Our First Week Home, the goal 'Heal that Back!'

 apologize for the delay...and again, apologizing up front for my grammar and any mis-wordings or spellings.  Started this a while ago.  

Its been busy at the Brownhouse.  We’ve been home a whole week and it seems just like yesterday she was born.  Our top priority is to keep her wound dressings clean, which is rather difficult with a little Miss Poops-alot on our hands.  She is still sleeping on her side and hanging out there most of the time.  We can’t put pressure on her back, at least not for long periods and minimal pressure at that.  I pray her little whole in her skin heals up quick!!!  Her skin pulled from the incision area and that is what we are dealing with now.  It is not uncommon, but it is a pain to try and keep dressed and clean at all times.  I just want it to heal up so she doesn’t have to be a naked baby all the time.  I don’t think she minds and we can put clothes on her, but every time I do, I’m just turning around to change it again and it makes for lots of unnecessary movement and more chance at having to change the dressing, which sucks, so for now, she’s pretty much a naked baby and she’s loving it.

Aunt Boober was here for the first week and it was SOOO nice having an extra set of hands, wish she could be in 2 places at once.  :o)  

I’m trying to get her physical therapy in daily, but I tell you, it is hard to fit everything in to  a day.  Seems crazy, but it’s non-stop around the clock, even with a great sleeper of a baby.  

She’s getting wipe downs and the poor girl probably won’t get a nice warm bath for quite some time.  I have no idea how long it will take to heal up her back, but I’m thinking we’re going to see my acupuncturist soon.  Hopefully she can speed it up.  

I feel bad, I have to admit I was not holding her much the first week home since I was so paranoid about putting pressure on her back, or having to change out the diaper situation and her dressing every time, I think I’m getting a routine down now though and I hold her to feed her, burp her and walk her around the house for a change of scenery.  I wasn’t nursing her much at all and I’m nursing her more now, but I totally forgot how LONG it takes for a newborn to nurse.  She’s still getting mostly bottles, which means I’m pumping around the clock still.  Gotta get her the good stuff!

Big Brother Braxton is doing so good.  I think he’s feeling the affects, but he is doing great for the most part.  I picked him up from daycare after she’d been home a couple of days and one of the first thing he said was, ‘can I go see my baby sister?’, I told him of course he could and I’ve never seen him dig his coat out and get it on so fast.  He is a great help, most of the time.  He has asked me to ‘put her back’, while pointing to her little bed, a few times.  I miss our snuggle time in the morning.  Although he has joined me in the living room a few times in the middle of the night now.  

We had our first visit with our pediatrician and found out that the state had ordered a repeat newborn screen and had listed her galactose score of 1.5 as abnormal, even though the normal reading should be less than 6.5.  We’re all a little dumb founded by it, even the Ped, my sister, other Peds and even the lady in the lab.  It doesn’t make any sense and she has no symptoms, so not too worried (since it is in the right range), but we’ll see what this next screen comes back as.  I’m hoping the state employee didn’t mark the wrong thing and that there was actually another test that came back abnormal, ‘for real’.  I guess we’ll find out next week.  We go back to the Ped next week for another follow up.