Our trip to Children’s, originally uploaded by lilqhgal.

Jaylen had her test today and it came back as positive for reflux. She screamed the whole time and refused the barium. But she got enough in her to reflux on screen. Now I have concrete evidence that she’s in pain and I’m not just the mom of a ‘colicky’ baby. Here’s to better days ahead.
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That brother o’ hers must be some kind of funny guy because Jaylen officially laughed tonight. She’s been dong this little smile-jerk-back-sqwak thing for a while but not the full out giggle laugh that we heard tonight when she was sitting in the saucer watching Brother playing with his Legos. It was music to my ears! Unfortunately I couldn’t get her to laugh again for the camera so below is a video where you can hear her sqwakings from the other day.

Bebe pod, originally uploaded by lilqhgal.

Dad makes the best pallets.
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This week has been very interesting.  I finally took Jaylen to the doctor on Thursday night because she’s been so inconsolable and in so much pain when she eats (and almost every other minute of the day really).  She has to go to Dayton Children’s Hospital for a Barium Swallow Test.  What’s that you ask?  Basically she’s going to swallow some radio-active junk and that lets them do an x-ray of her esophagus and stomach and internal workings immediately after she eats to see if she has any reflux and how bad it is.  I kind of hope it comes back that that’s what it is because I honestly can’t take another day like this.  It makes every day extremely difficult to endure knowing my sweet little angel is in so much pain.  Last night she had a scream fit that even scared ME.  I mean I’m used to her crying/fussing with the occasional scream or two but this lasted for several minutes, the long drawn out screams and bloodcurdling cries was enough to about cause me to have a meltdown.  Fortunately she finally soothed herself somehow and we got her to sleep.  I can’t wait for the appointment.  I need to find out a way to make my little sweet heart feel better.

On a somewhat more positive note, she’s been trying to roll over as of today, and she’s almost got it.  She already mastered rolling over belly-to-back by the time she was 4 weeks old.  But the back-to-belly was a little more complicated.  She almost made it earlier and I have it on video, except she’s screaming her head off so I don’t think I’ll post it.  Nobody wants to hear a screaming baby, and unfortunately 95% of the day that’s what she does.

We’ve also been seeing a Chiropractor.  Thanks to Dr. Dave (Klosterman Chiropratic in Springboro, OH) she has become a much more efficient nurser and certainly latches on much better.  I was hoping the fussiness/reflux/colic/whatever would also be helped but it doesn’t seem to be working for that.  He started out treating Jaylen but scanned me and I was off the charts so I have been going myself.  I can’t say that I feel tons better, but then again, I never felt really bad to begin with (other than my migraines which it seems to have helped with).  I do love the practice and the people there, so it’s worth the drive!  And I sweet talked Mom into going with me one day and she’s now signed up and going too.  So Monday we went down and farted around town afterword and ended up going to Chinese for lunch/dinner.  Jaylen got her first Fortune Cookie Fortune!    And it was about the dumbest one I’ve ever heard LOL!  “Executive ability is promient in your make up.”

I can’t think of much else.  It’s taken me over 48 hours just to post this because Jaylen has been excessively upset so it makes it next to impossible to work on the computer.  I’ll wrap up with some photos.

Standin’ for Daddy:

Blowin’ bubbles:

Snoozin’ with Dad:

Nappin’ in the car on the way to the Chiro:

Chillin’ with Eros the cat.

In the home-made Moby Wrap.

Dog beds are fun!, originally uploaded by lilqhgal.

We went shopping at the flower factory after our Chiro appt today and Jaylen loved riding on the dogs new pillow in the cart!
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Jaron’s year end award., originally uploaded by lilqhgal.

Jaron receiving his award for bantam football. Go blue!!
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Jaylen had a rough night last night. She got the normal routine of bath, swaddling, and nursing but she woke up twice thru the night. First at 1 and again at about 5. She’s been sleeping thru the night for about 2 week now, form about 8 to 7. I hope she has a better night tonight! Wish us luck!
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Jaylen in her megasaucer.
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Bubble girl, originally uploaded by lilqhgal.

Jaylen loves bathtime!
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Cloth diapers, originally uploaded by lilqhgal.

I was all cloth diaper gung ho during my pregnancy. I ended up not getting around to getting any (partly to my indecisiveness on what brand/style to get). The other day at Target in Sugarcreek I noticed they had some, so when I had some extra money (the diapers run about $20/ea) I went back and bought 1. The first day she wore it we hauled a horse and got lost in the dark so she was in it for hours. Then on the way home she pooped. I was afraid to even take her out of the car seat but lo and behold, no leaks! I dunked it in the toilet and threw it in the wash with a load of her clothes and it came beautifully clean and fresh smelling! I want to buy more! I got the BumGenius 2.0 in pink!