4 Months to 6 Months!!!!

Playing in her Bouncy chair!!

Playing with her toys!!!

Brookie before her button was removed!!

After Brooklyn's heart was fixed it was like we took a completely different baby home. In the hospital the doctors repeated her swallow study and said that they felt that she could start feeding by mouth some. We had to thicken her formula quite a bit though. She had so much more energy and loved to play. It was amazing to see her looking so much healthier!!! We did have lots of ear infections and upper respiratory infections and were on antibiotics so frequently that some of them became ineffective. By the time we reached 6 months Brooklyn was pretty much taking all of her feeds by mouth and the only time the button was used was when she was given medication (because she left the hospitial on 6 different medications). After working hard to convince the doctors that she did not need the button any more they finally removed it!! The doctor told us that there was no need to close it that it would more than likely close on its own.