It seems so long since I last was able to sit down and write something. Every time I try to sit and write I either get interrupted or I am falling asleep. I did attempt to last night but fell asleep on top of my laptop OOPS!!!
Well it’s busy times for sure, but not terribly bad. I am enjoying having Hudson home a lot and he’s so cuddly, really is just awesome holding a newborn baby, just the smell of them and how soft they feel, I love it. I think he’s also getting used to just being held and walked around which I don’t mind holding him but the other two kids need something at all times. Hayden has been extremely good with Hudson, he is very protective and always touches him very gently and knows to wash his hands before touching him, we don’t even have to ask him anymore, he just goes to wash his hands if he wants to stroke his head or something. He gets upset when Hayley isn’t being gentle with him, because Hayley is a bit different, she likes to poke his eyes and if we tell her to be gentle she gets rougher with him, so we have to be a bit more careful with her for sure. They both try to help me out when I am changing Hudsonss diaper… they both want to be the ones to bring me the diaper and wipes and sometimes they fight over who brings me what. Cute, yes but one of them always gets hurt HE! HE! Hayley is now really into dolls and has one that has a bottle and she carries it everywhere with a blankie and the bottle, I think she is totally mimicking me with what I do with Hudson. She’s a total girl really because Hayden wasn’t like that when she was born. Anyways, overall they are doing well, they do get restless because I can’t take them out at all these days because well we don’t have a car that fits all 3 car seats and Hudson has been fighting a small cold and I am waiting for him to get better to take him anywhere really. My family and Chris’s mom come and take the kids out for walks and stuff which is much needed because they need the fresh air. I need the fresh air, but luckily it hasn’t been that great outside anyways so staying in hasn’t been too much of a compromise.
Today well, they are both napping I think anyways. I sent them to their rooms for quiet time, well really to nap, but Hayley kind of uses it as her alone time in her room and just reads books until she falls asleep on the floor. Hayden had a complete meltdown because he couldn’t find some blocks he was looking for, so I said you need sleep, sent him to his room. Hudson is in and out of sleep really. I don’t know how he can sleep with the other two being soooo loud. So now I sit with a moment to write, which usually turns into a book like Chris would say. Since my thoughts are all scattered so is the writing I am sure.
Anyways, Hudson continues to thrive even though as soon as we brought him home he developed a cough, but we have since taken him to his first cardiologist appt and they assured us that he is dealing with his cold very well and it sounds worse than it is and it’s not in his lungs which is really important for him. It has almost been two weeks and he is doing much better. One big thing we have not yet documented is when we decided to take out his NG tube out. It was Friday June 28th so it’s been six days without it and he is doing great. We decided to take it out because he had been drinking from a bottle for 3 days straight and breastfeeding and no need for the NG feeding tube, so we pulled it out and haven’t looked back… I am sure he would thank us and even his cough sounded better when it came out. Overall we think he is more comfortable and so are we since we didn’t need to be so careful accidentally catch it on something it because it’s soo long. So it’s been 6 days and he has been feeding from a bottle every three hours and breastfeeding in between when he wants to. I find breastfeeding is a bit harder for him because he has to work a bit harder to get the initial milk, whereas the bottle it’s right away, but overall he’s doing really well with it. He is gaining appropriate weight. I think today he is 8lbs YIKES!! he was 6lb 15oz at birth, so not too bad, considering he didn’t eat for 3 weeks after birth, well ate but not real food, just IV stuff. We are so amazed at his progress so far and we knows it’s because everyone is still praying for him and us and because he’s our little miracle that God placed in our hands to care for. Everytime I look at him, I am just amazed at what he has already gone through and if you were to see him without opening up his PJ’s and seeing his scar, you wouldn’t know there was anything wrong with him at all. He looks to me like a normal 6 week old baby boy. I sometimes even forget we have to be extra cautious with him in how we hold him because he is still healing, so we can’t pick him up by the armpits just yet because his sternum still needs to fully heal, his scar looks amazing and it’s healed just awesome. I don’t know I sometimes find myself just thinking that he seems like the other two kids and when he’s awake he interacts like a 6week old. I guess obviously the reminders that he really only has half a heart is when we have to give him his medications morning and night and when I open up his PJs but even his scar doesn’t bother me too much, I am almost just sooo proud of it for him because I am soo proud of his endurance and amazing strength. I think right now the only thing that really bugs me is that I know he will need to be cut two more times and that’s hard to handle at times. I mean he is still a working miracle, God isn’t done with him yet, I know that for sure.
Well, it has turned into a mini book and I am sorry for the readers that like the short updates HE!! I leave those up to Chris to make, I like to ramble on about stuff.
My little man calls, he’s awake again, I am sure I’ve missed stuff I wanted to write but can’t think of everything. OH, sleep is a thing of the past HA!!! but somehow we are functioning great. Chris helps me out in the mornings lots before he goes to work and helps give his meds and has breakfast with Hayden because Hayden doesn’t like to sleep in, it’s unheard of for him, so 6:00am. he is up and about already, no chance at sleeping in for me that’s for sure. Also at night time when we have to give meds again and get all 3 kids ready for bed.
OH! one more thing, we also made an executive decision to discontinue giving Hudson one of the drugs that was prescribed to him for stomach reflux, it’s called Ranitidine and really all it is an antacid, like a tums (actually Zantac) he had to have twice a day which we felt is was not needed because he wasn’t throwing up anything for the last 6 days, he has actually kept all his food in, whereas with the NG tube he spat a lot of it out, which was another reason we took it out. So one less thing to have to give to him unnecessarily. He hasn’t gagged or spat up anything since, so we are happy with our decision. Yeah the Dr’s are going to think we are rebels for taking his NG tube out without their permission and now a drug. Well we wouldn’t take away his heart drugs but this one was really not needed.
Ok, he’s getting cranky, must go, until next time.
–Gabby
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