Abby is sleeping in her new (to us) bed in her own room right now. She hasnt spent a night in her own room since she was 4 months old. *sniff* How will I ever sleep tonight? I may have to sneak in her bed with her lol.
I've been on a spending spree and I've finally realized it, that I need to stop. I've bought a ton of yarn & other knitting things. Plans for everything, including things to knit to try and sell. Don't know if that'll ever happen though.
Back to Abby in her bed though -- I have big plans for her room. Well, maybe not so big. I bought a sheet set today for her bed that matches my sling -- I'm getting some mamas on DSD to buy the fabric for me from their JoAnns as I dont' have one around here. I'm going to make curtains for her room and a throw pillow or two. She doesn't have a bedspread on that bed yet -- we have some for her if she needs it but it's summer time here in Louisiana now, so it's not really needed. But I also need to buy that for her room. I can't wait till it's done!
I'll close with this sweet picture of me and my boy :)
Well isn't this just great?
Anyone wanna buy these for me? 8 oz please! Heh.
There's so much that I want to write about, that I need to write about, but I just don't have the time yet. I want to write up Matthew's birth story and everything that hapened in the month following -- all my Lactation visits and more about the mastitis -- I want to write about how Abby is doing so well with everything and how big she seems to me now. Unfortunatly I just don't have the time yet, but stay tuned for some very long posts of my son's birth story and my hosptial stay.
For now you can look at a couple pictures though.
If anyone happened to miss me, I've been in Hell the past month.
Early on the morning of the 28th, Richard and I took a trip to the ER. I had a breast infection. When I got to the ER my temperture was 104.3. The pain was unbearable, the worst I'd ever felt in my life. I had a huge red spot on both breasts and it just kept spreading. My right side was the worst, it was very hard and swollen. IVs were not my friends. Usually no one had any trouble getting my veins. Pain from putting in IVs were hardly noticeable. But not with this infection. I counted 11 picks on my skin from trying to get IVs in. And that's just one arm. When they finally got it in, it came out of the vein the next day, and I needed a new IV. Fun times.
And then my milk and blood cultures came back and I was diagnosed with double mastitis with MRSA infection. This particular bacteria was very nasty. It is resistant to most general antibiotics and creates abcesses. It's also contagious so I was put in contact isolation. I had a 6 cm deep abcess in my boob. It was cut open and drained 5 days after I was admitted. I was finally released a week after going to the ER.
All of this was pain like I'd never known -- nothing at all compared to contractions or delivery. Of course I had epidurals for both of my babies, but labor is no picnic. I was suffering through PPD through all of this at the same time, of course it was worsened by the fact that I was in the hospital for a week and only saw my kids twice.
Wound care was not fun. I didn't need my dressings changed untill 48 hours after surgery, but in the hospital they did it twice a day. Then I was sent home to have home health care come over daily. This was truly the worst experience of my life. It's just been one thing after another that first month.
I'm happy to say now that my wound is healing very quickly, and I'm lucky for that as lactating breasts are not easy to heal. There is no depth to the wound anymore and it just needs a small bandage now. I have alot of scar tissue in my breast still but it is so much better. Unfortunatly because of all of this I am no longer breastfeeding. But I'm happy to have given him about 3 weeks worth of breastmilk. My doctor doubled my PPD meds so I'm feeling much better from that as well.
And today my boy thought his morning bottle was the funniest thing in the world and I'm so glad to have witnessed it.
Abby is doing SO well with Matthew. She loves him so much and wants to help by bringing us his diapers or holding his bottle. She can't get enough kisses either. There is virtually no jealousy (yet) and the only regression is she likes to pretend she's a baby and wants me to rock her or burp her. It's quite funny actually.
Do you have any phobias?
Submitted by Amirul B Ruslan.
Tornados. I am so freaking freaked out about tornados. At night, if there is a big thunderstorm, I cant' stay home. I have to go to my mom's house for the night. Oddly enough, I'm fine with big thunderstorms during the day -- just not at night when I cant see anything. If I stay home I panic and I'm up all night looking out windows and doors, watching TV for tornado warnings and watching the radar on WeatherBug. I just cant' handle it. It's the one drawback of Richard working nights.
Is it Claus or Clause? Been wondering about that for a few days now ...
Here's another random babble -- why doesn't Vox have smileys?
Anyhow. Today was my 35 week appointment. Not much to report cause all they ever do is take my blood pressure, weight, pee & Matthew's heartbeat. I'm actually now 2 lbs heavier than I was when I got pregnant. She (the NP) also said that if I went into labor now they would not stop it. (Please send me labor vibes! I'm so done being pregnant) One more 2 week appointment then I start weekly appointments.
After my appointment we went eat to get some food in Abby in an attempt to get her in a good mood to take Santa pictures. We got to the mall, she saw Santa and made a wide-eyed, jaw dropped face. Last night I showed her pictures of her with Santa from her first Christmas and asked if she would sit with him and take a picture today. She told me okay all night and sounded excited about it.
That is, untill we actually tried to put her on Santa. She clung to Richard like Santa was going to bite her and wouldn't let him go. So I took her to try to talk her into it, or just get her to sit on me next to Santa so we could get the picture (we already paid). She would have none of it and clung to me for dear life. She was NOT letting me go. So .. no Santa pictures this year. I honestly didn't expect her to want to, but I had hoped she would. We got a refund.
After that we picked up my pump from Motherhood. So now all I need to find is a syringe and I have no idea where to get that from. I tried looking at nursing wear but Abby was having a shit fit after Santa, so I didnt' get to look. What I did find was the bookstore closing and everything 50% off so I went looking for a knitting book, couldn't find it but I did find the Sears Baby Book and scored it for only $11!
The stripey slipper from an earlier post -- well it died. I messed up on it, and when I tried to rip, somehow made a knot so I had to cut the yarn and toss it. I started a new one though and I'm now at the heel where I discovered a giant hole from a dropped stitch and another one forming on the row I'm working on from another dropped stitch -- this is what I get for trying to watch House while knitting. So now I have to fix that, figure out the 3 needle bind off, seam the back and I'll have one done!
I was sleeping when R went for the mail, so I just found all of this (not the doll) sitting in my mailbox! Thanks Shannon! I adore the print on the diaper and wipe but you knew that. ;) You did a great job on it! I love it all.
So how many posts do you think I can do in one night?
Just wanted to show off some knitting I've done lately but never blogged -- only to Flickr.
Left to right: Small wool longies for Matthew (LTK Picky pants); LTK Easy Peasy Cardigan in NB size; & what I'm working on right now, LTK stripey slippers. Notice a theme in my patterns?
What's on your holiday wish list?
Serger
Embroidery/Sewing machine
New camera
See I dont' ask for much!
Ugh. I deciede to move my blogging here (for real this time) and I see vox has now added ads. Lovely. Still coming over here though.
I've started having BH contractions -- at first they were maybe once or twice a week, now they're at least once a day and usuall 2-3x a day.
We're going Christmas shopping tomorrow -- and I've just now decieded I want to try to make 4-6 pairs of slippers for Christmas. Actually I need them before Christmas, the Saturday before to be exact. We're doing family Christmas then.
We put the carseat in the car tonight, I've got Matthew's (didja notice me trying to sneak that in? lol) diapers all set up in a Sterilite drawer in our room next to a dresser from my mom (who swears it's at least 100 years old but I think her math is off by about 20 years or so) with his clothes/hats/socks/booties/bibs/burp cloths/small diapers in it and a changing pad on top. Now I just gotta get started on the hospital bag.
All I have left to buy for him is a breastpump and some sort of syringe so if I'm sleeping Richard can use pumped milk to feed him in the syrings -- no bottles for this baby! And a bedrail so he can sleep with us.
We're probably going to set up our twin mattress next to our king bed in our room to make sure we all have room in there. I also have about a dozen diapers (small) left to make. Funny, used to be 36, then it went down to 20 (diaper shower from http://www.diapersewingdivas.com )and now I'm down to a dozen and I'll just buy some regular size prefolds to supplement.
Sorry for the blurbyness of this post... my belly is uncomfortably tight and I'm uncomfortably hot in this room right now and heading out.
