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12/3/09

Weight Check

Syler went in to be weighed on Wednesday. He weighed 6 pounds 7 ounces so they were happier with that number. They said I had to come back tomorrow but the office just called and said the doctor changed her mind and we can come back in a week! They probably felt bad that I was using all that gas every other day, the doctor is far! He is still being a good boy but I shouldn't say that because now I probably just ruined it.
I know I need to put more pictures of him on here. I just don't like taking pictures very much. Here are a few Shauna took though and some Christmas pictures.

Look at Kinleys face!! So funny! The rest of us look bad though.

11/30/09

What Is Broken Now?

Den played football at church on Saturday. Guess what he broke this time.... two ribs!!! He must have old man bones or something because they break all the time! I think he should just stop playing sports because now I have to carry Syler in his heavy car seat for weeks until he is better.

Syler went to the doctor today to get his weight checked again. 6 days ago he weighed 6 pounds 4 ounces so by today he should have been around 6 pounds 8 ounces. He was only 6 pounds 5 ounces. So now we have to go back Wednesday to be weighed again! :( I have to nurse him and then give him a bottle after and write it all down so we know how much he is getting. He eats a ton! I don't know how he can't be gaining. The doctor said if he isn't gaining weight then his brain isn't either. She said stuff him like a turkey!! He really does eat a lot but he also sleeps a lot. e wont wake up until he is ready no matter what we do to wake him up. When he is awake he eats really well though. She said his jaundice makes him more sleepy. I don't know why they just don't put him under those lights to get rid of the jaundice then and then I can feed him. We will probably have to go back Friday to and Thursday he has his hearing test again so this week is full of appointments now.

Here is a picture of me trying to wake him up and he just tried to cover his face with his hands! I better go stuff him full of milk now.

11/21/09

Syler's Birth

I should post about this before I forget. I probably have already forgotten some things. I had a doctors appointment on the 12th and when I went in my blood pressure was high so the doctor sent me to be monitored again. All the other times I have gone to be monitored my BP would go down after awhile but this time it wasn't. They also took blood to see what my platelets were and after getting the results they took blood again because they didn't believe that it was right, but it was. 49,000 when they are suppose to be over 150,000. So the doctor comes in and says I think we are going to have to have it and you can't have an epidural because of your platelets. I really didn't want to be induced but I guess I didn't have a choice really. The BP cuff was set on a timer and went off as soon as he walked out the door and my BP was the highest it had ever been, something like 171/109. I thought it was funny that he tells me that and my BP goes crazy!

After that they take me to my room and get everything ready. Den was at home with Autumn so he had to take her to school and that part was kind of crazy since Shauna was subbing and her mom was at a different school that day, but it all got worked out. I can't really remember what happened between 2-9:59. Den watched basketball of course. The contractions hurt but I was fine for awhile. I was stuck at a 4 forever and I was getting mad because if I had gone into labor on my own I wouldn't have been going through all that pain. I don't know what time but at some point they gave me IV medicine, which does not work at all, don't ever get it. It made me sleep for 2 minutes and then I would have a contraction and wake up all of a sudden and start saying weird things. Like go out there and tell them to get me an epidural right now, why would anyone want to have kids, I am going to die, I am not crazy I know what I am saying, why is this going so slow, etc. Den was just laughing at me and I was kind of laughing to because I knew what I was doing, being weird, it was easier to be funny than cry.

I think the nurse must have checked me like at 9:50 and said I was at 7. Den texted Shauna, she lives a mile away, so she came and as soon as she walks in the room I say something is happening. All of a sudden he was coming and it felt like everything was falling out and hurt a lot! The nurse was like get the doctor and I was like he is coming can you see his head and the nurse was like wait don't push yet and it all seemed to be crazy after that. It was hard not to push but the doctor was pretty fast. I think I only pushed twice and he was here. It was weird that she had just said I was at 7 and then all of a sudden there he was.

They took him and cleaned him off and stuff. He was born at 10 P.M. 6lbs.3oz. they said he was 20 inches which I knew had to be wrong, my kids aren't that tall! His pediatrician measured him and he is 18 and a half.

After they did all that stuff with him I got to hold him for like 30 seconds before they said he isn't breathing very well we are going to put him on oxygen. I didn't get to see him or hold him again for a whole day, 24 hours!!! He was on oxygen for two days. The magnesium I was on for my BP also got into him too much and made him too sleepy so he would forget to breath. They also thought he might have an infection and started him on antibiotics, they don't think he ever really had one though his levels were just high from the birth. He also had jaundice, not enough to be under the lights. He wasn't eating very well either.

They released me on Saturday but let me stay in my room because they were probably going to release him on Sunday but then he couldn't keep his temperature up. They said he had one more chance and if it was down they were going to put him in the incubator and he would be in it for two days. So Sunday I decided to go home and just come back to visit him since I couldn't do anything for him. He did keep his temperature up though and didn't have to go in the incubator. He got to come home Monday afternoon. As soon as I picked him up we had to drive to the pediatricians because Kinley had strep. He was a different kid after that. Before he would hardly eat and was so sleepy and then he was nursing and looked a lot better.

Now he is 9 days old. He had to go get his jaundice checked. He still has it but it isn't bad. He also had to go in to be weighed because he got down to 5lbs. 14oz. and they wanted to make sure he didn't lose anymore. When I took him back Friday he was up to 6lbs. 2oz. He is eating really well now. He sleeps all day and is up more at night but I am trying to fix that. He is really really cute! He only cries when I change his diaper. Hopefully I will have some cute pics of him soon.

11/19/09

More Pics of Syler

Here are a few more pics of Syler that I took really fast before the camera battery died. I know I need to post his whole birth story but I am too tired and it will take a long time to write. I will get around to it someday.

He sleeps all day and is up most of the night. He is doing really well now though. Eats a lot when I can actually get him to wake up but it must not be enough because he is losing weight. He was 5 lbs. 15 oz. on Monday when he left the hospital. Wednesday I took him to the doctor to get his jaundice checked and he was 5lbs. 13oz. so he has lost some weight sine he was born at 6lbs. 3oz. The doctor is making me take him in tomorrow to be weighed again. They told me to give him formula, which I haven't and wont. He is eating good he is just sleepy. The doctor isn't close to our house so I really don't want to drive all that way and then I have to take him again on Tuesday plus the only appts. they had were at 9 in the morning! Who is up that early??!! I mean I am up that early but I don't want to be after being up all night and I am usually not ready to be out the door by then. He really is doing good, it's just a miracle to see his eyes open during the day.

In other news... Kinley had her first haircut today. Yes she is almost 5 and it has never been cut. I started trimming it a few months ago but those don't count. She was excited to have it done. I should go wake up the baby now so he will sleep tonight.