Here is the long awaited update!! Sorry it took so long but I have been very busy with Addy and trying to unpack everything from San Antonio as well as clean the house, do the dishes, and wash all the clothes that have been piling up since I have been gone. Well as you guys know Addy was supposed to come home early March but she was kept at the hospital for a failed swallow study. They planned to do the second study on her due date March 20th which was about two weeks after the first one but they wanted to try to give her as much time as possible to mature so she would pass the second test. If she failed the second test they were going to put in a g-tube in her stomach which I as well as the Dr. were completely against. So I had a shower to go to back in Louisiana and didn't want the test to be done while I was gone so it was planned for the first week of April.
I ended up going back home a little early cause I needed a break and needed to be home for awhile to calm down and stay sain. So I went home for about a week and rode back to San Antonio with my mom and packed as much stuff as I could to take back home since I knew either way failed or passed swallow study she would be coming home within the next 2 weeks. So we stayed for the weekend and came back Saturday for the shower on Sunday.
The shower was great! A bunch of my friends and family were there and were very supportive! We got so much stuff for the shower! We'll have diapers and wipes for months! lol I was so relieved to see that everyone refrained from buying a ton of clothes!! I got so which was good but not a ton!! I got a lot of things that I really needed more than clothes. I got everything I needed and more!! I could honestly say that with everything we got for the shower we could almost make it without buying anything for the first year!!
Well Sunday March 30th(my b-day) at the shower I called to check up on Addy and she was doing great! She had been doing good with her feedings and was gaining weight ok. That's when I got the news that they wanted me to feed her as much as possible so I could room in with her that Saturday. The Dr. had decided against the second swallow study cause she was doing ok with her feedings and hadn't gotten sick or anything. I was so excited! To think that when I went back on Tuesday I would be rooming in with her that weekend and take her home was such great news!!
So I flew back Tuesday morning and fed twice that day with no trouble at all!! Some of the nurses were having trouble with her dropping her heart rate but she was fine when I was feeding her. That night the Dr. came in and I told her how I wasn't having any trouble feeding her and she said that I could room in with her whenever I wanted. I asked her when was the soonest that I could room in with her and she told me tomorrow(Wednesday)!! I was so excited I couldn't believe what I was hearing!!
I came in Wednesday and brought the carseat so she could have her carseat study. She passed with flying colors and she could finally room in with me! They brought her in the room to me and told me she was all mine!! I was so excited! I took her leads and pulse ox probe off and savored the feeling of her skin on mine. I forgot how it felt to feel her skin! It was so great not to have to wear the stupid gloves and gowns!! I sat that day holding her and feeding her.
I didn't get much sleep at all that night! They came in every 3 hrs with her milk for me to feed her. After I fed her it took awhile to actually get her to sleep. Then awhile for me to get to sleep. On top of that I kept getting up to make sure she was breathing! HaHa Needless to say I got maybe 2 hrs of sleep that night and only had about 3 or 4 hrs of sleep the night before cause I was too excited to sleep. That next morning they came and did her last round on blood tests. We tried to get the picture people to come take her pictures but nutrition came in and explained to me how to mix her milk and we were discharged at 3pm Wednesday April 3rd.
Everyone was so excited to see Addy at my aunt's house!! It was a long awaited day for everyone! That night was a little better than the night before. I couldn't get her to sleep on the bed next to me. I ended up having to put her to sleep in her swing. I did the whole make sure she's breathing thing again! But I got a lot more sleep than I did the night before!
Since we've come home I have slept so much better with her in her bassinet by my side!! I'm not so worried with her breathing now and I don't wake up in the middle of the night to make sure she's still breathing. I have been blessed with a child that sleeps through the night!! She sleeps anywhere from 5-9 hrs at night. Some nights are better than others but I get way more sleep at a time than I did those first two restless nights.
I have been so content having my little girl home finally. I try not to eat it up and spoil her but I have those days when I just sit all day and watch tv while I hold her or just have her lay on my chest. You know what they say. They're only little once! I tend to leave her in her boppy next to me or in her swing. Whichever she'll actually be content in. She's spoiled to her soothie pacifier but can't hold in her mouth for nothing! I end up having to put a blanket or something in front of the pacifier to keep it in her mouth or she ends up just screaming and I can't get anything done. But she sleeps a lot. She's really only up two times a day. Usually once in the afternoon and then of course when i'm trying to go to bed.
She has been growing so fast!! She's gaining about an ounce a day and an inch a week!! She's growing longer faster than she is gaining weight!! She has trouble gaining weight so she's still on the 30cal/oz fortified breastmilk. Normal milk is only 20cal/oz and they tried to bring her down to 27cal/oz but she started losing weight. They usually don't go home on 30cal but they had to with her.
But all in all we are home and we are both doing great!! Her first surgery will be on her lip on May 16th as long as she is at least 10 pounds. I can't wait for her to have her first surgery but at the same time i'm kinda scared for her. Not really scared I just don't want her to hurt anymore than what she already has. But hopefully once she has this surgery she'll be able to hold her pacifier in her mouth and feed by bottle a little better. She has been feeding very good though.
She was on the haberman bottle but I experimented with different bottles to see what would work. Finally I found that she can take the Playtex Drop-In bottle with a medium flow nipple all on her own!! Of course if she gets lazy toward the end of the feeding I always have the drop-in that I can push on to help her finish the feeding. Pretty much like the Haberman how we were squeezing it to help her with her feeding.
Well that's all I have for you for now!! I'll update you after her surgery with pictures of course to let you know how she is doing!!
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