Friday, January 27, 2012

First Doctors Visit For Elyse

Question?

How does it make you feel when someone hurts your baby girl, even if it is a good reason.

Well, today was Elyse's first doctor's visit since being born. She is 5 days old and we had to go and see the Pediatrician.

She weighs about the same as when she was discharged, so that was good.

She also had to redo her Bilirubin Test because her jaundice score was higher than hoped for when she was discharged. Not too high, but high enough to cause some worry from the doctor. 
After we saw Dr. O'very for Elyse's checkup they sent in the nurse to draw blood for the test.
I had to hold Elyse so she could prick her with a needle in her tiny little foot. It made her cry so much, that I started crying. She didn't bleed enough on that foot for the test so they had to poke her in the other foot, as well. The nurse accidentally dumped some of the blood that she got from the first foot onto my jeans. Camille held our sweet girl for the second foot. Our little girl is a tough little thing! Then Daddy had to go to work. :(


After Daddy got home from work Elyse got her first bath.
Grandma Crook helped (more like showed us how cause Camille and I had no idea what we were doing).
Thanks Jackie!



After Camille fed Elyse, she and her mom went to Walmart to take some duplicate gifts back and get some things, and allowed me to have some Daddy time with Elyse.
It consisted of Elyse sleeping in my lap while I was on the computer.
Simply Precious

Day One at home

Uhhhhhhhhhgggggggggggggggg.
My mother in-law told me today "welcome to parenthood"
The reason is because last night was Elyse's first night home and she sleep during the day since we got home yesterday @ about 1:00 in the afternoon. But wow it seemed like last night Elyse was waking up every hour on the hour. Which in turn made Camille and me TIRED, much more Camille than me.
Then we were all awake at about 9:30 had some breakfast and I went to work.
That was the worst part of my day the fact that I had to leave my baby girl and go to work.
Same thing tomorrow, its going to suck and tomorrow will be longer.
After I came home Camille and I were feeding Elyse and trying to put together her genealogy. That went bad I was misspelling my Grandfather's name as well as putting my father's name in the wrong spot. I said to myself...
"self, maybe you're tired" hint hint. So Camille and I laid down and gave Elyse the chance to have some Grandma time.
Then after a while Grandma and Camille went to go get some dinner for us all, and left Daddy home with Elyse.
This was the Result..........



Events for tomorrow

In the morning Elyse has a Doctors appointment @ 0845 with the Pediatrician, Doctor O'Very.
So again no sleep....    Then @ 1000 I have to leave my baby girl and go to work.  VERY SAD DAY.

Wish us luck we'll let you know.

Baby On Board

First day at home with Elyse Jacquelyn Sterger, our beautiful little girl.
For in our eyes she is so perfect, and we love so very much.
She was born on January 23, 2012 at Logan Regional Hospital @ 1736 (military time).
She weighed 6 lbs. 2 oz. and 19 inches long. Although she was perfect in our eyes, we are a little worried about her because she was born with a deformed ear. This scares me especially because of my medical history. I was born with a collapsed inner ear canal and had to have 4 surgeries throughout my life and just learned a few weeks ago that i might have to have another one.
I pray this doesn't happen to Elyse. It would kill me if she had to grow up the same way I did.
I want her to be like daddy to a certain extent but not like this.




We Love you Elyse.