I am having a particularly difficult day. After being up at 2:30am, 4:30am, 4:45am, 5:15am, and 5:45am with one or both kids, before finally giving in and staying up at 6am, I am frustrated. My little baby boy is very needy. And there is not much we can do for him most times. He is colicky, and just when we figure something out, we think, he changes his reactions and we are back to square one. These are feeding issues.
He has digestion issues. He was already switched to a special formula when we got him for gassy babies. He was not doing well on it. We added Gripe water (natural aide in digestion/gas) and that helped. Then, he started wheezing, but his tummy was ok. But the wheezing was getting worse and worse. After pushing and pushing with our pediatrician, he was diagnosed as having Bronchitis last week. This is most likely because he was having reflux and then aspirating on the reflux, leading to Bronchitis. So, we are treating the Bronchitis and having him on a new formula that has rice starch added to the 'for gassy babies' kind that we had previously. He was doing really well at first, not fussing as much about his tummy pains. Now, his tummy seems to be hurting more, though the wheezing is getting better and not as much spitting up (and therefore, refulx). We had samples of both Simlac and Infamile so don't know if the switching back and forth led to this. He cries most of the day and nothing really helps. We don't get much 'positive' time with him, he is either eating, crying or sleeping. The crying leads right up to the sleeping. We ran out of gripe water yesterday. I had been using it less, so I am hoping that that is the answer to this riddle, but I don't know...
And I just want to cry. In fact, I am crying, out of hopelessness and frustration! Pls pray for him and us. |