I haven’t written in nearly a month - Lyra is almost 8 weeks old now. Its hectic around here. Sometime around 3 weeks she started getting really gassy and that has only gotten worse. After abdominal ultrasound, x-ray, trip to ER and many diet modifications, I think we have an answer. She seems to have a milk-protien sensitivity. I thought at first it was a fore milk/hindmilk imbalance, but after making adjustments to her feedings with no improvement I looked into other possible causes. She had horrible gas, liquid/water lime green poop (sometimes containing a small bit of blood) and was only sleeping an hour or so at a time - probably due to waking up from gas/stomach pain. Most symptoms have resolved, thankfully and I have only been eliminating milk (and wheat) for 3 days. Her poop is back to “normal”, which for a breastfed baby is a lovely rainbow of colors (no lime green anymore) and a surprise consistency with each diaper change. I was just so happy to see yellow/orange poop yesterday I almost cried - after nearly 2 weeks of lime green water, it was a nice change.
Enough about that… She is up to 8 pounds! Outgrown newborn diapers and is wearing 3 month clothes now. I had to pack up 90% of the newborn size and brought out a ton of adorable onesies and leggings (even some super-cute crochet booties). She survived her first snow (about 5 inches) - we just stayed inside and watched Beau and Adam play from the window. She has developed an interest in toys and I purchased her a playmat. She will tolerate it for about 5 minutes at a time. I am desperately trying every chance I get to make her smile… she refuses. She has a bit of an attitude - grunts and growls at me if I (or anyone else) is talking while she is nursing. It is quite funny. She definitely recognizes me and appreciates when I come back after leaving her with Adam for a few moments. No idea how he is going to keep her for 12 hour shifts if/when I go back to work. They have already been calling me and as much as I can’t wait to actually be a nurse (I passed boards in August and have not yet had a chance to utilize my new skills), I am not sure I am ready to leave her… ever. I know I have to - I didn’t work that hard in nursing school just to let my license lapse, but maybe a few more months won’t hurt.
Beau is good too - homeschooling is going great. We are more unschooling right now, mainly because I am overwhelmed with everything else. I am so lucky he is a patient, helpful child. He will never know how much I appreciate him doing all he does. He literally saves me from pulling my hair out more than once per day. He gets me water when I am stuck on the couch nursing, he feeds the pets, unloads the dishwasher, starts laundry - basically everything I can’t do because I am too busy with miss needy pants. :-)
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