Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Update on Me Well I had my ultrasound this morning and didn't necessarily get the news I was hoping for...the techs usually don't tell you what they see/don't see, but since I knew the woman doing the exam (our daughters were in the same preschool class last year), she talked to me throughout and said she didn't see any stones in my bile duct. In some ways this is good news--no rogue stones, yay! But in other ways, it's bad, because if a stone had been caught in there, it would have been an easy fix. She said I won't get the official word until the doctor takes a look at it, and I won't talk to him until tomorrow, but I'm assuming we're back to square one with this drama. The next step will be a referral to a gastroenterologist. Hoping I'll be able to get into see him/her immediately.

Now onto Charlie. We started sleep training him on Saturday night/Sunday morning. We're still feeding him between 10:30 and 11:30 (before we go to bed) but we're no longer feeding him overnight, based on the advice our pediatrician gave us. He woke up around 4 on Sunday morning and cried for 15 minutes before putting himself back to sleep. Charlie and I had decided we'd let him go no more than 20 minutes--or if he started crying hysterically--and then we'd go in to comfort him. He took 2 great naps yesterday, going to sleep without even needing me to feed him both times, and last night he slept all the way through the night!!! He fussed a little bit around 6, but after about 10 minutes he went back to sleep, waking for the day at 8. I'm hoping and praying that we're over the worst of the sleep training...I can't tell you how refreshed I feel today--not dragging like I usually am.

So at least one thing is going my way :)