To say that this week has been difficult would be an understatement. We took Owen to the doctor on Monday for the cough that doesn't end and found out he had an ear infection. He seems to be feeling better for the most part. The antibiotic was not so nice to his digestive system yesterday so we went through several outfits. Owen hasn't had any trouble today which I'm glad for. The worst part of yesterday was all of the tantrums I had to deal with. Owen throws a fit during almost every diaper change so having to change him more than usual as well as having poo everywhere made it even more difficult. Did I mention he'd been up from 12:15-1:45 the night before? Yeah, that was great. Fortunately he napped well yesterday so I was able to make it through the day. I think Owen's eye teeth are working their way in which I'm told can be a nightmare. The left side looks a little swollen and he keeps chewing on his bottom lip. He let me feel around in his mouth yesterday but I couldn't feel anything. Owen's waking and sleeping has been all over the place this week and the unpredictability is wearing me down. He's woken up between 6 and 8am this week which then means that his naps are not at the same time. I've tried to keep bedtime around the same time but there have been a couple of nights where he was down at 6:30 because he was so tired.
I've decided that as soon as Owen is done with the antibiotics we're going to work on weaning him off his middle of the night feeding. The reason I was okay with it was because he was waking up later with it but now that he's waking up earlier with it it's time to drop it. My other reason for wanting to end it is that it's taking a lot longer than the 10-15 minutes that it was. Now it seems to consist of me going in for 10 minutes then trying to go back to bed but then having to go back in there at least once. It's exhausting.
Owen has started throwing his pacifiers out of the crib when he wakes up. It's kind of comical because he's always in the same position when I go in to get him: on his stomach with an arm out of the crib pointing at the paci's on the floor and whimpering.
Over Christmas Owen started soaking through his diapers so we bought a box of overnight diapers and now that we're home he's barely wet in the morning. Ah well...
Here's a little video to show how could Pat and I are as parents...
Owen is getting 4 teeth in right now and it has been brutal the last couple of days. I noticed them on Tuesday and then Wednesday night was awful. Poor baby was up at least every hour so I think I got a combined total of 3 hours of sleep. I ended up giving him some Tylenol around 3am because he'd been whimpering in his bed for 15 minutes straight and I could tell he was in pain. The only reason I waited that long was because I thought he was waking up because he was over tired but not the case. He slept in bed with us the rest of the night but still woke up several times. He ended up sleeping through most of his first Thanksgiving. He was really clingy and whiney all day Thursday and it was so hard to see him in pain. He would cry every time he coughed so I'm not sure if he had a sore throat as well or if it just hurt his mouth. Last night and today were better so I'm hoping we're over the worst of it. He barely ate anything yesterday and had no interest in breakfast this morning. He's nursed a lot though so at least he's getting something. I would've preferred for this to happen while we were at home but I guess the good side is there were other people to take him so I could get some rest. This week has been great but I'm looking forward to getting back to our beds and routine.
