Our Tough Girl

We took Kinsley back to the doctor yesterday. She has gained 4 ounces in the last week and she now weighs 16 lbs 13 oz. The doctor is still concerned with her vomitting so she ordered several tests including blood work, a urine analysis, and an ultrasound. The ultrasound is scheduled for next Tuesday and Kinsley cannot eat for 4 hours prior to the ultrasound. That should be fun. Since she sleeps through the night, I plan to wake her up at 6:00 am that morning to feed her. I'm hoping she will go back to sleep and then I will gently place her in her carseat when it's time to go (without dressing her) and I'm really hoping she stays asleep. We'll see.

We took her for the lab work today. Brandon and I were both really nervous about them having to poke her to get blood. You could say I was a wreck. As I have mentioned before, I HATE needles and the thought of them poking my baby with one to draw blood just kills me. I wasn't so worried about them getting her pee since I knew they could stick a bag on her and wait for her to pee in it. There were 2 nurses that worked together to take Kinsley's blood. They were very good and I was really pleased with how well they did with her. Brandon was afraid that we would get some weirdo that wasn't used to working with infants. Kinsley just smiled and talked to them as they were getting ready to draw her blood. Of course they thought she was just the cutest baby ever and they kept telling her that =) They placed the pee bag on her and that didn't phase her. Then they started holding her arm down and she was not happy with that. She started kicking her legs and fussing so I had to hold her legs while Daddy held her other arm and her upper body. I didn't watch, I was just waiting for that hurtful scream to come. You know the really loud one that just tears a mommy's heart out? She wasn't screaming so I thought "jeez, hurry up and stick her already" and I looked up. To my surprise, they had already stuck her and were almost done! She was crying but only b/c we were all holding her down. As soon as we all let go, she quit crying and started smiling again immediately. We were so relieved that it was over and we couldn't believe how well she did!! Such a tough little girl!

Of course I had to get a picture with her bandage on her arm ;) I'm so proud of how well she did today.

We're praying that we will know next week after the ultrasound whether she has Pyloric Stenosis or not. If she doesn't and her labs are all normal, our doctor will probably refer us to a GI specialist. And if she does have PS, we will be scheduling her for surgery.