Video of Brooke rolling over

This is my 3rd post for today....lol. Sorry this video is so dark!

Chiropractor visit (and 100th post!!)

We took Brooke to the chiropractor last night and just as I suspected (from her spitting up so much lately), her spine was tightened up again. He got it loosened up some and wants us to bring her back Thursday morning before we leave for the weekend. For some reason he didn't charge us a copay yesterday, which was very nice of him! I'm hoping he can get her straightened out and she stays straightened out and we don't have to keep taking her so often. He said once she gets a little bigger, she'll probably stay better and not get out of whack so easily.

Here's some pictures in honor of my 100th post on this blog. LOL. (I was going to post them anyway...just happened to notice this is post #100, lol.)

Wearing the adorable outfit Aunt Diane, my sister, got her!

There's something so sweet about a baby sleeping on his/her belly!

One of the rare instances of her sucking her thumb.

Hanging out on my lap. Don't mind the PJ's, lol.

Riding his Jeep at my mom and dad's on the 4th. Didn't last long. He's afraid of it. We got him for it last year and he's probably ridden it for a total of 5 minutes. Seriously.

How Brooke spent her 4th of July, when she wasn't puking.

Before going to Doug's brother's house for a belated 4th of July picnic.

As soon as I figure out how to post videos, I'll put some of those up, too! (Anyway know how to do it using Photobucket??)

Be sure to check below for my 1st post for today!

Some then and now pictures

As you'll probably find out (or may have already figured out), I LOVE comparing "then and now" pictures. Here are a few! (The dates are on them.)

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The day she came home.

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I'd already unbuckled her and taken her out...then remembered I wanted a pic of her in there, so I just sat her back in. I wasn't buckling her back up ; ).

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Pukey weekend

I don't know what was up with Brooke this weekend, especially Friday! We were at my mom and dad's most of the day for a cookout. She puked at least 6 or 7 times there and a few times it was probably at least half of her bottle, if not more. I was starting to get nervous that she had pyloric stenosis. Doug's dad, oldest brother, and brother's 2 kids all had it and it runs in families. I almost took her to the E.R. to get checked, but decided to wait until we got home (which was around 7:30) and see how she was doing. She didn't puke again after we got home! Saturday she had one pretty big spit ups and then a few smaller ones and yesterday she had one big spit up and a few smaller ones. I'm not real sure what's up with that. She has an appointment with the chiropractor this afternoon and I'm curious to find out how he says she "feels" (as far as the tightness in her spine and whatnot). It's been over a week since she's last been there and the first time she hasn't gone ever 2-3 days since she started going. So I don't know if that's just a coincidence that she's now spitting up more or what.

The home health nurse was here again today and despite all the spitting up Brooke did over the weekend (especially on Friday), she still managed to gain an ounce a day and is now up to 7lb. 8oz.! And she measured 20 3/4in.! She's starting to fit nicely in the bigger 0-3m sleepers we have.

She's still eating well, but driving us crazy. No longer does she take a large amount and is good for 3.5-4 hours...at least not always. Sometimes she decides she only wants a "snack" and then wants to eat again in 2 hours. It's kinda frustrating when she does this, but what are we gonna do about it, ya know? It's not like we can just let her scream and be hungry until she is "supposed" to eat again. But the good thing is she is taking her last bottle about 10:00 and then going to sleep between 11 and 12 and sleeping a good 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 hour stretch! So I can't complain there. Hopefully she'll be one of those babies that is sleeping through the night be 3 months (adjusted age) old or so! : )

Friday, we had the cookout at my mom and dad's. Then on Saturday we had a big cookout at Doug's brother's house. Brooke got held by lots of people and she just ate it up, lol. Yesterday our friends came in from out of town for the day. I met Heather through an AOL message board when we were pregnant (me with Ryan and her with her oldest son, Zachery). We were both due in December (and Zach was actually born one day after Ryan's due date). She also has a little boy, Logan, who is 18 months old. We first met at Ryan's 1st birthday party and we've been going to each other's kid's birthday parties ever since (we've only ever missed one each and the same year (2nd), actually!). She came with her husband, Jeramy, and we just hung out and let the kids play and had yet another cookout, lol. It was lots of fun! The kids had a blast : ). I had fun, too, and I hope Heather and Jeramy did as well (I think they did) : ).

We are leaving for the weekend on Thursday to go visit a very close family friend that my mom has known since before I was born! She lives about 3 hours away. When I was kid, we used to go almost every summer for about a week at a time. We took Ryan 2 years ago, but didn't go last year. She has been up to visit several times over the last year and he's gotten pretty attached to her and has been asking to go see her ever since we told him we were going about a month and a half ago. LOL. So he's excited! My mom and dad want to take him to Hands-On House while we're there. It's a hands-on kids museum. They took my brother, sister, and I when we were kids and we loved it. I'm hoping Ryan will, too! I'm not sure what else we'll be doing while we're there, but it will be nice to just visit with everyone!

I don't have pics ready to put up yet, but I'll try to get some up before we leave! I also got a video clip of Brooke rolling over last night! I'll have to post that, too : ). She rolled over 5 times in a row, so I KNOW it's not just a fluke. I can't believe she's rolling over when she's only 2 weeks adjusted age! That's crazy! I want her to develop "normally" and not have the delays like Ryan had/has, but I also hope she doesn't hit all her milestones early....she's my last baby and I don't want her to grow up too fast! :*(

Sleep is good!

Tuesday night, Brooke decided to stay awake until 2am!! Then was back up at 6:30. I was SOOO flipping tired yesterday. She's usually awake in the evenings from about 6-7:00 on, but Tuesday night she was sleeping and we didn't wake her up until like 8:30 and I think that was the problem. Big mistake! Yesterday I kept her awake as much as possible and I made sure she was awake around 6pm. Of course after she drank her bottle at 6:30, she went back to sleep for about an hour and I tried everything to get her to wake up to no avail. But then she was awake from 7:30 on. I went to bed at 10, right as Doug was getting ready to give her a bottle. The next thing I knew, I woke to her fussing at almost 2:30 to eat. I was so excited she slept! LOL. (Of course, I found out this morning that Doug fell asleep on the couch with her and didn't bring her up until almost 2, but still...she slept!) She drank her bottle and then was back to sleep by 3:15, which is awesome because lately she's been wanting to stay up awhile. And then she was up at 6:30 this morning. I consider that a very good night! : )

I took her to the doctor yesterday because I suspected she has thrush and she does. Her tongue was all coated white and she has spots throughout her mouth. He prescribed Nystatin for her, which she HATES, but it's working already. I do think it's going to give her diarrhea, though, because she just went #2 and it was almost pure liquid : /. Hopefully it won't be bad. At least the thrush isn't affecting her eating! Little piggy was up to 7lb. 3oz. from 6lb. 14.5oz. on Monday! And today when the home health nurse came again, she was 7lb. 4oz.

The doctor calculated what she's gained since she was there on June 9th and it averaged out to an ounce a day, which to my understanding is very good and what they like to see. However, he said "it could be more." He said he'd rather her gain more now rather than later. I know preemies generally have to play catch up, but for being almost 2 weeks past her due date and at just over 7lbs. already, I think that's pretty darn good! He wants to see where she's at in 2 weeks and he said if she doesn't gain enough, we may "have to" add more calories to her formula with cereal or try her back on the Neosure. I don't want to do either of those things if she's gaining like she is now. I have considered trying the cereal for the reflux and may even do that, but I don't want to try to "fatten her up" with the cereal. And she was terribly gassy on the Neosure, so I don't want to go back to that, either. Anyway, hopefully he'll be happy enough with her progress in 2 weeks that he won't push for that.

I would have some pics for you and maybe even a couple videos, but Doug ran a recovery or something on the computer the other day and now when I hook my camera up to the computer, the picture program isn't popping up like it normally does and I don't know what to do! So I'll have to get him to fix it.

Tired

Brooke seems to be in a pattern where she doesn't want to go right back to sleep after eating in the "middle" of the night. This morning she woke up at 4am to eat and didn't go back to sleep until 5:30! Then Ryan was up at 6:45. :::yawn::: She also has not always been going right to sleep after her "bedtime" bottle and for a few nights was up until a little after midnight. She still sleeps alot during the day. She will usually stay awake for an hour or so in the morning and then sleep the bulk of the day, with just a few brief awake periods, until around 7pm. Then she is up from 7:00 (sometimes a little earlier) until she gets her last bottle for the night, usually between 10-10:30. I'm not sure what to do to get her to go right to sleep after her early morning feeding because she is SO wide awake. Oh well, I guess it will work out somehow eventually!

The home health nurse came again today. Brooke went from 6lb. 9oz. on Friday to 6lb. 14.5oz. today!! I knew she's been eating really well lately, but I didn't know it was *that well. LOL. And to think that last week I was worried about her gaining enough weight. I could tell her little legs were gettin gsome meat on them, though, lol.

Now on to the pictures.

I love when she holds her pacifier like this...so cute. She usually ends up knocking it out, though. LOL.

Zonked out in her bouncy seat.

I love these pants ; ).

Sleepy smile.

"Are you talking to ME??"

Love this face. LOL.

Brooke got this dress while in the NICU. Another family who had twin daughters in before had donated a bunch of special occasion dresses like this. I just had to take some pictures of her in it.

Don't mess with a hungry baby!

Hanging out after a diaper change, right before her bedtime bottle.

I plan on taking a pic like this every month until she turns a year old. I stole the idea from one of my online friends. Wish I would've thought to take one at 2 months! (That's the girly onesie we bought not long after we found out we were expecting again!)

A couple pics of my little man!

Playing his VSmile.

I can't believe he "posed" so well for this pic! LOL. He's very anti-camera lately.

The one evening, Doug was feeding Brooke and thought she was done, so he put her on the couch in her Boppy pillow. She started fussing, so he stuck the bottle back in her mouth to see if she wanted more and she did. Ryan wanted to feed her, so we let him hold the bottle for a couple minutes while she was on the pillow. Look how proud he was...

She looks like she's thinking, "Are you SURE you know what you're doing??" LOL.

Little chunker

Brooke's arms and legs (especially her legs) are starting to look a little chunky to me : ). The home health nurse was back on Friday and Brooke weighed in at 6lbs. 9oz. So between Tuesday and Friday she gained 2.5oz., so almost an ounce a day : ). Hopefully she'll get back on track with that! She's been eating very well. The spitting up varies, but hasn't been too bad the past few days. Tuesday and Wednesday were really bad. I think she had a slight touch of something, although she didn't even run a fever (thank God because I would have freaked) so who knows. She went back to the chiropractor Friday morning. He said he can definitely feel a difference. She's not as tight as she was. So he said to either bring her back this Wednesday or the following Monday (since the 4th is Friday). She's scheduled to go back Monday.

There's not much else to report! I'll try to add some new pics soon : ).