Week 3...Already?

So today marks three weeks home for Aeva. (Yay!)

It's been a rough week...contradicting her awesome last week of limited puking, this week has been nothing but puke. Typically not large, but atleast 6 times a day. Today, it hit its peak, and my wit's end, and she now has a doctor's appointment Monday specifically to address her reflux.


Earlier in the week, I noticed that she was grunting and bearing down (FYI- when you're a baby, pooping is a mission in itself) so I thought maybe she's just gassy this week. I gave her gas medicine to try to alleviate the gas and it associated pain, but that didn't work. Can't/Shouldn't give it too often because of the calcium content's possible kidney stone creation. Next I tried giving her just formula, rather than her totally awesome breastmilk and formula conoction. Nope. That didn't work either. Today I contemplated the ready to eat formula that is already mixed (thinking that the air bubbles are causing issues) but its not the right caloric count straight from the bottle, so that's out. She's pooped like 3 times this week, she's not constipated...WTF.

Her two o'clock feeding this afternoon was the breaking point. It was the first and only time I've ever seen her puke up everything...everything...she ate. She'd scream when the bottle came near her...chew on the nipple...scream....all textbook signs of reflux in infants. I reached my peak...I sat on the floor burping her (I feed her on the floor, puke isn't something I want all over our belongings) I cried. I was frusterated. I just wanted my baby to eat. Well, eat and keep it down. I called and made a doctor's appointment for Monday (not available for today at this point) specifically to address her reflux. (She will also have her 4 month well baby appointment on Friday). I give in. Let's try SOMETHING. Thickening her formula may work. Let's try that for a week. If that doesn't work, let's go to medicines. She needs to keep it down.

At her 5 pm feeding I went out on a limb again....I gave her gas medicine after she ate an ounce of formula. She seemed uncomfortable and scared to eat, so it was worth a shot...an hour later, here we sit. So far, no puke. One wet burp, but hell I'll take a wet burp any day over f*^ing puke.

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Aeva had her orthopaedic surgeon appointment today for a follow-up on her hips. Here's her hip situtation:
When Aeva was en utero, she was breech: feet first and facing my back. Awesome. It explained why I couldn't feel her move much. When babies are breech, there is a tendency for them to have something called hip dysplasia, meaning the head of the femur bone (femoral head) either is completely dislocated from the hip socket (the acetabulum), or can slip out of the socket (called subluxation). Aeva was born with bilateral developmental hip dysplasia, or simply that BOTH of her legs were totally dislocated from her hips because her hip socket was too shallow to hold the femoral head.The risk factors for such condition are: first born child, female, breech. Aeva had all three.
At 6 weeks of age for any breech infant, a check is done for this condition, typically with an ultrasound. Once diagnosed, Aeva was put into a Pavlik Harness. (See picture insert: Its actually the same annoyingly happy baby picture that came with the harness. The picture came from the company's webpage). The harness held her legs up and shifted out, pushing the femoral head into the hip socket. The angle as gradually be shifted as the angle of her hips corrects. As she grew, the acetabulum grew around the femoral head, thus holding it in place, like a proper hip socket does. A week ago Aeva graduated from wearing the brace 24/7 to only wearing it at night.
Today, the doctor told us to keep having her wear it at night only, for another three weeks, and see you in a YEAR! (Well, when she's a year old).
Her hips have normalized, and she will progess as a normal infant would at this point.

After her appointment I got pulled over and got a ticket. Get this: My registration was expired by SEVEN (7) MONTHS! lol I paid the registration on Anthony's cars, but didn't on mine. LOL So it's a $40 ticket and $42 in administrative fees (Nashville is just plain greedy). I know the cop was filling his quota, because as soon as I pulled out, he pulled someone else over too. WTF. I registered the car and now just have to tell Anthony and pay the ticket. LOL Oops. I'm curious how Anthony drove that car everyday for 92 days while I was in the hospital with Aeva, and didn't get pulled over for it. Is it really just my luck?