I have enjoyed being able to be home with both of my babies-- it has been nice to be able to take Mara to school and to pick her up. I get to see my Mara when she gets up in the morning, I also get to see my sweet hubby when he wakes up too!! I can not believe that it has already been 5 weeks, I am almost done with my maternity leave, I will be very sad when the day come that I have to leave and go back to work full time ( May 19th) next Monday
Jonah has been a great help by taking care of me, Mara and Jackson. He has surprised me!!
Mara is a great Big Sister!!!! She wants to hold Jackson anytime day or night, she wants to help me do everything for him: feed him, bath him, change him, soothe him-- everything!!!
Now my sweet little Jackson.......
Jackson has had a very hard time with his weight. I tried everything to get him to gain weight, I ended up having to take him off of Breast feeding/ breast milk and go to straight formula from the direction of my pediatrician. He just wasn't gaining weight, in fact he was loosing it.
Jackson got down to 5 pounds 11 ounces- that is when I switched over. I have been very frustrated and very concerned with him not gaining weight. He was eating 2 ounces every 2 hours and not weight gain.
On Saturday ( 4/26 ) I went in to the drs. office and was told to go to Primary Children's Hospital to have his blood drawn to find out what was going on, when we arrived and was taken into the ER room the doctors started running around very frantically- they said that he was septic.They ended up placing the IV in his head ( the best place for veins) after trying three other placing, they drew ALOT of Blood and urine samples, they then found that he had a very bad UTI- they then did a Spinal Tap- making sure that the infection hadn't gotten into his spinal fluid. Needless to say I was a little panic-y.
Jackson was admitted and was taken upstairs. So poor Jackson was in the hospital from Saturday at 12 until today at 12- I felt horrible, I still do.
he had a Ultrasound on his Kidneys- to see if his kidneys had any abnormalities and then a procedure that injected dye into his bladder to see if his urine was backing up into his kidneys- they both came back normal-everything came back normal except the UTI.
The doctors figured out that the UTI was keeping him from gaining weight his body was taking all of the nutrients he was getting from the food and using it to try to fight the infection. in 3 days Jackson gained quite a bit a weight-- he went from 6 lbs. 1 ounce to 6 lbs. 81/2 ounces -- when we got home from the hospital I weighed him and he weighed 6 lbs. 14 ounces-- yeah!!!!!he is now currently weighing in at 8 lbs. 6 oz. so that is over 2 pounds in 2 weeks.
So pretty much a stopped nursing for no reason:( in less than a week I lost ALL of my milk, I was( still am) devastated. I am going to be trying to get it back through a few different ways.
***the most important thing is that Jackson is okay***
look at those little legs
Jonah and Mara
