No Fun

  Poor guy is grunting, straining, red in the face and crying with only noise and sound as a result.  He may be going through a growth spurt, but going from every diaper change to none for 7 diaper changes since yesterday at 10 PM until 4 PM now without anything but a speck is upsetting.  He has been spitting up also, 7 times 2 days ago, 4 times yesterday and none yet today.  Only one "bigger" spit up.   Mostly it is just a mouthful amount.  Something has changed for sure.  If it is a growth spurt I wonder how long something like this lasts.  It could be too much formula, but he has only had 2.5 x 2 oz bottles in the last 24 hours.  Is it because I was dehydrated yesterday and that dehydrated him?  Ugh.

  On a positive note, he smiled while awake for the first time today.  I was sleeping :( but Tony got to see it.  We opened up all the shades to indicate that it is daytime right now.  He was awake for quite a while today.  Maybe he will sleep longer now.  I spent the night in the rocker recliner holding him, etc.  I slept in 20 minute intervals which was not as fun as the hours together I had yesterday.  I again went 14 hours without food and only a small amount of water.

  Cleaning and drying the clothes is the easy part.  It is the taking them from downstairs and putting them away is the hard part.  Tony made some great smelling peanut butter oatmeal cookies, but I am avoiding peanuts for the allergen potential.  The vibrating chair Adam actually liked sitting in it while Tony rocked him and looked at him.  He does not like it when I try getting him to sit in it.  Ah, the magic of dad versus mom.  He's not happily sleeping fetal position style on dad.  That position has to cause his legs to go numb and to slow bowel movements because he is so compacted because as soon as he is straightened out he calms down if riled up out of a dead sleep.

Adam 1 Month old

  We should take our Christmas family picture today.  We will see.