Alexis had her 2 week checkup yesterday and everything went great. She weighs in at 6 lbs 9 oz and has grown a 1/2 an inch already!! The doctor said she looks really good for the normal well-baby checks. She does have a mattery eye that has been determined to be a blocked tear duct that we must massage. She gave us a script for some medicine, but I have not filled it. Hopefully the massaging will work. She also had an infection on her bum....looks like the skin was sensitive while we were in the hospital and it broke open and caused an infection. She gave us some lotion to put on it, and it already looks tons better today and we have only used it twice.
It was a long day in Miles and she was ready to cuddle when we got home.
The night was a different story though...she woke up around 11:00-ish to eat, but wouldn't latch on. She was VERY gassy and the gas drops weren't working as well as we thought they should. Brad tried some stuff that would work for 5 minutes, then I would try with the same result. She wanted to cuddle so bad, but felt awful. I finally got her calmed down, she ate for 2 minutes and FINALLY fell asleep around 4:00-ish. Of course, we were in the recliner sleeping. Around 7:00 Brad got up for work and checked on us...she was still sleeping, but my arms were hurting...kept having to put them above my head as they kept falling asleep. I just didn't want to wake her up. Alexis started to wake up around 8:30 and that is when Shelby got up too.
Alexis was hungry again, but with the same results-wouldn't latch on!!! I was going nuts....there were enough tears dropped from about midnight on for people to float a vast river! I did call the Doc's office for some advice...maybe I was missing something. I decided to try laying down in bed again to get her to latch on since that is what did the trick in the Hospital...I didn't like the idea of having to load the girls up to head BACK to Miles....I was getting desperate.
After fighting it for about 20 minutes, Alexis finally latched on for about 5 minutes. Then we had to shuffle around and when moving to the recliner again, she latched on the other side for about 15 minutes and is now sleeping. Thank goodness for EVERYONE'S sanity. LOL
Shelby and I didn't get breakfast (she did have a banana during the screaming wails of the baby), so we just had lunch. I did get my work stuff sent to OPI, so hopefully they get their end done so I can get the Budget stuff that I have done. We have to go to the office about 2:30-ish to get some teacher stuff done for a town teacher. I so want a nap, but it doesn't look like that will happen today.
I am hoping that with a good nap, Alexis will feel better and we will not have any problems again. I am just drained today, but time doesn't stop, so I am praying it gets better!
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