Tuesday Wednesday

Tuesday was a decent day. Nothing exciting at all. I enjoyed a nice long nap with Bay & that was good. Bayley had poops finally. That is always a positive and a negative thing. Bless her heart.

Today was traumatizing for Bayley but ok in the big picture. We got up and went to the doctor at 9. Bayley weighs 8 lb 1 oz and is 20 inches long. She finally made the chart on her weight but not her height. She is in the 10th percentile on her weight which is better than nothing. Dr. Tindle checked the stricture (OUCH) but the good news is she shouldnt have to check it again...it was better and she said taht now it is like a small newborn so it definitely ruptured on her last check. We talked for a long time about possibilities regarding her tummy issues and she decided to try her on Levsin which is an antispasmatic drug. Dr. Tindle says that it sound like she is having major stomach cramps from her tummy being premature. She said that hopefully this will relax her tummy and bowels and allow things to flow better w/out causing Bayley so much pain. We are also gonna put her on Karo Syrup 1tsp once a day to try to keep her stools thinned out while we are trying the Levsin so maybe it will work better. She checked her belly button ad said it is no better. She was anemic which makes no sense because she is already on iron but she increased the amount and we will try that. Bayley got the oral Rototek vaccine and 4 shots. She is NOT a happy camper. She is pitiful and cries out while she is sleeping and if she is awake she is fussing and crying. Im giving her Tylenol every 4 hours but so far it hasnt helped a bunch. O well we will hope tomorrow is a better day. I will try to post pics in a lil bit but so far girlfriend isnt in a phototaking mood lol.

Sunday Monday - WOW My Baby Girl is growing up so quick! This was her very first outfit that Cindi Brought her the Saturday before she was born. We had to wait 2 1/2 weeks until she weighed enough to be able to wear clothes.

Sunday was a very fussy day. Bayley was pretty much miserable all night. As you can see from the picture her tummy is quite large which Im sure is partly from the large amount of poop that she needs to pass. We had no poops at all Sunday. She cried a good bit of the day.

Today was a MUCH better day. Bayley slept "ok" last night... and when she woke up she was in a good mood. She has only cried maybe 5 minutes all day. She has been in a great mood. We had a good morning and took a couple of naps together. It has hit me in the last day or so that I only have a week from tomorrow with my baby girl. I honestly dont want to do anything during the day except hold her and love on her because I feel like I have such limited time. I know Bayley will be fine without me but I cant even imagine someone else enjoying the good and bad days with Bay. She is such a sweet baby and is growing up so quick as you can see from the pictures of today. I love the booty shot with the lil outfit laying on her. A lot has changed in a lil less than 3 months. I also love being home when she gets out of school. I have always loved hearing about her day but now I get it very fresh and in person. Syd is doing great in school. She made a 90 on her first History test so far so good. I have to somehow find time in the next week to actually clean my house...I never want to do it because I cant do it and hold Bayley and that is definitely my top priority these days. More tomorrow.

Thursday Friday

Saturday

The new power cord wont be in until next week sometime so no pictures until then but Im taking them daily and will update when I can.
Thursday started off with a bang...We had two poops in a row. YAY BAY! Something is still not right with the poor baby because she screams everytime she poops but we go to the doctor on Wednesday so Im sure I will know more then. She was fussy off and on all day but nothing else exciting went on other than I got my car back.
Friday started off great. Bayley woke me up at 5 without crying and was so sweet. She drank her bottle and was so cute she talked for the longest time. I woke Brian up about 10 min early so he could see her in a good mood because in the afternoons she is an ill pill so he hasnt seen her happy in days. lol Her good mood lasted until about 10 and then it wsa back to sleepy and grumpy. :( Sydney had good news today and that is she made a 96 on her math test! yay Syd.
Today - Saturday didnt start out great. Bayley didnt sleep worth a flip last night and was grumpy as she could be all morning. She finally settled down and got in a good mood about 1 today but it has pretty much been a long day of holding a very fussy baby. I will be so glad when her tummy doesnt hurt anymroe. More tomorrow or when I get a chance to get on Brians computer.

Tuesday Wednesday

I wont have pictures yet. We are having computer issues and I cant upload pics from Syds computer so I will try to log on Brians tomorrow and do it from there.

Tuesday was uneventful. No poops...lots of fussy But my big news from yesterday was that I got 5 hours of sleep IN A ROW..and AT NIGHT! Wow I was thrilled. Im not gonna know how to act when she starts sleeping more.

Today was pretty uneventfu as well. We had TINY poops .... barely more than a spot. Maybe we will have big poops tomorrow. She was really fussy when she was trying to poop but I would be fussy too so I dont blame her. Syd and Brian missed church tonight. Brian has been working a lot of hours at the Calera Hotel that eddie opened. We talked to him a lil before 6 and he was fixin to leave so we went ahead and ate and at 6:50 we finally called him back because he had never gotten home and he was just leaving and by then everyone we know was already at church. Sydney wasnt thrilled and agreed that is seems very strange to be home on a Wednesday night. Just 1 more week and we will all be there. My car still isnt ready...shocking that it takes so long to fix a car that a stupid woman found the problem on...GRRRR. Hopefully I will get it back tomorrow.

Sunday Monday

Sunday was an ok day. Bay had no poops ... rest assured Paul - Im NUTS but Im not quite crazy enough to take pictures of poopy diapers.. lol so you dont have to worry you wont be seeing them...but I will show you in less than 2 weeks when she is at church! lol Ok anywayz... Sunday was fairly uneventful. Bayley didnt sleep well Saturday night but that isnt shocking news. Sunday night I went with the youth group to Shades Mountain to a Youth Devo. David Sain was the speaker at the church service and then again at the Devo...he spoke on Making Right Decisions..and both talks were great! It was VERY crowded which was good to see. Me & Alex made it through the whole night without messing up a prayer (lol a funny from last year). Brian & Bayley made it good at home without us. I cant wait until Bay can come with us to these things.

Today was a good day. Bay had poops first thing this mornin. It seems she is on an eery other day schedule .. which isnt that bad other than she still seems to be trying to poop and in pain. She still cries every time she goes and if it keeps up I will take her back to the doctor on Thursday...We will wait until then because guess what...MY AIR IS OUT ON MY CAR...the brilliant man at Neil Bonnett Honda made that decision today...GRRRRRRRR dont even get me started. but it will be sometime Wednesday before I get the car back. Anyway... the only thing exciting about syd was that she learned to do a front flip on the trampoline. lol Yes I know lil kids can do that but syd isnt very flexible so it is pretty shocking news for her. lol Anyway More tomorrow.

We have poop again. It was U-G-L-Y...not that poop is ever pretty...but I got woke up at 7:50 this morning to Bayley being VERY FUSSY...which wasnt normal for her because she had already eaten and normally she wants to sleep then. When I woke up I thought she had puked bc it was everywhere...nope wrong end...but lets just say..that diaper had more than it could hold and Bayley was NOT a happy camper. Poor Baby. Brian woke up then too thank goodness because it was a 2 person clean up job and she had to have a bath IMMEDIATELY! Me and Syd went to Target & Babies R Us and a consignment shop...(That is a necklace in the picture of Bay that my mom made here...it is too cute and matches a dress we got her today!) it should have been fun...but THE AIR WENT OUT IN MY CAR AGAIN... I may kill the man at the Honda place. so we bout burnt up. It was miserable. We got syds comforter stuff for her room and ended up going by Lowes and picking out paint. We came home and Brian headed to Lowes and ended up painting Syds room tonight! It looks great! He did a wonderful job! We are excited now cause it almost looks like a real room. Maybe another weekend annd she can actually move into it. YAY! Then I have to actually make Bayley a nursery..lol She still doesnt have a bed but i figure what difference does it make cause we still sleep on the couch every night so I can watch her breathe and sleep and watch for puke and poop...wow I will be glad when things settle down. lol Anyways...tomorrow is church day ...YAY!

Thursday Friday

Thursday was an ok day. Nothing too exciting went on. Bayley did "ok". She was fussy a good bit but that is life. She has gotten in this habit/pattern/who knows of getting VERY fussy anywhere between 2pm and 4pm and it lasts until around 6ish. I think I have figured out that it is when her tummy hurts just enough to keep her awake and I basically just have to fight her to get her to sleep and then when she wakes up a few hours later she is in a better mood. She is sleeping a lot more lately and is back to sleeping around 20 hours a day atleast. Now if I can just get her to sleep solid and not make the crazy noises that keep me up maybe I will get some sleep. Anyways ...We had no poop today at all...but believe me she tried but just didnt succeed.

Early this morning 3am Friday Morning...Bayley vomited big time. I have no clue why but it scared me to death. She definitely got my attention...All the lights were on and I watched her for signs of anything and everything for the next 3 hours....she seemed fine after that but wow it scared me. She ate at 4:30 am and did fine with it. I finally got to sleep about the time for everyone else to get up...which meant no good sleep for me. Then around 8 am Bayley wanted to eat again...I have failed to mention it lately but she is up to eating 110ml now which is over 3 oz... so anyways Bay ate at 8am then she screamed and I mean Threw a fit until 9am when I gave up and offered her another whole bottle...and the fatty drank 80 more ml. COW BABY. She then went into a nice long coma which I greatly appreciated. She has drank her normal 110 ml since then and has seemed to be satisfied so I have no clue why she did that.
Anywayz... Syd survived school this week and seems to be doing good. She likes her teachers but we will see how she is realy doing when the grades start coming in. Brian is working hard on Syd's room and is ready to paint. He did the primer tonight so he will paint the ceiling tomorrow and if we get the comforter and pick out paint he will start on the walls later tomorrow...oo and one last thing. I ran to Hills tonight...And saw Kim - I got your message about the dip lol... then on the way home from our nightly icee trip...THE AIR CONDITIONING WENT OUT IN THE CAR AGAIN...I nearly had a stroke!!!!!!!! I was hott & MAD! I had Syd go in and get Brian so he could see for himself...sure enough...Air is broke...Im so glad I got a man to agree with me...GRRRRR. We think it is the air conditioning compressor or something like that. I dont even care just as long as another person finally agrees that the stupid thing is screwed up... Now Brian will get the pleasure of dealing with Mr. Honda man...but Im sure he will not look at Brian the way he did me... Ok Im gone to take a blood pressure pill and go lay down. More tomorrow

Today has been ehh. The good news is WE HAVE POOP. The 1st one was bloody and she screamed pretty bad. The second wasnt bloody but she was horribly fussy and cryin while she was doing it. She has cried and been really fussy from about 1pm on today. There has only been a couple of times that she hasnt been fussin and they were short lived. She is asleep with Brian right this second so I thought I would go ahead and post real quick. She still acts like her tummy hurts which Im sure it does. O well Im gone to try to do a few things before she wakes up...More tomorrow. O and by the way...Im apparently a stupid woman because The Honda place in Hueytown cant find anything wrong with the car. Yes apparently I have completely had a mental breakdown and decided to Make up car problems...SURE. That is what every mother wants is there baby in a car with no air conditioning on a 100 degree day...I just hate they caught on to my master plan. I hate car places and some men just make me want to spit. Brian will be driving my car from now on and arranging to have the car fixed "if it has a problem" GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Update: Today has been a fussy day for Bayley...but I dont blame her one bit. She is eating good so we will just see how things end up. Im going to put the car in the shop tomorrow morning and get the air fixed...GRRRRR. More tomorrow.

Poor Bayley. She had another bad night with lots of waking up screaming and trying to poop. I took her to the doctor this morning...which didnt go too smooth. It started about 7:40 when I got in the car and got almost out of PG when I realized the AIR CONDITIONING WENT OUT IN MY CAR! and by the way ... it is stinkin hot outside. We got to the doctors office right at 8 and I noticed there were no cars and I knew something was wrong...yup they didnt have a doctor until 9 am and my doc wouldnt be in until 1. Well I told them who we were and what was wrong and they made us an appt with Dr. Tindol at 9am. But that still gave me 1 hour with NO AIR CONDITIONING and no where to go. So I got gas and then headed back to the doctors office praying they would have pity on us and let us in. The doors were locked but thank goodness Paulette noticed it was me and she let us in. Dr. Tindol was super sweet. Sydney has seen her in the past but it has been a few years. Bayley is up to 7 lb 2 oz which was great. Dr. Tindol said that most of the time premies get their weight on the chart by 2 months and we were 2 months on the 3rd and she said we probably would be on the chart by our next visit which is in 2 weeks. Dr. Tindol said that Bay has a very bad anal stricture. (Susan had mentioned this at church Sunday and WOW I wasnt prepared) Dr. Tindol stretched it in the office and Bayley screamed and bled quite a bit. She said that when it is that bad that it usually will rupture or tear which causes the bleeding. We are supposed to wait and see if she can poop on her own before Friday and if not we have to come back and let them repeat it. Dr. Tindol doesnt want us to try to stretch it at home until they get it to rupture some and stay and then we will have to keep it stretched at home until it heals. Poor baby Bayley had a bad morning. Dr. Tindol also said Bay's belly button is ruptured. She said that it is bowel that is herniated out and we have to continue to stick it back in every diaper and try to train it to go in. She said that a lot of times it will close up on its own and that we want it to Know to go in and not stay out.. If we notice that it is hard or wont go in we have to get to a doctor immediately because if it closes and leaves the bowel on the outside it can cause an obstuction and have to have emergency surgery to correct it. She did say if Bay has to have tubes or any minor surgey they recommend fixing it then. All this over a belly button... grrrrrrrrrr. Hopefully eveything will fix itself. Anyway...Im gone to hold my Bayley and hopefully sleep...Ill post a picture and an update later.

Sunday Monday

Sunday was uneventful except the baby didnt sleep any Saturday night/Sunday morning. She cried and was pitiful for hours. It was like she was trying to poop but just couldnt. She was pitiful. I took a much needed nap that afternoon then went to chuch with Syd.

Today started a lil better. I got up prepared to take Bay to the doc & then 1o min before I was leaving she pooped on her own so after talkin to Brian we decided to hold off on the doctor because we are so afraid of her catching something there. That ended up not being a great decision. I had hoped that she would continue to poop on her own as that wasnt a very impressive diaper...well she didnt and she did continue to act like she was in pain and cry out a lot during the day. We have decided that unless something drastic changes she is going to the doctor tomorrow just to make sure that nothing is wrong and to get some more advice on how to handle her tummy issues. I have to mention the big news...TO DAY IS HER ACTUAL "BIRTH" DAY..or what should have been. Sydney made her a card that was so sweet. We love our lil Bayley girl and are so thankful for her. More tomorrow.

Cute dress...unhappy baby. that sums up today. Im typing this 1 handed so this will be short. We had to give bay a suppository so she would potty. her tummy is still hurtin & Im gonna call The doc monday if things dont get better...she is up to 95ml which is a lil over 3ml. she is sleepin so im gone to join her...more tomorrow.

Thursday Friday

Thursday was not a great day. Bay was fussy and not a happy camper. She hadnt had a dirty diaper since Wednesday early so I did a glycerine suppository and things went better but I still wouldnt say great. Thursday was the 1st day of school for Syd. She loved it. Things went really good. She has lots of friends in her classes and she seemed to like her teachers. She got a top locker so things were a success. lol

Today went a lil better. Bayley was in a good mood 1st thing this mornin and we sang and she played wiht my face (she has found eyes and it is so cute) Then things went a lil worse...Bay basically just decided she wasnt happy with life and decided to fuss NON STOP for about 3 hours. She has gotten a lil better this afternoon. We tried inceasing her milk to 100 but she only took about 90 so im not sure that is it. Anyway we tried a new outfit on her today and it looked so cute. I wish I had gotten a picture from the front cause she looks precious in it but i wasnt about to wake her up to get a picture. She looked so big in the outfit that Brian decided to weigh her again...so he got on the scale adn then held her....so this isnt an exact science but it said she weighs SEVEN POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We bout died! I cant wait til we go to the doctor and can see what she actually weighs. There is no telling what she will weigh in 2 1/2 more weeks... She is turning into a lil FATTY! Her double chin is getting VERY full. lol More tomorrow.

Tuesday

Wednesday Tuesday was an ok day. Me & Syd had eye appts so we went to Jasper to see Daryl. Gail watched Bay for me at her house for the 1st time and that went fine. We had fun in Jasper and the eye appts went good. We came home and Bay was a lil fussy but not too bad.

Today on the other hand was interesting. I got up and the day seemed ok. Around 2 Bay got fussy and then she got down right MAD...She basically screamed and yelled for HOURS today and nothing i did seemed to help. I thought she might be constipated because she hasnt been having dirty diapers like she has been but I called Dr. Latona and he didnt think we had anything to worry about at this point. Bayley is quite LOUD these days and I have to say it does wear on my nerves a lil. I have found myself a lil more teary these days but hopefuly this phase wont last long cause wow she is loud. School starts tomorrow & Sydney isnt too thrilled about it. Anyway, Im tired and she isnt yellling so Im gone to enjoy the silence...More tomorrow .

Sunday

Monday Sunday was a good day. Bay seemed to feel pretty ok. We slept a good bit Sunday Morning which was nice for a change because Bay doesnt understand the concept of sleep AT NIGHT.. o well. Sunday afternoon Me & Syd went to Watermark and did a lil school shopping then we came home for a lil bit and then we went to church. It was good of course. There is always something fun going on wiht that group of people. lol

Today was good but a lil boring. Me & Bay had a lazy day which was kinda fun. We layed around and took naps some. It was good. At one point we were laying on the bed n my room and i was talkin to her...she tried over and over to put her hand in my mouth and then she noticed my eyes and she tried a ton of times to get her hand behind my glasses to get my eyes. It was cute. She is gettin so big. It was a lil boring today because Sydney went to Six Flags with a bunch of the youth from church. It was so nice to let her go and not worry too much. There were a few adults that went but they didnt ride with them and they really didnt see them so it was just the kids but that was ok because they are about the most trustworthy youth that I know. Sydney had a GREAT time! She loved it. She had never been on a real rollercoaster until today and she wasnt too scared. lol Im glad she is home...I missed her too much. More tomorrow.

Today was ok. Me Sydney & Bayley went to the river to see mother & daddy. This was Bayleys first trip to the river. We didnt even walk her down to the water so she never knew she was there lol. It was too hot at first then it rained and was too humid outside. I didnt want to take any chances with aggravating her breathing and then having the 30 minute ride home to deal with. Bay loves her carseat and doesnt seem to mind riding in it at all. We went by and saw Alan & Chris' new house on the way home. It is beautiful of course but wow has TONS of stairs...Im too out of shape to live there. Syd had a great time and especially loved their scale lol. Anyway... More tomorrow.

Thursday

Friday Lets see Thursday was an Ok day at best. Bayley got fussy about 3pm and basically threw a fit off an on that night. I dont mean was fussy...I mean CRIED and SCREAMED...it was LOADS of fun! Her tummy appeared to be hurting. If you remember we increased her feedings to 90 ml just a day or two ago... that is the only thing we have done that is different. I hate to decrease the amount she is getting because she has been sucking her bottles dry & she also fusses if she is hungry....its a no win situation.

Today was a better day & its Bayleys 2 month old Birthday!!! Yup you better believe we will be celebrating every day and month of this lil girls life. Bayley cried more than usual but not as much as yesterday. Lets hope tomorrow continues to improve. Nothing else exciting really has gone on so More tomorrow.

Today was another good day. Nothing too exciting went on. Bayley was pretty alert all day & she wasnt too fussy. We had a lil fun comparing her to her babydoll that Mary & Billy got her. She was too cute. She is taking 90 ml consistently on her feedings so im sure the lil fatty is growing. Sydney is starting to mourn the ending of her summer.. poor thing. Anyway more tomorrow.