Sweet Baby

This sweet baby is having a rough night. He was restless early on and then we progressed to me getting up doing the bottom pat and handing the comfy rag to him. Then we had that cry that said something is wrong. Gave him some Tylenol bc he kept rubbing his head and stuffy nose and he does have some molars breaking through. And gave him some gas drops bc maybe hes having some gas pains from that tummy going thru the food changes? Then about 20 minutes later I went ahead and gave about 1/3 of a feeding. Maybe he is hungry? Therapy would have said to offer him his sippy but we were past the point of being calm enough to drink. It was a risk, feeding at four am. In the past w later feeds  he was sure to puke it because of the acid that you get in the belly during the night. 

He's resting better now. I know some parents go for that Tylenol last. I'm a nurse. I pass out meds for a living. You hurt? Here's a pill. You can't sleep? Here's a pill. Your anxious and can't breathe? Here's a pill and lets get ya a breathing treatment. Ha No point in dragging out that pain when I have Tylenol to help!  In fact, I think it's almost mean. Lets just hope that ear infection isn't back or we aren't getting a cold. We all know his GI system is equivalent to a dramatic teenage girl and has to not tolerate feeds whenever he is sick. :) aaaand we all know that would stress me because of starting that set back a little on the hydration scale. I know I sound like I need medicated! Hahaha. Just some of my thought process. 

Speaking of sounding like I need medicated, I was about to wonder if we needed a sleep study. For a few weeks he didnt sleep well. I was riding it out bc he had the cold then I felt all four molars breaking through so I was hoping he was teething then finally took him back to the Dr and he had an ear infection. Add in there me catching that cold and neither of us were sleeping for about a month. I was rocking some pretty sexy dark circles under my eyes! They should really call those "mom circles". Anyways, thankfully he was sleeping like a dream these last few nights prior to this feeding trial. So praise Jesus, we threw that sleep study idea out the window...out the window of an imaginary 200 story building! :) My sweet baby seems to be back in dream land, probably dreaming about his mom again. ;) Love him.