Good news! Today we journeyed down to Texas Children’s for Matthew’s follow up ABR (diagnostic hearing test). Thankfully Matthew took a good long nap while the test was run, avoiding sedation. Matthew’s hearing has improved. He still has normal hearing in his right ear and the hearing in his left ear has improved to mild/moderate hearing loss (compared with moderate/severe while we were in the hospital). The audiologist even ran the newborn screen (the one that he originally failed), and his hearing improved so much that he passed the newborn screen. The audiologist said improvement is rare, but does happen. Thankfully it happened in Matthew!! We have a follow up ABR in 3 months to check again.
In addition to being thrilled with this good news, we’ve been enjoying Matthew as he interacts with us. He now 'talks' with us, gives us his cute, crooked smile and kicks his legs and waves his arms in excitement. We are overjoyed with him meeting these ‘milestones’ (albeit just a bit later than ‘typical’) and are relishing everyday with our squishy boy. We are able to enjoy this time even more because he’s giving us more sleep at night. We are averaging 7 hours, and he’s given us up to 8 hours a few nights. I do love sleep…hopefully I didn’t just jinx us!
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