There's 6 Pounds of Lovin' Sleepin' in the Other Room!

She's here, she's sleeping, AND she's 6 pounds! Peanut came home on Tuesday (2/6) and so far (knock on wood) everything has been going great. She's still suffering from acid reflux, but a lot of babies have that and we'll just have to deal with it until she grows out of it. Here's a pic of her sleeping in her crib right after we brought her home.

The doctors did a bit of "fine tuning" while Charlotte was at the hospital. They put her on a few new medications to help the reflux and to help her digest her food a bit faster. They did a scan at the hospital where they put some radioactive stuff in her milk and then took x-ray shots of the milk going down as she drank it. They were able to determine that she wasn't having problems drinking the milk, but she also wasn't digesting it very well. It seems that three hours after a feeding she still had at least half of the previous feeding left in her stomach, which can add to the whole reflux problem. So now she's taking some meds to help her digestive tract move a little faster. Unfortunately, it makes her sound like WW3 is going on in her stomach. I'm just hoping that we're not creating a problem by solving another!

Having Charlotte in the hospital was a good opportunity for me to get my confidence back when it comes to feeding her. She really scared the crap out of me when we had her home before, and even when I would feed her at the hospital I would tense up. I tried to feed her as much as possible over the last two weeks and I think it really helped. Granted, she still holds her breath every now and then, but now I'm more confident that a couple good whacks on the back are going to wake her up. "Wake up, Missy!!"

Charlotte is still on oxygen and needs to be hooked up to the apnea monitor at all times. This can be a bit annoying sometimes because the oxygen confines her to her room. Hopefully she won't have to be on the O2 for too long. I'm thinking maybe 2 months, or so.

It looks like our social life is going to consist of doctor appointments and home nursing visits for awhile. But I encourage everyone to please feel free to give me a call if you wanna chat! I have a feeling that cabin fever might hit pretty soon! I'll post more pics of Peanut in the next few days.