6 weeks old!

Kyleigh is 6 weeks old today! I can't believe how fast it is going by. I want it to stop and slow down. Seeing how fast this has gone by, and then looking at Ender and feeling like we were just here with him, and then seeing how big Julietta is, just makes my heart almost hurt. These years are so precious. I already feel like I've squandered time! I am pretty sure every mom feels that at some point. I don't think you can ever soak in as much as you want.
Anyway, Kyleigh is doing really good. Since I've cut milk out her rash on her bottom has cleared up, and we haven't had any more projectile vomiting! I did have a trace amount of milk one day and the next she was very fussy. However, it's hard to tell how much is milk and maybe what was a growth spurt! Napping is still hit or miss. She sometimes takes wonderful naps and other times still fights it so hard. Yesterday I started my internship and she slept the whole time at my moms, and we got home and she didn't take a nap the rest of the day! Nursing is still going great. Sometimes she gets really frustrated at my let down and how fast it is so she pulls away upset. She has gotten crazy fast. I am looking forward to her two month appointment to make sure she is gaining weight properly because she only nurses for around 8 minutes on one side and sometimes doesn't even want the next. I am thinking about going to a nursing meeting here in Raleigh. Maybe that would help! Night time sleep is different one night to the next. Some nights we are still every 3 hours and then like last night she did a 6 hour stretch and a 4 hour stretch! I am pretty much doing a demand schedule with a little bit of what I believe is important in babywise. I am not letting her go past 3 to 3.5 hours during the day and letting her go whatever at night. I won't let her go longer than that 6 though and I am thinking I might cut it down to 5. I really want to maintain some night time nursing to help my supply. But again she only nurses for 8 minutes sometimes and then sometimes doesn't do the other side. Kinda weird!
We still have no smiles from her yet.... I am looking forward to that so much. She doesn't really like anything put for us to hold her. She doesn't like her swing, or her bouncer. She can not be on the floor either because Ender is too rough! The other day he tried to pull her binky out and got mad when she wouldn't give it up and he smacked her face! Ouch!
I have lost 2 more pounds, so now I have 18 to go til pre-pregnancy weight! wow! But, now that we're at the 6 week mark working out has started. Hopefully I'll have more to report in that area :)
I am feeling great with no post pardum this time.  I haven't even had any baby blues which is awesome. This has been the best over all which makes me a little sad that I did get my tubes tied. I just keep trying to remind myself that we were advised by my doctor that I shouldn't have anymore, and trying to remind myself that the pain from my SPD was debilitating.
Anyhoo.... here's a picture from today.... I think she's getting bigger huh?!

one month pictures

Here we go again......

I am 90% certain that Kyleigh has the milk protein allergy as well. I am 99.9% sure that she has reflux as well. So..... as of today I am officially dairy free again. I am going to try this for a little bit and try something called colic calm to see if we can help her feel better. Sometimes you can tell that she's hurting and she is having a hard time settling into naps. She also has a bloody rash on her bottom which is a tell tell sign. Also she makes a funny noise and it's almost like you can hear the milk coming back up and her swallowing it. She also has projectiled on me twice now.

I am thoroughly hoping that we can treat it this way and that my milk supply stays in tact.  Also hoping to avoid the doc as much as possible since we don't have insurance now! :/  

Sleeping Beauty.....

Fun that I can say Sleeping Beauty..... since her name is Aurora!!!!! 

Kyleigh is 2 weeks old!!!

THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM THE PAST TWO WEEKS THESE AREN'T FROM TODAY FOR HER TWO WEEK PICTURE. I WILL POST SOME LATER! 

I just got back from Kyleigh's two week appointment. She is doing great. She is up to 7 pounds and 3.5 ounces! Nursing is still going great. Kyleigh doesn't want to go longer than 3 hours for feedings so I am pretty sleepy, but it's great to have her here! She has a hard time falling asleep on her own. I am not sure what I am going to do about this. I don't want to let her cry it out yet but.... she wakes herself up and is just in a tizzy and then I go and put the paci in her mouth and she goes right back to sleep but won't suck on it and so when it falls out... we are back to square one! She is also literally a screamer. She doesn't cry much but when she does she SCREAMS. There's no in between!

On my news I am down 20 of the pounds.... but now I have 20 more to lose.... :(  I was really hoping to not have this much to lose when all was said and done, but I did it to myself. So the dieting and working out needs to begin. Obviously not the working out.  I am still healing and still hurting pretty bad sometimes. I have chanced it and picked up Ender a couple times and that was a bad idea. So.... still having to take it pretty easy.

Kyleigh's doc appointment for one week old

Kyleigh is doing great. She weighed 6.8.5 today. The doctors like them to gain a half an ounce a day and she's gaining an ounce! Another great sign that nursing is going great :)

Kyleigh's Birth Story

I have a second and I thought I'd write a little bit about Kyleigh's birth story. Our c-section was scheduled for 12:15. We dropped the kiddos off at my mom's house that morning at 9 and were checking into the hospital at 10:15. I was hooked up to an IV and ready to go by 11. They came in and told us that there was an emergency c-section that morning and we were going to be pumped to about 1. This was fine except for the fact that I hadn't been able to eat or drink anything past midnight the night before. I was starving and so thirsty and so nervous that I was getting nauseous. 
12:50 rolled around and they came up to get us! Randy went into the waiting room and put his scrubs on, and I went into the operating room and was given a spinal. I had epidurals with both other children. Spinal was very similar but it was just a shot instead of a tube being put in. It worked crazy fast. I didn't even feel them put the catheter in. It was a very weird feeling though because I was so numb all the way up that it felt like I couldn't breathe. This kinda freaked me out for a little bit but they talked me through it! I got the spinal at 1:00. Randy came in the room at about 1:05 and at 1:17 they pulled little Kyleigh out! This is the best part. I had asked the doctor the day before if there was anyway they could hold her up so I could see her "first" moment. She had said no but she surprised me since I was doing good and pulled the curtain down and let me see that first baby moment! It was great since I didn't get to see that with Julietta or with Ender. Kyleigh then proceeded to pee on my stomach! Her system was working :)
Then Randy went with her into the room to get a bath and cleaned up. They came in and sat with me for abut 5 minutes and then they went to the nursery. I was being wheeled out of the operating room by 1:59! I was in recovery for about an hour. This was also a new experience because they let Randy come in with me! It was so nice to not wait by myself. All the nurses were amazing as well. Kyleigh was supposed to join us in recovery but I wasn't there for very long and they were keeping an eye on her. I was then transported to my room and the waiting began. We waited until 4:30 until they finally brought her in. I was so mad. They said she was just screaming her head off and her heart was racing so much that they had to watch it. To this I say she would've done better on my momma's chest! That would've calmed her.
Anyway, we finally had our little girl. My mom actually brought the kiddos over at the same time Kyleigh came to the room.
And the best news was nursing went great right away. She latched on right away and has just been getting better at it!
Al and Laura came and brought the boys. We ended up going home on Monday. Kyleigh lost a decent amount of weight but not compared to my other kiddos. Julietta was 6.12 when she was born and she dropped down to 5.9. Ender was 7.11 and dropped down to 6.12.  Kyleigh was 7 even and left the hospital at 6.6.  We also left the hospital knowing that we had to take her to the doctors the next morning to of course have her weight checked but also to have her bili level checked. She was very yellow. Her levels were around 13 something. We took her to the doctor the next morning and she was only down to 6.5 and her levels had stayed the same so thankfully we didn't have to do a blanket or anything special.

Kyleigh's birth was such a wonderful experience. The hospital was great, the c-section went great! I had more pain this time around but it was still so enjoyable. We are so thankful to have the completion of our family finally here!!!!  (yes my tubes were tied that's why i say completion).