Hello and welcome to our family!! We have designed this blog to keep all of you updated on our family and to give hope for families of "O" babies. It continues to be a long road for our little girl
and we would like to share our journey with you.
Thank you for all your love and support.
~Jen, Matt, Kalista and Lawsyn~


Showing posts with label compression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compression. Show all posts

Thursday, April 28, 2011

No Surgery Planned

We saw Dr. Gosman, our plastic surgeon, this morning and she told us that Kalista is still a little too petite to have the tissue expansion surgery at this point in time. We will see what the verdict is in October, when Dr. Gosman is back from maternity leave.


Meanwhile, we are going to start compression wrapping her "O" to see if we can inversely expand her abdomen by putting a small amount of pressure on her belly. She doesn't seem to mind unless she is eating and then she gets a bit fussy. We were told to take it off for mealtime, but to have it on pretty much the rest of the time.


Here are a few success stories from compression wrapping:

Blair's story

Zack's story

Caitlyn's story

We hope we can add "Kalista's story" up there one day.