Getting Ready

29. July 2008 by Julie.

Ryan continues to grow stronger and he is having the 3 day test again this week to see if he is having any more apnea spells.  They started him on caffeine which stimulates the brain stem to tell his body to breathe.  Very common and babies are usually only on it for a month.  Again its a maturity thing.  So for all you pregnant moms out there.  Continue to drink your daily Starbucks.  It doesn’t hurt.  I cut out all caffeien basically and if I only knew I would have continued my coffee habits.  Sometimes they tell mothers to drink coffee when they are breastfeeding for the same purposes.  In fact, in Sweden mothers give their babies half coffee in thier bottles with their formulas.  And you know what?  They have the lowest rate for SIDS and healthier babies. Interesting fact for the day!  Anyhoot, I started painting over Jessica’s room.  It looks so different already. I can’t think about it too much or else I get mad.  I don’t know why but I do.  I just want her room to stay the same forever. I feel like now there nothing left of her.  Memories, I know but that is not the same.  I miss her. And I’ll worry until Ryan is 4 that there is nothing wrong with him. Yesterday, he was really squirmy and acted like he was gassy and the nurse said he didn’t poop all day.  So here I’m thinking maybe there is something wrong with his intestines or whatever. So I was nervous as to why he was so fidgety.  Hopefully he’ll just have an explosion and feel better. We hope to bring him home on Thursday.  I’ll call this time so there aren’t any surprises.  He’ll be brought home on the monitor for a  month or so but that’s nothing Tom and I are used to.  So I’m still making trip a couple times a day.  Thomas started football camp this week so Tom meets me there and then I take off for the hospital at night.  Thank you for the continued messages and for checking in.  We’ll get more pictures on the page in the next day or so.  Thank you for all your contiued support also.  Have a good week and try to enjoy the nice weather.  Signing off……

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