Hey Sara! Dang it, I thought he was going to be feeling so good! I kept thinking this is new, must be a regular baby thing. The whole almost asleep and then wide awake thing is killing us. When he was doing bad I could still usually get him to go down, couldn't get him to stay there, now I can't do either.
Solids: we've tried yams, peas and green beans. Peas & green beans have been recent, green beans last night, and he was acting really uncomfortable at the 30min wake up last night, that kept him up for 1.5hrs. He was writhing and moaning and grunting and then I realized with DH home this week I hadn't been changing all the diapers, so I didn't think about it, but I asked DH and LO hasn't pooed since day before yesterday in the morning, which is the longest he's ever gone. So DH doesn't want to give him anymore green beans, and we switched back to yams this morning.
He gets 1/2tsp applesauce with his meds twice a day. Then 1-1/5 tablespoons yams or peas in the mid morning and in the late evening. I mix the probiotics in the the a.m. solids and the 1/4teaspoon slippery elm with the evening solids. I found somewhere that we can give him 3/4tsp slippery elm 3x/day, but i don't how I would ever get that much into him! So I've just been doing 1/4 tsp once a day.
Teething: He's not been teething at all yet, I keep checking his gums, no redness, no elevated temp, no runny nose. His dad didn't get teeth until 8 months, so Bear probably will follow his dad, maybe I just think that way because they look exactly the same.
Developmental: He is definitely sitting, he's got that down. crawling, not so much. Not really trying too much yet. With his crib mattress being elevated, when he tries to sit he usually ends up at the bottom. In fact I think he has a hard time with the crib in general because he was in the sleeper thing until about a month ago and he still naps with me so he's not to used to moving around in there and the sloped mattress probably doesn't make it much easier for him. I'd love to be able to set him down for naps, even if I hold him past the first 30, but he keeps fussing and waking for his paci and grabbing me every 15-20mins the rest of the nap.
Reflux: sooo, he doesn't burp when I try to officially burp him anymore, he gets rather annoyed with me trying so I try to be sneaky and sit him up and push up his knees a bit, I usually get some little burps. Since the Lansoprazole has kicked in more he's eating a little smoother so he's not giving those big wet burps as much. I do think he's constipated at the moment, Dh is going to get some pears tomorrow since those are supposed to help, but I do worry about the acidity of them. Also we stopped the slippery elm for a couple of days, but I convinced DH that wasn't the source of the problem and gave him some this afternoon, since that's also supposed to help. His breath does still have a bit of acridness too it.
Props: You're brilliant! I will definitely try that paci during A time. His crib bars are big enough that the paci falls through easily, which really sucks. I keep 5 pacis next to his crib at night and end up giving him a new one every time, he's put it in himself when he's awake a few times, my sister sent us one of the Avent ones that's got teether handles so he learned on that a bit I think. I'm definitely his biggest prop. Of course if he slept better once he was actually asleep that'd be a lot easier.
I was trying to get him to 3hr A time, he just had a 4hr one cause he wouldn't go down, which happens quite often these past few days. When he falls asleep on his own, like in the car, it's almost to the minute 2.45 right now, but that's only happened a couple of times. I feel like we're half way between 2.45-3hr A time so we're going to move towards 3hr. With the almost asleep, then sitting up and awake thing I'm pretty scared about his sleep window, but since it doesn't seem to matter whether I get him through wind down on time or early or late I guess I shouldn't worry too much.
