Emmy's Surgery (August 27th)

We rescheduled Emerson's surgery for a week later, so we were back in Omaha to try this again. This time she was over her cold so the risk for the surgery was very minimal. Since we had to reschedule she didn't get the 7am spot anymore, this time her surgery time was 4:00pm. This made things a little complicated as far as not letting her have any food or drinks for 4 hours prior to this. By the time we got there she was already getting a little fussy. It was hard because she would snuggle into me and pull on my shirt trying to tell me she wanted to eat and I couldn't feed her. Robb had to take her for a lot of the time we spent waiting because she was so confused as to why I wouldn't feed her.

We spent almost an hour pushing her around the halls in this little car. She loved it!

Dr. Puccioni ended up running almost 2 hours behind. I know that things like that happen in the hospital but it didn't stop me from being really frustrated as the mom when it is your baby that is starving,

She finally fell asleep and then they came to take her back. She was asleep when they took her which made it easier on us but I'm sure she was scared when she woke up to strangers. The surgery took only about 30min from start to finish. The nurse came to get me as soon as the took her to the recovery room and I got to feed her right away. It is always such a relief to get your baby back in your arms after they have surgery.

She was a little confused as she was waking up and went back and forth between happy and smiling and thrashing around and fussing. They kept her for about an hour and then they released us. We were happy to get home. Emerson did great overnight and if anything slept better than she usually does. The next day I had to work but Grandma Susie was there to snuggle her all day for us. The scar ended up being larger than we had thought it would be but I think it will heal pretty well. They stitched deeper and then glued the top layer of skin but they had it marked with a surgical marker and it almost looked like they had large stitches in there. We are relieved it is over and done with and the bump which we affectionately called her "unicorn" is gone.