We are adjusting wonderfully to our "new life" with our baby girl. She sleeps a good amount but she is staying awake more and more every day. She remains to be very very alert and she follows objects and people. She is now studying people and objects and will not remove her eyes from them. I have to say she is a pretty easy baby. (I knocked on wood...) the only time she cries is when she is hungry or very sleepy. She has her same night time feeding schedule, once or twice at night and that is all. Although Saturday night she slept ALL night long! I woke up at 6 to hear crying for food. Stephen looked at me and I asked him if he feed her earlier... he said "no, did you?" I said "No!" her first all night off sleep! (has not happened since.)
Mackinac does not seem to be bothered by her at all. He has sniffed her a few times, but that is about all. He is not bothered when she cries.... but when her monitor goes off he runs to it! Like he knows that something could be wrong. Thankfully they have been false alarms so far. He is just the best big fur brother ever!
We did tummy time the other night and used a bobby tummy time pad. She LOVED it! She kept on pulling her legs under her and pushing herself forward! At 16 days old! I think we are in trouble! hehe.
She got to met her great Aunt and Uncle over the weekend. She was, of course, wide eyed and awake the whole visit.
Just looking at her.... it is amazing! We have not yet taken her on a real outing. We think that will come soon! We may go to the park this weekend! That will be a video and picture moment for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jacky
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
15 days old
Joslyn is now 15 days old today!
She is doing better with her apnea and reflux. She has not stopped breathing since we got home from Scottish Rite, so we are happy about that. She still does have feeding issues however. She will forget to breath while she is feeding, nursing or by the bottle. She will not swallow the breast milk and she begins to gurgle and her lips will turn blue. The only way to get her to breath again is to stop her from feeding and sit her up. Sometimes we have to blow in her face to get her to breath. It is scary, but her monitor has not gone off during these episodes. Her Apnea monitor is set to go off when she stops breathing for 20 seconds. Her feeding episodes only last a few seconds.
But other than that she is doing just wonderfully! She only wakes up once or twice during the night to eat and then goes back to sleep. She is not one of those babies who is awake all night long...... at least not right now. I hear it could change.
She got weighed yesterday at a weigh in appointment. She is a healthy 7 lbs 10.9 oz!
She has continued to gain ounces with each visit! After dropping to 6 lbs 10 oz at Scottish Rite.... 7 lbs 10.9 oz is WONDERFUL! She is not one to turn food away! hehe.
New born clothes still swim on her, but maybe some day they will fit!
Jacky
She is doing better with her apnea and reflux. She has not stopped breathing since we got home from Scottish Rite, so we are happy about that. She still does have feeding issues however. She will forget to breath while she is feeding, nursing or by the bottle. She will not swallow the breast milk and she begins to gurgle and her lips will turn blue. The only way to get her to breath again is to stop her from feeding and sit her up. Sometimes we have to blow in her face to get her to breath. It is scary, but her monitor has not gone off during these episodes. Her Apnea monitor is set to go off when she stops breathing for 20 seconds. Her feeding episodes only last a few seconds.
But other than that she is doing just wonderfully! She only wakes up once or twice during the night to eat and then goes back to sleep. She is not one of those babies who is awake all night long...... at least not right now. I hear it could change.
She got weighed yesterday at a weigh in appointment. She is a healthy 7 lbs 10.9 oz!
She has continued to gain ounces with each visit! After dropping to 6 lbs 10 oz at Scottish Rite.... 7 lbs 10.9 oz is WONDERFUL! She is not one to turn food away! hehe.
New born clothes still swim on her, but maybe some day they will fit!
Jacky
Monday, April 21, 2008
Update
Well, what a major change we have gone through! At 3 days old Joslyn was rushed to Children's Hospital at Scottish Rite in Atlanta. While I was nursing her she turned blue in the face and lips, then when i sat her up she began to return to normal. We took her to the ER and they rushed us to Scottish Rite. While waiting for the ambulance I attempted to feed her again and she turned blue again.
They ran a massive amount of tests on her: Spinal Tap, blood tests, EEG, Upper GI, Heart sonograms, you name it they ran it! We had to watch our 3 day old go through these horrible tests, and we could not make it stop. We are at Scottish Rite for 3 days while they monitored her. She had another episode there as well, while they were giving her Zantac. At that time she aspirated the medicine into her lungs.
She has been diagnosed with a moderate case of reflux and apnea. She does not spit up when the reflux acts up, she does not know what to do with it so she tries to breath it back in which causes her at aspirate and brings on the apnea.
She is on a Apnea monitor 24 hours a day, which will alarm us when she stops breathing. It is hard to see more wires coming out of our miracle, but while at Scottish Rite she had a dozen wires coming out of her. So we feel two wires is a lot better.
She is doing better now, no episodes since. We are feeding her while elevating her and giving her Zantac. We know that every other test came back perfect, so she is wonderfully healthy other than that.
It was a horrible experience. We got to Scottish Rite ER at 9:00pm and did not get into a room until 4:00 am. Our days did not end as we were awake making sure our little miracle was breathing every second of the day.
We thought that she was being taken away from us, after losing 2 angel babies we could not lose her. I am happy to say that she is not going anywhere unless we go with her. She is the strongest person I know. She did not fight any test, she did not complain one bit. She took everything like a trooper.
Joslyn is now 10 days old, and looking wonderful! She weighed in at 7 lbs 9.5 oz on Friday, April 18. After dropping to 6 lbs 10 oz while at Scottish Rite getting back up to her birth weight (and then some) was such a wonderful moment for my husband and I. Something she had accomplished! Our little miracle..... is a little miracle!
Jacky
They ran a massive amount of tests on her: Spinal Tap, blood tests, EEG, Upper GI, Heart sonograms, you name it they ran it! We had to watch our 3 day old go through these horrible tests, and we could not make it stop. We are at Scottish Rite for 3 days while they monitored her. She had another episode there as well, while they were giving her Zantac. At that time she aspirated the medicine into her lungs.
She has been diagnosed with a moderate case of reflux and apnea. She does not spit up when the reflux acts up, she does not know what to do with it so she tries to breath it back in which causes her at aspirate and brings on the apnea.
She is on a Apnea monitor 24 hours a day, which will alarm us when she stops breathing. It is hard to see more wires coming out of our miracle, but while at Scottish Rite she had a dozen wires coming out of her. So we feel two wires is a lot better.
She is doing better now, no episodes since. We are feeding her while elevating her and giving her Zantac. We know that every other test came back perfect, so she is wonderfully healthy other than that.
It was a horrible experience. We got to Scottish Rite ER at 9:00pm and did not get into a room until 4:00 am. Our days did not end as we were awake making sure our little miracle was breathing every second of the day.
We thought that she was being taken away from us, after losing 2 angel babies we could not lose her. I am happy to say that she is not going anywhere unless we go with her. She is the strongest person I know. She did not fight any test, she did not complain one bit. She took everything like a trooper.
Joslyn is now 10 days old, and looking wonderful! She weighed in at 7 lbs 9.5 oz on Friday, April 18. After dropping to 6 lbs 10 oz while at Scottish Rite getting back up to her birth weight (and then some) was such a wonderful moment for my husband and I. Something she had accomplished! Our little miracle..... is a little miracle!
Jacky
we have our miracle!
Joslyn Olivia was born on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 1:31 pm. She weighed 7 lbs 6 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long.
I was induced Thursday morning and had her the next afternoon. I was dialted 1 cm all the way through Friday morning. When the doc came in Friday morning at 8.. I was finally a 3.... he said that they would check me again at noon and if I had not progressed there was a chance of a C-Section. At 10:00 that morning, they had to give me another dose of the epidural. By 10:30 I was fast asleep! I was woken up to the nurse putting the bed down to check my progress. Low and behold... she said "we are ready! She is a 10 and +2 stage!" Everything began to happen so fast! I was so groggy from the epi and I was so numb. Joslyn was at that point face up so I had to push her to get her to go face down. The doctor checked me and said that it would be hours of pushing if I was unable to get her to face down. He left to finish a C-Section and said he would be right back.
After a couple of pushes Joslyn was faced down and ready! The pushing was the easiest thing! (probably because I was still so numb I could feel nothing but the urge to push.) The nurse had someone get the doc because she was at the point of trying to keep Joslyn in with her hands! When the doctor came in he saw how far along I was and he began to throw his scrubs on and told me to push! 5 minutes later she was born!
Her cord was wrapped around her neck pretty tightly, so the doctor had to cut the cord from her neck, but she was just fine. I was not able to hold her right away, but I was able to watch her come out (without a mirror!!) and the doctor showed me that she was okay before giving her to the nurse to make sure.
Her Apgar score was 8 at 1 minute and 9 at 5 minutes. She came out with her eyes wide open and her tongue sticking out!
She was amazing perfect! We finally have our miracle!
Jacky
I was induced Thursday morning and had her the next afternoon. I was dialted 1 cm all the way through Friday morning. When the doc came in Friday morning at 8.. I was finally a 3.... he said that they would check me again at noon and if I had not progressed there was a chance of a C-Section. At 10:00 that morning, they had to give me another dose of the epidural. By 10:30 I was fast asleep! I was woken up to the nurse putting the bed down to check my progress. Low and behold... she said "we are ready! She is a 10 and +2 stage!" Everything began to happen so fast! I was so groggy from the epi and I was so numb. Joslyn was at that point face up so I had to push her to get her to go face down. The doctor checked me and said that it would be hours of pushing if I was unable to get her to face down. He left to finish a C-Section and said he would be right back.
After a couple of pushes Joslyn was faced down and ready! The pushing was the easiest thing! (probably because I was still so numb I could feel nothing but the urge to push.) The nurse had someone get the doc because she was at the point of trying to keep Joslyn in with her hands! When the doctor came in he saw how far along I was and he began to throw his scrubs on and told me to push! 5 minutes later she was born!
Her cord was wrapped around her neck pretty tightly, so the doctor had to cut the cord from her neck, but she was just fine. I was not able to hold her right away, but I was able to watch her come out (without a mirror!!) and the doctor showed me that she was okay before giving her to the nurse to make sure.
Her Apgar score was 8 at 1 minute and 9 at 5 minutes. She came out with her eyes wide open and her tongue sticking out!
She was amazing perfect! We finally have our miracle!
Jacky
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