S(p)itting up.

Our little girl has reflux issues. We've been advised by our doctor that Eliza needs to be sitting up for 30 minutes after meals. We tried having her sit in the Boppy. She seemed to enjoy it, but on the vinyl couch, she'd slide down as soon as she'd wiggle a bit. As much as we'd love to hold her for 30 minutes after every meal, there are times when that would be meal time to an hour total. That's great, but we'd never be able to do laundry again.

We decided tonight to break out the booster seat Heather (thanks Heather!)got Eliza for her baby shower. We strapped it to one of our dining room chairs and sat her in the living room with us. She looks just like a a big girl.





She looks pretty comfy and ready to eat. She's pretty much always ready to eat. Last night Brian was trying to comfort her while she was crying. He'd read about something called the "colic hold" in one of our baby books. While attempting this, the baby demonstrated how determined she is to eat every five minutes by attacking Brian's thumb and sucking as hard as she could. She does this with pretty much any object placed directly in front of her face. I'll show you.



How cute is that? She certainly inherited her insatiable love of food from both her mommy and daddy.

Growing!

We had a follow-up at the pediatrician on Thursday. Eliza's chest x-ray looked good, so she thinks the blue face is related to acid reflux. We're doing our best to keep Eliza upright after meals, but it's sometimes hard to hold a floppy infant who immediately zonks out after she eats. We've started propping her up in her Boppy after meals and she seems to enjoy it. She also enjoys looking around at the world.

Eliza enjoying her Boppy!


I'm hoping the constant seated position will help her stay awake during the day and make it easier to get her days and nights turned around. Sleeping isn't her strongest skill. Eliza is starting to try to smile a bit and is doing a great job trying to push herself up and look around when she's lying against someone's shoulder. She also makes a solid attempt to hold her own bottle and pacifier.

I'm currently operating on less than three hours of sleep. The baby spent the better part of last night wanting to eat constantly. The doctor thinks Eliza is overeating, so she wants us to limit her intake to 2 oz. of expressed breast milk at a time. I think we're going to try to eliminate as many bottles as we can, assuming she seems to be getting enough to eat.

As for me, I'm still working on healing from the c-section. I have a home health nurse coming daily to take care of my incision. It hasn't entirely closed since my stitches popped open almost three weeks ago. There's concern that it isn't healing quickly enough, so it may require further action when I see the doctor on Wednesday. We'll see. My blood pressure and blood sugar seem to be returning to normal, though! Isn't that great news?

We're otherwise doing well. Adapting to working on little sleep, but happy to be enjoying our very adorable little girl. Sorry for the gap between posts. I can't even imagine how anyone with multiple children finds time to breathe, let alone blog!