If you have been reading this a while, you know that when the twins were born Wolf didn't pass his hearing test in his left ear. How disheartening it is to have your new babies rolled into your room and one has the little card taped to the side of his crib that says I passed my hearing test and the other one has nothing. Wolf had passed in his right ear but not his left. He also has a skin tag on his right ear and since your kidneys and your ears develop simultaneously he had to have an ultrasound ran on his kidneys to make sure that they were functioning properly. They were.
But back to the ears...
I took Wolf back to the audiologist when he was 2 weeks old. He failed in his left ear again but when they ran a secondary test he passed it the second time 3/4 of the way through. The audiologist was please. I was not. Incidentally he passed in his right a second time when they did a base line.
The pediatrician suggested we see a specialist just to confirm, so Thursday that is what we did. They wanted to wait until he was three months old. He failed the test they gave him that was similar to the one in the hospital as well as every other test they gave him. There was no fluid in his ear. And just to be sure they did a base line in his right ear, and he failed it too. We go back in 2 months, should he fail again they will do a test in which they sedate him so that they can quantify the hearing loss and prepare him for hearing aids. Dave and I are terribly worried and there isn't a thing in the world that we can do. We feel confident that he can hear but to what degree we don't know. He smiles and he coos and reacts to noise. There is a chance that it can all be good and that when being tested his little ear drums are just collapsing as they can with preemies and twins.
Please keep little Wolfie in your prayers as we move forward on this. I, like every mother, want only the best for him and for him to have every advantage in life. Including hearing.
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