At this morning's weigh in, Madalyn had gained another ounce. Her pediatrician decided to try her off the feeding tube! It's been so great to see and kiss my little angel's face again.
Today she got all feedings by mouth: alternating every 2 hours between 30 oz breastmilk and 30 oz Neosure. I've nursed her successfully several times today (I'm ( Read more... )

Madalyn made it to 4lbs 2oz yesterday morning, so they took her out of the incubator and upped her breastmilk intake. They told me to expect her to lose a substantial amount of weight at the next day's weigh in because of the extra calories it would take her to keep herself warm. Well, I went home that day and this morning her pediatrician called ( Read more... )

Tomorrow will be 1 week since Madalyn was born. I'm up here with her with Annelise while Jay is working. Her doctor said she's at 3.15lbs as of this morning - 1oz to go until they try her out of the incubator. If she's gained 1oz in the morning, it could be tomorrow. Once she's out, and can hold her temp and looks like she's gaining weight still, ( Read more... )

As I said in my last post, I spent the night up here at the hospital with Madalyn. Now Maddikins has been a sleepy baby since she was born... I've never seen her stay awake for longer than 10 minutes at a time. Wellll, she's waking up. Last night, she woke up at 3 different times bawling. She cried once while Jay was here watching her while I took ( Read more... )

So I know I haven't updated in a while. It's just that so much has happened in the last week... I'll try to give you the skinny.

At my 36 week appointment Wednesday morning, my blood pressure was still sky high. It was decided I was going to be delivered that day via c-section! The Bean - now Madalyn Elizabeth (a girl it turns out lol) was born on ( Read more... )

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35+4days actually, but you get the gist ( Read more... )

Not doing anything celebratory... just hanging out a my mom's house hiding in the air conditioning and eating freezer pizza. How patriotic. Leeise-bug is relaxing watching Blues Clues ( Read more... )

I don't know if I was just super hormonal today or overly tired or what, but I had one of those days that makes you wish it would just hurry up and end ( Read more... )

34 weeks +2 days. I had my doctor's appointment this morning at 10:45. Nothing out of the ordinary really... pee test, blood pressure check, weight check... same old same old. I was told this is the last week I'd get to keep my clothes on lol. I have my Strep B test next week, then I'll be having internal exams every week until I deliver ( Read more... )