Makayle's Archive for ‘Rants’

Sep 17 Annual Overnight Hospital Stay Sep 17

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#1 Lesson I’ve learned in life so far: If I plan on something it doesn’t happen. If I don’t plan on something it happens.

With that in mind you’d think I’d learned my lesson and should always go prepared to stay overnight when I take Peanut in for a procedure. Nope. Sad thing this time was that somehow deep down inside I knew we’d end up staying overnight but didn’t want to except it so I went thinking we’d go in, she’d get her endoscopy, she’d recover, we’d go home. Nope.

Explanation for those who care, don’t know what’s going on, or need some refreshers (a.k.a. my journal post)…
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Sep 02 Is it really worth it? Sep 02

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I never made homemade baby food with Peanut. Thought about it. Had good intentions. But nope. Could be due to the fact that she was in the hospital the majority of that time of life so we got ‘free’ baby food at the hospital. Well, I somehow got inspired to make baby food with Baby A. I think I just always read how much cheaper it is. So I started with squash about a month ago and have tried sweet potatoes and carrots since then. I finally got sick of buying bottle after bottle of baby food and decided to try and calculate to see how much money I could save. Here’s the break down…

I made these 25 jars of baby food for about $8.66. That equals 34 cents a jar.

made baby food

Now, I get coupons for Beechnut quite frequently. My lastest purchase was 20 jars at 44 cents each minus $2 off coupon which made each jar 34 cents.

baught baby food

So was it worth all the time I spent in the kitchen? NO! Sure I saved the earth of some extra glass jars. And I’m so called feeding my baby healthier, fresher food. But it took me WAY too long! And by the time I pay the electricity bill for cooking the stuff it probably ended up costing more!

Don’t worry all you environmental/organic/healthy freaks out there… I’ve started milling/grinding/smashing the food we eat and feed it to her fresh but I don’t think I’ll go out of my way to make baby food again. Unless someone can convince me that it really is worth it.

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Aug 05 Since this is pretty much my journal nowadays . . . Aug 05

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On July 10th as we were getting ready to go to the town parade Baby A decided to develop the shakes. It was really strange, not really seizure like, but definitely not normal. I check her heart rate, normal. I check her temp, normal. I check her blood sugar, normal. But she continued to shake. So I call her doctor’s office and they suggested just taking her to the ER. So off we go for Baby A’s first visit to PCMC. I can’t describe the relief I felt as we left there with a diagnosis of UTI and a ten day treatment of antibiotics. So much better results than Peanut’s first ER visit.
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