Allergies
After a week of nasty diapers and rashes the baby seems to be allergic to something. I took him in to the doctors again today. It was a nice visit. I knew the pediatrician from when I had him. She is also the lactation consultant and I have talked to her a few times now about nursing and breast pumps. She was glad that we/I was still nursing and said to keep it up for as long as I can. It was one of the few times that I could just stop and ask and talk about what was going on and didn’t feel like I was being rushed out the door. So, for now we are going to stop giving the baby squash and anything from that family for the next month. I also got the okay to give him formula again and see how it goes. We are also going to watch everything he eats including what he gets off our plates, which is going to be very limited if at all. He can’t eat anything that has eggs in it for now. I am glad that the visit went so well. I feel like I got a lot of answers and this weight off my shoulders. I also got to talk to her about his sleep habits. I am glad because after reading that he should be sleeping through the night at this age that he is normal for a nursing baby. The day time naps though, she said are a little too short and to try to work on him getting more. I think that is going to be hard though since he is so finicky during the day. I am not sure how we are going to do the day time naps since the only time he has slept longer is if we lay with him. I have another week or two of my husband being home so, maybe we can lay with him to get it started. I am not sure though. I don’t want him getting used to sleeping with someone. That is how they end up in your bed like W.C. did. Now it’s a fight to get W.C. to sleep in his room. We are working on it and will be working on it for a while I think. It’s a slow transition but we will get there. I just don’t want to start any more bad habits if it can be helped, plus there isn’t enough room in the bed for all 4 of us. Oh well, we will see what happens and how it goes for a while.
