Ha well I suck at blogging!
Little miss Halle has adjusted to being at home quite well. She is having a hard time gaining weight. It is the most frustrating thing ever! She eats a lot but the problem is she can't keep it down. She is on two medications to help her. The last few days I see a little improvement. She probably only spits up all of her feeding like once a day instead of every feeding. Halle is 3 months old and weighs 4 pounds 9 ounces and 17 inches long. She's not even on the preemie chart yet! I have tried so many bottles to try to get her to eat the fortified stuff she sometimes will take one, but most of the time it's a fight. Most of the time she just spits everything back up anyways. She loves to be cuddled, hasn't slept in her bed at all. Yes I know that's bad she sleeps with us.
Halle's eyes are not fully developed. We have been to the eye doctor twice now and no progress at all. She said if at our next visit they haven't done anything then she will have to send us up to Primary's and that she might even need them lasered! Ugh I so don't want to be at primary's again. I guess it's just a wait and see thing so I guess I shouldn't even stress about it yet.
She is getting so strong. She can lift her head up from side to side. Is trying to roll over, she doesn't like her belly unless she's asleep. You really have to hold her head when you hold her up right, you would think so by just looking at her because she's still pretty small.
Anyways maybe I should go back to when we were still in the NICU. It was a Thursday and they asked me if I would like to board in to see if she could nurse all of her feeds since she didn't want the bottle. I of course said yes! So on Friday we got her echo done and checked her kidney's and got the carseat test done in preparation of getting her home. So I stayed and she did it! I was completely shocked. So Saturday night we roomed in I was on cloud nine. She lost 30 grams but it wasn't that bad since she had only been nursing and not getting any of the fortified stuff, she was on the 30 calorie stuff. On Sunday morning the nurse came in to inform me that she may not be going home due to a head ultrasound that needed to be done before discharge to check her brain bleed. I was crushed, and asked why we didn't do that on Friday also. Then it took forever for the doctors to come and round on us, due to an emergency in the NICU. Finally around 3:00 they came in and the doctor asked 'what do you want to do?' I replied 'you know what I want.' and he said lets get this going them. We could get the head ultrasounds at a year old unless she starts showing signs, that they really don't do anything for a grade 1. I was back on cloud nine! We were going home!! We Can get back to normalcy again. The kids were so excited to have there sister at home.
I'm having a harder time adjusting to three kids than I thought I would. I just can't seem to pull it together, my house is always a mess I just can't stay on top of it. I'm sure it will get better as Halle starts sleeping longer and I won't be a walking zombie. Well I hopefully will be a little better a blogging I'm at least going to shoot for once a month. I think I might can accomplish that goal.
What medications is she on? We had to find just the right one that worked for Jayda before she stopped puking everything up although she has always been a pukey baby. I smelled like puke for the first year of her life. She's almost 3 and just barely got off her reflux meds.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry though I can relate on how hard it is. Feeding was such a struggle and there were days that I just cried and cried because I couldn't understand why a BABY wouldn't eat like they were supposed to! I can't imagine having two more kids on top of it too. At least you guys are all together instead of trying to split one person in two places! I was lucky I only have one to worry about.