We switched again...

Andy is now on soy milk - Similac Isomil to be exact. Since then he has stopped screaming like someone is stabbing him all the time. He now whines and fusses and cries like a regular baby. You have to understand that Andy is now 103 days old and he has never (NEVER) done that. He is either sleeping, happy (babbling, laughing, talking cooing, etc.), awake and quiet (very rarely!), or screaming like someone is stabbing him. 

Since we switched him to soy he seems to be doing much better. That was about a week ago. 

Andy's 3 month bear photo!

what do we do now?

Last night was awful. Andy was up just about every hour – all night long. He went to bed last night at 10, got up to eat at midnight, needed the sucker at 1 and 1:10, so I brought him into bed with us at 1:10. He needed the sucker all night and wanted to eat again at 3. Gabe fed him and gave him amoxicilin and Andy wanted to be awake. Gabe put him in the swing and slept on the couch. And then Andy was up again wanting his sucker all night until we brought him back into bed with us at 7, and then he slept good until 8. It was a really rough night!


3 times today Andy has had major, tummy-emptying pukes. All over him and whatever he is laying on (including our bedding). So not fun. We are going to try giving him soy based formula to see if that is better for his little tummy. We can't think of what else to do.

Rough night!

Last night was pretty good for the first half and pretty bad for the second. Elia watched the boys so Gabe and I could go out and celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary. We got home at 10:30, and Andy had had his last bottle at 9:30 and fallen asleep at 9:45pm. So he was down for the night. And he slept until 2:30, had a nice big 5.5oz bottle, took his medicine, got a clean diaper on, and was the happiest baby in the world. But he wanted to be awake and playing. I let him for 20 minutes, and then I put Andy in his crib as I was tired and wanted to go back to bed. But I got up at least 6 times in the next half an hour to put his soother back in. Finally I just stayed in this room (in the rocking chair) and kept putting the soother back in his mouth. Then I swaddled him (around 3:30) and he nodded off just before 4am. But at 6am he was awake again, so Gabe brought him into our bed and he slept well until the alarm went off at 8am.

I'm a zombie this morning

I had to put the soother back in at 1:30am, 3am, 3:45, 4:45, and 5:10. Then I finally got up and fed him at 5:15. He was happy and fell asleep around 6am. These night time feeds are getting longer and longer. I don't like that.

Andy's baptism...

Last night Andy was up a lot. Gabe slept on the couch with Andy in the swing a he put the soother back in a bunch of times. Andy fed at 2:10 (6oz) and 6:50am (3oz).

Andy has such fantastic happy mornings now that he is feeling better!

Andy was baptized today! He slept in Krista's arms until we undressed him. He cried when he was baptized, but calmed down afterwards, and actually didn't fuss nearly as much as we excepted. He even did better than Owen had when he was baptized! We took lots of pictures, and kept some of his hair from the tonturing for his baby book. Lots of people came to watch the baptism: all 4 of the Moore's, the Bhulers, the Harmes's, the Martel's, Ted and Helen Francis, Grandma and Grandma, Elia, and Leila.

And then we had a BBQ at our house afterwards to celebrate and a lot of people came to that too: Sean and Cari, the Harmes's, the Martel's, all of the Francis's and Kim's boyfriend Jason, Grandma and Grandma, the Jordan's, Lindsay Friesen and her husband, Gabe Friesen, the Farley's, Rhiannon and Theo, Christie Gilbank, Eddie Bhuler, and Sid and Melissa Ketel.

In this last picture you can see us and Andy's godparents - Matthew and Krista Francis (they are Owen's godparents too).

Andy's 1st ear infection

Andy screamed all night. I am so glad we had our Doctors appointment today. He has a raging ear infection in his right ear. My poor little baby!

Guess who loves his Mommy?!?

Andy does!

Owen is a Papa's boy (always has been), and it looks like Andy will favor his Mama! Yay for me!

Andy is 10 weeks old today and going threough a growth spurt! He is now wearing size 3month (or 0-3 months, depending on the brand) clothes and size 2 diapers! He is still in a size 1 shoe (but that may be becasue his size 1 shoes are so cute I'll cram his foot in there for as long as I can!).

All smiles!

Andy smiles a lot now these days! And I LOVE his smile and his little laugh! They are just too cute!!!!!!

Andy has this star that lights up and plays music and it is his favorite toy right now (well, the only one he even really cares for at all besides his jumperoo). Here he is smiling at the star...

Baby Shower!

The ladies of St. Herman's (our Church) threw us a baby shower yesterday! Thanks to everyone who came - it was so nice to be able to sit and chat with you all!

And thank you to everyone who brought food and gifts - everything was so fantastic!

Andy's 1st ambulance ride and Hospital visit

Last night was brutal. Bru-tal! Andy had his last feed at 10:50 last night – I wanted him to eat late so he would sleep in late, like normal. But he was up at 2. I put his soother back in 3 times before getting up to feed him at 2:25am. He ate 6oz and was up for the full hour and then never seemed to be himself again for the rest of the day. He was up pretty much all night crying and screaming, not really wanting his soother or a bottle. We fed him another 2oz at 5am and then he screamed until another small feed (1.5oz) at 7:40am.

He cried all day long with small naps and a few 10-25 minutes of happiness throughout the day. But mostly he cried and screamed all day long. He ate 1oz at 1pm and 1 oz at 2:20pm. We attempted to feed him multiple times until Gabe took him to the clinic at 7:30pm. They were closed so he went to the Hospital but the line up was really long so he came home. We have Andy 1ml of Tylenol every 4 hours or so (5 times in total).

But after 4 or 5 hours of constant screaming, Gabe called the Health Clinic. Andy had been doing this weird hiccup sounding thing that seemed to be worse when he cried, and when he attempted to drink. It seemed like he was having trouble breathing and swallowing. The BC Health Nurses Line nurse said it sounded like he was having seizures and that we should call 911. So we did and I rode with Andy to the Hospital in the ambulance as Gabe followed in the car behind us. Elia stayed home with Owen. And of course, Andy stopped crying just before the paramedics got to the house and almost didn't complain, cry, or hiccup at all since then. He did have a few of the weird hiccup things in the ambulance though and the paramedics said it sounded like he was struggling to breathe.

Once at the Hospital we were seen to right away. We told our story to 4 nurses and 2 Doctors. Andy had a poop there and seemed to be better once he did that. We did attempt to feed Andy a bottle there, twice, and he refused to eat the first time,but at 11:30pm he ate 1oz. He had a good crying fit and the Doctors listened to his heart and lungs. They checked his ears, throat, back, chest, and checked his heart rate and circulation. They figure Andy is just having a bad reaction to the immunization shots he got yesterday but that it isn't an infection or allergic reaction. We attempted to feed him one last time but Andy didn't eat. We went home just before midnight and on the way out (this part kills me), Andy smiled at the Nurses. Why didn't he just say “My parents are idiots. They over reacted.”

I even said to Gabe while we were there “I'm glad Andy is feeling better, but I wish he cried a bit just to show the Doctors why we are here.”

He seems to be acting normal now (it is 12:30am) and I hope he eats a bit more and then sleeps. He hardly slept all day so I am hoping he'll sleep through the night. Today was brutal for me and I need a good sleep just as much as Andy does.

Jumperoo!

Andy loves to jump - he has from the very beginning, So Grandpa Kim bought him this Jumperoo. And Andy loves it!

Andy's is 2 months old!

Click here to see Andy's 1 month bear picture.

Click here to see Owen's 2 month bear picture.

Fashion Show!

As Andy is growing out of a lot of his newborn sized clothes (he is 12lbs 13oz now!), I had to do a fashion show and photo shoot before Iput them all away for good.

sleeping good!

Last night was another goo done! Andy ate at 10pm last night, and went to sleep around 11pm. He then slept until 5:10am! He ate 5oz at 5:15, had a huge puke, and then it took me an hour to do the whole routine (by then the sun was rising). I was worried he would be up soon after that, but he slept good until 9:40! That is more than 7 hours between feeds and sleeps – that is awesome!

I honestly credit the Miracle Blanket for his good sleeping these past few nights! He doesn't even have to come into our room anymore – I just put him down in his crib, on the nursing pillow all swaddled up. I don't even have to go back in and put the sucker in and all of that (at least not more than once within 2 minutes of laying him down). It is great!

The Miracle Blanket is a mircale!

I bought this blanket online about a month ago and only really started using it now as the weather was too hot to swaddle Andy for the last few weeks. Andy has never had a good sleep from his middle-of-the-night feed to the morning feed , and that has been really hard on us as I don't sleep much a tall, and that is the time of night we really need our skeep. Otherwise it feel slike we have been up since 3:30am - and sometime we have been!

So I swaddled Andy all up in the blanket last nightand put him in his crib at 2am - and he slept until 7 without making a peep! And he is in his bed again now for his morning nap all swaddled up and sleeping heavy. This blanket is awesome!

http://www.miracleblanket.com/

Colic update

Well, we can now officially say that Andy is colic free. Yay! I don't know if he just grew out of it, or the chiropractor massage worked wonders, but it is all gone! They do say it peaks at 6 weeks, and we found that Andy's 6th week of life was terrible for colic. But now, at almost 8 weeks old, it is all gone. (knock on wood!)

Andy had his 2 month check up yesterday and he is happy and healthy! And 12lbs 5oz - my big boy!

Coping with colic

Yesterday we heard that these 2 things help with colic:

• infant massage from a chiropractor (3 times in a wek should do the trick)
• a drug called “BENTYLOL” (the trade name), also known as “DICYCOLMINE” (the generic name)

So today we will try both. Has anyone else heard of these, or any other ways of helping with colic?

Andy gets Churched!

Andy got Churched today!

thirty nine days old