Wolfers Wedding

Congrats Kortney & Joe Wolfers and to my DG girls I got to see this weekend I had such a blast! Love you ITB! Here are a few pics before and after the wedding :) Congrats again Joe & Kortney!!!

Test Results & More

So yesterdays test results came back showing that the Ph levels indicated that Reece does not have acid reflux after all. They put him on Reglan which will help his digestive system and hopefully reduce the spitting up. As for Jason the rice cereal seems to be helping. I haven’t noticed near as much spitting up and hardly any major blows. I had hoped for another good night of sleep from the little man last night after the night before went so well but that was wishful thinking. I stayed up waiting for Ryan to get home from being with Reece which was dumb on my part because Baby J was sleeping. Of course by the time Ryan got in it was time for J to eat and so at 1am we finished up with feedings. I had to rock and soothe him till 2am and finally he went to sleep but woke up around 3ish and I put him in bed with me and at 4am it was time to feed again. After the 4m feeding going back to sleep wasn’t an option for him. He was wide awake and fussy. I sang Old McDonald for nearly an hour. Eventually I ran out of farm animals and had to change to “Old McD had a zoo” just so I could come up with more animals and sounds. At 5:30 I was about ready to die my eyes hurt so badly and my head was throbbing. I asked Ryan if he could sit with him till he got up an hour later since he had been asleep or if I should take him downstairs. He opted to take him downstairs so Baby J slept with Grandma while I got some shut eye for a couple of hours.

I have decided I am going to go INSANE once my sister goes back to school. “Aunt Ashy” has been a huge help during the day holding and feeding here and there so I can rest or take a short break and she enjoys it. Jason takes to her as if he’s her own. That sounds bad coming from me, but honestly once he goes to her it’s calm again. It’s like magic. I am defiantly going to have to call in the troops once she leaves because for sure by that time both little munchkins should be home or maybe J can wear his Aggie onsie from Sarah and go off to Maroon Land with her. Ha again, only kidding.

This afternoon I plan on going to see Reece and J will stay here with Dad. Tomorrow I have errands that I need to run before going to the wedding on Saturday so Baby J will get some more Dad time. Kortneys big day is on Saturday and I am so EXCITED for a break away from the house with some friends. The wedding is in Galveston and a bunch of girls from Tyler will be there. I haven’t seen or had a social life since April and even before then it was limited because I was so sick my first and some of my second trimester. Yay yay yay! My old roommate from Tyler, Melissa (S), will be staying here and driving to the wedding with me Saturday evening. I am afraid though that will also be the big day for Reece. We shall see, but if he does indeed take to the medicine and it helps the spit up I bet they send them. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

testing testing and more testing

The nurse just called with the orders from the doctor. They are going to run an OCRG test (I believe that is the abbreviation but when Googled I didn’t find anything) which will start in a few hours. She said the test involves testing his Ph levels in his tummy and it will run till 5am. Reece shouldn’t have any visitors tonight because he must lay flat for the testing and rest in his little bed. So I don’t look for them to tell us “maybe tomorrow”. In fact they didn’t say that all…I am sure if I know the doctors there they will run the test and end up changing something and want to monitor it for several days just as they have been doing with the thickener. Depending on what the test results show will depend on the treatment involve. Typically she said it results in medication…we shall wait and see! They did say that after his 12pm feeding today he had another spit up episode through the nose. I would much rather this be treated properly at the hospital as opposed to him coming home and us be on pins and needles afraid he will choke. Pray my baby boy does well with the test and that the doctors are able to find the problem.

Acid Reflux

I was asked today if I still update my blog. Ha. Yes, I do but I don’t have the same free time now days as I use to when I was on bed rest and restricted from life. So as of now Reece is still not home. We have been in an open crib for a full week come tomorrow and usually after 24 hours in the open crib the baby is discharged. Now when we hear” maybe tomorrow”, “possibly tomorrow” or “very soon” I just kind of laugh and Ryan gets highly annoyed…oh well what can you do? They are keeping him still to monitor the acid reflux and spitting up. So far so good! When I called this morning the nurse said the nurse practitioner had mentioned maybe more tests but I am waiting on her to call me with orders from the doctor so I will know more. When I asked her about discharge she didn’t seem to think today, but I am hopeful.

This morning my sister and I took Jas to the doctor also for some spit up issues. His aren’t near as severe as Reece’s but defiantly projectile and lots of wet burps after feeds. (YUCK) The doctor recommended us putting him on rice cereal so we will be adding 1 teaspoon to every 2 ounce feed. I was a little nervous at first because on Friday he was 6.14 and today he was 7.10. The nurse acted like I was overfeeding him and that’s what I thought too when I saw the scale but the doctor assured me he has healthy eating habits and the spitting up shouldn’t cause any serious health problems such as dehydration since he is gaining weight properly.

As for sleeping…well we are still working on tricks here and there with Jason. I learned that the reason he doesn’t like sleeping on his back has to do with the acid reflux. It causes the tummy to be more upset and when babies are on their tummy sleeping its soothing. PROBLEM IS everyone and their mom recommends not putting babies to sleep on their tummy due to SIDS. Luckily Jason does like his car seat or appears to so far…at the moment he is snoozing in the car seat which is placed inside the co-sleeper next to my bed. We are both going to catch a few ZZZ’s peacefully (or at least till the next feeding in an hour).

When all else fails put the kid in the co-sleeper in his car seat!
"hello everyone I'm still here!"
"Aren't I cute?"
Mommy & Reece
Chunky monkey going to the doctor last Fri.