Curl-Hawk May 4, 2007

After all these serious posts i thought it was about time to post some fun stuff! Look at our little punk rock girl…..notice the pink skulls on her outift. Her grandma doesn’t have the best eye sight and thinks they are roses….we let her believe that they are because she would be beside herself to know her darling grandaughter is wearing skulls! Fi’s hair is super curly just like her moms and it gets crazy quick…but no matter what we do she always has this little “curl-hawk” down the middle.

We are getting closer to that magical 12 week mark…in fact saturday is officialy 12 weeks. Everyone says that at 12 weeks something happens and babies just stop crying so much. I’ve been warned that this is not always true…but I’m pretty much counting on waking up saturday morning and see shining rays of light beaming from behind her head with the tune of angels singing in the background while glittery fairy dust falls from the sky. Do you think I’m setting myself up for too much? I know, I know….really we are telling ourselves that for Fiona we should think more like 6 months…as my 7th grade track coach always taught us….run past the finish line to win.

but…things are getting better. We smile A LOT…and we laugh really hard…we even laugh in our sleep which is the funniest thing to watch. I think Fiona will be an early walker, she already loves to stand and can really stand up well…she likes to sit up and if you lay her down she flexes her stomach muscles and pulls with her arms …she does that when you’re holding her too…as if she is just going to get up and walk away. She understands that she wants to move forward…she just can’t get her body to react to her wishes….no wonder she is so frustrated!

reflux at both ends May 2, 2007

we went to the hospital yesterday for fii’s tests….she does have “Vesicoureteral Reflux” (you can google it) she is a grade 3 and has it on both sides….she will most likely out grow it but it will probably be around 3 to 5 years before she does. If by 5 she hasn’t outgrown it then she will need surgery….rarely do they have to do surgery on a grade 3. She will have to take antibiotics every day until it goes away to keep her urine steryl so she doesn’t get more infections….and every time she has a fever we need to go in and take a sample of her urine to make sure there isn’t an infection.

we’ll be tested again in a year to two years….for the test they put a catheter in her and fill her bladder with dye then wait till she pees to see if any goes up to her kidneys (they do this under some machine that is taking pictuers of her insides)….the next time we do the test they will give her a low dose sedative so that it’s not so traumatic….yesterday was awful holding her down while they did this and she screamed.

we will also need to go see a urologist at children’s … probably in the next week or two to go over her tests again.

sigh….so with the zantac and the antibiotics we take medicine three times a day….and boy is that fun.

the intersting thing is that usually…especially in grades 3 to 5 this is a hereditary thing….it makes me wonder since everyone in our family has always had bladder infections and u.t.’s and i’ve had a kidney infection before….if we all have some form of it or another and just never knew.

this stuff is pretty stressful…i mean we know that she will be just fine and since we caught it and treated it so quickly there is no damage done to her little body…it’s just a stresser to go through, to think about and to wonder if this the end or the beginning!