Surgery

Alaina had her 9 month check up this month and the doctor found that she had a hernia.  We suspected it so we weren't surprised.  But we didn't expect it would require surgery.  I guess she didn't want to be left out being a child in our family and not having surgery!  So we had our obligatory visit with the surgeon.  (Yep, it's a hernia.  She'll need surgery.  My assistant will call you.)  And then on to surgery.  We are getting pretty good at this by now so it wasn't too bad.  The early mornings are the only tough part.  She even did well not eating so I can't complain.  Here's the happy before pictures:

And the sad afters:

I would take a dozen hernias over tonsils!  This was like a walk in the park after heart surgery and tonsils.  She ate just fine and then fell back asleep.  She reacted a little over-zealously to the morphine (the boys did too, interesting...) so she needed a little blow-by oxygen, thus the tube.  She has been recovering very nicely since then.  No ill effects from the trauma.  She has been indoctrinated into the family.  She is a full-fledged DeCarlo with the scar to prove it!