Winner!!!

 We have a winner...

First I'd like to thank my pal Dana over at Custom 3D Bands for this weeks awesome prize! If you're not this weeks winner please hop over and order some bands!

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And the winner is lucky number 39!!!

Julie L... you have 48 hours to contact me a AjsMommy82@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Now pop on over to the Candy Hearts Blog for this weeks Sugar Bolus!



Sugar Bolus!!!

Hello All! You guys probably thought I fell off the face of the Earth but good news I didn't!!! Just been super busy!!! Ready for more good news???...

I'm hosting Sugar Bolus this week!!!

Up for grabs is THREE ( not one, not two but THREE)...

 Custom 3D bands

I'm sure some of you have seen them online but for those of you who haven't they are awesome custom three dimensional silicone bands!

 They come in tons of cool colors and are so durable, what kid (or adult) wouldn't want to actually wear it!

What I totally love is that these nifty bands were created by families that actually have children with diabetes!

You can read their story HERE!

My pal Dana is offering 3 customs bands to the lucky winner, if that's not you this week you can still get your hands on some! Check out their FACEBOOK PAGE for special offers!

Here are the rules...

 Leave me a comment before midnight on Thursday, 2-17-11. Please include your first name. Comments left without a name will be eliminated.
● To earn extra entries (post a separate comment for each):
       ● Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter. Then, leave me an additional comment. 
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          comment to let me know.
       ● Blog about this contest. Then, leave me an additional comment containing
          a link to your blog.
● No duplicate comments are allowed. Duplicate comments will be eliminated.
● Winners will be selected via random draw at http://www.random.org/.
● Winners' names will be posted here on this blog on Friday, 2-18-11.
● After winners' names are posted, winners will have 48 hours to send a message to me at AjsMommy82@gmail.com. If I do not hear from a winner within 48 hours, I will select a new winner.

Addison update part 2!

First of all thanks everyone for all your thoughts and prayers for Addison! It was a very stressful day for me but all the comments and txt kept my mind from wondering to all the bad things that could go wrong with my baby bug.

We got to the hospital around 10:30am for check in.

At this point she hadn't nursed since 7:30am, she nurses about every 3 hours during the day so she was just hitting that 3 hour mark. I had it all planned out in my head, keep her awake until 10am so she's sleep at least until 11am, when I thought they'd put her out for the ultrasound and scan. Well thanks to a nice little boy in the waiting room that threw a HUGE screaming fit in the waiting room as soon as we got there that didn't happen!!! She woke up and of course was ready to eat, Tony walked her around and around the waiting room trying to distract her, I kept checking my phone waiting for her to be called back. When we were called back the man introduced him self and said he'd be doing the ultrasound, humm thought they were putting her out for that??? Nope! Lucky guy got to do the ultrasound on a very hungry and fussy baby!

After about a half hour of that he got what he needed and led us to another waiting room to wait for her next procedure.

Her nurse and anesthesiologist were super nice, they went over everything with us. I really felt at peace handing my baby over to them. By this time it had been 4 1/2 hours since her last feeding and she'd finally given up and had fallen fast asleep in my arms. We were sent to the cafeteria for lunch and told to come back in about an hour and they took my baby girl away and through the door...

The hubby and I went down to get some lunch even though neither of us were very hungry. Finally an hour had passed an we went up to the waiting area. After a few minutes I heard my baby girls cries.

The nurse saw me standing at the end of the hall way and let me come in and get her, boy was she MAD!!!

After a good feeding and some Tylenol my happy girl was back!!!

Ready to go home!!!

Monday was her follow up visit with the specialist and her results were GREAT! Both kidneys are functioning perfectly and both are doing their fair share of the work. We'll just continue follow up ultrasounds about every 6 months

Addison Update!

Well folks almost 4 months have already flown by since Baby Addison joined our family! I feel like time goes by faster with each baby! Makes me so very very sad!!!

She's sleeping through the night and growing like a weed  

Likes

Mommy

Boobies!!!

Her swaddle blanket!

Her swing

Her binky (most of the time)

Dis-Likes

The car!!! She HATES the car! Screams the entire time!

Anyone who's not Mommy

Bath time

Bouncy chair

Tummy time or any other floor activity that requires her to be out of Mommy's arms

At her last appt with the kidney specialist he reviewed her prior labs and ultrasounds and ordered another blood draw, renal scan and a nuclear medicine scan. I was all fine and dandy with this until the nurse called to set up the appointment and informed me that she needed to fast before getting PUT UNDER!!! SAY WHAT??? No one told me she needed to be knocked out for the procedure and how do you expect a breastfed baby to fast!!! The nurse said she had to be completely still for the procedure so that's why they choose to put the kids under. And she also said that because she is breastfed she can nurse up until 8am (4 hours before the procedure). Well tomorrow is the day and Im FREAKING OUT! I just want to cancel the whole thing!...But I can't!

3 month Endo appt...

Well the time has come for yet another check up for Alivia with the Pediatric Endo. Leading up to the appt I was looking through her log book and although most of her numbers were in range  they were pretty much on the higher end, it wasn't until a few weeks before the appt that her numbers were coming down into the range I preferred. Current 14 day average on the meter...139, 90 day average...214! I figured were were looking at an A1c of 8.1 and was really surprised when it came back at 7.5! I thought for sure all the time it took us to get adjusted to the pump and getting the basals set would of done a number on her A1c but I guess when you check and correct every 2 hours around the clock it doesn't do much damage.

The Dr. looked over her numbers and decided not to change much except the target range and to up her basal just a tad. He said we have great control but if we wanted to could even get it a little better. I'm all up for better!

We changed her target from 150 to 130 during the day and from 150-200 to 130-150 during the night. Already her numbers have been great! We chatted a little bit about her weight again, she's now up to 50 pounds and is following the growth curve but just above it. He's not too concerned about it yet. After our appt we took the advanced pumpers class and learned about cool features of the pump like combo bolus!!! We tried it out on our Saturday morning Starbucks hot chocolate and it worked great! Such a cool feature!

-Enjoying a S'more with no high blood sugar spike!-

On our appt/class days Tony takes the day off and we try to make the day special for Alivia, all our attention is on her and we let her pick where we have lunch, This time she picked the hospital cafeteria of all places! Silly kid!

After lunch we met up with a fellow D-mom Amy and her kids at Cafe Sip-n-Play (best invention ever!). We got to sit and chat while the kiddos played, it was so amazing to talk with another D-mom face to face. I long for the day when I can chat with all you guys face to face too!!!

-Holding baby Addison-

-Giving baby sister a bottle-

Diabetes Blog Week-Day 7

Life After A Cure...

Since I'm not able to write this one because I'm not the one with diabetes I'll let Alivia answer...

Me: Liv what will you do when your diabetes goes away?

Alivia: I will share my food with Bro (Anthony) because it wouldn't have to be measured!

Me: Good thinking Liv, I'll be excited not to have to measure out your food too!

Diabetes Blog Week-Day 6...Snapshots

Day 6 - Diabetes snapshots. Inspired by the Diabetes 365 project, let’s snap a few d-related pictures to share today. Post as many or as few as you’d like. Be creative! Feel free to blog your thoughts on or explanations of your pictures. Or leave out the written words and let the pictures speak for themselves

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