6weeks

Life is very good at the moment! Loving every minute with our little man.  Some days are better than others some days we get hardly any sleep and he cries the house down but in the end I wouldn't trade it for a moment.

He is growing up way too fast though.  We have more play time now and he loves it.  He started smiling last week and yesterday I was able to get it on camera.  Its an amazing feeling when you see them smile and laugh.

He had his 6 week check up today, he is 5.3kg and 58cm long!!!  Go Tyler. His reflux is still there just waiting for the Losec to kick in. Dr S changed the dosage today so hopefully it helps a bit more.

On  other news we have finally made the decision to sell the house.  It goes to Auction on the 11th Dec. Lots to do around here in the next two weeks though before we start open houses and things.  I am sad but excited all at the same time. We have done so much to this house and it was the dream to make it the family home and stay here for a very long time.  We still would love to do that but unfortunately due to issues in the family we no longer have any financial backing against our mortgage and are paying full interest and on a loan this size we simply can't afford that.  I want DH to spend more time at home with the family not at work just so we can stay in this big house.

That's about it on this end though.  some pics

longer update

So after my very short update yesterday I thought I would try to update a bit more today.  Tyler is asleep so hopefully I get a little bit of time!

So what has been happening the last few weeks, Tyler has been having good and bad days.  His reflux can be very difficult some days. I just hate seeing him in so much pain.  I finally have an appointment with the Dr on Monday,I have been umming and ahhing over it because I really didn't want to go down the route of medication in case he didn't need it but its getting woese.  No matter what I try to do with my diet etc it doesn't make a difference.  It is now starting to affect him attaching on the boob.  He scrunches up his face, goes bright red, tries to arch his back and curl into a ball all at the same time and screams out in pain, all whilst staying attached. He does this every few minutes and I just try to keep him calm but it doesn't help much. He feeds for about 20mins but I think it is starting to affect my milk supply.  There are some times in the day when I just can't seem to give him enough milk.  I am going to ask the Dr on Monday for some medication to help increase my supply too.  I give him formula twice a day just to top him up which is OK but as my milk supply is now being affected its hard to get him satisfied on the boob.

He was also having trouble falling asleep as I mentioned in my last post! We have been doing great with getting him to sleep now and especially sleeping on his own.  I really do miss my little cuddles but I know its for a reason! He can still be really hard to get to sleep when he is over tired but we do eventually get him settled enough that once he is down he puts himself to sleep.  He still spends most of the day sleeping in his bouncer or his adjusted cot beside our bed as he needs to stay elevated majority of the time. Now that he is sleeping more though he seems to be doing better in himself but that reflux is still stopping him settling easy after a feed. poor little bugger

as for me, I am really wanting to start trying to get this weight off now.  Having to keep the calories up to keep my milk supply going is a little annoying! I went for a jog the other day.  I know its a little early but I really needed it and it was REALLY slow and easy.  I have no idea what to do about my diet though.  It is so restricted as I have to cut so much out so that I don't increase Tylers reflux.  I haven't cut out any major food groups as I don't want him developing an intolerance to anything, but I can't have salads as so much of that is acidic, really all I can eat is plan cards. :(



Well so much for having some time. He is waking up so better go!!!  Jersey cow time!

one month

So our little man was one month old yesterday and OMG time is absolutely flying past.  We have had a few bad days, he is suffering from reflux pretty bad and gas, and just wasn't sleeping.  The more he didn't sleep the worse it all got and the harder it was to settle him.  But I had a good talk to the health nurse yesterday and we covered some things on getting him to settle better.

So he as basically been asleep ever since and he seems so much better. I bought him an old school bouncer on the way home yesterday and he loves it.  Sleeps in it beautifully.

It was good to get around 7 hours sleep last night.  DH takes Tyler at night while I go to bed around 7:30.  Tyler didn't wake for a feed until 3:30am!!!  So for me that was heaps of sleep! YAY.

We have started getting him to fall asleep on his own and the last day he has been doing that really well.  After reading a few tips on sleeping and applying those things its been heaps better.  I really didn't want him getting a dependence on relying on falling asleep on me.  Apparently they sleep in 45min waves, at that 45min mark they go into a lighter sleep and if they don't know how to resettle themselves they will wake and expect you to resettle them.  This habit will start forming at 6-8weeks so I am glad I found out about this and started getting him used to falling asleep himself now.

At his check up yesterday he had put on another 370g so now he weighs a whopping 4.75kg. thats a 1.1kg gain in one month!

well short post as Tyler has an appointment with the Osteopath soon so I better run.

Some piccies.

Time is flying past

Tomorrow our little man will be 3 weeks old! I can't believe how fast that time has just flown by. We have had a few up and down days but we are getting there.  Friday last week was probably the worst.  The little man got circumcised and it was a very traumatic day. It started out fine, except that they recommend they don't feed for 2 hours before hand. Well Tyler didn't like that at all, but was fine once he ate after the procedure.  Everything had gone well but on the way home he pooped which was fine but it wasn't until we got home and I changed him that I saw the poo had gone all on the inside of the bell.  We put him in the bath and had to use a syringe to try and get the poo out.  This of course hurt and then we had to put betadine on and that hurt so poor Tyler was screaming down the house.  He wouldn't settle at all after this and got worse and worse.   After 6 hours I noticed he still hadn't peed so I started to get worried that his pain was caused from perhaps him not being able to pee.  :( So I rang the clinic and they said the Dr would ring me back.  During this time Tyler just got more and more and more upset so I decided we needed to take him back.

He ended up peeing a few hours later and everything was fine but I was glad I took him back because I would rather be safe than sorry. The Dr gave him some children's panadol which helped to settle him down a lot.  I had to give him one more dose that night and since has been fine.  The bell should come off in the next day or so and hopefully it is all over.

It was such a hard day though, I had 2 hours of broken sleep that night and normally DH takes him in the morning once he gets up and I get a couple more hours sleep. I really cherish those couple of hours. But because his appointment was at 8am I hadn't had that sleep, so I was really tired.  I had a piece of toast in the morning but that was it food wise, I hadn't drunk any water and all this on top of seeing him so distressed I was so upset.  I was so angry at myself for putting him through all that pain.  I know the reason why we got it done so young is that he wont remember it but it didn't help on the day.  I couldn't stop crying.

Yesterday I finally got a good amount of food into me, which I so needed because with the lack of sleep and not getting much food my milk supply had dramatically dropped off.  But today its back.  I can actually feel it let down which is good. Although Tyler is going through a growth spurt and is constantly eating today.

He is still having his tummy issues.   Its more gas than reflux but we found this stuff called infants friend and I give that to him every few hours rather than with every feed and he has been a completely different baby.  Much more content and happier.  Not always in pain.  I still have to use the Stomach calm every now and again when I can hear the fluid coming back up and can see it causing him burning pain, but its not too often which is good.

I am getting used to functioning on around 3-4hours of broken sleep a night.  During the night Tyler doesn't feed for long, but only sleeps in 45min blocks.  So I am up constantly but not for very long. By the time I go back to bed, settle and get to sleep he is waking up again! Its all good though it wont last forever.  I find getting up at night easy, its the dawn wake up I struggle with.  I am not sure why, whether its the light or that its FREEZING at that time of the morning but I really do struggle to get up.  I got some eye drops the other day too and using them I think is really helping because my eyes don't feel like they are constantly burning.

Not much else happening, life is on Tyler time :)  been able to get out of the house more often and its been really good.  I find that I can get out and I handle it well.  I either use formula or expressed milk whilst out, I am not confident enough to breast feed in public yet.  If I could attach Tyler straight to the boob it might help but I have to attach the nipple shield first and that can be awkward and Tyler can get stroppy and wave his hands about knocking the shield off etc so it can take some time to get him on.  But we will get there and until then I am happy using the other stuff whilst out.

I didn't think it was possible but I am falling more and more in love with this little man every day :)