Sunday, August 10, 2008
Ultrasound
I don't have much time just wanted to let everyone know the Ultrasound went GREAT!! And so did Disney World, just got home, I'll update more soon!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
20 Weeks
20 weeks,
Wow 20 weeks pregnant already, even though the baby is going to be early, it’s good to know that my little one is half baked now. Jason was asking last night how much longer I thought we had before the baby is born, because his mom was asking how many weeks I am. When I told her 20, he was like wow, so about 8-9 weeks left? I don’t want to think of it that way, so I told him Landon was born 11 weeks from now, and Aden 13 from now, he said yep and they keep getting earlier, so we have 9 weeks left, “ I do not think we have more than 9 weeks.” Uhh….. I already do not like to but am always thinking when will this baby be here and how early, will I be prepared, I read up on each week and how it would be for the first few years with a ___ weaker, but for him to say it is different. I really thought one of us was thinking I would go longer this time, but I guess we think a like. So in 9 weeks I will be right at 29 weeks, and wile it is earlier and the baby would weigh less than Landon and Aden did, probably between two and a half and three and a half pounds, with all my reading I have found that NICU’s tend to group preemies together by age. Under 24-26 weekers do about the same, although 26 weekers do have better odds, 27-31 weekers are grouped together, and 32-34 are together, 35-37 are almost term and can normally stay in the well baby nursery or with mom and go home in a few days with mom too. So what does it mean that they are “grouped” together, not much really, just that babies born in those weeks normally do about the same follow the same course as far as treatments, breathing, feedings and their length of stay at the NICU they also have about the same number of office trips after discharge. I have had a 31 weeker already so I feel if 27, 29, and 29 weekers about the same I could handle it, even if they were a pound lighter.
Wow 20 weeks pregnant already, even though the baby is going to be early, it’s good to know that my little one is half baked now. Jason was asking last night how much longer I thought we had before the baby is born, because his mom was asking how many weeks I am. When I told her 20, he was like wow, so about 8-9 weeks left? I don’t want to think of it that way, so I told him Landon was born 11 weeks from now, and Aden 13 from now, he said yep and they keep getting earlier, so we have 9 weeks left, “ I do not think we have more than 9 weeks.” Uhh….. I already do not like to but am always thinking when will this baby be here and how early, will I be prepared, I read up on each week and how it would be for the first few years with a ___ weaker, but for him to say it is different. I really thought one of us was thinking I would go longer this time, but I guess we think a like. So in 9 weeks I will be right at 29 weeks, and wile it is earlier and the baby would weigh less than Landon and Aden did, probably between two and a half and three and a half pounds, with all my reading I have found that NICU’s tend to group preemies together by age. Under 24-26 weekers do about the same, although 26 weekers do have better odds, 27-31 weekers are grouped together, and 32-34 are together, 35-37 are almost term and can normally stay in the well baby nursery or with mom and go home in a few days with mom too. So what does it mean that they are “grouped” together, not much really, just that babies born in those weeks normally do about the same follow the same course as far as treatments, breathing, feedings and their length of stay at the NICU they also have about the same number of office trips after discharge. I have had a 31 weeker already so I feel if 27, 29, and 29 weekers about the same I could handle it, even if they were a pound lighter.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
19 weeks
Wow 19 weeks and 2 days pregnant today. Just about half way through cooking this turkey, wile I know I am more than likely over half way done, I don't like to think of it that way, I would really like to make it to 40 weeks, heck 38 would be great. This will however be my last time ever being pregnant and wile I don't want any more kids, just to think I will never grow another baby or feel one move frome the inside is a little sad, but I am still willing to give all that up, for one to be healthier, there is no way having a baby every 2 years for 10 years is healhy!! I don't care what doctor may say it's unhealthy, I bet there isn't one that can say it is either, I need a brake and it looks as if getting my tubes tied is the only way to get it. I had fully accepted that after Landon I was never having another baby, becasue of the C- section and the pain I had after, I never want to go through that again, and I hope I still never do, but being pregnant againg I now have to deal all over again with those feelings of never having another one, so I just want this one to last a bit longer than the last 2. With all of that said, I have just about lost all hope it will happen for a few reasons.
#1 I feel already that this kid is as low as it can go without being born.
#2 It feels like this baby weighes 10 or so pounds already (when I know it is closer to just 1 pound).
#3 I am so tired already, and this is the months you are suppose to "glow" and feel great. There has been none of that.
#4 and this one is the biggest one, I had a Contraction last night. Not a very painful one and it didn't last long, and I believe it was just the one.
Now I know some women do have contractions all through their pregnacy, without it being a big deal, and they go full term or even past, and that is great for those women, I however am not one of those women. I had my 1st contractin with Landon at 19 weeks 4 days, with Aden about 19 weeks too. With Landon I was even told it just doesn't take a whole heck of a lot to send me into labor, I do not have to have strong regular contractions and they do not have to be every so many minutes apart. The only thing I do have to have is a few and they get the ball rolling pretty fast. Last night I layed down and drank some water, to listen and feel to be sure that it was just the one, and I did't feel any thing and listening to my body I felt I was ok to go to bed, so that is what I did. I feel like crap this morning, tired and gaggie (is that even a word). So wile I am hoping for another 17-20 weeks I am not betting on getting it.
#1 I feel already that this kid is as low as it can go without being born.
#2 It feels like this baby weighes 10 or so pounds already (when I know it is closer to just 1 pound).
#3 I am so tired already, and this is the months you are suppose to "glow" and feel great. There has been none of that.
#4 and this one is the biggest one, I had a Contraction last night. Not a very painful one and it didn't last long, and I believe it was just the one.
Now I know some women do have contractions all through their pregnacy, without it being a big deal, and they go full term or even past, and that is great for those women, I however am not one of those women. I had my 1st contractin with Landon at 19 weeks 4 days, with Aden about 19 weeks too. With Landon I was even told it just doesn't take a whole heck of a lot to send me into labor, I do not have to have strong regular contractions and they do not have to be every so many minutes apart. The only thing I do have to have is a few and they get the ball rolling pretty fast. Last night I layed down and drank some water, to listen and feel to be sure that it was just the one, and I did't feel any thing and listening to my body I felt I was ok to go to bed, so that is what I did. I feel like crap this morning, tired and gaggie (is that even a word). So wile I am hoping for another 17-20 weeks I am not betting on getting it.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Landon's 2 year check up
His big boy check up went great. He is weighing in at 25 pounds and 2 ounces, and for the life of me I can't remember how long he is so I am going to do that in a little bit. He is doing all of the things a 2 year old should be doing, and we were given the OK to not go back to the GI clinic, they are going to send the clinic a report and we will be D-O-N-E, with them. I am super excited about that. He did get one vac. the Hep.A, they were out of it when he had his 18 monther so he got the 1st one today and then one in December, so when I take the new baby in I will take Landon with me for that. I asked about the booster for the chicken pox Vac. and was told they need it at 5 when they get the other school shots, so Madalyn and Collin can go any time and get it, Aden will get it at his 5yr check up, I think I will just take the other two with me then and get all 3 the same day, to get it over with, Jason will have to go that day.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Birthdays
I can not believe my baby is turning two. Not that two years is any shorter than it use to be, it is just that the past two years have been so full of events and some complications that I have somehow got lost in it, therefore it’s kind of sneaking up on me.
I have understood since my firstborn’s first birthday, how fast time goes with a baby, how fast they actually do go, and how you should spend each and every moment possible watching your child grow and develop, but somehow I still manage to be surprised at how much forget about their babyhood, how little time I seem to have to watch them grow and how sad I am when their birthdays get here, faster every year.
This year we hit a few milestones with each of my kids. With Madalyn she turned ten years old on the 8th making me a mom for a decade, giving her “double digits” or as Aden said “two whole hands” she is also going from a child into a “tween, the not a pre-teen not a teen, but somewhere in between, it’s hard for me to let go, and I am seeing as she is pulling away I am holding on tighter. The independence she wants also comes with more responsibility, that is the part she is not wanting, but as I have tried to tell her it is a package deal, you can’t have one with out the other, so for now we are at a stand still.
So much has happened with Landon in the past two years it amazes me he has came through all his battles a healthy, smiling, running, jumping, sometimes aggravating, but always wonderful little boy. Wile the 59 days we spent in the NICU with Landon and the months of doctors appointments, clinic appointments, and sleepless days and nights will forever be apart of his life story, they are no longer in the front running of what I think about when I think of his short little life. I now think of his smiling face in the mornings and his sweet sweating head as I lay him down at night. Long gone are the images of the feeding tubes and wires, replaced by smiles and hugs. Although I am still waiting on the first “I love you Mommy” from him, I can see it every time his little face lights up whenever I walk into the room.
My middle boys have not had their birthdays yet and still they seem much more than a year older than on their last birthdays, and then we have yet another little one on the way. I know he or she will grow just as fast as the four we have did, and yet I am sure I will look back and ask myself “How did they get so big” over and over each year. This pregnancy even seems to be going by faster than I would like, I am almost 19 weeks, and because I know I will not make it to 40 weeks, and my doctor “thinks” I will make it to 30, that gives me a little over 10 maybe 15 weeks left of ever being pregnant again. Doesn’t seem possible that in that short time I will be a mom of five.
I will stop rambling now, I am sure when the baby is born and with the other two birthdays coming (September and November) I will have more “I miss my babies being baby moments”
I have understood since my firstborn’s first birthday, how fast time goes with a baby, how fast they actually do go, and how you should spend each and every moment possible watching your child grow and develop, but somehow I still manage to be surprised at how much forget about their babyhood, how little time I seem to have to watch them grow and how sad I am when their birthdays get here, faster every year.
This year we hit a few milestones with each of my kids. With Madalyn she turned ten years old on the 8th making me a mom for a decade, giving her “double digits” or as Aden said “two whole hands” she is also going from a child into a “tween, the not a pre-teen not a teen, but somewhere in between, it’s hard for me to let go, and I am seeing as she is pulling away I am holding on tighter. The independence she wants also comes with more responsibility, that is the part she is not wanting, but as I have tried to tell her it is a package deal, you can’t have one with out the other, so for now we are at a stand still.
So much has happened with Landon in the past two years it amazes me he has came through all his battles a healthy, smiling, running, jumping, sometimes aggravating, but always wonderful little boy. Wile the 59 days we spent in the NICU with Landon and the months of doctors appointments, clinic appointments, and sleepless days and nights will forever be apart of his life story, they are no longer in the front running of what I think about when I think of his short little life. I now think of his smiling face in the mornings and his sweet sweating head as I lay him down at night. Long gone are the images of the feeding tubes and wires, replaced by smiles and hugs. Although I am still waiting on the first “I love you Mommy” from him, I can see it every time his little face lights up whenever I walk into the room.
My middle boys have not had their birthdays yet and still they seem much more than a year older than on their last birthdays, and then we have yet another little one on the way. I know he or she will grow just as fast as the four we have did, and yet I am sure I will look back and ask myself “How did they get so big” over and over each year. This pregnancy even seems to be going by faster than I would like, I am almost 19 weeks, and because I know I will not make it to 40 weeks, and my doctor “thinks” I will make it to 30, that gives me a little over 10 maybe 15 weeks left of ever being pregnant again. Doesn’t seem possible that in that short time I will be a mom of five.
I will stop rambling now, I am sure when the baby is born and with the other two birthdays coming (September and November) I will have more “I miss my babies being baby moments”
Thursday, July 10, 2008
17 weeks
I went to the doctor today; He seemed less scared of me today, ha ha. I mean more relaxed. I got a tube of blood taken for typing and the AFP triple screen. It screens for Chromosomal irregularities like, Trisomy 18 and Downs syndrome and for Neural Tube defects. It doesn’t give a yes or no answer, it gives chances, For example it could come back you have a 1 and 25% chance of having one of the defects then you need other testing, or it comes back ( mine with Landon) 1 and 250,000% chance of a defect, well then you don’t need any other test. I will know in 2 weeks if I don’t hear anything everything is fine. My blood pressure is good at 100/78, the Baby’s heart rate was 161 bpm, and I have gained 4 pounds in the past month, and that put me back to where I was when I got pregnant. I still feel nausea sometimes, but I am gaining just fine so no need to worry about that one. I can’t hold down the prenatal vitamins he gave me so today he said to get some chewable children vitamins and a folic acid pill once a day, my kids take the children vitamins so I will just take theirs. I go back on the 6th of August for my big ultrasound and for another visit. That is the day before we leave for Disney World, so it works, I am glad to be seeing the dr. before we leave. We still have no plans on finding out what the baby is, but we do have a name picked out if the baby is a girl. We are not sure about a boys name yet. Oh and you can try and guess the Girl’s name we have picked out, but you will never guess right, and we are not telling!
I know we are so mean!!
I know we are so mean!!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
15 weeks
I can't believe I will be 15 weeks in the morning. This pregnancy is going by so fast, I was talking with my sister and I realized that because I tend to go early, I good be half way done already. My OB believes I will make it to 30 weeks so I know I have at least 15 weeks left, maybe 20. I just can not believe it has gone by this fast. Wile realizing all of this I also realized I had not bought anything yet, I am not sure what if any thing I was really waiting on, so I went to Carter's today and Babies r us friday, I think I have gotten all the out fits you can buy for not knowing the sex of the baby, and that is about 6!!! Why is everything Pink or Blue?!? I have not gotten any gowns but my mom and sister is going to make me some and the ones at Carter's looked HUGE!! like 3-6 months HUGE and All they had in preemie sized were blue or pink, no yellow, no green, no white! So I decide to wait ang get the gerber ones, they are smaller, pluse I will have a ton I can buy after the baby is born, no matter when s/he is born I can always buy clothes later. Jason and I have already picked out the coming home outfits, for both boy and girl, if I go all the way and Baby gets to come home with mommy he will know what to go out and buy for us!
Out Growing Reflux
I am guessing Landon has out grown his reflux, When we went to Jason's moms house the weekend after mothers day, I left his Prevacid at home, I know... I know.... Well it is about 75$ for a weeks worth and because I had just gotten it refilled Insurance would not pay for it, so I thought I could buy 2 days worth, nope they don't have a walgreens up there so I would have had to buy the whole month, I didn't have the 350+ $ so I decided to just not worrie about it and if he needed it I could always give him an afternoon dose of Axid. Well he did really well off the Prevacid, he actually acted the same, there was no fussing and no gagging, not even a up turned nose at dinner. I was suprised but happy, so when we got home I decided not to give him any and just go with the Axid 2 times a day like he had been getting, except it was when he woke and before dinner. He didn't notice at all, so a month later when we were out of Axid, in need of a re-fill, I decided not to fill it, I knew I could give him our Mylanta back up if he was in need in the middle of the night, or I could always share my tums LOL, I was hoping he wouldn't notice the stop and guess what... he hasn't. No fussing, No puke, No gagging, No up turned nose at dinner. He eats more than he did wile on all the meds, he is growing good, I know this because he is in need of bigger clothes!! 2T clothes, where as just 6 weeks ago 18 months were a bit loose. I am happy about all of this, he still has another GI clinic in aug. and wile I have thought about not taking him in I have decided to go ahead with it, mainly so it will show in his chart we stopped coming because he got better, not just that I didn't show to his appointment.
Friday, June 13, 2008
13.4 week appointment. and ER trip
Things went well. I didn't blog my trip to the ER because I felt so bad, but the meds are he;lping and I am feeling some better, so I will start there. Sunday I woke up around 3am I crampy, it didn't last but like 30minutes, so I went back to sleep, Jasonw as at work any how so I would have had to call and wake my sister and mom up so I was glad it went away like it did. Then we went to moms for my G-maws birthday lunch, my back was hurting and at 3pm I was cramping again so I got Jason to take me to the ER. I was taken back quick, asked a bunch of questions and gave my urine. They were all really nice and said they could try to find the Heart beat, but there monitor was old down stairs labor and delivery has all the new stuff, and sometimes they can't hear it until 15 weeks, well I decided to let them try and the nurse found it in no time. The rate was 166 BPM, turns out I had a really bad UTI, so they gave me meds and sent me on my way. The meds suck, they make me tired. Any way I went to the OB yesterday, all is still good still have the UTI, but the meds are working NO more bad headaches. My BP was great 100/55 (normal for me) and The baby's HR was 164, I am to dink water like a fish, although I am not sure they actually "drink" the water LOL. Any how both baby and I are fine, we go back to the OB in a month I will have the AFP blood test done at that appointment, then in Aug. I will have my big ultrasound (no not finding out the sex!!. So that is it we are fine. I hope I make it the next month without calling the Dr. or going to the ER, lets see if I make it!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
What do you mean Morning sickness can last 9 months!
By morning Sickness, I really mean the all day sickness and yuck feeling I have 24 hours a day. I believe whoever it was that decided to call it morning sickness must have either been crazy, a man, or both, because no one who has even felt the way I do could call this morning sickness. I am sick from the time my eyes open in the morning until they close at night and sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with pain in my head so bad it would make the strongest man cry. The only thing that has been keeping me going these past few weeks is the thought that most women get better between 12 and 14 weeks, then I found out this week that it can last the whole 9 months, WTH am I going to do if this doesn't go away. I don't think I am going to make it like this, I can't do anything, I am 2 days shy of 13 weeks and I feel no better than I did a month ago. I am not just whining here, I am just a lil worried that if I don't start feeling better soon, my children are not going to be taken care of, the way they should be taken care of. I am doing the best that I can now and Jason has been ok with all of it, we are spending a lot of money in take out foods, cause I can't cook. We are also depending on my mom some on the really bad days and there have been days I am not able to hold my head up at all. Now some of you might be thinking what does the doctor say?? Well, I haven't called him, and why not you ask, becasue the meds they give you (phenagan) knockes me out, SO I would be taking the meds, sleeping for 6 hours and waking up just in time to take more meds. OK so what happens to my other kids wile I sleep for a few months?? I guess they would have to be taken care of by other people, so my question is how is that helping me? I would miss more than I already am! I already feel as if I don't do a lot with them, I am sure I would feel worse. I know I have lost some weight, Last week when I was at moms I had lost 5 pounds, I don't know how this doctor feels about me not gainning weight, I lost 22 pounds with Aden so I am not that worried about it, I did get yelled at for it, diffrent OB so I am hoping I don't get yelled at on Thursday that is when I go back to the doctor. If I don't feel better by then I guess I will have to get something if not for the throwing up, at least for the headaches!!
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Reactions
I told my kids that I am pregnant today, I got beter reactions out of them than I thought I would. We had just finnished lunch and Jason had taken the boys to the truck, Madalyn and I staied to pay the check and I was asking her what she thought of April (my sister) being pregnant too. She was very umm ok I guess, wile I tried to push it a little she kept going back to her sun burn, LOL. So on the way back I said well I am glad you are happy april is having another baby, because so are we. She stopped and said REALLY IS IT A GIRL!! LOL of course we won't know until the baby is born, silly girl, she was hoping all the way to the truck and even wanted to tell the boys! I let her, she then asked when the baby would be here, umm before christmas, after school starts was my answer, the best one I could really give at this point, she understands some babies, like her brothers are born early and sick and might have to stay at the hospital for a wile.
One qustion she asked I was not surpised by and is the reason I waited until almost 12 weeks to tell them, she asked if we knew if the baby was alive or if it was going to die. Wile some may think a 9 year old should not ask this question, she has good reason, My sister (who is pregnant too) lost a baby before Christmas last year, Madalyn already knew she was pregnant so we told her "aunt April's baby died" what else could I have said. Then Last month my SIL lost a baby, she had told Madalyn and the boys already so I had to tell Madalyn her baby died too. She was upset about all of this and I didn't want to have to tell her mommy's baby didn't make it either. I don;t want her to think babies die all the time ya know. So I told her every thing was ok and I am 3 months and at this point the doctors think the baby will be just fine. and that is the truth.
So as good as can be expected, My Grandmother knows and I am going to her home for her birthday tomorrow it will be the 1st time I have seen her since she knows. I don't think she will say any thing bad, My dad's mom I don't know about, I am going to tell her soon or let my dad tell her, LOL all she said with all the others is ya I knew that already. Haha So I guess we shall see!
One qustion she asked I was not surpised by and is the reason I waited until almost 12 weeks to tell them, she asked if we knew if the baby was alive or if it was going to die. Wile some may think a 9 year old should not ask this question, she has good reason, My sister (who is pregnant too) lost a baby before Christmas last year, Madalyn already knew she was pregnant so we told her "aunt April's baby died" what else could I have said. Then Last month my SIL lost a baby, she had told Madalyn and the boys already so I had to tell Madalyn her baby died too. She was upset about all of this and I didn't want to have to tell her mommy's baby didn't make it either. I don;t want her to think babies die all the time ya know. So I told her every thing was ok and I am 3 months and at this point the doctors think the baby will be just fine. and that is the truth.
So as good as can be expected, My Grandmother knows and I am going to her home for her birthday tomorrow it will be the 1st time I have seen her since she knows. I don't think she will say any thing bad, My dad's mom I don't know about, I am going to tell her soon or let my dad tell her, LOL all she said with all the others is ya I knew that already. Haha So I guess we shall see!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
I am pregnant!!
OK Well,I think the title says it all!!
I am 10 weeks 3days Pregnant due, December 15th, 2008, I know there are question, So lets see.
1. No it was not planned, are you crazy, we have 4 kids already.
2. I do not know when we will have this baby, yes I am due in december, no my Doctor doesn't think I will make it to december.
3. My OB dose think I will make it to at least 30 weeks, I want 35 weeks.
4. I am not seeing the dr. any more than "normal" right now. Just once a month until 24 weeks, then once a week until I deliver.
5. I have had 2 ultrasounds and there is just one baby.
6. No we are not finding out the sex of our baby, No we don't want to know, and No you can not go with us to the ultrasound so that you can know. It will be a suprise!!
7. Yes I am scarred thanks for reminding me!
PS, We don;t want any advice just prayers, thanks!
I am 10 weeks 3days Pregnant due, December 15th, 2008, I know there are question, So lets see.
1. No it was not planned, are you crazy, we have 4 kids already.
2. I do not know when we will have this baby, yes I am due in december, no my Doctor doesn't think I will make it to december.
3. My OB dose think I will make it to at least 30 weeks, I want 35 weeks.
4. I am not seeing the dr. any more than "normal" right now. Just once a month until 24 weeks, then once a week until I deliver.
5. I have had 2 ultrasounds and there is just one baby.
6. No we are not finding out the sex of our baby, No we don't want to know, and No you can not go with us to the ultrasound so that you can know. It will be a suprise!!
7. Yes I am scarred thanks for reminding me!
PS, We don;t want any advice just prayers, thanks!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
My Sister's Wedding
My sister Heather got married yesterday. She had the best wedding I have ever been to that wasn't mine of course. But I think everone should believe they had the best wedding. I was not stressed out as much as I thought I would be, Heather was stressed but she was the bride and she had every right to be stessed out to the max!! Things went so smoothly and every time a was about to cry I gave a big smile and thought about how Happy Heather and Jason are so I was able to only cry a few tears. No huge tears, my mom did and I am sure I will cry as much on Madalyn's wedding day as I did on the day she was born. Jason's mom and grandmother cried as much as my mom did. So I expect when my boys get married it will be much of the same. I hope I have 10 or so more years before I have to go through any of that. The food was great and the cake yumm.... Lemon and strawberry layers. The decor on the car was great yet very tastful, just like Heather and Jason themselves. Because we were at the church there was no dancing, so we went to the same place Jason and I danced at after our wedding. Heather and Jason danced to LifeHouse, Can't take my eyes off of you. He sang to her and then we all danced together for about an hour after that my kids were so tired we came home, and they went to sleep. All of my kids were in the wedding except Landon and wile he was suppose to ride in the wagon with Chloe he fell asleep about 10 minutes before the wedding began and no one dared to wake him. It turned out just fine. He was in all the before and after photos. We even got to take a Family picture, just Me Jason and our kids I hope it turnes out, bcause if it does I am buying a canves for our wall.
Oh and on a not so funny (to me) note, at the pary the night before, all the bridesmaids pulled a charm out of a cake made for us and out of 12 diffrent charmes I pulled first and pulled the BABY carrage!!!!!! WTF!!
Oh and on a not so funny (to me) note, at the pary the night before, all the bridesmaids pulled a charm out of a cake made for us and out of 12 diffrent charmes I pulled first and pulled the BABY carrage!!!!!! WTF!!
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Going Crazy, Crazy
I am not sure how we can fit anything else into our lives right now. Madalyn and Collin have started ball They are both doing a great job, Collin is not sure about hitting and when to swing just yet. He was swinging at all the balls that were thrown at him, no matter how far off they were, he didn't realize he didn't have to swing at all the balls, so we talked to him and tought him the diffrence between a ball and a strike, and we thought he understood and he did in our yard. When he got up to bat he didn't swing AT ALL!! LOL, so we got some more teaching to do I guess. Madalyn is hiting fine, at practice, but when another team's girl is pitching to her she gets scared. She has been hit by the ball a couple of times and lived, so I am not sure what she is scared of.
I went on a field trip with Collin to the Gulf Breeze Zoo today. We had a great time, I went when Madalyn was in the 1st grade too, they had a bit more whenever I went with Madalyn and I am not sure what all has happened to the zoo, except it has went down hill. Collin didn't know though and he LOVED it.
I go with Madalyn to the New Orleans Zoo on thursday. I have not been over there since the storm, and wouldn't allow Madalyn to go by herself, but I think things are better over there than I expect them to be, Or at least I hope so.
Aden is doing just fine, he has grown-up a lot in the past few months, he is like an independant Kid.
Landon is doing better, now that he has the Axid, I wish he didn't need any meds. at all.
I went on a field trip with Collin to the Gulf Breeze Zoo today. We had a great time, I went when Madalyn was in the 1st grade too, they had a bit more whenever I went with Madalyn and I am not sure what all has happened to the zoo, except it has went down hill. Collin didn't know though and he LOVED it.
I go with Madalyn to the New Orleans Zoo on thursday. I have not been over there since the storm, and wouldn't allow Madalyn to go by herself, but I think things are better over there than I expect them to be, Or at least I hope so.
Aden is doing just fine, he has grown-up a lot in the past few months, he is like an independant Kid.
Landon is doing better, now that he has the Axid, I wish he didn't need any meds. at all.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
New GI's no new answers
So the GI clinic use to have just the one doctor we have seen for almost a year now, and wile in the NICU, they have a NP in there too but we never saw her, I am not sure what cases she handles or if it was our insurance. Any way I go in today and They have 2 new names on the wall, I ask and they say yep in the past 3 months we have gotten 2 new doctors, Landon will still see Dr. Crissinger because your referal is for her. I did met them and Talk with them apparently they are Landon is popular. LOL, Any way we also saw a student, I have no problems talking with the students I mean how else are they suppose to learn.
Landon is still 23pounds and 31 inches tall, so He has grown an inch taller, but not gainned any weight in 4 months, she didn't seem conserned at all about that, but she did about all the gaging and Landon even gaged for them, LOL so they put him on Axid, just another med. for reflux. He is on 30mg. of Prevacid that is a PPI drug for reflux and Axid is an H2 Blocker drug for reflux so they work in diffrent ways, I am in high hopes that the Axid helps. The meds have to be spaced out some I give the Prevacid as soon as he wakes up, so that he can eat before we head out, he has to wait 30 minutes, I now have to give him the Axid at least 4 hours from the time I gave the Prevacid, and an hour later he can have his Allergy meds, then I have to wait 4 hours fom the 1st Axid dose to give him the 2nd. Thank God it is only 2 x's a day. The Axid is not a huge dose but not so little either, 3ml, with 15mg in each ml
Landon did very well, he did not scream and cry and even smiled at the Student doctor, but the studant was a guy and we have never seen a guy doctor so I guess Landon thought it was safe! LOL
Landon is still 23pounds and 31 inches tall, so He has grown an inch taller, but not gainned any weight in 4 months, she didn't seem conserned at all about that, but she did about all the gaging and Landon even gaged for them, LOL so they put him on Axid, just another med. for reflux. He is on 30mg. of Prevacid that is a PPI drug for reflux and Axid is an H2 Blocker drug for reflux so they work in diffrent ways, I am in high hopes that the Axid helps. The meds have to be spaced out some I give the Prevacid as soon as he wakes up, so that he can eat before we head out, he has to wait 30 minutes, I now have to give him the Axid at least 4 hours from the time I gave the Prevacid, and an hour later he can have his Allergy meds, then I have to wait 4 hours fom the 1st Axid dose to give him the 2nd. Thank God it is only 2 x's a day. The Axid is not a huge dose but not so little either, 3ml, with 15mg in each ml
Landon did very well, he did not scream and cry and even smiled at the Student doctor, but the studant was a guy and we have never seen a guy doctor so I guess Landon thought it was safe! LOL
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
More Adeventures of the GI clinic
I take Landon back to the GI tomarrow at 2. We haven't been in a wile, and I was even thinking of trying to go off his meds, until a few weeks ago, he has been eating less for a wile now and the Ped said it was his age, and yea they do slow down a bit at this age so I tried not to think of it as a problem (not as easy as it sounds). Then his sleep started being bad and again I thought, Well he is almost 2 so maybe he is going to stop taking a nap, he would not be the 1st almost 2 year old to stop with the naps. So I srugged it off, What I can't srugg off is the fact that he does want a napa and will nap as long as he has a pillow, I never let him sleep on a pillow before, but noticed when I laided him on my bed on a pillow he staied asleep, so when he stopped sleeping at night I added a pillow to his bed and wouldn't you know it, he slept all night just fine. Another thing I can't shrugg off is the fact that he has started to gag, he gags on all kinds of stuff, bannanas, pasta, ceral, juice, milk, well not real cows milk he throws cows milk up so he drinks Silk the soy milk, the kind made for kids. He also throws up Ice cream and mac and chesses, so we don't give them to him. He never gets cows milk but I hae tried to give him mac and cheese cause he loves it, but it all comes right back at me. I have tried Ice Cream and it comes flying out the other end, TMI i know. SO I am hoping she will have an answer or two for us. I won't do a milk allergy test because I know he has one and that allergy test means a overnight hospital stay, that I don't think he needs. I Know he has other allergies and we were suppose to get some testing soon, but our insurance is poky about these things. I don't wan him to have the poke test done just the blood test 1st and see what that has to say. I will be pushing for it if it has not happened before his 2year check up in July.
I can not belive I am talking about my baby being 2 already, that seemes so unreal to me.
OK so I will update tomarrow, Heres hoping she knows what she is suppose to!! LOL
I can not belive I am talking about my baby being 2 already, that seemes so unreal to me.
OK so I will update tomarrow, Heres hoping she knows what she is suppose to!! LOL
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
So busy
We are so busy this time of year, it is crazy around my house right now. Here is just a lil of what is going on.
Madalyn and Collin are both playing ball, the parks I guess are compeating with each other and that sucks for me, cause they are having their opening day on the same day this year. I will be going to collin's because Jason is coaching Madalyn's team, so he has to be there for hers. Either my mom or dad will be at Collin's and the other will be at Madalyn's. I will have to take the little boys with me because Jason can't coach and watch them at the same time. Both parks are having a "fun" day with all kinds of stuff to do. Jason has to be in the dunking booth and I am running the cotten candy booth. Collin will have a game that day, but wile Opening starts at 9 for both parks his game might not be until 4pm. I want to be in both places that day, as does Jason we are going to wing it the best we can on Saturday, wish us luck. Madalyn had a tournament the weekend after and that is also the weekend of Heather's Girls night out, April's birthday and Jessica's birthday. The weekend after is Heather's wedding we have 2 games that day,, not sure how we are handleing that one cause we are all in the wedding.
It is hard to decide when your kids are really doing the best that they can and when they are slaking. Madalyn has always had some trouble in Reading and we have tried to help her in every way. Collin on the other hand has never had any problem with any school work. They have both had hard years, with April moving in with her 2kiddo's Kattie was here for a month, MAdalyn has a "hard" teacher, and Collin's teacher left, he was without a teacher for a month and now he has a new teacher who is 21 I think. And wile I feel she is capable of theaching the kids and I a sure she is doing a good job, The fact that she came in at the end of the year is still hard and upsetting for a 7 year old. So we get their report cards and Collin has went from making all A's to all B's and Madalyn went from mostly A's and 1b, to Mostly C's, now I never got in trouble for C's and Jason neve got in trouble for C's but you would have thought the kids had failed the whole grade the way Jason acted. I understand being upset, cause I am too but I understand they have and still are going through an awful lot.
I took Aden to the Dentist last week, he has some tooth Decay on the top 4 front teeth. She was really sweet. I had been trying to get him in somewhere that would take him in at 3 no one would so we had to wai until he turned 4. She is new on our insurance and takes them at 4 most want them at 6 or 7. Anyway, The decay is just on the enamel, and that is good, no root, or nerve damage, and no damage to his perment teeth. The bad news there is nothing she can do to make them look better and they are not ready to come out so they would have to be cut out through surgery. Well if they start to hurt we will have them out but why do it if there is no reason to? and she said right now there is no reason to. We go back on April 1st to have them cleaned, and then he has 3 back teeth that are cavities but not decayed any yet that she is going to fill on diffrent visits. Fine by me insurance pays the same no matter how many office vistis we go to. It will be easier on Aden this way.
Lando goes back to the GI on the 2nd of April. We have called 2 times to get his ped to update the referll on him for the GI. They just keep saying they are working on it. Well, yeah you need to work faster, I can't afford to pay her myself and she is the only Ped GI here and of course she is not on my insurance. We only have 2 refills left on the Prevacid, Dr. Mc.Nair will have to give us a Rx for it or something if we miss this appointment, cause it takes a good 4 months to get in to see her and we have had this appointment for 3 months, you can not just not go to things like this, and I am not sure the girl I have to deal with understands that. Landon has done so well on the meds. I can not stop them.
Uhhhhh...... If I don't blogg for a wile it is cause I am super Busy!!!!
Madalyn and Collin are both playing ball, the parks I guess are compeating with each other and that sucks for me, cause they are having their opening day on the same day this year. I will be going to collin's because Jason is coaching Madalyn's team, so he has to be there for hers. Either my mom or dad will be at Collin's and the other will be at Madalyn's. I will have to take the little boys with me because Jason can't coach and watch them at the same time. Both parks are having a "fun" day with all kinds of stuff to do. Jason has to be in the dunking booth and I am running the cotten candy booth. Collin will have a game that day, but wile Opening starts at 9 for both parks his game might not be until 4pm. I want to be in both places that day, as does Jason we are going to wing it the best we can on Saturday, wish us luck. Madalyn had a tournament the weekend after and that is also the weekend of Heather's Girls night out, April's birthday and Jessica's birthday. The weekend after is Heather's wedding we have 2 games that day,, not sure how we are handleing that one cause we are all in the wedding.
It is hard to decide when your kids are really doing the best that they can and when they are slaking. Madalyn has always had some trouble in Reading and we have tried to help her in every way. Collin on the other hand has never had any problem with any school work. They have both had hard years, with April moving in with her 2kiddo's Kattie was here for a month, MAdalyn has a "hard" teacher, and Collin's teacher left, he was without a teacher for a month and now he has a new teacher who is 21 I think. And wile I feel she is capable of theaching the kids and I a sure she is doing a good job, The fact that she came in at the end of the year is still hard and upsetting for a 7 year old. So we get their report cards and Collin has went from making all A's to all B's and Madalyn went from mostly A's and 1b, to Mostly C's, now I never got in trouble for C's and Jason neve got in trouble for C's but you would have thought the kids had failed the whole grade the way Jason acted. I understand being upset, cause I am too but I understand they have and still are going through an awful lot.
I took Aden to the Dentist last week, he has some tooth Decay on the top 4 front teeth. She was really sweet. I had been trying to get him in somewhere that would take him in at 3 no one would so we had to wai until he turned 4. She is new on our insurance and takes them at 4 most want them at 6 or 7. Anyway, The decay is just on the enamel, and that is good, no root, or nerve damage, and no damage to his perment teeth. The bad news there is nothing she can do to make them look better and they are not ready to come out so they would have to be cut out through surgery. Well if they start to hurt we will have them out but why do it if there is no reason to? and she said right now there is no reason to. We go back on April 1st to have them cleaned, and then he has 3 back teeth that are cavities but not decayed any yet that she is going to fill on diffrent visits. Fine by me insurance pays the same no matter how many office vistis we go to. It will be easier on Aden this way.
Lando goes back to the GI on the 2nd of April. We have called 2 times to get his ped to update the referll on him for the GI. They just keep saying they are working on it. Well, yeah you need to work faster, I can't afford to pay her myself and she is the only Ped GI here and of course she is not on my insurance. We only have 2 refills left on the Prevacid, Dr. Mc.Nair will have to give us a Rx for it or something if we miss this appointment, cause it takes a good 4 months to get in to see her and we have had this appointment for 3 months, you can not just not go to things like this, and I am not sure the girl I have to deal with understands that. Landon has done so well on the meds. I can not stop them.
Uhhhhh...... If I don't blogg for a wile it is cause I am super Busy!!!!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Happy Easter
I hope everyone has had a great Easter. I am so tired. My niece turned 3 today, April had her party yesterday at the park, all the kids had a blast. BUT if her birthday ever falls on Easter again she’ll have it either the weekend before or after, because it was heck all day getting Easter stuff done and a birthday party, it all got done though. After the party I had to go to the store to get more eggs, Jason had gotten 2 and a half dozen, but with all 6 kids here that was just not enough. SO I went to Target and they were out of eggs, so off to Wal-Mart and they were out of eggs too!! I started to worry a little that I would not find any, I went to Winn-Dixie before making Jason get out and hut with me, and they had plenty to go around. So I got 2 and a half dozen more to make 5 dozen or 60 eggs, 10 for each kid. They had a wonderful time coloring the eggs. We did the normal dye and April had gotten some Tie dye stuff, it was a bit messy but fun. Landon smashed a bunch in one cup and crammed more and more in it. Then I gave all the kids a bath and got them in the bed, the Easter Bunny was ready to come to our house by nine, but the kids were not all asleep, so he had to wait until 1am, yes that is right 1am to come to our home. They got a lot of candy, along with some kites we have not tried out yet; a horse shoe game and a ball catch game. We all went to church this morning, and then to Grammy’s for lunch and family time. I made a great Oreo Pie Yummmm……. All the Kids pasted out on the way home and Landon is still asleep, the others are out side hiding and hunting eggs!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
For Tricia
I love this Idea, I hope you do too!!
1. I can't wait for you to walk out the door late only to find you forgot to change out of your house shoes. (after getting where you are going)
2. For your daugher to tell you "Mom your the best ever"
3. For you to put bows in your baby's hair.
4. I can't wait until you go to have pictures made and your sweet baby girl poops all over her outfit and you,
5. I can't wait for you to tell Nate you changed the last one and it's his turn.
6. I can't wait for you to run after your daughter as she runs from you laughing.
7. I can't wait until you get woke up by your daughter poking your eyes out.
8. I can't wait until you get woke up by your daughter's smile.
9. I can't wait until you go over board buying her stuff she will never use.
And as a preemie mom
I can not wait for your little girl to start bottle feeding.
I can't wait until you hear the words Oh My Goodness she is BIG!
I can't wait until you begin to hear the big D word ( for both of you)
I can't wait until she out grows her preemie cloths.
1. I can't wait for you to walk out the door late only to find you forgot to change out of your house shoes. (after getting where you are going)
2. For your daugher to tell you "Mom your the best ever"
3. For you to put bows in your baby's hair.
4. I can't wait until you go to have pictures made and your sweet baby girl poops all over her outfit and you,
5. I can't wait for you to tell Nate you changed the last one and it's his turn.
6. I can't wait for you to run after your daughter as she runs from you laughing.
7. I can't wait until you get woke up by your daughter poking your eyes out.
8. I can't wait until you get woke up by your daughter's smile.
9. I can't wait until you go over board buying her stuff she will never use.
And as a preemie mom
I can not wait for your little girl to start bottle feeding.
I can't wait until you hear the words Oh My Goodness she is BIG!
I can't wait until you begin to hear the big D word ( for both of you)
I can't wait until she out grows her preemie cloths.
Monday, March 10, 2008
I hate the FLU!!
Every one at my house has had the flu for the past 2 weeks. It all started with Collin, 2 weeks ago he got sent home from school on tuesday, I kept him home Wed. and Thursday and sent him on friday but they sent him back home. My sister's wedding shower and Madalyn's try outs for ball were on Saturday, Collin felt ok that morning but by 1pm he had a high fever, was shaking and asked me why everything was moving around, Jason took him home wile I staied at the shower, he slept the rest of the day and all of sunday. Monday he looked like he was getting worse so I took him to the doctor, he had an ear infection and a sinuse infection and the flu. The doctor said he should stay out of school until at least friday and if he was not well enough to go to school on Friday to bring him back in. Aden got sick monday night, I got sick monday night Landon got sick Tuesday, Madalyn got sick on Wed. Jason got sick on thursday and so did April, James and Katlyn and Chloe got sick on Friday. Collin is all better and went back to school on friday, he is still on meds for his ears though.
Other than the sickness things are good, I am taking Aden to the Dentist on Wed. I know they will not fix his teeth that day, but I need to know if they will or where I need to take him to get the work done and how much it is going to cost. wish I was able to have it taken care of when it wasn't so bad, but our insurance sucks so bad that none of the ones on our plan would see a child under 5, Well then I got a notice in the mail in January saying some new dent. had joined, I called them and one will see a 4 year old YAY!!!
Katlyn goes back to the Rhomo. on Wed, too, We will find out if she has JRA or not. I really hope she doesn't have it. We have a lot of people praying for her. If she does have it, I have a ton of info on it already and we will get her right into some great programs, no way will we wait and watch.
Other than the sickness things are good, I am taking Aden to the Dentist on Wed. I know they will not fix his teeth that day, but I need to know if they will or where I need to take him to get the work done and how much it is going to cost. wish I was able to have it taken care of when it wasn't so bad, but our insurance sucks so bad that none of the ones on our plan would see a child under 5, Well then I got a notice in the mail in January saying some new dent. had joined, I called them and one will see a 4 year old YAY!!!
Katlyn goes back to the Rhomo. on Wed, too, We will find out if she has JRA or not. I really hope she doesn't have it. We have a lot of people praying for her. If she does have it, I have a ton of info on it already and we will get her right into some great programs, no way will we wait and watch.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Another good appointment
Out ENT appoinment went great. We have to go back every 6 months for 2 years as long as the tubes have not fallen out, if they fall out before next winter he'll 99% need another set in december.
We went back to the doctor yesterday, I thought Landon might have pink eye, because his eye was all red, but it's not, he has really bad allergies, he is on an allergy med. 2 times a day, now he has to have allergy eye drops too. Just another bump in our road!!
I went to the march of babies kick off party today, Help me give all babies their 40 weeks!!
http://www.marchforbabies.org/crys82g
We went back to the doctor yesterday, I thought Landon might have pink eye, because his eye was all red, but it's not, he has really bad allergies, he is on an allergy med. 2 times a day, now he has to have allergy eye drops too. Just another bump in our road!!
I went to the march of babies kick off party today, Help me give all babies their 40 weeks!!
http://www.marchforbabies.org/crys82g
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Back to the ENT
I take Landon back to the ENT in the morning. It is just a check up for his ear tubes. I am not sure how many times we go back, if it is like the GI where we go every few weeks at first and then like now it's every few months, or if we won't have to go back unless there is a problem, I hope visits to the ENT are few and far between. Don't get me wrong she is a great doctor, but a doctor none the less, I want to phase out all the doctors Landon sees except our regular Ped. That is when we well, be like other moms and Babies. That is what I am hoping for, I have thought about this for a wile, when will I be a mom of 3 boys and 1 girl when will I become a mom of a boy scout, a mom of blond boys, a mom of a green eyed girl, a mom of anything other than a preemie, I have came up with all by my self that we will be like every other family when we don't have to see so many doctors all, the time and maybe when we are not on any meds that he take eveyday, that might be the day we become normal, I don't know I am hoping one day, when I am around other moms and they are talking about all their kids do, I will think to my self, but no say out loud that my kids were preemies, I want to never think about it, but I am sure it will always be in my head, how could it not. I love my babies and I would not change how they came into the world. The way they got here made them who they are now and made me who I am too. I just want to be normal, and have normal kids with normal everyday lives, no drama and no weekly doctors appointments!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
A Real Wel Baby Check Up
That is what we had on Wed. I Have never had a smoother appointment with Landon before. Dr.McNair, said he is doing great and the only thing we need to work on with him is naming Body Parts, like eyes and nose and mouth, he don't want to do any of that but I am going to try harder, That is the only 18 month skill he is not doing, and he is only 19 months old and he was 9 weeks early so with all that he is just right. He weighed in at 23.8 pounds and is 31 inches long. All of that is good. He got 2 shots and handled those like any one year old would have. He doesn't have to go back until he is 2, Yes I said 2 I don't even want to think about him turning 2.
Oh and his ear tubes looked good and no drainning, she even said I made the right choice taking him on my own, when I told her his ears looked untreated when we saw the ENT!!
Oh and his ear tubes looked good and no drainning, she even said I made the right choice taking him on my own, when I told her his ears looked untreated when we saw the ENT!!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Busy, Busy
Wow this has been a long week, Mardi Gras week and the weekend leading up to it is always so busy. With all of the Parades and balls, Saturday and Sunday being Joe Cain Day, Then Luna Monday, and Fat Tuesday. Jason normally goes with me on Fat Tuesday this year he had to work and wasn’t able to go, now I weighed back and forth on taking all the kids by myself, and had decided we would skip it this year when my sister April and my mom decided we should go and take the kids with us, I choose to go and it went rather good for a few hours but by lunch time things were starting to fall apart and by 2pm we were packed up and heading out. We were home and taking naps by 3, that was strange because we never get home on Fat Tuesday before dark, we had fun though, and I got some good pictures of the kids playing together.
School starts back tomorrow I can’t wait, they have been out of school since Friday at 2pm, and I wish they were going for 5 days but they only go 2 then they are out for the weekend. O well at least I get the two days; they could have been out all week.
Landon has a cold and I am not sure if I am suppose to be putting the drops in his ears or not, the doctor said we needed to if he got a cold and his ears started draining, I have not noticed his ears draining but will it be a lot? Enough to where I would notice no matter what. Or will it be a little bit and I might not be seeing it. I am going to call in the morning to be sure on what to do. I do not want the tubes messed up.
This weekend is going to be a busy one, we are lying new carpet in the living room, then we have two birthday parties to go to on Saturday, then my niece Chloe will be one on Sunday and we are having her party at my house on Sunday, April is moving this weekend or early next week, Her and her friend Abby bought a house together and closed today, they bought the paint for Katlyn and Chloe’s room today and are painting before they move in, Katlyn is talk about her new house and is excited to get in it.
Well that is all for tonight, I am running of fumes as it is.
School starts back tomorrow I can’t wait, they have been out of school since Friday at 2pm, and I wish they were going for 5 days but they only go 2 then they are out for the weekend. O well at least I get the two days; they could have been out all week.
Landon has a cold and I am not sure if I am suppose to be putting the drops in his ears or not, the doctor said we needed to if he got a cold and his ears started draining, I have not noticed his ears draining but will it be a lot? Enough to where I would notice no matter what. Or will it be a little bit and I might not be seeing it. I am going to call in the morning to be sure on what to do. I do not want the tubes messed up.
This weekend is going to be a busy one, we are lying new carpet in the living room, then we have two birthday parties to go to on Saturday, then my niece Chloe will be one on Sunday and we are having her party at my house on Sunday, April is moving this weekend or early next week, Her and her friend Abby bought a house together and closed today, they bought the paint for Katlyn and Chloe’s room today and are painting before they move in, Katlyn is talk about her new house and is excited to get in it.
Well that is all for tonight, I am running of fumes as it is.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Another Week
This week has been a little quite, we still have a ton going on, but it has been nice to have a little down time too. The kids had there awards program on Tuesday, I remember when I was in school it was a huge deal, the program would be during a PTA meeting and most if not all the school would be there. Now it is done in their class rooms and they say their names out over the intercom. I am disappointed at that, they should make a bigger deal of A and AB honor roll, I feel that if a child has tried that hard to make all A’s then they want to be recognized for that effort, then if they aren’t they might not try as hard, both of my kids made AB honor roll. Collin has been making A honor roll, but slipped with his English grade this time. I know he tries though, Madalyn’s B’s are in English and Reading too.
April got a job at the daycare when Aden goes to school, she just started on Tuesday, and she said she likes it fine, but I know it’s not what she wants to be doing, but will work for now. I don’t blame her for that I mean I love my kids, but I wouldn’t want to take them to work with me where I was also taking care of other peoples kids as well as mine and then come home and take care of my kids with no help from their father. She is in the baby room, so she has Chloe and 2 other babies everyday, and then on Mondays she has Landon too wile I am in Bible study for about 2 hours.
Katlyn went to the doctor yesterday; she has been having some joint/bone problems. Back about 6 months ago, she kept falling down and saying her leg hurt, so April took her to the ER one Saturday and the doctors said her hip was swollen and had fluid build up on it and it was infected. So they gave her some antibiotics an appointment with an orthopedic, who said it was growing pains. Well mom had read and Google some and was not happy with growing pains, so my grandmother talked with her doctor who suggested they take Katlyn to an arthritis doctor, and that is where April took her yesterday. The doctor took 2 vials of blood and is 98% sure she has JRA, they gave April a pain medicine for Katlyn to take everyday, and she goes back in 6 weeks. They would not have given her meds if they didn’t believe she has this. The other things the doctor said were signs that we all over looked are, her red cheeks, we always thought she was over heated, because she has done that all her life, she wines a lot, but she is two and almost all two year olds wine a bunch, waking up in the middle of the night crying and asking for water, well Katlyn has been through a lot and we figured once she got settled somewhere all that would stop, those are all signs of JRA. I put her on the prayer list at church and after the service a lady came up to me and said she has a 19 year old son who has JRA and she gave me some numbers including her own incase April wanted to call and talk to her. CRS will give her all her treatments free, she and April will get a bunch of help from them, they are the ones that do the feeding clinic Landon went to, and so after they get Katlyn’s blood work back and they say for sure she has JRA, we will make sure she gets set up with them. In the mean time we are just praying.
Landon had begun to be a picky eater. I am not sure where that is coming from, I a hoping he doesn’t loose any weight, I need to make him an appointment for his 18 months check up, he never had a 15 month check up because of all the ear infections he was having and he was so sick that wile they checked his weight they didn’t do his height of head measurements. The GI doctor did them and said they were fine, but even that was a couple months ago. I am hoping he is well next week. The doctor’s office is closed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for Mardi Gras, and I know they will be full on Thursday and Friday because of them closing, so I guess it will be the 2nd week in February before I will be able to get him in. He is also behind on his shots, He got the 12 month shots, but is due for his 15 and his 18 months shots, they can’t get them all at one time so I am guessing he’ll be getting some at 2years old, and maybe even after that, I am not sure what all he’s missing at this point, ah well just another reason we really need to go in. Jason thinks we need a new Pediatrician because she didn’t send us to the ENT. I have tried to tell him that most Pediatricians think that ear tubes have no place in medicine for kids, but he is still up set with her, even more now that we have seen what a difference they have made with Landon’s hearing. With all that I have looked up on the Development of Language now is the most important time for hearing in a person’s life, and in the past week and a half he has went from a 12 month speech development to having mastered the 15 month skills and some has some of the18 month skills too. I am so happy he has no long lasting hearing damage, we were worried about that one, but as far as we can tell he has none.
April got a job at the daycare when Aden goes to school, she just started on Tuesday, and she said she likes it fine, but I know it’s not what she wants to be doing, but will work for now. I don’t blame her for that I mean I love my kids, but I wouldn’t want to take them to work with me where I was also taking care of other peoples kids as well as mine and then come home and take care of my kids with no help from their father. She is in the baby room, so she has Chloe and 2 other babies everyday, and then on Mondays she has Landon too wile I am in Bible study for about 2 hours.
Katlyn went to the doctor yesterday; she has been having some joint/bone problems. Back about 6 months ago, she kept falling down and saying her leg hurt, so April took her to the ER one Saturday and the doctors said her hip was swollen and had fluid build up on it and it was infected. So they gave her some antibiotics an appointment with an orthopedic, who said it was growing pains. Well mom had read and Google some and was not happy with growing pains, so my grandmother talked with her doctor who suggested they take Katlyn to an arthritis doctor, and that is where April took her yesterday. The doctor took 2 vials of blood and is 98% sure she has JRA, they gave April a pain medicine for Katlyn to take everyday, and she goes back in 6 weeks. They would not have given her meds if they didn’t believe she has this. The other things the doctor said were signs that we all over looked are, her red cheeks, we always thought she was over heated, because she has done that all her life, she wines a lot, but she is two and almost all two year olds wine a bunch, waking up in the middle of the night crying and asking for water, well Katlyn has been through a lot and we figured once she got settled somewhere all that would stop, those are all signs of JRA. I put her on the prayer list at church and after the service a lady came up to me and said she has a 19 year old son who has JRA and she gave me some numbers including her own incase April wanted to call and talk to her. CRS will give her all her treatments free, she and April will get a bunch of help from them, they are the ones that do the feeding clinic Landon went to, and so after they get Katlyn’s blood work back and they say for sure she has JRA, we will make sure she gets set up with them. In the mean time we are just praying.
Landon had begun to be a picky eater. I am not sure where that is coming from, I a hoping he doesn’t loose any weight, I need to make him an appointment for his 18 months check up, he never had a 15 month check up because of all the ear infections he was having and he was so sick that wile they checked his weight they didn’t do his height of head measurements. The GI doctor did them and said they were fine, but even that was a couple months ago. I am hoping he is well next week. The doctor’s office is closed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for Mardi Gras, and I know they will be full on Thursday and Friday because of them closing, so I guess it will be the 2nd week in February before I will be able to get him in. He is also behind on his shots, He got the 12 month shots, but is due for his 15 and his 18 months shots, they can’t get them all at one time so I am guessing he’ll be getting some at 2years old, and maybe even after that, I am not sure what all he’s missing at this point, ah well just another reason we really need to go in. Jason thinks we need a new Pediatrician because she didn’t send us to the ENT. I have tried to tell him that most Pediatricians think that ear tubes have no place in medicine for kids, but he is still up set with her, even more now that we have seen what a difference they have made with Landon’s hearing. With all that I have looked up on the Development of Language now is the most important time for hearing in a person’s life, and in the past week and a half he has went from a 12 month speech development to having mastered the 15 month skills and some has some of the18 month skills too. I am so happy he has no long lasting hearing damage, we were worried about that one, but as far as we can tell he has none.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Like Day in Night
Landon has done amazing in the past week with his tubes, we had to do ear drops for the 1st 5 days, and he really hated that, so we decided to do them wile he was asleep. He doesn’t mind wearing his hat wile he’s out side, the doctor didn’t say he has to wear a hat outside, but it has been real windy the past few days that I want to be sure he’s not hurting at all. His speech has picked up some, enough that I don’t think he is behind at all any more, He can say and use the following words, Mommy, Daddy, See, Look, Uh-Oh, Me, Eat, and Up although Up is more Uhh— raises his hands at the same time. I think that’s great for 18/16 months. He still doesn’t speak a lot, but if needed he can. I left him at day-care today he cried when I left, but was all smiles when I picked him up, that is until he saw me then he started crying again.
I was in Bible study wile he was in the day-care, so he was only there for 2 hours. I have a great time in my Women’s bible study; the women in there are wonderful and full of faith in God. I have learned so much and made some great friends, we just started a new one this week, I am glad to be back in I missed it. It is at the church where the day-care is at; we don’t go there it’s a 20 minute drive on a good day. We have been going to Air-port blvd Church, We really like it there and it’s only about 5 minutes from the house. The kids have a ton of friends that go there and they get along with everyone. We have thought about joining the church there, we go most Wed nights and I am hoping to start going on Sundays when RSV season is over.
I was in Bible study wile he was in the day-care, so he was only there for 2 hours. I have a great time in my Women’s bible study; the women in there are wonderful and full of faith in God. I have learned so much and made some great friends, we just started a new one this week, I am glad to be back in I missed it. It is at the church where the day-care is at; we don’t go there it’s a 20 minute drive on a good day. We have been going to Air-port blvd Church, We really like it there and it’s only about 5 minutes from the house. The kids have a ton of friends that go there and they get along with everyone. We have thought about joining the church there, we go most Wed nights and I am hoping to start going on Sundays when RSV season is over.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Ear Tube Day
Landon got his ear tubes this morning and as I type he is running around the house. He fells better than he has in months. We had to be at the Hospital at 6am and surgery was at 7am. We had been told 5am, but after speeking with admit yeasterday they said for a child as young as he his 6 would be just fine. So we got all the paper work done, and they took us right back, to the Pre-OP area, as soon as we got through the doors Landon started crying, I felt bad for him because he knew being there it must not be good for him (it never is). The nurse listened to him really good becasue he has had a cough for a few days, but his chest sounded clear and that ment we could go ahead with the surgery, Then the "sleepy doctor" as the nurse called him, came in and talked to us, he thought Landon's reflux might be a problem so he called in another doctor who only deals with children and he was great, explained every thing that they were going to do, before, during, and after for Landon, and what would happened if he refluxed on the table, then for resons I am unsure of a 3rd came in and asked a few more reflux question and said I was a great mom for remembering his whole reflux background. All 3 of the doctors were with him in surgery. Then Dr. Elliot (the ENT) came in and looked him over very quickly and said I could walk him to the double doors of the OR but then they would just take him, it broke my heart to have to hand him over to them wile he was still awake, but we both did as good as any one would expect. We went to the waiting room and in about 20 minutes the doctor came out, she said Landon was being takin t recovery and doing just fine. He did have fluied behind his ear drumb, so she drainned it and we have to give him ear drops 2 times a day for 5 days. She said it would be about 20 more minutes before we could see him, but about 5 minutes later a nurse came in and said Landon was crying and they could not calm him down and needed me, Yes I was glad was needed, then by the time I got around to where he was he was asleep, But they let me stay and watch him sleep, He had an IV , something the dr had said he wouldn't need, I asked whay he had one and the nurse got the sleepy doctor LOL for me. He said Landon needed to be tubed wile on the table, they are not sure if it was from the reflux or not, but with the breathing tubes comes an IV. Other than that though he did really good. He woke up good and we were out the door at 9am. On our way home Jason was saying how he wanted to eat and I said I was not sure about taking Landon to eat I thought we should just go home, Landon said "I EAT" I guess he made up his own mind!! He is walking better and seemes to understand more of what we are saying I think he just hears us better now. I am going to hold off on the eval for his speeck for a month, If he begins to speek more and I see inprovement I will not call them but I still want to get his hearing tested, it sure won't hurt any thing to do that. He is still on a 12 month speech level and he just turned 18 months, 15 if you adjust his age, and Early intervintion wiill for a speech eval and that is right at the 25% needed for services, I am hoping now that he can hear he won;t need any of that. He slept when we got home from 11am till 2pm, and looks like he needs another nap, I think he will sleep good tonight and be a happy baby in the morning.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
An Amazing Story
If you look at my links to the left there is one called CF, it is an amazing story of a Woman who has CF and her 25 weeker, born last week. It is written by her husband. It is well worth the time spent reading, they are full of faith and need all of our prayers.
ENT Here We Come
We went in to the ENT today, I love this doctor. She is very down to earth and young too, so she gets it. She was very concened about Landon's ear infection he is on his 4th is 5 months, but she thinks the fluied in his ears has ben there for the whole 5 months. That makes me fill awful, for him, both of his ears are still infected and looked untreated, so I shouldn't hold out much hope for them to clear on up. It was up to me to do the tubes or not, but she suggested we go ahead with them, If we decided not to do them she would have to drain his ears any way and that takes 2 minutes for each ear tubes take 5 minutes each ear and can drain and do tubes at the same time so we are going to do them. She wanted to do them tomarrow, but our insurance will not pay for us to do it at the surgery center up stairs from the office, they want us to go to the hospital, The hospital didn't have any slots for tomarrow so we are going in next week. It works out better for us because I have an appointment with the march of dimes tomarrow, of course I would have done his tubes if they would have had a slot.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Go an Appointment
Someone cancled an appointment with the ENT we want to see, and they slid us in. We go tomarrow at 10am!!
Sunday, January 13, 2008
What a Weekend
We had a wild weekend; First Friday was Jason’s 32nd birthday. April watched all our kids so we could go have a nice dinner with out ordering something off the kids menu, and having no choice but to leave a huge tip because of the mess the kids have made. We had a really good time; we were going to then see a movie and by showing our age, neither of us wanted to sit though a 3 hour movie at 9:55pm, I mean we would have gotten in after mid-night!! How old do we sound? So we came home. April had all the kids asleep, so we fell asleep watching some movie in the bed. What a Birthday bash that was. Then on Saturday Jason got called into work an hour before Madalyn’s basketball game, I don’t like to take all four of the kids anywhere by myself, I do a lot, but I try not to. Then I forgot that Ball pictures were Saturday too, that made us get home a little later, by the time we did get home, April, her two girls, ex, and ex’s parents were at our house. They were only here for a few minutes, and that’s a good thing because as soon as they left Jason’s parents and there whole crew got here. We had Jason a cake and ice cream, with his family and had to get ready to go to our ball rehearsal. My sister Heather came over to watch the kids, so we could go to the rehearsal, and that went very well.
Landon is sick again. I am not sure what we are going to do with him. We wound up taking him back to the doctor and getting him another shot and I am giving him the antibiotic by mouth. He has started throwing up and I can’t tell what it’s from, he either A) is still sick B) the antibiotic is giving him problems, or C) his reflux is getting worse, or the previacid is not working as well as it had been. What ever it is made him puke a bunch today and last night!
One of the other moms at basketball yesterday, told me a lot about ears and tubes and speech, after hearing all she has to say, I am going to take Landon to the ENT, even if Dr. McNair doesn’t think he needs to go. With the ear infections and lack of speech combined I really a starting to worry not only that, but with all the High dose of medicine they give him with ever ear infection he gets, what is going to happen when he gets some other type of infection? Will the antibiotics work? Or will he have gotten them so much they will be less affective? I can’t take the risk he will get something bad and the doctors will have nothing to treat it with, because they used it for ear infections. I got the name and number from the other mom I talked with and they take our insurance. I take Landon back to the doctor on the 22nd and I will be asking for a referral. If she doesn’t think he needs to go, I will get him medical records about the infection and the meds he has had to have to get rid of them, make the appointment myself, and take Landon and the medical records when we go. I hope she sends him though, cause I really think he needs to go.
Landon is sick again. I am not sure what we are going to do with him. We wound up taking him back to the doctor and getting him another shot and I am giving him the antibiotic by mouth. He has started throwing up and I can’t tell what it’s from, he either A) is still sick B) the antibiotic is giving him problems, or C) his reflux is getting worse, or the previacid is not working as well as it had been. What ever it is made him puke a bunch today and last night!
One of the other moms at basketball yesterday, told me a lot about ears and tubes and speech, after hearing all she has to say, I am going to take Landon to the ENT, even if Dr. McNair doesn’t think he needs to go. With the ear infections and lack of speech combined I really a starting to worry not only that, but with all the High dose of medicine they give him with ever ear infection he gets, what is going to happen when he gets some other type of infection? Will the antibiotics work? Or will he have gotten them so much they will be less affective? I can’t take the risk he will get something bad and the doctors will have nothing to treat it with, because they used it for ear infections. I got the name and number from the other mom I talked with and they take our insurance. I take Landon back to the doctor on the 22nd and I will be asking for a referral. If she doesn’t think he needs to go, I will get him medical records about the infection and the meds he has had to have to get rid of them, make the appointment myself, and take Landon and the medical records when we go. I hope she sends him though, cause I really think he needs to go.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Starting the year off running
A week into the New Year and we have already taken Landon to the doctor. His right ear is infected, his left one didn’t look far from being infected, and his sinuses are stopped up so they were on their way to being infected to!! Dr.McNair (our ped) gave Landon a shot of Rocephin in the office to give us a jump start on the Antibiotics, and an Rx for omniecef that he started today. We are being very aggressive with this ear infection, because the last one he had lasted for 6 weeks and it took all 3 Rocephin shots to get rid of it. I am hoping this takes care of it. If not we will have to go see the ENT, and possibly get tubes in his ears, and wile I understand tubes are not so bad, I have dealt with enough in the past 17 months and this is not something I want to deal with. I will of course deal with it, I just don’t want to!!
The other 3 kids went back to school on Monday and they have been nothing but cranky!! They didn’t want to get up and go on Monday, then today they asked how many more days they had to go. I said 2, Thursday and Friday. Collin said Oh good then I will be in 2nd grade. Hahaha No! Collin then you are out for the weekend and you go back to school. The looks on their faces were priceless. Aden is having a hard time staying awake after I get him from school, but if I left him sleep then he won’t go to bed at night, so I am not sure what I am going to do about that one! I am not sending him to school tomorrow; I rarely do on Thursday just because he is so tired.
On my AOL Preemie message board there was a post about the Washington School of Medicine doing a study on Preemies, I followed the link and filled out a short page of questions, then I got an e-mail today asking me to be apart of the research project, I gladly accepted and they are sending me a package in the mail, I am thinking I will be filling out a book for them as the email said to take my time filling it out. They also want us to take DNA test. The doctor I was emailing said that is because he thinks preterm labor and delivery could run in families, There are other people with preemies in my family, (1st cousin) so I think that might make since. He also said that if they can find a strain of DNA that causes preterm labor, then they would know who was at risk and who was “safe” and that could lead to ending Preterm Labor, or at least stopping or postponing delivery to give the baby a better chance. He said we are perfect for the study because we don’t know why I had the boys early and that all my preemies are boys!!
The other 3 kids went back to school on Monday and they have been nothing but cranky!! They didn’t want to get up and go on Monday, then today they asked how many more days they had to go. I said 2, Thursday and Friday. Collin said Oh good then I will be in 2nd grade. Hahaha No! Collin then you are out for the weekend and you go back to school. The looks on their faces were priceless. Aden is having a hard time staying awake after I get him from school, but if I left him sleep then he won’t go to bed at night, so I am not sure what I am going to do about that one! I am not sending him to school tomorrow; I rarely do on Thursday just because he is so tired.
On my AOL Preemie message board there was a post about the Washington School of Medicine doing a study on Preemies, I followed the link and filled out a short page of questions, then I got an e-mail today asking me to be apart of the research project, I gladly accepted and they are sending me a package in the mail, I am thinking I will be filling out a book for them as the email said to take my time filling it out. They also want us to take DNA test. The doctor I was emailing said that is because he thinks preterm labor and delivery could run in families, There are other people with preemies in my family, (1st cousin) so I think that might make since. He also said that if they can find a strain of DNA that causes preterm labor, then they would know who was at risk and who was “safe” and that could lead to ending Preterm Labor, or at least stopping or postponing delivery to give the baby a better chance. He said we are perfect for the study because we don’t know why I had the boys early and that all my preemies are boys!!
Friday, January 4, 2008
Happy New Year
It's 2008!! and still feels the same. Not much has changed just more scraches on the paper from writing 2007!
We are all doing good, I am so ready for school to start back, I can't believe it has only been 2 weeks, how will i ever get through 3 months in the summer. The kids have had a blast of course and are not ready to go back. They will start 3rd quarter when they go back, and the second half of the year is always harder, they are done reviewing everything they did last year and are doing totaly new stuff. Aden has asked everyday for a week when he goes back to school. He loves it there.
Landon used his first word yeasterday. My mom was over for a bit and when she was leaving and had already told everyone including Landon bye, and was walking out the door, Landon looks up from the high chair and said Bye wile waving. That all is a first. He has waved and he has said bye, but he has never done doth at the same time and he has never said bye wile someone was actually leaving. I am hoping this will lead to him taking more and using those words. He has also been saying momma more but not really calling me mamma. He has started to point and grunt at things too, that is a big YAY. At least he is trying and I am doing less of the guessing game about what he wants/needs.
I am getting excited about the upcoming Mardi Gras season. The 1st Parade is Saturday, after the city is having a block party and then downtown is always there. I even have a sitter, thanks to mom. I am going to take the kids to the parade tho. as long as it is not as cold as it was today. WOW did you know that it was only 18* this morning and with the wind chill it felt like it was 5*, that is C-O-O-L, I hate my kids have been stuck in the house for the past few days. I just can't let them out and get sick.
Landon still has a runny nose, but no fever, he has been feeling better too. I hope his nose clears up soon!
We are all doing good, I am so ready for school to start back, I can't believe it has only been 2 weeks, how will i ever get through 3 months in the summer. The kids have had a blast of course and are not ready to go back. They will start 3rd quarter when they go back, and the second half of the year is always harder, they are done reviewing everything they did last year and are doing totaly new stuff. Aden has asked everyday for a week when he goes back to school. He loves it there.
Landon used his first word yeasterday. My mom was over for a bit and when she was leaving and had already told everyone including Landon bye, and was walking out the door, Landon looks up from the high chair and said Bye wile waving. That all is a first. He has waved and he has said bye, but he has never done doth at the same time and he has never said bye wile someone was actually leaving. I am hoping this will lead to him taking more and using those words. He has also been saying momma more but not really calling me mamma. He has started to point and grunt at things too, that is a big YAY. At least he is trying and I am doing less of the guessing game about what he wants/needs.
I am getting excited about the upcoming Mardi Gras season. The 1st Parade is Saturday, after the city is having a block party and then downtown is always there. I even have a sitter, thanks to mom. I am going to take the kids to the parade tho. as long as it is not as cold as it was today. WOW did you know that it was only 18* this morning and with the wind chill it felt like it was 5*, that is C-O-O-L, I hate my kids have been stuck in the house for the past few days. I just can't let them out and get sick.
Landon still has a runny nose, but no fever, he has been feeling better too. I hope his nose clears up soon!
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