Our little one turns 1 month today.
Our little family has settled in quite well. Beto loves being a big brother. Breanna loves to take care of her and hold her. I can’t believe it’s been a month already. Time sure does fly by fast. I don’t miss work as much as I thought I was. I do talk to the girls at the office and they keep me in the loop on what is going on. It has been easier than I thought to let go.

Julianna has outgrown her newborn diapers and now using size 1. That’s bittersweet. I love to see her grow but at the same time it’s sad. My baby is growing up. Before you know it she will be fighting with her brother and sister and getting into all their stuff.

Julianna kept me up on Saturday night. I threaten to make her my only formula fed baby. I would nurse her…she would grunt and fuss. I was thinking she was hungry and maybe her breastaurant was closed, plugged up, or just plain empty. I tried to comfort her but she was fussy for about 20 minutes straight. Gave her gas medicine…Nothing. So I defrost some milk for her and tried to feed her with the bottle. NO LUCK. That was our first hard night. I was worried that something was wrong with her. But she finally calmed down and fell asleep. FYI…JULIANNA it’s suppose to get easier to get you to bed.

So far the hardest thing has been nursing. Not the actually act but just scheduling time to nurse. I don’t have any nursing tops yet. Which makes it hard to nurse in public. I ordered some online and hopefully they should be arriving sooner rather than later. Here in the states people still freak out when they see you nursing. I’m not sure why. I feel it’s as natural as you can get. My gosh the only reason God gave women boobs is to feed their little ones. But in the states boobs are associated so much with SEX. I don’t care I’m gonna pop it out whenever she is hungry. I’m not gonna flash people but come on my baby has to eat and why should we go hide in a room in exile.

Anaphylactoid Purpura Monday

So I had a great Monday today. First of all last night didn't get much sleep with a 3week newborn. Early this morning at 8:30 A.M. I get a call from Breanna's school nurse. Breanna has a rash on her leg and is itching. I said I know but its not contagious. (Breanna has been asking me if she could stay home with Julianna and I.) I agreed to pick her up. Prior to hanging up she in turn tells me you know I called your husband and he told me he was busy and to call him back. I asked her well did you state who you where. And she said YES MRS. KING just like I did with you when I called. I had to do everything to hold back my gangsta ways and not reply to that remark. I then text Jason "Thanks for nothing and I'm taking you off the list of people to call" I can be so mean. I know and accept this. But I was pissed. Who in there right mind does that? In his defense he said he thought it was Disney World(School's name is Walt Disney Elementary) calling regarding some type of special promotion). I call Bullshit.....However, he was busy at work due to the flooding that happen this weekend. Jason gets flustered when he is overwhelmed. So who knows.

Ohhh and Breanna got it to. Poor Child as soon as we got in the car I quickly told her that if she thought it was going to be an easy day she had another thing coming. I told her she would have to go to her room and stay there for the rest of the day and if she got hungry she should of stayed in school. School would of fed her but I'm not. I then looked at her legs (Looking back I should of done this first prior to reaming her) and her legs were much worse than last night. So I called her doctor which had no openings till tomorrow morning. Which meant she would of miss school today and tomorrow. So I called Diane to see if I could get her seen in her clinic and of course she said come on over.

Bre got blood drawn, her throat swabbed, and peed in a cup. Then the doctor said Breanna has Anaphylactoid Purpura.... and I said she has WHATA PURPURA!!! Well come to find out it sometype of illness in which blood vessels get inflamed. What caused it...nobody knows. They did test her urine and there was blood in her urine!!! That alone scares me. I had three questions for the doctor.
1. Was it contagious? (Answer: NO)
2. What do I do now? (Answer: See a kidney doc to rule out kidney damage)
3. How can I prevent this from happening again? (Answer: Nothing. You can't prevent it.)

Breanna loved all the attention. Breanna knows mostly everybody in the clinic because she helps out when Diane keeps her. We didn't get home till 1:00PM I had to leave the house at 2:30 PM to pick Beto up from school. So I nursed Julianna. Chilled for a bit and off we where to pick up Beto. After picking up Beto we went to buy the groceries for dinner this week. Came home made dinner, nursed Julianna again, got Beto ready for his game and loaded up the truck with stroller. I was out the door at 5:20PM. I felt like SUPERWOMEN!!!! Since I was pissed at Jason I was in my "WHO NEEDS A MAN" mood. I quickly get out of these moods on my own because I forget I'm mad at him and start talking to him. Then I remember I'm mad...........but by then its too late.

Easter!!!

Julianna was pretty low key this Easter. No Easter egg coloring or Easter egg hunts for her. She did see some action at the Poker Table for the 1st time..
I bought the kids these Easter eggs with reflectors on them. They are for a night time Easter egg hunt. They came with flashlights. The kids had fun. I think we are going to do it every year. Easter day was our 1st outing as a family with Julianna. It was an uuuggghhh moment for me. I was tired when we finished loading up the truck. Making sure both kids wear appropriate cloths and getting the little one nursed and out the door was very challenging and me looking somewhat decent. But we did it. Once we got to Grandma's and Grandpa's house the fun began.

Julianna

Our baby girl is 15 days old today. It feels like its been longer. Well first of all she was born with a bad case of jaundice she finally gets out of the lights today. Thank goodness. I was about to go crazy having to put her in that machine everyday all day except for feedings. Life is slowly getting back to normal. Bre and Beto love her and love to hold her. They think she is kinda boring because she can't play. I've been trying to keep up with family movie night. Last night we watched Grease. They loved it.

My labor with Julianna was easy like my pregnancy.
I went in to the hospital at 6:00AM. It was bitter-sweet because it was the last day I would be pregnant. But I was so excited to finally have her here. I was 6cm and was completely effaced. I was doing so good with no pain meds nor epidural until about noon. My contractions started to get painful and closer together then I gave in and received my epidural at 12:30PM. I had Julianna at 1:29PM. Boy after the epidural it was easy as pie. I didn't feel the contractions at all. I probably pushed 6 times and she was out. The hard part was when she was born with jaundice and had to stay an extra night at the hospital. I hated the fact that she couldn't be with me in my room. They only let her out for nursing and I only got 30 minutes. I'm glad she took to the breast with no problems.
Then when we were finally discharged I had to go to the hospital and doctors office everyday. Poor Julianna had to get bloodwork everyday so we can see where she stood. Oh and I had to drive myself because Jason couldn't get off for some reason....I still don't get a straight answer about that. But O well you do what you gotta do and I had to drive within 2 days of being discharged. Oooohhhh Julianna only 15 days old and you are so problematic. It must be the KING in you.

Bre's Skate Party