WHAM!!!! Two posts in a day!

Now that the generalities are out of the way, lets do an update on Maizy, or as I call her little monkey, little princess, bubba, the list goes on.  Traci often tells me I call our children everything but their actual names.

As I stated in the earlier post the doctors found roughly 2 weeks ago a bit of an issue with Maizy's heart.  She needs to have some surgery to repair essentially a bad section of her aortic valve.  We are thrilled however that it will be the only surgery she needs, as earlier they had told us had her heart not been strong enough they would have had to do another procedure that essentially re-routes valves in the heart to a point that she would really only be using one half of her heart.  Obviously we wanted her to have full use of her heart, and the surgery she is having will just be one surgery as opposed to three over the span of about a year and half.

Obviously the heart stuff was a bit of suprise, but we were so lucky to have found it so that we could have a plan of attack before she arrived.  She is resting in the NICU and getting stronger everyday. 

While we are on the subject of strength let me tell you about Traci and her "birthing tactic" as I am now going to refer to it.  Traci just has she did with Piper when she was born had no epidural, she did this whole thing au natural!   Hell we could have saved the insurance company money and just had her in the parking garage!  As one nurse put it "Lady you are superwoman!  You got an "S" on your chest." 

After Maizy was born the amazing and large team of medical professionals sized her up, got her medicine going, and took her to the NICU.  I got to follow them up, little did I know mommy would be following behind very soon.  As I am standing in the NICU one of the nurse's asks me "Who is that woman outside the room?"  I looked over and answered "that's mom"  The nurse didn't believe me at first. 

So yes the story is true roughly 2 hours after giving birth Traci did in fact walk roughly a quarter of a mile to the NICU to see her baby....thus I am confident Maizy will be just as tough as her mommy and sister.  If only they could quit making dad look like such a puss, then we would really be doing good!!

We don't have a time scheduled for surgery quite yet as the cardiac team is pretty backed up, but it should be in a little over a week they are anticipating.  So right now we are just waiting and hanging out with Maizy.  Mommy is reading lots of books to her, Piper is still trying to hold her, and dad is telling all the nurses stories about completely ridiculous things.