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shirt from gma huber
One of the reasons for this, we have recently discovered, is that she has not gained any weight in the last week and a half. Ooops! I was doing her weekly weigh in, just to make sure, and its a good thing I did. She has only gained 2lbs 1oz since birth, and she is 8 weeks old...not good. So we went to the pediatrician, and he sent us over to the hospital to do a pre/post feed weight, and wanted a urine sample from her which means....ya you guessed it, my little girl had to have a catheter :( Sad day. But then she was happy, because I had to feed her. She only gained 40g after eating on both sides, and the doctor wants her to be taking 90g at least. So she isnt even getting half of what she should be.
So doc put me on Motilium to try to bring my milk back in, and a new regime for feeding: 15min each side, then top-off with Similac. The "top-off" is more like an entire feeding! Even after feeding her both sides, during which she dozes off because she is bored with not getting anything, she still downs about 3.5oz of formula (wide awake I might add, cuz she is actually getting something). Hopefully she wont start favoring the bottle, but if she does, oh well. As long as she is getting what she needs I dont care where she gets it from.
Although, it would be nice if she could keep sucking off this extra fat from me. I have only lost the initial weight that I lost after birth. I still have about 15lbs to lose before I will be even remotely happy, 25 would be better. I gained so much weight during my pregnancy, its sad. And a whole truck load of stretch marks! :( :( :( That is probably the worst thing that happened to this body of mine. I have wicked stretch marks from my belly button, all the way down to my knees, and some even sneaking across the border to my calves. I wouldnt mind so much if they were just on my tummy, cuz people would never see them, but having them on my legs, people see them all the time. Like even at church in my skirt, cuz some of them dont cover the back of my knees. I hate it! Im going to be one of those ladies who wears nylons all the time just to cover the stretch marks. Its no fair! Not only do you get fat, but my skin gets to be ugly for the rest of my life as well.
She is talking and smiling like crazy now, and it is easy to see how much she has changed when we compare her to her new cousin Landon. She is so big and lively compared to him, and yet she is still so tiny. She is sleeping really good at night, even though I am still sleeping her with me...its just easier. For example, last night she slept from 10:30-7, and that was even just laying beside me, not in the crook of my arm like usual. Now that she is getting the amount of food that she needs, Im going to try to sleep her by herself, since she will be nice and full and satisfied, so she might stay asleep better. Right now she wakes up whenever she is put down. We are trying to break out of that, but its proving difficult.
This also makes it very difficult for me to do anything around the house, such as putting up pictures so that it doesnt look like when just moved in when we have lived here for 9 months. Its actually quite pathetic. Im not much of a homemaker, when it comes to setting everything up and decorating and such. It also makes it less of a priority when we have this huge house all to ourselves, but not enough to fill it. Half of our house doesnt even get used, except for Ben's Halo tournaments. The basement is basically empty, or filled with things that i dont know where to put them because I dont really need them right now. One of the rooms upstairs is just a storage room too, a place for Ben to keep his sunday clothes and ties and stuff and to store the strollers that are not being used. Its kind of sad. I wish that I had a couple days just to myself so that I could fix it. Its funny...9 months of being pregnant with nothing to do, and I didnt do it, mostly because I didnt really think about it. Now that I have thought about it and want to change it, I cant because I am too busy taking care of this little monkey. Oh well, there are more important things in life.
The feedlot is about to pick up again, because our cows should be calving any day now. Thats only about 30 animals, because the angus herds dont calve till the end of next month/beginning of April. But the Charolais are calving pretty quick here, so Ben has to get everything ready for that. They just built a maternity building, for when we need to help pull some, or there are sick or struggling calves or mommas. It looks really nice. I guess there will be more and more changes to come, because Ben says he wants to keep expanding the feedlot and upgrading it. Our bull sale is coming up pretty quick here too, and Im excited for that. Last year it was pretty fun. We are actually having two this year, at different locations, just to see how they do. We fell very behind on all of our cow paperwork this year, and I dont know why. But it made it very difficult to fix problems that happened almost a year ago. We need to figure out a new way to do it so that we do not run into the same problem next year. We are not even done last years yet, and this year is about to start. Geesh!
Well, thats about it for now I think. Sorry that there arent many pictures this time. Next time
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