AND BLEACH!

Everyonce in a while you have to let go of the bib and the washcloth and just let your kid go… Addie has been determined to feed herself. She always grabs the spoon, or bottle and guides it into her mouth. So I decided to just put some carrots on the spoon and hand it to her. She did surprisingly well, hit her mouth almost every time.

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From Adeline Joy

was my baby, but God’s other gift to mom… the EXERSAUCER!!!

No Joke, she has been in this thing for 20 minutes and it even beat out Baby Einstein… her other favorite. It’s playing in the background, note once she stops to watch it, but then goes back to the toys.

(the video is about 3 minutes of the same.. so when you get bored it’s ok to stop. She doesn’t grow wings or fly the exersaucer into space)

Anna Nalick hit the nail on the head with those lyrics. If I could grab that hourglass and turn it on it’s side just for a little while I would. This was a picture from July of this year. Great Grandma Lentz bought her this shirt and it was her first piece of mail, and also her first blogging experience.
This is Addie at 5 weeks wearing her new shirt…

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This is her now.

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Holy Crap! What happened to my baby??? My little girl that was not going to fit into this shirt until she was 6 months old is now 16 weeks and I am not really sure how I got this shirt on her this morning! (It was very tough to get her arms through, and if she grows even a centimeter today, we will have to cut it off her!)

Our next doctors appointment in on Momday… er Monday the 6th. I am so excited to see how much she has grown!

It is so easy to taking pooping for granted. We all do it everyday (well most of us anyway). They even make a book called Everyone Poops. Everyone, except Addie that is. This poor child has more problems pooping than anyone I have ever heard of! It took her about 9 days to fully pass her meconium! (she was poopoing a lot, she just had a lot I guess). After that she had no problems for about a week. Then…nothing. Nothing for days at a time. Everyone kept saying she would outgrow it, but here we are at almost 12 weeks, which is also:

81 days, 11 hours, 31 minutes
7,039,882 seconds
117,331 minutes (rounded down)
1955 hours (rounded down)

And still, pooping is a problem. When you think about 1955 hours and the fact she used to poop about every 2, then every 9, and now every 2-3 days… thats a lot of poop. But still not as much as it should be.

We give her pear juice and Milk of Magnesia, but still have littel results, and when she does finally decide to go… oh boy watch out! The screaming starts and doesn’t stop!!
Yesterday we 3 bm’s in one day, poor thing was miserable and each one was like peanut butter. Today she has just been so clingy and fussy it just breaks me heart! All i can do to comfort her is let her latch on and suck away for hours at a time.

We have an appointment with a pediatrician who specializes in this type of thing on the 17th, but uintil then, all we can do it hope for the best.

Addie is just getting so big, she is very interested in the world around her. she is almost holding her head up and has learned how to shift her body to look at different things. She has also taken a liking to her “little pooh”. It is a rattle that fits around her wrist. She holds it close and rubs it against her face. She understands texture. It really is amazing how fast she is growing.

NO MORE BILIBED!

Dr. Kasteler called this evening and said Addie’s Bili score is 11.5, down another point since just yesterday. I guess those hourly feedings last night and 1/2 hour diaper changes paid off. This is great news because just yesterday we thought she we be on the bed through Wednesday and possibly into Thursday.

I held her for 45 minutes as soon as I found out. I kept weeping tears of joy and kissing her little head. Jess held her for well over and hour and only gave her back to me because she needed to be fed. We will be moving her cradle from the living room to the bedroom, I know it means less sleep for Jess and I as a whole, but the stress that has been lifted from our shoulders should more than make up for the lack of sleep.

I finally feel like a real mom. I can hold and cuddle and love our baby whenever I want. I can console her and comfort her when she is upset. I am a mom.

Well It’s 12:30 and time for my nightly post. I sit here on the couch and she lay there in the bed, awake. Quiet. She is looking at her hands, at the towels that surround her, at anything and everything she can. Her big blue eyes are so interested in the world. For now, the fight with the bed is over. She will drift off to sleep, hopefully without tears, hopefully without stress.

We also brought the dogs home today. They have been staying with Grandma Steph while we adjust to having the baby at home. We were a little nervous at first but they both did amazingly well. Tank just sniffed her and mostly lost interest. She watches us interact with Addie and just looks curious and confused. Chopper sniffed her, licked her, made a strange noise and then lay down. He continues to be curious and whine, but does not get to close.

I am reminded of Disney’s Lady and the Tramp when Lady meets the baby for the first time…only a little clumsier.

Addie had a doctors appointment today, they pricker her foot to check her Bilirubin levels. She is down to a 13.5, but that is still to high. So we are still on the bed for another 2-3 days. I have to go get her blood drawn again tomorrow (poor thing, she hates labs already).

So it turns out she is not the best sleeper. I created the last post in the hospital but was not able to put it up until just earlier as the wi-fi was not fast enough to upload pictures. So here is an “after 24 hours” update.

Adeline Joy Bennion was born this morning at 3:35 am. She weighed in at 6 pounds 13 ounces and is 20 1/2 inches long. Her APGAR score was a nine and everyone is just amazed at how alert she was right from birth.