Sleep Deprived!!!!!

I started this post out today with the title like I always do and you would be surprised at home many "sleep" posts I've created. :-) When I start to enter "sleep" into the title bar they all pop up as possible options...

We slept very little last night. First off Jonah didn't sleep hardly at all at daycare, but then we went to Tyler's wrestling meet at North Tama. We didn't get home until 9 and then tried to get him to go to sleep. We had him down by 10 and he was up at 10:30, again at 11:45, and 1:00. We were up from 1:00-3:00-- wide awake- and then we had to wake him up at 6:45 b/c it was time to go already. It was SUPER hard to get up this morning, when my alarm went off at 6:00.
Busy weekend leaves no room for relaxing and naps... so we'll see how the start of next week goes.
I'm ready for the cry it out method..... josh isn't.

To make matters more stressful, my milk supply is running on low/empty. We have 5 oz in the freezer for tomorrow's daycare supply. That will go with whatever I am able to get today. He's drinking straight formula in bottles in the evening and before bed and then nursing in the middle of the night if necessary. I think I'm about out.... last night he wanted to nurse several times and never seemed to be getting very much, however, he was so tired he'd just fall asleep in my arms while rocking with a pacifier. Doesn't help 2 hrs later when he's still hungry and whining.
Hopefully we can keep it going for at least another month. Get him going on cereal or solids mixed with whatever I can pump. I'll be making more stops into the daycare in the next few days, dropping off what I get throughout the day. :-(

Oh well. At least we've made it this long.... one bonus to not breastfeeding... I can take medication for my ailments... I can't take anything for my head cold b/c it will effect my milk supply. So.. I deal with it... no sleep isn't helping my supply or my cold.

Kim

New Tricks

He has a new "motor boat" sound that he likes to make.



I also have evidence that he is going to be a techie like me....
coming soon...

Jonah update - feeling better

We are all home today due to the wonderful winter weather. At least I got to go yesterday. :-)

Jonah is doing WORLDS better than he was last week at this time. He has his appetite back and is sleeping well. Last night he slept from 8:15-1:30, and then 1:45-5:30. He slept again from 7:15-8:20 while we ate breakfast and gave him his neb treatment. He's played in his saucer, on the floor (sitting with his boppy around him) and in his bumbo infront of the big mirror in our bedroom. :-) He loves to see himself in the mirror. It is TONS of fun to stand infront of the bathroom mirror. It splits into 3, so he can see 3 babies and 3 mommies! He laughs and kicks his feet.

He's slept well this whole past week, from 8ish through 5ish, maybe getting up 1 or 2x to snack, but we've gotten less sleep due to getting up for the nebs. Last night we slept, well kind of slept. Josh and I are getting colds, Josh's worse than mine. However it effects me just the same... snoring, rolling over, coughing, blowing nose, etc through the night. I've got 2 JRs to take care of now. :-)

THANKS for all the prayers... they have definitely worked!

Kim

Doing Better

It is Saturday evening (6:15) and Jonah is happily sleeping on mom's lap. I'm afraid to move him since sleep is one of the ways to recover. He's eaten a total of 7 oz bm from a bottle today, 1 oz of pedialyte, and nursed for 5 minutes.
He's had his nebs every 4 hrs as prescribed and taken at least 3 30 min naps. Seems pretty happy, except when he's getting a neb treatment.

Last night he slept from 10:00 until 4:30am, up for about 45 min, then back asleep until 8. We however were up every 4 hours to do the neb treatments and I was up for those 45 min with Jonah.
We are slowly but surely getting better with all the meds, loving, and prayers. THANKS!

Keep'em coming!!

Kim, Josh, and Jonah

Jonah Update 3:00pm

After talking to my mom and Josh, they said that Jonah's ox level was up to 99 again. He has only lost a few ounces again, which is better than I would have thought. His hydration level was good too.
We need to do more sucking out of his nose. Using saline to get it loosened up first. We got a prescript for more nebs and told that he can go to daycare unless he is running a temp. So, plans are we will be going on Monday, he also has another dr. appt scheduled for Monday afternoon in case we need it. If he is doing better and his coughing is down/gone then we can call and cancel it.

So GOOD NEWS!!! God is good! THANKS for your prayers!!

Kim, Josh, and Jonah

and grandmas too!

Jonah Update 10:45am

I just got off the phone with my mom and Jonah seems to be doing okay. Happy at least. He took about an hour nap. Has eaten a little more. I guess he threw up after Josh gave him his predisolone today. So that's not in his system... ugh!
He has another appointment at 1:40 today. I'll hopefully be able to post about that too.

I'm at school working my tail off to get this TAG pork supper ready. I just went and bought two more loins b/c when I counted up my pre-sold tickets we'd only be able to have 100 walk ins. With it being a special "fight cancer night" at the games, there being 4 games tonight, and a lot of kids saying that they didn't sell them, but they know people are coming... that makes us a little nervous if we have enough.

Hopefully it will all go off without a hitch. :-)
PRAYERS: 1) Jonah gets better and starts eating more
2) This TAG supper goes well so I can start thinking about my son as #1!

love
Kim

RSV for sure

2:00ish:
So, I just got off the phone with Grandma Denise and the nurses at People's Clinic and this is what we know right now:

- He is positive for RSV
- His pulse ox has gone down quite a bit. From the 11th at 99-98, 18th- 97-96, to today 90.
- He needs to take the Neb every 4 hrs no matter what, he has to use the mask, not the blow by tube. The blow by tube doesn't do enough for him.
- He needs to continue to take the predisolone that Dr. Wickam prescribed on Monday.
- He has lost weight since last Monday. He is now 14 and a qtr lbs. (whatever oz that comes out to be)
- He is refusing to eat for us, only ate 9 oz yesterday, only had 3 oz from 9am-2pm today- gma is pushing for it now
- He needs to go back for sure tomorrow, Josh is going to take him in.

- We need to give him tylenol to keep him comfortable so that he's eat. He doesn't have a temp. probably just achy and sore throat.
- We are going to try pedialyte tonight, the milk may be too thick for him/makes him gag.
- We need to record everything-- diapers & kind, when eats/how much, behaviors, neb times/reactions, etc.
- We need to watch for breathing patterns, call if anything is out of the ordinary.

Grandma Denise came down today to watch him for us, Grandma Jane is doing it tomorrow.

Please send up a little (or big) prayer for him tonight.
THANKS!