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LO has had three surgeries. Two jaw reconstruction surgeries and a cleft palate repair surgery due to Pierre Robin. It's scary, but they were absolutely necessary for him to breathe and eat properly. They were at 1 month, 3 months, and 8 months old. We have had the best nurses and docs and they really did all they could to put our minds at ease. They even had a nurse call us from inside the OR to give us updates.

We got LO2's circumcision surgery when he was 10 months old and he had to be put under. It was hard to watch him go under anesthesia and I left the room crying

His surgery went fine but he had really bad reaction to anesthesia and threw up so much that we had to be admitted at a children's hospital overnight for dehydration

DS was put under at 15/16 months when they opened his tear ducts. All was fine, and he was a trooper.

Yes DS had twilight sedation at 1 for his tubes and just got put under for real with a tube and all that jazz at age 2 for a hernia repair. It's definitely nerve-wracking but both times we've been very reassured in the confidence and bedside manner of the anesthesiology team that worked with us and the surgeons that did the work. This most recent time we went to a children's hospital and it was a much smoother and quicker experience overall. Good luck, it's hard but the day of it actually goes by so quickly, and if it's something that needs to be fixed it's a big relief to just get it over with!

My kiddo fractured her femur as a 4 month old. Long story short my husband slipped on ice while holding her and they both fell. She had to be put under for surgery to fix her leg, followed by a battery of X-rays, cat scans, and I don't even remember what else.

The whole thing was absolutely awful, and I had an especially hard time with sending her back for surgery, waiting for her to get done with surgery, and having to hold her down for X-rays. That said, the nursing staff was fantastic and our surgeon did a great job of walking us through everything and putting us at ease. Being at a children's hospital definitely helped (we had no choice, a break that severe in a baby that small meant we had to go to Portland).

As much as it sucked, I think it was probably easier to deal with in an infant than it was a toddler. Please let me know if I can answer any questions.

22 months for tubes for DS1 and DS2 will have it done at 11 months in April. DH hauled out to a further surgical center because he would not assent to have it done for DS1 without a pediatric anesthesiologist. We ended up with one who was both a pediatrician and a pediatric anesthesiologist with grandkids. We hunted the same guy down for DS2's surgery because he had moved to another hospital. I make DH take the boys because I literally can't handle it.

My 4 month old (who's still in the NICU) will be having surgery tomorrow. She's getting a g-tube, nissen and possible umbilical hernia repair. I've made peace with it, but it has taken months for us to be ready to schedule.