What's a little puke?

This evening right before Owain's bedtime I was feeding him his usual bed time bottle. I made a 4oz. bottle and put 1oz in another bottle with his second dose of penicillin of the day(for those of you unaware because Owain lost his spleen during surgery he has to have penicillin twice a day for anywhere to two to five years). He hates the taste of it.Can you blame him? so we found it to be easier to mix it with his formula. Anyways he drank all four ounces in ten minutes! Now if you know our little man he likes to snack when it comes to his bottle. Sometimes it takes an hour for him to drink four ounces. Now solid food is a different story he has no problems eating that in ten minutes. After gulping his bottles he acting like he was still hungry. So I made him another 20z. It doesn't sound like much but for him if he can drink 2 more thats huge! He gulped that bottle down like the first. I was so excited I couldn't believe he drank 6oz at one feeding! I was thinking to myself this is great. After all we really want Owain to pack on some more pounds. So he can get out of the one percentile for weight.

After he was finished I put him up on my shoulder to burp him. He was a little fussy. I figured he was fussy because he was tired and he had three shots today(I forgot to mention that twenty minutes before I gave him his bottles I gave him some Tylenol because he seemed he was in a little bit of pain from the shots.)

He burped as he continued to cry and rub his eyes. Then he made the face I know real well and then within seconds of making his pukey face he puked all over me. Not just a little bit of puke. We both were covered with vomit. My poor baby no wonder he was fussy his tummy didn't feel good. He puked a few more times on mommy. When he was finished I carried him and held my dress up so most of the puke would stay on my dress and walked to the bathroom as puke dripped all over the carpet!

I decided their was no point in just to give Owain a bath(this will be his second bath of the day). I was going to need one too. So I took our dripping wet with puke clothes off and hopped into the shower with Owain. This was Owain's first shower. I think he enjoyed it. He didn't fuss he just watched the water. By the time we were done getting clean. Owain was back to his usual self and smiling and laughing.

I don't know what made him throw up like that. I don't know if it was because he had Tylenol before his bottle and his penicillin or if he just had way to much formula in his little tummy. I am starting to wonder if maybe if his tummy is underdeveloped. after all he was born with his tummy in his chest. That would explain why he only takes in small amounts of formula at a time. That is a question I will be asking Dr.Zigman his surgeon during our appointment this Thursday.

Six month well visit

Today Owain had his six month well visit with Dr.H. He wasn't to happy when Dr.H was examining him. The whole time he was screaming looking at his daddy "why don't you help me!" This was before the nurse gave him his three shots. I felt so bad for the little guy if he was this upset just because Dr.H was looking in his ears and listening to his heart. How was he going to react when the nurse pokes him three times in the leg. Needless to say he wasn't to happy when he got the shots,who would be? As soon as daddy picked him he calmed right down.

Dr.H was happy with his development. He is doing everything a six month old should be. He is rolling over from front to back. Sitting up with help. Reaching for objects (toy,soothie or anything he can reach). He is moving one object from one hand to another.

Her only concern was his weight(not a big concern). He weighs 12lbs 7.5 oz. Since his four month check up he has only put on 2.5lbs. So he is still in the one percentile for his weight. Dr.H would like us to bring Owain back for a weight check in six weeks and if he still in the one percentile we might up his formula intake. Right now he is on a 24 cal. We new Owain is little for his age he is just now out growing his three month clothes. The good news is he hasn't lost any weight since we brought him home from the NICU. In the next few eeks I am going to try and fatten that boy up!

Dr.H say that she would really start to worry if Owain's head was in the one percentile. Well we don't have to worry about that his head is in the 75 percentile. So that is really good our boy as a big head. I already new this because he out grows his hats way before his clothes.

On our way home,not even five minutes from the Doctors Owain passed out in the car holding onto his foot. He was tuckered out. It's not easy being a six month old.

Daddy's on his way home!


Owain and I can hardly wait daddy is on his way home from his camping trip with the guys.Woohoo! It's only been a couple of days but we really miss him. You know what that means more daddy kisses for Mr. Owain.

When daddy gets here we are going over to Grandma Payette's for a nice dinner with Uncle Aaron. It will be nice to have some family time. I will update on our evening later tonight,maybe tomorrow. Have a good day!

Happy six month birthday!



I am a little late with this post. I wanted to post this yesterday but we had such a busy day there was no time. Yesterday was a big day for Owain it was his six month birthday. Woohoo! I can't believe our little warrior is already a half year old. Time really goes by when your having fun and sleepless nights.

We celebrated by having some family time before daddy left to go on his big camping trip with all the boy's. It was his buddy Ben's bachelor party. Should be a fun and crazy weekend with the guys.

Owain spent the morning playing super baby with daddy and playing with his new piano while daddy was giving him daddy kisses! Oh no not daddy kisses! It is so funny whenever Owain gets daddy kisses he laughs like crazy! I think daddy's whisker tickle. It's really cute. He loves his daddy. We can't wait until tomorrow when daddy is back. We miss him!


















Later in the day my good friend Megan and Whitney came over for dinner. Oh and I can't forget Owain's best buddy Cian (Megan's son, he is adorable!). I wanted to get some pictures of the boy's together again. Both of them were kinda tired and cranky so maybe next time. Megan had to leave shortly after dinner because Cian ready to be home. Even with both boy's being cranky we still had a nice time.

Sophia Miller

Sophia is in surgery right now. It got changed to today. Please continue to pray for Sophia and her family.Thank you

Another CDH bay needs your prayers

Sophia was born in March and spent eighty one days in the NICU,several of those days she was on ECMO. I just got done reading her blog and she has rehernation . She is probably in surgery has I am typing this. Please pray for Super Sophie and her family.

Since bringing Owain home rehernation is one of my biggest concerns. His surgeon tried to make me feel a little less concerned by informing me that their is only a 15% chance that Owain will rehernate . I still worry about it everyday and I have known four babies that have rehernated. Some more than once.

Please pray for Sophia that her repair will go smoothly and she will be able to recover and return home with her mommy and daddy were she belongs. Check out Sophia's Blog here.

Thank you

Play Date

Today Owain had a play date with his little buddy Cian. Aren't they cute?