Life with Maddie

Look at that face! She's so cute!! I can't get over it. How lucky am I?

Life has been somewhat of an adventure since #3 joined us. In the hospital, Madelyn was super mellow, but after we had her home for a couple days, we realized she's actually our neediest baby. She eats practically around the clock. She always wants to nurse! And she mostly only wants to sleep when she's be held. By me. Which makes things a little tricky. 

Her sisters like to hold her, too, but I don't think she finds that very soothing. 

We finally got her to take to the swing a little. It's hit or miss. 

A couple times she has napped well in her crib.

 I snapped these photos with my phone. Closest thing to newborn photos as we're going to get at this point. 

 Ugh what a doll face!

Marissa and Chase came to visit!

And of course Meagan and Grace. 

 We just muddled through the first 6 days in a haze of nursing, etc. Until Monday night. 

She stopped eating Monday afternoon. And she wouldn't wake up to eat. After she had gone about 6 hours without eating and refusing to wake up, we called her pediatrician, who told us to take her to Primary Children's ER. Oh boy. So we packed up and off we went. It was a very worrisome drive.

When we got there, she was pretty out of it. They had poke her quite a few times, to put in 2 IV's and run a bunch of labs, and she barely reacted. Didn't cry at all. It was awful. She finally nursed for a couple minutes and then they got IV fluids in her and she started perking up. By early Tuesday morning she was still very sleepy but I could wake her up enough to eat every few hours. Unfortunately we had to stay at the hospital for 36 hours to wait for the final results on all the labs. They were worried about some sort of infection.

By Tuesday afternoon, she was back to normal, crying when she wanted to eat and having periods when she was awake and alert. So we were able to come home Wednesday early afternoon. They never figured out what happened. They ruled out a bunch of things and then basically just said "sometimes babies do this". 

Anyway, it was terrifying and exhausting but we were so grateful there was nothing seriously wrong. It's been quite a week, between the hospital stay, getting our AC and furnace replaced, and having Lance's car in the shop all week. Things come in 3's, right? Thankfully we have had Joy here to help us- we couldn't have done it without her!

Things seem to be settling down somewhat. We took Maddie on her first little stroller walk and I think she liked it. Here's to better days than the past few!