Matilda surgery update

Today was long and hard. They took Matilda in at 8:30 a.m. and finished at about 7:30 this evening. The surgeon successfully completed the procedures he wanted to do, but Matilda did not react well to being removed from the bypass machine that was being used to pump her blood so they could work on her heart. So they've had to put her on ECMO, which is a complicated machine that you can read about online. We're thankful that she survived the surgery, but we can't stress enough that she is still in extremely critical condition and is in the ICU. The next 48 hours will be very rocky. We have decided to only update the blog once in the morning to let you all (our dear friends and family!!!) know how the evening went, and once in the evening to let you all know how the day went.

The doctors and nurses have been amazing as has Rev. Ryan Ogrodowicz, who has been providing much needed pastoral care for our family.

Lots of Matilda pictures!

This is right after the C-Section:


Weight right after delievery:

Baptism action shot!!!

Post-baptismal Benediction (not staged):

Kristina seeing her for the first time post-delievery:

 

 

Fammo looking on:

 

Look at that hair!

This is reality:

 

Surgery tomorrow

Surgery is set for tomorrow morning at 8am. It will be long and complicated one, 6-8 hours. Right now Matilda is doing somewhat ok, and they will be working on stabilizing her as much as possible before surgery. The days after surgery will be very much up and down, and we will probably not be updating the blog very. Thank you all for your prayers and concern. We appreciate it very much.

Matildas hjärtoperation är planerad till i morgon kl 08. Operationen är komplicerad och tar 6-8 timmar. Just nu mår hon någorlunda ok, och de kommer att fortsätta att stabilisera henne under natten. Dagarna efter operationen kommer att vara väldigt mycket upp och ner, och vi kommer antagligen inte att uppdatera bloggen väldigt mycket, men vi är tacksamma för alla förböner.

Matilda update

Things have changed, but not in an unexpected way. Matilda has required cardio version (to have her heart shocked) twice in the last hour and a half due to an erratic beat. Her blood pressure also lowers when they attempt to ween the Dopamine. The heart surgery has been moved up to tomorrow morning.

She is still very cute though.

Picture of Matilda!

Matilda update

She's doing better than we had hoped! 5.10 lbs (2530g). Heart rate is in the 140s. Oxygen is in the 80s all by herself.

Matilda update

At our appointment today our doctor said it was time to act. Matilda's heart rate has been consistently low with little variation. Another concern is a small amount of fluid around the heart. They've scheduled a C-Section for tomorrow morning at 7:30 AM. Please pray for Kristina and Matilda.

Thank you to all who are helping us through this. As we speak two amazing women from Grace Lutheran Church are driving Edith from Burkburnett to Haslet to stay with friends. We couldn't have done all of this without everyone's help.

Vi är nu på sjukhus i Fort Worth. I morgon kl 7.30 kommer de att göra kejsarsnitt. Vid dagens kontroll såg läkaren lite vätska runt hjärtat, och hjärtrytmen var inte heller så bra som önskat. Just nu är dock läget stabilt.

Vi är så tacksamma för all hjälp och alla förböner. När detta skrivs är två underbara damer från församlingen på väg med Edith till några vänner som bor här i närheten. Weslie kommer att åka dit i kväll för att natta henne. Vi skulle inte klara av det här utan all hjälp.