Dena,
I think what you are doing for baby Emma is wonderful and shows what a very caring and kind person you are! She seems to be thriving and that is what is important! She sure is a fighter and it's great reading and watching the live web to see this little girl doing so well. I stand behind you 100% in your caring for her. Some things have to be done to help her along, and yes pain might be involved in obtaining the goal and keeping her thriving! I wish nothing but the best for little Emma, and you too!
I agree that some things are done to HUMAN babies with out giving them anesthetize, I had a horrible experience with my son Kennedy when he was a baby. He was born with a Primary Immune Defect and GI problems, he needed a tube feeding and at age 9 months they placed a Micky Tube in his belly for his tube feedings. Well One night when he was 22 months old the micky button actually fell out and his stomach area started to close up before we got him up to Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital to see the ped Surgeon. They( the ped surgeons) had my husband take him back into a room and they pulled out steel rods of a few different sizes, put my son in a board that strapped his arms and feet. asked my husband to help hold him and proceeded to ram the rods in were the Micky hole was....with out knocking my son out
I was in the waiting room with 2 of my other kids and I heard my Kennedy screaming and was wondering what the heck was going on
After they got it placed my husband comes out pushing Kennedy in the stroller telling me that we had to get him over to X ray right away because they had to be sure the micky was in his stomach right
He was white as a ghost and looked like he was going to pass out, Kennedy was screaming for hours after they did this to him! AND NOTHING was given to him afterwards for the PAIN he was in, the said we could give him baby Motrin! You knew he was in pain! I was horrified when my husband told me how they got his hole to open for the new Micky button. We did tell his Ped GI doctor if that was to ever happen agin then they would NOT be doing that to my son ever again!! we would let it close completely so a surgery would be done to replace it. Luckily he out grew the need of the Micky tube for feedings by the time he was 3 years old. He is now almost 14 years old and he has no memory of any of the painful things that he had to endure when he was little. But we sure do!
So YES they DO do things to HUMAN babies without knocking the poor things out first or giving them pain meds to ease the pain!!