Rookie Parents and frozen yogurt...

The last few days have been very good for KelliAnne.  She had a couple days where she lost weight but that had to do with her getting 'unclogged' a bit. She had not been going '# 2" as frequently as she should so the doctors checked her out.  They found quite a bit of air in her belly, which was good, because the alternative they were worried about was some sort of infection to her stomach and intestines that would have been very bad.  The other good part about a bunch of air in her belly, is they have ways to get this out.  It's called a suppository.  This helped get things moving for KelliAnne and resulted in a sligh weight loss over two days.  No worries though she gained it back, and is actually up to 2 lb 14 oz.  Almost  3 lb now, which will be a big milestone.  The nurses have told us once babies hit that weight she should really start gaining regularly.

The other interesting part about a suppository is the amount of garbage that can be produced by this little baby.  Yesterday, Robin and I were tag team changing a diaper, as it is pretty tough through the holes of the incubator.  KelliAnne had an average size stool.  Robin got her cleaned up and had a new diaper already underneath the dirty one so we could just pull it out and strap on the new one.  We proceed, and KelliAnne proceeds to fill the new diaper like someone had just flipped the handle on a frozen yogurt machine.  She then filled covered a little towel and another diaper.  Robin and I were impressed and laughing hysterically.  This was one of our finer moments as new parents, and the most we had laughed in quite some time.....  The nurses got a kick out of us as well and let us know what we have in store for our future.

Oh yea... we also managed to keep the incubator and all the bed covers clean somehow with all this, and KelliAnne took notice.  Once we had all the poo cleaned up, KelliAnne decided to pee straight into the air when Robin was scooting diaper # 3 under her.  This got her monitor leads, the bed, the 3rd diaper and her snuggle up bed cover dirty.  We tried.