My goodness has the last two months flown by! We have been so busy snuggling the new addition to our family-I've totally forgotten about this blog. I guess my New Year's resolution can be keeping this updated. We will see how that goes. I will try to make this blog short and to the point but with lots of pictures...Then hopefully I will keep up with the resolution and post more often. I can tell you that Mallory is the best thing that has happened in either of our lives. We love her so much and its so unexplainable the love in our hearts for her. There is no way to explain it unless you are a mother/father yourself. She has given us so much joy in the two short months she's been here...I can't imagine what's in store for us in the months and years ahead. The way she smiles when she first wakes up in the morning, the look in her eye when she's eating...I can seriously just stare at her forever and never get bored. We have had lots of firsts....sleepovers at Mama & Papa Ham's house (my parents), Aunt Dana babysitting, shopping trips, first stroller ride, first smile, first time daddy watching me alone, lunch dates with friends. But most importantly when mommy went back to work Miss Mallory had to go to daycare for the first time. We had her all set up to go at First Presbyterian but something about the place didn't sit well with me. I stressed about it for awhile and Mick and I finally came to the conclusion that we would have Mick's mom come up and watch her until we could get into the daycare we really wanted-Our Redeemer. Until...the Thursday before I was to go back to work...guess who called with an opening. Yes, Our Redeemer. I was so excited. We went for our tour, met her "teachers" and got all the rules and regulations. I LOVED IT!!! So she was set and has done wonderfully. The first day-actually the first week was really hard....on mom! I can't explain how much I missed her. She didn't seem to mind at all! Its all I could think about during the day was her and what she was doing. But I can tell you its made the time with her even more precious. I will pick her up and she will just smile at me! Its so awesome to see that! She missed me too. (at least that's what I tell myself) I know she is in great care and trust them 150%.
She has grown so much! She now weighs a whopping 13.5 pounds and is 24.5 inches long! She doesn't look that big but she is growing like a weed. I look back through her pictures and its amazing to see the transformation she has had already.
On a not so good note...we just got out of the hospital with her. I think I cursed her by saying...I always compare Mallory to Lane and what he was doing at her age...well at two months which Mallory just turned on Monday-Lane was in the hospital and then sure enough...that's where we were all week. This past Sunday we noticed Mallory woke up with gunk in her eye and just didn't seem like herself. We chalked it up as a cold. She was a little grumpy on Monday but nothing too terribly bad. Well early Tuesday she woke up with a high fever of 102.9. Scared me to death...I kept taking her temperature but it would keep changing. It would drop down to 99, then back up to 101. She had her two month checkup that morning so I decided to wait and just take her in then to see what the doctor said. Of course he was concerned with the temperature and her eye. He said with her being so young he wanted to make sure the temperature wasn't being caused my anything else so he sent us over to the hospital. They took urine sample, took blood cultures, her temperature LOTS of times. That all wasn't so bad. But then they had to get an IV in her to get some fluids in her and to get antibiodics in her. Well, they could not get the IV in. I do not know how many times they tried...at least four times. I could hear her screaming from down the hall! It was the worst most painful thing I have ever experienced. I told a friend that I totally get it now...I get when parents desperately want to take their childs pain away, I get it when parents say they feel the pain of their children, I get it. It was heartbreaking. On top of that, they had to do a spinal tap which thankfully they did the same time they were trying to get IV in. Well, the couldn't get it in at all, they called in director of nursing, director of pediatrics, anthesologist, doctors...no one could get it. It was so frustrating but I understood...they said her veins were just too small. They were going to put it in her head or send us to Springfield but I did not like this idea. She had already been through so much. The doctor was called in made the decision that she was nursing well enough and going to the bathroom well enough that they wouldn't have to do it. They would just give her shots each time for her medicine. So once again, every few hours they would take her away to give her shots in her thigh. They did it in the room in front of me twice and I couldn't deal with it so I requested they do it in another room. One thing I did learn there was how to take an anal temperature. lol! Her temperature dropped and you could tell she was starting to feel better. We had to stay a minimum of 48 hours for all the xrays, blood work, and all the other tests to come back. Thursday we did find out she did have some bacteria in her urine so they had to do a sonogram to double check her liver, kidney and bladder were functioning correctly and they were. So we finally got to go home. We get so much better rest here and don't have someone coming in every few hours to poke and mess with her. I can tell you it was the scariest, most heartbreaking, terrifying, exhausting thing we have ever been through. In my heart of hearts, I knew she was okay and it wasn't anything "serious." But at the same time, it was scary and nerve wrecking just thought but to hear her in pain and see her in pain was the part that was difficult. But they took wonderful care of her and we are grateful for that and to be back home as I know that some parents don't get that. So praise the Lord that our baby is healthy again and home with us. On a lighter note...our favorite nurse from delivery stay heard we were there and she came down for a visit. It was so wonderful seeing her again. Nurse Grace was someone we didn't know from Adam and I swear-I feel like I've known her forever and was truly elated seeing her again. And sad to see her go. She truly is angel on earth. So we are hoping this next week will be better for all of us-that Mallory stays healthy and mom and dad get some rest! ;)
I will post pictures of a bunch of randomness and again hopefully I will keep this updated as I hear I will treasure these blogs later as she grows.
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