It been a while...

Like the title saids, it's been a while since I've blogged. The last couple of months has been full of trials for us, Luther was on service or a month so he was gone a lot between 80 and 100 hours a week. Leaving me with Selah by myself more than what I think is healthy for both of us. Thank goodness that month is over!

Then, Selah was having some episodes where she would scream and scream, her eyes would shake back and forth uncontrollably, she would vomit, and once I gave her dose of IBU she would sleep for a couple of hours. So, after the second episode I took her to the Doctor and of course he had never heard of such a thing. After much debate he gave her an EEG, that's where they monitor her brain by hooking her head up to a lot of electrodes. The EEG was not fun all the marking and measuring and placing of electrodes hurt her little head, plus she's a head sweater so it was hard to keep everything on her head. Obviously she eventually calmed down when I took a chance to take some photos. It turns out her episodes are benign, they still don't know why she was having them but she's hitting all of her milestones, rolling over both ways, she grips things, she discovered her feet and she giggles on and So, we couldn't be happier that everything is just fine!

Once all that was put to rest Luther and I had to make some big decisions about vaccinations which kept me up at night for weeks. We decided not to vaccinate Selah until after she's a year old with only 2 of the vaccinations if at all. Were happy with our decision, we did some research and found this was the best choice for our family given my learning disability and Luther's autoimmune disease.

So then Selah got her first cold from Luther there were only a couple of long nights but it was very sad to see her go through that. I then got the cold from Selah bummer! We are all finally feeling better Selah is just now getting a rash from her virus, but it should be gone in about a week saids Dr. Thompson:)

Finally, I had to lay down the law with Selah. I was having to nurse her to sleep. It would take 2 hours to get her to bed it was awful! So 2 of my friends both named Jen said that Selah had my number and it was time to let her self sooth a little. So, we let Selah cry it out at night we built up from 10min to 30 min at a time before going down to comfort her. I have to tell you I cried with her it was really hard to just stand by and listen to her cry. When I'd go in to comfort her she'd lift up her little arms wanting to be picked up, but it had to be done it took 3 days once we really pushed it. My sister in law said "it's harder on us than it is on them to be a good parent, we can't be lazy." Luther was a great he held my had when I cried because she was crying, but now it's better for all of us. Luther and I have more time together at night, and Selah is getting much better and longer sleep. After almost 5 months I can say things are really coming together:).