How we spend our days.

All of the babies are now rolling over. It took Kyle the longest but now he is the pro. I was starting to think that maybe he would never roll over. Mason rolled for the first time on January 25th, 2011. Alyssa rolled for the first time on February 2nd, 2011. Kyle rolled on February 28th, 2011. All 3 of them are very happy babies and they smile and laugh a lot. They also love playing with toys now too. Oh, and they love to watch tv, but no one as much as Mason. If the tv is on, and he can't turn to see it, he screams until someone helps him out. Another of their favorite things to do is ride in the stroller while we go on walks. Well, g2g make bottles, I have hungry babies x3.

Alyssa

11/1/10

Mason

10/4/10

Kyle

9/30/10

Update

Our first family picture (9/30/10)

It has been so long since I updated my blog. The babies are all at home and have been for awhile now, which should explain me not updating here.
Kyle was the first to come home on September 30th 2010. By the 19th of September he was getting all of his feedings by bottle and decided that he would remove his own feeding tube and the nurses never needed to put it back in. After Kyle was eating all of his milk from a bottle they kept him there for a little longer before he came home. The day that Kyle came home we moved into the Ronald McDonald house because it was a better environment for babies.
Four days later, on October 4th, Mason came home too. Once Mason was done with his antibiotics he started taking all of his mild through a bottle, he never had the feeding tube put back in. He only got a small amount at first; just ask him, it wasn’t enough. The first time they feed him a bottle he loved it and from then on he would scream all day because he wanted to eat more and they wouldn’t let him. When it was feeding time he would wait with his mouth open like a little baby bird. Life with both boys was fairly easy because John and I would each take care of one baby. Everything about that time wasn’t easy though. Kyle had really bad colic and would scream for hours every night and nothing would make him feel better. Then there was Alyssa and making time to go visit her. Once babies leave the NICU they are not allowed back in. It was harder to go see her because we could only go see her one at a time because someone had to watch the boys.
Throughout the month Alyssa was growing and finally about a week and a half before they let her go home they began to feed her from a bottle and on October 23rd they removed the tube. On November 1st around 11am John and I were laying in bed sleeping because the night before we hadn’t slept very much and the phone rang. I answer and Alyssa’s nurse says that we need to come pick her up asap because they are releasing her. We were told that they wouldn’t release her until she hit the 4lb mark and the previous night she only weighed 3lbs 9oz. We still don’t know why they decided to release her early but we didn’t complain. Plus, the last few weeks that Alyssa was in the hospital she looked so sad. I think that if she hadn’t come home with us when she did she wouldn’t have done as well. John stayed home until the end of December then he returned to work. Since then I have been taking care of the babies on my own during the day. This life is crazy but I love it.

Saturday

I know that I have quite a few people who have been asking about last Saturday. I will start with what I do remember of that day. John and I went to his cousin Lauren's house for a bbq. John's family and their friends were there and we were all having a good time. The only person there that I had met that was there (obviously other than John) was Lauren. John and Lauren were talking about memories that they had from growing up and about what other people in the family were up to. The last thing that I remember is that Lauren was getting John his Dad's, John's Uncle Marty's, phone number for him off of his phone. The next thing I remember is everyone being surrounded around me and John telling me to just stay with him and then Lauren saying that the ambulance is almost there. Once the paramedics got there they started asking me questions and when I would try to talk I could just mumble. I couldn't talk completely until I got to the hospital a half hour away and the last thing that I was able to ask is if I was going to be alright. I knew that there was something wrong with me but I still to this day have no memory of it.
I guess that what happened is that we were all sitting around talking. John and Lauren were talking about his Dad's move to Washington Dc and all of the things that he still hadn't gone and seen since he has been back there. I was talking with them and I remember everything up to when it happened. John all of a sudden heard the chair that I was sitting in shaking. It was pretty dark outside at that point but he looks over and asks if I am OK. I now know that I was having a seizure. John held on to me for the whole time and talked to me and told me to just stay with him. Lauren and Jarad's Mom had stopped by and her daughter had just had a baby. When she had the baby she had a seizure so she knew that I was having one.
Throughout the whole pregnancy my blood pressure was very good, I didn't even have one high reading and it was monitored every few hours during my whole month stay in the hospital, but my first reading in the ambulance was 170 something/ over something. It turns out that I got postpartum eclampsia. Most people get preeclampsia or eclampsia but the rare few get postpartum eclampsia. Basically I will be OK now that it has happened. Who knows if John will be though, he is pretty traumatized.

Update on Mason

Mason's xrays showed that the infection is in his bowels. Now they are able to give him an antibiotic that will help his specific issue. He will be on them for 10 days. Once he is done with them they will start feeding him milk again. They are also slowly weaning him off of the ventilator because he isn't really needing it. It is sad to see him in so much pain and not be able to do anything for him.