Things are Looking Up

My mom had surgery yesterday. She had a skin infection in her groin area and they needed to go in there and clean everything out. The doctors don't have a clue as to how she ended up with this misery. The infection appears to be at the site of her earlier surgical incision, but it makes no sense that she would get this infection 9 weeks after her bladder surgery. They usually see this type of thing very soon after surgery, if it's going to happen at all. The good news is that the infection was not in her vagina or bladder and so the prior surgery is still good and she won't need to start all over. I feel so bad for her though. She'll be stuck in the hospital until the end of this week and then will need home care to change the dressings on her wound. The doctor told her that recovery will be slow.

On the sleeping front, I'm not sure I've blogged about it, but Ian has been a HORRENDOUS sleeper lately. He wasn't drinking much during the day and so because I was nervous about dehydration, I started nursing him at night when he woke up. And then he got a fever for 3 days and so we let him nap on us. And then over vacation, in order to get more sleep, we brought him into our bed in the middle of the night when he woke up crying. To sum this all up, the baby started sleeping less and less well in his own crib and Sunday night was sheer misery for all of us. He was screaming for 15 minutes of every hour between midnight and 5 am and all of us were exhausted yesterday. But last night went much better. He slept from 7 pm to 2 am, cried for 10 minutes at 2 am and then went back to sleep until 5. I fed him at 5 and then he slept until 6:15 am. Hopefully, we can get him back on track by being strict with the "cry it out" method. No more night feedings and no more sleeping in mommy and daddy's bed!