Issues....

Well we have been home from the hospital for 2 days now and yesterday we had a few problems with little Miss Brooke. The first night in the hospital I tried to give Brooke a pacifier just to see if she would be interested or not. She was definitely NOT that night. The second night we let her sleep in the nursery so we could get some sleep. She came back for feedings every 2 hours. In the morning I noticed her little bed had a pacifier in the corner of it. The nurse never mentioned to me whether or not she actually took one. Well Wednesday night when she was home for the first night we laid her in her pack and play next to the bed. She didn't seem to want to fall asleep, so I tried the pacifier again. She took it this time! The only problem was it fell out of her mouth every 10 minutes and she would cry. GREAT!!!! Our child is hooked, definitely not want we wanted. My cousin, Tracy, who drove all the way from Austin, TX to take newborn pictures of Brooke, came over her mom, my aunt Cheryl. Brooke was good as long as she had her pacifier in her mouth. Of course, we don't want that thing in the pictures, but she wouldn't have it. She screamed when we pulled it out of her mouth. So needless to say, the pictures didn't go well and we eventually just gave up.  I tried to get her to sleep without her pacifier and she just cried and cried. Nina took her for a while too and she just cried and cried. After at least an hour, Nina finally got her to sleep. I took her in the bedroom with me and we both napped. We woke up almost 2 hours later and she cried again for her pacifier. I put her in her swing without her pacifier and she cried. Finally I just gave in and let her have it. While Jeff and his dad were riding 4 wheelers, Nina and I were her with Brooke. I was sitting on the couch trying to catch up on emails and Brooke was in her swing asleep with her PACIFIER in her mouth. All of a sudden I saw it fall out of her mouth. I kept a close watch to see what she would do. I thought she would just start squalling but much to my amazement she didn't!!! She hasn't "asked" for it since then which is great!!! The second problem we have been having is her feeding. Yesterday for some reason she wouldn't eat anything. I have been breastfeeding and couldn't get her to latch at all. She slept most of the day yesterday and I could not get her to eat anything!! Of course I was worried that something was wrong. Then on top of that, she wasn't pooping. Her diaper would only have a slight yellow spot where poop should be, but I didn't consider that a poop. I finally called my sister, a mother of 3 breastfed children, for her advice. I thought about trying formula in a bottle to see if Brooke would take that. My sister's last child, Gavin, kept them in the hospital an extra day after he was born because he wouldn't latch on. They finally gave him formula in the hospital, but he still breastfed even after taking bottles with no problems. I tried twice giving Brooke formula bottles, but they failed like breastfeeding. Now I was really worried as was daddy. Our baby isn't eating or pooping!!! I laid down at about 9pm last night with her to get some sleep. We woke up about 9:45pm and I decided to try a formula bottle again because I was getting more worried the later it got. She TOOK it!!!! She sucked it down!!! YEAH!!!! Now I just need a poop!!! We were scheduled to see the pediatrician Friday and we would talk to the Dr. about the problem. Brooke continued all night to take formula bottles. The breastfeeding still isn't going well. My milk hasn't decided to come in so maybe Brooke decided she wasn't satisfied enough and got frustrated and gave up. She's been sucking down formula bottles all day today. Oh, we finally got a poop diaper this morning, just a couple hours before our Dr.'s visit. We definitely felt relieved!!! Although I did still mention this to the Doctor. He didn't seem concerned with the problem since it seemed to be resolved. I'm still waiting on my milk to come in. Hopefully it will arrive tonight!!! I don't want to keep Brooke on formula!! Our last problem for now is the doctor said that Brooke's neck muscles on her right side need to be exercised 3 times a day. Apparently the position she was in in-utero didn't allow her to use that neck muscle much so it's a little stiff. He rolled up a small blanket, placed it on the exam table, laid Brooke on her side and pushed her head over the roll to stretch it. Of course I had my hands over my mouth in shock while watching this. I actually thought that the Doctor was going to break her neck!! He wants us to do this at home 3 times a day with 15 reps. YEAH RIGHT!!! Jeff says he will do it because he realized by my reaction there was no way I could do this to my child. Jeff and I were changing Brooke's diaper about 2 hours ago and Jeff says "Ok, I'm going to do her neck exercises now." Of course I had to leave the room and get myself busy. I went to the laundry room to get her clean clothes to put away. I made it to her room and lost it. I couldn't contain myself or my hormones and burst into tears. I had in my head that Jeff was going to "break her neck" as I thought the Doctor was. A few minutes later, Jeff came in the room with Brooke to find me bawling my eyes out over this ordeal. Of course I felt better that she was ok and gained my composure while Jeff comforted me. Then Jeff tells me he will start doing the neck exercises while I'm in the shower so I don't know he's doing it. What do you think will be going through my head every shower I take now????? I will probably cry through every shower now. THANKS DADDY!!!