1 Week Check Up

Today we brought Caroline into the pediatricians office for her one week check up. They wanted us to bring her in to make sure that she was gaining back the weight she lost when she was in the hospital. The appointment went pretty well! She is gaining weight, however, not as much as they would like her to. She is up to 6lbs 10oz, but they would really like to see her get back to her birth weight of 7lbs 4oz. We are going to go back for a repeat appointment next Monday to see if she is gaining. We also had to get her blood drawn again to see how her Bilirubin levels were. This checks to see if she has jaundice. Our doctor said that a newborns levels usually peak at 5-7 days after birth-which we are right at-and Carolines are at a 14. This is good because they want their levels under 20 which we are, so good news!!

Sweet Caroline

So, I have been waiting to use that blog title for something like 9 months now :)

It has taken me awhile to get back to blogging, but now that we are home and starting to get settled in, I think that I can keep more updated!

We are all doing great-trying to learn to live on less sleep and spread out attention out between the two girls! It is GREAT having Gary home this week. Not only is it way easier to take care of the two girls with four hands, but he can also get TONS done around the house! It is a win-win for everyone :)

Brooke is adjusting well to having a little sister. She has decided not to call Caroline by her name, but instead she simply refers to her as the 'baby.' Sometimes she calls her 'mom's baby' while Gary is 'her daddy.' Could get interesting...She loves to try and hold Caroline and she even tried to feed her with one of her toy bottles today. Caroline was not interested. Brooke only gets mad when Caroline is in the swing and it is her baby dolls turn! I mean, she should have to take turns with a plastic doll right??

Caroline Marie Fleming

7 lbs 4 oz

20 1/2 inches

Her first bath

Dad & his girls
Brooke=not so sure yet...

Brooke now loving on her baby sister!

Caroline at 6 days old

She is totally not thrilled about having her picture taken and would like to be fed ASAP!

How cute is her outfit from Aunt Peggy??!!

Those Golden Archs

I am totally not one of those parents that doesn't allow their child to ever have fast food. At the same time, we don't stop every day/night and pick up take out! Today we were driving past McDonald's when Brooke pointed her cute little hand towards the window and said, "My fries??!!" What??!! How in the world does she know that is where you get french fries at?? It is not like it was even a McDonald's that we had ever been to! On top of that, when I do let her indulge in the chicken nugget Happy Meal, she always gets the apple slices! I found this too funny that she knew that those golden arches had french fries and that she just had to have them.

Since it is her last day as an only child, I thought I would treat her to a real Happy Meal-fries included. I would maybe pick something up for myself too (Hey-I don't get to eat before the surgery or after for many hours...I need a last meal!!). Let me tell you who finished off their entire chicken nugget meal and who barely touched theirs (fries included)....We'll see if she tricks me into this again (PS-the Happy Meal toy was totally lame too...strawberry shortcake stamp?? Not so much...).

Officially Registered

I had my last doctors appointment today before the arrival of baby Fleming. I also pre-registered, got my blood drawn and met with an anesthesiologist. I was even given a hospital bracelet which I was informed I CANNOT (repeat) CANNOT remove!! If I remove this bracelet, I will have to do all my blood work, etc again. Apparently some women have problems following simple directions. Tomorrow I have my final monitoring appointment and then we are good for our Thursday appointment!! I am still watching the hours sllloooowwwlllyyy go by...but it is getting closer and closer-less then 48 hours now!

Brooke has also been busy. She has really been working on her "Cheese" face. She is getting better :)

More like a sneeze here..

Much better :)

Yes-I know that she is wearing the same thing as the last time I posted pictures...I promise she has other clothes......

Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving has been very busy with family get-togethers and celebrations. We were very lucky to have both of my sister in town and celebrated Maggie's 20th birthday (only one more year!!) on Thanksgiving Day!


We went to Gary's aunt & uncles house for Turkey Day and then my parents house the day after for Maggie's traditional birthday dinner of pizza and dip & bread (a pregnant woman's dream-might as well take advantage of this last week right?).


I also checked some major items off my 'to-do' list this weekend. We cleaned the entire house, got our few last baby items (on Black Friday-who does that?? Maggie & Kelly...), toe nails painted and the house is at least 1/2 way decorated. I still have a few more things to get done before Thursday, but I still have 3 days.


I am totally crazy and I am going to work one day this week. At least it will help pass the time. I feel like I am constantly staring at the clock waiting for the night to come and it finally to be another day. People are constantly telling me to 'enjoy' these last few days because before I know it...things are going to get REALLY busy around my house. It is REALLY easy for them to say that when they don't have two (adorable I'm sure) feet lodged in their rib cage. Although there are going to be sleepless nights and much, much more to do, I am ready to move onto the next stage and leave the pregnancy stage behind :)

This Is It

All that is left of the lovely Heparin injections. I think that I am more excited in the slowly diminishing amount of vials then anything else. I am at the point now where there are not too many places left to put a needle-I feel like I am going to pop everytime I do an injection!!

The 'almost' Big Sister

This little girls world is about to be rocked.

I had another doctors appointment this Tuesday and had my non-stress test today. Everything looks great with the baby! She was even sucking her thumb today which was pretty cute :) My doctor let me know that I have a 30% chance that I will go early. I like to think of that as a 70% chance that I will make it right up until my scheduled c-section date (even though I know how much Maggie would LOVE to share her birthday).