Scince I made my last post, a few people have asked me exaclty how much sleep we're getting now, 7, 8 hours? I WISH!! I guess I should've started with saying that we were getting about 2 hours and now we're getting maybe 4 or 5. Except the last two nights since I posted this she's decided to go back to fussing most of the night and so it's been more like 2 or 3 total. I wish these were at least 2 or 3 solid hours, but that's 2 or 3 total when all the 'naps' are put together. I still have no clue how we're doing it, I used to require about 9 hrs at night. We are being incredibly blessed is all I can come up with because somehow we are functioning through each day. Somedays more than others. The last two days I think I've felt more tired than I ever have. Bela hasn't been tolerating her night time feeds very well anymore, and somewhere around 11 or 12 is when it usually all starts. She fusses on and off allllll night long until I final...
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Smiles and Sleep....
Two things that are happening a lot more regularly around here.. I'm soo grateful for the sleep, and extra grateful for the smiles..:) Bela..3 months old. She prefers to sleep on Daddy's pillow. She used to just take naps on it, but Daddy gave in and lets her use it at night too. She absolutley LOVES it. We put her on it and she's out. She such a cute sleeper... Bela was up another ounce yesterday!!! Yeah Bela!
No more broviac line!
Well...here we are at the hospital again, the only place I seem to be able to find a minute to do posts. We had to come in just for the day for bela to have a little procedure done. She got her broviac removed from her leg, (horray!! the long 6 weeks of administering her med is done!) and some sutures removed from her incision that were starting to poke through her skin and bothering her. She had to be put out and put on the ventilator, but it was taken out before she was even brought back to us here in the room. I was sooo glad that I didn't have to see her with that darn breathing tube back down her throat. I always get so worried when she's on her way back to us after a procedure for fear of how she'll look. It's so hard to have her taken from your arms peaceful, dressed, and tube free and to come back completley different. But this time was much better than the first two times... she looked pretty much her same beautiful self, minus a broviac and plus a coupl...
A Perfect Day
I can't let this much time go in between posts because there's way to much now to update! The last two weeks have followed the same up and down pattern that we've been going through since Bela's birth, but as of today things are looking very up and we REALLY hope they stay that way. Since we've been home after her sternal debredement(the surgery she had for her infection) it's been non-stop craziness around here. Feeding Bela, giving extra feeds through the NG tube after I feed Bela, pumping to give Bela those extra feeds and her night time feeds, giving her 4 normal meds twice daily, her antiobiotic three times daily, getting the milk thawed and mixed with formula and setting up the pump for her nightime feeds, adding more milk all through the night, changing, dressing, re-dressing because of constant spitting up due to her acid reflux, holding her contanstly because that's the only way she's really happy, talking on the phone to all her doctors vario...