February has been a crazy month for us. Timmy is just growing like a weed!
Happy Valentine's Day! Unfortunately, I had a sore throat for about 2 weeks that turned into bronchitis and a touch of pneumonia. I felt so crummy that Caleb had to take off 2 days of work to help me with the kids and we eventually called in the big guns....
GRANDMA!!! Thankfully, grandma offered to come help out for a while! We needed it desperately! And I don't think she minded too much :)
Our church family has graciously brought over meal after meal for us. It has been such a blessing!
This little guy has had some fussiness issues this month. I took him in to see the pediatrician on the 22nd and we determined that he has reflux. (He weighed in at 10 lbs 5 oz, by the way!) Hannah was definitely the spittiest baby that I have ever seen/met, but she never really seemed like she was in pain. Timmy, on the other hand, isn't nearly as spitty as she was, but seems to be so uncomfortable after feedings. He loves Mylicon drops but they only help so much. So, he is now on a medication twice a day to help with his reflux. Some days I think it's working miracles and other days he seems to be back to his fussiness. I know that babies just have their good days and bad days so we'll give the medicine another week or so to consider if it's really working or not. He seems to be doing better on it at least.
We're still working out our days and nights over here. Timmy does great during the night, only waking for a feeding and then going right back to bed; however, he's still doing his longer sleeps (5-6 hours at a time) during the day and shorter sleeps (4 hours) at night. There have been a few times when he has "topped off" at about midnight and slept until about 5 in the morning. We're hoping that starts to happen more often. :)
Overall, we're enjoying our little boy so much. Couldn't imagine life without him!!! He LOVES to snuggle and so does mommy!!
How on earth is Timmy already two months old?! I took him in for a check up last Friday and he's growing like crazy.
Weight: 11 lb 11 oz (45th percentile)
We still have a spitter, but he's a happy spitter now. What a difference the medication is making for our sweet boy. It's so much fun to see his little personality starting to emerge. I love this sneaky look on his face!
I just love the look on Hannah's face in this picture! It's priceless and totally sums up how we'd all been feeling.
After a few trips to the doctor we think we have him figured out. We started him on Zantac on February 22nd. After trying that out for 2 weeks, it just seemed like he was getting worse and worse and crying more and more. He was just inconsolable. We tried everything! The only thing that seemed to make him happy was putting him in the front carrier and constantly bouncing him.
We visited the doctor again on March 9th and switched him to Prevacid. He was noticeably better after only a day! He still cried a lot, but he was more easily pacified and just seemed to be a fussy baby. We've had a few really bad days since then and I feared that we were going backwards rather than forwards.
PaPa and Daddy crafted a castle just for Hannah out of our new washing machine boxes. Hannah got to decorate her princess castle all by herself and she enjoyed every minute of it. JuJu packs a "Mickey Mouse Bag" of presents for Hannah during our visits and Hannah gets to open one a day. She was so exited to open a gold treasure box and put it in her castle. It stores all of her precious heart stickers in case she feels like redecorating :)
