The Meyer Lemon

We truly are slacking at getting updates out, for that we apologize. Laney is doing great! Last Thursday she weighed in at 7 lbs. 9 oz. She is gaining about half a pound a week. Medically she is healthy as a horse but still is having some complications. Our pediatric orthopedist abandon the hope of having the pavlik harness (torture device) work at putting her hip back into socket. It was deceiving the last week. It would pop in and out of socket fairly easily so we were very optimistic it would work but when we had our check up it was obvious that it was not working. So the next step is surgery in September and she will have to be in a full cast from the waist down for 12 weeks. Uggg. Can't say we are very excited about that but for now we have a normal baby girl with out stuff attached to her and that is an exciting change. I guess we will enjoy it while we can and deal with the rest when it gets here.

The othere check up we had was for her hearing. She failed her hearing test in one of her ears before we left the hospital. Because of that and the particular antibiotics she was on in the hospital we had to do a follow up hearing screen. Well that didn't go so well either. They ask you to bring the kids in tired and hungry so you can feed them and they fall asleep for the test. Sounds like a good idea right? Well not only would she not fall asleep because she was over tired by the time I took her in, but she ended up doing the test naked because of some violent poop that drenched both of us. Because of the electrodes on her head I couldn't put another outfit on her! So we spent hours naked and pooped! She did finally fall asleep but then proceeded to fail the test in both ears this time. "How does this happen?" you might ask yourself. Apparently she has a little fluid in her middle ear on both ears. No infection, just some fluid. We are glad there is no infection but we are frustrated with the fluid. So they tell us we need to go see her pediatrician. Off we go to her pediatrician who needs to see the fluid. We go to his office and say "she failed her hearing screen. They say she has some uninfected fluid in her middle ear." He says," Let me take a look. Yup she has some uninfected fluid in her middle ear." Thanks for stopping by. Pay your money on the way out the door. Nothing they can do. Wait. Come back and see me in a month.

You all know we love Laney more than anything in the world but Kevin and I have started joking that she is out little lemon. Kinda like when you buy a car and one thing after the other goes wrong with it. Thats Laney. She is our little lemon. I guess you could call her our "Meyer Lemon." I am not sure what we will do with our free time when we don't have to go to doctors all the time but we are grateful that she is with us and we have to go to the doctor at all.

She is sleeping better. For a while we were on an every 2 hour feeding schedule. Gotta love the growth spurts! Now she is only getting up about 1-2 times every night. (depending on when I finally get up for the day.

Other than that we are working on her room. I know. She is 4 months old and we are just painting her room. A little tragic, I know, but our justification is that she doesn't sleep in there anyway. I will get some pictures when we are done.

I hope this finds you all doing well and enjoying your summer! I know we are.

The Meyer's