Whirlwind

This has been such a crazy time. We've been going through so many issues here since having the baby. We haven't dealt with these issues before.

First of all, when Mark was a week old, we discovered lice in the kids head. All of them. My stomach was turning. I went and got the stuff from Rite Aid, and did the treatment. I combed the nits out of their head, and 4 days later, still lice. The eggs hatched, so the otc stuff didn't kill the nits. The comb that came with the kits just isn't catching all of them. So, off to the dr we go. I took Nina for her bloodwork and we had to go to the ped to get Mark weighed and get her head checked, sure enough...lice was still there. I did 3 treatments with the shampoo on each of their heads at this point. So, we get an rx. Brian had to order it because it's a newer medication and no other pharmacy has it. We'll get it Monday after 2, and each kid will have their own bottle. It's going to cost us $150 for this. Just what we need. It better work. Dr A couldn't prescribe the normal shampoo they use for lice because of Mark. I can't wait to be done with this fiasco.

Now onto Mark. It's been two weeks since I've had my meds, they are completely out of my system. I've been doing well, normal postpartum hormones and all that, lots of stress with the lice, trying to sanitize the house, mounds of laundry every day, etc. I've had some bouts of tears, but who wouldn't.

I took Mark to get weighed last Friday (today is Sunday), and he's still 6lbs 10oz. Dr.A told me to put him on Enfamil Gentle Ease formula. My heart broke. He didn't tolerate the formula in the hospital, and is doing so well nursing. He has plenty of wet/poopy diapers, hardly spits up, is very content on the breastmilk. He's just not gaining weight like they want. He also has GERD, and GERD babies are slow gainers based on my research.

I've shed lots of tears Friday because he wouldn't take the bottle from me, he made faces, spit out the formula, threw up what he swallowed, freaked out, was frantic until I nursed him. He did take some formula from Bob, so that was good. Hopefully he gained something by tomorrow, because I'm really stressing out. I want to do what's best for the baby, and my gut is telling me that the formula is not the best seeing how he reacts to it. Hopefully the little bit he takes will help him to gain.

Stress. Stress. Stress. We need to eliminate the stress as much as we can so I do well off my meds. I need to see what I can do to make the days go smoother, eliminate the fighting between the kids, get the baby to gain weight, just enjoy life and my family. There has to be something I can do that will be good for all of us. All it takes is something small to get me into a tizzy, where I want to cry. I just want to be happy.

My mom and hubby are happy that I'm off my meds. Dh thinks they are no good, but if it weren't for my meds, I wouldn't have been able to function like I have been. I don't like swinging, especially when most of my swings are low. I've been pretty stable other than the postpartum stuff, I just hope it stays that way.

Until next time....