Maggie drew these. They are a tap dancing lady, dog, and cat with top hats and canes.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Pictures!
I forgot to post pictures with my last post so here's lots of pictures!
Maggie drew these. They are a tap dancing lady, dog, and cat with top hats and canes.
Baby girl after a bath. :(
Maggie and Greenlea. Greenlea looks pretty unhappy. :)
Me and Ruby
Sweet baby.
Sweet girls. Maggie's doing her school work.
Sweet Ruby
Jillian!!!
Me and Ruby got soaked going from the car to the door.
Ella's birthday. Maggie hung out with Ella and Uncle Jeff before we had dinner. The electricity was out but they got us pizzas and salads and it was quite fun.
The girls decorating Grandpa and Joann's house
My sleeping beauties!
Getting a picture one-handed is hard.
Snuggly baby.
We went to visit Aunt Susie, Mamaw, and Gran Gene.
Ruby thinks Maggie is hilarious!
Bath time.
Snuggly baby and the consequences.
Sweet baby.
Me and Laurie as babies.
Maggie drew these. They are a tap dancing lady, dog, and cat with top hats and canes.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Ruby Dooby Doo
Today we had two appointments: one at 4:00 for Maggie's piano lesson
and one at 6:00 with Ruby's chiropractor. As always, we left the house
at 3:30 to get to the piano lesson. Unfortunately, we got about 2 miles
from the house and hit horrible traffic that didn't let up. It took us
45 minutes to get to a place we could exit. So we missed Maggie's piano
lesson.
I told Maggie we would miss her lesson and she asked if we could go to Chili's for dinner. There happened to be one right by where we were so I said sure. I had google mapped our next destination and it would take us 30 minutes so we had plenty of time to eat.
Ruby was crying so we went straight in to eat. She sleeps if the car is moving but we never got over 5 mph in the 45 minutes so she cried the last bit we were in the car. :(
Maggie played on the ipad thing they have at Chili's now and Ruby nursed and then we ate. Right as me and Maggie were finishing eating, I heard Ruby poop. She's become a bit of a cluster pooper so I waited and sure enough she pooped again. I waited again and she pooped again. After that I went over to change her.
This is when I discovered these were three big poops that leaked bad out of her diaper so she and I were covered in poop. I wiped us down as well as I could but it was pretty bad so as fast as I could I paid out and we left for home.
This, my friends, is the story of how we drove for 2 hours but didn't make it to either of our destinations and spent $22 on food when we have a refrigerator full of food at home. In the words of Charlie Brown, good grief!
Other than that, Ruby is doing well. She nurses like a champ now and has at least regained her birth weight. She went to her first pedi appointment last week and they weighed her at 7 pounds, 7 ounces. She got her first vaccination, Hep B. They said she looked great. She doesn't have to have stretches anymore, thank God. Those were awful. Pretty much she sleeps, eats, and poops. She's a very happy baby. She rarely cries (knock on wood). Maggie loves her and loves to hold her. I cannot believe she's already a month old.
I told Maggie we would miss her lesson and she asked if we could go to Chili's for dinner. There happened to be one right by where we were so I said sure. I had google mapped our next destination and it would take us 30 minutes so we had plenty of time to eat.
Ruby was crying so we went straight in to eat. She sleeps if the car is moving but we never got over 5 mph in the 45 minutes so she cried the last bit we were in the car. :(
Maggie played on the ipad thing they have at Chili's now and Ruby nursed and then we ate. Right as me and Maggie were finishing eating, I heard Ruby poop. She's become a bit of a cluster pooper so I waited and sure enough she pooped again. I waited again and she pooped again. After that I went over to change her.
This is when I discovered these were three big poops that leaked bad out of her diaper so she and I were covered in poop. I wiped us down as well as I could but it was pretty bad so as fast as I could I paid out and we left for home.
This, my friends, is the story of how we drove for 2 hours but didn't make it to either of our destinations and spent $22 on food when we have a refrigerator full of food at home. In the words of Charlie Brown, good grief!
Other than that, Ruby is doing well. She nurses like a champ now and has at least regained her birth weight. She went to her first pedi appointment last week and they weighed her at 7 pounds, 7 ounces. She got her first vaccination, Hep B. They said she looked great. She doesn't have to have stretches anymore, thank God. Those were awful. Pretty much she sleeps, eats, and poops. She's a very happy baby. She rarely cries (knock on wood). Maggie loves her and loves to hold her. I cannot believe she's already a month old.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Update on Ruby
Almost from day one, something was wrong with Ruby's latch. When she nursed, I would feel horrible pain. After a few days I knew I needed to see a lactation consultant. Thank God, I told Laurie and she offered to find me someone to contact. Who knows how much longer it would have taken me to get on the computer and look something up. Laurie found a lady who would actually come to my house to see us.
I thought it was that she wasn't opening her mouth enough and the LC would show me how to get her to open up more and that would be that. But, no. She had a severe tongue tie. So severe it would have caused her to have trouble with eating and drinking and possibly speech problems later. Mellanie, the LC, gave me a list of dentists that work with infants with tongue ties and chiropractors. The chiropractors apparently help loosen up tightness. I'm not sure but she said it was an essential part of helping Ruby so we're going.
We went to the dentist and she said Ruby also had an even more severe lip tie. They measure the ties on a 1-4 scale. Her tongue tie was a 3. Her lip tie was a 4. Poor baby.
The actual procedure was quite awful. There was another baby there getting the same thing done and he was hysterical. Ruby didn't cry too much but she was obviously distressed. They put her in this sack so she couldn't move her arms or legs and goggles on her. I had to hold her head while they used a laser to cut the ties. It was awful. I cried from the moment the lady came in to explain the procedure until they let me nurse her after. Poor little baby.
Now we have to "stretch" the wounds at least six times a day to keep them from growing back together. You can imagine how much she likes that. But she has a much easier time nursing.
I thought it was that she wasn't opening her mouth enough and the LC would show me how to get her to open up more and that would be that. But, no. She had a severe tongue tie. So severe it would have caused her to have trouble with eating and drinking and possibly speech problems later. Mellanie, the LC, gave me a list of dentists that work with infants with tongue ties and chiropractors. The chiropractors apparently help loosen up tightness. I'm not sure but she said it was an essential part of helping Ruby so we're going.
We went to the dentist and she said Ruby also had an even more severe lip tie. They measure the ties on a 1-4 scale. Her tongue tie was a 3. Her lip tie was a 4. Poor baby.
The actual procedure was quite awful. There was another baby there getting the same thing done and he was hysterical. Ruby didn't cry too much but she was obviously distressed. They put her in this sack so she couldn't move her arms or legs and goggles on her. I had to hold her head while they used a laser to cut the ties. It was awful. I cried from the moment the lady came in to explain the procedure until they let me nurse her after. Poor little baby.
Now we have to "stretch" the wounds at least six times a day to keep them from growing back together. You can imagine how much she likes that. But she has a much easier time nursing.
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