Baby Update

Baby I. went in for a bilirubin draw this week.  Her numbers came back 'elevated' but she is not considered to be at  much risk.  Also, she finally pooped after playing the waiting game for 7 days.  She looks healthy (aside from the tan) and wets often, but I have to wonder if she is drawing down the hindmilk.   A dear friend of mine is tracking down a pump for me, as we speak.  I'm telling you, it pays to have crazy La Leche League friends (love you, Rita).    


I on the other hand and being told in no uncertain terms that I need to go get back in bed, by my body via kidney infection.  I guess this is comeuppance for all the times that I have almost haughtily told new mothers "if you don't take it easy, you'll get what's coming to you."  I surely did.  I guess I need to take this whole 40 days more seriously...


B. turned two and N. turns 11this weekend.  I have been changing diapers for 11 years and up until December it had been without a break or 3902 days without a break.  I wish I had more pictures, but I've spent most of this week in bed.


I know, yesterday was the Annunciation.   I feel sort of lost in time right now, unmoored from the Church calendar.  I did find this Psalm which seems especially appropriate for the day.

Psalm 40

 ¹I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

 ²He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

 ³And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

 ⁴Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

 ⁵Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

 ⁶Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

 ⁷Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

 ⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

 ⁹I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

 ¹⁰I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

 ¹¹Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

 ¹²For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

 ¹³Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

 ¹⁴Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

 ¹⁵Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

 ¹⁶Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

 ¹⁷But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Keep me in prayer, dear Reader.  Many blessings to you.