Sleep Study #3

Scott, Emma and I headed to the hospital around 6pm last night, while Toby stayed home for some quality time with Nanna.

We told her we were going to sleep at the hospital and they would be putting cool colored wires in her hair and she'd get a cool hat! And the piece du resistance - Daddy would be sleeping in the room with her all night!

Since Emma had taken a half hour nap during dinner, she was raring to go when we got downtown. Scott dropped us at the entrance and went to park the car. Emma ran the whole way to the sleep lab, which I was fine with since it wasn't busy and she had energy to burn.

We were shown to our room and told to go get something to eat until about 8pm. We went to McDonalds (by far the worst in the world) and got Emma some nuggets since she missed dinner. She was thrilled and we took them back to the room.

Once she had her food and the Dora DVD started Emma was relaxing...


We were repeatedly told not to read anything into it if they did not put her on the CPAP during the night, or if they did. We nodded politely - we're not new!!!

They came in much later than they should to get her ready, citing her eating as the reason for the delay! 9pm is too late to start the process and we would have taken it away if we'd known.

Anyway, two people came in and started pasting about 15 probes to her scalp and 5 to her body. Emma did great cooperating, and she played with my phone during the process. Once that was done she got her "cool hat"...

The extra bandages tipped her over the edge though...

And with the probe in her nose she finally lost it and started crying. Daddy was told he could lay on the bed with her for comfort, so he did.
We cut the lights shortly before ten and we sang to her to get her to sleep. Every time we stopped she would excitedly whisper "again!" Once she was quiet and facing Scott I snuck out the door and headed home.

Scott called at 6.15am as they had woken her up to get her cleaned up before 7am and she was freaking out - duh! Waking a sleeping toddler - hello!!

Toby and I jumped in the car and met them at McDonalds, before we all headed home. This is Emma with her pasty hair and cookie stained teeth...
We won't get the results right away, but the technician gave Scott a thumbs-up and said "we did good." That's the best report we've had of the three studies. Quietly optimistic.

(I forgot my camera - doesn't the phone take great pics?!!)