Mommies News (Issue 239)
HAPPY 8 MONTH BIRTHDAY!!!!!! Today was a fairly fun day for Jonah. He was able to get into a bouncer, but with a saucer bottom. He seemed to really enjoy being able to support himself, well as much as he can. This tired him out quite a bit. He slept from about 1 pom to roughly 430-5 pm. Jonah will have the Heart Cathlab on Tuesday. During this study they will administer different medications to see how he responds while measuring the pressure directly in the heart. The echo showed some regurgitation through the tricuspid valve, the pressure is moderate/low, for the medical people 29 mmgH, this is just the pressure in the heart; for the rest of we layman, the thought process is the lower the number the better. There also is signs of pulmonary hypertension, signs of hypertension in the heart, which we knew; which is an increase in muscle on the right ventricle, also known as Cor Polmanale. This is caused by a couple of things, one is the pulmonary hypertension, which makes the h...