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LAST SYNAGIS SHOT & NEW TEETH

Apr 04, 2007 08:29pm (EST)

Well about a half an hour ago Emma got her last Synagis shot for this year. I am sure that Emma will be glad not to see that lady again. Whenever the home health nurse would touch her she knew what was comin and startin crying before the needle even got near her. She is going to be a year or next thursday and I am stunned at how fast this year has gone. She was weighed today for her shot and she is a whoppin 17lbs! thats a HUGE baby! lol

Sidney is getting 2 more teeth now. That will bring her grand totoal to 6. That means is 20 months she has produced 6 teeth. I used to worry that she didn't have very many teeth but now as of today I think I can wait since she has been pure evil attitude that last few days. And when they both start crying at once make me understand the people who shake there children. I don't condone it but MAN I understand the feeling. I love my girls but they are goning drive me right the hell out of my mind.

For Emma birthday we are going to go to the Henry Doorly Zoo where she will care less about the animals and just be happy to be outside. However she might not make it to that time if she doesn't stop crying. I am contemplating handing her off to the next 7 year old that walks past the house (we live about a block and a half from the elementary school). She is currently mad because she doesn't want to take a nap.

On a side note if you would like to see a short video of sidney dancing in Peter's shoes click this link :

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EMMA'S TICS

Mar 30, 2007 05:51pm (EST)

Lately Emma has been scrunching her face or shaking or nodding her head. At first I thought she was just making funny faces but after watching her it looks like she doesn't have control over it. kind of like facial tic or something. She has a developmental follow-up in a few weeks so I will ask about it then.

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Dec 05, 2006 07:18am (EST)

Sidney has been taking all the food out of her mouth when she is eating and then she pretty much gags herself with her fingers. I can't seem to get her to stop doing it. I am always afraid that she isn't eating enough because she has been doing this at every meal. hmmm If anyone has suggestions on how to get her to stop doing this I would be greatful.

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EMMA'S BIRTH STORY

Dec 01, 2006 08:14am (EST)

How my 2nd preemie came to be.

From the day I found out that I was pregnant with Emma I had a feeling that she was going to be early too. I started seeing the dr at 12 weeks. At 18 weeks I started Tunneling from the inside out, and was put on modified bed rest (I had 2 hours of free time a day to be sitting or moving around). At 24 weeks I failed the first glucose test, but passed the longer one a few days later. At the end of march my FMLA ran out and I was terminated from my job (but told the would be MORE than willing to rehire me in the future). 25 weeks I was dilated to 1cm all the way down. 27 weeks dilated to 3 cm failed first Ffn. On weeks 28 failed 2nd Ffn. I was contracting but couldn't feel it so I was admitted to IMMC on tuesday April 11th and givin Mag sulfate to stop the contractions. It worked and after 24 hour they started to wean me off it. Besides being very warm from the Mag sulfate I was feeling fine and cheating my way through a crossword puzzle book ( I suck at those, I wanted a word search book but peter couldn't find one). The next day after I had eatin lunch I started to feel weird, I unhooked myself (by that time I had been up so many times to go to the bathroom the nurses just let me do it myself) and went to the bathroom I had a BM and noticed some a very little bit of blood in my discharge. I didn't say anything right away. I went back to bed and once I got all positioned it when the contractions HIT me like a bus. After the first contraction subsided I called the nurse and told her I thought something was very wrong, within 15 seconds she was in the room. The contractions were coming every 2 minutes and they were big ones. I asked for pain medicine and she told me that I couldn't have any until the Dr checked me. They got ahold of the dr and a different nurse came into check me. Once again I got the wide eyed look and then she was gone. seconds later I was being pushed down the hall to an OR room. They told me when I got in there that I was going to have a baby any minute. (all of this happened in 30 minutes, from 3 cm to delivery OR) My dr came in and broke my water and suddenly all my contractions stopped and I was so releaved even if it was short lived. He checked to see where the baby was but didn't feel her right then all my panick came rushing back like a hurricane wind. He had them bring an ultrasound cart in to check where she was, she was transverse so he told me I was going to have to have a C-section, I was already crying but that turned to all out sobbing at this news. Peter wasn't there yet and I felt more alone then even with all those people around me then I have ever felt in my life. The Anestesologist gave me the epidural with a shot of morphine in it. right in the nick of time Peter came walking in the room and just seeing him made me cry even harder. They started. My face was so itchy I felt like a colony of ants was crawling on it. within a few minutes they told me that she was out and that she was a girl! more crying. They told me that she was 3lb 3oz, 15in and put her near my face for a breif second and then she was gone. by then I knew the routine. Since that was my 1st section I didn't know that I wouldn't get to see her for a while.. With Sidney I was up there to see her like an hour and a half later. after I got back to my room things are a little foggy. People were in and out that I don't even remember being there. I remember being sad that everyone else had seen her and I hadn't. The nurse who originally checked me came back in to see me and told me that she looked at me that way because all she could feel was a bag of waters. The dr came in a little after that and let me know that I had been given a "classic" C-section which he explained was a vertical incision from just beneath my belly button to the top of my pubic bone.

8 hours and 23 stapled later I got to see Emma Madison for the first time.

I remember when I first saw her I thought she looked like alittle baby doll. Although she was large for her gestational age she was the smallest baby I had ever seen. After a lot of 1 step forward and 2 steps back she came home. 7.5 weeks and doesn't have really any long term effects.

I am so greatful that I have had 2 preemies that have been virtually issue free. I know that many of the Mom's on this site are struggling with preemies that aren't as lucky as my girls and my heart goes out to them. I would not wish that on anyone, after going through the fear myself.

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SIDNEY'S BIRTH STORY

Nov 28, 2006 08:37pm (EST)

Pregnancy was probably the most uncomfortable time of my life. I know that for some people it is a wonderful experiance but for me it wasn't. Yes it was wonderful because of the out come but in terms of how I felt I was misserable.

During the day on July 27 I started to swell more then I already was so I left work early and went to the Dr to get it checked out because I know that is a sign of eclampsia. When I got there I saw the NP and she told me that it was just the hormone relaxin and that it was normal and that to be on the safe side they were going to watch me closer because there was a chance I wouldn't make it to my due date. I wasn't too worried after that because I had an appointment the next day for an unltasound and a regular check. So I went home.

Peter came home around 6 as usual and I stated to make dinner around 6:30. I started to have lower back pain but thats pretty normal in a pregnancy and I thought nothing of it. While I was making dinner Peter brought his special ass into the kitchen and pantsed me (pulled down my pants) I wasn't wearing underwear (I didn't wear panties at home the last few weeks because I didn't have any that fit well and I didn't want granny panties) and the kitchen window shade was up so I freaked out.

After dinner I got the heating pad out because I though laying on it would help my back pain. I layed there until around 10 then decided I would try to sleep although I was SO uncomfortable and in pain. I took some tylenol and layed down. I got every 15 minutes to pee and was mad because the back pain wasn't going away and now it was coming in waves that were like 20 minutes apart and was lasting like 5 minuted or so then dulling but not going away. Peter went to bed. He was leaving for CA the next day for a last vacation with his friends that live there before becoming a father. I was planning on throwing away a bunch of his crap that I am sure he didn't know he even had.

Around 3 I notices that I had some blood tinged discharge and that freaked me out. I waited to see it would go away and I was up every 10 now to pee anyway so I could keep an eye on it. By now the back pain was HORRIBLE!!! It was at the point of being unbearable. I woke Peter up at 3:30 and told him that I thought something was wrong. I called my line at my Dr. office and talked to the nurse and then waited for Dr. Sager to call back. (I already thought the man was a douche but he got so much worse) He called back about 5 minuted later and I explained my pain and the blood and he told me to lay down and take it easy and monitor it. At this point I wanted to kill him. Peter asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital and I told him I wasn't sure. This was my first baby and I didn't know what was going on so I was relying on what the Dr said. But after about 2 minutes of me crying he said we were going. We didn't have a bag pack or anything because I wasn't due for another 8 weeks.

We get in the car and speed to the hospital running red lights and all on the way. We get there and I tell the lady at the desk that I was bleeding and how far along I was. She told me that I should sit down for a minute while someone with a wheel chair came to take me to maternity. Peter went to the bathroom. The nurse came out with the wheel chair and we waited for Peter to finish in the bathroom and went to the Maternity ward. The took me into a triage room. The nurse told me that the pain I was having was contractions and that she was going to give me something to stop them. She gave me a shot in the arm and hooked me up to minitors. By now its like 4:45 and I thought I was gonna die. I told Peter he should call my parents. The nurse came into to take a urine sample by cath and I absolutely hate those thing it always hurts. She got the sample and emptied my bladder and when she was done I had to pee. She told me that she emptied my bladder and that I shouldn't have to. I let her know that I did and I want to go NOW. She unhooked me and I went to the bathroom. I came back and she started the IV with some trouble and alot of blood. She said that someone from ultrasound would be in soon.

Meanwhile my parents showed up and were asking questions and I let them know I wasn't in the mood to play 20 questions and to ask Peter. The ultra sound girl came in and took her sweet ass time getting all the pictures that she wanted. I didn't want to put my legs down because that just made my pain worse. The medicine that they had givin me to stop the contractions only stopped them for about 10 minuted. The US tech took 30 to get all the pictures and I was ready to murder her because she kept making me put me legs down. On her way out I asked her to leave the monitors off because I had to go to the bathroom she said she wasn't sure if I was allowed to. I told her to send the nurse in then. The nurse came in and let me go to the bathroom but told me that if I felt like I needed to poop that I shouldn't try to. When I went in to the bathroom there was blood running down my legs. I went to the bathroom and felt the feeling the nurse had talked about and resisted the urge and went back to me room and told her about the urge. She hooked me back up and decided for the first time since I had been there to check to see if i was dialated. She put her hand up there then looked at me wide eyed and walked out of the room. She came back with another nurse and she checked me. They never did tell me what I was dialated to at that point but I asked the nurse right then if I could have some pain medicine. She looked at me and told me no that I was going to be having a baby soon. I told her no that I wasn't having one for another 8 weeks and she said no your having a baby today.

They take me into a birthing room and then all these people started to come in. I was told they were from the Neo-natal department. Right then is when the fear hit me. by now it was 7 and we were just waiting for Dr Dumbass to make an appearance. The nurse kept tellig me not to push but I wasn't even trying it was just happening. The nurse just kept saying all we were waiting for is the Dr. I told her "screw him, I am sure he isn't the only dr in this hosp that knew how to deliver a baby."

An hour and 10 minuted later or so the Dr finally shows up (They called him at 6 and it took him 2 hours to get his ass there) he comes in and checks me and tells me that he can feel her head. He broke my water (she was coming out water bag and all). This asshole then looks at me and says don't bush I'll be back in 5 minutes I need to make some calls. Then he chit chatted about why the bottom of the bed had to be put back on and made some comment about nurses not being able to catch babies then left the room.

When he finally came back she was right there ready to come out. He told me to push and then when I didn't push long enough got all pissy because he said I was waisting contractions. I pushed for 23 minutes and had an episodomy and there she was. They put her on my stomach while they cut her cord which my dad did becuase that stuff makes Peter quezzy. Then she was gone. He delivered my plecenta and held it up like it was pizza dough. While he stitched me up he let me know that I didn't sound urgent enough on the phone and that is why he told me to stay home. Then he left and I haven't seen him since he discharged me without even seeing me again.

I talked to Peter for a few minutes and then everyone but me went to see Sidney. I called Christy because I knew she was at work and she was suppose to be there but nothing went right that day. I wanted her and Holly to be there but we don't always get what we want. I told her the story to her shock and amazement. Then I called Holly and David because these are the three peole I am closest to in the world. Then I called into work.

We spent 3 and a half weeks in the NICU.

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