P5ycho]

she's really cute az, you should be very very proud.

[Helevitia]

Very nice pics az, thanks for sharing

Dave

[Paddy]

you da' man AZ

I spend all day in the neonatal intensive care unit.

all the best mate

[dave m]

Az, she's lovely, I hope she'll be home with you soon.

Dave

[KvHagedorn]

Yours is a brave family. Hope all goes well from here on.

[Dogbert]

Hehe, I see a future little heart breaker

When I see your picts one after the other, she has made a lot of progress. It seems (and I pray I'm right) that the worst is behind you.