Good News

I just got official word from Tyler's Doctor that there is no refluxing going on and he said that there would be no follow up testing needed! Praise the Lord!
On the other hand we are wondering if Tyler has acid reflux. He has not been content since we left the hospital and seems all together uncomfortable, so now we are in the process of trying different things to see if it will help him. So far we have done the gas drops and now we are on to adding cereal to his formula with not much luck. The doctor told me that he has had the best luck with adding the cereal even over zantac, he also mentioned that awful c word ( Colic)! My next step is to try him on soy and see if that helps. The good news is that he is doing better at night. Last night he made it to 5:30!! I guess you have to take the good with the bad.

Last week I enlisted in the help of my friend Whitney to take some pictures of Tyler for a birth Announcement. We had a great time capturing some 240 shots of him and the girls! If anyone is looking for someone to take their kids pictures I would highly recommend her! Enjoy a few of my favorites in the following post.

Well today Tyler had his VCUG to see if his urine was refluxing back into the kidney. He did very good thru the whole thing but it was so hard to see him straped to a board so they could catherize him and take ex-rays. The good news is that there is no Refluxing going on! Praise the Lord! But there is still extra fluid on the kidney so I have know idea what that means so I guess we do some more waiting for his doctor to give us a call. Thanks so much for all your prayers, emails and encouraging words as we go thru this. We are so blessed to have such awsome family and friends!!! I will post again once I hear from his Doctor.

Tyler Update

Tyler continues to grow like a weed! Today he wieghed 10lbs 15 oz! He is a big boy! I talked with his doctor about his hydronephrosis and she reassured me it was a minor case but she would like him to go ahead and have the VCUG done because this way they can see if the urine is backing up into the kidney and if that is the case they want to put him on Anti-biotics for a year to prevent and small infections. She did say that if we would not get the VCUG he could have minor infections that could go undiganosed and that could case kidney damage and we really do not want that. So Thursday we will go back to DeVos Childrens Hospital and have the test.



Rileigh and Annika continue to do well with him but are getting a little stir crazy with all the snow storms and snow days! We are ready for spring!!!

It's a Boy!

Well I decided to give this whole blog thing a try to keep everyone updated on are growing family! On Wednesday Jan. 30 ( the night of the big snow storm!) we had a baby boy! His name is Tyler Derick and was 9lbs and 6 oz.. Rileigh and Annika have handled our new addition to the family very well, the adjustment from 2 to 3 was not nearly as callanging as going from 1 to 2 , for me at least. Tyler has been a great baby so far, he does pretty good at night he is usually up at 2 and 5:30 and he goes back to sleep right after his bottle. This past Wednesday we had to take Tyler to DeVos Childrens Hospital to have an ultra sound and a VCUG of his kidney because when I was pregnant the saw that one of his kidneys had hydroneferouses (sp?) what this is, is urine backs up in to the kidney and can cause kidney infections so they wanted the ultrasound to see if was still there and a VCUG ( which they catherize him and take ex-rays to see if urine refluxed in the kidney YUCK!) Derick and I didn't know if we really wanted to put him thru the VCUG if this issue has resolved it's self already. So to make a long story short we asked the ultrasound tech if she could have someone read the ultrasound before we had the VCUG. When she came back she informed us that there was a little fluid in the kidney and they really didn't think is was nessarey to do the VCUG since the issue was very minor and we still had a lot of questions we wanted answered before this test, so we left with out the test. The Doc. office gave us a call on Friday and said there was very little reflux and he was not concered at all about it. Most of these issues resolve themselves by the time kids are 5. Some of the kids go on a preventative anti-biotic until then to prevent any kidney infections but for now they are not even going to do that because his case is go minor. Praise be to GOD!!! Enough for now it is time for Tylers bottle!!