Gabriella Plugged In! AKA "Hell Night"

1 hour and 20 minutes left on the clock until I can "unplug" Gidget from all the leads on that stupid Holter (thanks Marlene for the correct spelling) heart monitor she's wearing. Sounds easier than it will actually be thanks to the adhesive (yeah right, it's more like superglue) and then surgical tape placed over the leads, that are all attached to the baby. Then I get to bundle the kiddo up and take her out in the fridgid cold (yes, looks like winter has finally remembered Maine) so I can take the Holter back to Dr. E's office. I am sooooo tempted to get a courier to come pick up the monitor and package just so I can avoid taking her out.

This is the best shot I could get of Gidget "plugged in".....Yes, I take pictures of EVERYTHING. Well just about everything. *lol*



There are actually 5 leads attached to her and they all run into that little box sitting next to her. This time, unlike the Holter monitor in the hospital that she had to wear, this one is much smaller than the Game-Boy like size of the other one. It's almost the exact size of a large pager.

I watched them load the mini-disc with all of Gidget's data and then pop it in the monitor and then plug her in. Then they gave me a diary for Gidget of every single thing she's done for the last 24 hours. Well that was all well and good until we hit 9-10PM last night when all hell broke loose.

She was pretty irritated from the moment they hooked her up but it just got worse throughout the day. Once we hit bed time I knew we were in for a rough ride. I just had no idea how upset she was going to get.

Not having a bath threw off our entire routine and made matters worse. So, to make a long, cranky story short, she was up all night. She is finally napping now, more out of sheer exhaustion, I think, than anything else.

And I have to tell you, she has the most heartbreaking, tear-inducing whimper I have ever heard and she will stick that lower lip out as far as she can and then there are HUGE pearl-like tears that drop from her eyes and that just sent me over the edge last night. I had her up against my chest - like you would when you'd burp a baby -kind of over the shoulder...and she had her head straight up and was looking at me doing that little baby "snuffle" that they do when they've been crying....anyhow I saw these huge tear drops start to fall and then I started up, so then she starts with the lower lips and lets out the saddest little whimper you've ever heard. That was all it took for me to just come undone. Seems around 3AM we had ourselves a little "cry-in". I'd watch her cry and then I'd start to cry and then she'd look at me and she'd amp it up a little bit. Then I'd hug her real close to me and she'd snuffle a bit and then look back up at me with those big huge blue-grey eyes and she'd start with the lower lip again and we'd start the cycle all over again.

If I didn't know better I'd say she was already learning which buttons of mine to push. *lol*

I'm tellin' ya, it's gonna take her doing that to Gareth once and only once and that will just dissolve him....utterly and completely on the spot. Not that she doesn't already have her Daddy wrapped around her little finger, this will just seal the deal so to speak.