GETAWAY WITH THE GIRLS
Brad and I got to spend a few hours at Great Wolf Lodge yesterday afternoon and evening with the girls loving on them and hanging out with family. I came back up for the night shift at the hospital, Brad stayed there with the girls, and we are about to do a switcheroo. As fun as it is to be with the girls, it’s impossible to get the fact that we aren’t all together off my mind. Christmas has always been about being with family, and it’s the worst feeling to not be able to make that happen this year for all of us.
A few prayer requests for those of you following our story this holiday season:
Brynlee and Brielle are doing an amazing job, but it is easy to see how hard it is for them. Brynlee will beg us to stay and play with certain toys she has picked out when we tell her it’s time for us to leave, and Brielle just becomes inconsolable. It’s a lose-lose for us; we can’t be two places at once. Whenever the four of us are together, it’s very difficult for me not to constantly be reminded that part of our family is missing. Please pray we all stay healthy and our immune systems stay strong despite the changes in sleep, diet, and daily schedule.
Brock is not meeting the weight gain that the doctors want to see, so we are no longer allowed to breastfeed. The doctors want to be able to know exactly how much he is eating and how often so they can decide any additional changes that need to happen in his diet. Please, please, please be praying that he starts gaining the weight that they want to see and we can begin establishing nursing again. Without getting into a ton of details, pumping is tremendously time consuming and difficult for me emotionally, as well as something I don’t think I can commit to long term. It’s a selfish thing to pray for, maybe, but the weight gain has to happen for us to be able to leave the hospital.
Thank you so much for taking time to laugh and cry with us through this journey...
Blessings,
Brad and Taryn Morrow
Comments (2)
Taryn....hang in there. I know there are a lot of emotions with nursing and not nursing. I will pray for that. M. Bush
Taryn, I know it's rough to not have your first Christmas together as a family of 5. Last year, our first Christmas with our third was spent with our family in different places as well- two of my kids with my Mom and Dad, and my husband and I in the doctor's office with our third. She had bad bronchiolitis at 3 months old and we had to stay at the doctor's to watch her oxygen levels teeter on the edge of hospitalization for several hours. It was an awful way to spend Christmas, and I'm pretty sure I cried most of it. It didn't help that I was sick too! Anyway, I know your situation is a bit different- you all being in the hospital for a couple weeks, but I know the feeling of missing that first and all the memorable, special moments that come with it. That being said, I hope it comforts you to know that it can still be a memorable "first" Christmas next year. I will be praying for your baby girls and also that you won't feel guilty for it not being the perfect Christmas you planned. I will also being praying about the nursing situation, God knows. Love to you and your family.