Projectile Vomiting

these pictures were taken yesterday afternoon when caleb was in a good mood. isn't he so stinkin' cute?! he's so much fun to hang out with.

so... on to the not-so-fun stuff... sunday night i was changing his diaper and all of a sudden he shot out a huge amount of barf all over his changing table and the floor. we checked his temperature and everything was normal so we kept an eye on him for the rest of the evening. everything seemed fine yesterday except he was a little fussy in the evening. then, last night as i was trying to give him his reflux meds, he projectile vomited again. two nights in a row. john and i were really worried. his temp was at 99.2, not too high but with the elevated temperature and two nights of projectile vomiting, we were worried. i called the nurse and she asked me a ton of questions. she said that if he vomited again to bring him in but if not then to bring him in the morning. the rest of the night he was fine so we took him to the pediatrician today. turns out it's just his acid reflux acting up. i hate acid reflux. he spits up all the time and gags and coughs and i hate it because i wish i could do something to make him feel better and i can't. my poor baby. the doctor said he will most likely grow out of it by 6 months to a year. i sure hope so.

Nails

yes, those are caleb's nail clippings. they are so tiny and cute. this picture was taken last week and it's already time to clip his nails again. i knew i'd end up taking a picture of them. weird? yes, probably. but i'm so in love with every part of this kid - including his little nail clippings.

Caleb's doctor appt update

caleb's head ultrasound results were normal. whew! i wasn't too worried about it but during the ultrasound the technician was asking me questions like "was he a preemie?" and in my head i was thinking, "why? do you see something in his brain that would cause you to think that?". then she brought some random lady in the room just to LOOK at caleb. not to look at the ultrasound images but just to look at him and make small talk. meanwhile, i was just wanting to know what she saw in my baby's brain. thankfully, everything was normal and i was just paranoid.

my baby now weighs 11 lbs. 4 oz! almost twice his birth weight. what a little tub-a-lub! but the doctor said he's at the 50th percentile for weight. he is 23 inches tall which puts him between the 50th-75th percentile for height. he's doing good but still has reflux issues so he has to continue taking his meds.

i wasn't expecting it but since he was just a few days shy of 8 weeks they went ahead and gave him his shots. i cried. he cried. all day yesterday he was either sleeping or eating and when he wasn't doing either one of those, he was SCREAMING. my poor baby. john and i felt so bad for him. we gave him tylenol which seemed to help. today he is back to his normal self and this morning he was smiling and cooing at me while i changed his diaper. i was so happy. i'm so glad he is feeling better.

Update from my doctor's visit

my doctor's appt went well on friday. my doctor said that i've healed nicely and that i can resume normal activity. i asked her about my pelvic pain and she said that it will get better over time but that i'll probably never be what i was pre-pregnancy. ok, i can deal with that. however, i learned very quickly on sunday that my pelvis is NOT ready for running (good thing i've never been a fan of running, i guess). after church, my neice kaia asked me to chase her on the grass and all i can say is OWWWW! my pelvic bones felt like they were pulling apart. hopefully it will get better as i get stronger.

i am partially to blame for my lack of sleep (at least on saturday, that is). i woke up at 3am because my boobs were uncomfortably full so i had to pump. after i was done i went back to bed and caleb was still sleeping soundly. he looked so peaceful. i had a million things running through my head so i layed there and drove myself nuts trying to figure everything out. i stared at him for 45 minutes before he woke up. i actually wanted him to wake up at that point so i could cuddle him and love on him. i know i enjoyed it more than he did. i was really tired the next day though. it was worth it.

April Fool's

caleb played a late april fool's day joke on me. remember how i said he slept for 5 1/2 hours straight? i got so excited because i thought that maybe we were on our way to sleeping through the night. HA! april fool's! the 5 1/2 hour block of sleep has only happened once. last night he fell asleep at around 9:00, i got to sleep at 10pm, we were awake again at 11pm to eat and poop (him, not me), asleep by midnight, awake at 2:45am to eat again, asleep at 4am, awake at 5am to poop and "snack" on the boob, asleep at 6am-ish, and awake at 8:30am. needless to say, i am exhausted!

no, i'm not complaining... i'd wake up 20 times a night if he needed me to. not every night is like this. most nights we get a 3-4 hour block of sleep and then another 2-3 hour block. so it's not that bad. the broken sleep is hard though so i try to take at least one nap during the day.

i see my doctor tomorrow so she can check how well i've healed. my pelvis is still an issue but it's not a constant pain. i expect her to say that it will get better over time. at least that's what i hope she'll say. it would really suck if i had this issue forever. we'll just have to wait and see.

caleb has a follow up head ultrasound on wednesday. the doctor said that after he was born his head felt "crackly" which could be a sign that his scull was fractured from the trama of the birth. they did an x-ray and there weren't any fractures but they wanted to also make sure there wasn't any bleeding in his brain. they gave him an ultrasound before we were discharged from the hospital and that ultrasound looked good. just to make sure though, they want to do a follow up next week. i don't think that anything is wrong but it is reassuring that they are going to check again. after the ultrasound he has another appt with the NICU doctor to check on his progress. so it looks like next wednesday is going to be a big day. i hope we get lots of sleep the night before!

Video

here's a quick video of caleb. i don't know if it was gas or if he was smiling at me, but he was smiling a lot so i grabbed the video camera. unfortunately, as soon as the camera came out he wasn't smiling as much but it's still cute. enjoy!

Baby faces

here are a few pictures of caleb that were taken over the weekend. he makes so many different facial expressions! he is the cutest little baby. i love him so much.

1 month pictures

we're still waiting on the announcement photos (we should have them by next week) but here are a few pictures that were taken on caleb's 1 month birthday. i took him to the mall for a quickie photo shoot and they turned out pretty cute.

i love this little baby so much. i could stare at him for hours. i noticed today that his eyelashes have grown a lot. so cute. yesterday i cut his fingernails (for the 4th time in his short little life! he definitely has my nails) and i actually thought about taking a picture of his nail clippings because they were so tiny and adorable. i ended up tossing them without taking a photo but i might end up taking a picture next time. his little nail clippings will only be this size for a little while longer!

5 1/2 hours!

last night caleb slept from 11:30pm all the way to 5am! that means that i got a 5 1/2 hour block of sleep! he sleeps right next to me in a bassinet so i wake up to every little noise he makes throughout the night. but last night there were no noises until 5am. i woke up several times on my own just so i could make sure he was breathing and he was fine so i quickly went right back to sleep. 5 1/2 hours! wow. i hope he does it again tonight.

today i took caleb to my work so he could meet all of my work buddies. it was good to see everyone. i really do work with a great group of people. the last time i was there was december 3rd when my doctor put me on bedrest for the duration of my pregnancy. it seems like so long ago but at the same time it feels like just yesterday. even though i got some sleep last night i still needed a nap when we got home.

i look at caleb now and wonder how did 5 weeks go by so fast? how is it possible that he has grown so much in a blink of an eye? everyone always says how fast babies grow and i understand what they mean now. he literally changes every day... and i love him more and more every day.

Some new pics

here is caleb fast asleep in one of his favorite sleeping positions. :)

tummy time! look at that neck control!
these pants are 0-3 months but they're way too big on him. they go all the way up to his armpits! he looks like a little old man here. i thought it was too funny so i had to take a picture!

Eat, sleep, poop

caleb's appetite has been really big lately. he seems to want to eat all the time and then take a really long nap. i think he may be going through a growth spurt or something. for a while there he was starting to spend a lot more time awake but today all he wants to do is eat and sleep. i hope he sleeps tonight.

kaiser sends out a home nurse to check on the NICU babies to make sure they're gaining weight and doing well. yesterday the nurse came over and she weighed caleb at 9 lbs. 3 oz.! that's a 3 pound gain since birth! that seems like a lot to me but she said it was good and was really happy with it. told you this baby likes to eat!

i've mentioned his eating and sleeping... now for the poop. he has days where he poops up to 5 times a day and then some days he'll only poop once. but almost every time he has to go, he cries and screams and seems to be in pain or at least some discomfort. sometimes i feel so bad for him that i want to cry with him. but then he poops it out and all is better. the other day he pooped big time and it instantly went up his diaper, all over his back and my hand! i think i must have used half a tub of wipes on the clean up. i'm sure he felt a lot better after that one.

My birthday babies

it's caleb's one month birthday! here he is sitting in his swing...
...ah....ah....ah....chooo!
ha ha that was funny....
guess what? it's lilo's birthday too! happy 5th birthday, lilo!

caleb is one month old today. it's gone by so fast and he has changed so much. we had some pictures taken a couple weeks ago and yesterday we got to see the proofs. they turned out really cute. as soon as we get them back i'll send out his birth announcements.

over the last couple of days i've noticed a big improvement in how i feel physically. my pelvic pain comes and goes but it's gotten a lot better. i've also been able to sleep in bed instead of the couch for the last few nights. it's been nice. caleb is now able to take a bottle or the breast so i give him a bottle of breastmilk at night when he wakes up. it seems to be working out nicely since he drinks down a bottle in 10 minutes vs. 45 minutes on the boob. i have to sit him up for 30 minutes after he eats (because of his acid reflux) so the time saved on eating allows us both to get back to sleep sooner. i actually got a 4 hour block of sleep last night. i feel so much better when i get some sleep. i actually feel like myself instead of a zombie!

today is also my other baby's birthday. my fur baby (although she doesn't have much fur). it's lilo's 5th birthday. i can't believe we've had her for 5 years. she has been such a great dog and i love having her around. she loves to "help" with caleb and always lets me know when he needs a diaper change. she noses his butt after he poops and then looks at me as if to tell me to change his diaper. then she follows me to the changing table to supervise. she's such a good girl.