To hell and back

Last week was probably the scariest of my life. Gabriella started running a fever on Tuesday morning. Rectally (r) it was 103.5. She wasn't showing any other symptoms aside from the fever, but was a bit more fussy than usual so I called the pedi. They suspected an ear infection and so we went right in and turns out, no ear infection, everything looks great. We were to follow up with them again if she started getting worse. Tuesday she remained the same with temps at 103.5r with a dip in the late afternoon to 101r. I let her sleep and checked on her a time or 2 overnight. When she woke up Wednesday morning she felt exceptionally hot.

I gave her her bottle and took her temp: 105.6r. FUUUUUCK. I had an internal panic moment of should I go straight to the ER or should I call the on call pedi 1st. I figured I'd wait the 10 min for the on call pedi to be paged. He called back an assured me that infant fevers that high are not dangerous, especially considering she had no other symptoms, but he suggested we go back in for another appt. So, 3 trips to the doc later, she had been cath-ed to check for a UTI, b/w drawn to see if there was some type of bacterial infection, and an antibiotic shot (in the event there was an infection, while we waited for b/w results), and we were back at home.

To make an already long story short, it ended up being a virus of some sort and once her fever broke on Wednesday during the day, it only ever came back up to 101.8r. Thursday it was gone and by Friday she was feeling much better. Can we not get sick for the rest of the winter now, mkay baby?

Rolling, rolling, rolling

This baby will not stop rolling. Now, Gabriella has been able to roll for quite a while now, but for the most part has always been content to be in one position if playing with something. This weekend marked a new chapter in Gabriella's mobility. We have entered into the world of log rolling. Its quite cute and she's so fast at it. If you look away from where she is on the floor for one second, you turn around and she's flipped the other way.

This is wreaking a little bit of havoc on our sleeping though. She pretty much immediately rolls onto her stomach as soon as I leave the room after laying her down. Most of the time she has trouble falling asleep on her tummy or she has trouble falling asleep once she's woken up from a sleep cycle. I know its just something she'll have to get used to, but man does she get worked up about it!

I think she might be getting close to crawling. She kinda scoots herself around a bit on her tummy, but yesterday she started trying to lift up her butt to get on all fours. She can prop herself all the way up on her hands easily and for a while, so its just picking up the back end! Sitting up wise - she can do it. She does it the best if she's got a toy in front of her, but she needs to be supervised or have the boppy around her b/c she often flops over (so that she can be on her tummy). Her tummy is seemingly her fave position to be in as of late. On the food front, we are well into our stage 2's and Gabriella has tried one meat: chicken. I made her sweet potatoes and chicken and she loved it. I plan on making squash, chicken, and sweet potatoes tonight as well.

Our next doc appt is at 9 months. Hurray for no shots! We just recently got Gabriella's bigger carseats. We decided on the Britax Boulevard CS. She's still fitting in her infant seat, and we plan to use that for the next couple weeks or so. She's pretty close to being done with it though.

Otherwise, I'm doing well. Getting loads of sleep which is glorious (minus our recent fussing on the tummy issues). Chris and I just bought a bedroom set and are looking forward to decorating our bedroom. I'll be starting working out again soon. I've really been slacking and I've got about 10 lbs I want to lose before summer and I definitely need to tone up. My flab is just icky!

Opening it back up....

After a month of being private, I have decided to open the blog back up again for now.

Gabriella updates to come soon! :)

There's nothing worse than...

Being in the car, during a snow storm, in gridlock, and needing to poop. That my friends, was how my day started. It took me 2 hours to go 15 miles! To say I was pissed would be an understatement. But enough about me (for now)...

Guess who's 7 months old today?! OMG, SEVEN months. I can't even wrap my brain around it. Since I last wrote, much has happened. Gabriella went on her 1st plane ride (screamed for half, slept for half) to the OC, had her first Christmas, got her 2 bottom teeth, started sitting up on her own, felt sand under her feet at the beach, and flew back to chilly Chicago first class, courtesy of F-ing American Airlines cancelling our initial flight.

In boob news, I officially stopped pumping 2.5 weeks ago. It was hard, I'm not gonna lie. The first 48 hours were the worst, after that it got better. Right as my boobs started going down, I became re-engorged in my left breast and developed...wait for it....wait for it....MASTITIS yet again!! I had to go to the doc while in CA and was started on antibiotics and prescription anti-inflammatory which saved my life. Now the boobs are back to their pre-pregnancy glory and size, except with some saggage. Gabriella has had no problems with the formula, other than pooping more frequently.

We had her flu booster shots on Tuesday and I insisted that they weigh and measure her b/c she looked like she had grown all of the sudden to me. She was 19 lbs 8.5 oz and 26.75 inches long. That's 1 lb, 5.5 oz and half and inch in a month. What a big girl!

Here's our lovely girl:

Have finally gone private

Hi lovely readers :)

I've officially gone private, as you can see. I was waiting a while to make sure anyone who wanted to sign up has done so. My decision to go private was just something I felt like doing. I didn't feel comfortable with pictures of Gabriella potentially floating around in cyberspace. So, here we are...

Updates with us: Gabriella is much better. Actually, I didn't blog it, but most of you know that her congestion pushed up into her ears and she got an ear infection. We're almost done with our antibiotics and Gabriella is back to her usual adorable self. There will be plenty of pictures taken this weekend as we celebrate Christmas with my in-laws (joy of all joys). Despite hating them with the fire of a thousand suns, I will grin and bear this visit b/c we leave to see my family in CA next Wednesday, for 11 glorious days. I can't wait!!

I am in the process of pump weaning. I was pumping 5 times a day, at about 35-40oz, and I am down to 2 a day. Today is my 1st attempt at only 2 pumpings. I've been dropping a pumping every 3 days, but I want to try and only do 2 days of 2x pumping and see if I can go to just 1 quickly and then stop. I really want to avoid taking my pump with me on vacation, but certainly will if I can't finish things up by then.

Going Private

Just feel the need to make the blog private. Send me your email address if you'd like to be added at mana82@sbcglobal.net. I know there are plenty of peeps out there who connect to my blog via someone else's and I do the same all the time. So, please feel free to email me :)

Ringing in the half year with a virus :(

My dear, sweet girl was sick for the 1st time this weekend. It was pretty much a cold. She was running a fever and congested when I picked her up from daycare on Friday night. Yesterday she slept most of the day, was congested, and had a fever in the morning and evening. She hasn't had a fever in 24 hours (nothing over a rectal temp of 100.5). Today she is much less congested. Her congestion sounds like its more in between her nose and throat now; its just rattling back there where I can't suck it out. Gabriella was in better spirits today and pretty much back to normal minus being a little on the tired side. I'm guessing she'll be good as new tomorrow morning. Oh and she officially HATES the bulb syringe!

It was so unbelievably hard to see her be uncomfortable. All I wanted to do was just hold her 24/7.

Hopefully she'll completely kick this out of her system really soon and we'll be back to happy-pappy baby.

My sweetheart even smiled for me so I could get a pic to commemorate 6 months :)