Dylan Raymond

Congratulations Laurie and Dave on your new arrival, Dylan Raymond!

Dylan was born on Feb 23rd at 5:36pm. He weighed 7lbs 10oz and is 20.5in long.

1 Month Doctor Appointment

Kailey had her 1 month doctors appointment today and it went really well. The doctor answered a few questions that I had and then we went over her height and weight. She is now 9lbs 5oz and 21 3/4 inches long. Her head size went from 34cm at birth to 38cm. Her weight is at the 50th percentile and her head and height are at the 75th percentile.

She is her father's daughter for sure!

Bad Night/Good Night

Last night after Kailey's 8pm feeding, she went started crying like I have never seen her cry before. I checked her diaper and it was good, she had just eaten, I laid her on her belly, on her back, walked with her while cradling her, over my shoulder, sat in the rocking chair, sat on the couch - nothing worked. She usually poops after eating and I am pretty sure her belly was just bothering her. I did get her to poop a tiny bit, but not much. After 2 hours of this crying, she finally fell asleep. She woke up about 12:30am ready to eat. As soon as she was done, I put her down to sleep and the next thing I know, Rob is asking me if she is ok. It was 8:30am! Woo hoo! She slept the whole night. She didnt wake up till 9am! Now if we could get her to sleep a little earlier like a 9pm-5am schedule... that would be beautiful!

Home Alone

Kailey had her first sleepover last night and left us for a night to ourselves. I dropped Kailey off at Grandma's and then Rob and I went to finally enjoy our Valentines Day dinner at Olive Garden. For Christmas, Casey and Maura gave us a gift card for dinner and a movie and it was the perfect time to cash them in!

We get to Olive Garden and just start our meal when some kid starts crying and screaming. So much for a night without hearing that! Dinner was fabulous and so was my daiquiri!

We stopped at Hollywood Video on the way home and rented Gone Baby Gone. Well that pretty much describes me... I was out 45 minutes into the movie.

Rob had stocked up the fridge for with a few beers and we were ready to have ourselves a little party. A half a beer into it - I was out. I tried so hard to stay awake and I just couldnt do it.

I ended up sleeping 11 hours!

Today we are going to do a few errands, pick up formula at Sams Club, buy birthday presents at Target and go see a matinee of Jumper. Just a day for us...

Little Red

Enough with the poop!

Kailey is a pooping machine. Pooping so much that I called the doctors today. I thought she had diarrhea and was concerned cause she is going so often. The doctor said to come in for a weight check.

Since Kailey has been pooping so much and we were wiping her so much, the poor thing has a horrible diaper rash. Rob went to my grandmas to help with some plumbing issue so my mom came over at her lunch hour to help me clean her up. We have been putting Kailey over the sink and just running warm water over her little butt and its kinda of been a 2 man job.

Since mom was already over, I invited her to the doctors with me. I brought a dirty diaper to show the doctor and she actually said what Kailey was doing was normal. It's so hard to believe since her poop is just so watery. She also weighed her and she was 8lbs 6oz! She gained almost a pound in 3 days! I mentioned to the doctor that she slept all day yesterday and she said she probably was having a growth spurt.

So everything is all good. Hopefully I will keep Kailey out of the doctors office this upcoming week. She has now been there 5 times in 3 weeks.

My life at the changing table

I know its been awhile since I have written any updates but we have been pretty busy over here.

Kailey went for another doctors appointment on Monday. This was her 4th visit in 2 weeks. She finally is putting on weight and is at 7lbs 12oz. Her umbilical cord is now all gone and her belly button is finally starting to go down. (In case I never said before, she had a herniated belly button and it was huge!)

We are however having a lot of problems in the poop department. For about a week we had stopped pooping. We did the suppositories and the only time those worked is when she pushed them out of her little butt.

When we went to the doctors last week, they suggested adding dark Karo syrup to her bottle. Well for 2 days that did nothing. Then one day we had 1 poopie diaper, the next day we had 2 poopie diapers, the following day my kid pooped more than any adult might in a week. Since last friday she has pooped at each diaper change and even while you are changing her, she poops again. From 12am till 1:30pm yesterday, we had 6 poop diapers. My daughters butt is as red as can be and it hurts us to even wipe her down.

The doctor suggested starting her on soy formula and see how she does with that for a week. Of course I had JUST purchased a huge tub of her formula and made 1 stinking bottle. But thats ok, we are going to hold on to it and the rest of our samples in case we have to go back to it. The doctors office was also all out of the soy samples too.

So today I went to Walmart and got a small can of the soy. Hopefully this helps. I also thought I purchased the last of the newborn diapers on Saturday. A 40 pack - gone in 2.5 days. Yes we are changing her that much!

So if I havent returned any calls, replied to any emails, or even answered the phone, it is because I am spending most of my time at the changing table wiping my daughters butt. Poor thing : (