Whew! What a week. Definitely the craziest week we have encountered thus far, Victor-wise. So he started his heartburn medicine on Tuesday morning. Tuesday was a pretty normal day; his symptoms were still there, a bit stronger, especially by the time nighttime hit, probably because it takes a while to kick in. Ok, whatever. Wednesday morning I wanted to go to "Parent Movie Morning" at our theater. They were playing Date Night, and we actually managed to get there, showered, fed, and in one piece! Well, OK, I fed Victor as soon as we got there but that was fine. All through the movie I had to go to the bathroom SO BAD but I figured that restrapping him into the car seat and shlubbing him and all our crap upstairs to the restroom would take longer than the actual movie so I gritted my teeth and stuck it out. I tell you this not because I want to gross you out, but because despite that it was still the highlight of my day. Went home, fixed lunch with Victor in his snugli facing OUT for the first time (yay big boy!). Round 1:00 he started fussing, then it quickly became crying, then it became crying like I've never heard out of him before--louder, stronger, so intense sometimes he lost his breath. He was pretty much unconsolable! I could distract him for brief periods of time occasionally, but feeding him was the only dent in his sound levels--changed his diaper, checked him for scratches or booboos, checked his temperature, nothing. Finally he fell asleep for an hour or so. When he woke up he immediately started up again! I eventually managed to get him quiet long enough to put him in his stroller, which has the benefit of always making him fall asleep. Went for a loooooooong walk to keep him asleep. He stayed asleep when we got him home, and finally when he woke up he was fine. WTF!! So he's been having these episodes off and on nearly every day since then. Thursday I was on the lookout for it so I kept him asleep as much as possible in the afternoon every time he tried to start. Friday he was fine in the morning, but started up at night after Damian got home. Bizarrely, he's been managing to sleep well nearly every night. Saturday he slept a long time in the morning, had family cuddle time even, but around noon he started and lasted nearly all day long. Today, however, he was fine pretty much the whole day--one or two false starts. I called the doctor on Thursday (the same "new" one we saw on Monday) and she said it probably wasn't due to the medicine, which still might not have kicked in all the way, and to give it the weekend before coming in. So after today I don't know if we'll go in or not. Hopefully he's about over it, but somehow I don't think we're going to be that lucky. Oh yeah, and the days he doesn't have a crying fit he spits up way more than usual. But I'd still rather have wet shoulders than those heartbreaking crying fits!
On the up side, Victor has moved into his own room and is sleeping through the night there! (And if he isn't we don't know about it! ;) ) We moved the pack 'n play there because he's used to sleeping in it. One of the hard parts of this reflux stuff is keeping him upright for at least half an hour after feeding him, which means he usually falls asleep on my shoulder, which is giving him bad sleeping habits. I didn't want to put him in his crib until he could fall asleep by himself there. In his pack'n play he doesn't cry, even when he's starting to get hungry, he just kind of chills out and makes little "eh eh" noises and wiggles around. In his crib thus far he cries every time he wakes up. HOWEVER, tonight he still wasn't asleep after his bedtime snack and upright time, so we put him in his big boy crib to fall asleep by himself! Cross your fingers that in one of his wakey periods tonight he'll just fall back to sleep as usual instead of crying because he doesn't know where he is!
He's been less smiley this week, unfortunately, but he's still changing (and hopefully growing--between the spitting up and the crying his feeding habits have changed!) His little baby hairs are getting long enough that they look red in the sunlight. We compared his picture to one of me when I was two months old and wow, it's crazy to see the similarities! He's definitely got my hair (including this little section on the front side where the hairs point to the side instead of the front--I have it too!) and eyes (still blue, but the golden part is getting larger in the center--mine were still blue at three months); possibly my lips. He definitely has Damian's little elf ears!! So cute!! Probably the nose too. Jury is still out on the chin, but his head is squarer than mine was so that could be Damian's as well. He's holding his head up really well now, and he loves trying to stand up. Just tonight I let him hold on to the front of the futon and he held himself upright! I'm going to have to get a picture of that, if I can do it while keeping one hand ready to catch him!
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