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e light speed surgery recovery i was even able to be there to enjoy the special day with michael here are some fun pics from the event helping grandma chris fill the goodie bags michael loved miss andrea his summer class teacher everything decorated and ready for michael s party the children s eating area michael s thomas the tank engine cake happy birthday michael getting started with play time twirling the birthday boy around on the parachute pretending to be airplanes fast and furious and incredibly fun singing happy birthday and blowing out the candles daddy and michael enjoy sitting on the while it s inflated lots of running and jumping for all michael s throne to open presents on happy 3rd birthday kiddo posted by bethany at 11 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest miya christine temple in christ i ll admit that i have always obsessed over names and meanings i was one of those 80 s cabbage patch doll moms who always sent the adoption papers back with a name change request the name had to be the perfect choice for each one then in church when talks became particularly boring i would leaf through the bible dictionary looking up names and meanings adding the ones i liked to my years long list i ve always thought about what i d name my children and while michael adam and miya christine were never on any of my original lists sergio and i did choose them carefully we love the way they sound and most importantly what they mean we chose the name miya christine for several reasons first where we live here in the rio grande valley the community and culture are quite bilingual so it s always nice to find a name that works easily in both english and spanish second we wanted to find ways to connect her name to our families so miya is a japanese name in honor of serg s japanese grandma kiyoka and that part of his family s heritage christine is my mother s name finally the name needed to have deep significance we found that miya in japanese has several meanings all of which are beautiful temple holy place increasingly beautiful eternally beautiful royalty christine of course means follower of christ or in christ so miya christine for us means a beautiful temple in christ something we pray miya will always know and remember about herself posted by bethany at 9 58 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest welcome baby miya i m working my way through my extensive to do list and updating the blog is a big one i m really excited to check off and much preferred to tackling all the thank you notes this evening i ll take that one on later in the weekend almost 7 weeks ago we welcomed our beautiful little emphasis on little girl into our family miya christine solis it was a crazy few weeks leading up to her arrival and as expected an exhausting 7 weeks since her birth but we are beyond thrilled to finally have our little princesa in our home on wednesday july 27 a month before my due date i headed off to another day of work sitting in professional development sessions not exactly ideal for a 9 month pregnant woman with an aching lower back and very swollen feet during the morning break i headed out to take care of an issue needing my attention at the school district s central office but on the way suddenly felt pretty nauseous and felt a big headache coming on these were out of the ordinary symptoms that i worried might indicate high blood pressure something i suffered from at the very end of my pregnancy with michael and was the reason i had to be induced i decided to play it safe and headed by my doctor s office to have them take my vitals and just rule anything out i could tell from the nurse s face when looking at my numbers that my bp was high it was initially 158 106 later dropping to 147 97 after i d been lying down for a little while in addition i d packed on a whopping 10 lbs in just 2 weeks after gaining only 20 lbs total my entire pregnancy and my edema had in the past three or four days taken only slightly swollen hands and feet and turned them into bloated eyesores the doctor feared preeclampsia so she sent me to the hospital for 24 hour monitoring i was glad my doctor was being so attentive and cautious one of the major reasons i switched from my previous doctor and began to visit her this pregnancy i headed straight to the hospital texting to serg to meet me there during the 24 hour monitoring they hook you up to an iv take your blood pressure every 20 minutes and test all of your urine for proteins they also did a full check of the baby via ultrasound found all to be well but as had been the case for the past 2 or 3 ultrasounds found the baby to be much smaller than she should be at this stage this continued to be a bit of a worry and a mystery to me the doctor didn t seem incredibly concerned but was a bit puzzled when until now my blood pressure had been good so this is all done in a labor delivery room on a bed that s meant to have a baby in not sleep in seriously one of the most uncomfortable night s sleeps ever my bp stabilized with bed rest so i was glad to get the go ahead to head home but was put on strict bedrest until i reached 37 weeks when the baby was full term that meant almost 2 weeks of doing absolutely nothing we decided that i d stay with my in laws where carmen could help watch michael after daycare in the afternoons and evenings until serg came home from work to pick him up she was also able to cook for me which was such a blessing i was able to spend my two weeks hardly sitting or standing or moving much of a muscle for that matter i watched a lot of tv and did a lot of emailing facebooking random internet surfing on my phone i purchased a blood pressure monitor and as long as i was lying down my blood pressure hovered just under where the doctor wanted it to remain i was able to make it to 37 weeks oh and did i mention that serg with lots of help from family and friends moved us into a new house while i was on bedrest augh tough on him and also frustrating for me to know everything was being packed and moved without me read without my supervision i wondered how many things would consequently be lost to us for months simply because i wouldn t know where they d been put ah well worse things could happen on the morning of august 8th i met with my doctor who gave me my hospital orders and then went to women s hospital at renaissance where i registered and headed to pre op to prepare for surgery the c section went without a hitch though throughout the surgery my upper body what wasn t numb was shaking terribly i chalked it up to nerves but during recovery mentioned it to one of the nurses and she immediately said it was a reaction to the anesthesia she gave me something for it and within minutes i was calm as could be i suppose it s what every mother waits to hear during her child s birth but it seems like the more cause you have for concern the harder you pray for that first cry to come and to come loud miya did not disappoint that girl announced her arrival with some incredibly loud crying as with michael tears streamed down my cheeks and i offered a silent prayer of thanks to the lord i watched as they whisked her over to the incubator to clean her up and quickly check everything it was clear that she was incredibly tiny and i anxiously waited to hear the verdict crossing my fingers she d clear 5 lbs and avoid having to spend time in the nicu no such luck she weighed in at 4 lbs 8 oz and measured just 16 5 inches long in everything else she appeared completely healthy blessings she was carted immediately off to the nicu and serg headed out with them as the doctor cleaned and sewed me up she said that the umbilical cord looked abnormally small and that this may have been what caused her low birthweight it makes me wonder if the same thing happened with michael though no mention of it was made during that surgery i may see if there s a way to check the records and see if this contributed to them both being so small while it s never easy to have to wait so long to hold your baby this time i had to wait until the next morning to be able to go to the nicu to see and hold her it was relieving to know she was in good hands and being monitored very carefully that made waiting almost 24 hours a little more bearable i pumped through the night to send little tiny bits of colustrum up to the nicu they poured the drops into a tiny nipple and let her suck it before supplementing with formula i am a huge fan of breastfeeding and its benefits and just love doing it so it was difficult to be ok with her bottle feeding at first but i knew she couldn t afford to lose any weight so i didn t mess with it she did seem to latch on at first but once my milk started to come in she struggled i thought at the time that it was because her mouth was too small but looking back it may have been nipple confusion setting in to this day 6 weeks later i am pumping exclusively though i may try to transition her back to the breast in a couple more months when she can afford to lose a little bit of weight during the transition holding her for the first time the next morning was nothing short of amazing at first i felt like a was going to break her and wasn t quite sure how to hold her tiny body the nurses encouraged me to have as much skin on skin contact as possible good for her and good for my milk supply so i cuddled her in a kangaroo hold under my top heavenly i went up to the nicu for several feedings and sent up what i pumped when i couldn t only parents and grandparents are permitted in the nicu and you have to scrub down and get dressed in a plastic gown gloves etc before coming in quite the process but we were of course happy to oblige the neonatologist was perfectly pleased with miya and she was miraculously discharged when i was interestingly discharging a nicu baby is a bit more involved than babies in the regular nursery they have to do a carseat test where the baby stays hooked up to all the monitors while sitting in their carseat for an hour or so to make sure they re strong enough i had to attend a parent information class where they demonstrated all sorts of newborn techniques and safety procedures much more effective than the whole here s a brochure here s another and another approach the information was conveyed with when in the hospital with michael and both serg and i attended a mini workshop on baby cpr we watched a video practiced on a doll and then had to demonstrate what we had learned along with other general newborn info and procedures to miya s nicu nurse then miya was ours to take home as excited as i was to have her come home with me i was pretty nervous about taking home a 4 lb baby and honestly wouldn t have minded much if they d told me she d have to stay longer in the nicu so disconcerting when they are so tiny however home she came michael adores his baby sister and wants to be near her constantly his overzealous adoration needs a little mediation at times for miya s protection but overall i m so glad he loves being around her he has however had a bit of a rough transition regressing back to bathroom accidents separation anxiety with mommy and just general grumpiness and yelling at anyone except and sometimes including mommy 6 weeks later he s finally emerging from it all thank goodness i guess a new house new sibling and having mom gone for weeks on end all at the same time can be tough on a little two turning three year old mum and dad were in australia for the summer and when i was put on complete bedrest and told i likely wouldn t go beyond 37 weeks she changed her original flight and booked a new one that would take her directly from lax from sydney to reno where she spent the night in a hotel to sleep off some jet lag to harlingen jennifer picked her up and brought her to mission and she stayed with us for a couple of weeks i don t know how i would survive those first weeks with a newborn without her help she brought all sorts of presents and art and craft projects to do with michael and though he was entirely uncooperative at first remember he wanted nothing to do with anyone but mommy he later warmed back up to grandma chris and had a wonderful time keeping busy with her while i got all sorts of extra nap time the first couple of days without her were um interesting who knew 2 little ones could be such a handful on your own but i ve finally settled into a pretty decent routine and even made a decent homemade dinner last night along with everything else progress posted by bethany at 9 37 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday october 9 2010 michael s music over the summer michael started learning the words to a number of primary songs he loves to sing them but until yesterday would always refuse to sing with a camera rolling finally got a cute clip of him singing posted by bethany at 7 10 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday august 28 2010 spotlight on michael uhh what s new i m in love with this photo of michael and have to get a nice print for our living room some things we ve noticed about our rough tumble toddler lately you know the details that really no one cares about except a mother adores music begs for songs such as grease key largo reflections tie me kangaroo down sport hot potatoe stayin alive pretty much anything by jackson michael or the jackson 5 santa baby jesus sunbeam and beethoven s 5th he s got the words and music almost completely down for them all and for a good 50 or so other songs his repertoire is decidedly eclectic a definite reflection of the night and day musical tastes that he s exposed to between me serg and his grandparents around the corner however this kid seriously has an amazing ear for lyrics he s really lingusitically inclined and i can t wait to get him into a spanish language immersion program loves trucks and cars shouts in delight any time he sees a truck van car bike airplane or train his exclamation is usually accompanied by the color of the vehicle he loves to ride in grandpa s red truck and still talks about his red truck birthday cake he refuses to eat any vegetables or anything that remotely looks like one anything that resembles cake or chips is in his mouth without the need for much convincing i don t completely get this one there are all sorts of fruits and veggies he used to eat but now refuses to i m hoping this stage doesn t last too long if michael could eat what he wanted at every meal it would be pizza chicken nuggets cake ice cream and milk michael recognizes about half of the alphabet letters correctly the rest are a bit more hit and miss he can count to 10 perfectly to 20 almost perfectly and has great one to one correspondence though he sometimes counts some items several times but one by one he can also count to 10 in spanish but embarra...