spent the whole day at the childrens hosptal with Becky.... she has fallen off the growth curve. she is now in the 10% for her age.... im so not happy with this. she hasent gained at all in over two months.... now that she has all these food allergies she is now off solids and her GI dr switched her to this special formula.... and to top it off he has sent her to get...

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ok so we now know that the girls both have moderate to sever asthma and food allergies. It sucks but well... we have to deal.... Baby A - Asthma (moderate to severe), Food allergies to cows milk, soybean, fish mix, almond (more to be tested later!) + Allergic to CatsBaby B - Asthma (moderate to severe), Food allergies to cows milk, egg, rice, shellfish mix, beef, peanut (more to be tested later!) + VERY allergic to Cat...

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so once again im sick. the doctors think that its becouse i never actually got over the infection i had when i was 6 weeks post partum... i have now been on antibiotics 4 times. Plus having my gallbladder out.  The doctors think its becouse i never recoup enouch after....... they think that i need a good week away from the twins to recover and to heal up and that i need to just let...

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every day i go through one of my girls having sever acid reflux. Its hard. its hard to see her like this. becouse i dont know how to make her better. She is on medication, Nexium, but its as much as we can do now. We have tried so many things, yet she is in pain and is not doing well. I am posting two videos of my dear little one who suffers from acid...

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so my twin girls are sick. 2 days ago we were in emerge with them. They thought they had RSV so when they had some breathing issues we brought them in. they did an RSV test and that was not easy to watch. They squrted saline up there nose ans then sucked it out and it got put in this tube. Not fund for them or me.... Then they had to get a chest x-ray...

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i never for one thought i would get PPD. i never thought that at 4 and a half months i would be spending most of my day crying and sobbing and wishing the kids would just nap at the same time. I never expected that i would have a chilld who would need so much attention. And i never thought that i would at 10 am be just wishing that the day would end so...

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i never knew how much it would cost to take care of a chid with special needs. For one of my twins who has acid reflux i finally looked at recepts for the last month. OVER 400$ for formula and medication. That dosent even take the bottle liners. For her sister we spend about 168$ for formula. we at least found a kick ass diaper service and we spent 120$ a month on cloth diapers...

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today at my parenting group that i go to. They had some Nursing student come in. And they taked about temper tantrums. after a few jokes about can we use this info on our husbands and other funny jokes we got down to talking. what really bugged me as well as the nursing student was how she was looking for pictures of kids who were upset, or sad, or having a temper tantrum.  She could...

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I never knew how hard it would be to be a mom to a child with medical issues.... One of my twins about a week after we came back from the hosptal started screaming after eating, screaming when she woke up, and clawing at her face during feeding and after feeding. So much so that she would constanty scratch her face.... It took many trips to our local childrens hospta where we were told many...

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