ashley_ireland

amusing conversation

2008-05-05T17:26:57Z

Okay, I cancled the apointment with the obtomogrest, cause they specalize in giving out glasses, and made an apointment with a retna specialest since I have ROp, and they will be the best in giving an acquarate ocular asesment. I call and the secretary says, you know, we only specialize in eye conditions having to do with the retna. Keep in mind I'd already specified that I have ROP. I said I know, and I'm totally blind, and I don't need glasses cause there isn't any hope of me ever getting my vision back. I think I kind of made her feel bad, but I was laughing when I said that because I found it humorious that people were having issues with a blind person making an eye appointment. I've been to an eye doctor before of course, but not in this state, and I've never had to make my own appointment because the last time I went I was with my grandmother.

funny

2008-05-02T14:46:48Z

well, of course I said yesterday that in order for me to get disability services to work with me at Uni, I need to get an obtomotrist to look at my eyes and give me an ocular asesment. When I called and told the secretary I was totally blind and need an eye checkup and the doctor to fill out an ocular asesment she said, but your blind. I felt like saying duh like a child, but I refrained from doing so. I explained to her my situation, and then she asked, are you sure you need to see an eye doctor, I said yeah and she made the apointment, although I still think she was confused. lol.

ramblings

2008-05-02T02:50:45Z

Well, today was a good day. My husband had the day off so we went out to red Lobster for dinner. I had pop corn shrimp and shrimp scampie along with mashed potatoes, and I brought hom a piece of New York Cheesecake with strawberries on top. We came home, I fed Caitlyn a bottle, then my husband installed some regestry software on my computer and cleaned up my regestry and stuff. After that we went on a walk to the post office. I'd never gone there before but we went right past the collar general which I know how to get to and we kind of confused Ireland cause she wanted to go in since that is usually where we go, but I got her to go passed and we went to the dpost office and she did well. On the way home though she stopped and did number two business on the sidewalk which was bad. She'd had a chance to do that before we left and only went number one, but she was doing so well on her walk I didn't scold her too much. My guide dog rainer said once we are back in school and have a set roteen again she will be back to doing her business only when she's told like she use to.

We came home and my husband's computer wouldn't restart windows. Apparently the program tried to fix his rebute system or something, I know nothing about computers, anyway, it wouldn't restart windows and when he tried to restore his system to factory it wouldn't, so he has to call hp tomorrow.

My husband looked online to see which optamologist I could go to for my eye appointmet so I can get disability services at the university. They need an ocular asesment in order to get accomidations.
Well, I'm of to read a little before bed.

I probably shouldn't have saida wrd.

2008-04-28T19:29:45Z

I swear, I wasn't going to say anything, but it bugged me when my husband left for work and didn't wish me a happy birthday Kind of childish huh, anyway, he called me, and by this time three friends had caled me to say happy birthday and I was irked that my husband hadn't said anything, and knowing that I won't see him until around midnight I foolishly said, You know you haven't wished me a happy birthday? He said. I'm sorry dear, in a voice that wasn't pleased with me, but I wasn't awake when I left this morning, and I would have remembered before the day was over. I know, stupid, stupid me. I only can hope that he doesn't come home and get mad at me for saying anything, cause I don't want to argue.

a day in the life of me.

2008-04-26T21:16:11Z

Well, today has been boring. I started Caitlyn on vegies and I don't think she is happy about the idea. I had to pretend like I was going to eat them before she'd think about opening her mouth and once I put the spoon in I think she spit most of it out. I fed her a jar of green beans though even though half of it got on her bib and her face, and her, but at least some of it is in her stomach.

I want to go do something, but I have noone to go do anything with. Sad huh, but since I moved here I had a baby, so haven't had a chance to get out and make friends and since my husbands family had estranged themselves from us, or only comes around when they want something, well, I have noone.
My birthday is going to be boring. Husband has to work so I'll be home with Caitlyn, doing nothing. I did get $175 from my aunt and Uncle and grandpa, and my mother sent me a birthday card. I was shocked. She hasn't bought me anything for my birthday in over five years, maybe she's trying to suck up so she can stay in my house if she ever comes and visits, which by the way, I won't let her do because she's famous for steeling, but that's a story for another time.

My husband doesn't me flying far with Caitlyn yet, but I told him I need to get out before I go nuts. My brother and sister in law were supposed to come see me in June, but can't, or won't, because my brother doesn't want to drive twelve hours, so I'm going to fly to Dalas which is a two hour flight, and then ride in a car with them for three hours to there little town. I could take two flights but I don't want to take one of thos little comuter planes with a guidedog and a baby by myself just yet. I'm glad I will be going in June cause I get to see my sister-in-law, I'm not really inthused about seeing my brother, sad, I know, but he doesn't like me, and we end up arguing if we are around each other a lot. He blames me for my mothers issues when we were growing up, but that's another story for anothet time. lIfe is full of stories huh. Someone told me once I should write an autobiography, and with all I've seen and went through I'd make it big. I'm not that talented though.

Awe, the point of this entry went out of the window, but my fingers usually to the talking anyway, so whatever. Boy, this entry sounds like I'm in a bad mood but I'm not. My husband is less cranky lately, he's noticing me, finally, and I have a beautiful daughter. I'm just bored.

ashley_ireland @ 2008-04-25T11:52:00

2008-04-25T16:58:17Z

Well, my little girl is growing. She is seven months old and 15 pounds 14 ounces. Most people would say this is small for a seven month old baby, but when your child comes prematurily and is two pounds six ounces, 15 pounds 14 ounces is huge. You can't even tell she was born early. Since spring is here she doesn't have to go in for her senergious shot anymore til next fall when flew and cold season start up again.

The nurse practitioner said that her pushing her food out of her mouth at this stage is still fine, it will take a while for her to get use to eating. She is a little behind still because she isn't sitting up yet and she hadn't tried crawling until today. We were sitting in the doctors examining room when all of a sudden she put her legs under her and moved eight inches. Then she got tired and collapsed onto her stomach. The doctor just laughed cause we were just discussing her not crawling yet. She hasn't tried again, but it will only be a matter of time.

Well, nothing much to say. It is a lovely day out, for once, so my husband and I are going to put Caitlyn in her stroller and Ireland is going to get to go on a walk and work. I think she'll be a little rusty cause she hasn't worked for a bit cause of the bad weather and me not being able to take the baby for walks in the cold.
Well, my birthday is on Monday. I don't think I'm going to do much since my husband has to work, but I think we'll go out on Thursday of next week. I told him we ned to find a babysitter so we can have some alone time. He says he doesn't want to leave Caitlyn with someone quite yet cause she is still to young. He said once I go back to school in the fall he will feel confortable, but not yet. I thought to myself, we will never have time alone. lol. Awe well, hugs to all.

baby news

2008-04-06T17:54:01Z

Well, Caitlyn can roll over onto her stomach now with no trouble. Her problem, she can't roll back onto her back yet so she cries for mommy after a bit to roll her over. She's still having trouble taking food off the spoon, and sometimes she sticks her tongue out when I'm trying to stick the spoon in her mouth. Well, she's crying again so I have to go and see if she neds rolling over again, I let her try and figure it out for herself for a bit but eventually I help her.

Another milestone for Caitlyn

2008-04-03T13:57:04Z

Well, we started Caitlyn on baby food. Th doctor wanted us to start her on rice cereal, but it was to bland and she didn't like it, so we mixed it in applesauce and she loves applesauce. The only problem we're having is getting her to eat off a spoon. Once you finally get the spoon in her mouth, she doesn't wrap her lips around it like I've seen other baby's do, but she swishes the fod around then swallows it. I was concerned, thinking she wasn't ready for solids, but the pedatritian said she'd be fine. I hope she's right. She hasn't had a reaction to thefood or anything and she likes applesauce so I guess we'll see what happens. We are going to let her get used to eating applesauce before moving onto her next fruit.

good news with some frustrations thrown into the mix

2008-03-29T18:45:12Z

First, if you don't want to read rambling or ranting, don't read. If you read this entry you can honestly tell me if I'm of my rocker.
Well yesterday Caitlyn had her six month checkup. She wieghed 15 pounds, 2 ounces and was 26 inches long. The doctor said we could start her on rice cereal and then on fruits a couple weeks after, followed by vegies then meat. Feeding her by a spoon is going to be intresting at first. I heard from my sister in law that some babies don't like eating by spoon, and they especially don't like rice cereal. I hope Caitlyn doesn't put up to much of a fuss. Caitlyn is playing more with her toys and laughing more, so she is well on her way to catching up.

Now to the frustrations. My husband just took over a store, his assistant is on vacation, and he is currently looking for people to become shift managers because they don't have enough people to run shifts. Good news about his job, more pay, and this is something that he has always wanted. Eventually he will be able to make a schedulethat will allow him to be home more with Caitlyn and me, but right now it is hard. He had to open and close on Thursday and wake up at seven thirty yesterday morning to take Caitlyn to the checkup. we thought we'd be out by nine, but we weren't home til ten, he had to be in at work at one si he took a bath to relax and took a short nap. Then he has a busy night and comes home at two-thirty. I had just put Caitlyn down a half an hour before he got home. She had been irratzble because of her shots and finally calmed down. My husband comes in and turns on the movie he had been watching previously. I just turned over and tried to block out the sound and the light from the TV, then he starts watching some comedy toteen for a few minutes after the movie is over and is laughing, keeping me awake. He said he needed to wind down. I pointed out that I had to get up with Caitlyn in three or four hours so to turn it off. He did and we went to sleep.
Naturally he is tired, we were supposed to go to the store to buy stuff and we didn't cause he didn't get up til noon and he had to be in at one. When he said we'd go shopping on Monday I pointed out that we were running out of things and his responce was we ran out of easy things to make, but we have chicken in the freezer to make, not that we have stuff to flavor it with cause we haven't gone to the store, and we have ribs. I said I could have made ribs but there were enough for the two of us so I was saving them, then I said that some things just didn't go together and he said, food is food, eat it. I got angry, maybe I shouldn't have, but the phone rang, saving me from coment.

Maybe I'm just on edge cause I haven't had alone time since Caitlyn came home, and me and my husband haven't had time together for a while now. I love him, I really do, but sometimes I think that he thinks his work is more important then what I do here. When I said i had to get up in a few hours with Caitlyn he said that is parenthood, but he never gets up with her, his responce to that was he works all day. Mind you, I'm just rambling and I'm probably just on edge and making to much of the situation, and yes, I'll talk to him if we are ever around each other for more than sleeping, but I'm frustrated. I love my daughter, and I love my husband, but he works so hard and I understand that, but the selfish part of me thinks that sometimes he thinks more about work then he does us cause even when he is home he talks about work. When I pointed this out he said that's because its my job. My husband can be a very sweet man, kind, patient, and I know he loves me, he just hasn't shown it much lately. Enough rambling, Caitlyn is trying to pull her toys down from her kick and play and eat them so I'm going to go.

news about life and dreams

2008-03-27T18:35:09Z

Hi all:
Well, things have been crazy. Husband has worked eighty hour weeks because his assistant is on vacation and they don't have enough managers to cover all the shifts. He offically got promoted so now he is the boss of his own store much to the consternation of some of his employies. I'm happy for him, but Caitlyn and i miss him.

I filled out my FaFSa and I hope i will get some money so I can go to college this august. I haven't regestered yet but I'm sure I'll get my regestration packet soon. I' a little worried though. I'm majoring in music education, and as a totally blind person who can play the piano by reading music if I have the chance to memorize it, but other than that I suck at the piano, wel, I'm nervious. The music braille code is hard, writting it isn't hard, reading it mostly isn't hard except really difficult peaces. Its analyzing music peaces and writting down the answers for a sighted person to understand that is hard. I want to keep music education as my major, but I don't wantto end up in the situation that I was in before where things got really hard and I didn't do so well, for you sighted people, if you have a three or four page peace of music it ccan be eight to ten pages maybe even more, depending on the peace of music. The problem I have with analyzing music is I don't see everything at once like one would if they were looking at the music so I don't see how everything fits together. Then you have to mark where keys change, sequences, and all this other stuff that I won't go into. The point is, I don't want to go into it and then fail again. I made it through a year and a half of theory before I quit because I had an unhelpfull teacher and I was frustrated.
IIf I can't continuing majoring in music ed I will teach something else, but music ed has always been my dream. I only hope something will work out.

Caitlyn is doing well, she is growing more and more each day. she rolled over by herself for the first time yesterday. she hasn't done it again, but maybe she will son.

Ireland is good. We took her with us out yesterday now that my husband has cleaned his car, and she did well. Since only two people read this, or if more do they don't coment, I'll say thinks to the two who do leave coments. I will write soon when something exciting happens. lol

hi friends

2008-03-04T13:58:58Z

Hi:
Caitlyn is thirteen pounds, twelve ounces! She's growing bigger every day and she is so cute when she coos. If she cries I will pick her up and if she just wats to be held she will coo and if I tell her to say mama my husband she she smiles all big and she coos. Its so sweet. She still isn't holding her head up for very long, but the doctor isn't overly concerned yet since she tequnickly should only be two months old. Once she holds her head up crawling shouldn't be an issue because she already tries scooting.
I put in my application for UNA last week so I hope I get in. I just hope I won't have as much trouble with college at this universit as I did with my last comunity college. The last college sometimes got my books late even when I gave them the printed copy plenty early before term to get it brailled. Because of late books I had to retake classes and stuff. I hope this school wil give me books in braille instead or etext of on tape because the etext most of the time doesn't have page numbers and has a whole bunch of typos. I'm going to start out majoring in choral secondary education. Basiclly its music education but more having to do with choirs. If my professors are like my last ones, not wanting to accomidate me but having to because I'm blind, and making my life hell while in there class, which eventually makes me not do well because of their lack of help, then I will major in something else related to teaching. I will teach though. I just hope its music.
Other then al that not much going on here. Ireland did her business inthe mall for the first time in three years. She's never gone in a building before. I was so mad. She is getting bored though cause with the weather I can't take caitlyn it it to walk to long cause its cold, and my husband hasn't had a day off in forever. Hopefully he will doon.
Well, Caitlyn wants a bottle so I will leave you. Happy birthday to bubbles

gifts

2008-02-17T16:43:57Z

Well, Valentines day was perfect. My husband got me some golden heart shaped dangling earings, and he cleaned and polished my mothers pearls that she gave m for my weeding. I wored a red dress and he got all dressed up and we went to the Oliv garden for diner. I love Italian food! Caitlyn fell asleep in the car and stayed asleep throughout dinner. The strangest thing happened though. Someone, we have no idea who, but someone paid for our meals. It was nice, but strange. Davy said it was because i looked so nice. I thought maybe it was someone who knew I was blind and felt sorry or what not, but he said that our backs were to them so he and his wife didn't see me. I wonder what his wife thought when the man paid for our bil lol. Well, Caitlyn is babbling in her kick and play so I think I'm going to dind a nice fanfic to read. problem is that I relt like I've read every fic out there. lol, so someone start writting a fabulous fic with action, romance, and ankst which makes a wonderfull epic novel. Lol! Ireland is nudging me with her toy so I guess I will go and tug for a bit.

baby news and life

2008-02-12T22:20:35Z

Well, first the good news. Caitlyn is at least twelve and a half pounds. We took her to the cardiologist last week to check out her heart to make sure her PDA was gone and her heart looked fine. I only wish we didn't have to drive two hours just to have a five minute visit.
Other god news. My husband has been given his own store. Yye! That means bonus for him and a pay rais, which with a four month old that eats six ounces of formula, special formula called niosher that is 15.34 dollars, the money will be welcome. We are celebrating her sixth month birthday in

life

2008-01-08T19:09:32Z

Well, Caitlyn wieghs nine pounds nine ounces. She gained two pounds in two weeks. The doctor is very pleased. Ten pounds five ounces is the lowest wieght on the curve for a full-term baby, so she is almost there.

I'm a little worried. I moved to Alabama in August, went into the hospital for pre-term labo in September. Cane hime in the 19th of September. I was told not to work my dog for six to ieght weeks so that I didn't accidentally pull something out os wack and damage myself. Then I went to see caitlyn in hospital which was two hours away, and finally brought her home in november, but, she wasn't alloud to leave the house until ieght weeksunless it was necessary which is tomorrow. All of this means that I haven't learned a route with Ireland, my guidedog yet. This is bad, cause the field rep inmy area wants to come and do my anual review. Usually I'm prapared, but things go wrong. I don't know if she somehow knows that a guidedog rep is going to be watching us work, but Ireland does everything wrong on her work when an instructor is around. Normally I have a destination to go to. I started learning my way to the dollar store and a couple more times should do it, but I'm not one-hundred percent yet. The field rep said we'd do what we could, but I still am worried. I know they won't take her from me, but just once I'd like her to be on good behavior when GDB is here. It makes me look bad when she is bad, and most of the time she works all right. She has her of days but most days she is fine. I haven't had a good review yet with her, but I haven't considered retiring her cause she works for me when I'm working her with no one around. I really hope it goes well. The rep said we'd just walk around and stuff.
I hope, just this once, that we have a posative review cause I need something ood to come out of it.

Well, that is al for now.

Baby update

2007-12-26T17:16:09Z

Well, Caitlyn was home on November 14th, and since then sleep has been spuradic. We feed her when she wants to be fed for now so she will gain wair. She was originally due six days ago, and dhe is the size of a newborn. seven pounds, twelve ounces. She is healthy and growing morw and more each day.
I hope all had a wonderfull hollidays.
Ashley

acceptionally wonderfull baby news!

2007-11-18T22:28:07Z

Well, Caitlyn came home on Wednesday.
They had us room in at the hospital the night before. She is on a breathing monator, just because she was having some times during her feedings where she would take too much milk in her mouth and then swallow and choke, so they have her on it. We have changed her feeds from the hospitals every four hours to every three hours, and since then she hasn't had a breathing spell. When she stops breathing it scares me a litle, but I just pat her back and she is okay.

She is also having a little bit of a hard time maintaining her body temp still. Froday we took her to her first check up and her temp was 94.5 degrees farenhiet, which is horible. They think it was because it was so cold outside. We had her bundled but she still got cold. We got he back home, turned the temp in our house to 87 degrees, and wrapped her up and within four hours she was back to normal, but we have to be very carefull. We can't have her out of the house for long periods of time for six weeks. They'dprefer that we not leave with her at all unless necesary. Overall, Caitlyn is a healthy little baby. I'm not getting anysleep at night cause my husband had to be at work at ieght in the morning, so I do all night feeds, and majority of day feeds. I love my daughter with all my heart, and every secod is a joy to me, but I'm exhausted. My husband has Tuesday off though, so he will do all the night feedings then so I can get some sleep. I still have to getu up and pump breast milk.

Because Caitlyn is so small I can't strictly breast feed. I started out twice a day, and have now mooved up to nursing her three times a day. She is only allowed 20 minutes on one breast for now, because she can't fit it al in her mouth sand she is so small, it is tiring. Once she is comfedent with three times a day I wil move to four and so on until she is confortable. By her original due date she should be strictly breast feeding, unles dady wants to get up and feed, which I will have him do.

Even if she doesn't wake us up, we have to get up every three hours for the next month so we make sure she is getting enough to eat.

All in all, I am glad that my little girl is home.

baby news and frustrations If you've changed a diper before, you will think this entry is dumb!

2007-11-09T14:42:09Z

Hi:
Well, Caitlyn overall is doing well. She got pufy again so they gave her lacis again to keep her from retaining water. She is eating well, eating at least one and three quarters of an ounce to two ounces. Yesterday she didn't want to eat for me or her daddy so the nurse had to take over.

Ahe is still on the osigine, they are hoping after she becomes les puffy they can take her off of it. I really don't want her to com home on it, although coming hom ewould be nice.

I'm frustrated though. I tried to change my first diper unassisted yesterday, and I sucked. My husband was trying to give me directions, but he wasn't doing a good job, and he got mad at me when I did something dome like not pulling the tab to open up the old diper in the right place. The two were over laped so it was hard to find the edge of the tab and getting it to come lose, I would have to it, but he didn't like that I wasn't going fast enough. I got the diper off, but when putting the new one on I have trouble figuring out how far back to put the back of the doper, I know it goes under her but, but I don't know how far back to put it. My husband kept saying, I'm not going to bre around to help you all the time, so you need to just do it. My responce was close your eyes and if you'd never changed a diper before in your life and you couldn't see you would be fumbling too. I will learn how to do it, I know I will. I feed her and dress her just fine. I know that just because I can't see it doesn't mean that I won't be a good mom. I know I can be a good mom, I just feel fdumb when I mess up such a simple task like changing a diper. It doesn't help that she likes to help change it.

I can't start nursing her until she comes off the oxigine. Hopefully that will be soon.

Well, I get to go up tonight, so hopefully things will be better.

An update about Caitlyn

2007-11-08T13:18:18Z

Hi:
Well there is good news and not so good news. The good news is Caitlyn is eating all bottles and now she gets to eat however much she wants, and she is in an open crib, which means I can probably nurse her today. This also means that she can maintain her body temp. The bad news is she is still on the nose camula. She is only recieving less than 25 mills of oxigin, but still. If in a week she is still on it, they will have us to a room in thing where for a couple days we learn how to use the oxigin monatorsand then we would get to take her homw, Hopefully though in a week she will be off the oxigin.

I hope it doesn't come to rooming in at the hospital, cause then my husband had to take off work and he used up all his paid vacation when I was in hospital, so we wouldn't get paid. We will just have to wait and see. I will write more later once I know more.

wonderfull baby news

2007-11-02T13:49:12Z

Hi all:
Well, yesterday I arrived at the hospital, expecting to hold her for a half an hour, then put her back in the inkubator, but when we got there they had her on a warming table, and I got to give her a bath for the first time. It was fun. I don't know if she liked parts of it, but she was so cute She was making little baby noises, and she was so good. Whe di try and help me change her diper and help put on her little outfigt which made things difficult.

There was even more surprises. The nurse loked at me and said do you want to feed her. I was slightly confussed until she handed me a bottle of milk. I didn't know they had started her on bottles because no one had told us. She had started on Tuesday, just with one of her feeding being by bittle, but since she did so well on Wednesday and yesterday with her bottle the nurse went fo two bottles in a day, and even though she was tired she took it within a half an hour like she was supposed to. She wieghed three pounds thirteen ounces, and has to be up to four pounds three ounces in order to go home, she should reach that number by the ed of next week at the latest. The nurse said not to quote her but she could be home in two weeks. They have to get her eating all eight bottles a day, then I will try nursing and see how that goes. She also has to be off the nose camula, which they have been weening her off if it, she is only recieving fifteen mills of oxigine which is next to nothing, so within the next week or so hopefully she will be off of that, then they will watch her for a week, make sure she is maintaining her body temp all right and breathing god, then she will come home. I really hope she is home before thanksgiving like the nurse predicted. That is a little less than a month from her original due date

Well, everyone keep your fingers crossed that she comes home early.

life and baby news

2007-10-27T13:31:26Z

Hi:
Well, Caitlyn is now a pound over her birth wieght, and she is three mills from eating an ounce of milk. She is also gettin fussy during feeding time, sand she is very alert, so they will probably start bottle feeding soon.

It's been raining her lately so I havn't taken Ieland on a walk to work her because she is a pain in the but in the rain, and I didn't want to deal with it. I think I wil take her on a walk since it is just wet out today, and not raining.

We get to go see Caitlyn tomorrow, which I am very happy about. Once we are alloud to feed her Davy heranged his mother into taking me up to se her so i can practice feeding her by nursing, or bottle feeding. I've bottle fed before, but not nursed, and besides, I want to bond with my baby.

Next week is my baby shower, so I hope I get a lot of cool things for the baby.
Well, going to go eat breakfast.

Baby Update

2007-10-21T20:32:49Z

Well, things are looking p for Caitlyn. She is eating 24 miloliters still, but she is three pounds.
We are now able to hold her for up to thirty minutes. It is hard because I have to share with my husband. They are still feeding her with a tube. They do, however, give her a pasafire to suck on while she is feeding. It was so cute. Today she held on to the pasafire and was really sucking on it, so I don't think a botle will be a probmem, and niethor will nursing. It will be nice to be able to nurse instead of pumping all the time. Once she raches four pounds she should be maintaining her body temp, and they will put her in a regular baby bed. hopefully, by November sixth, she will be maintaining her body temp.

update on Caitlyn

2007-10-17T00:29:58Z

Hi:
I went to see Caitlyn today and IU actually got to hold her. She wieghs two pounds twelve ounces, although the doctor said that might drop a little due to the fact that they gave her some meds to help her bave a bowel movement. They uped her feedings to twenty-two millometers, so she has had some difficult going to the bathroom.Other than that all is well.I'm glad she is gaining wieght, that just brings her home sooner. The next big hurtle will be eating from a bottle and nursing, so we will see how that goes.

baby pictures and update

2007-10-14T18:07:51Z

Hi:
Well Caitlyn is finally making leaps and bounds. She is gaining Wieght. She wieghs two pounds 8.7 ounces. If you want to see pictures of her, and you are on my friends list, email me at A.Spurgeon2006@gmail.com, and I will send them to you. Since I am blind it will be easier for me to email them to you as an attachment, then to upload them here.

Baby update

2007-10-08T01:19:46Z

Well when we went into the NICU this morning and to our daughter's bed she wasn't in it. Naturally we were wondering where she was. It turns out she had mooved to progressive care. She is eating a half an ounce every three hours, and she is off all IV fluids. She is doing well. The heart murmer comes and goes, but they said that that is normal, and we don't know as of yet if she will need surgery, but Caitlyn is doing well.

Now if I can get my mother in law to stop skydiving this weekend. My husband's schedule changed, and we can't go see Caitlyn til the following Tuesday, that is a week and a day away from now. I don't know if I can go that long without seeing my baby. I kind of felt bad today because moms al around me were holding their baby's, and one was even breast feeding, and I wasn't able to do that. They wouldn't let me hold her today, and as holding her as really how I see her it made me kind of sad. She is doing well, ahd hopefully in six weeks she will be at her weight and be eating from a bottle so she can come home.

second baby update for the day

2007-10-05T02:20:14Z

Well, first I'd like to say sorry for the depressing entry this morning. I went to see Caitlyn today and I'm telling you, it gets harder and harder to leave each time. Even though she had the prongs up her nose, helping her breath a little I still got to hold her. She squirmed around in my arms and tried to get out of her blankets, but I didn't let her. We were only alloud to have her out for a few minutes, but that is okay. We stayed for about an hour, then made the two hour jerney back home. We will go up Sunday, and by then they should know if her heart valve has completely closed.

Well, it has been a long day. I'm going to go watch a movie.