SLEEP/EATING!!
His sleep has been awful. He was doing 6-7 hours a night (up 1 time a night). ugh I wish. That was a magical time. Now it's 3-4 hours (up 2x a night) and last night he was up literally every 1-2 hours (up 5 times!).
We switched his formula a couple weeks ago from Similac Sensitive to Similac Total Comfort due to painful gas issues... and I read that that formula can cause them not to go as long between feedings. The proteins are partially broken down so I hypothesize that it just takes less time to digest. I've tried giving him bottles of the old Similac Sensitive and breastmilk before bed and he's still waking up after 3-4 hours. I don't know what the deal is. He also was up to drinking about 6 oz a feeding, every 4 hours during the day. Dear God I miss those days. Now he barely makes it 2 hours half the time and it's so random. He has no schedule no matter how hard I try. He just wants to graze and sometimes he'll take 5 oz and then another feeding he'll be screaming his head off to eat... and then only drink an ounce. He is wasting so much milk!! Yesterday we laid in bed for 2.5 hours and he nursed on and off the entire time. Hello, brusied nipples. He just loves to eat.
I really hope he's going through a "leap" right now (anyone have the Wonder Weeks app that I'm too cheap to pay for, and tell me if he's in a leap right now??) or a growth spurt, and it's not due to pain. He's probably just being a freaken milk monster and there's nothing I can do about it till we can finally start him on solids.
So many people (mostly women over 50) tell me to give him some rice cereal in his bottle before bed. But it's not recommended to age 4-6 months old now. Granted, millions of babies (myself included) got in like that for decades and are not maimed or dead from it. But I am nervous to do before then, what if it gives him lifelong gastrointestinal issues all because I couldn't suck up a few months of exhaustion? At his 2 month appt the pedi said 4 months when I asked (which is good since some now say 6 months). Of course there are also people that say giving cereal doesn't help them with waking up but I don't believe that. Again, millions of past mothers wouldn't say it did work, if it didn't. So we will be trying it next month (although I think I will spoon feed it instead of a bottle because I fear aspiration). We need to do something because he is just so hungry all the time!!
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
At his 2 month appt (10 weeks old) he was 12 lb 10 oz (63rd percentile) and 23.75 inches long (52nd percentile). I weighed him yesterday and the scale said 14 lbs but he's probably a little less because he had clothes. And i have to weigh him by weighing myself alone, then holding him, then subtracting the difference. At least all the milk is helping him grow well lol. I officially packed up all him 3 month clothes. I almost cried because he had the most size 3 month clothes of anything.. It's hard because literally a couple days ago he was wearing them (albeit they were already small) and now I'm packing them up... I saved a couple outfits that I just could not bear to pack away yet. He's in 3-6 month and 6 month clothes, although the 6 month are a tad big. He's in size 2 diapers. His newest thing is SHOVING his hands into his mouth. It's not in hunger. he just does it all the time and also drools while doing it. he's also been scratching his face a lot more so I've been putting mitts on him again. So now he has spit drenched mitts on his hands. He has even gave himself irritated, red skin around his mouth a few times from rubbing his little fist against his skin so many times. It's crazy! I keep checking to see if he's teething but I don't see anything in there.
He apparently rolled over from tummy to back on Monday (12 weeks, 6 days old) but he hasn't done it since and Eric says he thinks his mom (who was over) "helped" him. I was at work so I didn't see so I'm not totally counting it yet. Callum HATES tummy time with a passion. I took a video of him freaking out over it. He just laying on his stomach with his face on the floor, freaking out like a turtle stuck on it's back, till we roll him over.
LINK TO VIDEO: Callum's tummy time tantrum
DRAMA:
At his 2 month appt he got a dTap shot, hep b shot #2, and the oral rotovirus vaccine. He also "should" have gotten Hib, Pcv (pneumococcol), and IPV (polio). I just felt like that was too many to give at once. The pedi we saw was not super supportive of it. Just saying there is a lot of misinformation online and that they don't normally do alternative schedules. Also quoted the CDC by saying that the timing the CDC developed is better for building immunity (even though there are NO published research studies supporting that statement) I looked back, and at my own 2 month appt, I got 2 shots (dtap and polio). I didn't get hib till i was 2 years old. That was all based on the schedule back them. So I call BS on that statement. It's just a way to increase vaccine compliance. Because statistically, the older a kid gets, the less and less likely a parent is to bring them back in for vaccinations. So then we were supposed to take him back 2 weeks later for the rest. But the day after the shots is when he started getting the painful gas, eating weird and sleeping weird. And the eating/sleeping has never returned to normal. So I was like eff it, I'm not taking him back to just mess his system up all over again.
So I called and canceled the appt and I'm sure at his 4 month appt we'll get a lecture about how we've "messed up" the schedule now. He's supposed to get booster shots at that appt too. Idk what to do... I've researched some more alternative vax scedule friendly pedi practices. But I really don't want to change because besides this, I like the practice and it's so close. It's also hard to find a pediatrician that is open to it and considers how you feel, without passing judgement that you're some crazy anti-vax person (which I am not). Part of me just want to wait till he's a year old and then resume the schedule like normal, just 1 year later. I really do not like the thought of all those chemicals being put into his tiny body right now.. They give you these vaccine info sheets before giving the shots, with all these crazy possible side effects. But then effectively it's like why even tell me, if I'm pretty much forced to inject my baby? I just don't like it. I want him vaccinated, but I just really do not like the CDCs schedule, it's insane to me! I wouldn't want 6 shots at once in my big body, let alone his little one. So that's the drama.
He has lost SO MUCH hair. I literally lint rolled his bassinet yesterday because of all the hair in it. I hate it!
Some pictures:
Yes, Callum FINALLY got to go outside and see the sun! He loved going on a walk and getting to look around, and the bumpy rhythem of the sidewalk was soothing to him. And his body was like "OMG what is this Vitamin D? It was 50 degrees on Tuesday afternoon and then by Wednesday we had the crazy blizzard (and snow day)so his time outside was short lived.
Tummy time, first time outside/going for a walk, 3 month picture.
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| me and Callum on 3/11/14 - 3 months, 1 day old. |
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