Slumber Party

Dear Tatum,

We went for dinner at your cousin Michael's house on Friday night. While we were there you and Michael drifted off to sleep. Here is a picture of the two of you in “Boppy” heaven. You are both so adorable to watch sleep. I am sure there will be many more slumber parties with your cousin Michael.

Earlier in the day, Mommy spoke with the doctor in regards to your heart monitor results. We were relieved to find that the majority of alarms were again, false. It had gotten to be extremely stressful to hear the alarm sounding constantly throughout the night. Each time we were terrified and would race through the hallway to get to you. We would make sure that you were okay and then try to go back to sleep… until the next alarm would sound. After several weeks of this we are happy the three of us can get back to a more consistent nightly routine.

Although it has been almost 5 months since you were born, you are treated medically as a 3-1/2 month old baby since you were born 6-1/2 weeks premature. The heart rate threshold was set at a setting for a 1 month old baby and needed to be adjusted from 80 bpm to 60 bpm, which is more appropriate for a 3-1/2 month old baby. Since this adjustment was made last week and we have all been sleeping much better. You are beginning to sleep through the night again as well. The doctor indicated that there was evidence of Apnea in the 200 plus page report; however, it is questionable as there was no low heart rate leading up to it. We are going to continue to monitor you on the machine for a while yet as the doctor also found something referred to as "period of breathing." Which is when you breath quickly (almost hyperventilating) between periods of Apnea.

March was an extremely rough month and Mommy looks forward to spending some quiet time with you, friends and family now that things have settled down a bit and we are sleeping again.

We love you very much.

Love,
Mommy