Today kind of sucked, and it is all causationally connected to one size newborn diaper, beginning at approximately 7am this morning.
Zach looked all healed from his circumcision and was doing great. We had been putting vaseline on him to keep things from getting stuck together, but he was all better. This morning, his diaper caught a bit of dry skin and peeled it back, causing him to start bleeding (not to mention the pain I’m sure he was in!) I was asleep because I took the 7am shift as my one feeding break for this 24 hour period. I was woken up by Mom and Matt and sent to the store to get some vaseline to help the poor little guy while they took care of him and Marissa. We called his pediatrician to see if he needed to come in and also to announce that his eye infection has moved to the other eye as well. Should we start treating both eyes?
The pediatrician called back and we found out that the bacteria culture came back and the eye ointment he was on doesn’t help clear out that particular bacteria, so we need to go get a different one from the pharmacy. Why have we been medicating him for 3 days with the wrong thing and not been told that until we call them ourselves about it??? Ugh.
I lost another sleep segment to errand-running, including getting some new eye meds for poor Zach, who is handling everything beautifully! The babies have been breast-feeding for 10 minutes of 2 meals a day, which is awesome for them! Both of them are now chugging food like there’s no tomorrow, and we have no concerns about either of them getting enough. It is SO great. Actually, we now have the opposite feeding concerns– how will we have enough milk for these voracious appetites? 🙂 Being sick and on sinus infection meds has made me less able to keep up with them. I hope we don’t run out!
I made it back from errands in time to feed them at 1pm, without time to eat breakfast or lunch yet. I barely kept my eyes open for that one, got them asleep, ate, pumped, and took a small nap.
I was asleep when Matt called so he didn’t know I ran errands and ran some of the same ones. That sucked because he had to waste time away from home taking care of things that were already set! We didn’t miscommunicate, we just didn’t have any opportunities to communicate. It was that sort of day.
Thankfully, we had wonderful food provided to us for dinner and got through an especially jaw-dropping Heroes episode. Now I’m beyond wiped out and probably headed to bed.
Sigh. I felt especially well-rested yesterday for our 3 year, 3 month anniversary, but today kind of blew up. I’m just glad our little guy is healing again and that both Zach and Marissa are eating like champions and filling out adorably (they finally have cute chubby baby cheeks) and that everyone survived.