Hiccups

Its funny how one little thing can remind you about how important another little thing is.

Today we forgot Jillian's passy at home. I had a second one in the car and brought it in the diaper bag with us but Jillian did not ask for it so I did not give it to her. She uses he passy to help with her reflux. We get comments from people sometime about it but for her it really helps and the less reflux that comes up the less of it that ends up in her lungs. If a passy helps, trust me it will cost a lot less to pay for braces to "fix" her teeth later then for what happens when stuff comes from her stomach and ends up in her lungs. No, she can not have a passy forever and at some point we will have to get rid of it, but for now it is still really helpful, so it stays. We incurage her to use it when she is really struggling with her reflux but I make her take it out if she is going to talk to me.

I was at work helping train the new 4K teachers for a couple of hours today. Jillian at first wanted to go play with her friends but then decided she wanted to be by me. She hung out playing in my old room with toys and such. On the way home she realized that she did not have a passy. I told her I would get her one once we were home. It was an interesting car ride between her pump erroring 1/2 of the way home and her bummed about not having a passy. When we got home she found her's quickly, but not before getting the hiccups. She has gotten hiccups 4 separate times since we got home. For Jillian hiccups is one of those things that you can tell her reflux is bad, because she tends to only get them when she has reflux issues and you could tell her reflux was a little bit more of a struggle for her tonight. It just reminded me how much her passy really does help her and how for her, yes part of it is comfort, but for her it also really helps her body, and for that keeping her passy around is worth it to me.

On a side note, I am also grateful that she is taking a couple of different brands now. Tommie Tippee switched the shape of their passy a while back and I think the quality of them went down a lot with the change too (I can compare them side by side since I bought every one of the old style I could and she has been interchangeably using the old and the new style for a while now, but I think we are finally out of the old style) The new ones are fine, just not as good as the old ones were. For Easter my mom bought Jillian a collection of different brands to see if she would take any others (we had tried in the past and it had not worked) she HATED all of the ones my mom bought her and will not suck any of them. One day I was at Babies R Us and they had the Gumdroup brand passy in the old Tommee Tippee style so we gave it a try. She LOVES them and they hold up longer, however I can only find them at babies r us. We also tried the Nuk brand and she is ok with them, they are not her favorite ones but she takes them unlike most of the other brands out there, she does like that they have Minnie Mouse ones (how we got her to try it in the first place) sadly their quality is about as good as the new Tommee Tippee ones but they are at more stores and cheaper. Passy is an important thing at our house, something I said no child of mine would have past age one.... back before I was a parent :)

Jilli sleeping in her car seat with her Elsa doll Great Grandma Nancy got her from the Avon catalog (yes I still LOVE her Evenflo Symphony DLX car seat and with her only being 24lb and 33in tall she will be able to stay rear facing, which is by far safest, for a long time since is goes to 40lb rear facing, and we still have not had to move the head part up to the second level)

She posed for a selfie with me after I got my hair cut this weekend

Also, a sweet story of the night, Jilli and I were talking tonight about how 3 more people signed up for Team Jilli today and I asked her as a joke how she was doing at raising money... she told me I could take her piggy bank with her money! It melted my heart and was so sweet. She is only two but willing to give up her piggy bank. I told her it was OK, that she could keep saving her piggy bank for collage and I would help her out :)