reflux again?!

Yes that is right! It seems as though Katelyn has been hit with the reflux ball! However, her reflux is not like the kind Joslyn had. Katelyn is a spitter, not silent reflux at ALL! At first she would just spit up after and before feedings, with no sings of pain. But now that is changing. She will spit up A LOT or not so much. Sometimes it will even come out of her nose at the same time. Her doctor said that if it comes out of her nose, then that means it is a forceful reflux. GREAT HUH?! Just what we need, another poor little love with reflux.
Katelyn will turn beat red, stick her teeny tongue out, shake her precious little head side to side, wiggle her body, and cry..... then you know something is coming up. She will do this every day, for most of her feedings.
We are trying to give her a breast milk bottle during her worst reflux episodes. We do not know how that is working yet as we just started it... but it worked really well with Joslyn.
It would be nice if Katelyn was what they call a "happy spitter", but she is showing signs of pain and discomfort. It is so heart breaking to watch her suffer. She is not even 1 month old yet and she is feeling pain.
I do not think that she spits all of the liquid out. I think she swallows some. But she is not showing ANY sign of breathing problems (which means no apnea) so we are counting our blessings with that. If we had another baby with breath apnea I think my heart would sink!

Jacky

SHE IS HERE!!

Katelyn Isabel was born on November 14, 2009 at 9:27 pm. She weighed in at 6 lbs 14 ounces and was 19 inches long. She is a teeny one! Here is our story!
At 11:30 am, following lunch, I had a decent contraction and I felt a "trickle". I looked at my Stephen and said "oh oh" and then responded with "oh oh?!" I then went to the bathroom to find my panties were a little wet. Not knowing what it felt to have myw ater break... I decided to wait to see if it happened again. Within 10 mins it happened 3 more times. So I called my doctor's office. They told me to head to Labor and delivery to get checked seeing that I was 40 weeks and 2 days and only 2 days away from my scheduled induction.

We dropped Joslyn off at my inlaws and off we were. By the time we got to the hosp I was having contractions and my pants were WET. We got in to the triage at 1 pm and within 5 mins I was having hard core contractions every 2 mins! YIKES! So I was tested and my water had broken, well really sprung a leak! So I was admitted. At about 2 pm I was given my epidural because they thought I was progressing rather rapidly. Then all contractions stopped for 2 HOURS! Pitocin was given and within one hour they picked up again.

Katelyn's heart rate was all over the place. For about 45 mins hr heart rate was in the dangerously high zone (due to juice I was given at then hospital! hehe) then it was in the dangerously low zone. I was given oxygen and it began to return to normal.
At 6 pm I was dilated to 3 cm so we had to wait some more. By 8 pm I was having major pain and the epidural man was called back into my room. He added more medicine and no sooner as he had one foot out of my room I looked at the nurse and said "I have to go to the bathroom." MAGIC WORDS! She checked me and I was 8 cm! 10 mins later I was fully dilated and ready to go! (As with Joslyn it only took 2 hours to go from 3-10cm.) We decided to wait on pushing for 2 reasons... Stephen's mom and sister in law were not there yet and Katelyn was still really high up. The family arrived at about 8:45 pm (really ran into the room!) I said "we have been waiting." hehe.
By 9:15 I told the nurse I had enough and I was ready to go. She told me to do a practice push and when I did she almost freaked out and said "ummm okay! stop." She ran for the doctor and 3 pushes later (less than 5 minutes) Katelyn Isabel was born! She came out so fast that her head had no cone and she looked like a C-Section baby!




We are all doing so well and adjusting to being a family of 4! Katelyn is the best nurser I think I have ever seen and Joslyn just loves her new baby sissy!



Welcome to the world Katelyn Isabel!
Jacky

we have made it to full term!

Well last week i turned 37 weeks! For one I am shocked! I have been having pre term contractions since 31 weeks.... but nothing to be put on bed rest for. I just had to take it pretty easy for a while. But Katelyn hung in there! This pregnancy has been very difficult, from severe morning sickness, contractions, pressure, being super tired and chasing a one year old! But we have made it to full term! How wonderful is that?! Two weeks ago I began to dilate to 1 cm and I was the same last week. We go back again tomorrow, so I am curious to see if there has been any change.

Joslyn is doing amazing! She has so many words now! Doggie, more, bye bye, Mac.. just to name a few of the new ones. She is 18 1/2 months now! Pretty soon she will be a big sister! That is something I can not get over! My baby will be a big sissy?! MAN OH MAN!

We went to a pumpkin patch the other weekend and Joslyn loved it! She is such a fan of pumpkins!

She would have stayed all day long if we let her! Pointing and screeching at all the pumpkins. I think she was the only kid who was that excited! But it was so much fun.

For Halloween she is going to be Little Red Riding Hood and Mac will be the wolf. hehe. Now if only we can get her used to the "red hood" part of her costume!

Maybe the next post will be the announcement of Katelyn Isabel! You never know!!!!

Jacky

week 29!!!!!

Not too much has happened in the past week... JUST KIDDING! A ton of
stuff happens when we have a Joslyn running around!
She has learned how to "say" no no no, with her fingers. Looks like I
shake my finger at her when I tell her "no no no." hehe. She thinks it
is funny now when I say it, because she copies me! Goof ball! (that is
the picture below.)




She has also learned where her arms are! Also she knows how to turn on
the tv for us! She loves to turn it on and off... but we were teaching
her not to touch it, as she would turn it on and off ALL day long if
she were allowed to. So now, all we ask is "Joslyn can you turn the TV
on?" and she gets all excited, runs to the tv and pushes the button!
Then she runs back to the couch to look at what she did!

Oh and her video monitor broke this week! ohh I was so mad! We use
that video monitor every day, for every nap and all night long too. So
to be without it for one nap was a nightmare for me! So after her nap
was over, we picked Daddy up from work and went to buy another one.
We are not too happy with it, so we are going to exchange it for
another one tomorrow. But we had to get something to get us by! The
one we are getting, will work with 2 cameras. So when Katelyn is born
we will be able to see both of our babies on the video monitor. (if
all works correctly!)

Joslyn also cut her lower, right molar! No wonder she has been less than cheery lately! The other lower left one is trying to make an appearance too!

I am 29 weeks pregnant! All is going well. I passed my glucose test with flying colors, so that was nice! Katelyn is now head down and ready to come out in 11 weeks! 11 weeks!!!!! Oh man! hehe. Her heart beat is still in the 150's to 160's.. strong little thumper! Just the way we like it!

Jacky

New updates!!!

Gee whiz...sorry I have not blogged in a while! Being pregnant and having a toddler makes the days go by faster than you think! hehe.
Joslyn is growing up soooooo fast! She had her 15 month check up a couple week ago. She is now 75% for her height!!!!! (WOWZERS!! far cry from what she use to be! For ever stuck in the 5-25%!!) She grew 4 inches in 3 months!!!!!!!!! She is also in the 25-50% for her weight! It is wonderful not to be concerned about her weight and height anymore! Kind of makes me worry more though! Cause we worried so long about her weight and her height... that now we dont have to anymore? Can we really cross one worry off of our list?! OHHH SCARY!!
She has 5.... YES 5.... teeth now! The top 2 and bottom 2 and now the bottom right incisor tooth! She is also starting to use her teeth to chew.. which is huge since she would always chew with her back gums and never in the front. (even with her teeth!)

Oh and she also is starting to poopy and peepee on the potty!!!!! She is not potty trained yet... but she is starting to go on the potty! Not every time, and she still goes in her diapers... but hey a 15 month old pooping and peeing in the potty, even a few time, is wonderful!

As for me... Katelyn is doing very well! We are 25 weeks and 4 days! We have hit the magic 25 week mark. If she were to be born now, she would have a pretty good chance of making it! But we are still telling her to stay in there for 15 more weeks! hehe.
Katelyn is not a fan of having her big sissy lay on her. When Joslyn rests her hea don my belly (which she thinks is a pillow now!) Katelyn starts kicking and punching! Last night Katelyn punched with such force that Joslyn's head bounced! She then looked at me like "what the heck was that mommy?!" Then proceeded to use her "pillow" again! hehe
Our girls are already fighting over their mommy! AWWWWWW hehe

Here is a picture of Joslyn saying "hi"

here are some new pictures of Joslyn.... in case you needed a new fix!!! HEHE

22 weeks preg!

Hello to everyone! Well... today we are 22 weeks pregnant! We had our check up yesterday and all looks wonderful! All of my test results came back 100% normal... so that is great to hear.

My doc said that Lover Bean may be bigger than Joslyn was... which causes us all some concern. If you remember, Joslyn was almost a c-section baby half way through labor. After I had the epidural, my doctor was able to asses how wide my pelvis was. He was concerned that it was not big enough to allow Joslyn's head to come down.. and he thought that she was going to be a small baby. Joslyn was born 7 lbs 6 ounces and she just managed to get through on her own. But if we have a bigger baby.... we may not be so lucky. He is going to keep an eye on us, so we will see how it goes.

Other than that... all is going really well. She is kicking and punching and rolling like crazy! Joslyn was sleeping on me yesterday and her little sister did NOT like Joslyn laying on her! hehe. I am still shocked that Joslyn slept through all the kicks!

As for Joslyn... she still only has 2 teeth!! She turns 15 months in 2 days and only has 2 teeth!!! I have known a ton of 1 yr olds.... and I can not remember any 15 month old with only 2 teeth! But that is part of what makes Joslyn... well JOSLYN! hehe

Oh and I do not think I have "released" lover bean's name!
Her name is Katelyn Isabel. Her initials are K.I.S (as in PUCKER UP BABY!) We are keeping the "lyn" as in my name and Joslyn's name and we made sure her initials had a meaning (like Joslyn's.. J.O.S.) But just like Joslyn always being my little Sticky Bean.... Katelyn will always be my little Lover Bean!

Jacky