In the tub

I love this girl's hair!

Soccer

The kids had their first soccer game of the season today. John was very excited that he gets to play now too, but only lasted about 10 minutes before he was "done."

Happy Birthday John

I can't believe John is 3 already. They grow up so fast. And Phoebe is 2 months old now. We had a really good day (especially since Phoebe got to come home.) We had pizza for dinner and opened some presents, the kids played and drove me nuts. It's good to be home, I can't wait to sleep in my own bed because hospital cots really suck. If the weather cooperates with us we plan to take the kids to Pumpkin Fest this coming weekend to celebrate John's birthday.





And miss Phoebe is like a whole new baby now. She's so happy and smiley. Even with her post-op pain she seems more comfortable they she did before surgery. She's still refluxing a bunch though but hopefully that won't be too bad (it's still kind of hard to tell what's from surgery right now and what's not.) It's time to buy her some toys too because she's starting to actually notice stuff now.

We're going home!

And as you can see Phoebe is very happy about that.

Feeling better

Phoebe is feeling much better today. After she yanked out her IV yesterday she went and pulled her NG tube out as well. The doctor let her keep it out though since she was so close to them getting rid of it anyway. She slept pretty well last night and today she was alert and happy. They lowered her pain meds even more and this afternoon took her completely off the IV (so she's on oral pain meds now.) She started eating again this afternoon as well and did good so now she's allowed to eat as much as she wants whenever she wants. If things continue to go this well she should be home soon. She also smiled for the first time today.











And guess who turns three tomorrow?

Not so good day

Phoebe had a pretty rough night and today isn't going so well either. She's been in more pain. They had to lower her pain meds just a little while ago though because her respiratory rate dropped too low and wouldn't come back up. Then she yanked out her IV and had to get a new one placed (and was without any meds during the wait) She just fell asleep and I hoping she stays like that for awhile.

Phoebe update

Phoebe's doing a lot better today. Last night she was in a lot of pain, they switched her to a constant drip of pain meds and that really helped. She slept most of today and woke up this afternoon and has been pretty alert. She also finally started taking her pacifier again (she wanted nothing to do with it after surgery) and that is really helping keep her happy. We just finished up giving her a sponge bath and she's all ready to sleep now.

Out of surgery

Phoebe is out of surgery and back in her room resting. Everything went great, now we just have to wait for everything to start working again. Here's some pictures. The nurses have been loving her hair (they added the bow,) we've seriously gotten probably a hundred comments on it since getting here. Her expression in the first picture is so Bella, I love it.

In the hospital

So it turns out that Phoebe's intestines are in fact a little "tangled," well kind of anyway. The nurse from the ped's office called this morning and said that the scan was normal, but then later the ped called and said that it wasn't and that we needed to see a surgeon. Then the pediatric surgeon called and said to take Phoebe straight to the ER at the children's hospital to be admitted for surgery. So here we are.

Phoebe has intestinal malrotation. Yet another thing that went "wrong" during my pregnancy that we're just now finding out about. Her bowels aren't all where they should be and the bands that hold the intestines in place are now obstructing her intestines (because it's all shifted.) So they're doing surgery tomorrow to cut the bands and remove her appendix (because it's not where it should be either and we don't want problems later from that.)

She's in pain tonight and will not let anyone put her down, so I'll be getting no sleep. The nurse took her for a bit but I'm of course spending that time now pumping (luckily I can type at the same time. And it looks like we'll be here for several days. Luckily the doctors caught this before it got really bad.

So annoying

I really hate how medical technicians give you just enough information to make you worry but not enough to know anything. So Phoebe had her tests done today. They didn't just do an upper GI they took pictures all the way down to her lower intestines (which took longer than they expected of course.) And of course the radiologist gives us just enough info to make us worry. I stayed in the waiting room with the other kids and Corey took her back for the test (I tried to go but Corey insisted he take her) but anyway the info was something about the lower intestines that should be flat can become "tangled." I'm of course assuming that if they really were in fact tangled they'd tell us sooner rather than making us wait and he probably just meant it could happen and not that it has (and he doesn't know better than to throw out partial information.) Anyway Corey asked the tech's profession opinion and of course his response was that he'd "have to discuss it with his colleagues." So we'll have to wait until tomorrow when the ped gets the results. Either way I'll just be glad to start actually doing something as poor baby girl is really hurting lately and we need to find something to help her.

And in good news Phoebe slept 8 hours straight Saturday and Sunday night, it was great. She was pretty sick last night though so she didn't sleep as well but it's definitely looking up.

8 lbs 2 oz

Phoebe went to the dr yesterday for her reflux. She now weighs 8 lbs 2 oz, getting nice an chubby looking. She's still having a lot of problems eating. She goes to the hospital next week for an upper GI to make sure she doesn't have pyloric stenosis and check for any other possible problems. Once we get the results of that we'll start her on meds. I don't think she has pyloric stenosis but then again I really didn't think John did either and I ended up being wrong.

6 Week Pictures

She's growing up so fast.

I hate pumping

I think I forgot just how much I hate pumping breastmilk, it didn't take long for it all to come back though. It just plain sucks. Phoebe's reflux is getting really bad, lots of puking and screaming going on here. And I'm so desperate to not pump anymore that I attempted formula, needless to say it did NOT go well so I will just have to suck it up and continue. We went out to eat last night and Phoebe was in the carseat and sucking on her pacifier (still love that thing by the way) a minute later we notice this large mess on the floor. After a minute I realized it was baby vomit, the thing is that the pacifier never left her mouth (it all came out her nose) and she didn't get a drop on herself or the carseat, how's that for projectile. I'm just glad she didn't do it in the van. She then spent the following few hours screaming. She's continuing to be a really good sleeper at night though and for that I'm very happy, oh and the fact that Corey does the 5am feeding (and 7am) makes me very happy.

We took the kids to Thanksgiving Point on Saturday, we hadn't been in awhile and they had a lot of fun. We went up to the second floor of the museum and I realized we hadn't been up there since the first time we ever went (back in '06) so they got to do some new stuff.







Bella being a dinosaur










And Bella on the same dinosaur at 20 months