Vanderbilt Bound

Tomorrow, Grace and I are headed to Nashville for her appointment at the Vanderbilt Nutrition Clinic. Please pray that her nutritionist would have wisdom concerning Grace's situation!

So, what is the current situation, you ask? Thankfully, since we arrived back home, Grace has not had any issues with throwing up or diarrhea. She seems to have returned to health in that regard. Our struggle has been getting her to take in enough calories every day. We have had some great days and then some really not-so-great days. We've had some setbacks like getting sick from eating puffs, and constipation from her new, thicker formula mixture. She typically has about 7 feedings per day, at least one in the middle of the night. It has been very tiring and sometimes discouraging. She is generally happy and seems to feel well but just doesn't always want to take in enough calories. So, we are really anxious and hopeful to see if the nutritionist at Vanderbilt will be able to help us get Grace back on the right track and hopefully get our lives back to normal!

I will try to post an update sometime later this week. Thanks for praying!

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The apple juice worked! 8:16 AM Sep 8th via web

Poor Grace can't win...now she's constipated! (Sorry if that's TMI...poop is a part of daily conversation here.) Hope the apple juice works! 8:30 PM Sep 7th via web

Exciting day! Preschool open house for boys, good weight check for Grace -- up 6 oz! Chick-fil-A and Soybean Festival parade tonight! 11:28 AM Sep 7th via Twitter for iPhone

And, here's a new old post from last week...So Happy Together http://goo.gl/b/142n 11:27 PM Sep 5th via web

Update: Grace is 10 months old! http://goo.gl/b/SYR7 11:21 PM Sep 5th via web

Ten and Too (Cute)

This sweet girl turned 10 months old yesterday...

And, we think she is too cute!

It's good to see 10 months! Grace celebrated her 9-month birthday in the hospital, so sick we hardly had time to remember that it was her birthday. But, this birthday was a good one! She is working hard to catch up on her crawling and talking, things that she didn't really get a chance to practice for almost a month. She is army crawling faster and faster and getting up on her knees and rocking every now and again. She is vocalizing more and more, and especially likes to say "dada." We are still having to work hard on getting in enough calories every day, and we are hoping this will get easier. She's getting her calories but only because someone is waking up in the middle of the night to feed her (Justin or me). We hope this will end soon!! It is tiring having a "newborn" baby again...especially because she takes up more of our energy during the day than a newborn would. She has an appointment at the Vanderbilt Nutrition Clinic on the 14th, and we are looking forward to getting some more help with all of these persistent issues.

We're glad Grace didn't spend this birthday in this hospital, though she tried! That little stinker...Thursday night, she picked up a cellophane toothpick wrapper off the floor and decided to eat it, which landed us in the ER for about 3 hours. I am not even kidding! It's a long story...we thought she had put something in her mouth but we weren't sure what, looked, did a finger sweep, found nothing -- she just kept coughing and gagging off and on for about an hour, so we thought a professional needed to take a look. They couldn't find anything either and finally decided to send us home because her symptoms seemed to be subsiding. We decided it must have just been something little that worked it's way down. But, as we were waiting for the discharge papers, lo and behold, she spit that wrapper out of her mouth! OH. MY. GOSH. I am getting the feeling that what they say about girls bringing the drama might be true. Grace has certainly brought her fair share of it into this house in her short 10 months!! Needless to say, we are so glad she's ok and that it was nothing worse. And, needless to say, I will be vacuuming much more frequently now.

Can't believe my baby girl will be ONE in two months!!!

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B'ham nutritionist gave new plan: make higher calorie formula. Now has 30oz/day goal. Hoping we can cut out these 3am feedings! 11:44 AM Sep 2nd via Twitter for iPhone

Early morning meltdown because we can't have ice-cream for breakfast. What a way to start the day. Need coffee now. 7:22 AM Sep 1st via Twitter for iPhone

Weight check today 6.59kg. (14lb, 8.5oz) Up 2.5oz from last week but not as good as the doc had hoped. Will see nutritionist at Vandy 9/14. 1:39 PM Aug 31st via web

Hoping Grace drinks over 30oz today. Don't want to set my alarm for a 3am feeding again. It's like having a newborn. So sleepy. Need coffee. 7:28 AM Aug 31st via Twitter for iPhone

My kids are crackin' me up. Owen is crying, insisting that I wear a certain pair of shoes. Apparently, I stink AND have poor fashion sense. 4:16 PM Aug 30th via Twitter for iPhone

Knox just scooted up next to me and said, "Do you need to poop, Mommy?" "Um...no." Not sure what I should make of that. I did shower today. 3:41 PM Aug 30th via web

Whew! Just drank 5oz, which puts her up to 25 for today. Will have to wake up in the middle of the night for an extra feeding, though :(. 10:28 PM Aug 29th via web

Mostly positive update and a prayer request...Pray for Grace: They're Baa-ack! http://goo.gl/b/HIXW 9:40 PM Aug 29th via web