Kairington 2 months old

My little baby girl is now 2 months old. Time seems to be flying by unless it is a night when Kairington decides she doesn’t want to sleep through the night, which means mom and Kairington get to watch some late night TV while everyone else is enjoying some nice, peaceful sleep. She has come to love Baby Einstein, which is great for me; means I get to have 20 minutes or so of her being entertained! Kairington is on a different path then my other 2 kids. She was the smallest of them all weighing in at 8lbs 4oz at birth, but that small size has not stayed around. She is growing a lot faster than the other 2 did. Today she had her 2 month check up at the doctor and weighed in at 12lbs 3 oz. To compare a little bit, Keegan didn’t weigh 12lbs until he was 4 ½ months old! Keegan was rather small though, until he hit 1 and then he shot up like a weed. Her weight gain is a good thing though because she has been had a lot of issues with bad acid reflux. She was put on medication for it at a month old after an ultrasound to make sure it wasn’t anything else causing her to throw up so much. The medication worked wonders until about a week ago and then the throwing up started up again, but not as bad, so the doctor today put her on an additional medication to help with the reflux….hopefully it will help, for her sake and my laundry’s sake. She also got a new medication for an eye infection that just wont go away… her left eye is always goopy and puffy and of course after a nap or in the mornings it is glues shut until I get a warm wash cloth and clean it off. So hopefully that will clear up in a quick hurry with these new eye drops. All of the above I was excepting from her check up today along with some vaccine shots, but we had a little bit more excitement than that today. So during the doctor’s examination of Kairington, she was listening to her lungs and didn’t like how wheezy she sounded. She then asked if she seemed to have problems breathing, ever stopped breathing, etc. I told her she was a very noisy eater, and even sleeper. She seemed to always be struggling for breath but had been that way from day one. Also sometimes she would stop breath while feeding and a couple of times would stop long enough her lips would turn blue. This of course worried the doctor, so she wanted to run some tests to start ruling things out. First they had a nurse come down and give Kairington a breathing treatment with a nebulizer to try and help her breathing. The nurse thought Kairington might fight having a mask on, but since I was holding her she didn’t really care…she actually feel asleep while doing the treatment. After the breathing treatment the fun began…so with Kairington stripped down to her diaper, the doctor sent Kairington and I on a little scavenger hunt all over the hospital it seemed. First stop was the 2nd floor of the connected hospital for an EKG. Since there is no pediatric Cardiologist, they took the images and then had to sent them to Primary Children’s Hospital in SLC,UT; then it was on to the 1st floor x-ray department for some chest x-rays. Well since they need chest x-rays which meant you need to be sitting up for them and Kairington is only 2 months, they had to squeeze her into this plastic tube contraption. It reminded me of the plastic tubes that are used in the drive through at the bank. Her arms were straight above her head and there was a little place for her face to be out. She screamed and all I could do was hold her little hands while they took the x-rays. The technicians said not to worry about her cries; it was way more painful for me to watch than it was for her to be in the tube. After the traumatizing x-rays it was back to the doctor’s office to wait for what I had originally come for, vaccine shots. After 1 oral dose and 3 painful shots, one of which the nurse went too deep cause more pain and a lot of blood, I thought we were done. Once I got her dressed the doctor came back in and listened to her lungs again, which sounded a little better after the breathing treatment and all the crying. Then she had the nurse test Kairington’s oxygen levels, which caused me to have to get her partly undressed again, causing her to cry again. We finally left the doctors office with a handful of prescriptions and orders to go to Praxair, were we would pick a nebulizer unit to rent and a sleep apnea monitor unit that we were also renting. It took an hour for them to teach me how to use both of these machines. I finally got home and tried hooking Kairington up to the apnea monitor, which she needs to wear 24-7 except for baths for 1-2 weeks. But of course I couldn’t get the monitor to work, so I had to call the company and they sent someone out to our house to help us get it hooked up. Come to find out it had a short in one of the wires, so the guy had to go back to the office and get another wire. By the time he got back and we had her all hooked up it was 7:30pm. But at least the monitor was up and running. The machine will monitor her breathing and heart rate and an alarm will sound if she stops breathing or if her heart rate slows down or speeds up too much. Then it was off to Wal-mart for me to get all of her medication the doctor ordered for her, including her nebulizer breathing medication, which she will need to do a breathing treatment every 4 hours. When I got home with all the medication and with all the equipment we have at our house it looks like we have our own little hospital here. Hopefully things will go smoothly for the next couple of days and we can get her wheezing under control.

Kairington doing her nebulizer breathing treatment

Another picture with the nebulizer on...at least she doesn't cry when we do them

Kairington all hooked up to the apnea monitor

Kairington watching Einstein