Sitting around on my day off waiting for the supplies truck to arrive. It is like getting cable installed or a new appliance delivered... they will be here sometime today... I am looking at having it changed so supplies are delivered to my work so I don't have to spend every-other Tuesday at home, plus the next two Tuesdays that they are suppose to deliver Jillian has a doctors appointment.
So while we wait we are getting other things done. First thing this morning Jillian had her ultrasound of her kidneys. I was surprised at how well she did. For the other ultrasounds she has had she has screamed like crazy. Today she kept a close eye on the woman but she only made a few little noises and enjoyed grabbing the cord for the wand and holding onto the washcloth the tech used to wipe up her one side after she was done (thus getting the goo all over). I'm not sure if it is the fact that they were not pushing on her stomach today or if she was just in a better mood, I'm just grateful it was not a scream fest :) They said her doctor should get the results today or tomorrow.
We also got our first call back from GI today. I called yesterday to let them know the weekend went well as to see what the plan is now. They called back today and said that the doctor wants us to run the pump for 10hours instead of 9 at 42ml/hr. I thought about that as we went on with the conversation about how often Jillian is getting weighed at a doctors office and before the nurse hung up I asked her how much we would be putting in the pump during the 10 hours and she said another 42ml. This made really question the new plan. Jillian had a hard time with an increase of 15ml, how is she going to do an increase of 42ml. Also Jillian eats at 8am, 11am, 2pm, 5pm and 8pm, to get 10 hours on the pump and me still get to work on time we would need to start the pump at 8pm, however she gets a bottle with 45ml in it at 8pm. I know that she will not be able to handle this schedule. The nurse then says that we might cut out her 8pm feeding then, however that puts us -2ml instead of up 15ml like we were trying. She then decided that she would send nutrition a note and they will call me. So we wait...
Jillian has been having a good day. She had a good size choke this morning with her bottle and food ended up coming out (just as we were getting ready to walk out the door). After we went to the ultrasound I stopped at work to pick up milk because I had forgotten everything I pumped yesterday there. When we got back I put her in her swing so I could eat and pump. After I was done pumping I came back into the livingroom to a nasty smell. I had just been working on cleaning Jillian's lunch box from thirty-one bags that had a bag of breast milk open in it this weekend (note, they are not liquid prof and liquid will leak out everywhere from them). I thought the smell was bad food from this weekend since we had been gone at a wedding from Friday afternoon til Sunday night. I started looking for a dirty dish and came by Jillian to realize the smell was coming from her diaper. These days I have a love/hate relationship with her poop. Since going on fortified breast milk she does not poop consistently so it is a relief when she poops however the smell of it now is a bit much to handle!
Well it is just about time for the 2pm bottle. I need to wake the little girl who is sleeping on my chest
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