9 Weeks, 6 Days (GA: 37 Weeks)

We are sitting in the surgery waiting room right now while Gabe is getting his shunt placed.  Dr. Riva-Cambrin is performing the operation.  I say we, but the truth is that Nanette stepped over to University Hospital to feed Zeke.  The operation is expected to take 90 minutes.  It is quite remarkable to us that this procedure is the first surgery that either twin has needed.

We need to make some corrections to the last post.  The person who spoke with the neurosurgeon and wants to remain anonymous misunderstood the description of the shunt.  There is, in fact, only one tube placed.  There is a cut behind the ear where the lower tube and the upper tube are connected.

Zeke is now breathing room air and is doing well with this change.  His face is now free of all tubes.  He has had about half a dozen desats in the last 24 hours, but he has not had any bradycardia.  So he remains on room air.  We are hopeful that when he comes home he will not need oxygen and monitors.  Both babies have been doing very well nursing as well as eating from a bottle.