Hello, any other zombies out there? First feeding of the night. Five hour stretch woot. Then Murphy's Law said whatever can go wrong will and my sweet sleepy milk drunk baby let loose with a poo to test the linits of his diaper and my olfactory system. Even the dog came to investigate the horrible stench emanating from his new baby bff.
And DS cood and smiled through the entire change as if proud of his giant poo, already a man. I should have woken his daddy.
How are you all doing tonight? Murphy's Law anyone?
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We also have an early ped/LC appt. Poor girl has a fierce diaper rash and has developed a cyst like bump on the back of her head near the top of her neck.
She slept so soundly that when DH got up to go to the bathroom at 1:30, he thought he should check on her. She's had a cold. And of course his visit woke her up, so here we are.
I've had a monster headache during most MOTN feedings. Anyone else?
(my "last" feeding at 3am obviously didn't work...here I am less than 2 hrs later, ugh)
I've been trying to think desperately what I have done differently to make sure I keep doing it but thats just it. Nothing is different so now that hes older he's completely accustomed to a night time routine.
Now its waking up every hour until 8 am when he'll be up and ready for the day. Again not complaining, lol.
Before yall ban me from the MOTN threads please know my LO is NOT an easy baby whatsoever. This sleep thing is now one of the very few things I have and holding on to for dear life.
Then right around the 5 1/2 week mark he started getting really fussy in between diaper changes, like SCREAMING as if we were hurting him. Even the dog would come check on him and start whining. He only ever seemed comforted when he was being fed. Long story short, we ended up having to switch his formula and we're now on Nutramigen by Enfamil. He was having awful gas pains, not able to poop, barley able to pass gas, and just over all uncomfortable. He very well could have been going through a growth spurt to add to the turmoil in his stomach.
He's finally starting to sleep better after being on this formula for 3 solid days. Crossing our fingers that this is what we needed, to get him back on track to good sleeping habits.
For the past 2 nights, DS seems to be relentless to sleep between the hours of 6:00 pm-midnight. If he does, it's for a very short time before he's up again. Last night he didn't fall asleep until 12:45 in the morning and then was up at 2 am for his bottle. So thank god when that was finished, he went back down and was out for the remainder of the night. The previous night, he was up from 6:00-10:45 and then was up around midnight a little after for his bottle. He went to sleep after the bottle around 1ish and woke up around 5:45 for his next feeding.
As much as I want to get him on a feeding schedule, that has completely been shot because of our recent agony of switching formulas on him. We are hoping to get him back on track with an awake/sleep schedule as well as feeding now that we have him on something he's able to better digest and tolerate.
I know this will not happen again