Adventures With Baby

It's been an interesting week with Kyle home. For one thing, he has very bad reflux so when he spits up, he gets some good distance and volume... too bad it's not an Olympic sport... So we're constantly changing his clothes, his blankets, etc.

Also, his apnea monitor is finicky. It's supposed to alarm whenever he's not breathing for something like five seconds. Obviously, it's an important alarm so it's very loud... louder than many fire alarms! Unfortunately, it only picks up about half of Kyle's breaths, it seems. It's gone off several times when we're holding Kyle or watching him and know that he's breathing fine! It just doesn't pick up his more shallow breaths. If anything, Kyle breathes too fast so it's getting very irritating that every time his respiratory rate slows down to normal, the alarm goes off and pisses him off! It's like negative reinforcement. I really wish they hadn't sent him home on the apnea monitor. Breathing too slow has never been his problem.

But he is a cutie pie and if it weren't for the monitor going off and his reflux acting up, he'd probably sleep through the night.

Hannah's starting to have fun with him, helping get his diapers and wipes and blankets for us and singing songs for Kyle. She's still a little green sometimes. She's starting to realize she's no longer the only baby. She's not too happy to discover that. It's subtle signs.... like right now, in order to update this blog, I have Kyle in my lap, grabbing my arms and staring at the ceiling fan and Hannah talking and taking pretend pictures of me on her pretend cell phone but every time I look down at Kyle, Hannah just grabs my chin and turns my face to look at her instead... you know... real subtle.

My mom has been a big help this week. When I start school, a week from tomorrow, she'll be watching Kyle and Hannah while I'm gone during the day so she's immersing herself in Kyle's care this week to make sure she's ready. All the care with the pump and the medicines and the normal baby stuff can be rather overwhelming. It seems like more of a two person job sometimes.