"fussbudget." one of my favorite nicknames for davey. i’m also partial to "peanut" these days, too. but last night, it was fussbudget ALL THE WAY. mama and daddy just couldn’t make the kid happy or content for more than 15 minutes at a time – and this all started at 4 a.m. and lasted until [...]
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saturday: july 28th Happy 28th Birthday (for real this year) to the best husband and father in the world: David Collin Dunkin… here’s last year’s cake (when i aged dave a year in just a week…) and here’s a sleepy dave and an even sleepier davey: and here’s what dave spent several HOURS purchasing yesterday… [...]
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happy 5-year anniversary to dave and i! last night we realized our anniversary was already here… WHERE has the time gone? i know the last 12 days have been overwhelming as we’ve learned about parenthood (and we have so much still to learn) but where have the last five YEARS gone? sheesh! here are some [...]
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wed: july 25th yesterday i had the opportunity to go shopping (without davey) for a few hours. tracy (family from colorado) joined me and there’s no way i could have made it through my list at target without her… THANK YOU, TRACY! i had to buy a bunch of things to add to the nursery [...]
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Monday: July 23rd Weight: 5 pounds 2 ounces per Dr. Dickson’s scale. That’s a weight gain of 2.5 ounces in a day and a half. We are ELATED and SO THANKFUL! Biliribun level: rebound test pending. he’s been off the lights for 24 hours and just had his blood drawn. We’ll know the results in [...]
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davey’s biliribun level is down so we no longer need to use the bilibed. YIPPEE!! his weight, however, is also down (another 1/2 an ounce) so we’ve made more changes to his feeding plan and tomorrow we’ll visit dr. dickson. hopefully it’s something as "simple" as reflux (which is not uncommon in preemies) and we’ll [...]
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july 20th. weight is back down 1 ounce (at 5 pounds even). more adjustments to feeding. keep praying this lil’ dude packs on some pounds. the hint of a smile (photo taken in the hospital): biliribun level: DOWN! yep. for the first time, his bili level has DROPPED – it’s now at 13.9 which (i [...]
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fri: 7/20 weight is the same: 5 pounds 1 ounce biliribun level: increased sad news: we should wait until davey is "full term" before we take him out and about and expose him to people and germs and the like. yep. so that means i’m mostly housebound for another month. frustrating for sure. but maybe [...]
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Thursday: July 19th First update (sorry it’s being posted so late today)…. Davey gained ONE OUNCE since yesterday (bringing him up to 5 pounds and 1 ounce) so that means…. your prayers are WORKING. keep praying, b/c he has a lot more weight to gain, but at least we’re ADDING weight now instead of losing [...]
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wednesday: july 18th please pray for Davey. today he needs to GAIN WEIGHT. the visiting nurse was just here and he lost another 2 ounces since yesterday (and i thought he ate MORE yesterday?!). so to avoid a trip to the hospital (and a prolonged stay in a "camping room" for me), we need him [...]
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