A Thousand Words
So, I said that I would try to write at least once every two weeks, and I thought that would be a realistic commitment, but man! Babies are time consuming!! Who knew?
I am amazed at how many things can fit into a day, even a week! There is so much to share about what is new with Emily with someone who just saw her last week! This is why I love talking to moms, especially moms whose babies are relatively close in age to mine. There is so much to talk about!
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Emily is so huge now! I can't get over it. She was 9 lbs and 8 oz at her last doctor's visit which was on March 19th. This was also the visit where they gave her the second Hep. B shot. I remember telling Ryan before that visit that I thought I would be able to handle her getting the shot pretty well, because I handled other things with her surprisingly well, like her first cold, which she got when she was just 2 weeks old. But the second she went from smiling to screaming I almost panicked! I am glad that I was able to comfort her pretty quickly, but it did make me cry a little. Now I am nervous because her 2 month checkup is coming up, and she will have several shots that day. And Ryan will not be there to comfort me!
She is smiling a lot now, and 'talking' too. She will sit there and make noises at me, grunting and cooing. When I talk to her, she is really listening! I wonder if she wishes she could understand me as much as I wish I could understand her.
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She has also had an issue lately with spitting up. I actually called the doctor about it the other day. She was getting extremely fussy during her feedings and would spit up a lot afterwards, and it just seemed like she was very uncomfortable, on top of her having really bad gas. From what I told the nurse, she said it sounded like reflux. I don't know if this is a common baby thing, or if it is something that she got from her daddy, who has a pretty bad case of acid reflux himself. At any rate, she said to make sure she was at a 45 degree angle during feedings, and to watch out for projectile vomiting. She really only did that once, about a week ago, and then not again, so I didn't worry too much about it. She has been doing a lot better. I try not to lay her down right away after her feedings, which is what Ryan is not supposed to do either, and it has helped. She is still spitting up, but not too bad. I also got her a sleeping wedge/positioner, that she LOVES. It has memory foam in it too, which makes me jealous. My baby gets to sleep on memory foam, and I am stuck on a lumpy old mattress!
I finally finished her nursery! The night we set out to putting her dresser together was an interesting one. We spent a couple hours on it, and even messed it up by putting long screws instead of short screws in the top of it, so now there are two marks (not quite holes) in the top of it, that I covered up with strategically placed decor.
When we finished with the dresser, it was time for Ryan to go to bed, so he went to get the dog to take her for a walk as usual, but she was acting very strange. She wouldn't move, and she looked like she was in a lot of pain. We were very scared. She was still very responsive, though. She wagged her tail and looked up at us when we said 'walk,' like she was excited as usual. We just couldn't get her to move, and had to carry her down the stairs. We ended up taking her to the 24 hour emergency animal hospital, and after an hour and $115, she was doing better. They weren't quite sure what was wrong with her. They suggested that maybe she hurt her hip somehow because that was where she was the most sensitive. They gave us some pain killers/fever reducers to give to her, and she has been fine since. We have made sure to give her plenty of extra attention, too.
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I fall more and more in love with Emily everyday. I thought that when I was a mother, I would feel a lot like I did when I was a nanny. I was so in love with the little girl I used to watch. I remember when she was born, I remember her first birthday, and I thought that when I was a mom, I would feel about my child a lot like I felt about her, only stronger. But it is a completely different feeling, I can't even describe. Emily and I have been through so much together, I feel like she is my little sidekick. She motivates me, and encourages me, and she doesn't even know it!
And all this is to say nothing of how amazing Ryan has been. He has been such a source of strength for me, and encouragement. I think all of this has really caused him to look at himself in a new light, and to look to Christ more for survival!
As for me, being a parent has really caused me to fear God like never before. I realise now, more than ever, that I am not in control of anything. My pregnancy was a huge testimony to that! What on earth did I do to make that baby? I had sex, and God did the rest! Hah! And here is this little girl, growing bigger and bigger every day and I have relatively little to do with any of it. God is so amazing, and there is so much more to His greatness than I could ever begin to imagine.
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I am amazed at how many things can fit into a day, even a week! There is so much to share about what is new with Emily with someone who just saw her last week! This is why I love talking to moms, especially moms whose babies are relatively close in age to mine. There is so much to talk about!
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Emily is so huge now! I can't get over it. She was 9 lbs and 8 oz at her last doctor's visit which was on March 19th. This was also the visit where they gave her the second Hep. B shot. I remember telling Ryan before that visit that I thought I would be able to handle her getting the shot pretty well, because I handled other things with her surprisingly well, like her first cold, which she got when she was just 2 weeks old. But the second she went from smiling to screaming I almost panicked! I am glad that I was able to comfort her pretty quickly, but it did make me cry a little. Now I am nervous because her 2 month checkup is coming up, and she will have several shots that day. And Ryan will not be there to comfort me!
She is smiling a lot now, and 'talking' too. She will sit there and make noises at me, grunting and cooing. When I talk to her, she is really listening! I wonder if she wishes she could understand me as much as I wish I could understand her.
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She has also had an issue lately with spitting up. I actually called the doctor about it the other day. She was getting extremely fussy during her feedings and would spit up a lot afterwards, and it just seemed like she was very uncomfortable, on top of her having really bad gas. From what I told the nurse, she said it sounded like reflux. I don't know if this is a common baby thing, or if it is something that she got from her daddy, who has a pretty bad case of acid reflux himself. At any rate, she said to make sure she was at a 45 degree angle during feedings, and to watch out for projectile vomiting. She really only did that once, about a week ago, and then not again, so I didn't worry too much about it. She has been doing a lot better. I try not to lay her down right away after her feedings, which is what Ryan is not supposed to do either, and it has helped. She is still spitting up, but not too bad. I also got her a sleeping wedge/positioner, that she LOVES. It has memory foam in it too, which makes me jealous. My baby gets to sleep on memory foam, and I am stuck on a lumpy old mattress!
I finally finished her nursery! The night we set out to putting her dresser together was an interesting one. We spent a couple hours on it, and even messed it up by putting long screws instead of short screws in the top of it, so now there are two marks (not quite holes) in the top of it, that I covered up with strategically placed decor.
When we finished with the dresser, it was time for Ryan to go to bed, so he went to get the dog to take her for a walk as usual, but she was acting very strange. She wouldn't move, and she looked like she was in a lot of pain. We were very scared. She was still very responsive, though. She wagged her tail and looked up at us when we said 'walk,' like she was excited as usual. We just couldn't get her to move, and had to carry her down the stairs. We ended up taking her to the 24 hour emergency animal hospital, and after an hour and $115, she was doing better. They weren't quite sure what was wrong with her. They suggested that maybe she hurt her hip somehow because that was where she was the most sensitive. They gave us some pain killers/fever reducers to give to her, and she has been fine since. We have made sure to give her plenty of extra attention, too.
Our First Baby
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I fall more and more in love with Emily everyday. I thought that when I was a mother, I would feel a lot like I did when I was a nanny. I was so in love with the little girl I used to watch. I remember when she was born, I remember her first birthday, and I thought that when I was a mom, I would feel about my child a lot like I felt about her, only stronger. But it is a completely different feeling, I can't even describe. Emily and I have been through so much together, I feel like she is my little sidekick. She motivates me, and encourages me, and she doesn't even know it!
And all this is to say nothing of how amazing Ryan has been. He has been such a source of strength for me, and encouragement. I think all of this has really caused him to look at himself in a new light, and to look to Christ more for survival!
As for me, being a parent has really caused me to fear God like never before. I realise now, more than ever, that I am not in control of anything. My pregnancy was a huge testimony to that! What on earth did I do to make that baby? I had sex, and God did the rest! Hah! And here is this little girl, growing bigger and bigger every day and I have relatively little to do with any of it. God is so amazing, and there is so much more to His greatness than I could ever begin to imagine.
Happy Easter!
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posted by Ann | 11:24 AM
2 Comments:
wow :) I just can't imagine how wonderful that must be! I love you Ann!
Sounds like everything is going well! She is so beautiful.
I am so happy for you and your family :)
Love ya!
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