The second week of life with baby is supposed to be a little easier and stress free than the first…supposed to being the imperative words!
I’ve been trying to fit in some work from home along with my new duties as Mommy. My sister offered to come out Tuesday for a few hours so I could go into the office, train some new people and pick up some work.
Shortly after I got home and fed Molly, she turned blue again. It was quite scary. I laid her down and blew in her face and stuck my finger in her mouth(a feeble attempt I suppose at “clearing the airway”). This caused her to gag a bit and then she seemed to “pink” up.
A call to the Pediatrician and we were on our way to their office. An exam didn’t show anything specific but since we’d "been here done that" before they decided to admit her to St. Joes in Bellingham for observation.
Going back to that hospital with our daughter was very very hard on me. That’s where we said goodbye to our first daughter and again all the old fears and anxieties come rushing back. I’m grateful that once informed, everyone involved seemed to understand these thoughts and feelings of mine because they knew what we’d been through before.
Twenty four hours later Molly had not had any desaturations on her oxygen monitor and seemed to be doing fine. There had been talk of sending us down to Children’s Hospital(which would have been another VERY hard moment for mom and dad) but the pediatrician on call said she just didn’t think it was necessary to start all those interventions yet. She offered to send us home with a portable oximeter and some oxygen “just in case” we needed it. Because we had this equipment with Cori, it was not as intimidating to us as it might have been if we had not had that experience.
So we’ve been home now since Wednesday night at about 8:30pm and all has been well for the most part. She turned bluish once with me here but didn’t require oxygen. She turned this way again yesterday with both Steve and I present. Her saturations did fall as she was turning color but she also seemed to be pushing or struggling with a poop or something which led us to think maybe she holds her breath when she is straining. Her sats came back up after a bit and we used no oxygen. The doctors has told us to try and time it and see if the episodes lasted longer than 20 seconds. Apnea is classified as episodes of not breathing, longer than 20 seconds. So far we haven’t had a timer right there when it happened but it probably didn’t last 20 seconds or if it did just that much before she started to look pinker.
Other than THAT, we are doing fine! She is so precious and we love her SO much! We are both pretty tired but she has slept a couple nights for 4-5 hours without waking or fussing so we have hope that completely sleepless nights won’t last!
Thanks to everyone for their continued prayers. We haven’t heard anything from our attorney as to the birth father and whether he’s contacted them or signed his relinquishment papers or not. Court date for that-one way or the other is September 11.
My niece Kim is holding a Cookie Lee jewelry sale where all the profit from the sale will go to our adoption fund. If anyone likes Cookie Lee jewelry and would like to place an order with Kim so that our adoption fund could benefit, let me know and I’ll pass on her email address.
I’ve been trying to fit in some work from home along with my new duties as Mommy. My sister offered to come out Tuesday for a few hours so I could go into the office, train some new people and pick up some work.
Shortly after I got home and fed Molly, she turned blue again. It was quite scary. I laid her down and blew in her face and stuck my finger in her mouth(a feeble attempt I suppose at “clearing the airway”). This caused her to gag a bit and then she seemed to “pink” up.
A call to the Pediatrician and we were on our way to their office. An exam didn’t show anything specific but since we’d "been here done that" before they decided to admit her to St. Joes in Bellingham for observation.
Going back to that hospital with our daughter was very very hard on me. That’s where we said goodbye to our first daughter and again all the old fears and anxieties come rushing back. I’m grateful that once informed, everyone involved seemed to understand these thoughts and feelings of mine because they knew what we’d been through before.
Twenty four hours later Molly had not had any desaturations on her oxygen monitor and seemed to be doing fine. There had been talk of sending us down to Children’s Hospital(which would have been another VERY hard moment for mom and dad) but the pediatrician on call said she just didn’t think it was necessary to start all those interventions yet. She offered to send us home with a portable oximeter and some oxygen “just in case” we needed it. Because we had this equipment with Cori, it was not as intimidating to us as it might have been if we had not had that experience.
So we’ve been home now since Wednesday night at about 8:30pm and all has been well for the most part. She turned bluish once with me here but didn’t require oxygen. She turned this way again yesterday with both Steve and I present. Her saturations did fall as she was turning color but she also seemed to be pushing or struggling with a poop or something which led us to think maybe she holds her breath when she is straining. Her sats came back up after a bit and we used no oxygen. The doctors has told us to try and time it and see if the episodes lasted longer than 20 seconds. Apnea is classified as episodes of not breathing, longer than 20 seconds. So far we haven’t had a timer right there when it happened but it probably didn’t last 20 seconds or if it did just that much before she started to look pinker.
Other than THAT, we are doing fine! She is so precious and we love her SO much! We are both pretty tired but she has slept a couple nights for 4-5 hours without waking or fussing so we have hope that completely sleepless nights won’t last!
Thanks to everyone for their continued prayers. We haven’t heard anything from our attorney as to the birth father and whether he’s contacted them or signed his relinquishment papers or not. Court date for that-one way or the other is September 11.
My niece Kim is holding a Cookie Lee jewelry sale where all the profit from the sale will go to our adoption fund. If anyone likes Cookie Lee jewelry and would like to place an order with Kim so that our adoption fund could benefit, let me know and I’ll pass on her email address.
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