31
March
2009
Height: 30.5″
Weight: 10.285kg
Had our last synagis shot for the season, much to Dorrie’s dismay. She also decided to pee everywhere to express her displeasure at being put on the scale.
Down to a PEEP of 7. Don’t anticipate -too- much of a difference with that; the CPAP valve is not exactly digital, so it’s all sort of an estimate anyway.
Also, the new night nurse showed up last night!! I was highly skeptical after her failure to show up for orientation, then her 2h late arrival for the rescheduled orientation. Hopefully she’ll also show up tonight.
Posted: little fat fairy, nurse or no nurse, our little witch
14
March
2009
…not.
I believe I mentioned that our reliable night time nurse who I liked recently had to disappear for a while due to some kind of family emergency. She is still not back, but the nursing agency called at the beginning of the week to say that they had someone else who could do some nights, and she would be coming to orient on Thursday morning.
I’m sure you can all see where I’m going with this.
That’s right. She never showed up.
The agency claims they were notified, but if they were, why the hell didn’t they bother to call us?! We have had this discussion with them mutiple times in the past. We are not psychic. Perhaps we are also too trusting. When we’re told someone will be showing up to work, we are surprised when they fail to appear. This seems to be a less universal attitude than I would have expected…
Compounding the lack of nursing has been Dorrie’s horrid sleeping this past week. After a really good run of 4 or 5 days in a row week before last where she had a good nap during the day and was asleep by 9:30pm at night, from Sunday she has been refusing to nap more than about 20 minutes during the day. The problem? She’s still a baby who needs a nap. By the time we hit 6 or 7pm, she’s got so many bags under her eyes that it makes you yawn to just look at her. And quite a few times she just poops out on us. We’d be fine with that — if she stayed asleep for the rest of the night. Instead, she treats that as her nap, wakes up a little after 8 and is ready to party until dawn. Sunday night she went to sleep at 1:30am. Monday was midnight. Tuesday was 1am. And so on through the week until we hit tonight’s record of 1:45am. Bob thought it was the time change, but I don’t think that could have affected her nearly this much. I don’t see how one hour change could screw up her sleeping schedule to the tune of 4-5 hours.
Posted: nurse or no nurse, our little witch, wtf, people
7
March
2009
Quite a while go, we bought Dorrie a Fisher-Price people airpline for Christmas. Since she had been scared of large toys and had gotten so many other toys for Christmas anyway, we hadn’t given it to her until the middle of February. To our surprise, she didn’t just want to chew on the people, she wanted to play with the airplane.
So we promptly went on a hunt for other toys in the Little People line (digression: this line has been seriously revised since we were children, and NOT for the better; I hate the new people designs) which were similar. The one I wanted the most was the school bus, because I remembered spending quite a lot of time playing with the two buses we had when I was little.
But every store I went to only ever had the Pink Bus.
What is the Pink Bus? It is part of the idiotic idea that pervades the toy industry that requires all popular toy lines to have a separate sub-line “for girls” that consists of the same toys colored pink. There are pink legos, pink ring stackers, pink shape sorters, pink activity centers… sometimes I’m surprised that our medical supplier did not deliver a pink ventilator and oxygen tanks.
The pink toys are almost always vastly inferior to the other, regular toy line. They are less complicated, focus only on things like princesses and houses, and are less interesting to look at, since instead of using a large palette of colors, they tend to be pink with purple highlights.
The Little People pink toys are especially troubling. The pink toys I have seen so far contain no obviously male characters (several androgynous people were allowed to remain). The characters seem also to be predominantly white.
We finally managed to track down the regular school bus at Babies R Us yesterday. It was then that I discovered that the Pink Bus not only contains 3 white female characters rather than the more multicultural Regular Bus, but the Regular Bus contains a wheelchair which was omitted from the Pink Bus. Apparently little white girls do not associate with the handicapped?! I really wonder what kind of message Fisher-Price thinks it’s sending with all of these gender-segregated toys.
Posted: tales of interest, wtf, people
4
March
2009
Height: 29.5″
Weight: 10.15kg
Head: 48.5cm
Dorrie is no longer looking as fat as she used to. Her face and body have thinned out and she has a more healthy, normal pudgy appearence. She still lags on height, but seems to be catching up on that. Her weight has been fairly flat for the past few months, but she has grown a couple of inches. Hopefully by two she’ll be solidly on the chart for her actual age in all categories.
Posted: little fat fairy
4
March
2009
I swear, we can never have a schedule that’s nice for more than a couple of weeks before it’s all thrown to heck.
Until last week, we had it worked out that we had a nurse 3 nights a week, and 2 days a week, plus one half day every other week (the night nurse who wanted to come and get some playtime in while her kid was at school). But the night nurse, who I like very much and has been really reliable, has had to take a leave of absence and the nursing agency has no idea when she might be back. :( I’m really hoping that it’s soon… most nights we can get by ok, but it leaves Bob and I with essentially no free time at all if we both hope to get 6 hours of sleep apiece.
The less said about our other nurse the better. She seems to like Dorrie and is a nice person, but she drives me absolutely mad with her lack of focus and disorganization.
Posted: nurse or no nurse