The waiting game

With 5 weeks down and 6 days to go until the cast change, having enough patience to make it is tough work!!

Collin's "re-circumcision" is healing, but we are definitely going to have to be mindful of that because we have heard stories of that happening multiple times to a child.

Within a week of Collin's first cast getting put on, I took him to get a slit cut above his diaper line because he was spitting up a lot and having bowel problems and we just felt that it was too tight. Well, with a week to go it's the same scenario. I am sure this time it has something to do with 5 weeks of growth and getting the cast reinforced last week. But we've been having an off and on constipation issue for the past week and the spit-up has increased dramatically over the past few days. It is irritating that people think it's because of a sensitivity to formula, when if you reach into the cast you can clearly feel his tummy has absolutely zero room to expand. We did switch to a sensitive formula, but that is to try to decrease spit up since there is so much pressure on his tummy. That worked until he grew so much to increase pressure!


Feeding wise, he is still eating 4 oz every 3 hours. Usually around this age, they eat around 6 oz, but less frequently than 3 hours. We tried giving him a 6 oz bottle last week and he spit up the last 2 ounces, so we are sticking to this schedule until he is cast free and then will gradually adjust his schedule.

We've been sleeping on a slightly different schedule for the past week which has been a hard adjustment. Collin went a week straight where he slept through the entire night. Before that week, he was getting up one time to eat at around 2 am. That was a good time for him to get up because it gave me sleep from 10-2 and then from 2-5. So his feeding was kind of in the middle. This week, it was going to sleep by 10 and waking up at 11:45 and being up until 1 and getting up at 4. Still doable, but a bit harder to adjust to. Les has also had a busy week, so all in all the Covington family did not have a restful week.

With all of the budget cuts, we got notice of what the new insurance is going to look like come July. It sucks big time. I have heard many complaints about IMS from people that don't have IMS, but also from a few people within the district. Throughout all of the health problems that Collin and I have both had over the past 4 months, IMS coverage has been great. But if this would have all happened after the policy change, then I definitely would have been one complaining. I think our prescription insurance is what really sucks, but thankfully we haven't needed much of that in the past 2 months. Hopefully, we will be in the all clear by July with surgeries being completed and just seeing the pediatrician and orthopedic on occasion for check-ups.

We had our first successful family restaurant adventure last night. We went to Red Robin and made it through with no fussing :) Collin was so cute, he kept putting his arms on the table and crossing them like a big boy sitting so distinguished.

Praying for a normal week, with Collin's tummy settling down and less spit-up for the next several days. We have had weight gaining issues, so we need to make sure what he eats stays in his tummy. Prayers on Friday for progress made when they do the arthrogram and CT scan, for no reactions to the anesthesia this time, and for our sweet boy to have no pain or hard adjustment period with his new (bigger!) cast.