No, not really. Just been extremely busy (kinda), hence the lack of updates.
Baby Madison was born on February 2 at 8:40PM and was a whopping 5 1/2 pounds! This was after 3 days of me being induced and being extremely exhausted. I actually asked for a C-section at one point. I have no idea how long she was. I didn't know how much she weighed when she was born until the day after. They took her right away to assess her condition. As it turned out, not only were her intestines out, but so was her bladder AND one of her ovaries. They managed to get almost everything back in right away, and the rest of it through surgery the next day. No incision had to be made luckily, everything was put back through her belly button.
She has since spent the last month in the NICU. She finally came home with us yesterday. She was supposed to come home last week, but had started throwing up after eating (which she LOVES to do! [eat, not throw up]) and they had to start her on reflux medications. She is on Regelan and Prevacid and a multivitamin that is fortified with iron. She doesn't mind taking the Regelan and Prevacid, but definitely does not like the vitamin drops. I don't blame her. It smells terrible and is black liquid, I can only imagine how it tastes. Hopefully I can just stick it in a bottle (one of the many disposables that I have at the moment. Yay for free stuff from the hospital!) and give it to her. I think that would be much easier and this way I know that she is getting it the way she needs it since she apparently tends to spit most of it out.
We have a visiting nurse service coming in tomorrow to evaluate her and see how she is doing, and I think I will ask them to come back a couple of times. Just because of the pure fact that her insurance covers it, so therefore I am going to take advantage of all the help I can get.
