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nald1 
For all of you dealing with fussy, gassy, puking babies - what has helped? I hate having to alter my diet - after 9 months of pregnancy I just want my body to be my own problem sometimes - but I will if it means he will feel better.
Honestly, I don't think taking coffee out helped. But, hand expressing the first let down helps, burping often does help, and sleeping with him on my chest in the recliner helps. I'm lucky though b/c (knock wood) Finn isn't very fussy at all. He's the happiest boy unless he's hungry or tired, so that's cool. He just spits up a lot and needs to be burped a lot. And can't lay flat ever. I notice that at the end of the day, he doesn't puke anymore. I still have coffee around 3-4 pm, so I don't think it's coffee. I think it's that my breasts aren't as full and the let down isn't as strong. I still express a little into a towel though. I doesn't hurt anyone to do that, and isn't a hassle.
I took a good look at the amount he spit up at one point today. It was at most 3 tbsp. I can't find the link, but a few days ago I searched and found that if it's a few tbsp, it's spitup, but if it's projectile and you need lots of paper towels to clean it up, it's vomit. Most babies spit up and it goes away within a few months.
Sometimes I think if I stop eating chocolate and stop putting whiskey in my diet coke, he won't puke as much, but....I'm just not ready to give those up yet. He's not unhappy or miserable and, honestly, I will be both unhappy and miserable without my chocolate and whiskey.
re: lazy husbands - sometimes I forget that its his weekend. He might not get shit done, but he does work all week, and might not feel like sticking to a schedule on the weekends. I forget what it's like to work a full time job, sometimes. And how much it must suck to have a full time job AND have kids and a nagging wife on the weekend, lol. Now, true, I don't really get "a weekend" but like you said, we chose children, and that's my life right now. I still have to get up with the baby on Saturday and do my thing, and try to keep a pace going until bedtime. It's nice when DH gets himself going too and starts on some chores on his own, but honestly, I try not to hound him if he doesn't get out to do the yardwork until 2, or if he says he's going to clean the garage and it's almost dark out. I'll just let him do his thing at his own pace. I might burn up inside about it, though. Heh.
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