Lily the Puka Bean
Posted on May 3, 2009
That’s my nick name for her anyway. She likes to spit up. Or as we call it, puk. Pook. Whatever, she does it a lot. After nursing her on each side, she gets burped. And with each burp you have to wait with rag in hand for the onslaught. You cannot burp this girl over your shoulder unless you want puk all down your back and all over the chair and wall behind you. I usually like to burp her with her over my knees with her face pointed towards the floor. Easier for clean up, I’m telling you. You’d think she hadn’t really gotten anything to actually digest, but this girl eats like a horse. She nurses every two hours for 10 minutes each side. Ava would nurse every 3 hours 5 minutes on each side. Of course, she still eats like that, and she’s a bean pole. Lily is a chunkier baby than Ava was, that’s for sure. I don’t think Ava ever had rolls. Lily does, it’s pretty cute.
She also likes to pee every time I take her diaper off. It’s insane. And for those of you who have boys and are familiar with this practice, its a little different when a girl does it. It pools underneath them and you don’t even know it’s happening until you notice the puddle they are now swimming in. Yuck.
As for her temperament, she is a very sweet, calm, happy baby as long as you are holding her. If she is left alone for more than 10 minutes, she will start fussing. The fussing grows over a period of 10 minutes or so until it becomes a full on cry. But still, her full on cry is nothing compared to Ava’s ear piercing “please God make it stop” cry. But Lily loves to be held. It’s hard when I have a lot to do, but my sling helps. She loves that thing. Ava didn’t take to it that well. But then Ava didn’t like to be held that much. She loves cuddling now though.
So after all the messes this girl makes, a bath is in order! And this girl is definitely a Pisces! She loves the water! She could be giving me that full on cry and as soon as she gets in a warm bath, she usually has this look of euphoria. She will just sit there and let me pour the water over her. Even her head! She loves it!. Of course this past week she has found it to be a lot of fun to kick and wiggle while she’s in there. So now I’m going to have to lay a towel down under he sink lest my kitchen become flooded from Lily the Lochness Monster.
Hungry Girl
Posted on May 3, 2009
Lily does this thing when she’s hungry and for some reason, I think it’s adorable. She balls up her little fists as tight as she can and she pulls them in tight to her face or body.
She does it when she’s nursing too. I’ve just come to notice this and it helps to know this when I’m wondering why she’s fussy or crying.
Total cuteness. I have no idea why, but it makes me smile, its so darn cute.
And of course, here is a really adorable picture. Sweet little thing…
Ok ok ok! Here’s your update!
Posted on May 2, 2009
I’ve been wanting to blog for a month, but I haven’t gotten around to it. I’ve been blogging in my head, but that doesn’t really count, does it? Actually my main problem is I wanted to blog about my visit to the hospital to get my gallbladder removed. Oh, didn’t hear about that? Yea, that’s because it’s a really freaking long story and it’s been a huge “Oh I have to blog about that” stumbling block. It’s been keeping me from blogging about anything else. So, here’s your quick, short update so I can get it out of the way and move on.
March 30th at around 10pm I had a major gallbladder attack. Horrid, climb the walls, Oh my God I’m going to die pain. When it didn’t stop after like 4 hours, we packed up the girls and headed to the hospital. They did an ultrasound, admitted me, took away my food and drink privileges and told me I’d be having surgery soon. The next day I went in around 2pm and they took out my evil, sadistic gallbladder. “Many, many, teeny tiny stones” my surgeon said. I pretty much slept for 18 hours after that. I felt pretty good on Wednesday and I thought I was going to be going home on Thursday. On Thursday morning, I still had pain. So they realized I still had stones in my duct. Awesome. I cried when they told me I had to stay for another day. I missed my girls and trying to keep up with breastfeeding when your child isn’t nearby is quite a task. So they did another procedure where they stuck a tube down my throat and all the way through my insides to get to this opening the size of the tip of a ball point pen, cut that open more, and swept out the rest of the stones. I was pretty much asleep for that one so I didn’t feel a thing. After that, I was feeling great! I was out by Friday evening and by the end of the weekend I was pretty much 100%. The only real struggle was being away from my family for almost a week. Especially Lily, who was only 4 weeks old!
There, so that’s the story. I can now move on with my blogging! 