The patch on his head in this picture and the previous post was when the fluid in his head somehow collected around his shunt, rather than thru his shunt, where it would then drain thru a tiny tube into his stomach. We could press it down, so that his skin was flat against his skull, but it would refill as a bubble again, about the size of a 50cent piece, and about an inch high. The doctors were quite mystified by it.
And he continued to throw-up. I read in the mommy blogs today, and so many of them... well... they are lucky. They complain and are horrified by the amounts of vomit and poop they're little babies can do. I had to catheterize Jacob, cause he couldn't pee. He didn't have the muscles to retain his poop, so it drained constantly. He never had a non-poopy diaper. And until we finally got the right shunt in him (on the 5th surgery finally), he threw up every ounce I SWEAR, he ate, until he was 3 months old.
I read the mommy blogs because I wish I was able to read mine with two babies growing up in it.
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