This sweet baby had a rough first month. The first week of his life was spent in and out of hospitals. We couldn't figure out at first why he was crying so much. We just thought big baby wasn't getting enough to eat. Actually my preeclampsia was causing my body to hold onto ALL fluids so needless to say when he nursed he was getting Nothing!!! He began supplementing and he was full but still screaming!
Big brother helped once we got home from the hospital!! The dr said his symptoms were either milk intolerance or reflux. We began maalox with no luck, at 2 weeks old we moved into our new house. Dr switched us from sensitive formula to alimentum.
I began to nurse him more and symptoms improved slightly.
Then he began to really have tummy problems the third week. I took him off the alimentum on the fourth week and EBF. Things got better with that and probiotics
Fifth week we went to the dr again and she witnessed one of his screaming fits and saw him reflux ohh and Finally have us a prescription from liquid Zantac.
Finally he started to get some relief and actually nap so I could start to unpack our life and begin sorting!!
Oh these sweet glorious naps in his new bed!!' I was ohh so thankful!
It seems I was in such a sleep deprived fog these are some of the Only pictures I have of baby Whit's first few weeks of life.
Here we are back at the dr.
Poor chubby bunny was really in some pain ;(.
At one month he was up from his birth weight ( 8lbs 2 oz) to 8 lb 11 oz.
You can see here he was much happier once we made our trip to Atlanta!
Sneaking a quick nap in the car while daddy ran into the store ;)
And finally back home after our trip!
He has such a serious face here! It's a long day with big brother and big sister running around keeping him awake!
And catching a little sun at the park!!
So sad to see the very first of the newborn days already gone but thankful to have some resolve for this little fella and him getting some relief!
Happy one month old Whit!
