Gas Drops

Paul, Paul's mom, and I have all noticed the last few weeks that Nadia has a lot of gas. Her babysitter this week also noticed and suggested we try gas drops. I emailed the pediatrician on Thursday night about two things: her continued congestion and whether she thought it was good for us to try the gas drops with Nadia. She wrote back on Friday and said yes to the drops so I got some today. Hopefully they'll help her "toot" a little less. I think it does make her uncomfortable and might be the reason sometimes that she is fussy. Of course all these medications taste good so she doesn't mind!

As for the congestion, Dr. M said to keep using the Zyrtec. I said that for the last week we had also switched to soy formula. Nadia gets on average 4 ounces of formula a day. I have started pumping some, but I haven't been doing it enough to have enough for others to give her a bottle. She did seem a little better for a few days so we thought either the soy formula or the Zyrtec were helping, but Paul commented last night that she seemed to be getting worse again, and I agree. The poor girl has been having her nose suctioned several times a day for OVER four weeks now! She actually is somewhat used to the nose spray and doesn't cry every time with that any more. We have gone through TWO bottles of nose spray and she's not even 11 weeks old. So the next thing on the list to try to see if it will clear up Nadia's congestion is for me to give up milk. GULP! Now it's no problem for me to give up milk in particular. I never drink milk. However I usually have a yogurt as part of my breakfast every morning, and I usually have an ice cream treat sometime in the day. Literally there are probably less than 10 days a year when I don't have some ice cream that day. I buy novelties instead of half gallons because then I don't eat too much. It's easier to control the calories if I eat an ice cream sandwich or a Klondike bar than if I scoop out some ice cream into a bowl. Ice cream is just one of my MOST favorite foods. This is true love, Nadia! Although I am wanting her congestion to clear up, I hope we find the cause is something other than me eating dairy products. If it does prove to be the dairy products, I am not sure I'll nurse her for a full year as planned. We shall see. Let me tell you though after YEARS of having a yogurt and an ice cream almost every day, I am going to be in serious withdrawal, LOL! Now if she is allergic to say vegetables or meat, that would be MUCH easier for me! Fruit, carbs, and dairy are my favorite food groups. So anyhow tomorrow will be day #1 of no yogurt or ice cream for me. I'll probably still have a little cheese (such as on my breakfast bagel from Dunkin Donuts for lunch), but that will be it in terms of dairy products. We shall see if this leads to her congestion clearing up or not.

Last night the first stretch was 4 1/2 hours and then she was up for almost two hours (1:45-3:30am). That hadn't happened in awhile, and it was awful timing for it to happen on a night when I was dead tired after having worked 10 hours. The good part of it was that at least today was Saturday. The 2nd stretch was again 3 hours though so maybe we are starting a new trend as for weeks the 2nd stretch has always been at most 2 hours. Today she only took one short nap so I put her to bed a little earlier (8:15). Thankfully she went down easily tonight. So I'd better head to bed shortly myself. Usually I go down when she goes down, but I don't usually put her down at 8:15.

That dress she wore yesterday was size 0-3 months, and it was almost too small! It was the first time she wore it. It was the one dress I bought her while I was pg. It's crazy how much variation there is between clothes that are supposedly the same size. Some 0-3 months fits her perfectly, some are too small, and some are still way too big (mostly pants). The blue 3-6 month dress bought on eBay recently came in this week (for $5), and it is GORGEOUS and is such a great color for her. I can't wait until she's big enough to wear it! The sleeves are WAY too long right now. I weighed her this morning, and it seems she's about 10 lbs now! Our little girl is growing!