To make things a little different, I'm going to start writing blog posts in the form of letters to my little guy :). I'm hoping that someday I can print these off and put them in his baby book :).
Dear Logan,
You'll be 6 months old this Saturday and I can't believe it! On one hand, it doesn't seem like that much time has passed, but on the other hand, so much has happened in such a short amount of time! You had your first heart surgery at 2.5 months and you're becoming such a big boy! You're SO close to saying your first word and you're just as close to figuring out how to crawl. You push yourself up on your hands and knees and kinda weeble-wobble around. Soon we'll be putting plugs in all the outlets and putting gates at the top and bottom of the stairs. You have figured out how to roll around and do an army-esque shimmy crawl on the hardwoods. I just need to put a dusting cloth underneath you so that the floors will get cleaned up while you're moving around ;). Your first two teeth poked through on the bottom last weekend and the top ones are close to coming in as well. You're still trying to figure out what they are and why they're there. You love your exersaucer and you've learned that the buttons make noises when you push them. You have loved to stand up since before your surgery and your legs are so strong! I took the sling out of your bathtub about a week ago and you love to sit up like a big boy while taking your bath. You've also figured out how to splash and hit the bubbles. You like it when I sing to you... your favorite songs are "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "I like to eat eat eat eeples and baneenees", and "Jesus Loves Me". Sometimes you make noises like you're singing along :). You have the most precious and contagious smile. I keep a picture of you on my computer at work and everyone loves looking at it. You love "nanners" and oatmeal and you're starting to like other foods too. In fact, you just gave me an oatmeal "kissy" and got it all over my cheek :). You're pretty much sleeping through the night (thank you Daylight Savings Time), but you like getting up at about 5 or 5:30 to eat. Gandalf still doesn't know what to think about you, but you want to be best buddies. I'm sure you will be someday :). You are so precious and the apple of my eye and I love you more than I could ever say!
~Mommy
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
(Almost) 5 Month Update
I can't believe it's been almost 3 months since my last post. So much has happened since then and Logan seems to change everyday. His first surgery was on July 22nd and was very successful. He's had a couple of follow-up appointments since then and they were both very positive. He continues to gain weight and has met all of the developmental milestones. In fact, he's actually ahead of the game with most of them :). The cardiologist said he's very advanced and even though I'm his mother, I tend to agree ;).
Life as a working mom is pretty crazy. I still want to stay home with Logan, but until his next surgery is complete, I'm going to continue working so that he'll have two medical insurances. I just hope that after his surgery we'll be able to find a way for me to stay at home. It's so hard for me to leave Logan every day so that I can go to work. I took half of a sick day last week to stay home with him and I absolutely loved it :). This little guy is my world :). He has me wrapped around his little fingers.
He rolled over for the first time last week (from his back to his tummy). He's also starting to push himself up. I expect him to start crawling in the next couple of months. He's a strong little guy and loves to stand up (supported, of course). I bought him an exersaucer (at a consignment shop, yay) and he loves it. The seat spins all the way around so he's constantly excited about the toys he finds when he moves. He laughs and smiles a lot... he's generally a pretty happy baby. He likes taking baths and he has started jabbering a lot more. When he talks, his sounds are much more word-like. It really sounds like he's speaking his own language sometimes :). I'm trying to teach him "mama", but who knows what his first word will be :).
I'm still breastfeeding him and hope to do it as long as possible, which could be challenging. I pump at work twice a day and go visit him at the babysitter's house on my lunch break to feed him. He isn't a big fan of drinking from a bottle, but he has gotten better about it. He doesn't have much of a choice while I'm at work :P. He has started biting because he's teething and he's learning the word "no". I'm hoping he'll figure it out before his teeth come in because that really won't be pleasant. We've been dealing with thrush for the past month or longer. I didn't realize that's what it was because I just assumed the white inside of his cheeks was milk residue. Instead, it's a nasty yeast infection that he has passed on to me. We're using both natural remedies and traditional medicine to try to clear it up. Yeast is not fun.
I have a few post topics in my head and I'm hoping to actually write about them soon. Here are a few of my ideas:
New mom essentials
Breastfeeding adventures
Dealing with surgery
I started a post about surgery just a couple days after we came home from the hospital but I didn't get very far. It's really hard to put those emotions into words, but if you are interested in reading about it, I'll try to remember the details enough to write an entire post about it. If you have any other requests or questions or anything, let me know and I'll try to address it/them in a future post. In the meantime, have a good one and I'll try to write again soon :).
Life as a working mom is pretty crazy. I still want to stay home with Logan, but until his next surgery is complete, I'm going to continue working so that he'll have two medical insurances. I just hope that after his surgery we'll be able to find a way for me to stay at home. It's so hard for me to leave Logan every day so that I can go to work. I took half of a sick day last week to stay home with him and I absolutely loved it :). This little guy is my world :). He has me wrapped around his little fingers.
He rolled over for the first time last week (from his back to his tummy). He's also starting to push himself up. I expect him to start crawling in the next couple of months. He's a strong little guy and loves to stand up (supported, of course). I bought him an exersaucer (at a consignment shop, yay) and he loves it. The seat spins all the way around so he's constantly excited about the toys he finds when he moves. He laughs and smiles a lot... he's generally a pretty happy baby. He likes taking baths and he has started jabbering a lot more. When he talks, his sounds are much more word-like. It really sounds like he's speaking his own language sometimes :). I'm trying to teach him "mama", but who knows what his first word will be :).
I'm still breastfeeding him and hope to do it as long as possible, which could be challenging. I pump at work twice a day and go visit him at the babysitter's house on my lunch break to feed him. He isn't a big fan of drinking from a bottle, but he has gotten better about it. He doesn't have much of a choice while I'm at work :P. He has started biting because he's teething and he's learning the word "no". I'm hoping he'll figure it out before his teeth come in because that really won't be pleasant. We've been dealing with thrush for the past month or longer. I didn't realize that's what it was because I just assumed the white inside of his cheeks was milk residue. Instead, it's a nasty yeast infection that he has passed on to me. We're using both natural remedies and traditional medicine to try to clear it up. Yeast is not fun.
I have a few post topics in my head and I'm hoping to actually write about them soon. Here are a few of my ideas:
New mom essentials
Breastfeeding adventures
Dealing with surgery
I started a post about surgery just a couple days after we came home from the hospital but I didn't get very far. It's really hard to put those emotions into words, but if you are interested in reading about it, I'll try to remember the details enough to write an entire post about it. If you have any other requests or questions or anything, let me know and I'll try to address it/them in a future post. In the meantime, have a good one and I'll try to write again soon :).
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
9 Week Update
Sorry it has been such a long time since my last update. Logan is asleep in his bouncer right now and I'm waiting for the Papa John's delivery guy to arrive with dinner, so I figured this would be a good time to post an update :).
Things have been going pretty well lately. I got cleared by my doctor at my 6-week checkup, so I can now start exercising slowly. I'm actually looking forward to exercising a little bit... while I was very comfortable with my body during the pregnancy, I'm not so enthusiastic anymore. I know it takes a while for everything to go back into place and whatnot, but I'm not used to having so much loose skin and I'd rather avoid having to answer the "how far along are you?" question. Even though it's only been 9 weeks since I had a baby, I know that people are still critical of women's bodies afterward and I really just want to feel good about myself.
On that note, I tried on my pre-pregnancy jeans and they all fit in the legs and butt, but were a little tight in the waist. I was still pretty psyched about them fitting, though :). I was pretty terrified to try them on in the first place.
I started working again full-time on Thursday last week and it was a very emotional day. Jason's sister is watching Logan until she goes off to college, which is great because I'm comfortable with her and I like the idea of Logan being at home instead of in a daycare. Even though it was her watching him, though, that didn't keep me from breaking down when I passed him along to her so that I could leave in the morning. Once I left, I was fine until I came home for lunch. I had eaten and was about to leave again when I got a phonecall from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to schedule his first surgery. She told me it was scheduled for this Friday, July 15th and proceeded to give me instructions for Thursday when all of his pre-op will be taken care of. I was ok when I got off the phone but as soon as I got in my car and started to call Jason, I lost it. We've had a lot of time to prepare for the idea of surgery, but now that it's a reality, it's a whole new ballgame. Logan is real now, not just something bumping around in my belly and I would do anything to take care of and protect him. I just wish there was something I could do so that he wouldn't have to go through surgery :(. The thought of it just breaks my heart. *sigh* Anyway, I should be ok until we get to the hospital, but I can almost guarantee I will fall apart when we have to take him in to his surgery. God will be hearing a lot from me on Friday :).
Oh, I guess I should probably say what the surgery is for. They're going to put a band on his pulmonary artery to restrict the bloodflow to the side of his heart that's pumping to his lungs. Since his heart is basically backwards, the side of the heart that should be pumping to his body is pumping to his lungs and vice versa. This means his lungs are getting too much blood. Also, his heart is having to work harder to pump and his lungs are building up some fluid which is making him work harder to breathe. He was put on a medication called Lasix a few weeks ago to take some of the fluid out of his lungs... I'm hoping that this surgery will make it so that he won't have to take it anymore but we'll see. I'm not sure how long the surgery itself will take but he will be in the hospital for about a week following. We'll be staying with him so visitors (and food) are welcome :).
Logan is doing really well right now, though. He continues to put on weight like a champ and he is probably about 5lbs heavier than he was when he was born and about 4" longer. He's growing like crazy! He's already wearing his 3 month clothes and he even fit into a 6 month onesie this week. His hair is growing in on the top of his head a little bit (peach fuzz) so he doesn't look so much like a little old man :). His eyes are lightening to a pretty blue color and he has started to make lots of cute baby sounds. He likes to stand when we hold him up and he's got some strong little legs! He's finally starting to do more than just eat, sleep, poop, and cry :). I love this little guy so much!
I'm still breastfeeding and it has its ups and downs. I love that he's getting the nutrition he needs along with all the extras breastmilk add: vitamins, immunity, etc. On top of that, it's free and it keeps producing :). Pumping at work has been difficult, mainly because I keep forgetting, but I don't think my supply has been affected by the couple of times I forgot to pump.
Well, this has been sitting here a couple of days unpublished, so I'm just going to go ahead and post it and hope I didn't leave anything out. Logan's pre-op is tomorrow so we would appreciate more prayers. I'll try to post another update soon :).
Things have been going pretty well lately. I got cleared by my doctor at my 6-week checkup, so I can now start exercising slowly. I'm actually looking forward to exercising a little bit... while I was very comfortable with my body during the pregnancy, I'm not so enthusiastic anymore. I know it takes a while for everything to go back into place and whatnot, but I'm not used to having so much loose skin and I'd rather avoid having to answer the "how far along are you?" question. Even though it's only been 9 weeks since I had a baby, I know that people are still critical of women's bodies afterward and I really just want to feel good about myself.
On that note, I tried on my pre-pregnancy jeans and they all fit in the legs and butt, but were a little tight in the waist. I was still pretty psyched about them fitting, though :). I was pretty terrified to try them on in the first place.
I started working again full-time on Thursday last week and it was a very emotional day. Jason's sister is watching Logan until she goes off to college, which is great because I'm comfortable with her and I like the idea of Logan being at home instead of in a daycare. Even though it was her watching him, though, that didn't keep me from breaking down when I passed him along to her so that I could leave in the morning. Once I left, I was fine until I came home for lunch. I had eaten and was about to leave again when I got a phonecall from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to schedule his first surgery. She told me it was scheduled for this Friday, July 15th and proceeded to give me instructions for Thursday when all of his pre-op will be taken care of. I was ok when I got off the phone but as soon as I got in my car and started to call Jason, I lost it. We've had a lot of time to prepare for the idea of surgery, but now that it's a reality, it's a whole new ballgame. Logan is real now, not just something bumping around in my belly and I would do anything to take care of and protect him. I just wish there was something I could do so that he wouldn't have to go through surgery :(. The thought of it just breaks my heart. *sigh* Anyway, I should be ok until we get to the hospital, but I can almost guarantee I will fall apart when we have to take him in to his surgery. God will be hearing a lot from me on Friday :).
Oh, I guess I should probably say what the surgery is for. They're going to put a band on his pulmonary artery to restrict the bloodflow to the side of his heart that's pumping to his lungs. Since his heart is basically backwards, the side of the heart that should be pumping to his body is pumping to his lungs and vice versa. This means his lungs are getting too much blood. Also, his heart is having to work harder to pump and his lungs are building up some fluid which is making him work harder to breathe. He was put on a medication called Lasix a few weeks ago to take some of the fluid out of his lungs... I'm hoping that this surgery will make it so that he won't have to take it anymore but we'll see. I'm not sure how long the surgery itself will take but he will be in the hospital for about a week following. We'll be staying with him so visitors (and food) are welcome :).
Logan is doing really well right now, though. He continues to put on weight like a champ and he is probably about 5lbs heavier than he was when he was born and about 4" longer. He's growing like crazy! He's already wearing his 3 month clothes and he even fit into a 6 month onesie this week. His hair is growing in on the top of his head a little bit (peach fuzz) so he doesn't look so much like a little old man :). His eyes are lightening to a pretty blue color and he has started to make lots of cute baby sounds. He likes to stand when we hold him up and he's got some strong little legs! He's finally starting to do more than just eat, sleep, poop, and cry :). I love this little guy so much!
I'm still breastfeeding and it has its ups and downs. I love that he's getting the nutrition he needs along with all the extras breastmilk add: vitamins, immunity, etc. On top of that, it's free and it keeps producing :). Pumping at work has been difficult, mainly because I keep forgetting, but I don't think my supply has been affected by the couple of times I forgot to pump.
Well, this has been sitting here a couple of days unpublished, so I'm just going to go ahead and post it and hope I didn't leave anything out. Logan's pre-op is tomorrow so we would appreciate more prayers. I'll try to post another update soon :).
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