Skyler

  • Improvement

    Overall today Skyler’s stats have shown improvement. Her heart rate has been in the 140’s – 150’s most of the time. Yesterday and the day before she was in the 170’s – 180’s. Her respiratory rate has come down also to the 40’s versus the 70’s. All much closer to where they want her to…

  • Just a little update

    I’m home for a bit to shower and pack some stuff to take back to the hospital. Today is terribly boring and hard. All we can do is sit and wait. They check Sky’s vitals every two hours, which just sucks b/c she hates it, and it’s almost always just after she’s fallen asleep again.…

  • Keep praying!

    There is a computer in our room here at Children’s Mercy. Have no idea if we are allowed to use it but it has Internet so I’m doing it! Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for your prayers, and keep praying for Skyler! She’s got to kick this RSV before they will admit…

  • Sleepy talk

    Skyler has been a little chatterbox lately. And I’ve been remembering that my camera has video capabilities, so I’m catching more stuff on it! The other night she was talking to her toys on her playmat. It took a few “takes” till she finally started ignoring me and the camera. Most of the time she…

  • What Not to Wear

    These days, I am afraid that I could easily be submitted as a target for that TLC show, What Not to Wear. That’s the one where a person’s friends and family submit them to the show for how badly they dress, and ask Stacy and Quentin to show them how to dress fashionably for their…

  • Epiphany!

    My drives to and from work have had me obsessing. Not about Skyler, not about how much weight I still need to lose, and not about the deadlines at work. I have been obsessing about blogs! I never thought the day would come that I would admit to being this geeky. But seriously, I’ve got…

  • Like father, like daughter

    She gets most of her looks from her Daddy!

  • The Joy of Soy

    The Pigster is back! Skyler has been downing her bottles of soy formula since we introduced it two nights ago. Today, she has eaten about 28 ounces, and she hasn’t even had her late bottle yet! Her “dinner” bottle tonight was 7 ounces, which she’s only done one other time in her life! Now, I…

  • Our finicky eater

    We are still battling Skyler’s eating issue! We quit feeding her solid food about a week ago to rule that issue out. She seemed to be eating a little more, but still only 3 – 5 ounces. We also made sure to switch her back to Similac since that’s the kind she’s always liked. I…

  • 5 months – product review

    Skyler is just over 5 months old now, so I thought I’d take note of my favorite things of hers and the things we use the most. Overall, I’ve found that a lot of baby items are not necessary! There are things we use on occasion, but if we didn’t have them, we wouldn’t be…