Hospital: Take Two

April 29-May 5, 2012

Caleb is either not feeling well, in his terrible twos (6 months early) or officially sick of Leila being here. The past two days have been a patience-building (or patience-losing) experience. I'm just hoping he's just not feeling well so that it's something that will pass quickly and can be treated with Tylenol. :)

Trying to get Caleb to not be so overtired. I think that's a big part of the problem. He has fought taking two naps but has been much happier after a good, early morning nap. The afternoon nap he cries going to sleep and wakes up crying and grumpy. 

He figured out how to slide out of the stroller when not buckled in. He has been antisocial and just walks away to be by himself if we're at the park with other people. We've been egg hunting again, with nothing in the eggs, but he still loves it. 

Here's a package my mom and sisters sent me for my golden birthday. They bought everything in the store that was "gold-ish" colored. Thanks!

Leila has been smiling and cooing. I took shower, when got close enough for her to see, she smiles. Likes the fan. When on her tummy, she moves across the crib. It's definitely not a crawl but she shifts her weight and does kind of an inch worm motion. She slept five and a half hours Tuesday night, six Wednesday night! 

Caleb plays peekaboo with her. He also likes to sit close to her feet. If he's in a bad mood, he pretends to be hurt when she kicks him. If he's in a good mood, acts like she's tickling him.

Monday evening we went to the White's house for dinner. Tuesday night I had a primary presidency meeting.

Thursday we ended up back in the hospital again. After three projectile vomiting episodes in one afternoon and two consecutive hours of mucousy spit up/choking episodes (including one more cyanotic episode), the pediatrician sent us back to the hospital for observation and testing. 

Poor little girl is miserable.

She tested positive for RSV, which is why the doctors think she has so much mucous she's choking on. But she doesn't actually present with any other symptoms... Last night (Thursday) we also had a chest x ray, stomach ultrasound and bloodwork done. Now we're waiting on those results and will be getting another echocardiogram done today (and hopefully results back today so we can maybe leave). 

Poor little girl

Poor Caleb probably feels abandoned again. He's staying with the Parkers for now. 

I hate being in the hospital, overhearing nurses talk about us, sitting by myself, feeling like I need to be with Caleb. It feels similar to when we were in the NICU.

Doctors and nurses took Leila and I much more seriously after seeing her have an vomiting episode. It made me feel better that they were somewhat shocked when saw what was happening and it was nice to have them suction her and give me a break. They were surprised at the amount of mucous as well.

They thought she might be having seizures each time she had an episode and weren't sure about her abnormal posturing. They didn't have any answers because tests came back normal for the most part but thought Sandifer's Syndrome was something that might explain her symptoms. They started her on reflux medicine to hopefully help.

EEG

Saturday night my mom and Lizzi flew in. We weren't sure how long we were going to be in the hospital when they got their tickets to come help us and it was good to see Lizzi before she left on her mission too. We were released Saturday afternoon after getting lots of testing done.

Echocardiogram

Sunday they watched the kids while Allen and I went to church. That was nice! They also helped me make some "brass plates" for my sharing time.

 Some older pictures that I just found hidden in another folder on my computer:

I love all the trees where we live.

Just chillin

Favorite way to watch TV: on Mom's legs.

He loves to help push.

Leila's first time in the swing - she loved it.

For a while Caleb loved Blue's Clues and taking his pants off (the latter phase hasn't ended, even a year later).

We played at the mall play place about once a week March-July.

She sleeps sitting up...

or sometimes on her belly or being held. Nights are still really rough.

When I want to take a shower, Caleb gets to watch Baby Einstein on the car DVD player. 

I had to take Leila to the hospital for weekly weigh-ins at the lactation center for a few months. It was not fun. It's a lot of work to load to babies into their car seats, drive to the hospital, get the stroller out, unload kids, undress and weigh Leila, dress her and walk back out to the car to load in, just to unload when we got home. It was an hour ordeal each time even though it's only a 5-10 minute drive to the hospital! And it was frustrating because she rarely gained much weight.