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@Smurfette: Yeah, me too! It's hard though, especially now that we're back at work. The lighting is terrible in the evening, so weekends are really the only good picture days for me!

@Smurfette: Gahhh, so cute!!!! Can R sit up on her own? I want to put Xander in the exersaucer because I think he'd love it, but he just kind of topples over when he's in it.

Okay, so I have a good and bad story about Xander! The bad story is that when I picked him up from daycare, he was totally bummed to be leaving with me!!!! He'd look at the daycare teacher and smile and then look at me and pout. Then look at the teacher and smile, back to me and pout. I was so depressed. I felt like he loved her more than me. And then he's so quiet and sullen in the car, like I totally let him down by picking him up from daycare. I wish he was excited to see me...

But THEN after we were home for a little bit, he was lying on the floor and I just started vigorously kissing his cheeks over and over and going "Mwah!" every time I kissed him, and he just LAUGHED and LAUGHED!!!! He LOVED it!!!!! It was so much fun!!! Except every time I stopped kissing him, he'd look at me with this look like "WTF Mom, why'd you stop?" And then I'd start kissing him again and he would laugh so loudly!!!

And now I'm off to feed him his 9:00 p.m. feed! The last one before the weekend of trying not to do it!! Looking forward to the late night snuggles!

@Smurfette: Maybe I can try wrapping a blanket or towel around him and see if he's stable in the exersaucer.

Babies must love kisses!! We use BabyGanics. I found it at Target. And yes!! Xander's often trying to eat his feet during diaper changes. Although his latest thing is to kick his legs as fast and as much as possible!!!

@Mrs. Blue: We try to get Liam down to sleep between 7 and 7:30 sometimes it ends up being closer to 8. We are up between 5:30 and 6 (he usually wakes up once or twice briefly) So I would say we are probably closer to 10 hours. I have thought about bumping his bedtime a little earlier but I already have so little time with him on the weekdays I just don't think I could do it.

@Smurfette: That pic is adorable! She looks like she is having so much fun! I can't wait to try Liam in an exersaucer! He is getting strong in his legs so I bet he will love bouncing.

@Adira: That's too bad about pick-up but how fun that he was laughing with you over kisses. I absolutely LOVE the belly laughs!

@Adira: I haven't gone back to my old posts I didn't take many pictures either when he was little
@Mrs. Blue: tonight I fed J at 6:30pm and was asleep at 7;30!! Usually he is up until 8:30pm and I do a dream feed around that time and he falls asleep. He sleeps about 6-7 hours and then has about 4 oz while still sleeping and then wakes up around 6am.

Last night was a bit better for sleep. Isaac was asleep about 9:30. He woke up to nurse at 12:40, 3, 5 and then up at 7. He usually wakes up one other time early morning, but didn't today. He did wake up about 10:15 after I was in bed, but he just made noise for a few minutes and went back to sleep. Then this morning my mom took him so I could get a bit extra sleep.

@ALV91711: Glad that last night was a little better. Even better your Mom took him so you got some sleep. When do you go home again?

Okay ladies, massive update from me!

So... in an effort to try to help Xander with whatever's wrong with him (skin rash wise), I decided to try Huggies last night. Also after his bath, in case he might be allergic to Aquaphor or Eucerin, I lathered him up in regular old Vaseline. Well... this morning he looked soooooooo much worse!!! Everywhere he has eczema, they were now blister-like angry patches of skin and when he scratched at them, they broke and bled! I felt sooooooo terrible, so I immediately called his pediatrician and begged for an appointment today.

At our appointment, the pediatrician reassured me that it still was just eczema (I thought maybe it might've been something else, because it looks HORRIBLE), and we went over what I'm doing at home, and I'm doing everything right (bath 2x/week, no J&J products, double rinse of laundry, laundry detergent has no dyes or perfumes, etc) so she said it might be time for some steroids. I said "YES PLEASE!" So we have a prescription for something to use on his body (2x/day for 14 days MAX) and she told me to pick up some hydrocortisone ointment for his face. She also suggested that I limit milk since maybe he's allergic (boooo!) but she didn't really sound optimistic that that would help (yay?).

After our appointment, I realized that MAYBE he's having a reaction to the MMP! I've been using that for a little over a week and he's gotten so much worse just recently, so I'm going to stop using it in case that has anything to do with his condition. Poor baby.

BUT, the up-side of our appointment was that we got to get weighed!! 15 lbs 2 oz! He's gained a whole pound in 4 weeks, which would be 4 oz/week, so exactly where he should be! AND he's even in the 18th percentile for weight now. So not a huge increase, but he's finally not dropping anymore! Yay!!!

So THEN we went to the lactation consultant and I explained all my woes to her about getting pressure to send more in his bottles. She seemed to think 5oz ought to be enough, but we did a weighted feed to see how much he was getting from me because MAYBE he really was getting more...

NOPE!!!! 4 oz!!!!! Which totally makes sense to me because at 6 weeks when I did a weighted feed, he drank about 3.8 oz, and at 12 weeks when we did our trial run for daycare, he never ate more than 4.5 oz. AND it's been ALMOST 3 hours (we'll hit 3 hours in 20 minutes) and Xander doesn't seem hungry, so I think CLEARLY 5 oz is ENOUGH! I just hope this FINALLY convinces Hubs!!!

@Dandelion: Xander's allergic to the Aveeno!!! *cries* I tried to Aveeno eczema therapy lotion on him and his skin turned BRIGHT RED and looked worse immediately after using it! I'm so bummed because I hear it works AMAZING!!!!

@Adira: That's crazy!

@Adira: Poor Xander! Hopefully it was a reaction to the MMP and he'll feel better soon. Hoping you love your pump!!

Day care wrote on R's report card that she held her own bottle today!!! Some one tell her to stop growing up so fast.

@Adira: I'm glad your pump came, hopefully you will have success with it. I'm glad you got in with the pediatrician and that the prescription works, poor guy. Great weight gain!

I think my supply is dipping. I've been trying to pump all week and the most I've gotten at once is 2oz, where before I would get at least 4oz. Today Isaac drank 1oz of formula from a bottle right after nursing. The last couple days he hasn't had as many wet diapers. It could be that he isn't nursing as much in the afternoon though. I'm not sure what the heck to do.

@Smurfette: OK, maybe I'm crazy. I just pumped and got 5oz. So maybe he just hasn't been as hungry today and yesterday.

@Smurfette: Look at her!!!! I tried propping up Xander with a Boppy today too, but he just toppled over, haha. Go R!!!

Also, I'm feeling anxious about skipping the 9:00 feeding!!! Hold me!

@ALV91711: haha, I'm so scared!!! He always wakes up around 5:00/5:30, so I'm thinking I might have a 2:00/2:30 wake-up in my future!

@ALV91711: haha, I don't know! I was just thinking about that! I think if he wakes up in the middle of the night and is obviously hungry, then I probably won't try it again tomorrow, just in case this one night messes him up for a day. I NEED my 7 hours of sleep before work, so if he can only go 7 hours before he's hungry, I'd rather keep the 9:00 p.m. feed for now and not mess with a good thing! But I'm definitely willing to try it tonight (though I'm scared) so we'll see how it goes!

@Smurfette: Awww, poor R! I hope she sleeps okay the rest of the night! Good luck!!!

So I just pumped instead of feeding Xander!! I feel so anxious for some reason, haha. I wasn't sure about the PISA either at first and I didn't think it was working well, but I pumped almost 4oz in 15 minutes, so that actually is probably pretty good. Though I think I probably need to get the smaller flange! I definitely think more of my aerola was being sucked into the flange than was supposed to. I assume I can just buy the smaller size and try it out, right?

@travellingbee: So sorry to hear sleep training isn't going well!!!! I hope you guys figure something out soon and he's able to fall asleep!!

I'm about to head to bed! Feels weird not to be about to feed Xander... I feel like I'm not going to be able to fall asleep because I have that "I'm forgetting to do something..." feeling!

@travellingbee: Sorry you're having a rough night so far! Hope it gets better for you!

We decided to put Liam to bed in his crib tonight for the first time.he has taken naps in there but has always slept in the cosleeper next to me. He went to bed really easy so now its just waiting to see how the night goes. As much as I am excited to transition him into his crib I'm a little sad at the thought of not having him next to me all night. Was anyone else nervous about having their LO in another room at first?