Thank you for all your well wishes and concern. Because the slack-off staff ay our pediatrician's office, her surgery consult just got scheduled today for 7/24, which is next Thursday! I was hoping the surgery would be DONE by then. I'm going to try to move it up so the surgery can get done before my mom goes back to work. I'll really need her help the day of the surgery because Olivia loves her so much. James will be there also and the 3 of us can rotate helping Olivia and caring for Liam. We've tried to give him breastmilk in a bottle a few times. He'll take it, but he has a little trouble with it and it takes him forever to drink it.
Poor Olivia wouldn't have been ready for surgery yet this week anyway because she's still not well. They misdiagnosed her with vag-in-itis. I called to tell them the cream wasn't helping and that she was worse, and they said she didn't have it and that her urine culture came back positive for a UTI. Why didn't they call me then?? So we stared her on antibiotics last Friday, and yesterday she was even worse. She wouldn't even sit down because her "peep" hurt her so much, so I called again and they changed her medicine. She seems a little better today. My heart is breaking for her.
I had my post-partum check-up yesterday (not quite 6 weeks, but I scheduled it early b/c I thought Olivia would be having surgery sooner) and everything looks great! I officially swithched my yearly femals care over to my midwife who also does that in addition to delivering. I also got a referral to a dr. to do my bladder surgery. More about that later. Let's just say I've had some accidents that I couldn't control. :-(
I'm trying not to get too stressed out. My hubby and babies keep me happy. I can tell I'm a little down, but I wouldn't say I have pp depression. I'm just emotional and stress out about the health issues Olivia is facing. Another thing making me happy is my cloth diaper obsession. When I first started, I was practical about it and thought people who wanted all colors and patterns were a little nuts since they were just something to poop in, but now I got suckered in. I just sold off some of Liam's newborn diapers since he's a big boy and I've been buying some new ones for him. I got some in the mail yesterday and it was likt Christmas. So cute!!! I'm also expecting a few more packages. In the diaper world, they call it "fluffy mail," something I also thought was corny, but now think it's totally cute. I'll have to post pics of Liam with his big fluffy butt. :-) I have other pictures to share-- like Olivia nursing her dolls- cute!!-- but my laptop is seriously messed up and they are all on there. James is going to fix it this week.
I'll keep you posted on Olivia. I was going to ask for advice on something, but I've gotta go. Olivia just came in with an orange mouth. I asked her what it was, and she said, "I was eating my orange crayon. I pretend it was hot dog." OK, gotta run!
Posted by Hannah at July 15, 2008 4:28 PM