Busy day :)

I'm loving having more time off with the girls! Today was crazy busy :) Mackenzie and Brooklynn were big helpers all day today. They helped me finish cleaning up the play room and organizing the new cubbies. Hopefully I can keep up with the mess in that room better now that we have places to put everything. Now we need to clean out the girls rooms. They are horribly messy! Aubrey had her PT evaluation today. She's much more active, but she is still behind in all her motor sills. She will see the PT 2x per month until she is caught up. The PT said she is about 1 1/2 to 2 months behind. I'm hoping to have her rolling by our next appointment, but I've got to get her interested first! We go back to the doctor tomorrow to get her weighed and see if the changes we have made are working. Fingers crossed and lots of prayers that she is over 10 lbs. I'll be pretty surprised if she's not gaining because she surely feels and looks bigger, plus she is eating like a pig. So happy that I have another day off tomorrow :)

She is finally growing!!!

Look mom you can't see my ribs any longer!!!

Little update

Things still seem to be going well with miss Aubrey. I'm still skeptical that she's going to gain weight but I just need to be patient and pray that the medicine and new formula are helping her grow. She is much happier and crying much less. I think now that she is more content it is even more apparent how tiny she is. I put her in a new born size onsie yesterday by accident and it still fit :(. It's also now pretty obvious how far behind she is with her gross motor and to a lesser extent fine motor skills. She has a PT evaluation next week so that we can start playing catch up. I'm pretty sure she will catch up pretty quickly. She's already using her legs to push herself a bit into side lying which she wasn't doing a week ago. I'm hopeful we are headed in the right direction. I'm planning on taking her in to the pediatricians office Friday to check her weight. Hopefully she will finally weigh over 9lbs 14oz!!!

A few pictures

Aubrey update.

Just though I would update what is going on with my little trouble maker Aubrey. We've always had trouble with getting her to gain weight but we've gotten to the point were her pediatrician is fairly worried. This all started back when she was still in the hospital and lost over 11% of her birth weight. She has been a slow gainer from the start. At 7 weeks she was diagnosed with micro aspiration and placed on thickened liquids. I had hoped that would solve our troubles but that has been far from the case. We've dealt with an ear ache, colds, fifths disease, and RSV. The poor girl has become a fussy, clingy, and needy baby through all of this. She had her 4 month well baby visit earlier this week and it did not go well. She still only weighed 9lbs 14 oz and was 22 inches long...the exact same as she was at 8 weeks. Her only saving grace is that her head is still growing. She has been diagnosed as failure to thrive :( So we are on a 3 hour feeding schedule, switched her to a high calorie formula, and started her on Zantac 2x per day. Thankfully the Zantac seems to be working and she had a very peaceful day today. Her doctor wants her to take 30 oz per day. We are working on it, but we aren't there yet. She took about 23 oz today. So much better than her worst day of only 9 oz. We go back in 2 weeks to check to see how she is doing. If she's not growing then they will be running more tests and possibly a trip to Akron childrens hospital. I want to avoid that if at all possible. This whole battle to get her to gain weight and grow has been so very stressful and worrisome. I am hoping and praying that we are finally headed in the right direction! So in a nut shell that is what has been going on with miss Aubrey. :)

Walter

Meet Walter :). He is Aubrey's alter ego. Aubrey is the nice baby, who seems to have gone on vacation. Walter is the grouchy pouty faced baby that has replaced Aubrey :). I would like to chase Walter off and have Aubrey around again :). Yes I've officially gone insane, but if we don't laugh we really would go nuts!

Bath tub swimming!!!

My girls are dish. They had a blast "swimming" in the tub tonight!!!

Sickie baby :(

Poor Aubrey just can't seem to kick this RSV bug. She seemed better yesterday, but she seems like she's feeling icky again. I'm so ready for her to feel like a healthy happy baby.

My little ladies :)

All three girls on Christmas day.

As crazy as ever!

It's been forever since I have had a moment of free time. Life as a family of 5 is beyond busy but more fun than I could imagine. Aubrey was born September 9th at 4:34pm. My body decided that it was time for her to make her appearance. I was 37 weeks 4 days when she was born. My pregnancy was not an easy one and eventually lead to a semi emergent c section. My hemoglobin was really low, 7.9, following surgery but thankfully they didn't make me have a transfusion. Life with Aubrey has yet to have a dull moment. I'm sure by the time she is one I will have a full head of grey hair. She started by loosing over 10% of her weight and almost getting to spend another day in the hospital. She got a sinus infection within one week of coming home, got her better only to get sick 24 hours after her antibiotics ended. She was a really noisy eater in addition to the sinus troubles so I requested a swallow study. At 7 weeks she had a modified barium swallow study that showed micro aspiration on thin liquids. She will be on nectar thick liquids until 18-24 months. It's amazing how quickly her feeding quieted down. Her aspiration meant she could no longer nurse. I tried to pump but it was just too much trying to take care of Mackenzie and Brooklynn plus make bottles and feed Aubrey. Feeding Aubrey is a time consuming process!!! One bottle,4oz, takes upwards of 1 hour. She is kind of a grumpy baby and prefers to be held and attended to most of the time. grumpy or not we love her. She's a peanut and is still under 10 lbs at 16 weeks. I'm not used to skinny babies! She was my littlest baby at 7lb 7oz when she was born. Mackenzie and Brooklynn are amazing big sisters. Having a little baby makes them seem so grown up. I'll post pictures another day...Aubrey is fighting RSV and is requesting some attention.