I went and had 2 fills with my surgeon, and felt absolutely nothing. 2cc was once too tight, now at 3cc it's like I have no band. I went last week and they did a fluro, the good (no, great) news is it is NOT slipped, and the pouch is NOT stretched. Thank God for that, I was so sad just knowing that had to be the case. The bad news is, same thing. Why am I not feeling it? What could possibly have changed.. when I was originally banded, he put the smallest one and said it should be a little tight without any fill (and it was-just a little) so it took hardly anything to get me rocking and rolling... but now.. ugh. Unfortunately, I didn't get to ask "Why would it be so different now??". Physically makes no sense. But he filled me .25cc more, did another barium swallow and he said it got stuck for a moment, so I may be too tight. Tested with crackers (which isn't a good indication for me anyway, never was), and it's fine. So a week later, I finally feel the band again; so I know it's there... but still no restriction. Only .75cc room left in my band, how sad. I am going back next month for yet another fill.
Carson is growing and doing great! He just started sleeping through the night (relatively) June 30th. We have bad nights here or there, but for the most part I am just ecstatic that I get longer bursts of sleep. He still has some cradle cap... and we've slowly eased back to a normal formula (Enfamil Premium). We went from Similac Advanced, to Nutramagen (YUCK), to Enfamil Gentlease (YUCK), to Premium. It's been 1 week and he's not breaking out and his tummy doesn't seem bad, so hopefully he can tolerate milk proteins now.
I am still upset about not being able to breast feed. For our next baby, my doc is going to help me in the hospital with rx for milk producing something, so that this doesn't happen again. I feel he wouldn't have gone through all the allergies and pains if I had been able to BF.
What else..... Russ & I celebrated our 2 year anniversary(7/7). We got a cake made by the lady who made our wedding cake (faaaaantastic), and went to dinner at Conor's (some fancy steak house).
I don't keep my blog updated like I should, but if you want Carson pics, I DO keep his picture album current...
