parenthood
Hard to believe I'm a mom....I don't know if I quite feel like a mom yet.
Sorry I haven't written in a while. Writing on my phone is hard and I don't make it to the computer very often. I've tried to put up photos a couple of times, but our new camera makes the photos larger than this site will accept, and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make them smaller.
Grace is doing well, I think. She's breastfeeding pretty well. The only issue is that she will only consistently latch with a nipple shield, so I use them in every feeding. I'm hoping as she gets older, she'll be able to latch with out it. She went from 6 pounds 9 oz birthweight to 8 lb 1 oz at her 2 w appt, so she's obviouisly getting enough to eat :-)
She sleeps most of the day and then is awake at night. I'm struggling with this a bit. I'm not really a good napper....and her not sleeping at night is making me very tired.
Her health is good except on my 36w u/s they noticed a slightly elevated fluid level on one of her kidneis. THey repeated the u/s on her after she was born and it showed the same thing. So, now the pediatrician wants us to see a urologist. I tried to make an appt with one but then they called back and said they wanted me to get a VCUG on her at 4w and then come in and see them. I had researched this a little and this fluid thing is the number one most diagnosed defect detected on u/s and most kids grow out of it. the VCUG is an invasive test where they'd tie her down and fill her bladder with dye in a catheter and then watch it drain on xray to make sure the urine isn't refluxing. I told them I wasnt interested in getting the test and would rather wait and see if she would grow out of it. So, when I went back to our ped, she's still insistent that I see the urologist. Why are we so quick to test???? We wouldn't of even known she had this except I got that stupid u/s. I don't want to look like a bad parent, but why put her thru an invasive test when she's not showing any adverse effects?
anyways...always something to stress about.
Sorry I haven't written in a while. Writing on my phone is hard and I don't make it to the computer very often. I've tried to put up photos a couple of times, but our new camera makes the photos larger than this site will accept, and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make them smaller.
Grace is doing well, I think. She's breastfeeding pretty well. The only issue is that she will only consistently latch with a nipple shield, so I use them in every feeding. I'm hoping as she gets older, she'll be able to latch with out it. She went from 6 pounds 9 oz birthweight to 8 lb 1 oz at her 2 w appt, so she's obviouisly getting enough to eat :-)
She sleeps most of the day and then is awake at night. I'm struggling with this a bit. I'm not really a good napper....and her not sleeping at night is making me very tired.
Her health is good except on my 36w u/s they noticed a slightly elevated fluid level on one of her kidneis. THey repeated the u/s on her after she was born and it showed the same thing. So, now the pediatrician wants us to see a urologist. I tried to make an appt with one but then they called back and said they wanted me to get a VCUG on her at 4w and then come in and see them. I had researched this a little and this fluid thing is the number one most diagnosed defect detected on u/s and most kids grow out of it. the VCUG is an invasive test where they'd tie her down and fill her bladder with dye in a catheter and then watch it drain on xray to make sure the urine isn't refluxing. I told them I wasnt interested in getting the test and would rather wait and see if she would grow out of it. So, when I went back to our ped, she's still insistent that I see the urologist. Why are we so quick to test???? We wouldn't of even known she had this except I got that stupid u/s. I don't want to look like a bad parent, but why put her thru an invasive test when she's not showing any adverse effects?
anyways...always something to stress about.
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