Thursday, July 20, 2006

Scary Moment for Daddy and Noah












Uncle Robert(Leah's younger brother) stopped by tonight to see us and the baby. Robert was showing me the face little Noah was making while he was feeding him. Dr. Granny also came by w/ Joe bringing another awesome meal and brownies and ice cream for dessert.
Sorry I have been slacking on the pictures but yesterday when Noah was at the doctors office he had lost almost 12 ounces of weight and they said that was more than they want him to lose. They helped us w/ some pointers to help feeding so he is eating enough and it looks like it worked since today when we took him in he had gained a little over 1/2 ounce and they were just hoping he would be the same and not lost anymore weight.
I also had a crazy panic moment when for the first time I was giving Noah some food by bottle when unknown to me that a baby can drink to fast and become chocked. I was watching him drink his bottle thinking this is easy when all of sudden he gives me this OH @#%$ look and I notice his mouth and lips haved turned a blue color. Being trained as an EMT really helped since I forgot everything I ever learned and all I could think of doing was yelling for Mom to get there fast. I started rubbing and patting his back when Leah came in to help. It took Noah a good 5 minutes to start crying again, and let me tell you it took me hours to get comfortable again. We told the doctors about it at the office and they said it happens quite often and its no big deal, well all I could think was this is something you should tell new parents before it happens so they dont have a heart attack.
We are all doing fine now and I am back to feeding him w/out shaking to bad so we are still trying to put some more weight on him before his next doctors visit. This sleep thing where people tell you "its over rated" or "you can sleep when you die" is for the birds. They dont have kids, but I can not complain Noah sleeps between 3 and 4 hours between feedings at night so we are adjusting pretty good.

1 comment:

Jerry said...

Thanks all you guys at 10, even you Sunshine, cant wait to bring little Noah by to meet all of you.