4 Weeks post baby burns

It has been 4 weeks since little Stockton burned his hands on the fireplace. It has been a long and tedious process, but things are finally looking better.

The first week he had his hands wrapped. We took him to the doctor and they did it the first couple of times and then Jeremy and I did it for a week. They were very tender and he would just scream when we had to change the dressings.

The next 2 weeks I had to take him in every other day so they could scrub all the dead skin off his hands. This was VERY hard for me, so hard in fact that I left the room in tears on more than one occasion. They had to scrub them until they bled- the blood was a good thing for 2 reasons: 1-It let us know that he still had good circulation in his hands and 2- that blood was good for the new skin that was coming. That blood was giving nutrients to the new skin. So we did have good news along the way. It has been quite interesting watching Stockton adjust to not having the use of his hands. He started to army crawl on his elbows-it is actually quite amusing. Here is a cute video of him army crawling. Watch for a slight wink at the end! 

He figured out how to hold his bread with his ‘gloves’. 

He learned how to balance his bottle on his ‘gloves’, and finally he became a little hoover. While sitting in the high chair he would bend his head down and suck up the cereal from the tray. He adapted. For the bowling party-(post to follow in the near future) we thought it would be funny if we dressed him up as a boxer. I put him in a onesie with black sweats and a head band. He had on red and blue boxing ‘gloves’ and I found a cute plastic championship belt at the dollar store. He was pretty cute!

His hands look so much better then they did before. He still army crawls, but for the most part he is using them pretty good.

So thankful that this wasn’t worse and I am so thankful for our good nurses and doctors who take good care of us.