Finally I remembered to take a new pic of her skin! her redness has gone down quite a bit since we've stopped wrapping her entire body. her neck is raw from a yeast infection that is just now healing over. But as you can see, she's looking great :) her legs are still the worst area, but even those are looking a ton better. :)

I'm proud of my little girl.

So I was looking back at some of the first posts I wrote, where I included pictures of Genevieve's skin at that time. I knew that she looked a lot better now, but I didnt realize to what extent until just now. To remind you....


That picture was taken March 14th. and here we are today, with only the arches of her feet wrapped. We were (before) wrapping her ankles and feet (and often a little up her leg) every time, but over the weekend we decided to try something new. I knew her legs needed to breathe, and the skin to dry out to help it heal. So we started to just put a tshirt on her at night and just letting her sleep in that and a diaper, instead of a sleeper. We left her legs unwrapped, and only wrapped her feet if they had actual sores on them. Before we were wrapping her feet no matter what because the skin was so thick and looked painful. So far, it's made a huge difference. No sores on her ankles or legs still. Her feet are wrapped today just where the arches would be, she had some tiny blisters show up last night at the base of her toes. She seems to be a lot more comfortable now as well. Every night I say that I want to take a new updated picture of her skin and I always forget. Tonight it's just me and Genevieve for her bath, so I will do my best to try to remember to take one and put it up.

I should really try to get some cleaning done around here while she's asleep. check back later tonight and hopefully I'll have a new pic of her skin up.

(Jenny... you posted a comment to my last entry. I replied to it, but in case you don't see it... feel free to email me at aschmaedeka@yahoo.com i would love to talk to you some more!)

Well, my little girl is up to 10 pounds exactly and 22 inches long. she looks a whole hell of a lot longer lol. She did well with her shots, only fussed for 2 seconds. She's a tough girl. She came home and slept for a good 5 hours or so and now she is super clingy, and fussy. She falls asleep for (literally) 2 minutes then wakes up whining. I gave her some tylenol and it's only helping her to stay asleep for about 5-10 minutes at a time. her skin is looking really good, i'll try to take a new picture tonight of it. I'm exhausted today for some reason, so i'm keeping this short.


Oh and I must throw in that I am extremely proud of myself. Last night I knew Andy was super stressed out while at work because he had a lot to get done and would be there late... and he knew he had to help with her bath and do her bandages when he got home (which takes anywhere from a hour to a hour and a half)... so I figured I would help out. I did a bath with her by myself and even did her bandages (first time for me, andy always does them). The bath was a challenge to do without sitting in the tub with her. Simply because leaning over the tub, holding her body under water was a challenge. She looked at me quite confused, probably because she's used to me being the one to comfort her through it all. But I did it! :)