I'm 2 Months Old!!

A few days late with the picture, but I thought I'd add the stats from her two month doctor's visit...

10 pounds 14 ounces (53rd percentile)

22 1/4 inches tall (47th percentile)

39.5 cm head circumference (71st percentile)

Kendall's weight gain has been pretty slow (because of the reflux), so we're adding more rice cereal to her bottles. Hopefully this will help to keep the food down!

8 Weeks Old!

I can't believe it, but little Kendall is eight weeks old today. She's growing and changing every day. She's more focused on people and objects, smiles every day, and grabs and holds onto objects with more frequency. She's also keeping her head up pretty consistently and looks around at everything. For some reason she loves the ceiling fans!

Although we don't have our official two month appointment until next week, I have a pretty good idea of her weight because of all of our visits to the doctor for her reflux issues. I'm guessing she currently weighs right around 11 pounds, but I'll post the official stats after next weeks appointment. She has already grown out of most of her newborn and 0-3 month clothes and is into her 3 month outfits. 3-6 month clothes are still a little bit big.

Here's a look at the last month...

5 Weeks Old

6 Weeks Old

7 Weeks Old

8 Weeks Old

Thumb Sucker

I think we're going to have a thumb sucker. Kendall wants to suck on her hands a lot. Most times, she still can't quite get her thumb in her mouth though, but she's getting better at it. Although i am slightly worried about this, and our future bills from the orthodontist, I'm not really sure I can stop her at this point. She does look cute though.

Blog Layout

I'm playing around with our blog layout, so bear with me. Hopefully this will allow people to comment, and show the date of my posts. Keep your fingers crossed!

Kendall Update

As expected, all of Kendall's tests came back negative. No infection and her organs are functioning well. She probably jusy has reflux that we'll be struggling with until we find something (or a combination of things) that make her feel better. If anyone has any suggestions, please let us know!!

What a week...

Is it the weekend yet?

Here I find myself on a Wednesday afternoon, wishing for the weekend to be just a bit closer. It has been quite a week for the Weatherbys. Let me rephrase...it has been quite a week for Kendall Weatherby, and mom and dad are hanging on trying to keep up. And Monday was a holiday!!

For those who don't know, my little baby was diagnosed with pretty severe reflux a few weeks ago. We've tried everything...rice cereal in the breastmilk, longer feedings, frequent burping during feedings, holding her upright and reclining after feedings, eliminating dairy and spicy foods from my diet, and most recently, Prevacid and BioGaia, a probiotic. Her projectile vomiting has gotten better, but at times it gets bad again. The worst part is the crying and screaming associated with what we can tell is pain in her stomach. She has her good days and bad days, but the pain really hasn't improved and her sad, pouty face is enough to make me cry at times.

We've been to the doctor over 15 times in her short 6 week life, and this week has been no different. A couple of weeks ago, a urine test to rule out a UTI came back showing blood in Kendall's urine. A repeat test a week later showed the same thing. So, round 3 was needed to do further investigation. After 4 failed tests with a bag attachment, doctors decided it was time for a catheter. Round 1 of that yesterday came up dry, so it had to be repeated today. We're still waiting for results. But, the blood tests from yesterday and today's ultrasound of her bladder and kidneys looks normal. I don't want the doctors to find anything wrong, but then again, it would be nice to have something that we can fix. If it's just reflux, we probably just have to keep trying things until something works, or she grows out of it.

I'll end with recent shots from Valentine's Day. Hopefully happier holidays are ahead.

I'm 1 Month Old!

4 Weeks Old

How time flies! Kendall was 4 weeks old this past Wednesday, and will be 1 month old tomorrow. I really need to catch up on those thank you cards and work on her announcements!

My little baby has changed so much since she was born. She's officially 9 pounds now - only up 6 ounces from her birth weight, but up 1 pound, 12 ounces from her lowest weight (she had dropped to 7 pounds, 4 ounces the day after we left the hospital). She's come a long way. Here's a photo comparison over the last 4 weeks...

Happy Birthday!

1 Week Old

2 Weeks Old

3 Weeks Old

4 Weeks Old

My First Bath

Kendall pretty much hated her first bath. My mom says the pictures of me during my first bath were very similar.

These pictures are from a couple of weeks ago, but I've been lagging on the photo downloading.

Kendall has arrived!

Not earth shattering news since she arrived three weeks ago, and we've already spoken to all of our family and friends. I meant to write about her arrival sooner, but having a newborn around the house has been quite an adjustment. It also hasn't been the easiest transition since she and I have been battling a number of ailments - mastitis for me, and jaundice and reflux for the baby. The mastitis and jaundice have passed, but we're still working on the reflux. The doctor now seems to think that she may also have a sensitivity to dairy products, so I'm cutting them out of my diet for the next two weeks and we'll see how it goes.

Enough about that, I wanted to share some quick details and photos from Miss Kendall Mei's birthday...I was scheduled to have a C-Section on January 11th, but ended going into labor the night of January 5th. I had been having contractions for about a week and just knew that I wasn't going to make it to the 11th. At first, the pain wasn't too bad, but my doctor sent me to L&D around 10:30 pm to be checked. After 3 hours of observation, the pain was getting worse, but the doctors decided to send me home. I was given some medicine that was supposed to relax me and ease the pain, with the hope that I would make it to the scheduled date since I was only in "early labor" with contractions that were all over the place in frequency and intensity. Unfortunately for me, the medicine didn't do a darn thing and I spent the remaining part of the night in more and more agony. The pain got worse and worse, and the contractions got closer together. I tried to ride it out as long as I could, and even managed to get an hour of sleep, but at 8 in the morning as Dan was getting ready to leave for work, I told him he probably shouldn't go, and that I felt it was time to go back to the hospital. I was in active labor when we got there and it was decided that they'd do the C-Section that day at 1 pm. At 1:27, Kendall was born. She weighed in at 8 pounds, 10 ounces, and was 20 1/2 inches long:

Fast forward three weeks, and here we are still trying to settle in. I'm tired, behind on my phone calls and thank you notes, and the laundry is piling up. I wouldn't change any of it though.