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Guess What We Did All Morning? We got to spend the…

Posted by Heather On December - 21 - 2006

Guess What We Did All Morning?

We got to spend the morning at the doctor’s office. I didn’t get to sleep at all last night and very little the night before. Both girls, sick.

I didn’t think babies could get sick in the beginning because they have all of mom’s immunity until they are like 6 months old or something. The doctor did say that was true, which is why Alyce isn’t as sick as Katiana.

Both girls are so congested, running fevers at night (only at night, wierd kids), and Katiana is complaining about her ear hurting, she sounds horrible when she talks, like she is getting laryngitis or something.

Alyce so far has just a bad cold, saline drops and elevate the head of her bed. Katiana has the same cold and an ear infection. Augmentin. Fun fun. And of course I get the I told you to take them to the doctor yesterday lecture from Pato. Sorry, they acted fine during they day, it’s at night when they get bad.

Seriously, I’d just get laid down and then Alyce would cry and try to nurse, and get mad cuz she couldn’t eat cuz her nose was so stuffy, I pumped a few times cuz she seemed to be able to eat better out of bottle than nursing. Then I’d get her back to sleep and Katiana would start coughing and crying, and I’d get her laid back down and just barely start to fall asleep, and Alyce would start sneezing and coughing and wake herself up. The mad cycle continued on and on all night long. And daddy said, I’ve got to work tomorrow, you can sleep when the girls sleep.

Ok, so Kat took her nap on the way back from the doctor, and won’t go back to sleep. The baby is sleeping in her car seat, but I really don’t feel safe letting a two year old run around the house while I take a much needed nap. So, it looks like I am up til bedtime. And so is the life of a mom.

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New Pics Proud big sister My beautiful girls Pap…

Posted by Heather On December - 13 - 2006

New Pics

Proud big sister

My beautiful girls

Papi and Alyce enjoying Jordan’s concert last night

Not a great picture, but the best I could do from as far back as we were. Jordan singing is solo last night.

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The Whole Story Finally a few seconds to myself. k…

Posted by Heather On December - 12 - 2006

The Whole Story

Finally a few seconds to myself. knock on wood

Friday, Dec 1, I went to my doctor to be checked because I was feeling really lousy. I got up to the doctor’s office and my doctor didn’t even see me. She had a wheel chair waiting and took me to labor and delivery to monitored.

After a few hours, she decided to induce me.

So, she hooked me up to the pitocin around 7, I started making progress at 11:00 p.m. At 5:22 a.m. after 3 pushes, my daughter was born. She was 7 lbs 8.1 oz and 20 1/4 inches long. (Never had to push less than an hour before, that was kind of nice)

So, everything progressed normally until the day we were supposed to go home. At 8 in the morning someone noticed that she was turning blue sometimes, dusky at other times. They hooked her up to the pulse oxygen monitor. She would dip down quite a bit. They started running all of these tests, and I finally started having a nervous break down when they were trying to draw blood from her arm. They escorted me back to my room and Pato went down to hold her hand.

They admited her to the special care unit. (one step above the normal nursery, one below the nicu) She was on all of these monitors and they were giving me worst case scenarios. If she had apnea, she’d be there at least a week. I only got to really hold her when I was nursing her.

Tuesday morning, they finally figured out that she was doing a normal preemie thing (They said 37 weekers could go either way, full term or preemie, and if she was going to act like a preemie, we were going to have to treat her like one) She would suck, swallow, and forget to breathe. She did it when she was eating, spitting up, or sucking on her pacifier.

She also started having a bout with jaundice. Tuesday afternoon my doctor decided that since she had only had one episode that day that she could come home with me. I was/still am scared to death she’ll stop breathing on me. She’s had one episode since we’ve been home. My dad was holding her and she started turning blue around her lips again. But, she came out of it on her own. She has everytime. She’s never had to be stimulated to breathe. So, that’s a positive.

On to the jaundice. She got all the way up to 19, last Wednesday. Then Thursday she went down to 18, then Friday down to 16, then today, woohoo, she went down to 13! YAY! Every business day that the dr is open, we’ve had to go get weighed (she’s back up to 6 lbs 13 oz today) and have her heel stuck to check her billirubin.

We get to skip tomorrow and go in on Wednesday to get tested again. The doctor said it’s taking awhile because she was up so high.

Then she has her 2 week check on Friday. We’ve basically been living at the hospital and the doctor’s office since she was born.

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But, she’s getting better. That’s all the matters.

On to sadder news.

My grandpa died on Saturday. I made it just in time to see him. (With the baby being sick and in the hospital and the billi blanket, I hadn’t gotten to see him and they told us he had a few weeks left. I was in the room with all of my aunts and uncles, my dad (there are 10 living brothers and sisters and all but 2 were there), my grandma, and some of my cousins when he passed. I just feel like I was given my blessing when I was given her to help ease the pain of losing my grandfather. Something to be thankful for in this time of being sad. His funeral is tomorrow. Then tomorrow night is Jordan’s concert at school. He’s got a singing solo. I’m just going to be going from one extreme emotion to the other tomorrow.

So, that’s our story. I’m hoping to get going here on my hobby of scrap freebies and scrappin period. It’s getting there, but when the baby doesn’t need me, the 2 year old does, when the 2 year old doesn’t need me, the 7 year does, and when he doesn’t need me, the baby is ready to nurse again.

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Love you guys! Thanks for all of the wonderful comments!

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Introducing Maria Alyce It’s a long story, but I w…

Posted by Heather On December - 6 - 2006

Introducing Maria Alyce

It’s a long story, but I wanted to let you know in case you wondered where I was. So, I’ll make it short. I was induced on Friday night (3 weeks early) and on Saturday morning at 5:22 we welcomed to this world our new daughter Maria Alyce. (Yep, we changed the name at the last second). We are calling her Alyce, pronounced, Uh-Leese.

She was 7 lbs 8 oz and is 20 1/4 in. We just got home yesterday due to some problems with breathing that started on Monday. She’s better now though. We are having issues with jaundice, but so do lots of little ones. She’s out of the woods now and that is all that matters!

I’ll give the whole story a different day. Exausted, tired, and learning the routine of having 3 kids.

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Posted by Heather Manning On November - 26 - 2006

My OB Appointment on Friday

My blood pressure is still high, higher than it normally is. So, she ordered another 24 hour urine test for protein levels, checking on preeclampsia again. Not so bad during the day, but at night, really gets annoying. LOL

She said, Heather, you haven’t been doing anything crazy like, um Christmas shopping today? Um, I swept the kitchen floor? Is that getting a little nutty?

I gained 3 lbs this week, which she said is most likely from the swelling, which has really started to kick in to high gear. I was a little bummed about the 3 lbs. I’ve done so good, up to this point, I gained 13 1/2 lbs in 35 weeks, Week 35 – 36 I put on 3 lbs? LOL

I told her, I’m so glad I’ve only got 4 weeks left, and she said, you might have less. If your blood pressure stays up like this we’ll induce you at 39 weeks at least. Well, 7 days before my due date is December 16, the day before is my birthday, which would be kind of a cool birthday present. I’m not looking forward to pitocin again, but I am looking forward to not being on bedrest anymore. Getting back to something that resembles a normal life.

She also told me to start taking unisom at night because I’m only sleeping about 30 minutes at a time in between getting up to make a trip to the bathroom, then it takes forever to get back to sleep. and then it happens all over again. She said that I’ll be in no shape for labor if I keep going like this. Aw heck, I’ve got 2 other kids and I made it through their labors. LOL

So, still on bedrest, hopefully only 3 weeks left, I can keep this up for 3 more weeks. )

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Posted by Heather Manning On November - 21 - 2006

Props to Jordan and Labor Thoughts

I was flying high last night! I had Jordan’s parent/teacher conference over the phone. (Bed rest, his teacher is so good to me)

Not one bad thing said. He’s above average in reading, his math skills are very strong, and his writing is getting so much better. She told me to look through his journal from the beginning of the year to now, and it’s legible now.

) Jordan’s never been one to sit and take the time to write and draw neatly, but she was right, I could read what he wrote. YAY! LOL

She said his focus is so much stronger now than it was at the beginning of the year and it’s come even farther in the last 2 weeks. He’s paying more attention and not as easily distracted.

We don’t need no stinkin’ ritalin! I knew once he got in the hang of things that he would be fine in school. I just needed a teacher who would work with him and help him get to that point. I am so proud of him!

Ok, labor thoughts. I was talking to my mom last night and I told her that when I was having those contractions 2 days last week, that it really brought on the memories of how bad labor can get. LOL I just kept thinking, ok, now I remember, and I want off this ride. She can just stay in there forever.

I would have been ok if I had progressed with the contractions and had her. But now I have all this time to remember what active labor feels like. I’m kind of getting nervous now. 4 weeks and some days til my due date. Stay in there for a little bit!

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Posted by Heather Manning On November - 18 - 2006

Another Fun Day

My OB called me back yesterday and wanted me to come in before 11. Kat and I got there at 10:30. My dr checked me and I was still dialated at 1. She told me should the contractions start going again, if I progressed they wouldn’t do anything to stop the labor again.

She hooked me up to the non stress test machine for an hour. My contractions increasingly got stronger and were 5 minutes apart again. So, she sent me down to the hospital to be monitored.

AGAIN? I called Jordan’s school and picked him up. Then my mom met me at my place. We drove the kids down to Pato’s work. Pato and I had talked and decided that he’d stay at work earning money and watching the kids until I called him and told him it was time.

By the time my mom and I got to the hospital, my contractions were 3 minutes apart and strong enough I couldn’t talk through them. She said, “Don’t you have that baby in my new car!” LOL

At the hospital they hooked me up to the monitors again, checked for amniotic fluid leaking, checked dialation (still at 1), and did a quicky ultrasound to make sure she is head down. I think the singing worked on Monday. I’m sure that’s when she flipped over.

Ok, so from start to finish, 7 hours of regular strong contractions getting closer and closer together, and they STOPPED. Just stopped. The nurse came down and said, I’m not getting any readings on the contractions, have you had one in awhile? I said, no, they’ve stopped, can I go home? LOL She called the doctor who said as soon as they are as regular and strong as they were when I first came in that I needed to come back. I said, “I”m not coming back until I can’t walk, talk, or breathe anymore.”

She just kind of shrugged and nodded at me, like you’re choice, but I understand. I’ll probably end up having her on the living room floor because I don’t want to go back until I’m sure as can be that she is coming.

You know, I’d really like her to stay in there a few more weeks and get those lungs nice and strong. I was a Hyaline Membrane baby when I was born. I’ve got a scar in the shape of a cross on my chest from the tubes stuck in my chest. I had to be taken by helicopter from Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, IA to University Hospital in Omaha, NE. And I was born 3 weeks early. I’m still 5 weeks from my due date, and though it’s rare I guess for it to happen after 35 weeks, since I was one of the rarities, I’m nervous about having her too early.

That’s about it for today. I’m going to go work on some scrap freebies for ya’all. Something I can do while sitting down.

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Posted by Heather Manning On November - 17 - 2006

Fun Night

I posted yesterday that I was feeling really off last night. I finally called my OB who sent me off to the hospital. By the time I got there I was having full blown contractions every 4minutes. Nice strong ones too.

So, they gave me a shot of Terbutaline to stop the contractions. They stopped for 15 minutes. Then they came back 5 minutes apart but stronger than the first ones. So, I got another shot. Which finally eased them off completely. So, they sent me home. I’ve got an OB appointment at 2 today, but I just called and asked if I could come in earlier cuz the crampiness is coming back again and that’s how it started last night. I’m waiting for the nurse to call me back to see if they can squeeze me in earlier.

They told me the Terbutaline could either stop them for a few days or hold them off completely til my due date. I am hoping the latter. Maybe today I’m just cramping cuz I had contractions for a long time last night. I’m hoping.

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