Remarkable Progress :)

I got to hold Molly for the first time since she went in for surgery:

This is Molly signing that she would like to swing :)

Here is our happy little girl:

The PT came up and encouraged us to get her in a sitting position... I can't believe she's sitting less than 48 hours after surgery!!


We are 48 hours out from surgery and Molly is doing REMARKABLY well!! We have had to give a lot less pain medication and she seems to be feeling better by the hour. When she has gotten fussy it is hard to know if it is just because she's fussy or if she is in pain. We have tried to err on the side of medicating rather than allowing her to possibly be in pain.

I think that we will be able to dial down her pain medication more and more in the coming days and it will be easier to know if she is in pain or just fussy.

The surgeon has come in to check on us each day, which has helped to put my mind at ease.

Her left foot is rotated in slightly and we are hoping that in time it will get better than it is presently. Dr. Esposito said that he could do some manipulation to help that, but he said he didn't think we wanted to hear her cry. I think we will ask him to advise us about what is better in the long run. He thinks she will need to have her Tibias re-rodded in 12-18 months, so we can always aim to correct and improve things at that point. They are already remarkably better than before surgery and it is hard to complain about that.

She is starting to babble a little bit more, so we're hoping we are progressing closer to more words. She is now more consistently saying "mama" and "dada" appropriately as well as saying "woof, woof, woof" and "teddy", so her vocabulary is definitely expanding.