Squeaky’s Blog

So, much crap has gone wrong over the last 6 weeks it’s not even funny.  I thought I would write a little about the good things.  The baby has two teeth now.  His first tooth came in on November 21st.  It was the bottom right, followed by the bottom left on the 5th of December.  The baby is also standing now.  I left him sitting on the floor and came back to him standing up holding onto his walker.  I was shocked.  It is so much fun watching him grow and change.  He has so much personality.  He can now hold onto the coffee table and go from it to me and back.  I sometimes think he will walk before he will crawl.  I am not sure though.  I think he crawls when no one watches.  I have seen him scoot and roll to get around but never actually crawl.  I guess he is semi mobile.  The baby gates will be making their way out soon.  W.C. on the other hand has been a big pain in my butt.  He is so funny.  He has found his own way to cope with my husband being gone.  Abby and Buck are still around just less these days.  Then he still has Flicka.  He normally brings Flicka out when we are in the truck.  He used to bug me to tell her to go faster or to slow down, but has now started telling her himself.  This has helped a little but he now has to tell me he told her himself. Then making me respond to him about how good he did, defeating the whole purpose of him doing it himself.  W.C. has made a big step and started sleeping in his own bed though.  He has gone to sleeping on the top bunk of his bed.  I wasn’t ready for that but it is what it took to get him in his room and out of mine.  So, whatever works at this point I am okay with.  I just need to get him into a routine and an actual bedtime.  We have one, it just never works.  There is always something that comes up.  I don’t know though.  I have started to avoid things that will be around bed time and then the last few nights we have gone out late.  That though is because the house is for sale and if we leave it has to be show ready.  So, if we go out late enough then no one will be coming and I don’t have to run around and make sure everything is spotless.  It’s been nice, going out late and not worrying if there are dishes in the sink or toys on the floor.  The stress factor has dropped drastically.  I can’t wait for the house to sell.  Then all the stress will be gone for a bit.  Until then we will just keep on one day at a time.  Trying to take as much good as we can with the bad.

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. 

The baby actually slept through most of the night last night.  He woke up once for a feeding around 1:30 and then slept until 6:30.  I couldn’t believe it when I saw the time.  He has also started sleeping for longer amounts of time during the day.  Could this be the start of a beautiful thing?  I am hoping because the 2 or 3 thirty minute naps he has been taking are just not long enough.  Then the constant every 2 hours at night he wakes up is tiring.  I am hoping this is the start to a more peaceful night’s sleep and real breaks in the day.  I am ready for both and will be crossing my fingers for the next few days.