Babies Born April 2006 #23

**nickers** · January 6th, 2009, 04:08 PM

My main trigger of nixon having a problem was his snoring.... he just kept getting louder and louder and got to the point you could see the struggle it was to take a breath.
so got a referal to the ENT specialist thinking we would do a sleep study but one look at him gave us the answer. he needed them out.

he was in hospital overnight and i stayed with him. we had to be at the hossy 6am the morning of the surgery. his op happened about 10am and took just under an hour to take out his tonsils, adenoids and drain both ears. We left the hospital approx midday the following day.

Nixon was shocking when he woke from the anasthetic, apparently 1 in 5 wake up that way. he was incolsolable even with me there and he had to be sedated again to calm him down.
But after the next wake up he was a bit better and then started eating! he loved eating jelly,icecream,custard,yogurt the works.
we were having serious sleeping issues before the surgery (getting him to sleep that was) that didnt start to get better till about 2months after surgery (so only recenlty)
recovery wise he did better than i thought though. he wasnt allowed to be social for 2 weeks post op and 2 weeks pre op to so couldnt go to playgroup etc. he continued to snore for a few weeks after it then one day just went to sleep with his mouth shut and no snoring!!

**becky23** · January 7th, 2009, 06:36 AM

You are joking 4 weeks he wasn't allowed to have contact that is so NOT going to be possible with me and DH both working full time I could do 2 weeks maybe but certainly not 4

**nickers** · January 7th, 2009, 06:41 AM

is he at daycare Becky? the main reason for the iscolation was getting sick.
the specialist told me if he was sick 2 weeks prior to the op he needed to know and it would possibly be rescheduled, would u beleive 3weeks before it he gets tonsilitis......so i was franticlly trying to get him better (in actual fact when the 2wk mark hit he still wasnt 100% better but i took my chances)
The 2 weeks after was more because he was still recovering but being a throat operation until they are recovered they are more suseptable to infection.
i dont know an easy way around it i guess the 2 weeks AFTER the op would be more important to not have him around other children and if in the 2 weeks prior he did get sick worse case scenario the op gets post phoned.
in the paperwork i got to read it suggested any chilren at school who have T&A out should be home from school for 2 weeks.

**becky23** · January 10th, 2009, 12:55 PM

Yea he is in full time day care so it is going to be difficult. HE had is xrya yesterday and he sees the ENT at the end of the month

**becky23** · January 29th, 2009, 06:09 PM

tomorrow is declanbs visit to the ent fingers crossed

**nickers** · January 31st, 2009, 07:03 PM

oh good luck.

im over hearing tests atm, Nixon has had 4 tests in 4 months and all have been inconclusive, personally i think if they cant get the proper infor they need to change the tests to be suitable for 2 yr olds!! he just gets too distracted so no one can decifer if he is not hearing things or just tuning out, i think he is just tuning out.... have to ring our ENT on monday to discuss our last attempt as it was at a diff pl and she was sending him the results.

let us know how he goes

**kaety** · February 2nd, 2009, 07:06 AM

Hello from a long time member but hectic mum!

I havent been back in a little while but I send all mums I know here!

TO all the other mums who's little ones were born in late 2003... Hope your first weeks at school arent too hard on you!

I think I found it harder than Declan!

His sisters missed him though!

Anyone I know.. i.e. Astrolady and Aussiemum... here are my little ones... not so little these days!

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I will drop back in soon

Love you all!

Cant believe its been 5 yrs!!

Kaety