The Poop Hits My Hand

Madeline had another easy day celebrating her one week birthday. The pneumo is now officially, all doctors are in consensus, really really this time, resolved. This means back to upping the feedings and she's currently on 1/2 ML per hour every hour. Her oxygen settings were also reduced once again and she's doing so well she might be graduating off the ram cannula to high flow oxygen in the next few days. In talking with the nurses, they probably won't take her off of everything completely because her young body can forget to breathe. Leaving her with that helper will only reduce the stress on her body and ideally help her focus on growing.

Yesterday's fun story was Madeline showing her feisty personality once again. When I came to visit after finishing my work day, Kristen was doing kangaroo care with her and we decided to switch off to give me a chance to hold her. Once she got placed onto me, she squawked louder than any of us had heard so far and did not stop until we finally got her wires more comfortable for her. Her little cry is really cute at the moment but man am I starting to think that her cry is going to wake up every living being in a 50 foot radius. According to our parents, Kristen was pretty quiet as a baby and in the words of my mom, 'Will, you were a terror and not the easiest baby.' We've been hoping all along that she would be taking after Kristen but it's looking like our angel may be taking after dear old Dad but I digress.

So as I was holding her, all of a sudden I felt this huge amount of pressure come out of her butt and here's how the next 20 seconds played out.

Dad: Woah, Madeline, did you just poop on your Dad????
Nurse: Yeah, she's started pooping now.
Kristen: Hahahhahahahha - that's my girl.
Dad: Poop just happened and I'm going to write about this tomorrow.

Lo and behold, before we left Kristen changed her diaper (being the awesome Mom that she is) and I'll leave out the gory details but yeah, that's exactly what happened and that's the story of how Madeline pooped on her Dad for the first time.

Madeline @ 1 week.