Holy Colic Batman....Or NOT????
On Saturday I went to Matty's T-ball game. Got a call from Adam about 45 minutes later that Bailey started screaming and just would not stop!!! So I watched Matty a few minutes more than walked home to see what was wrong with my fussy little girl. She was not a happy camper and all through that day she had periods of extreme crying. Pacing the floors late Saturday night I was praying and hoping she was not getting colic. I just knew that I could not handle colic on top of everything else. I felt so helpless and just wanted to make her feel better. Finally I found a hold that she liked and she passed out in my arms. We slept together on the sofa from 11:30pm Saturday night until 8am Sunday morning. She never woke up for a bottle or diaper change, she screamed herself exhausted the poor thing.
Sunday all day she seemed fine. She was not too fussy at all and we enjoyed the day. Then around 9:30pm that night she started screaming again and it was a really rough night. I went to work Monday and she was just miserable and screaming non stop most of the time I was gone. So when I left work on Monday I called the doctors and explained what was going on. They told me to bring her in and have her checked.
I wasn't sure if it was colic...had nothing to base it on since Matty never had colic or if she was miserable because of her formula and rice mixture. She's been throwing up her formula really bad, more so than usual and the cereal we were giving her in her bottle to help fill her up seemed to be doing more harm than good...so I wasn't fully convinced it was colic.
So off to see Dr. Longacre and she agreed she didn't think it was colic. So she switched her formula over to the sensitive which is lactose free. We gave that a try from Monday afternoon until today and it seemed to really do the trick. Almost right away she stopped spitting up, had good healthy burps and the screaming stopped. She's hungry a lot more often and eats more ounces in a sitting but at least she isn't uncomfortable or projectile vomiting half the bottle up all over us. She still isn't sleeping through the night. She'll go down around midnight and is up again anytime between 4 and 5 am for a bottle and then again between 8 and 9 am. So it isn't a terrible schedule but we're still exhausted.
Adam takes most of the night shifts since I have to be in work so early and need to sleep through the night. Then when I get home at noon he'll go nap before his shifts start at 5pm. So its busy around here but so far its working.
Bailey gained even more weight since we had her there for her 2 month well visit. It amazes me how she managed to pack on that weight with the amount of spit up we were dealing with. She is now 11 pounds 8.5 ounces...WOW...two weeks ago she was only 10 lbs 12 oz. She is such a little chunker...but her fat chubby thighs and arms are soooooo cute!!!
Ok well since its just about midnight and I am thinking she's down for the count I should try and get some much needed sleep. 4:30 am comes all too quickly.
Sunday all day she seemed fine. She was not too fussy at all and we enjoyed the day. Then around 9:30pm that night she started screaming again and it was a really rough night. I went to work Monday and she was just miserable and screaming non stop most of the time I was gone. So when I left work on Monday I called the doctors and explained what was going on. They told me to bring her in and have her checked.
I wasn't sure if it was colic...had nothing to base it on since Matty never had colic or if she was miserable because of her formula and rice mixture. She's been throwing up her formula really bad, more so than usual and the cereal we were giving her in her bottle to help fill her up seemed to be doing more harm than good...so I wasn't fully convinced it was colic.
So off to see Dr. Longacre and she agreed she didn't think it was colic. So she switched her formula over to the sensitive which is lactose free. We gave that a try from Monday afternoon until today and it seemed to really do the trick. Almost right away she stopped spitting up, had good healthy burps and the screaming stopped. She's hungry a lot more often and eats more ounces in a sitting but at least she isn't uncomfortable or projectile vomiting half the bottle up all over us. She still isn't sleeping through the night. She'll go down around midnight and is up again anytime between 4 and 5 am for a bottle and then again between 8 and 9 am. So it isn't a terrible schedule but we're still exhausted.
Adam takes most of the night shifts since I have to be in work so early and need to sleep through the night. Then when I get home at noon he'll go nap before his shifts start at 5pm. So its busy around here but so far its working.
Bailey gained even more weight since we had her there for her 2 month well visit. It amazes me how she managed to pack on that weight with the amount of spit up we were dealing with. She is now 11 pounds 8.5 ounces...WOW...two weeks ago she was only 10 lbs 12 oz. She is such a little chunker...but her fat chubby thighs and arms are soooooo cute!!!
Ok well since its just about midnight and I am thinking she's down for the count I should try and get some much needed sleep. 4:30 am comes all too quickly.
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