4 days post op....

My little girl had surgery on Thursday Jan 10th when she was only 3 days old. It broke my heart to see her have to go through this. Surgery took almost 2 hours but it went great. Turns out the growth was a tumor and it was connected to her tailbone so they removed the tumor and her tailbone. And her rectum was moved because of the tumor so they fixed that as well. I have never felt so much love for someone when I delivered her besides my husband. And that hurts to see someone you love go through something like this and your so helpless and can't do anything about it. She was so groggy after surgery she just slept so we kissed her good night and left the hospital. I delivered on Monday and we stayed at the hospital until the day of her surgery so if I wanted to see her I just had to walk down the hall. This was the first time I was actually leaving the hospital and it was so hard to say goodbye to her. I knew I couldn't get out of bed and walk down the hall whenever I wanted to see her. I had to wait for someone to drive me up to the hospital to see her. I of course broke down when we left the hospital but realized she would be home soon. The doctor said she would have to stay in hospital 7-10 days at the most, depending on how she recovers. I called and checked on her before I went to bed and as soon as I got up. They had to place a drain in her bottom to help drain fluids and she had 2 Iv's in her hands. It broke my heart and with this drain and the stitches all the way up her butt we couldn't hold her. So we just had to visit with her which I didn't mind because I still got to see her. Day 3 she was getting much better. She was responding better and they started feeding her breast milk on day 2. With her eating they decreased her fluids in her IV which was great. They started feeding her 20ccs on day 2 and now on day 4 they are now feeding her 43ccs which is an ounce and a half. They finally pulled her drain out today which is great news and both her IV's. Except they had to put one in her head because she kept pulling the ones out of her hands. And she hasn't had any morphine since Sunday which they only had to give her twice compared to other days. So hopefully she can come home sooner than expected. Please keep praying for my precious Savannah.