A new and improved baby

I have to admit that we are so blessed to have Maylee. First of all just to have a baby is quite the miracle-recently in our ward a sister had her twin babies about 16 weeks early and they didn't make it-how devastating that must be! So with that on my mind, I can't help thinking how blessed we are to have a beautiful, healthy sweet baby girl as part of our family.

Another reason I have been feeling so blessed is because Maylee is such a good baby-she is happy all the time and has such a great personality. Recently she had a little surgery to get tubes put in her ears and it is amazing how much better things have become.

First about the surgery...

Maylee is 9 months old and has had 5 ear infections and she didn't get her first one until she was 4 months old-which means 5 infections in 5 months! So even though Maylee was miserable and felt awful for most of that time she was still our sweet smiling little girl. After the 4th infection a couple of people told me that I should look into getting tubes put in. It seemed so scary to me. Maylee is so tiny and I didn't want my baby to have to have any type of surgery-ever! Let alone at the age of 9 months. As soon as the dr diagnosed the 5th infection I said-let's talk about tubes. Before I even left the parking lot I had an appointment set up to see an ENT specialist that very afternoon. At that appt we scheduled the surgery for days later.

I begged my nurse sister-in-law to reassure me that the procedure was simple and of course she did. Even though the surgery was fast there was still risk because she had to be sedated. So on December 20th we took her to the hospital bright and early (had to be there by 6AM!) and had tubes put into her ears. I only cried just a little-when they took my baby back into surgery and I was left standing there without her. She came back with tears and acting a bit loopy but otherwise I couldn't tell any difference. Later that afternoon she was already acting better and by a week later we could tell a huge difference. She started crawling a week after the surgery-I think the infections, dizziness and equilibrium finally stopped and she could finally do what she wanted. She has been talking a lot more-she chatters so much! I love just listening to her! She is even happier now than she was before.

I am so glad that we did the surgery-my only regret now is waiting so long! So even though Maylee was wonderful and perfect before she is now even better!