Road trip!

We took a road trip on Monday and Tuesday to visit Crys's dad and grandma. Her dad is has a lot of health problems and doesn't travel well so he hadn't seen Emmett yet. He had talked about coming to visit after Emmett was born, when we were still in the hospital. But that would have involved him taking a bus and Crys taking care of him (driving, cooking, etc for him) instead of spending time with us. Luckily, Randy's road trip to Lincoln didn't work out. It just would have complicated things if he'd tried to come at that time. So we promised to make it out to see him as soon as possible after Emmett was born. Monday was the soonest we could make it out and everyone seemed happy with that arrangement. Randy only lives two hours away so it wasn't a big deal to make it out there.

We left later than we'd planned because I decided to try give Crys a full night sleep by taking care of Emmett all night. I woke her once to feed him, but he was a fussy baby Sunday night and I spent quite a bit of time trying to get him to sleep. She got up for the day around six, right about when I was going back to bed and I ended up sleeping until nine. We didn't end up leaving until after noon. But it worked out okay, we left Right after Emmett ate and he spent the entire car ride sleeping. When we got there he spent the rest of the afternoon sleeping (except when he woke up long enough to eat). But after supper he was quite the little charmer. He was awake for a couple of hours and happy. Everyone just loved him. Especially Crys's grandma who spent quite a bit of time talking and singing to him. They were good friends by the end of the visit.

When he was tyring to impress grandpa and great grandma, he was adorable and happy and easy to please. When mommies were trying to sleep he was pretty fussy. So we had a rough night. I can't say I blame the little guy though. His cord stump is starting to fall off and it seems like wearing clothes aggravates it a little bit. We ran out of all the samples for one brand of formula and switched to the other right before we left- the new brand makes him constipated. And great grandma decided to keep her house insanely hot for the little baby. So life was hard Monday night. Once again, I spent the most of the night trying to calm the fussy baby and only woke Crys once so she could feed him.

It was a rough couple of days for me all around. We were changing Emmett on the living room floor and after two days of getting up and down on a regular basis, I was really sore and taking p.ercocet again after almost a full week of not taking it (I'd just been taking prescription i.burofen). I've also been having pain between my incision and my right hip. It only really hurts when I'm lying down in bed and try to roll over or get up but it's plenty painful. It's starting to worry me so we're going to ask the doctor about it at my appointment on Thursday.

We're still irrigating my incision twice a day and it was looking really good, but the heat at grandma's house may have contributed to a backslide in my progress. After we got home on Tuesday night, we discovered that it's gotten a little red and the drainage isn't clear anymore. The doctor isn't going to be happy when she sees that and I'm a little worried about getting an infection. I'm ready for my incision to be healed. But I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. My seroma is on the right side and there's an opening on the left side where the skin is still healing. My incision should be fully healed by now but I won't be surprised if it takes another two weeks.

Some good news...Emmett is sleeping in his crib without the travel bed! Crys decided last night was the perfect time to try transition him to the crib. I thought that between the trip and being constipated, we should wait. But Mama C was right, he slept just fine!