It is February 27, and Lena is in surgery as I type this. Last time Lena had shunt surgery, she was just a little baby and took it all in stride pretty well. She’d been through so many surgeries that she’d become a little trooper at the process.
It’s been over a year since she [...]

Tags: baby health, brain bleed, Cerebral Palsy, Family, preemie, premature, shunt surgery

WOW! I can hardly believe that they are two years old already. It is really interesting how time flies, yet in some circumstances it seems to stand still. When we were in the NICU I could not wait for the days to go by the time just seemed to drag on and on. Now I [...]

Today we made a special trip to the Doctor’s office, for a photo shoot. Late last week our fabulous family doctor, Dr. Alanna Danilkewich,  called and asked if I would mind bringing the girls into the office to have thier picture taken for an advertisement.
Dr. Danilkewich works out of the Department of Family Medicine at the College of Medicine , University of Saskatchewan. They are recruiting [...]

On Tuesday after hmmming and haaaaing about it for just about a year, we took the girls to get their ears pierced. They were troopers, cried a little more than I thought they would (Lena especially) but it had been a really long, hot day and no nap to speak of. So I am not [...]

Well, it finally arrived. A few weeks ago I ordered the girls the Disney Princess Swing Set from Sears. they love to swing in our arms. The stores here do not stock them so we had to wait for it to be shipped here. It arrived on Tuesday and we picked it up and set it up [...]

I am so proud of my big little girls! I bought them foam fuzzy arm chairs with the Disney princesses on them and THEY CAN SIT IN THEM! They love them. They look so grown up and they are so proud of themselves. Go girls!

Oh and they actually watched some TV in them. Not that I am [...]

I got a great deal of some Fisher Price Little People play sets. I was going to save them for the girls’ birthday but I decided not to. They needed some more advanced toys with doors to open and people and animals to pretend with etc. I saw some velcro fruit and veggies the other [...]

Oh Boy! The Month of May has been crazy around here. It started off not too bad. It took a turn for the worse when we took a short 3 day trip to Edmonton on the 7th and went down hill from there. Call it a coincidence or Lena hates Edmonton. We have only taken  [...]

We buy these things by the case full. She loves them. At 35 calories per 7g (about 16 crunchies) they are also a good way to add som extra clalories with out fighting with her.

 
Kassie is addicted to Gerber’s Lil’ Crunchies. They are like cheezies but veggie flavor, for toddlers. Feeding a micro preemie can be adventerous at times, heck, down right frustrating. There are oral aversions, picky eating, gagging, vomiting and more. I have never been a calorie counter, couldn’t be bothered. Now I am counting calories for my kids, not to cut them [...]

I am glad that I decided to switch to BPA Free bottles when I did. Heck I am glad I have bottles at all.
I don’t know about the rest of the country but in Saskatoon, there are almost no bottles to be found anywhere. All of the major (and minor) retails have pulled all bottles [...]

Today, two major Canadian retailers Forzani and HBC (Zellers and The Bay) announced that they would be voluntarily pulling all water bottles and baby feeding items containing BPA (bisphenol-A) off of it’s shelves and would no longer sell any feeding products containing the chemical. This was done in anticipation that Health Canada is preparing to announce today [...]

Tags: bisphenol-a, bottles, bpa

Yesterday at PT and OT both girls tried a custom made stander, Lena absolutely loved it, Kassie hated it but we were able to distract her so that she put weight through both legs, an important step to standing and walking.
Problem, we can only use it at the Kinsmen Children’s center for now. Apparently Health Canada decided a [...]

Well, we are following the BRAT diet on the advise of our wonderful family physician Dr. Alanna Danilkewich (she is great). Guess What! Lena actually kept her breakfast of bananas and rice cereal in her tummy this morning. Yeah! Cross your fingers for us that this is the beginning of the end of our vomit [...]

 
Little Lena has been sick. Since Friday Lena has been vomiting off and on. When she woke up yesterday I thought she was all better. Friday she vomited up almost everything she took in. Saturday she lived on grape Pedialyte, no vomit. Sunday she vomited once after breakfast then kept all of her formula and [...]