(Or otherwise titled as “the longest title ever” On Thursday Arlo will have his second surgery for his cleft, this time it will be for his palate. Since this surgery will be much longer (both in surgery time, and recovery) I have been trying to plan activities to keep myself occupied in the hospital. Last [...]
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September 10, 2012stressed.
January 8, 2012i have never been so stressed in my life. i feel like all i can do is cry. i feel myself snapping at Rich. i give the same speech each time i am asked the same questions. i have it memorized by heart. “his surgery is in january. it is three procedures. gum line, lip adhesion, and [...]
Three months old.
December 13, 2011My sweet “Littles” is three months old today. Three months of up all nights, and taping his little lip. Three months of bottle feeding and pumping around the clock. Three months of love and snuggles and sweet baby smells except for the poopy diapers, those are nasty. Three months of watching Teag give his baby [...]
Questions. Answered.
December 6, 2011I feel like I get bombarded with questions everywhere we go. I always joke with Rich that we should make a list of frequently asked questions, and answer them. So that whenever we are out, we can just hand out a paper and be on our way. Just kidding. Kind of. It’s not that I don’t [...]
Disappointment.
October 4, 2011As a mother we try our best to show love and respect to other around us. We try to raise our children not to judge those that are different from us, those that aren’t considered “normal”. We do our best to show love and kindness to family, friends and even strangers, so that our children can [...]
long crazy day.
September 27, 2011I handed the nurse my baby today. I didn’t cry. What was suppose to be a 5 minute procedure turned into 15 long minutes. Not long in the grand scheme of things, but when your baby is in the OR it feels like FOREVER. that and HotBabyDaddy was driving me CRAZY. Baby A had his [...]
Cleft update
September 22, 2011Yesterday we had our very first post-birth cleft team meeting(s) (we went in the spring for a “here’s-what-we-do” type meeting) It was information overload, but in a good way. It was a long day. We started with the audiologist. They stuck this weird looking ear piece Arlo’s ears (one at a time(, they did a [...]
Terrible.
August 8, 2011I am a terrible blogger. I love blogging and especially love reading other mamas blogs but man, I am terrible at regular updating! So, since the last time I wrote we had our ultrasound, geneticist and prenatal appointment. It was a lot of waiting. Our ultrasound was good, Bubsie was playing shy and kept its [...]
a heavy heart.
June 7, 2011Before you freak out, nothing is (aside from the cleft issues) is terribly wrong. When I had Little T, the first thing we did was nurse. We continued for 13 months. It was our time. When things were getting a wee bit heck-tick or I just needed a break from everyone, we would slip into [...]
