So Jacob is officially weaned.  Since Sunday he has had nothing but bottles!  Sunday morning he woke up and I tried to nurse but nothing was coming out.  Letdown wouldn’t start and I couldn’t even get a single drop out, so I made him a bottle, which he drank.  He took it so I tried another bottle for his next feed and he drank that too.  By evening, he had drunk only bottles and he was content and happy.  That night, he ate at 5:00 and slept until 2:00.  I was ecstatic.  He also started pooping regularly again.  I am so happy.  My baby is full, he is sleeping well, he is eating well, he is gaining weight, he is peeing(was previously only having about 4 wet diapers a day.  Doctors and Nurses like to see at least 6-8) and pooping well!  After spending a month worrying, stressing, feeling guilty, and fighting with Jacob almost every feed, it’s nice to have all that behind us.  Thank you Enfamil!

And the other day I walked around the corner to see this:

(I rotated it, but it didn’t take.  Sometimes that happens)

Tonight, after I had put Jacob in bed, I heard him “talking”.  This is normal.  Suddenly, he started crying.  This is not.  Thinking that he had probably got stuck on his stomach (which he does often) I went in to check on him.  Not only was he on his stomach, but his poor little legs were both through the crib bars, despite the bumper pad.  I would have taken a picture, but the camera was downstairs and I didn’t want to leave him like that while I ran to get it, so no pic.

Also, today he drank nothing but bottles!  Right before bed he completely drained an 8 oz. bottle!  Hopefully this is the start of weaning!  The poor boy was starving and now he is getting food!  Thankfully, I have come to the point where I am completely okay with this.  I figure, I’m better off giving him formula then letting him starve just because I am so insistent on breastfeeding.  Also, it was causing a lot of stress, which is not good for him (or me, or Chloe, or Brian) either.

And now, I will be going to bed, hoping for a stretch longer than 5 hours!

Well, today is Halloween and so I took Chloe to a friends house and we went trick or treating together.  Her daughter is 2 weeks older than Chloe and her son is a couple months younger than Jacob.  Anyway, it was so much fun!  The girls were hilarious.  They didn’t really understand what was going on at first.  Chloe was more interested in following dogs around and trying to go into people’s houses.  After a few times she started to understand and was carrying her own bucket.  One lady let the girls grab their own candy and Chloe just kept grabbing.  I let her grab two handfuls (which is two things) before I took her away.  They were fascinated by the jack-o-lanterns and all the other Halloween decorations.  I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to taking both the kids (with Brian this time) next year!

Every time I asked Chloe if she wanted to put her costume on, she would run away and whimper, so I put Jacob in the costume in the hopes that she would be more willing to wear it.  Once we got to Rachel’s and she saw Isabelle in her giraffe costume, she was willing to put hers on.

And, the girls breaking into the candy after we got back to the house.

I am getting extremely frustrated.  Jacob is still on his 10 day poop hiatus.  The doctors all say it’s normal, the nurse at health link says it’s normal, numerous people say that it is normal, but it is not!  He was sleeping up to 9 hours at night.  Now I am lucky if I get 5.  He eats horridly when he used to eat great.  He cries at random times, with no logical obvious reason, and he was not one of the babies that does that.  He only ever cries if he actually had a problem (hungry, tired, wet, Chloe attacked him, etc.).  The thing that concerns me most:  I think he might be losing weight.  If he’s not than at the very least he is stagnating.  Not good when you are this little!  I’ve got him on pro-biotics, I took him off his antibiotics for now (as I think they may have caused the problem).  I’ve introduced apple prune juice, and the pharmacist (who is the only person in the medical community that agrees with me that something is wrong) gave me a laxative which we will try.  It’s driving me crazy, because even though they are all saying that it’s normal and that he is fine, I know my baby, and this it not normal or fine!  Something is wrong, and I intend to fix it!  (Willing to take suggestions, he’s still EBF except the juice).

The Thumb: all natural

no packaging to throw away, no energy or water used cleaning and sanitizing the soothers, no soothers that get thrown away and no plastic products or energy used to make the soother!

They help you talk on the phone

They show you how to use your toys

They show you how to eat

They give you hugs

But, at the end of the day (and naptime) it is nice to get away and sleep in your own crib!

While, not too much new has happened lately here.  We went home for Thanksgiving which was nice, as we hadn’t been back to Saskatchewan for Thanksgiving in 3 years.  Jacob is still having issues with pooping and eating.  He eats much better after he has pooped and the are enormous.  When it has been a long time, his gas is super stinky and he doesn’t eat or sleep as well.  I think it may be related to his antibiotics and have started him on BioGaia, a probiotic drop.  Hopefully this helps.  He also had his Nephrology consult so I better understand what is going on with his kidneys.  Basically he has 1st degree reflux in his left kidney and 3rd degree reflux in his right.  The left has a 99% chance that he will outgrow it and the right also has a pretty good chance (although not 99%).  They will check him once a year and if it hasn’t gone away by school age, they will have to do surgery.  Hopefully it goes away on its own.  I am going to be an aunt twice next year, so that is also kind of exciting.  Brian’s sister is having her second baby in January and my brother and his wife will be having their first in late April, early May.  Chloe is adding more words to her vocabulary daily, which is very exciting for me.  It is so much easier to figure out what she wants when she it saying words instead of whining or crying.  And some pics…

Chloe, all ready for winter.  Her dad and grandpa took her outside to walk around the farm one morning, which she enjoyed.

Jacob eating a ball while he sits on Great Grandma’s lap.

Today, I decided to make cookies.  I made peanut butter chocolate chip/ M&M cookies.  Chloe helped and after the dough was mixed, Chloe tried some and quite enjoyed it.  She has officially joined the ranks of people who like cookie dough more than the actual cookies!

Yesterday, I decided that Jacob’s hair was far too long.  He had ringlets and his hair was almost in his eyes.  I called up Beaners (a child’s haircutting salon in Calgary) and made an appointment.

Before

During

And After

He’s so handsome!

It was huge!  I am relieved (as is he, I’m sure)!