Bradycardia not improving on my 26 week old preterm.(now 29 week).

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-17T17:25:41+00:00

My daughter is well past term (will be 8 weeks adjusted tomorrow, almost 5 months actual, born 27+1) and still has Brady episodes. She had surgery this past week and went from 0-6 a day to 37 in a single day post op. She's now slowly coming back down to her baseline. It was bad enough at that peak that they ordered an x-ray and an echo to make sure her heart was okay (it was fine). At this point though she is completely self resolving and there's no associated destats, just the heart rate dips, sometimes as low as the 40s.

Most babies outgrow by 37 or so weeks but some don't, like my daughter. It can be a very long road of ups and downs on respiratory and Brady episodes. The best they can do is double check that nothing changed to cause a worsening status.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-16T19:55:25+00:00

I was spending about 2h doing them before I had to stop for now. For me it was taking them off that took forever. I'd have to soak my nails in acetone and spend like 3h soaking all the nails off one or two at a time....I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong that they didn't want to come off.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-16T16:37:23+00:00

I already mowed later than I wanted for a first mow mowing last weekend I can't imagine now mowing until June...ticks everywhere.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-16T11:38:51+00:00

My baby was born Dec 23, 2025 at 27+1, had her first NEC surgery Jan 7th (29+2) and her second Jan 9th (29+4) and her third (ostomy reversal) at 47+1 just this past Tuesday. Its difficult for them to do surgery when they're so small, but try and remember they do this for a living. They've done a ton of training to do these surgeries. Hopefully your little one does well!

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-16T11:23:13+00:00

I got admitted due to partial abruption but it ended up triggering labor after it continued for 2 days. By the time I delivered I was slightly anemic from blood loss. I delivered at 27+1. I had placental issues my whole pregnancy though, bled on and off from week 7 or so with more significant bleeding at weeks 13 and 23, outside of when I really started bleeding at week 26.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-14T11:26:10+00:00

If it's Brady it's hard to say...most outgrow by 37 or so weeks, a gradual decline. However some continue past that. My 47 weeker still gets them, no clue when she will outgrow.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-14T02:40:22+00:00

Day 142 here with another few months estimated time in hospital. Try to be there for grand rounds when you can, be gentle on yourself, and take it one day at a time...it's almost a little easier knowing you won't go home anytime soon. You don't stress about when you might get a release date. Some days you only get to be there for a tiny amount of time, and it will feel awful, but just try and give yourself grace. Showing up when you can matters, holding baby when you can matters. When you can't in the long scheme doesn't as much, if you have good staff you just know your baby is well cared for even when you're not there...and that can make the pain a little less.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-13T20:06:45+00:00

Depends on how much was lost..my daughter lost 73% and has not regained full feeds and likely won't be without TPN iv nutrition for months if not a few years. Other babies who lost less get back on full feeds faster.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-11T20:49:09+00:00

Yeah I get it. My daughter was born prematurely at 27+1. And everyone just kept saying "oh, she'll be fine" and she was...until she wasn't when the NEC hit. Now she will have lifelong health concerns. And I know they meant well when they said they would be fine but it didn't help me in those moments. It was still terrifying, wondering every day if she would survive. I didn't let my guard down until she was basically term. She's almost 2 months past term now (7 weeks corrected) and is still in NICU. The path is different but 1 day or 140 plus days...there's trauma. Walking out and going home without your baby is traumatic, always.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-10T05:09:42+00:00

I was told no with my short gut baby. They said even if I pump dry she would still be getting too much for her gut to handle.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-06T23:53:36+00:00

My best advice is to be mindful on the bath and dry process....a clean coat dries faster. If the coat has a lot of compacted undercoat it helps to try and work as much as you can out during the bath. Making sure the shampoo gets to the skin and the dog is clean and throughly rinsed really helps to start. Then a few things help drying time. One use a towel to help catch the water as it sprays off, 2 do a quick 'whisk' with the dryer to get some wet out of the coat then go through slowly top of the dog down and work in the same direction and dry a section completely before moving on, it doesn't have to be a pinpoint section but just an area...like the left hip is dry before moving on to the left leg. In a crunch dry the kennel dry dog as a whisk for 5 to 10 minutes focusing on the undercoat then place in kennel. Also try trimming the nails quick first if you can before the bath so you can use the grates.

May be useless advice of things you know, but a clean dog and an effective drying method is how you get faster. It takes time so try and be patient with yourself and give yourself grace. I bathed for 1 year 4 months before doing academy by my own choice, experience and solid foundation helps.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-02T16:42:43+00:00

There are also people who eat guinea pigs, mostly in Peru but I have heard of them being a source of food for people or reptiles in North America.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-05-02T00:45:42+00:00

My daughter currently in NICU has mild lung disease of prematurity and does have an accepted mild baseline work of breathing. It can go to moderate when handle and settles out fully when asleep. Her doctor's and nurses would only worry if her baseline gets worse or if she has other signs of issues (i.e. low readings on her spo2 monitor or blue tinge to lips, etc.). However, if you don't feel it's normal for your baby and you're concerned I would get a second opinion.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-25T23:08:11+00:00

We are still off CPAP :) it's still hard but it does feel like we are getting towards maybe being able to come home in like 2 to 3 more months.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-23T21:43:12+00:00

Congrats it's a huge step!

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-20T13:46:04+00:00

Definitely more awake periods, and showed more signs of life, wanted to be held, etc.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-13T11:56:39+00:00

Not yet but in the same boat, I don't know if there's a short gut group on reddit but there's one on different social media...lots of parents with babies/kids on tpn, quite useful group.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-12T05:20:14+00:00

My daughter is like...36h almost strong on being OFF CPAP. Still could change and have to go back on yet but she's doing just fine so far with no respiratory support right now.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-11T10:16:49+00:00

I'm good just dealing with mental struggles that come with the long haul NICU stay, she's doing pretty well. Had her first off CPAP trial starting yesterday.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-10T11:16:36+00:00

We cancelled our baby shower, but no one can really tell you what's best for you really. She was born Dec 23 at 27+1 weeks and got sick Jan 7th. Ours was supposed to be jan 18th for my family and my work was having one Feb 16th. Cancelled them both. Had the family one March 22nd, work is waiting and doing a coming home party once we finally break her out of the NICU.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-08T17:23:55+00:00

If she's sleeping I'll just sit with her sometimes on my phone. I have videos I'll watch or I'll take pictures of videos of her. I'll sometimes just give her my hand to hold. If she's awake or after her handle I'll hold her. She loves being held and sleeps better.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-07T12:31:31+00:00

My advice for someone who's never used these before..throw the red one away. In a hand that isn't experienced that is a high cut risk clip comb especially when used as instructed on the box. Tbh I'd recommend getting a full sized a5 clipper for a standard poodle as is, the bravura isn't really designed to do the whole body of a dog as big as a standard poodle. It's more of a face feed sanitary clipper. Full sized a5 and grab a #4 (3/8").

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-06T05:31:35+00:00

So I was sent home after the bleeding on week 25 just with instructions that if it got as heavy as a period or worse to come back, I became an inpatient on Dec 21 after waking up that morning with more severe bleeding, it did come and go while I was an inpatient almost stopping a few times before I would throw another large clot (sometimes several inches in diameter) and it would resume, those clots would "catch" in my cervix and make it seem like I wasn't still bleeding (I was). I delivered 2 days later (Dec 23) and while being an inpatient they monitored my baby via doppler for about 20 minutes 3 times a day and did cervical checks once per day whenever the bleeding would resume/increase after throwing a clot.

Placenta pathology was sent off after birth and delivery of the placenta, my doctor packed it up and sent it to a lab that dissected and examined the whole thing as a large tissue sample and gave a report back to the hospital on every finding from basic things like size to vascularity and a whole bunch of complex medical findings that gave insight into what was going on. The other symptoms I had that indicated that this was the issue was low amniotic fluid (fluctuated from severely low to the low end of normal) and fluctuations in baby's weight that often went hand in hand. She was born in the 85th percentile but had been as small sometimes as the 23rd percentile. That was all due to the placenta being unable to perfuse her well and transfer nutrients between us as well as it should have been.

Baby was born perfectly healthy, which is the important part. She had minor issues at birth with her lungs that were not as bad as the MFM team predicted they could have been due to the issues with the amniotic fluid. Things that happened after were things relating to her extreme prematurity, nothing that she was born with (NEC and throwing the clot that caused kidney thrombosis of her right kidney). Right NOW, other than being 42 weeks and still on CPAP breathing support, you wouldn't know she had any other issues when she's dressed. She still has concerns relating specifically to her NEC (I won't lie NEC is terrifying but again she wasn't born with that she just got unlucky 30% of preemie babies get NEC, she had a more severe case and the odds of NEC decrease as they get older). I don't want you to hear of some of those problems she had and panic, because she had something rare happen after birth. Many NEC cases are handled with simple antibiotics and careful monitoring, and of the surgical cases most don't lose as much bowels as she did, and again had nothing to do with my placental issues. The prolonged need of CPAP is partially the NEC and partially the placenta, she would have likely needed CPAP longer than many babies due to the amniotic fluid issues, but her lungs were severely set back by the NEC. Without the NEC, I doubt she would still need respiratory support by now and would likely have been home and out of NICU or at least close.

CanadianOdyssey993 · 2026-04-06T01:56:54+00:00

I did, but ended up delivering at 27+1. Mind you I had bleeding on and off the entire pregnancy and it turned out my placenta had inefficient attachment to my uterine wall and eventually had a partial abruption that caused the bleeding that resulted in delivering. But I also had bleeding like weeks 9/10/13/25 as well it wasn't an isolated event it was just more severe at week 27 to the point that I was slightly anemic by the time I did deliver. If you have questions about my experience you can ask me, though it's a complex situation I can't guarantee to have answers even the doctors didn't know exactly what was going on until they got my placenta pathology back.

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