Reagan got sick last night. She had a little coughing spell about an hour after she went to bed. Brendan asked if she was just coughing or threw up. I didn't think anything sounded out of the ordinary so I said she was just coughing.
Then about 30 minutes later when I was ready to go to bed I opened up the door and was greeted by the smell of stomach acid. I immediately grabbed the flashlight and inspected the crib. Yup, sure enough, Reagan threw up and it was everywhere. Bless her heart, she was sleeping in her vomit and was not protesting at all!
I immediately gave her a bath b/c the vomit was all in her hair, eyes, ears, you name it. Brendan put new sheets on the crib and then we put Reagan back to bed. An hour later, she was up vomiting again. For the rest of the night she slept with me in bed and only threw up once more. No idea why this happened. She never had a fever and today she has been eating and is in a great mood.
I'm thankful it was just a little bug b/c she has ear tube surgery Wednesday and if she's even remotely sick, they won't do it. I'm praying that we make it to Wednesday with no sickness and that the surgery goes well.
I won't be there for the surgery though. I have clinicals that day. Reagan is having her surgery at Children's Hospital and my clinicals are at Children's Hospital only we will be in different wings and on different floors. Of course as a mother I am not happy about this situation, but if we waited till a Friday was available when I would be able to be there, we'd be waiting another 2 weeks. I'm more concerned about Reagan getting the tubes asap. I'm praying my clinical instructor will let me go and see her when the surgery is done. My hopes aren't high that I'll be able to visit her, but it's worth a shot. Clinicals are pretty strict and I'm basically a practicing nurse so of course I can't just up and leave my patient that day.
In other news, Reagan had her one year old check up yesterday and the stats are in:
Then about 30 minutes later when I was ready to go to bed I opened up the door and was greeted by the smell of stomach acid. I immediately grabbed the flashlight and inspected the crib. Yup, sure enough, Reagan threw up and it was everywhere. Bless her heart, she was sleeping in her vomit and was not protesting at all!
I immediately gave her a bath b/c the vomit was all in her hair, eyes, ears, you name it. Brendan put new sheets on the crib and then we put Reagan back to bed. An hour later, she was up vomiting again. For the rest of the night she slept with me in bed and only threw up once more. No idea why this happened. She never had a fever and today she has been eating and is in a great mood.
I'm thankful it was just a little bug b/c she has ear tube surgery Wednesday and if she's even remotely sick, they won't do it. I'm praying that we make it to Wednesday with no sickness and that the surgery goes well.
I won't be there for the surgery though. I have clinicals that day. Reagan is having her surgery at Children's Hospital and my clinicals are at Children's Hospital only we will be in different wings and on different floors. Of course as a mother I am not happy about this situation, but if we waited till a Friday was available when I would be able to be there, we'd be waiting another 2 weeks. I'm more concerned about Reagan getting the tubes asap. I'm praying my clinical instructor will let me go and see her when the surgery is done. My hopes aren't high that I'll be able to visit her, but it's worth a shot. Clinicals are pretty strict and I'm basically a practicing nurse so of course I can't just up and leave my patient that day.
In other news, Reagan had her one year old check up yesterday and the stats are in:
weight 17 lbs 10 oz (5%)
height 28.5 in (between 10-25%)
I included the percentiles to give you an idea of where Reagan falls on the growth chart. She's a peanut like her sister was. In fact, their stats are almost identical. Reagan's only a half pound heavier than Ruthie was at a year old.
Reagan is now almost walking exclusively. She will try and walk somewhere first. If/when she falls she will then crawl the rest of the way. I'd definitely say in the next week or two we will have an official walker.
We took the bottle away Dec. 31st and haven't looked back. Also that night we stopped giving her a middle-of-the-night feed. We had two nights of crying, but that was it. She doesn't wake up at night at all anymore.
Reagan has also been picking up on some sign language I've been teaching her. I mainly do feeding cues so Reagan can tell us when she's hungry, thirsty or all done. It's so amazing to see her understand what I'm saying and doing. I've only been doing this for a week and she has picked it up already!
In Ruthie news, she's happy, healthy, and full of energy. In other words, back to herself!! I'm discovering that I don't know a lot about parenting a preschooler. We have been having some discipline issues and I'm trying my best to handle them with patience and love. I've begun reading, "Let the Children Come Along the Virtuous Way" in hopes of not just changing Ruthie's behavior, but changing her heart. She really is a very sweet girl who is just acting like a normal 4 year old. I'm the one who doesn't know what to do with that!
I'd love to say I've kept my patience, but I haven't. Yesterday was a rough day for Ruthie and I from the start. We ended the night forgiving each other. It was really sweet. I tucked Ruthie in bed and apologized for yelling at her that day. {I'm not a perfect parent although I'd like to be} She apologized for not being a good listener and having a bad attitude. Then she said, "Now we've forgiven each other and can move on."
God love her! I have a feeling Ruthie is going to be teaching me a lot more than I will be teaching her. :)
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