Don't Mess with Mommy (Guilt)
Sunday and Monday were the epitome of suckage!
For breakfast I had a healthy dose of ego dowser while I was backing out of our driveway and ran into a parked car. I blame it on the fact that I was tired but mostly because the car was parked (IMHO) illegally (at the base of our neighbors driveway). There is not much room for backing out to begin with and I didn't notice them in time, so anyways... moving on.
On Monday morning while reading my RSS subscriptions and other blogs I came to my SIL's and low and behold I find out that my FIL is not expected to live much longer. A few weeks ago I found out through my BIL girlfriend that he was in the hospital with a syndrome that was not expected to be fatal. Because my FIL had little to nothing to do with his 4 kids there are a lot of mixed feelings and reactions going around. Since I don't know him well (and have bad mouthed him because of his deadbeat dad rap) I have no clue what I would/could/should do in this situation. I am just going to remain supportive to Jason.
Later in the day, after getting back from an outing with Grandma, we discovered that Morgan had blood in his stool. At which point I totally freaked out. My poor baby! This weekended I noticed with the formula that he was still showing signs of gassiness and spitting up. So we switched him to a gentler formula. I really thought it was working better for him, but apparently not. So I took him in to his doctors. They tested the diaper that I brought in and confirmed that there was indeed blood in his stool. The doctor decided that it would be a good idea to draw out a diagram that showed how because I switched him to formula we are dealing with the blood. That breast milk is best. Not that I was trying to justify my decision to switch, but I was. I told her about my reasons. One of which is that pumping and feeding with a toddler looming is very stressful. Another is that I couldn't cut out milk products from my diet since they are full of calcium that I need since I am on Lovenox and it depletes calcium. Ugh, why do I have to explain my decision to switch... it is obvious to me that he has had the lactose issue from birth. And dear god I hope it goes away. I don't want to have to deal with food allergies and my kids as selfish as that seems. So the doctor recommended this as the "best" option. She was like a Similac commercial (I wonder if she gets paid for the sales pitch?). I went out and bought some immediately and Morgan has showed a great amount of improvement. We have a follow up appointment in 2 weeks. If there are still trace amounts of blood in his stool we will have to go to a gastrointerologist. So technically he is still on lactose, but it is a broken down version that is much easier on his digestive system. (It was recommended above the soy formula).
All that I can do now is wait for the appointment to get my bumper fixed and chomp on my nails about the $500 out of pocket that we are going to owe and how the accident will effect my insurance. And wait for news on my FIL and what Jason wants to do. And wait to see how Morgan does on this new formula. This blows!
For breakfast I had a healthy dose of ego dowser while I was backing out of our driveway and ran into a parked car. I blame it on the fact that I was tired but mostly because the car was parked (IMHO) illegally (at the base of our neighbors driveway). There is not much room for backing out to begin with and I didn't notice them in time, so anyways... moving on.
On Monday morning while reading my RSS subscriptions and other blogs I came to my SIL's and low and behold I find out that my FIL is not expected to live much longer. A few weeks ago I found out through my BIL girlfriend that he was in the hospital with a syndrome that was not expected to be fatal. Because my FIL had little to nothing to do with his 4 kids there are a lot of mixed feelings and reactions going around. Since I don't know him well (and have bad mouthed him because of his deadbeat dad rap) I have no clue what I would/could/should do in this situation. I am just going to remain supportive to Jason.
Later in the day, after getting back from an outing with Grandma, we discovered that Morgan had blood in his stool. At which point I totally freaked out. My poor baby! This weekended I noticed with the formula that he was still showing signs of gassiness and spitting up. So we switched him to a gentler formula. I really thought it was working better for him, but apparently not. So I took him in to his doctors. They tested the diaper that I brought in and confirmed that there was indeed blood in his stool. The doctor decided that it would be a good idea to draw out a diagram that showed how because I switched him to formula we are dealing with the blood. That breast milk is best. Not that I was trying to justify my decision to switch, but I was. I told her about my reasons. One of which is that pumping and feeding with a toddler looming is very stressful. Another is that I couldn't cut out milk products from my diet since they are full of calcium that I need since I am on Lovenox and it depletes calcium. Ugh, why do I have to explain my decision to switch... it is obvious to me that he has had the lactose issue from birth. And dear god I hope it goes away. I don't want to have to deal with food allergies and my kids as selfish as that seems. So the doctor recommended this as the "best" option. She was like a Similac commercial (I wonder if she gets paid for the sales pitch?). I went out and bought some immediately and Morgan has showed a great amount of improvement. We have a follow up appointment in 2 weeks. If there are still trace amounts of blood in his stool we will have to go to a gastrointerologist. So technically he is still on lactose, but it is a broken down version that is much easier on his digestive system. (It was recommended above the soy formula).
All that I can do now is wait for the appointment to get my bumper fixed and chomp on my nails about the $500 out of pocket that we are going to owe and how the accident will effect my insurance. And wait for news on my FIL and what Jason wants to do. And wait to see how Morgan does on this new formula. This blows!
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