i am posting this same post -- kinda -- in Breastfeeding to see if this sounds like a BF issue to anyone ............
first let me note i am going nuts with two constantly unhappy crying fussy kids ..................both crying right now actually but i am finally at a loss
Charles had been a very content child, eating every 2 or 3 hours, sleeping, no crying, little squawking ...
i was able to put him in the bouncy and feed Theo, to the swing and shower with Theo
then this week
:
he was 3 week last monday -- and start Wed, I have a differnt baby ....
granted he is awake more than he was before, so maybe he just doesn't know what to do with himself awake? but then why the fussy when asleep too ??
he wants to eat ALL THE TIME, like he is starved ... but then a lot of the time he spits up all the over the fill line milk, and then wants to nurse more. no more 2 or 3 hours break between feeds either and no more predictablity ..... i used to be able to offer the boob at 11:30, get him to eat 20 to 30 minutes, then be able to lay T down to noon nap and know C would wait 2 or even 3 hours to eat again .... now i feed him at 11:30 to 12 and at 12:30 or so he is crying to eat again:
before teh last few days he never cried to eat at all anyway -- just cued it -- rooting, looking, opening his mouth ..... now the cried are his FIRST sign, not his last .....
growth suprt at 4 weeks, not 6????? but then why the MOODY stuff, CRANKY stuff .... I would think GS would just be more eating ....
he cries all the time, no matter how i hold him, rock him, walk him, bounce him ..... and i mean CRIES not mraknt and not swquak ...
---- i do not remember this usdden personality, total behavior change, with Theo, ever ----
he keeps making faces like he has a bad taest in his mouth, coughing, supttering and gagging -- all this really makes him cry.
acid reflux??????????
this week he LOST 6 oz ..... after gaining 4 ot 6 oz every 4 or 5 days for the first 3 week .............
he cries and cries and squirms and kicks each and every time he fills diaper -- liek for 10 to 15 minutes before .,.... but pooping doesn't really help, cuts in 1/2 the unhappyness maybe but doesn't fix it.......
I don't know what to do ............. i don't understand this sudden change .......
last night i even
tried a binki ...... .... he took it for about 5 minutes, didn't help the fussyness and flat refused it the other two times offer -- woudl not open mouth. ......................Theo is a binki baby due to GRE, nurseing till he was sick 10+ times a day, and screaming himself sick when i could not hold him (car seat and so on). he just NEEDS to suck about 23.5 hours a day -- still at 2. I admit it i did not want o give it to him ... hate older kids with them, visually. i know the need is really. dh wants to take them from Theo now, i refuse, he'll give them up when he need is met (I hope) ....... i am though soooooooooooooooooo tired of all his pictures having binkis in them soooooooooo tired. but i had a freind who took her son's binkis at 2 on the dot, that was Dec, then in Feb she has a 2nd son, and she told me how much se regretted taking P's binki, he had them nap and bed old, cuz P's sleep got sooooooooooooooooooooo messed up with baby M and no binki made it that much worse.......... so i refused to Take T'd binki, and i will give C one if he needed it but i kinda hope not ..............
I have tired Gripe Water -- 2 does last night and two today .... doesn't seem to make ANY differnce what so ever.
I am going to stop my milk supplement (from wishgarden) to see if tha tis it -- but the rec dose is 2 or 3 droppers 4 times a day -- i take one dropper once a day .....
but now i am going from one crying child to another crying child and then back al night -- 7 pm on is meltdown around here -- i go back and forth never really able to meet the needs of eaither one, just chilling them out long enough to go to the other one till the first one is frantic again and the 2nd a little calm ....................................i did feel like i had a grip on having the two ................ not now.
Charles used to nurse, then lay and gaze and then fall asleep .......... since this week he pretty much will NOT sleep not touching me or DH -- we did not teach him this -- for three weeks he was contently sleeping in crib or cradle (with us at night but not on me, now he will only sleeop ion m) .................... it is getting impossible to get T to nap or bed because of it.
he acts like he is starving all the time... i know he is not. i can still pump lots of milk, and i can hand express milk AAFTER he eats, he always has milk in his mouth and on his lips and drolling down his chin while eating too. he has a lot of very wet diapers, he has enough poopy dipares, i hear him swallowing, and i feel let down in both boobs when he nureses ... soooooooo he IS getting milk and he is meeting all teh "getting enough" marks too ........he is still a PITA about opening him mouth for the boob no matter how upset he is acting.
I am at a loss .................. and feeling like a total faiuler as a mom
thoughts on what is wrong or how to fix it
ETA -- did i mention i have not had a shower in 3 days or clean clothing in 2 ..........
Aimee
first let me note i am going nuts with two constantly unhappy crying fussy kids ..................both crying right now actually but i am finally at a loss
Charles had been a very content child, eating every 2 or 3 hours, sleeping, no crying, little squawking ...
i was able to put him in the bouncy and feed Theo, to the swing and shower with Theo
then this week
:he was 3 week last monday -- and start Wed, I have a differnt baby ....
granted he is awake more than he was before, so maybe he just doesn't know what to do with himself awake? but then why the fussy when asleep too ??
he wants to eat ALL THE TIME, like he is starved ... but then a lot of the time he spits up all the over the fill line milk, and then wants to nurse more. no more 2 or 3 hours break between feeds either and no more predictablity ..... i used to be able to offer the boob at 11:30, get him to eat 20 to 30 minutes, then be able to lay T down to noon nap and know C would wait 2 or even 3 hours to eat again .... now i feed him at 11:30 to 12 and at 12:30 or so he is crying to eat again
:before teh last few days he never cried to eat at all anyway -- just cued it -- rooting, looking, opening his mouth ..... now the cried are his FIRST sign, not his last .....
growth suprt at 4 weeks, not 6????? but then why the MOODY stuff, CRANKY stuff .... I would think GS would just be more eating ....
he cries all the time, no matter how i hold him, rock him, walk him, bounce him ..... and i mean CRIES not mraknt and not swquak ...
---- i do not remember this usdden personality, total behavior change, with Theo, ever ----
he keeps making faces like he has a bad taest in his mouth, coughing, supttering and gagging -- all this really makes him cry.
acid reflux??????????
this week he LOST 6 oz ..... after gaining 4 ot 6 oz every 4 or 5 days for the first 3 week .............
he cries and cries and squirms and kicks each and every time he fills diaper -- liek for 10 to 15 minutes before .,.... but pooping doesn't really help, cuts in 1/2 the unhappyness maybe but doesn't fix it.......
I don't know what to do ............. i don't understand this sudden change .......
last night i even
tried a binki ...... .... he took it for about 5 minutes, didn't help the fussyness and flat refused it the other two times offer -- woudl not open mouth. ......................Theo is a binki baby due to GRE, nurseing till he was sick 10+ times a day, and screaming himself sick when i could not hold him (car seat and so on). he just NEEDS to suck about 23.5 hours a day -- still at 2. I admit it i did not want o give it to him ... hate older kids with them, visually. i know the need is really. dh wants to take them from Theo now, i refuse, he'll give them up when he need is met (I hope) ....... i am though soooooooooooooooooo tired of all his pictures having binkis in them soooooooooo tired. but i had a freind who took her son's binkis at 2 on the dot, that was Dec, then in Feb she has a 2nd son, and she told me how much se regretted taking P's binki, he had them nap and bed old, cuz P's sleep got sooooooooooooooooooooo messed up with baby M and no binki made it that much worse.......... so i refused to Take T'd binki, and i will give C one if he needed it but i kinda hope not ..............I have tired Gripe Water -- 2 does last night and two today .... doesn't seem to make ANY differnce what so ever.
I am going to stop my milk supplement (from wishgarden) to see if tha tis it -- but the rec dose is 2 or 3 droppers 4 times a day -- i take one dropper once a day .....
but now i am going from one crying child to another crying child and then back al night -- 7 pm on is meltdown around here -- i go back and forth never really able to meet the needs of eaither one, just chilling them out long enough to go to the other one till the first one is frantic again and the 2nd a little calm ....................................i did feel like i had a grip on having the two ................ not now.
Charles used to nurse, then lay and gaze and then fall asleep .......... since this week he pretty much will NOT sleep not touching me or DH -- we did not teach him this -- for three weeks he was contently sleeping in crib or cradle (with us at night but not on me, now he will only sleeop ion m) .................... it is getting impossible to get T to nap or bed because of it.
he acts like he is starving all the time... i know he is not. i can still pump lots of milk, and i can hand express milk AAFTER he eats, he always has milk in his mouth and on his lips and drolling down his chin while eating too. he has a lot of very wet diapers, he has enough poopy dipares, i hear him swallowing, and i feel let down in both boobs when he nureses ... soooooooo he IS getting milk and he is meeting all teh "getting enough" marks too ........he is still a PITA about opening him mouth for the boob no matter how upset he is acting.
I am at a loss .................. and feeling like a total faiuler as a mom
thoughts on what is wrong or how to fix it
ETA -- did i mention i have not had a shower in 3 days or clean clothing in 2 ..........
Aimee
Aimee. I know how frustrating it can be. Maybe some of the above will work for you? Remember, this too shall pass.
) sooooooo Scott might not like the idea of rural gralve roads, snow covered, in bitter temps with the baby for anything less than a good medical emergency .... buttttttttttttt that is an awsome idea, if nothing else, we can do that come spring if things are still messed up ........... i sppercipate the idea..........
