Anybody Home?

If you have been by my site lately you are probably wondering where I went on my blog-cation. The newspapers are piling up outside and the place has just had a feel of vacancy.

I've been here, just haven't had the time or energy to blog. Actually, we got home from Palm Springs and I felt like a million bucks. My sister in law, however, did not. Her youngest child is eleven I think so she was a little out of practice with the little ones but she did awesome.

Then we lost the laptop power cord and I was just too darn lazy to go in and blog in our home office. It meant I would have to actually sit at the desk instead of wherever I wanted, and that didn't work for me. We finally found the cord, and well, here I am.

But in the last two weeks we've kind of been through the ringer. I had been home for four days when I decided I just could not take any more of Sam's fussiness. Let me start by saying she is generally a very happy baby. All smiles- and she is very good around new situations, which makes me happy that we don't have to stick to a strict routine. But for some reason night time is the worst. THE WORST.

I don't mean like she has a fussy hour or two in the evening like all babies do. I mean she is so gassy and restless that literally she only sleeps for a few short hours at a time, if that. I suppose that since we had already been living it day in and day out for the last five and a half months we hadn't really been bothered by it. Until we got a break for four nights and got to sleep all night. Then it was like we got hit by a Mac truck when we got home. By Wednesday night I sat up in the chair with her all night and cried my eyes out.

Thursday morning I took her to the pediatrician who in his infinite kindness recognized that I was a Mom about to snap. He suggested that we increase her dose of antacid and that we try her on Nutramigen. The first night she did sleep in her own bed from 7:45-4:45 but that was the end of that. Every night for the next week she was still up at least once a night to eat- sometime between midnight and 3:30am.

I went back a few days ago for a follow up to that appointment as well as for her six month checkup. She weighs fourteen pounds two ounces and is twenty four and a half inches long. I'm pretty proud. Anyway, we decided that the benefit of having her on Nutramigen was negligible and that keeping her on Similac Sensitive was just the same.

I wonder if the child just has a super charged metabolism and literally is just starving in the middle of the night. We have tried Megan's suggestion about doing a feed around 10pm even if she is sleeping. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. The problem for us is one of us keeping awake long enough to do it! Heaven, we ARE getting old.

We did start her on veggies now- she has been eating rice cereal from a spoon for about a month now. I will say this, the child loves to eat. She barely even batted an eye at the first scoop of green beans last night and tonight she ate half a container. I'm hoping she isn't a picky eater like her sister. (Who, incidentally since St Patrick's Day has wanted to eat green macaroni and cheese every single night for dinner).

I will try to get online more often- tomorrow I will have to tell you about the week I have had with my neck and my head issues. But other than that if you come knockin' around my bloggy world and it doesn't appear that anyone is home just know that we are. We just turned off the porch light and are hiding out in the back family room.

 

Comments

[Megan]

Glad you are back! Missed you! So sorry about the night time issues! I hope and pray that someday (very soon) it will all go away! I can tell you that she will sleep someday....she won't be in 6th grade doing this to you! Hang in there! Email anytime you need to vent! :)