I'm not complaining..how could I? I'm lying in bed while someone else is taking care of my son, but he is crying and I can't fall asleep while he crys. Oh! And now the monitor is going off...he really needs to calm down!
The nursing thing is working out really well. Since Henry has come home from the hospital he has decided the only way he will sleep is if he is on someones chest, so getting any kind of sleep at night is not an option. I was going to have the nursing switched to days next week so I could take bell out and do stuff but if I'm not getting any sleep then we won't be going anywhere anyway, so I called today and made all the shifts night shifts.
It's kind of weird having a stranger in your house. The first night we had a nurse I was sooo excited to finally get sleep. However right before bed I freaked myself out with the whole stranger in my house thing, which then turned into..this woman is going to steal my kids while we sleep!!!! No lie, I'm insane. I sent jamie a text from bed telling him to go write down her license plate!!! And then I sent my sister a text telling her how nuts I was and now I was not going to get the sleep I was desperatly needing! Her reply was a stream of "haha"s followed in the morning by a text asking if she'd taken my kids. LOL
I'm getting over my little issue now and finally starting to get sleep. I need sleep, Henry has 50 million Dr's appointments each week. Ok, so maybe not that many but he does see 6 different drs...how can an 8lb boy have 6 drs?? We found out yesterday he needs hernia surgery. Go figure. We need to wait till he is more stable but not too long as to where the hernia becomes a serious problem. The surgery will be end of Feb beginning of March..and he'll have to spend 24 hours in the hospital..ugh. Oh well, other than that he is doing well. So far his eyes are looking better. We see the Retina Specialist every week for another 10 weeks. His acid reflux is pretty bad, he makes these horrible gagging sounds, looks so painful.
Despite all that crap, he's really cute and loves to cuddle so I'm happy :)
Bella seems happy with him , soon enough they will be playing together!
2 comments:
I am the same way with the nighttime paranoia. We don't have nurses in our house, but every time I have to get up with Olivia, I think someone is in the house. Or if she cries and then stops, I think someone has taken her. Maybe it is our lack of sleep that makes us crazy!
We've never had nurses. so I cant imagine that... It was hard enough having the nurses in the NICU taking care of the babies... I cant imagine having them at my house. I would probably have the same kind of "stealing the babies" feelings. Imean, after all, it's a stranger in your house! But I'm glad you are getting some help. And I'm sure she isnt a baby snatcher!
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