HOME!
We left our new home a couple and came back a family.
We slowly and carefully made our way out of the car with precious cargo in our arms. I looked up at the house we bought for our family and looked down at Sophia as happiness filled my heart. We walked to through the front door as we were greeted by our other babies; Mamas and Emily. They immediately knew something was different. They were wary. Sophia made a few cooing noises and the cats backed off. Emily was more curious and had the courage to come up to me and smell my nose and the baby's clothing. That whole day was a blur. I cant even remember the rest of that day.
I do however remember a lot of paranoid, sleepless nights. We tried putting Sophia in the co-sleeper that was placed between Rome and I on the bed, but she would not sleep very long in it. For the next couple of months, I gave in and let her sleep with us on the bed, however that didn't allow for me to sleep soundly; more like with one eye opened for fear of rolling over on her or accidentally placing a pillow on her. Rome had one midnight feeding every night from the milk I pumped for him. But always at the same time, during his feeding Sophia cried...but it was a pain type of cry. I was beginning to wonder if she didnt like eating out of the bottle. This lasted for at least an hour every night. One day I picked her up from daycare and I put her down to change her diaper when she suddenly began wheezing, like she had trouble breathing. I picked her up immediately and she stopped. A few hours later I changed her and she did it again. I called her doctor to report what had happened so they asked me to bring her in. I took her in and that when they suspected she had reflux. I was referred to the hospital the next morning to get an upper GI ultrasound done to track her milk as she drank it into her esophagus and through her digestive tract. After she drank the contrast, sure enough it began to make its way back into her esophagus resulting in reflux.
We started noticing that Sophia was at her best in the mornings. A happy baby. So amazing. Those first couple of months I became very familiar with my house, it was the longest I had ever gone without leaving it. I miss being home with my baby.
