Owen is doing great! Thank you all for your support and prayers for our baby boy! He is such a sweet boy too! He kept trying to give all the nurses kisses. Brandon and my dad thought he was a pretty smart boy:) Even when he was fussy with me and Brandon, as soon as the nurse came in the room he was all smiles and coos. Little Stinker! In the picture he has an IV in his foot. He pretty much left it alone except that he really liked to chew on the wires. They also kept putting these heart monitors on his chest and those were definetly his favorite thing to pull off and chew on:) Doesn't he look so cute in his little hospital gown!! When they finally took out his catheter it was all bent since his favorite thing to do was pull up on the crib and bounce!
The hardest part of the day was when Brandon and I took Owen into the lab where the procedure would be done and they put a gas mask over his face. He was so upset by it and flailed around so much and then just went limp. It was so hard to walk out of that room and leave him in there without one of us to stay with him. The doctor said that the hole was a bit bigger than he anticipated(about 3.3 mm), but the device they put in fit perfectly. He was under for about 2 hours and after the anesthesia wore off he was bouncing around in his crib--showing more energy than he normally does. He didn't sleep much all day (like they said he would!) and didn't really get to nap much with all the nurses coming in and not in his normal routine. We finally got him to 
sleep around 8pm and he would have been out for the count, but they decided to give us a roommate around 9pm! I'm not sure why hospitals think it is a good idea for children to have roommates?! The other baby was around the same age as Owen, but was crying a lot and his mom was having a hard time settling him down. And that woke Owen up and started off the crying war between the two of them til almost midnight. Once we had both babies to sleep and us momma's were trying to get a few minutes of rest, the nurses come in to do "stuff" to them! I was like, "Are you kidding me?!!" So, then the cycle started all over. Finally around 2 am we were all asleep again. So, we got about 3 hours of sleep before they started messing with us again.
Around 6am they came in to do an x-ray of Owen't heart and then a little bit later they did another echogram of his heart. It's pretty neat that they can bring the machines into our room and do everything right there so we don't have to drag our baby all over the hospital. They even had a portable x-ray machine.
sleep around 8pm and he would have been out for the count, but they decided to give us a roommate around 9pm! I'm not sure why hospitals think it is a good idea for children to have roommates?! The other baby was around the same age as Owen, but was crying a lot and his mom was having a hard time settling him down. And that woke Owen up and started off the crying war between the two of them til almost midnight. Once we had both babies to sleep and us momma's were trying to get a few minutes of rest, the nurses come in to do "stuff" to them! I was like, "Are you kidding me?!!" So, then the cycle started all over. Finally around 2 am we were all asleep again. So, we got about 3 hours of sleep before they started messing with us again.
Around 6am they came in to do an x-ray of Owen't heart and then a little bit later they did another echogram of his heart. It's pretty neat that they can bring the machines into our room and do everything right there so we don't have to drag our baby all over the hospital. They even had a portable x-ray machine.
After me asking everytime someone came in our room, "When are we going to be discharged?", they let us leave around 11:30am. Owen, who would not nap at all with everything else going on around him, was asleep before we got out of the parking garage! Poor guy was exhausted and needed to catch up on some of his rest. Once we got him home he slept for another 3 hours, then slept the whole night thru and woke up super happy this morning! He's been crawling around and playing with all of his toys, and loving on his big sister too:)
Upon discharge, Owen's cardiologist came in to talk to us. He was very happy with how the procedure went and said all the tests they had done that morning looked really good. Owen's heart is still enlarged, but over the next few months it should go back to normal. One of the valves is also still leaking, but he is expecting all that to go back to normal in the next 6 months to 1 year. So, we will be going back to see him in 2 weeks, 6 months, and then at the year mark. After that, if everything is back to normal, then we won't have to see the cardiologist anymore.
Thank you to everyone for praying with us for this procedure to go smoothly and to work! We appreciate all the love you all have showered upon our precious baby boy:)
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